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The meeting was chaired by Co-chairs Jim DeAngelo and Liz Fritsch. Present at the meeting, in addition to the co-chairs, were: Thomas Au, Al Azen, Sandy Ballard, Joe Campagna, Cathy Carr, Sam Cooper, Vicki Coyle, Matt Crème, David DeVries, Derek Green, Jim Kearney, Christine Kirby, Barbara Kittrell, Henry Leone, Sam Milkes, Iva Munk, Milton Munk, Bob Racunas, Art Read, Dveera Segal and Joanne Ross Wilder. Dale Schell and David Trevaskis represented the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Welcome from the Co-Chairs
Jim DeAngelo and Liz Fritsch welcomed everyone and began the meeting at 1:30 p.m.
Pro Bono Coordinator’s Report
David Trevaskis handed out a copy of his report that was presented to the Board of Governors. The report will be posted on the Pro Bono Office Web site that Trevaskis noted is being updated for an early 2005 unveiling. Among the highlights Trevaskis noted: PALawHelp.org is up and running as a Web site designed and maintained with PBA support (www.palawhelp.org) for clients and attorneys to find available resources in the field; its companion, PAProBono.Net, a Web site designed for pro bono attorneys seeking support for their cases and for agencies to use in recruiting additional pro bono attorneys, was showcased to the legal community at last May’s Pro Bono Conference in Hershey and was up and running in a limited fashion this fall; and a new pro bono outreach, involving 60 attorneys from the Office of General Counsel, is utilizing these Web resources as part of the OGC’s Virtual Law Clinic.
Trevaskis added that the Pro Bono Office has brought into the PBA more than $50,000 of direct support since it was established in 2001 and has generated nearly $150,000 of in-kind support to promote travel and training in the field. The quarterly electronic Pro Bono Newsletter, monthly Pro Bono Spotlights in the PBA Bar News, an ever-expanding web presence on the PBA Web site, continuing CLE ethics training through the Pro Bono Roadshow – all highlight the commitment of the PBA to support pro bono service and civil legal aid.
Derek Green – Pro Bono Conference
Derek Green shared a draft agenda for the Wednesday, May 4, 2005, Pro Bono Conference in Pittsburgh. Trevaskis explained that the focus of the conference would be on mediation as a new paradigm in pro bono service. Justice Max Baer of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was noted as one potential speaker and model pro bono mediation programs in Westmoreland County (landlord/tenant) and Dauphin County (all areas) will be solicited to participate in the conference. All members of the committee were asked to try to attend the Pittsburgh event, though the scheduling conflict with the Equal Justice Conference in Austin, Texas, scheduled for May 5-7, 2005, was mentioned as a concern for attendance by a few members. Indeed, the PBA Pro Bono Office will be joining PLS, the Dauphin County Bar Association, the Office of General Counsel and MidPenn Legal Services in presenting a workshop on May 6 at the Equal Justice Conference highlighting the OGC Virtual Law Clinic.
Jim DeAngelo – Local Support
Jim DeAngelo noted that educational and CLE programs are continuing across the state as a tool for promoting pro bono. David Trevaskis added that there is a need for a more efficient and consistent way to collect information about what is going on in each county. There was discussion of a state survey and whether or not the committee should undertake such a survey. There was also discussion about the need to define pro bono as part of that survey. Fees from various counties’ opt out/opt in programs were noted and how they are utilized was discussed. The Local Support Subcommittee needs to decide if it should spend the considerable time and resources necessary to collect data on the exact status of pro bono activity in each of the 67 counties of the state. Trevaskis stated that past efforts by the subcommittee to develop greater pro bono support had returned spotty results, with some counties developing great programs and some still floundering.
Liz Fritsch – Development
Liz Fritsch explained that the Development Subcommittee had been in the background since the Task Force on Loan Forgiveness and Debt Reduction had been focusing on resources. However, Christine Kirby did present an update on Cy Pres and the ensuing discussion emphasized how this was an area for development that both the task force and the committee needed to pursue. It was determined that the best way to promote Cy Pres was through one-on-one peer communication. There is a need to identify organizations that could be awarded funds. A handout describing a program titled “Lawyers on Loan” was distributed to the committee. Two Pittsburgh area law firms each have donated a veteran associate to Neighborhood Legal Services in Pittsburgh for the coming year at not personnel cost to NLSA. It was noted that this program was not in lieu of pro bono or contributions to local bar associations.
Dveera Segal – Law Schools
Dveera Segal said that the task force also has co-opted the Law School Subcommittee’s work to a large extent, but she pointed to the research being done by that task force on law schools as being a valuable tool for the committee. Trevaskis explained that the research on the law schools would be available in January on the Task Force section of the pro bono Web page. There was also a general discussion of the need to bring law school administrators and PBA leaders together to discuss issues in civil legal aid for the neediest among us.
Report of Task Force on Loan Forgiveness and Debt Reduction
Sam Cooper gave a brief report to the committee about the work of the task force, and he noted that the next meeting of the entire task force would take place at PBA headquarters in January. Cooper noted that the task force was broken into four work groups and he briefly explained the task of each:
1. Law Schools. (Review law school LRAP programs and latest reports on student loan obligations; contact with law school career planning and placement offices and public service programs, interact with law school deans, faculty, students; review and analyze innovative approaches to the problem at law schools around the country; etc.).
2. Employers. (Review and analyze student loan programs and policies of public and private employers, legal services programs, nonprofit organizations, etc.).
3. Funders. (Review and analyze student loan programs of funders: legislative initiatives, higher education assistance agencies, foundations, financial institutions, bar associations, etc.).
4. Research. (Compile external resources, studies, articles, latest developments regarding student loan obligations and assistance programs; provide needed information to the workgroups; etc.).
Cooper said that he looked forward to the task force making a report and he then fielded questions from the committee. There was a general discussion of the interaction between the task force and the subcommittees of the committee and it was agreed that whatever overlap might occur, all subcommittees would keep following their own paths. It also was agreed that whenever the task force made its report, the subcommittees would be charged with following up on the action plan of the task force, as had been done with past task forces.
Sam Milkes gave a brief update on PLS, noting the March 8, 2005, Excellence Awards and inviting all committee members to attend the event. Nomination forms were handed out. He also gave an overview of efforts PLS had undertaken to attempt to eliminate the Sunshine Provision on the Access to Justice Act. Although those efforts did not eliminate the five-year term this time, Milkes stated his pleasure at the work that was done to let legislators know of the great impact the act was having in terms of improving civil legal aid in Pennsylvania.
Hank Leone and Christine Kirby provided explanation of and handout materials on the established PALawHelp.org site, as well as the recently unveiled PAprobono.net site. PAprobono.net is a new resource for pro bono attorneys that will allow lawyers to find materials to help them handle pro bono cases, as well allow them to sign up for pro bono cases online. The site went live just before the meeting. Leone discussed a rollout plan that will begin in full force in spring 2005. Leone and Trevaskis will be traveling the state in the spring signing up lawyers to the site and getting firms and legal services providers to agree to maintain areas of the site. A table display will be set up at CCBL in early March and at the PLS Conference.
Al Azen gave a report on the IOLTA program. He announced that the pro bono grants program had more than $90,000 to distribute in the coming cycle. He noted that PBA President Mike Reed and PBA President-elect Bill Carlucci both had joined the IOLTA Board. Azen talked about efforts by the Supreme Court to stabilize funding for law school programs at $200,000 for each law school per year, and he mentioned the court’s efforts to secure additional IOLTA funds through the minor judiciary.
Pro Bono Awards
David Trevaskis gave a brief report as the meeting was coming to an end and announced that the new round of pro bono awards would include awards for a legal services person and a judge. The committee had agreed upon these awards at previous meetings.
LAMP –Report on Efforts to Create a New Military Affairs Committee
It was noted that a number of lawyers had requested the organization of a Military Affairs Committee that would be staffed by the Pro Bono Office. Currently, the Pro Bono Office manages the LAMP (Legal Assistance for Military Personnel) Program.
Update on Common Law Marriage
Norma Chase explained how the legislature had codified the work of an earlier Commonwealth Court decision abolishing Common Law Marriage. After the first of the year, Chase noted, no new common law marriages would be recognized. Chase outlined certain problems with the legislation and suggested there was a huge need for public education on this issue.
Ethics Update (Impact of New Rules on Pro Bono)
Jim DeAngelo shared with the committee that he had sought an ethics opinion on the impact of the new ethics rules, especially about a client’s rights as regards entering into agreements for limited representation. Current practices seem to be all right under the interpretation received.
Spotlight Articles/Web Page Update
David Trevaskis asked for more volunteers to write spotlight articles, and he directed the committee to check out the recently redesigned pro bono program Web page.
Review of Process of Choosing New Chairs and Vice-chairs
Chairs for next year will be Liz Fritsch and Dveera Segal. Derek Green will remain as one co-vice chair and a second co-vice chair, preferably from western Pennsylvania, will be selected.
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I'm not sure how to accurately explain this but I will try my best.
When texting my keyboard (or at least I think it's my keyboard) just starts freaking out and opening menus, opening google search, and sometimes even starts calling the person I'm texting. When I touch the add text box it just opens up a menu, tries to delete my text thread, or even sends messages when I'm not even touching the screen. When I try to back out of a menu it just opens another and it only happens when I'm texting, never when I am typing in the internet browser. I am going out of my mind.
I thought it was because the screen is super sensitive but it's just keeps happening and I've had this phone long enough to get used to the touch screen. It is annoying me to the point where I want to chuck it off the roof of my office building. Is anyone else experiencing this or know what's going on? is this s software problem or something?
force stop the texting app and if anything download a 3rd party messaging app like handcent or gosms...run that one instead and see if the same thing happens..if it does then its a phone issue...if it doesnt then its the app itself...i would do this first to rule some thing out before jumping to a reset on the phone... | <urn:uuid:aaad08e4-9e6b-4bea-8928-40b57f0bf9e6> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://community.sprint.com/t5/HTC-One-M8/Keyboard-freaking-out/m-p/150342 | 2019-08-22T05:37:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027316783.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822042502-20190822064502-00451.warc.gz | en | 0.961774 | 276 |
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January 5th, 2004, 03:10 AM
I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. By "SYSTEM" window, I meant "SYSTEM" folder. Sorry, I'm a newbie. It looks like any other folder, for example My Documents. The address is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM. There are no objects unless you click on the link on the side that says:
"This folder contains files that keep your computer working properly. Please be careful if you modify the contents of this folder." Then the actual link, "View the entire contents of this folder."
Thanks again, for helping
January 5th, 2004, 05:51 AM
Try looking in your startup folder? If its not there, go to start - run - msconfig - then look at your startup files. If its not there either, get WinPatrol (theres a free version). It monitors your startup list and some other stuff. Alot of people would reccommend it.
January 5th, 2004, 03:23 PM
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Do NOT click on links that say something like "whoaa look at what i found click here" or "I can't believe I found %n's Picture"
There appears to be a new virus/worm/spyware that is spreading via AIM profile links.
Apparently, malicious code is being placed on computer systems when victims visit either realphx.com or talkstocks.net (there may also be other domains).
This code is executed either when a visitor OKs at the prompt or automatically if the visitor has not patched Internet Explorer for known vulnerabilities (see Windows Update to patch your system).
Once the victim has been infected, their AIM profile will be changed to reflect only a link to one of the above mentioned sites with the text description as "Whoaa...look at what I found, click here" (there may also be other text descriptions). If the victim attempts to reset their profile, the link will reappear after a reboot or restart of AIM.
Due to variations of the virus/worm/spyware it may take a little work to completely clean it from your system.
Below are some links to removal tools we found (but did not test) followed by some manual instructions that were posted on other sites:
Manual Removal Instructions
That is if you did get that virus.
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Are Clayton and Susie Still Together: Although The Bachelor star Clayton Echard may have spent much of the summer in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with his love Susie Evans, he is now moving on to a new residence. He may not be alone. In the Aug. 16 podcast episode of Dear Media’s Not Skinny But Not Fat, Clayton stated he is returning to Scottsdale, Ariz., while Susie is going to Los Angeles.
“It’s only a 50-minute flight away, but we’re both following our ambitions, and I think location-wise, I believe that those are the areas that we want to be in,” said Clayton. “I’m at my desk for ten, twelve hours a day. So she was like, ‘Clayton, I’ll go to L.A., and then we can travel on the weekends to see each other.’ And time will tell.” Before rumors start to circulate that this action implies Clayton and Susie’s romance is on the rocks, he made it plain that this is not the case.
Are Clayton and Susie Still Together?
In the season 26 conclusion of The Bachelor, Clayton informed his family he wanted Susie back. “You’re grabbing straws. History… “She chose to walk,” his dad, Brian Echard, counseled. The footballer demanded he tries. He called her “once-in-a-lifetime.” Clayton’s overnight outings with Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia worried the Virginia Beach native. “I didn’t really like, realize the seriousness of it until this second,” she stated while Rachel was on her date. “I don’t think he can love numerous people.” “For me, sex is connected with somebody,” Susie said before entering her fantasy apartment alone. I hope Clayton shares my view.
He wasn’t. Clayton admitted to loving Susie, but not exclusively. Susie said she would feel “uncomfortable” if he slept with other ladies at their Sky Lagoon hot springs supper. “Those are things I think would make interaction impossible,” she said. “I’m not comfortable sharing your affection with someone else.” “Yes, I have slept with someone else here,” he said. On September 23, they announced their divorce on Instagram, despite their happiness.
Susie stated, “With terribly heavy hearts, we have chosen to go our ways.” “Anyone who has loved understands this was a terrible decision and not taken lightly. As most may appreciate, social media is a highlight reel, and many of our experiences together have been private. We recognize that this decision will certainly be questioned. But we will tell this—although this last year together has brought us so much joy and so many laughs, there has also been substantial pain.”
“We know no good relationship comes without its problems, but we’ve recognized that we were not prepared for the external factors that inhibited our capacity to not just recover as individuals, but also as a couple,” Susie wrote. We want to improve ourselves to be our best.” “This is not an easy moment for any of us, but we stand in support of each other and wish to see the other achieve happiness and healing,” she ended. “Although Claysie is gone, we hope our communities can support us individually as we go on with love and respect. We appreciate your support. It means more than you can imagine.”
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The History of Clayton Echard and Susie Evans’ Relationship
The following is an exhaustive history of Clayton and Susie’s relationship, beginning with the first time they met on The Bachelor and ending with their current status as a couple in 2022:
On the season premiere of “The Bachelor” in September of 2021, Clayton and Susie meet each other.
In November 2021, Clayton and Susie end their relationship. Clayton also ends his relationships with Rachel and Gabby at the same time, and he later begs Susie for a second chance. Susie first says no to having him on the program, but she subsequently sends him a message on Instagram offering to have “one more open talk.”
In March of 2022, Clayton comes clean about his feelings towards the show and reveals that he is involved with Susie romantically. The pair decides to set up housekeeping together.
In April of 2022, Clayton confronts the allegations that he cheated on Susie and deems such allegations “crazy.” Susie claims that the two of them have “invested” themselves in their partnership.
The month of July 2022 finds Clayton and Susie still together in a relationship.
Did Clayton and Susie Get Engaged?
After the Final Rose, Clayton said that he had returned to “what I believed was my normal life” after his time in Iceland, but that Susie had re-established contact with him. What Clayton meant by saying, “I was stunned there was maybe that came from all of it,” was that he was surprised that anything positive could come out of the situation.
After then, Susie emerged to publicly announce that they are still an item. We’re ecstatic to be here today,” she exclaimed. That’s my guy, by the way. They “took some steps back,” she said, but they’re back together and “really” in love again. Yeah, he’s fantastic, that’s for sure. But they admitted that they “could have done better” and braced themselves for criticism after the series finale.
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“Ask me about Zaman.”
Each week, dozens of Southeast Michigan runners hit the region’s streets, footpaths, and race routes with this simple phrase emblazoned on the back of their royal blue running shirts. When they go for a jog in the park or around their neighborhoods, they wear the shirts. When they compete in a 5k or a half-marathon, they wear the shirts. When they meet up, as they do every Saturday and Sunday morning, to train on the Rouge River Gateway Trail in Dearborn, they wear the shirts. They are the men and women of the Zaman Detroit Run Team, and they are thrilled to be living, breathing, moving billboards for their favorite organization.
“It’s a great conversation-starter,” said team organizer Ali Bazzi of the team’s catchphrase. “People see ‘Ask me about Zaman’ on our shirts and it piques their interest. They ask us what it means, and it gives us the perfect opportunity to tell them about Zaman and all the amazing things it does for the people of Metro Detroit.”
Already 45 members strong, the Zaman Detroit Run Team formed just a few months ago, immediately following Zaman’s Sixth Annual Walk4Humanity on Sept. 14. A “Zamanitarian” since 2007 and a running enthusiast since 2012, Bazzi was approached by Zaman Founder and CEO Najah Bazzy about the formation of an official running club that could raise awareness about the organization. The idea was met with enthusiasm, and the club’s roster grew quickly.
“The run team was created to serve a dual purpose,” said Bazzi. “First, there was a need in our area for a group that runners could join to motivate one another and help one another improve, train for events, or just attain personal fitness goals. But there was also a desire to organize for a cause. Zaman has a strong presence among the clients it serves and within the business and philanthropic communities, but we felt there was an opportunity to raise awareness among the general public about its work on behalf of the area’s most disadvantaged. The easiest way to engage people is in everyday conversations on the ground as we’re out training.”
Team member Mariam Mroueh said the run team offers “a strong and intimate sense of community that is hard to find.”
“As someone who has been running for the majority of my life, I find being a member makes my training and running goals easier to achieve because I have a whole team of people supporting me,” Mroueh said. “I’ve had the opportunity to meet some really great individuals with kind hearts and strong goals. The variety and experiences of the team has offered me more opportunity to grow and become not only a stronger runner but a better person. The fact that the core of our group is to help Zaman and others makes our running so much more purposeful than running on my own.”
Fahtme Abdallah said joining the run team has helped her in a number of ways. With Bazzi’s assistance, the team connects with area run events, shares useful articles and videos to help with running form, and exchanges tips on local run shops who offer great gear. In addition to these practical perks, Abdallah said, the motivation the team provides can’t be beat.
“It means so much to have such an amazing support system who are always there to push me and help me reach my goals,” Abdallah said. “It’s not always easy to wake up at 7 a.m. on the weekend to go out and run in the cold, but knowing that my team members are out there waiting for me pushes me to go. If it wasn’t for the Zaman Detroit Run Team, I would not make it out there every weekend reaching my goals and setting new ones.”
The run team, which provides meeting announcements and training information on its website [http://www.teamzaman.org] and Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/TeamZaman], is also dedicated to volunteer work, said Bazzi, adding that its members are quick to mobilize and respond to Zaman’s call for assistance with outreach. The team is planning a trip to Flint this month to deliver bottled water that is being collected in Metro Detroit for distribution to at-risk families, and Bazzi has taken a lead role in helping to plan Zaman’s 2016 Hope for Humanity Run Walk Picnic (formerly Walk4Humanity). The event, which will be held on Sept. 24 at Dearborn’s Ford Field Park, offers a range of family-friendly food, fitness, and fun. More information about the event can be found at event’s website [http://www.runwalkpicnic.org].
Bazzi said the run team is eager to grow and welcomes walkers and runners of all levels and abilities.
“Come out on the trail with us,” is Bazzi’s invitation to everyone. “We’re here to help you set and accomplish your goals. If you’ve never walked more than a mile before and you want to walk 10 miles, we’ll help you get there. Whatever it is you want to achieve, you’ll have a whole team cheering you on.”
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She reminded me of something I had long known about the terrorist-killer-scum but have never put to use in print before.
She asked: “Wouldn’t it be better to discredit Arafat than kill him?”
The question was at once terribly naive but strikingly brilliant.
There’s the question of how one can discredit a monster who takes pride in his bloodlust, whose propensity for corruption and fraud and theft from his own people is legendary. I’ve attempted, over the years, to explain to Americans that Arafat is not only a killer of innocent Israeli citizens but more than 100 U.S. citizens as well – including diplomats assassinated in cold blood.
If that isn’t enough to discredit Arafat, it’s hard to imagine what could.
But then the old light bulb went on.
Arafat has maintained support from his “people” by playing tough all these years. What if they found out he was actually an old softie?
What do I mean? I mean Arafat is a homosexual. There are also persistent rumors that he is a pedophile. I mean, in his private life, he is everything the Islamic culture detests – a closet pervert.
Now, I don’t pretend to believe with certainty that this column will be widely translated into Arabic and distributed throughout the Palestinian Authority. I also don’t pretend to think that I know something about Arafat unknown to the oil sheikhs who support him financially. I don’t pretend to believe the governments in Europe who treat him like a head of state are unaware of his predilections.
After all, one former European intelligence chief recorded his own observations of Arafat’s sexual antics in a book, published 16 years ago.
I’m referring to “Red Horizons” by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former head of Romanian intelligence. He relates a conversation with Constantin Munteaunu, a general assigned to teach Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization operations in deception and influence designed to fool the West into granting the organization recognition.
“I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the ‘Fedayee,’” Arafat’s code name, explained Munteaunu. “After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the ‘Fedayee’ is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He’s playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena.”
Munteaunu continued: “I’ve never before seen so much cleverness, blood and filth all together in one man.”
Munteaunu, wrote Pacepa, spent months pulling together secret reports from Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian intelligence agencies as well as Romanian files.
“I used to think I knew just about everything there was to know about Rahman al-Qudwa,” Arafat’s real name, “about the construction engineer who made a fortune in Kuwait, about the passionate collector of racing cars, about Abu Amman,” Arafat’s nom de guerre, “and about my friend Yasser, with all his hysterics,” explained Munteaunu, handing Pacepa his final report on the PLO leader. “But I’ve got to admit that I didn’t really know anything about him.”
Wrote Pacepa: “The report was indeed an incredible account of fanaticism, of devotion to his cause, of tangled oriental political maneuvers, of lies, of embezzled PLO funds deposited in Swiss banks, and of homosexual relationships, beginning with his teacher when he was a teen-ager and ending with his current bodyguards. After reading the report, I felt a compulsion to take a shower whenever I had been kissed by Arafat, or even just shaken his hand.”
Do you think that might do the trick?
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M&A radar: Bolloré Africa Logistics sale – one for CMA CGM, DP World, or...?
Just another usual Monday
Truckers in Australia have lashed out over the latest round of controversial “port infrastructure” surcharges imposed by stevedores.
According to Peter Anderson, chief executive of the Victorian Transport Association (VTA), landside logistics operators are reeling from “huge” increases in surcharges they must pay to deliver and pick up laden containers.
“The VTA remains concerned at what are essentially ongoing and unregulated increases by stevedores, making it difficult for operators to budget and plan,” he told The Loadstar.
“Two years ago it was A$3.57 (US$2.54) per full container, DP World now charges A$85.30 (US$60.6) – it’s a huge increase and the actual percentage increase is over 2,000%.”
In March, Patrick Stevedores implemented infrastructure charge hikes at its Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane terminals averaging 82%, with respective fees now at $77.50, $71.50 and $82.50.
The move brings Patrick’s charges in line with competing terminal operators DP World Australia and Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT).
The stevedores claim the charges are necessary due to increased port rents, the need to invest in infrastructure to handle larger ships and lower handling rates due to carrier consolidation and increased port competition.
However, DP World’s multiple increases to the surcharge since March 2017, each closely followed by VICT and Patrick, have left tuckers outraged.
“It’s a huge revenue boost for the stevedores from the trucking companies,” said Mr Anderson.
He said the truckers had to try to pass on the costs to customers, but this had become problematic following three hikes in 24 months.
“When does a trucker go back to a customer and get an increase for their own business and services, let alone for the increases for the stevedores? It’s been disruptive to the processes and relationships the landside operators have had with their customers,” added Mr Anderson.
The cashflow burden from the surcharge is also weighing heavily on truckers. Mr Anderson said an average-size operator with 10 trucks needed to pay some A$20,000 a week in infrastructure charges, while waiting for customer invoices to clear to recoup the money.
“So where are they going to find that?” he asked. “DP World only gave everyone 14 days to pay the invoice.”
Truckers were given a boost yesterday, however, following intervention by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
It announced DP World and VICT – along with Hutchison Ports Australia, which is yet to implement infrastructure surcharges to the levels of its competitors – had agreed to remove or amend terms in their contracts that the ACCC considered were “unfair” under Australian law.
“DP World and Hutchison had contract terms that allowed a stevedore to unilaterally vary terms in the agreements without notice, including fees paid by the land transport operators,” the ACCC statement said.
But the announcement is only a partial victory, according to Neil Chambers, director of the Container Transport Alliance Australia.
“While the ACCC hasn’t stopped the behaviour of the stevedores hiking their infrastructure charges without consultation, they will now need to give at least 30 days’ notice in the future,” Mr Chambers told ATN.
The move by ACCC follows its October report into Australia’s port sector, which found infrastructure fees generated a total of $100m in revenue for the stevedores in 2017-18. This represented 7.6% of total industry revenue, and a big jump up from the $25m collected in the previous financial year. ACCC estimates the industry will collect around $180m from infrastructure charges in 2018–19.
While the stevedores say they need the money to invest in infrastructure, Mr Anderson doesn’t agree that truckers should “bear the costs now for future investments”.
In a related development, truckers have also criticised the forthcoming biosecurity levy on import containers. As it stands, the government plans to collect the new tax from the stevedores, who will then pass on the costs.
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Oh Deer! Witness In Black Buck Case Says Threats Don't Scare Him, He'll Testify Salman Did It!
Long believed to be missing, the main witness in the chinkara poaching cases against Salman Khan has questioned the actor's acquittal by the Rajasthan High Court.
Harish Dulani, on whose testimony alone the case was built, served as Salman's driver during the alleged hunt in 1998.
Dulani, who ignored several summons and skipped hearings in the cases, said he was forced to stay away by threats issued to him after he became a prosecution witness. On Wednesday, the driver said he stuck to the statement he made before a magistrate in October 1998 - that Salman had killed the chinkaras - and added that, if summoned, he would repeat the same in court.
The high court had acquitted the film star on Monday. Setting aside Salman's conviction by a lower court, the HC had observed that Dulani's statement could not be considered because he had "disappeared" and the defence could not cross-examine him during the trial.
Dulani, however, told a local Hindi newspaper on Wednesday: "I did not disappear. I was not called (for examination by the defence) in order to save Salman. I still maintain that it was Salman who hunted (the chinkaras)." Dulani said he did attend hearings in the cases on November 24, 2015, and May 17, 2016.
"How could he (Salman) be acquitted? I was yet to testify," he added.
Salman could be in for trouble as Dulani is also a witness in another poaching case involving the blackbuck and also dating back to 1998. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for August 10, and Dulani said he had been asked to appear before the court. "I will go to the court and repeat my statement," he added.
"Even if I am called to the Supreme Court to testify, I would say the same thing," Dulani said.
The witness said he and his families had suffered much hardship after he was made a witness in the poaching case. "My father and I got many threat calls," Dulani said. "I lost my job, my parents, and my peace of mind in these years," he added.
Dulani denied that he was "bought over" to save the actor. "People have said all kinds of things about me. Some said I had moved to Dubai. The reality is I don't even have a passport," he said. | <urn:uuid:700e5949-dc94-4b93-878c-25435f71b159> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/prime-witness-says-he-will-testify-that-salman-khan-killed-chinkaras-despite-repeated-threats-259077.html | 2022-08-18T11:06:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00781.warc.gz | en | 0.994159 | 525 |
Drobo to put OCZ Talos SAS SSDs in their devices
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OCZ today announced that Drobo will utilize the OCZ Talos SAS SSD Series in its B1200i iSCSI SAN solutions for businesses. Ideal for small-and-medium businesses (SMBs), the Drobo B1200i provides reliable, high-performance, and self-optimizing storage for server virtualization, email, and data protection and features seamless integration with existing infrastructures as an iSCSI SAN device. With innovative automated data-aware tiering, the B1200i delivers a level of automation and technical sophistication that is easier to use and less costly to deploy than typical enterprise solutions. The B1200i is the first Drobo product to leverage the benefits of SSDs for increased bandwidth, lower power consumption, and instantaneous access times.
Drobo will offer the B1200i Series with OCZ Talos 3.50-inch SAS 6 Gb/s SSDs in 200 GB capacities. For SMBs seeking an easy to deploy yet state-of-the-art storage system, Drobo with Talos SSDs offer incredible reliability, unparalleled responsiveness, and optimized energy efficiency when compared to traditional storage systems that only leverage mechanical hard drives. The new Drobo B1200i with OCZ SSDs will be available through Drobo’s worldwide network of authorized distributors and resellers. | <urn:uuid:53126987-1999-4501-be51-ee8e17f23876> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.eteknix.com/drobo-to-put-ocz-talos-sas-ssds-in-their-devices/ | 2016-10-22T11:42:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00175-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893319 | 291 |
The OFF TRIENNALE is a partner event of the Triennial of Photography Hamburg. It was conceived as a dynamic, experimental and cutting-edge component contributing and complementing the exhibition program at the primary venues. OFF TRIENNALE will be launched for the first timeand presented during the opening week of the 7th Triennial of Photography Hamburg: June 7–17, 2018.
The OFF TRIENNALE is curated by Nina Venus.
The OFF locations have been specifically chosen by Nina Venus for their independent and ambitious program, their experimental approach towards presenting art and their contribution to the vivid art scene of Hamburg. Each of the 15 artists will present their work at one OFF location, especially appointed to them. Through a collaborative process between the artists and the locations, each OFF artist will engage with the site specific conditions of the OFF location and present a unique OFF solo show.
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Ready, Aim, Photon
August 31, 2010
As a physics professor at a small liberal arts school, it's important to find a niche -- an area of research that may have been overlooked by billion-dollar research labs. Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy John M. Caraher found his in virtual state spectroscopy. To appreciate how he got there, however, requires a brief lesson.
All around us, particles of light called photons are interacting with the environment in very different ways depending on their energy, or frequency. You know this because standing in sunlight for too long can burn your skin, while the light from the computer monitor you're looking at right now is mostly harmless. Over the course of its life, a photon may at some point run across an atom, a tiny building block of matter. If the frequency of the photon is just right, some of its energy will be absorbed, "exciting" the atom and releasing a photon with a new frequency. If you've ever held a glow-in-the-dark toy up to a lamp, you're already an expert in this process.
In 1931 a physicist named Maria Goeppert-Mayer thought of a way to take advantage of photon frequency in a clever way. She hypothesized that it was possible to excite an atom using two photons of half the necessary frequency, as long as they collided with the atom at nearly the same instant. This two-photon absorption technique would allow scientists to excite atoms at a specific point in space, without worrying about the photons being absorbed along the way. Unfortunately for Goeppert-Mayer, getting two photons to collide with a single atom -- at the same time, no less -- was virtually impossible. That is, until the invention of the laser.
Laser beams are so concentrated in energy that if you focus one at a certain point, two photons are bound by chance to collide simultaneously with an atom, making Goeppert-Mayer's two-photon absorption theory possible to test. And, as you've probably gathered, it worked. Biologists have since used two-photon absorption to excite fluorescent dye molecules injected beneath thin layers of tissue, creating incredibly accurate, three-dimensional and colorful images of the inside of living organisms.
In 1998 researchers at Boston University realized that the two-photon technique could also reveal detailed information about the energy state of atoms and molecules. Typically, this would require multiple frequencies of photons for each possible energy state an atom can be in, but by using specially paired photons, the team at Boston suggested that it would possible to see all of the energy states of an atom or molecule in a single test.
That was more than a decade ago, but very little research has been done to test their theory, which they named entangled-photon virtual state spectroscopy. And that's how Caraher found his niche.
Caraher hasn't been alone in his work. Over the years, student collaborators have helped him move forward, one step at a time.
"Breaking down what needs to be done and why, in a way that's accessible to undergraduates, clarifies and extends my own thinking about the physics," he says. "One very nice thing about undergraduate physics students is that they simply want to learn. They're not worrying about publications or where they're going to land a postdoctoral position. And because everything is new to them, there's a lot of enthusiasm for even the ‘little' things."
This summer, three DePauw students joined him in his research, and each became a specialist in different facets of the project. On a limited budget, they created most of the test equipment on their own. A mere $100,000 could have bought the equipment they needed, but where's the fun in that?
Ashwin A. Upasani '12 (r), a physics major from Pune, India, calibrated the team's laser. For two-photon absorption to work in an atom, the laser beam carrying the photons needs to be at a very precise frequency. But Upasani couldn't just type in a number and flip a switch. There are dozens of factors that need to be measured in order for the laser beam to remain constant, and even a change in temperature could throw things off.
Jonathan D. Cripe '12 (m), a physics and math double major from Belleville, Ill., built the project's "doubling cavity," an arrangement of mirrors and lenses around a special crystal that combines pairs of photons into single photons. The arrangement of the doubling cavity (pictured below) needs to be precise down to less than a wavelength of light, requiring special adjusters that make nearly imperceptible adjustments in cavity size.
In later experiments, these combined photons will be split by a similar crystal into pairs, each with half the original's frequency. The child photons are considered to be "entangled," cosmically connected to each other throughout their lives -- necessary for the test to work correctly, according to theory. In an entangled pair, only one of the particles needs to be tested in order to know the precise state of the other, no matter how far away they may be. Another advantage: because the entangled photons are born together, it's easier to redirect them so that they collide with an atom at the same time, meaning more efficient absorption.
Yujiao "Cindy" Qin '11, an economics and physics double major from Nanjing, China, acted as the team's analyst and programmer. She created computer models to explore the theory behind virtual state spectroscopy and ran calculations to test the accuracy of previously observed results. Using the predictive model from the researchers at Boston University, she created graphs for different atoms and larger molecules that Caraher's group can use for comparison. Ultimately, the results from this project, which continues next summer, will either follow or differ from what the theory suggests, raising entirely new questions.
This is pretty intense research for three undergraduate students, but it's also a great opportunity to learn while exploring new ground.
"Virtual state spectroscopy is a very lightly discussed area in optic physics, and there are a limited number of physicists researching it right now," Qin explains. "That's why our experiment is so important, yet so difficult. When I'm stuck somewhere, nobody is able to tell me what went wrong. I have to go back through every single detail of the theory and figure out why it is not working. But at the same time, I've enjoyed this constant problem-solving experience."
"Professor Caraher has been really good about helping us anytime we have questions or if we just need to bounce ideas off him," Cripe adds. "He has also been very flexible and understands that you can't ‘force' research."
In order to reduce interference in their instrumentation, Caraher and his students conduct most of their work in a basement lab in the Percy Lavon Julian Science & Mathematics Center, but not all their time together was spent cloistered underground. Cripe, Upasani and Qin made a weekend trip to Chicago together, and even joined Caraher and another summer research group on a recent canoe trip.
"It was a nice break, and we all had a terrific time," Upasani says. "I like that we can take time off once in a while with our professors and actually spend time outside of school with them. Of course, we were trying various applications of physics while canoeing, but that's what happens when you put a lot of physicists together."Back | <urn:uuid:6f3faa32-0a2b-4884-8f83-693c1b844642> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/25630/ | 2014-10-22T15:30:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507447421.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005727-00038-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970333 | 1,562 |
Life at The Rock
Work hard. Play hard. Pray hard. If it’s possible to describe the Rockhurst experience in just six words, these sum it up best. For more than 100 years, Rockhurst High School has been a place where boys become young men, with minds, bodies and souls prepared for the challenges of college and life beyond. | <urn:uuid:5ee7cb87-c19e-4345-bad4-8992fb5c40fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.rockhursths.edu/about-us/explore-rockhurst | 2022-01-24T22:33:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304686.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124220008-20220125010008-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.914243 | 74 |
[telecoms insight] Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has revealed plans to auction LTE spectrum. This would make it the first country in the Middle East and Africa to hold an LTE-focused spectrum auction. Given the LTE activity in the Middle East, we do expect spectrum to be offered soon in some countries. For example, Jordan, not one of the real candidates for rapid LTE launches, has discussed a rapid move toward LTE licensing.
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Jailbroken iOS users get the awesome option of enabling the panorama mode within the stock Camera app in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (as covered here). It is cool to be able to shoot photos in panorama mode without having to install any third-party app, but if you don’t have access to the Cydia store, you have to rely on apps to snap panoramas. There are many apps available in the App Store which let you do that, but DMD Panorama has a certain advantage over them, as not only is it a camera replacement app, but also has a network of its own, where you can discover beautiful panorama images and share them over your social network. The app has other really handy sharing options as well, and you can know all about them by reading on.
DMD Panorama is not laid out to be too confusing for a casual user, and thus, starts off with the main camera screen. If you want help in determining the app’s working, just tap the “i” button in the bottom right corner of the camera screen. To start creating a panorama, you have to hold your iDevice vertically, i.e., in portrait mode. Point the camera to the spot from where you want to begin the panorama. Now, keeping the camera vertical, hit the Start button. The first image of the panorama will be snapped, as indicated by a flash on the screen, and you have to slowly move the camera in the desired direction. The next photo will be snapped when the Yin Yang symbols on the top of the camera previewed screen come together. Sensing the shift in the device’s direction, the symbols will move accordingly to let you snap a panorama which does not have any broken areas. Once you are satisfied that all the details have been captured, hit the Finish button.
The panorama images created using DMD Panorama can be merely saved to the camera roll and the app’s cloud service (needs an account), or there is the option to share the photo via email, Facebook or Twitter. Before doing so, users can also provide a location, name and description for the image. DMD Panorama has a Public Gallery of its own, where popular shares by other users can be viewed. If you have an app-specific account, it becomes easy to add any image to Favorites and share it with others.
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Join us Thursday at one of the most vegan-friendly locations in Dallas, pizza Lounge, near Fair Park, to meet up with new and old friends, connect with DFW’s veg community, and enjoy the best vegan pizza in town!
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In 2020, telehealth became a vital lifeline for both providers and patients. Rapid ramp up was met with regulatory relaxation to allow care interactions to continue amid emergency declarations. And a year later, with telehealth expansion finalized, at least in part by CMS, it’s become vital to accurately assess the risks and rewards that come with providing telehealth services.
In this post, we recap the recent statement by HHS-OIG and offer a few tips for ensuring your telehealth services uphold program integrity and protect patients.
HHS-OIG Principal Deputy Inspector General Christie Grimm issued a statement February 26 about the agency’s ongoing analysis of telehealth services and fraud schemes. Provided below are the highlights.
Telehealth in a Post-COVID World
Telehealth Fraud Risks
The Justice Department is actively already pursuing fraud within telehealth, recently reporting a massive takedown of hundreds of individuals defrauding both federal programs and private payers of $4.5 billion via telehealth.
Inspector General Grimm acknowledged the risk in light of current telehealth flexibilities:
“OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency. Once complete, these reviews will provide objective findings and recommendations that can further inform policymakers and other stakeholders considering what telehealth flexibilities should be permanent. This work can help ensure the potential benefits of telehealth are realized for patients, providers, and HHS programs. We anticipate the first work products to be published later this year.”
Telehealth Fraud vs. Telefraud
Inspector General Grimm made a useful distinction between fraud involving telemedicine and fraud related to telemarketing schemes.
“In the last few years, OIG has conducted several large investigations of fraud schemes that inappropriately leveraged the reach of telemarketing schemes in combination with unscrupulous doctors conducting sham remote visits to increase the size and scale of the perpetrator’s criminal operations. In many cases, the criminals did not bill for the sham telehealth visit. Instead, the perpetrators billed fraudulently for other items or services, like durable medical equipment or genetic tests. We will continue to vigilantly pursue these “telefraud” schemes and monitor the evolution of scams that may relate to telehealth.”
Telehealth Credentialing and Ongoing Monitoring
Credentialing and ongoing monitoring of any employee or provider accessing or billing for telehealth is crucial to maintaining compliance and keeping patients safe. That’s why we have made sure our products continuously adapt to changing and delayed license expiration dates due to public health emergency orders.
To evaluate your current telehealth licensure processes, check out our Telehealth and Credentialing Guide. Let us know if you’d like to learn more about how ProviderTrust can help alleviate the burden of keeping up with the latest telehealth licensure on an ongoing basis. | <urn:uuid:ef2bcdad-22d3-4fbb-96f7-1f0929fa1aa9> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.providertrust.com/blog/oig-statement-telehealth/ | 2021-07-30T13:35:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153966.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20210730122926-20210730152926-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.9281 | 592 |
When I was in high school, Jake was a little boy playing around with his friends in the bull pen while his Dad coached the North Laurel Jaguar baseball team. Then bam, we turned around and he's a senior.
A leader on both the football field & baseball diamond (& the #1 basketball fan), Jake is all blue at heart. And considering he's been raised on it, you could say he comes by it honest.
His senior football season is off to an awesome start, with a 4-0 record! #gojags
Be on the lookout for more of Jake on the blog when baseball season rolls around. Below are a few of my favorites from our fall session: | <urn:uuid:0d80a12b-3559-454a-a0df-21dc60a431f6> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | http://megangel.photography/blog/2015/9/16/jake-mcwhorter-senior-2016 | 2019-09-19T23:07:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573759.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20190919224954-20190920010954-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.988865 | 141 |
How to Dismantle Your Emotional Triggers
with Dr Jenn Phoenix Hatfield
Trigger alert! Emotional triggers are everywhere these days. It’s human nature to lash out at the cause of a trigger, especially if it feels socially justified. But triggers are information. They tell you where you have raw emotional wounds or stories/ideas you hold about yourself or others that, when challenged, feel like your emotional survival is threatened.
In this conversation with Dr. Jenn Phoenix Hatfield, we talk about how to identify triggers, how to choose your response and several methods you can use to de-escalate in the moment, dismantle your triggers and heal the cause of raw emotional wounds. Plus, these juicy topics:
When you work through a trauma or emotional trigger you are better able to gain perspective, understanding, deeper peace and even see what responsibility you have in a relationship or situation.
Triggers are a spotlight of what to look at when you want to make changes in your life even if the situation or trigger seems to have nothing to do with the change you want to make. Often issues are connected at deep subconscious levels.
Currently many triggers are collective issues (justice, race, economics, etc) rather than personal and when you are triggered this way, looking at the story you are telling around the issue will help you find the deep emotional triggers related to them.
Several strategies to help identify, dismantle and re-pattern the body/brain neurology around triggers
Dr. Jenn Phoenix Hatfield is first and foremost an explorer and lover of life. Her explorations have led her to rediscover and reconnect to her ever expanding gifts of intuition, claircognizance, and channeling. She uses these gifts in connection with her experience and education as a Doctor of Chiropractor and over 25 years of experience in the health industry to help others heal. She is the owner of The Intuitive Phoenix and creator of the F#$king Fantastic series.
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EXPAND Your EDGE Pendulum Play!
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Increase my awareness around what emotionally triggers me
Increase my ability to recognize when I am being triggered before react
Decrease my emotional attachment to my own stories
Increase my willingness to see my own stories
For triggers themselves:
“Bring to neutral and love to wholeness _______ (emotional description of trigger)
Decrease my ______ (emotion) around ______ (person and/or situation)
Increase my willingness to see a larger perspective (of person/situation)
Increase my awareness of the stories I tell about (person or situation)
Decrease my attachment to the stories I tell about (person or situation)
Decrease my resistance to letting go of my story about (person or situation)
Increase my appreciation for (something about a person or situation)
Neutralize all inaccurate stories, beliefs and opinions around (person or situation)
Harmonize me with my highest awareness about this person or situation
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Pushing the edges of my own consciousness has been my passion for as long as I can remember. I’ve been helping others push past limiting perceptions and expand their minds and realities for almost as long. Conversations are a great way to explore what’s possible, whether through listening to the conversations in this site or talking privately with me or one of my mind-blowing friends.
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Ethiopia: EU delays €90m aid over Tigray crisis
The European Union (EU) has delayed almost €90 million in support payments to Ethiopia over the ongoing crisis in the Tigray region.
The delay is being reported by Reuters news agency, which claims to have seen internal EU documentation referencing the postponement of payments. According to the agency, the document says the delay of funds aims to reinforce the EU’s request for a response from Ethiopia over concerns it has raised related to humanitarian access, media access and the cessation of conflict in the Tigray region.
EU postpones aid over Tigray crisis
Conflict between Ethiopian federal soldiers and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) broke out in early November after Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed sent troops into the northern Tigray region following accusations of an attack against a military facility.
Throughout the weeks of violence, several reports have emerged of civilians being targeted by both sides and complaints from aid groups saying they’re unable to access the region to deliver humanitarian assistance. The EU is calling for the cessation of violence, investigations into alleged human rights abuses and the end of a media blackout in the Tigray region.
The European Union is a key ally for Ethiopia, both in terms of financial assistance and diplomatic support. According to the union’s website, the EU contributes roughly €214 million to Ethiopia in development assistance every year.
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Chair/Professor/Associate/Assistant Professor in Economics
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Department of Economics
The Department invites applications for the above positions. Applications in all economics fields will be considered. Preference will be given to applicants with expertise in one or more of the following areas: macroeconomics, applied econometrics (including analysis of big data) and economics of digital markets.
Applicants should have a relevant PhD degree. Candidates for senior positions should also have a strong track record of research and teaching accomplishments. Fresh PhD graduates are expected to submit their applications before the closing date. Applications from other candidates will be processed throughout the year until the positions are filled.
The appointment is offered on a tenure track. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of up to three years starting from a mutually agreed date in 2019. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement and availability of funding.
Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk). All applicants should send in their teaching evaluation results of last three years and samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications. Applicants should also request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference, with PR number quoted on the letters, to the Personnel Office (Email: email@example.com) direct. Applicants not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will not be returned after the completion of the recruitment exercise unless upon request. Details of the University's Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics.
The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the posts advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer.
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Many people love touching stories, but they can be difficult to write. As with any type of story, there are key elements needed to make it good. It can seem intimidating at first, but soon you'll have a great story!
1Think about stories you have read in the past. What did you like about them? What do you think could have been written differently to make it better? You don't want to copy other stories, but they can provide inspiration for your original story.Ad
2Think of a situation that many people can relate to. Examples of this are making a big change (like going to college, moving, or getting a new job), loss of a loved one (loss of pets is often used in stories as well), or marriage-related situations. This situation will become the plot of the story. Be creative and don't do something too common; nobody wants to read yet another variation of a story they've read too many times already.
3Make up the characters. The most important characters are the protagonist ("hero") and the antagonist ("villain"). However, you will want to add some more minor characters, otherwise, the story will not be as interesting. When you are making up characters, write at least some backstory about each of them. Even if you don't put this in the story, it's good to keep in mind so your characters will always act "in character". Figure out what role each person has in the plot.
4Plan the story before you write it. Many new authors want to jump right in and write; however, it is better to do some planning before you write. This ensures that the story is consistent and the plot makes sense.
5This is the fun part- write the story. Occasionally, get someone you trust to read it and tell you what they think. They will be able to point out things you may have forgotten to mention or things that do not make sense to them. Keep in mind that they may not only have things to say about the story itself; they may have comments about the grammar as well. For example, a sentence that sounds fine to you may actually be worded awkwardly.
6Once the story is written, publish it if you want. If you don't care about making money from it, there are websites and magazines you can send it to. If you do want to make money, choose a good publishing company or self-publish it.Ad
- If your story doesn't have a happy ending, that's fine; some people actually want to read an unhappy ending once in a while. Don't let someone convince you that only happy endings sell, because that's simply not true.
- If you have someone else read the story, make sure it is someone trustworthy who knows a good story when they read one. It is also helpful if they have some grammar knowledge.
- Resist the temptation to name things (characters, places, the story itself, etc.) first. Sometimes when people write, they put more importance on names than characterization, plot details, and other vital elements. Don't do this; it shows in your writing.
- You can never have too much backstory, even about the most minor characters. Remember that Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Tolkien, and J.K. Rowling all paid attention to backstory and characterization, even for the most minor characters.
- Think of every situation, event and person an opportunity for a great story or character.
- Wait until you finish writing to divide the story into chapters. Like naming things, dividing it into chapters as you go often shows in your writing.
- While it's fine to be inspired by other stories, don't copy them, especially if you are going to sell your story. As soon as someone who has read the original story reads yours, you will be found out.
- If you publish the story, beware; if it's online, people may plagiarise it, and if you send it to a publishing company, they likely will change things in the story. If you want to make money and keep your original story, your best bet is to self-publish.
- If you plan to publish, you don't want to even put it online because these days, that's considered 'first rights publishing' and most publishers like the first rights to any publication. | <urn:uuid:95c8b474-cc5b-4251-8034-d18a16add02b> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Touching-Story | 2014-08-20T14:37:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500809686.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021329-00449-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967099 | 886 |
I would like to constrain a View's left and right sides to it's parent view's margins and make it fill the allotted space. However, setting width to either
match_parent is supported, but it is not as powerful as 0dp. With 0dp, you can think of your constraints as 'scalable' rather than 'filling whats left'.
Also, 0dp can be defined by a position, where match_parent relies on it's parent for it's position (x,y and width, height) | <urn:uuid:27c6b471-d78b-4dc5-9523-606d5ebf76ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | https://codedump.io/share/PtehoIYDNiqV/1/set-width-to-match-constraints-in-constraintlayout | 2017-03-24T20:53:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218188553.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212948-00620-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923775 | 109 |
True to the style of the picture. Well made and comfortable. Gives the bum a nice shape and is a pretty shade of blue. The lines are flattering.
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I was having a recent conversation with some short people in my life about the affects of food on your teeth. Let me set it up for you. I was watching with horror, a small child ingesting large quantities of candy. This "candy" was housed in a tube that looked similar to toothpaste but it was pretty much the opposite of that in regards to your teeth. Anyway, I was sitting there enjoying an early spring evening when this kid was sitting across from me squeezing this nasty paste/liquid into his mouth and gulping it down like it was water. (The only thing this crap had in common with water was that it was wet.) Anyway, I asked him what it was and he looked at me as if I had four heads. What an idiot I was not to know, right? He was too miffed to answer apparently, so he just kept on eating or drinking or what ever you do with that stuff. Strangely enough, this was just the first course.
Next he moved on to a delicious plate of processed chicken nuggets and ketchup along with a side of warm apples. Sound good? Well the chicken, as I've seen on a gang of hungry little creature's plates, was unlike any chicken known to man. It was, I believe, cooked, thrown into a blender with a slew of chemicals and preservatives, squeezed into the shape of a dinosaur (what the hell does chicken have to do with dinosaurs I have no clue), breaded and frozen. Oh and let's not forget the ketchup for dipping. The side of warm apples also had no resemblance to an actual apple. It was perfect little yellow squares suspended in what looked like a brownish colored hair gel. All washed down with an enormous vat of none other than Mountain Dew. I mean the cup was about twice the size of the kid's head. Every time he took a gulp his little face disappeared. And for dessert, yes there was dessert, was a piece of coffee cake and the remainder of what I refer to as "The Tube".
Thank Christ that child was not related to me. I seriously wanted to take his parents out back and beat the crap out of them but I did not know them well enough to even approach the subject healthy eating let alone put the smack down. Anyway, this spurred the conversation with the shorties in my life. (Non-relation youngins but still very important to me.) I started by asking them what their friends ate for lunch at school. They described a parade of disgusting food and while I was gagging with the thought of a rainbow of florescent colored jello I asked how many of them brush their teeth after lunch or any time throughout the day. Without thinking for more than a few seconds they both echoed the same sentiment, nobody.
Now you would have to be a total moron to not know that sugar rots your teeth. But what I think people are not grasping is the amount of hidden sugar that is in foods marketed toward children. You know the "food", and I use the term loosely, that I am talking about. Anything with colors not found in nature or that they should not come in. For example, pink or brown milk, almost all candy and jellos, day glo orange mac and cheese, etc. Or things that are all that lovely brown, fried color. Not only are these things completely foul, but they are also usually sugar bombs, even if they do not taste particularly sweet. Food should not look like a caricature of itself. Don't be fooled tall people! These foods also come in adult form. Read the ingredient list. If it looks like you need a chemistry degree to read it, you should probably put it back on the shelf. And don't feel bad if no one buys it, it will still be edible in 45 years.
I understand that not everyone thinks like I do and that this blog is border-lining an ego fest, but get over it. It's information that needs to be pointed out. Not only is that kind of food barf worthy but it will destroy teeth especially if the kid (or adult) does not have the best oral hygiene. Here is a list of foods/substances that are like battery acid to your teeth:
I could seriously go on for an eternity, but you get the point.
Also do not be fooled by the labels that say whole grain or vitamin fortified such as breakfast cereals and other boxed items, they are still sugar city!
Things you should eat to promote healthy teeth:
It's pretty obvious people...the stuff your doctor and other amazing health professionals have been telling you your entire life.
I know I said to be careful with fruit juice but do not take fruit out of your diet. It has so many amazing benefits, just make sure that you rinse your mouth after you eat or drink fruit because it still has a lot of acid and natural sugars. Not to mention that most fruit juices, especially the ones made for kids have boatloads of added sugar and other yucky crap that I wouldn't feed to an alligator.
And it doesn't hurt to take your vitamins! I will expand more about that in a later post. Stay tuned.
So the bottom line is try to stay as natural with your foods as you possibly can. I know it's not easy but do the best you can. And when you cannot seem to resist that hot pink piece of taffy that looks like a chunk of linoleum, make sure to brush your teeth after you eat it and try not to have it too often. Your teeth will thank you and your dentist will get really bored because he/she won't have to drill or fill! If you cannot brush right away, rinsing is the next best thing, especially for non-sticky things such as sugary drinks. (I hope I don't really have to say this but rinse with plain water ya dummy.)
As for the kiddos, you are in control of what they eat and when and how they brush their teeth. Think about what is going into their little bodies before you serve it to them. No kid has ever died of not eating junk food. Start them on the right track and you will have a great outcome. They will be happier, more energetic, healthier and will love you more for not making them get a shot at the dentist every time they come in.
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I had only 24 hours in Galveston, but that was plenty of time to see the famous Strand, eat some good seafood, and play a little bingo.
Alpine, Marfa, and Fort Davis seemed like a different worlduntil I got there. I felt right at home in these West Texas cultural hot spots.
San Antonio high school senior Marshevet Hooker was a member of the record setting U.S. Junior Track & Field Team. She recently committed to attending college at UT-Austin.
In the spring of 1995, Austin lawyer and photography-enthusiast Michael Hull found himself in a self-described “interesting intersection in time”or at least Texas time.
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Nick J Harvey, guitarist, composer, engineer, and producer has released his latest single and EP. Nick’s music reaches out to fans of classic 60’s and 70’s blues band. With a firm spiritual core centered on early and gritty Chicago tones, Nick J Harvey offers a fresh perspective on blues/rock.
The single “Blues ‘n Greens” takes the listener on a ride of rhythmic and subtle harmonic twists, but still plays strongly in the tradition of a driving Chicago blues shuffle.
“Blues ‘n Greens” has the drive of a rock track and a compelling “grab you by the throat quality.” The single is arranged thoughtfully with a crafted melody that energetically pushes the listener forward via a nasally blues inspired guitar and a pumping rhythm section underneath.
The approach to arranging and mixing the “Blues ‘n Greens” single and EP was to shape the sound in the style of great classic 70’s rock tracks, where recordings had a life and a sense of dynamics to the instrumentation.
Nick says, “Blues ‘n Greens” is accumulation of five years of hard work and planning. I’m passionate about taking the format of the blues and seeing if we can push the form further forward. Getting the single out, and the other tracks on the EP are important to me because I believe the world still loves good guitar music.”
If you enjoyed the single “Blues ‘n Greens”, take a listen to some of the other tracks on the EP in the preview player. The other two tracks on the EP are the very rocky “Cherry Brandy”, and the esoteric “Black Rock.”
So click the order button below and get instant access to Nick J Harvey’s exciting new EP.
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If you build it, they will come -- and they will bring lots of cash.
So says the Chicago White Sox-linked group that wants to build Replica Fields, a youth baseball facility that would comprise scaled-down versions of Wrigley Field, U.S. Cellular Field, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium and Minute Maid Park on about 20 acres in Romeoville.
Larry Gould of the ML&B group, which proposes building the facility in partnership with the Village of Romeoville and Lewis University in Romeoville, and other proponents envision teams from across the country coming in summers for weekend and weeklong tournaments, with each player and coach paying $750 a day.
Families who join them would stay in nearby hotels, dine at area restaurants, shop at regional malls and patronize entertainment spots, said Gould, a real estate developer and part owner of the White Sox and the Chicago Bulls.
According to an analysis produced for the group by C.H. Johnson Consulting of Chicago, the Romeoville area could see as much as $114 million in new spending annually. The three major taxing bodies -- the village, Will County and Valley View Community School District 365U -- could each reap $1 million in new tax receipts a year, the report says.
"We'll offer a fantastic experience that will make them want to come back," Gould said. "There are 10 million kids playing baseball from ages 9 to 16. That's a big market. We'll be able to host 102 teams a week."
Conceptually, the facility would compete with Cooperstown Dreams Park, near the Baseball Hall of Fame in New York, and Cal Ripken's Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Gould said. Yet skeptics point out that other publicly funded sports venues hyped as win-win situations can end up falling far short of expectations and costing taxpayers millions of dollars. Operators of the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, for instance, estimated when it was built in 2005 that more than 125 events a year would gross more than $10 million a year. Four years later, the arena is losing money, its only regular event is lingerie football and taxpayers in the village could be on the hook for the $55 million bond issued to pay for it, plus millions more in interest.
To build Replica Fields, Romeoville would sell $4 million in bonds and retain ownership, Village Manager Steve Gulden said. ML&B would make $320,000 lease payments annually for 25 years.
Mayor John Noak acknowledged it is a risk. Part of the contract negotiations with ML&B includes building in safeguards to protect taxpayers should the project fail or if construction exceeds $4 million, he said.
"Obviously, there is no project that's 100 percent guaranteed," Noak said. "We're reviewing various strategies to minimize that risk."
One factor working in the village's favor, he said, is the Johnson report's finding that even if only a third of ML&B's projections are met, the business would break even.
Allen Sanderson, an economics professor at the University of Chicago who specializes in sports issues and has written op-ed pieces on how taxpayers often end up footing the bill for such venues, said the "utilization rate is key. Higher utilization rates spur economic development."
Another potential stumbling block -- that dozens of local competitors would emerge simultaneously -- seems unlikely, he said.
An added plus for Romeoville would be to use Replica Fields for youth teams on weekdays from April to June, Noak said. More baseball space is "desperately needed," and the village likely would build new fields no matter what, he said.
Demand for youth baseball facilities has skyrocketed in the last decade with traveling leagues, said Nathan Clinkenbeard, managing editor of Baseball Youth magazine.
"Seeing the growth of these traveling teams (has) been amazing," Clinkenbeard said. "A lot of these facilities have been popping up all over."
There's also the possibility the complex could be expanded to include a Chicago Bears preseason training camp facility. Noak said he has met with Bears officials but declined to disclose what has been discussed.
Gulden said Replica Fields could open in fall 2010 at the soonest, but more likely in spring 2011. Three separate deals must be reached. The first spells out the arrangement between ML&B and the village. The second is between the village and Lewis, which would lease the land to Romeoville on a long-term basis, Gulden said. | <urn:uuid:96fb6efe-4c82-47c5-9c37-9d9f2a42c6d9> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-10-21/news/0910190301_1_youth-baseball-facility-taxpayers-lewis-university | 2014-03-08T16:02:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999655041/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060735-00070-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965377 | 941 |
Fund: iNovia Capital
Posted by Anonymous on 2008-07-13
What I see is a unique dynamism EMERGING from their entrepreneurial backgrounds and university networks.
Also IMPRESSED by their support of the startup community in Montreal
iNovia appears to be DEVELOPING a strong "Operating Competence" and it is nice to see it involved in the startup ecosystem.PRIVATE: Members Only (85 Characters) | <urn:uuid:72bd36e8-97da-4570-b856-f934bf33545a> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.thefunded.com/funds/item/3221?page=3 | 2017-05-29T22:57:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463613135.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529223110-20170530003110-00346.warc.gz | en | 0.937727 | 92 |
Garshady's Council LOSES Legal Battle To Keep Zuma Dogg Out Of City Hall For One Year & ZD Figured Out The LAST Thing Council Wants Me To Discuss
Bitch Dicklander...YOU LOSE BITCH...SEE YOU TUESDAY, AND EVERY DAY, FOR A LONG, LONG, LONG, LONG, TIME LOSER! Anyway...you may have forgotten, but the shadiest bunch of crybabies, who just can't take the words of Zuma Dogg, as used against them in the court of public opinion, took their shot, sent out the goon squad, snatched me out of the bleachers, arrested me and tried to beat me in court, in order to try for a "one year stay away" (that may not have even been able to be enforced anyway...but who knows how long it would have taken me to prove that.)
AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE BICH DICKLANDER UNDER A POLYGRAPH TO ANSWER THE QUESTION: "DID YOU FORCE YOUR STAFFER TO TESTIFY AGAINST ZD, AND COACH HIM ON WHAT TO SAY. (Cause bro, I was there, and he sure didn't have his facts down.) And if you were put up to it, FILE A LAWSUIT, or don't ever say, "hello" again to me please. (Won't hate you, just can't respect you anymore.)
AND, I can tell you one thing...something interesting happened in my trial, after ZD snuck over to City Hall for public comment during lunch:
Saw UNION construction workers protesting a Downtown construction project for using NON-UNION workers (and i was told they were non-documented) So I mentioned this is unsafe; no accountability; any terrorist can fly off the plane and be working on the site minutes later, cause they don't check documentation. And I asked Council to make a motion that ALL building projects approved by Planning and the City be required to use UNION workers. Because after all, besides safety issues, here' you raise taxes on these documented UNION workers with your bulky item fees, trash collection fees, whatever other taxes...then THEY can't get work, cause the non-union/non-documented are getting the work. (I'm told by an insider in the area, it happens all over!!!)
So when the court came back from lunch, the City Attorney says to the judge, "Your honor, The City has three to five new witnesses that would like to testify, as well." (Hey guess who one of them was??? Jan "Nose In The Air" Perry: HEY THE CM WHERE ALL THOSE NON-UNION BUILDINGS ARE POPPING UP!?!? HEY, NO AGENDA THERE POMPOUS ASS!!!
SO, THE CITY WINS...CITY COUNCIL LOSES: ZD IS NOT BANNED FROM SHITTY HALL...And now, the real work begins, cause Eric...quite a few flaws with your current "code of conduct" policy --- and NOW, the City has to start all over again and try to throw the cuffs on ZD, and try for that ONE YEAR STAY AWAY ORDER, ONE MORE TIME.
AND JAN...UNTIL IT'S ALL UNION WORK IN YOUR DISTRICT...I WILL BE COMMENTING ON THIS ISSUE ON RADIO AND TV EVERYTIME! NOW GO GET SOME DISCIPLINE IN YOUR LIFE...IT'S OBVILOUSLY LACKING IN ALL AREAS!
AND WATCH THIS BLOG FOR ALL THE HILARIOUS AND COMPELLING DETAILS FROM THE JURY SELECTION OVER THIS FIRST AMENDMENT CASE AND ALL THE INSIDE DETAILS. (Jury was AMAZING focus group.)
UPDATE: SEE COMMENT SECTION FOR ADDED DETAILS. AND WAY MORE TO COME.
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Today, the LEGO Group announces a significant investment of DKK 1 billion dedicated to research, development and implementation of new, sustainable, raw materials to manufacture LEGO® elements as well as packaging materials.
Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO and President of the LEGO Group, says:
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The investment will result in the establishment of the LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre. The centre will be based at the LEGO Group’s headquarters in Billund, Denmark, and include all current functions and employees working to find alternative materials. In addition, the LEGO Group expects to recruit more than 100 specialists within the materials field during the coming years to work on this challenging ambition.
The LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre organisation will be established during 2015 and 2016, and it is expected that it will include satellite functions located in relevant locations around the globe. In addition, the centre will collaborate and develop partnerships with relevant external stakeholders and experts.
LEGO Group owner Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen comments on the announcement:
“Our mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. We believe that our main contribution to this is through the creative play experiences we provide to children. The investment announced is a testament to our continued ambition to leave a positive impact on the planet, which future generations will inherit. It is certainly in line with the mission of the LEGO Group and in line with the motto of my grandfather and founder of the LEGO Group, Ole Kirk Kristiansen: Only the best is good enough”.
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The decision to significantly boost the search for sustainable materials was taken at the recent General Assembly of the LEGO Group in May 2015.
In 2012, the LEGO Group first shared its ambition to find and implement sustainable alternatives to the current raw materials used to manufacture LEGO products by 2030. The ambition is part of the LEGO Group’s work to reduce its environmental footprint and leave a positive impact on the planet our children will inherit. As an example, in 2014 more than 60 billion LEGO elements were made – and finding alternatives to the materials used to make these bricks would significantly reduce the LEGO Group’s impact on the planet.
“The testing and research we have already done has given us greater visibility of the challenges we face to succeed on this agenda and we respond by adding significant resources in order to be ready to move into the next phase of finding and implementing the sustainable materials. I am truly excited by the full commitment of the Board of Directors and our owner family to significantly boost the work to ensure a lasting positive impact,” says Jørgen Vig Knudstorp.
When the LEGO Group is ready to introduce new materials it is vital that it does not compromise the quality or safety standards set by the LEGO Group and expected by parents. Consequently, the LEGO Group will continue to seek extensive research and robust data to ensure that all aspects of safety and quality are considered.
“This is paramount to us as it enables us to provide children with a unique play experience that inspires and develops them and enables them to build a better tomorrow. This is ultimately the reason for our continued efforts to always do better,” says Jørgen Vig Knudstorp.
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The LEGO Group will not be able to solve the task of finding and implementing new materials alone. In recent years, the Group has collaborated with companies and experts on the task and these relationships will continue with existing as well as new partners with expertise in the field.
An example is the Climate Savers partnership between the LEGO Group and WWF signed in 2013, which has targets on developing a sustainable materials strategy. A new collaboration with WWF was agreed in spring 2015 and focuses on better assessing the overall sustainability and environmental impact of new bio-based materials for LEGO elements and packaging.
“There is no common definition of a sustainable material. Several factors influence the environmental sustainability of a material – the composition of the material, how it is sourced and what happens when the product reaches the end of its life. When we search for new materials all of these factors must be considered,” says Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, adding:
“What we announce today is a long-term investment and a dedication to ensuring the continued research and development of new materials that will enable us to continue to deliver great, high quality creative play experiences in the future, while caring for the environment and future generations. It is a daunting and exciting challenge.”
About the LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre
• The LEGO Group dedicates 1 billion DKK and sets up LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre to find and implement new sustainable alternatives to current raw materials.
• More than 100 employees are expected to be recruited predominantly in the LEGO Group headquarters in Billund Denmark, to work on the task in the coming years.
• The structure and organisation of the LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre will be developed during 2015 and 2016.
• The LEGO Group will continuously report on the progress and learnings gained towards the 2030 ambition.
What is a sustainable material?
There is no common definition of a sustainable material. Several aspects influence the sustainability of a material. It is to a high degree determined by its source, chemical composition, its use (in a product) and management (at end-of-life), and the impact it can have in both environmental and social areas.
The LEGO Group believes a new sustainable material must have an ever-lighter footprint than the material it replaces across key environmental and social impact areas such as fossil resource use, human rights and climate change.
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“From income inequality to climate change, technology will play a critical role in finding solutions to all the challenges our world faces today,” says Jeremy Jurgens, Chief Technology Officer at the World Economic Forum. “This year’s emerging technologies demonstrate the rapid pace of human innovation and offer a glimpse into what a sustainable, inclusive future will look like.”
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If you’re curious about bed bugs, radon gas, or toxic waste in landfills, the EPA website has got you covered. But if you are interested in climate change, you might better off going somewhere else instead—say over to NASA.gov or even the Department of Energy.
The phrase “climate change” hasn’t been entirely eliminated from EPA.gov, but you need to follow a winding path to encounter it. From the site’s homepage, you first follow a link to environmental topics, including, at the top of the list, air. Click on “greenhouse gas emissions” on the page of air-related topics and you’ll find a link to “Climate Change Home”—which leads to a rather unwelcoming destination. “This Page is Being Updated,” its headline states. “We are currently updating our website to reflect EPA’s priorities under the leadership of President Trump and Administrator Pruitt,” states the text.
In the year he’s been in office, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has personally directed his webmasters to remove climate-related content on the website, scrubbing material that doesn’t fit his pro-business goals of rolling back regulations and casting doubt on the science of global warming and climate change. Under Pruitt’s orders, EPA managers removed pages on climate change science and information about the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era effort to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel burning plants
Those pages were replaced by links to President Trump’s executive order to repeal the Clean Power Plan, according to new e-mails obtained by the Environmental Defense Fund and 11 other other environmental and legal groups through a Freedom of Information Act request.
In one April 2017 email to colleagues in the EPA’s communications office, Lincoln Ferguson, an adviser to Pruitt, asks how close they are to removing and replacing the Clean Power Plan section. “The Administrator would like it to go up ASAP. He also has several other changes that need to take place,” Ferguson wrote, according to the e-mails provided by the EDF.
J.P. Freire, then the head of communications, responded, “You can tell him we … are just finishing up.”
Ferguson then asked if the change could happen that day: “Just asking because he is asking.”
Ben Levitan, senior attorney for the EDF, notes that the EPA is still accepting public comments about the Clean Power Plan until April 26. It’s just that the public won’t be able to find out much about the scientific rationale behind the plan. “A lot of the supporting materials that made the benefits of the plan more discernible are gone,” Levitan says, like legal info and various fact sheets about how the plan works. “One of our concerns is if people go to EPA’s website they might assume they can get the information they need to write informed comments, it might not be clear how much information has been removed,” he said.
The EPA holds public hearings on Pruitt’s plan to repeal the plan next month in Kansas City, Mo., and in March in Gilette, Wyoming. Afterward, Pruitt will make a final decision on its fate. The Supreme Court had put the plan on hold in early 2016 in the midst of litigation by various states and power industry groups.
While Pruitt isn’t breaking any laws by changing the website, the EPA’s own mission statement notes that the agency’s purpose is “to ensure that all parts of society—communities, individuals, businesses, and state, local and tribal governments—have access to accurate information sufficient to effectively participate in managing human health and environmental risks.”
Elections, and new administrators, have consequences. But contrast Pruitt’s sanitized EPA website with NASA’s “Vital Signs of the Planet,” which broadcasts the cold, hard facts of global warming in a easy-to-read banner: carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere (407.62 ppm), global temperature (up 1.7 degrees F since 1880), the loss of Arctic sea ice (-13.2 percent per decade), and loss of land ice (286 gigatons/year). The space agency says it lets scientists and editors review the climate information that agency publishes, according to NASA headquarters spokesman Scott Cole.
“Editorial oversight is performed by the NASA scientists and web editors that maintain the site at the [Jet Propulsion Laboratory] center, and all content posted to the sites is based on editorial decisions by those scientists and web staff,” Cole said in an e-mail to WIRED. “This has always been standard operating procedure at NASA.”
Even the Department of Energy makes it easy for visitors to find out information about the causes of climate change, the effects of warming temperatures on the power grid, and how various technologies can reduce greenhouse gases.
One expert notes that the Supreme Court has told the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide and that it needs to find an alternative to the Clean Power Plan. “If the EPA has a better idea about how to do this than the CPP, they should be telling us how, clearly and plainly, on their website and elsewhere,” says Edward Maibach, professor of climate change communication at George Mason University. “EPA’s decision to abandon science and science-based decision-making is harmful to EPA, to our nation, and to all Americans. In the end, I think it will prove to be harmful to the Republican Party too.”
While NASA’s website seems to be the gold standard for climate information, it’s not clear how long that will remain the case. NASA is currently without an administrator, and Rep. Jim Bridenstine’s nomination to lead the agency is being held up by objections from Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson. Nelson objects to Bridenstine’s previous statements on climate change, and his attacks on fellow Florida Senator Marcio Rubio.
Others who have talked to Bridenstine since his nomination say he has regretted his earlier remarks and will not interfere with NASA’s earth and climate science research.
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Laelle Busch is a book and print artist living and working in Florence, Italy. She uses various techniques in bookbinding and printmaking to create one-of-a-kind, hand-bound albums, books, stationery and prints. She adds a personal touch to her creations and commissions through her frequent use of natural tones, color schemes, shapes and patterns. The connections forged and shared through the visual expression of her projects with her clients and viewers plays an important role in her creations.
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El Mapi is a hotel and restaurant located half way up Avenida Pachacutec, the pedestrianized street in Aguas Calientes. The hotel offers a daily buffet lunch that is open to the public. The sleek and contemporary restaurant which backs onto a peaceful outdoor patio area (which can also be used) seats 70 people. The long main buffet table includes entrees such as soups & bread, hams, cheeses and stuffed wantons etc., whilst beef stew, chicken, fish and pastas are offered for main dishes. On the other side of the restaurant a dessert table offers a selection of traditional Peruvian desserts. Herbal teas and coffee are included within the price, but other soft drinks and alcoholic beverages are purchased separately.
Opening times / prices
Open: Daily for lunch.
Adult Price: S/. 42 (US$15) per person*
*Based on 2014 prices
Address: Av. Pachacutec, Machu Picchu Pueblo
Telephone: ++ 51 (0) 84 211 011 (Hotel)
Telephone: +51 (0)1 422 6574 (Reservations)
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Our 35 m2-large private alpine spa area is where your dreams will come true. In addition to a private Finnish sauna, special showers, SPA Lounge, partner bathtub, tea bar and the stylish exclusivity of specially-chosen interior decor, you will also be treated to a private terrace with amazing mountain views. You can also soak up these breathtaking views from the sauna or sundeck pool. Because our private spa suite is located on the fifth floor, you will really feel like you're soaring high above your worries. Massages and treatments in total privacy round out this special experience. The starry sky over Leogang invites you for a nightcap from your own tea bar each evening - a true feeling of being in "seventh heaven". Welcome to PURADIES.
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Just wanted to share my news with every-one to encourage you all to appeal the decisions made by ATOS if you don't agree. I was on IB for years filled in the ESA forms ( took me 3 weeks) I had joined the Benefit and work site and there advice was a great help to me. In March I received a letter advising I had been put in the WRAG group,and I also had to attend my first interview at the job centre . I put in an appeal and explained that I was unfit to work and would they reconsider and if they still came to the same decision that I was willing to go to court. (I was dreading this decision) I also put on the appeal that I came into the category regulation 29/35 (i think thats correct) where it states that if I was found fit to work that it would be detrimental to my health and also they would be responsible if my health deteriorated. I also stated that I would have my local welfare officer with me at the appeal if necessary (although I still hadnt contacted one). Today I received the brown letter and it took me ages to get the courage to open it. Glad I did as it states that they have looked at the decision again,and looked at the new evidence (there wasnt any new evidence) and they have now put me in the Support Group.So my message to every-one is do not give up and keep appealing,do not be put of by all the form filling and fight for what you entitled to. I have been so stressed over the last few months worrying about the decision, but was determined to fight my corner ( not literally lol) . So good luck to any-one who is going through this process at the moment. | <urn:uuid:60ffa1b6-7729-4f25-814e-b3ff58e42b81> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://healthunlocked.com/fibromyalgia-action-uk/posts/1138829/just-received-the-dreaded-brown-envelope-but-ive-won-my-appeal | 2016-10-20T20:03:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717783.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00480-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.994084 | 354 |
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FESTIGUAL celebrates its sixth anniversary this year. Six years making visible the work of all the people and entities that fight every day for a more open culture, with fewer barriers and that includes all ways of perceiving reality. FESTIGUAL is an essential showcase for all that background work, essays and creative processes that any artistic activity entails, to be exposed to the general public. Regardless of our physical or cognitive conditions, we claim the right to the full enjoyment of culture. We want normalized spaces for our artistic and cultural manifestations outside the therapeutic or occupational circuit. We want a fairer, more equal and more diverse world.
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A methodology for simulating wear, rolling contact fatigue, and plastic deformation for a mixed traffic situation in switches and crossings (S&C) has been developed. The methodology includes simulation of dynamic vehicle-track interaction considering stochastic variations in input data, simulation of wheel-rail contacts accounting for non-linear material properties and plasticity, and simulation of wear and plastic deformation in the rail during the life of the S&C component. To find means of improving the switch panel design, the geometry of a designed track gauge variation in the switch panel has been represented in a parametric way. For traffic in the facing and trailing moves of the through route, an optimum solution was identified and then validated by evaluating a wide set of simulation cases (using different wheel profiles). The optimum design includes a 12 mm maximum gauge widening. Several crossing geometries were investigated to find an optimal geometric design for the crossing nose and wing rails. The MaKüDe design showed the best performance for moderately worn wheel profiles in both running directions (facing and trailing moves). In connection with reduced support stiffness (e.g. elastic rail pads), this crossing design is predicted to lead to a significant reduction of impact loads and consequently provide a high potential of life-cycle cost reduction.
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Legend Senior Living to open three sites in 2014 as part of ongoing expansion
Wichita-based Legend Senior Living has three facilities slated to open in 2014, and the company could start construction this year on four additional assisted living and memory care units in Colorado and Texas if everything goes according to plan.
This year, Legend is opening a facility in Tulsa and two in Jacksonville, Fla.
I’m told that the company has two additional sites in development in Texas and two potential sites in Colorado.
Legend already operates 25 facilities.
The Texas sites that are planned for construction would be in addition to the 91-unit facility Legend has under construction in Fort Worth. Construction on that site started in December, and the project is Legend’s first venture into Texas.
The company doesn’t yet have any facilities in Colorado.
The bulk of Legend’s properties are in Kansas, Oklahoma and Florida.
By year’s end Legend should be up to 28 facilities.
The Fort Worth property is slated to open in spring 2015.
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Patricia Lewis-Sanders had just come out of surgery at Advocate Christ Medical Center when she saw on the news that a woman had been shot and taken to the hospital. Lewis-Sanders fell back asleep and woke up in the early morning hours. She opened Facebook and realized the woman she heard about on the news was her longtime friend Candice Dickerson.
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Lewis-Sanders said she last spoke to Dickerson about two weeks ago as she was preparing for surgery.
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Using rdiff-backup and rdiffWeb to Back Up and Restore
rdiff-backup is a Python-based backup program that uses the sync algorithm. It is similar to sync in that it syncs a source directory to a mirror directory. It differs in its use of reverse diffs to maintain file versions trailing back from the current version. The program is available at rdiff-backup.nongnu.org. The current stable version at the time of this writing is 1.2.8. Source code and binary versions are available. The program is available for POSIX systems and for Windows, and it will sync across platforms. In addition to describing rdiff-backup in this article, I also demonstrate rdiffWeb, a Web-based interface for restoring files from an rdiff-backup directory.
rdiff-backup uses librsync (librsync.sourceforge.net) as its rsync provider. For more detail, see librsync.sourcefrog.net/doc/librsync.html and, in particular, librsync.sourcefrog.net/doc/rdiff.html, which explains how the sync and diff process works. To paraphrase the information from the above site, librsync allows two files to be compared and a diff generated without access to both copies of the files at the same time. Instead, the signature of the old file is compared to the new file. The signature contains checksums calculated over blocks in the old file. The signature checksums are used to find blocks that match in the new file and then calculate diffs.
The plus is that when comparing files across a network, it's possible to generate a diff simply by sending the signature across the wire. The minus is that the checksums are block-oriented, so small changes that affect multiple blocks will result in larger diffs than other diff methods. The preceding works at the byte level and has no concept of higher-level concepts, such as filename, permissions and so on. This is where rdiff-backup comes in. It provides the mechanism to take the byte stream and wrap it with the necessary metadata.
Basic operation of rdiff-backup is as follows. The backup is done from a source directory to a destination directory. The destination contains a mirror of the most recent versions of the file. In addition, rdiff-backup creates a subdirectory named rdiff-backup-data in the destination directory. It is in this subdirectory that rdiff-backup keeps the information necessary to do backup versioning. At the top level are files that contain the metadata for the files in the backups as well as information about the status of the backups.
For those who are interested, the mirror-metadata* files contain the specific file information, such as user, group, permissions and so on. Also included is the subdirectory named increments. It is here that the reverse diffs from the current version of a file are kept. The diffs themselves are gzipped to save space.
The directory structure in the increments subdirectory matches that of the mirror directory. So if the mirror has Documents/Personal/, increments will have Documents/Personal/ also. Besides the diffs, the directories contain files that are placeholders and or metadata. For instance, there will be zero-length timestamped *.dir files that indicate when a backup was done. There also are *.missing files that are created retroactively to mark the backup prior to which a file appeared. For example, if a backup was done on a Monday and directory A had file_1, and then a backup was done on Tuesday and directory A had files file_1 and file_2, a file_2_<timestamp>.missing file would be created. The timestamp would be the time of the backup on Monday. To get a feel for how things work, I suggest monitoring the rdiff-backup-data directory and subdirectories for a while. Once you do, it will become more apparent how the process works.
Now let's get to the fun part, creating a backup. To back up from a local directory to a local directory, use the command:
rdiff-backup software_projects /var/backups/test_backup
In this case, test_backup will have a subdirectory software_projects with the above-mentioned rdiff-backup-data subdirectory in it (Figure 1).
In order to have some failure redundancy, a more useful case would be to back up to another machine. In this situation, rdiff-backup uses SSH to make the connection between machines. This means you need to have SSH set up for the machines concerned. The preferred method is to set up public key authentication so passwords are not required. It's also necessary to have rdiff-backup installed on the remote machine. In this case, the command is:
rdiff-backup software_projects \ firstname.lastname@example.org::/var/backups/test_backup
Note that it's possible to customize how rdiff-backup makes its remote connections by using the --remote-schema switch. The default connection string is 'ssh -C %s rdiff-backup --server', where %s is the host information. This uses the default port(22) for SSH. If you have SSH set up to listen on a different port, do the following:
--remote-schema 'ssh -p xxxxx -C \%s rdiff-backup --server'
Both cases shown here are simplistic and would do a complete backup of only /software_projects and all its subdirectories to the appropriate directory in /var/backups. It is possible to fine-tune rdiff-backup's behavior in a number of ways. What I show here is only a sample of what is possible. Spend some time at rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup.1.html for the complete picture. This is just an HTML conversion of the man page, so you can find the same information on your machine via man, assuming you have rdiff-backup installed. In particular, look at the FILE SELECTION section. In fact, go through that section multiple times. There is a lot of power there, but it is somewhat confusing the first couple times through.
Let's start by excluding some files that we don't really want to back up:
rdiff-backup --exclude '**track_stocks' \ software_projects \ /var/backups/test_backup
In this example, we are excluding the entire track_stocks directory (see Figure 2 and compare it with Figure 1). The '**track_stocks' matches (and, therefore, excludes) any pathnames that end in track_stocks (see below for more details).
Now, let's go the other way and specifically include something, excluding everything else:
rdiff-backup --include '**linux_journal_articles' \ --exclude '**' \ software_projects \ /var/backups/test_backup
The important thing to remember here is that the order of your --include and --exclude options is important. In the example above, the inclusion of /linux_journals_articles takes precedence over the exclusion of everything ('**'). Figure 3 shows the result. I could go on with all possible combinations, but the above covers the basics. Work with some test files first to get a handle on the interactions between --include and --exclude. Also, note that each include or exclude pattern needs to be in a separate switch.
Let me explain a bit more how the include and exclude pattern-matching works. As previously mentioned, order determines precedence, so patterns specified earlier override those specified later. The include/exclude switches work with extended shell globbing patterns. In “standard” shell globbing, the * matches any character except /. Extended globbing adds the ** pattern, which matches any character including /. In addition, patterns can be prefixed with ignorecase: to match regardless of uppercase/lowercase. For more details, see the above link. As to how the pattern-matching works, I couldn't come up with a better description than the one found in the documentation:
The --exclude pattern option matches a file if: 1) pattern can be expanded into the file's filename, or 2) the file is inside a directory matched by the option.
Conversely, --include pattern matches a file if: 1) pattern can be expanded into the file's filename, 2) the file is inside a directory matched by the option, or 3) the file is a directory which contains a file matched by the option.
The practical outcome of this is that if you include a file, the directories that form its path also will be included, whereas excluding a file excludes only it and not the directories above it.
For simple cases, the command-line includes and excludes shown previously work well. However, they get unwieldy as the number of include and exclude parameters grow. Fortunately, there is a another way of specifying the parameters, namely file lists. There are three variations: filelist, filelist-stdin and globbing-filelist. The three forms each take an include or exclude prefix—for example, --include-filelist. This is somewhat misleading though, because it is possible to specify include and exclude parameters within a file by using + and -, respectively, which override the prefix. For consistency's sake, I will work with the globbing-filelist, as it follows the same rules as the --include and --exclude options on the command line. The other forms do not follow the globbing expansion and include pattern-matching behavior. So, to replicate the last command above using a file list, do:
rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist rdiff_globbing.txt \ software_projects \ /var/backups/test_backup
The contents of rdiff_globbing.txt are:
+ **linux_journal_articles - **
The result is the same as shown in Figure 3.
Creating backups is good, but they are of little use if you can't restore files from them. A restore, at its simplest, is just a backup reversed. In other words, the order of directories on the command line is reversed—the mirror first, the directory to restore to second. There is one important caveat: rdiff-backup, by default, will not restore over an existing file/path. Think of it as sort of a foot/gun safety. You have two options, restore to another path or use the --force switch to override the default behavior.
rdiff-backup gives you two basic methods for restoring a specific version of a file: time-based and number-based.
Time-based restorations are based on the time of the increments. Assuming you have a cron job that does a backup every night at the same time, you would have increments stretching back in time that are timestamped. To see what increments you have, do:
rdiff-backup --list-increments \ email@example.com::/var/backups/lj_article
You also can use -l rather than --list-increments. The target here is the backup directory. The following is the actual output (using a different target) from an EC2 instance that I ran a cron job against to seed with changes for this article:
increments.2010-01-16T02:15:05Z.dir Fri Jan 15 18:15:05 2010 increments.2010-01-17T02:15:06Z.dir Sat Jan 16 18:15:06 2010 increments.2010-01-18T02:15:05Z.dir Sun Jan 17 18:15:05 2010 increments.2010-01-19T02:15:06Z.dir Mon Jan 18 18:15:06 2010 increments.2010-01-20T02:15:06Z.dir Tue Jan 19 18:15:06 2010 increments.2010-01-21T02:15:05Z.dir Wed Jan 20 18:15:05 2010 increments.2010-01-22T02:15:05Z.dir Thu Jan 21 18:15:05 2010 increments.2010-01-23T02:15:05Z.dir Fri Jan 22 18:15:05 2010 increments.2010-01-24T02:15:06Z.dir Sat Jan 23 18:15:06 2010 increments.2010-01-25T02:15:06Z.dir Sun Jan 24 18:15:06 2010
With this information in hand, I then can do the following to restore an increment from a particular time:
file=/var/backups/lj_article/software_projects file="$file/linux_journal_articles/rdiff_backup/lj_rdiff_article.txt" rdiff-backup --restore-as-of 2010-01-20T02:15:06Z \ firstname.lastname@example.org::$file \ test/lj_rdiff_article.txt
You also can use -r rather than --restore-as-of.
I then would have a version of this article as it was when it was backed up at that particular time. There is a more user-friendly variation of this that uses a different view of time. In that method, you specify time as an interval, using the following syntax integer[modifier], where the modifiers are s, m, h, D, W, M and Y, and the time periods they represent are seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years, respectively. An example would be -r 2D12h, which translates as “restore the file as it was 2 days and 12 hours ago”. The question then is, what happens if there is no increment that falls exactly on that time? The answer is, rdiff-backup uses the increment closest to that time that is not later than the specified time. So, for this example, if there were an increment 2 days and 18 hours ago and one 2 days and 11 hours ago, it would use the one from 2 days and 18 hours ago.
The second way to specify a restoration, a number-based restore, is based on the concept of session numbers, where the syntax is integer[B], and 0B is the current mirror version. So to restore from the second-most-recent backup, you would do -r 2B.
Although the restore options are powerful, they do require command-line knowledge and a certain amount of familiarity with rdiff-backup. To ease the end-user experience, let's look at rdiffWeb, a Web-based interface for restoring files backed up using rdiff-backup.
But first, here's a couple quick general usage tips. Each backup session is done in a transaction. This means if the session is interrupted, the next time you do a backup, the previous incomplete backup will be removed. If you want to check for this condition, do:
rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir /var/backups/test_backup
If there is an incomplete backup in the directory, it will be rolled back. The transactional nature of a session means that there can be problems if you are backing up remotely over an unstable connection. This especially comes into play when doing an initial backup of a large dataset. One solution to avoid this potential problem is to do a local rdiff-backup backup, and then use rsync to sync the local rdiff mirror to a remote site. rsync allows for interrupted sessions and can be rerun to complete the transfer. Once the remote mirror is complete, change the rdiff-backup mirror directory from the local to the remote. From that point on, you will be transferring only the changes.
Second, each time you do a backup, it creates an increment, and over time, these can build up. To see the space being used by your backup directory, do this:
rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes \ email@example.com::/var/backups/lj_article Time Size Cumulative size ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Jan 26 18:15:05 2010 5.98 MB 5.98 MB (current mirror) Mon Jan 25 18:15:07 2010 1.14 KB 5.98 MB Sun Jan 24 18:15:06 2010 1.54 KB 5.99 MB Sat Jan 23 18:15:06 2010 0 bytes 5.99 MB Fri Jan 22 18:15:05 2010 0 bytes 5.99 MB Thu Jan 21 18:15:05 2010 0 bytes 5.99 MB Wed Jan 20 18:15:05 2010 0 bytes 5.99 MB Tue Jan 19 18:15:06 2010 25.8 KB 6.01 MB Mon Jan 18 18:15:06 2010 1.22 KB 6.01 MB Sun Jan 17 18:15:05 2010 32.7 KB 6.04 MB Sat Jan 16 18:15:06 2010 0 bytes 6.04 MB Fri Jan 15 18:15:05 2010 0 bytes 6.04 MB Thu Jan 14 18:15:05 2010 0 bytes 6.04 MB Wed Jan 13 18:15:05 2010 0 bytes 6.04 MB Tue Jan 12 18:15:05 2010 0 bytes 6.04 MB Mon Jan 11 18:15:06 2010 0 bytes 6.04 MB Sun Jan 10 18:15:06 2010 0 bytes 6.04 MB Sat Jan 9 18:15:07 2010 0 bytes 6.04 MB Fri Jan 8 18:15:08 2010 0 bytes 6.04 MB Thu Jan 7 18:15:06 2010 0 bytes 6.04 MB Wed Jan 6 18:15:06 2010 31.5 KB 6.07 MB Wed Jan 6 07:05:52 2010 194 bytes 6.07 MB
This is a good way of seeing where the storage is being used and the total for your backup directory. Unless you have unlimited backup disk space, at some point, you will want to start pruning your backup directory. To prune increments, use --remove-older-than 'time', where time is specified the same as is used when restoring. For my own personal data, I have a cron job that runs each night with:
rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 7D 'destination_dir'
This keeps a rolling seven-day version history of my backups.
Now as promised: rdiffWeb, available at www.rdiffweb.org. rdiffWeb, like rdiff-backup, is written in Python. It uses CherryPy to serve up its pages. I am using the 0.6.3 version, which is the testing release at the time of this writing. The primary reason for this is that 0.6.3 uses SQLite as its datastore instead of MySQL, as the stable version 0.5.1 does. SQLite comes bundled with Python 2.5+, so it is one less thing to set up. Be sure to follow the Installation link on the page listed above. The installation is fairly straightforward, but there are some manual changes you need to do for the program to function properly. Note that it's possible to set up rdiffWeb for https, which is how it is used for this article.
When you first access rdiffWeb, you will be prompted to set up an administrator account. Once that is done, you then can set up users and work with User Preferences (Figure 4). Of note is the Directory Restore Format option. This comes into play if you are going to restore an entire directory. rdiffWeb either will create a zip file or gzipped tarball, depending on the setting, which is good for dealing with Windows or UNIX users. Also worth noting is the Update Backup Locations button. This is a way of forcing rdiffWeb to find any new backup directories you have added. It will find them on its own, but generally not immediately.
The point is to find files. When you log in, a page will be presented with the backup directories for which you have permissions. You then can traverse the directory tree to get to the file or directory you want. Figure 5 shows four versions of this article available. Clicking on a timestamp opens the browser download dialog allowing you to download the file to your choice of location. If you want to download a directory, click on the Restore Folder link. You then will be taken to a page that lists the various available timestamped versions. Select the appropriate version, and the directory and its contents will be bundled up according to the Directory Restore Format specified on your User Preferences page.
rdiff-backup is a useful tool to use when you want to have versioning of backups without keeping around full copies of the versions. It is relatively easy to set up. The command-line nature of the program is both a plus and a minus. The plus is that it lends itself to scripting. The minus is that not all users are command-line-savvy, hence the section on rdiffWeb. My method of running it is to have cron jobs that do the backups and then use rdiffWeb for restoring.
Finally, here are some general observations on the incremental nature of the backups. The amount of space saving is dependent on usage. rdiff-backup saves all information, so if you do a lot of deletes, the backup directory will fill up with the deleted files unless you prune regularly. As described earlier, the block nature of the file comparison is not efficient for small changes across multiple blocks. I bring this up as a prompt to have you monitor the disk space for your destination directory for a period of time until you have a sense of how your usage pattern affects it. On the whole though, I have found rdiff-backup provides a good compromise between backup size and backup versatility.
Adrian Klaver would like to think computers don't really rule his life, and to that end, he occasionally can be found staring at waves lapping up on the beach. As far as geek credentials, he is one of the organizers for LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, Washington.
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Advantages of Wine Racks
Though the wine refrigerators and that of the wine cabinets can be considered as the popular options of choice, you can be able to immediately find that the collection had grown in the past that of the capacity of the latest storage. With this, you will be in need for the additional solution that can aid in accommodating few of the number of bottles.
The wine racks be a versatile storage options that can be readily installed right to the wall, hung into the ceiling, and right to the counter-top, and inside the cabinet and even that of the wine cellar or that of the wine room. You can also benefit on various kind of materials that is being used or constructed from that of various materials, and the wine racks can also match that of any styles whether it will be rustic or it will be modern or a contemporary one. The wine racks is just small and this can hold for only few bottles.
The good thing is that there are those wine racks that you can choose that can be able to hold for hundreds of wine. Over the pas years, you can be able to see that there are changes in the wine racks that can be very evident and this can actually be a great solution for those of the wine collector who wanted to have a wine rack.
The good thing about wine is that it can age in the proper way as long as this is not exposed to its enemies which are the vibration, temperature fluctuations, and also the lights. The house will surely benefit with that of the wine racks since this is made to fit to the spaces of the house. You can directly place them right inside the wine cabinet or into the closet to be able to shield them from that of the harmful UV rays. To be able to prevent from the unwanted vibration, then the wine racks can be of great benefit since this can hold the bottle in place. The fluctuating temperature will only be dependent to the location where you are to place or put your wine rack. It is being highly recommended that you are to place it right to the area where it is dark or it is insulated for this matter.
In storing, the majority of the wine racks are being designed to hold that of the bottle in the horizontal position. This will help the liquid inside the bottle contents to be able to touch that of the cork. As long as you will make the cork moist, then it will prevent from the oxidation or the seepage that can spoil that of the flavor or the aroma of the wine.
A Quick History of Shelves
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Hidden Folks Review
If you are from Europe then you’ll remember it as “Where’s Wally?“, whereas if you are from the US, you’ll remember it as “Where’s Waldo?” Either way, if you were born sometime around the 90s, there is a good chance you had a few of Wally‘s books and you spent hours trying to find every hidden person and item in the huge, drawn-out with lots of colours, pages. Wally was the main person, but there were so many other little things to find.
Fast forward to 2017 and we have a huge abundance of hidden object games. However, none of those really have the sparkle or the awesome mystery that Wally carried with him. Fortunately, this problem has been solved and we finally have the what I would personally call, the most successful heir to Where’s Wally? Enter Hidden Folks by Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg. (If I was not living in the Netherlands for the past 4 years, trust me I would have entirely misspelled those names..)
Hidden Folks has so many good parts to talk about that I am not even sure what to begin with. Let’s take it one by one though and start with the gameplay. Unlike most of your hidden object games, Hidden Folks stands out from the very first few moments into it. Everything is moving. Not just moving, but elegantly enacting some sort of activity that actually makes the world we are looking at, feel so alive as if it was a page that came out of Where’s Wally? book page, only superbly animated. I will not get deeper into the visuals just yet, but it is important to note, that the fact that everything is moving adds so many more dimensions to the whole finding hidden objects (and folks in this case) gameplay. Not only are most of the things interact-able, but they actually make you think in ways that you wouldn’t have to in order to progress in any other classic hidden object game.
With 17 levels available, scattered throughout four differently themed areas, you can imagine that you will be doing a lot of looking around to find stuff. Currently, only 14 of those levels are available, but the rest are marked as “soon” so we can expect them “soon” I guess.
It is really magnificent actually, how the game introduces us to a certain kind of logic before each area and then allows our problem-solving capabilities within it to evolve as we explore each nicely sculpted area. There is even an area where we just get one of the folks from one end to another without having to do any finding and seeking. That level basically serves the purpose of teaching us stuff that we may not have tried out if we were left to our devices in a normal hidden object level. It is honestly really intuitive and more user friendly than I would have expected.
Another huge plus of the gameplay is the hint system that is entirely optional. Not really called a “hint system” per say, but if we click on any of the folks or objects that we need to find at the bottom of our screen, then a little box with text gives us a hint that may allow us to locate that particular hidden person/object much easier. It does not even feel like cheating, since it is actually fun to sometimes decipher these little riddles that are left for us.
Gameplay is not the only strong element of Hidden Folks though and that is easily noticeable by even a five year old, since the very minimalistic and perfectly drawn world of the game is what will most probably attract most players to it. The game is even available on iOS devices and having the chance to try it during Gamescom 2016, I can tell you that it works just as well on that as it did on a PC screen. Everything is black and white but that is actually a huge plus when it comes to the visuals. Colour would have made the game easier in my opinion and it would have subtracted from the unique character that the title has created for itself.
The animations are also quite captivating. It is not only the nice sketches that draw you to this world, but also the fluid, vibrant environment of each area that makes you feel as if you want to check out every single moving thing in the area before you move on. I actually found all the items in some areas and wanted to keep looking around in case I missed any little shenanigans that were happening in the area. Very much like Where’s Wally? where people did random things at random places throughout each page.
I am comparing this a lot to the Wally books, but being a huge Wally fan, I cannot help but constantly describe to you the awesome feelings that this game managed to give me, which all compare awesomely with the ones that the Wally books gave me in the past.
Last but not least, the sounds. Oh dear, the sounds got me by surprise, because, even though the game has quite a funny side to it, you do not fully realize it until you turn up your volume. I actually played the game with my speakers being on and quite loud and the whole house was booming every time I clicked on something. Every single thing or area that you click on, has its own sound. What is splendidly unique in the case of Hidden Folks though, is that every sound is made by a person. All the animals, objects and all other sorts of things, make sounds that were produced by someone’s mouth. Click on a chicken and you’ll hear a guy go “bok bok bok!” I am telling you, halfway through the game, I had clicked on everything at least three times in order to see all the possible sounds they can make.
The game does not lack in any of the parts that it sought to be good at and therefore I did not really feel as if anything was missing. As with all games of this genre, content is always an issue after a while, so I think I will most definitely be disappointed after a while just because one of my favourite games has no more stuff to explore. You can of course reset your progress and try it again but other than that, it is entirely up to the developers and how much they want to keep updating the game from here on. It becomes a “games as a service” kind of issue which is a whole different kind of topic (that a lot of indie developers seem to actually be discussing lately too). I would most definitely love to see a Christmas or Halloween themed area, I know that much.
Hidden folks is available on PC, Linux and Mac through Steam for 7,99€ (currenly with a 10% discount) but also on iOS devices through iTunes.
This is a must have for any hidden object games enthusiast and a must have for pretty much anyone that enjoys a good hunt for pixels now and then. The game is so well made when it comes to teaching you the ins and outs of how to play it that it should not be too hard to even show it to young kids. I was very excited about this game when I saw it some months ago and I am very happy to say that it left me only happy and excited for what is to come next.
+ Awesomely sketched out world with good animations
+ Really good tutorials that are barely even noticeable and feel as if they are part of the game
+ The game’s sound effects will make your day
– Content is not too much but not the biggest of issues
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Obama Regime Reportedly Approved General Flynn Calls With Russian Ambassador
On Friday, Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about making contact with Russian Ambassador Kislyak during the transition period. In a stunning twist, the Trump White House revealed to CNN that the calls were approved by the Obama regime.
Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Kislyak in the month before Trump took office, the first current or former Trump White House official brought down by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling. Court records indicate that his communications with Kislyak were directed by a Trump transition official, with multiple news outlets reporting that official was Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. “They are saying here at the White House that Flynn’s conversations with Sergey Kisylak were quote ‘authorized’ by the Obama administration,” CNN correspondent Jim Acosta said.
“We should point out, that is something that we have not heard before in terms of a defense from this White House,” Acosta then bitterly noted.
“After over 33 years of military service to our country, including nearly five years in combat away from my family, and then my decision to continue to serve the United States, it has been extraordinarily painful to endure these many months of false accusations of ‘treason’ and other outrageous acts. Such false accusations are contrary to everything I have ever done and stood for. But I recognize that the actions I acknowledged in court today were wrong, and, through my faith in God, I am working to set things right. My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the Special Counsel’s Office reflect a decision I made in the best interests of my family and of our country. I accept full responsibility for my actions.”
FLYNN statement: “It has been extraordinarily painful to endure these many months of false accusations of ‘treason’” pic.twitter.com/xBuPECn0dw
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) December 1, 2017
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AKRON, Ohio - New charges are expected to be filed against Brandi Tomko within the next few days, according to Akron police. Tomko allegedly pretended to be a veterinarian without a license.
Akron police Detective Steve Null said he received dozens of phone calls and emails after a NewsChannel5 story aired.
"My voicemail was full, I had Post-it notes on my phone, any way to get a hold of me," said Null.
Through their investigation, police found seven more victims, including Robert McGhee. The Gulf War veteran took his beloved service dog to the 35-year-old Tomko in January 2011. McGhee said Tomko diagnosed Allie with diabetes and prescribed insulin. Allie died 10 months later. McGhee didn't realize Tomko was accused of posing as a fake vet until he saw the story on television.
"I'm hurt, I'm angry, I hope she gets what is coming to her," said McGhee.
Police expect to file more than two dozen additional charges within the next week. Akron police said Tomko treated pets at C&D Animal Hospital on Brittain Road, even though she had no formal veterinary training.
They said Tomko drew blood, wrote prescriptions for animals and performed surgeries, including spaying cats and neutering at least one dog. Police said at least four animals died because of Tomko's actions.
The man who put the spotlight on Tomko's alleged actions is Kenny Reymann.
"I don't want any pity on her cause of her drug use. She has been there before and got a slap on the wrist. This time I hope she goes away," said Reymann.
Reymann said his dog Charlie died after he was treated by Tomko.
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Graham Boorse, Ph.D.
Residential Faculty, Mesa Community College
Jill Flachskam, M.S.
Kristin Judd, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University
Donald Schoolmaster, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, USGS National Wetland Research Center
Adam Ehmer, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, Stonybrook University
Anne Fowler-Edin, M.S.
BART Program Administrator, University of Michigan
Anna Ray, M.S.
Daniel Griffith, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, World Wildlife Institute
Sharon Lee, M.S.
Joshua Rest, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Stonybrook University
Sabrina Hepburn, M.S.
Ecologist, TRC Environmental
Stacy Philpott, Ph.D.
Ruth and Alfred Heller Endowed Chair in Agroecology and Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Luis Schiesari, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Sao Paulo
Miroslav Kummel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Colorado College
Michael Watson, M.S.
Salvatore Cerchio, Ph.D.
Conservation Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society
Elizabeth DeMattia, Ph.D.
Academic Dean, School for Field Studies
Antonia Gorog, Ph.D.
Conservation Program Director, Health in Harmony Organization
Richard Lehtinen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, College of Wooster
Gary Paoli, Ph.D.
Director of Business and Research Development, Daemeter Consulting
Jongmin Yoon, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, Colorado State University
Daniel De Joode, Ph.D.
Senior Environmental Scientist, Barr Engineering
Theresa Friedrich, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Norco College
David Lahti, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, CUNY-Queens College
Jennifer Mitchell, M.S.
Sara Sandstedt, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Mara Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Washington Dtp. of Fish and Wildlife
Shannon Bouton, M.S.
Consultant, McKinsey & Company
Kevin Helfenbein, Ph.D.
Teacher, Baccalaureate School for Global Education
Tamaki Yuri, Ph.D.
Ornithology Collections Manager, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma
Alec Lindsay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Northern Michigan University
Chad Hershock, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Biomedware, Inc.
Kerry Yurewicz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Plymouth State University
Victoria Allison, Ph.D.
Director, Minster of Agriculture, Biosecurity New Zealand, New Zealand Government
Christopher Baraloto, Ph.D.
Research Fellow/Assistant Professor, INRA-Kouru/University of Florida
Deborah Ciszeck, Ph.D.
Managing Editor, Journal of Systematic Biology
Bruce Ferguson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, ECOSUR
Christopher O'Neal, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Teaching, Learning & Technology Center - University of California
John Sparks, Ph.D.
Associate Curator of Icthyology, American Museum of Natural History
Jennifer Ast, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Uppsala University
Thomas Bridgeman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Toledo
Guillermo D'Elia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Universidad de la Republica Uruguay
Daniel Graf, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
Anna Bess Sorin, Ph.D.
Instructor, Coordinator, University of Memphis
David Taylor, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Northwestern University
Ricardo Carvajal, M.S.
Karen Glennmeier, Ph.D.
Laurel L. Hester, Ph.D.
Assistant Director BioG 103-10, Cornell University
David Marshall, Ph.D.
Tara Rajaniemi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Derek Dimcheff, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Dunrie Greiling, Ph.D.
Heather Heying, Ph.D.
Member of Faculty, Evergreen State College
Scott Peacor, Ph.D.
Ben Salisbury, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty, Wright State University
Sheila Schueller, M.S.
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Medications and Drugs
Brand Names: Firmagon
Generic Name: degarelix (Pronunciation: DEG a REL ix)
What is degarelix (Firmagon)?
Degarelix is a man-made form of a protein that reduces the amount of certain hormones in the body, including testosterone.
Degarelix is used to treat prostate cancer.
Degarelix may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
What are the possible side effects of degarelix (Firmagon)?
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
Less serious side effects may include:
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
What is the most important information I should know about degarelix (Firmagon)?
You should not use this medication if you are allergic to degarelix.
Although degarelix is not for use by women, this medication should not be used by a woman who is pregnant or breast-feeding, or who may become pregnant.
Before you receive degarelix, tell your doctor if you have liver or kidney disease, a personal or family history of "Long QT syndrome," congestive heart failure, or an electrolyte imbalance, such as low or high levels of potassium or magnesium in your blood.
Tell your doctor about all other medications you use, especially a heart rhythm medication.
Degarelix is usually given once every 28 days. Follow your doctor's instructions.
To be sure this medication is helping your condition, your blood may need to be tested often. Visit your doctor regularly.
Report Problems to the Food and Drug Administration
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit the FDA MedWatch website or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Agriculture can play two potential roles in wider economic growth, fundamental increases in productivity and earnings) and/or multiplying and spreading the benefits of primary growth drivers through an economy. Growth drivers include exports of tradables and increased production of foods (both tradables and non-tradables).Non-tradable staple foods have particular importance in poor rural economies as they are important to the real incomes of large numbers of poor net food consumers and small scale net producers, and they tend to have high positive growth linkages and low leakages. Increased production of non-staple horticultural and livestock products for domestic consumption are important as growth supports where these are semi-tradeables or non-tradeables, but are only effective in the context of an economy benefiting from other growth drivers. Consideration of the contributions of different types of agricultural production in the context of wider national growth processes allows the contributions of different types of smallholder agricultural development to be placed in the context of different types of economy. Three broad types ofeconomy are identified – countries with minerals, coastal countries without minerals, and land locked countries without minerals. Challenges and opportunities facing the development of smallholder production of different agricultural products are also identified.
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Who wrote this booklet?The Reverend James R Rendell, of Accrington, was an established leader of the ‘Swedenborgian’ New Church. Although Emanuel Swedenborg had developed the strict adherence to Jesus Christ, a church following his approach wasn’t established until well after he died, in the 18th century. By the time the First World War broke out, Reverend Rendell was already editor of the New Church Magazine, and soon after gave public talks on the theme of this booklet. As the war and loss of lives dragged on for three more years, his speech became more social-political, accusing Germany of ‘materialism’ and the German churches of being slaves to ‘secular oppression.’ But his main criticism was of the war-weary British public seeking ‘pleasure’, as in going to the cinema.
He believed that ‘human selfishness’ led to war and that warfare itself was against the Christian faith. “Every drunkard, every loafer, whether rich or poor, every thief, every selfish man” brought war closer [p.22].
The conclusion of this essay states about the battlefield: “If hell is active, so is heaven."
- Article by:
- Matthew Shaw
- Life as a soldier
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Do palm plants need a lot of sun? Although palm plants are relatively low maintenance, they do require a certain level of care to thrive. Avoid direct sun. Full, direct sunlight can burn the leaves of your palm and cause curling or brown leaf tips. Keep your palm in partial shade or in an area indoors that receives indirect sunlight.
Is palm plant good for indoor?
Palms make excellent houseplants because they are very tolerant of neglect, but they will grow their best when given the proper indoor palm plant care. These easy care indoor plants are perfect for most homeowners because they don't like a lot of light, and will easily adapt to growing indoors.
How do you care for indoor palm trees?
Can you grow palm trees in pots?
Palms grown in containers should also be protected or brought under cover for the winter. Where containers are left outdoors, ensure the pot is bubble-wrapped to prevent frost damage to the roots.
Can palm plants be outside?
Palm houseplant can thrive outside with care / It will need a lot of water, lots of sun and extra nutrients. It is usually a poor idea to put a houseplant outside, especially in a sunny and windy garden. Quite a few of our common houseplants are native to tropical forests.
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Do palms do well in low light?
#2 – Lady Palms
Another palm tree species that adapts well to low light indoors is the Rhaphis species, also known as Lady Palms. According to the Clemson Cooperative Extension, these palms are the most adaptable to low light areas. In our experience, the Areca palm performs slightly better.
Where should you put a palm tree in your house?
Place the palm tree in an area of your home that is not overly dry. Avoid using air-conditioners or de-humidifiers. In the winter, place the palm tree in an area that is far from any heating ducts, fireplaces or other specifically warm and dry areas in your home.
Do palm trees need a lot of water?
Palms like moist soil, which means watering several times a week is usually required. When you are planting a palm in your garden, you'll want to water the tree every day for the first week. The second week, water every other day. After that, plan to water two or three times a week.
What kind of soil do potted palms need?
The best soil for palm plants is a loose, porous mixture, like a combination of peat moss, leaf mold, and shredded bark. You can buy a cactus or palm soil mixture specifically made for growing palm plants—otherwise, they will grow just fine in a general-purpose commercial potting soil.
Why does my palm plant have brown tips?
Brown tips and leaf edges may be a response to low humidity. Dry air during the heating season is fairly common. Increase humidity with a humidifier or by adding stone-filled trays beneath the pots and keeping the stones covered with water. Excess fertilizer also causes tip browning.
How much sunlight do palm trees need?
Your Palm prefers bright indirect light but can adapt to medium to low light areas. Keep out of direct sunlight, as it will scorch the fronds. Water your Palm when the top 50% of the soil is dry.
How cold can palm plants tolerate?
While most palms can tolerate cold only to 40°F, there are hundreds types of cold hardy palms that can easily withstand 20°F (-7°C) freeze and surprisingly even cold temperatures below 0°F (-18°C). Some of the cold tolerant palms can grow in places like Texas, California, Georgia, Virginia, and much further north.
How do you care for outdoor palm trees?
How to Care for Palm Trees Outdoors. Palm trees generally grow in full sun, but can tolerate some shade. Water newly planted trees deeply twice a week until they are established (2 to 3 months). Palm trees are drought tolerant once they are established and rarely need watered.
Which palms grow best in lowlight?
The best indoor palms for low light are as follows:
What palms do well in shade?
These are the best palm trees that provide shade:
How fast do palm trees grow?
Outdoors in a suitable climate they'll grow by three to ten inches a year but indoors this will be much lower. In ideal conditions they can reach eight or more feet high, but it can take them a long time to get there.
What kind of soil do palm plants like?
Palm trees need light and well-drained soils. That means sandy loam is often best for palms, simply because this type of soil is not as compact, allowing the roots of the tree to spread.
Why are palm trees bad?
As to reducing air pollution, according to studies supervised by the US Forest Service, palm trees make poor street trees owing to low carbon and ozone absorption—a direct consequence of the low leaf area per plant. In contrast, coast live oak takes up 17 times more ozone, and 14 times more carbon than palm.
Will palm trees grow in the shade?
Palms. Though most palm trees require full sun, some -- such as the curly palm (Howea belmoreana), the Kentia palm (Howea forsteriana) and the narrow-leaved palm lily (Cordyline stricta) -- thrive in partial to full shade.
What is a palm tree good for?
Palm trees are regularly used as constructive building material for house walls, rafters and roofing. The fibrous wood is pulled apart and woven together to produce thatch for roof coverings, and logs for bridges.
How can you tell if a palm tree is getting enough water?
Curling or Wilted Leaves
Inspect the leaves on your trees. If you notice any wilting, curling, or turning brown near the tips and edges, chances are your tree is in need of additional water.
Why are my palm tree leaves turning white?
The most concerning and most likely cause of white spots on palm leaves is an insect infestation called scale. White scale are small, flat, white insects that suck nutrients from palm leaves. By sucking the nutrients out, scale slowly kill the palm. When too many leaves lose their nutrients, the plant dies.
How do you plant palm trees in pots?
Dig a hole slightly wider than and as deep as the container holding the palm tree or the exposed root ball. Place the palm's root ball into the hole. Make sure not to plant the tree any deeper than it's originally growing. Add or remove soil as needed.
Do palms like coffee grounds?
Coffee grounds contain a good amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, magnesium, and copper, all of which are important to maintain a healthy palm tree. Even though palm trees are technically a grass and not a “tree”, they still require similar nutrients to other plants.
When should you repot a palm tree?
When you see roots protruding out from the bottom drainage holes of the current container, this indicates the palm tree requires repotting. If the soil looks sticky in the container, this also indicates the palm tree needs repotting. Generally, repot palm trees every one or two years for best growing results.
Should I cut the brown tips of my plants?
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Three NFL Concussion Settlement Status Reports Released
June 3, 2019
Three status reports were released on Monday, detailing various aspects of the NFL Concussion Settlement; one each from the Special Masters, Claims Administrator, and BAP Administrator. The reports provide a great deal of information, and the BAP report is especially revealing. In the interest of time, I’ve compiled my tweets summarizing each of the three reports with links to the documents included.
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TechnologiesThe significance of technologies is growing year after year. Last century technologies were associated with computing techniques. Nowadays they help people communicate with each other and share opinions. Today it will take you only 2 minutes to send information from one part of the globe to the other, call a friend in Asia or connect to the live broadcast of your favorite band. Technologies efface the boundaries between cities and countries.
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The company’s two primary business strains, retailing and information expertise, represent $20 trillion and $2 trillion of annual spending, respectively. What drives info technology is competition inside the business atmosphere and the development of laptop know-how that it is part of. The systems of expertise involve different shapes of many state of the art gadgets that help in the transmission of information to managers translating such data to their decisions in the group’s operations.
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“Just a minor official reinsured”
Director of theatre Studio “Classics” Alexander Tattari reported that the Director of the Moscow center of culture “Scene” Angelica Petrova forbidden to show pre-approved performance “#Ryabchikova #will Navigering” based on the story by Gianni Rodari’s “Cipollino”. Tattari about this wrote on his page in Facebook.
A play in which playing teenagers, had to show 9 November in the framework of the international theatrical festival of Amateur theaters “Young — young” in the “Scene”. The statement was agreed and included in the repertoire of the festival theatre Studio received an official invitation. However, it tells Tattari, November 6, Petrov called him and said that the show is cancelled.
“The motives articulated the following: it’s impossible to show the stage of the state agencies, we have employees, family, mortgage, she can’t risk, you have to understand, she apologizes. Moreover, it will punish any employees who have selected this play for the festival, although the invitation signed by it personally,” wrote the Director.
Artistic Director of the Moscow Lianozovo theatre (when it is functioning theatre Studio Tattari) Nadezhda Egorova said Znak.com that the genre of the play — a satirical pamphlet. Involved in the staging of teenagers dressed in vests as the protesters in Europe.
“They work on the text of “Cipollino”. Topically relevant work. We are not to blame. There are only two inclusions which relate to Russian realities. There is a line “no chickens, but you hold fast.” And the second point is when you take a house of a Pumpkin. This teenagers say “devaluation, nationalization, expropriation, renovation”. That’s all danger, which in this case we can say, the rest of the text Rodari” — said Yegorov.
She noted that in “Chipollino” is displayed on the injustice, but no appeals to something in the play no. “Yes, the plot is intensely social, topical for Russia. We sent an official inquiry about the reasons for the ban, but of course no, we will not say that it is political censorship. Just a minor official reinsured”, — added the interlocutor Znak.com.
Alexander Tattari said that the creators of the show did not set itself the goal to support any political movement, however, he recalls that the official political satire in Russia has not yet prohibited. Now the play will show at the Playground theater Studio “Classics”.
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The interest in biochar has been largely sparked due to its ability to enhance soils and promote plant growth. However biochar has a variety of properties which mean it could be put to number of different uses.
The highly complex structure with intricate networks of tunnels and a huge surface area means the biochar acts as a fantastic insulating material – capturing large quantities of practically immobile air. At the Ithaka institute in Switzerland they are using biochar as a building material where it is incorporated into plaster and bricks.
When in plaster it can help insulate the building and also help regulate humidity in the internal environment by absorbing moisture from the air. In bricks it can be used as a replacement to some building materials meaning the weight of the bricks can be reduced significantly.
If the building materials are applied to landfill at the end of their lives, could this be a way of making zero-carbon or even carbon negative buildings?
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Bryant Selling His So Cal Home For Over $1,000 a Sq-Ft!
When the word basketball or NBA is mentioned or brought up in conversation, who are some of the first guys we think of? Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. Then, we begin to think and wonder, what kind of home their super-star size paycheck’s can afford. Well, the time of wondering is now over; Lakers super-star Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa have listed their 8,500 sq-ft Southern California home for $8.599M. According to our friends over at Trulia, Vanessa is the actual seller of this Mega Mansion, as Kobe deeded the property over to her in January 2012.
The luxe and privately gated Mediterranean Style Estate is located in a very distinguished guard gated community in Newport Coast. Kobe and Vanessa recently remodeled and expanded the home with the most up to date custom features any super-star should have. The 2 story mansion features 4 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, limestone capped staircases, limestone and solid walnut flooring, a new and completely state of the art theater, 850 sq-ft gym, hair salon, a library with a shark tank, and amazing unobstructed city light and ocean views that stretch for miles. There’s also a sensational master suite with sitting room, an enormous marble en-suite, and immense walk-in closet.
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If that’s not enough, walking outside this beautiful home is like entering a tropical oasis. Every square inch of the property is completely manicured and boasts relaxation from the plush lawns, expanding views, outdoor kitchen with BBQ area, the fire pit, and an extra deep custom pool with spa and water features. If you’re a home buyer looking in Newport Coast, call for more details.
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Presentation Speech by Per Wästberg, Writer, Member of the Swedish Academy, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2010.
|Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, esteemed Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Mario Vargas Llosa’s writing has shaped our image of South America and has its own chapter in the history of contemporary literature. In his early years, he was a renewer of the novel; today, an epic poet of not only Latin American stature. His wide embrace enfolds all literary genres.
He is hard to classify. From the provincial city of Arequipa in Peru emerged: a citizen of the world, a Marxist transformed by Castro’s misdeeds into a liberal, a losing presidential candidate later to appear on his country’s postage stamps, an epic poet and historian, a satirist, an eroticist, an essayist and columnist addressing most issues – including football and fear of flying. As a reporter from the world’s flashpoints, he recalls Graham Greene.
Vargas Llosa has led us through unfamiliar milieux with an authority that lends the authenticity of a 19th-century explorer. He links the narrative tradition of Balzac and Tolstoy to the modernistic experiments of William Faulkner.
Rebellion against an authoritarian father sparked an opposition against circumstance that extended into a youthful escape to literature and imagination. The rebel remains his protagonist – also in the forms of Flora Tristan and her grandson Paul Gauguin, fighting the conventions of their times, or the Irishman Roger Casement who, in a new novel by Vargas Llosa, exposes slavery in the Congo of Leopold II. Nota bene, revolt is successful only as narrative; as long as tyrannical fathers exist in our lives and societies, revolt remains permanent.
Vargas Llosa uses fiction to penetrate the shrouds of power and explore the obsessions of its exploiters. The halls of boarding schools and the corridors of administrations stand against indomitable open-air inhabitants, though the latter seldom triumph in defying regulation and imposition. History crushes Vargas Llosa’s figures but not their consciences.
In Latin America, writers are charged with the moral duty of not collaborating in injustice. But the demand for commitment can cripple desire and imagination. Vargas Llosa’s novels never bow to diktat; they are polyphonic and open to interpretation, emphasising the diversity of Latin America’s social and ethnic patterns. He lends voice to the silenced and oppressed – an aesthetic feat and an ethical act. He has an unreserved interest in people – from presidents to prostitutes – and nothing is alien to him, from the arrogance of statesmen to love’s subtlest plots.
In his dark picaresque, The War of the End of the World, Vargas Llosa is fascinated by fanatics and their world vision. A prophet foresees the end of the world in 1900 and assembles an army of shabby misfits that frustrates Brazil’s military forces. Another fanatic, Mayta in The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, is an Indian quadroon in an underground leftwing sect, first idealist, then terrorist in a Peru on the brink of disintegration. It is a confrontation with youthful revolutionary romanticism. And it is to the mire of social and political chasms that Vargas Llosa has led us, with serene linguistic agility, ever since his early novels, The Time of the Hero and The Green House.
Vargas Llosa’s late novel about the abuse of power, The Feast of the Goat, depicts the Dominican Republic’s tyrant, Trujillo. Servility and despotism are portrayed with brutal intensity, the horrors balanced by compassion and humanity. Among the bizarre detail is the revelation that the dictator coerced the country’s poets into petitioning the Swedish Academy to award his scarcely learned wife the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Vargas Llosa has an eye for the foolishness of innocence and the lethargy of evil. He is unusual in his ability to depict men’s friendship as well as sadistic penalism and hierarchical vanity. He prefers the compromises of common sense to radical utopias. In his book about Flaubert, Vargas Llosa disarmingly claims that he and Emma Bovary have in common “our taste for pleasures of the flesh rather than of the soul, our respect for senses and instincts, our preference for this earthly life above all else”.
He writes of love and its absence, of the seduction of violence and the rare triumph of justice. In his erotic entertainments he is a playful ruffian unafraid of self-mockery. Or, as he expressed it: “There is no great art without a measure of folly, since great art expresses the entirety of human experience, where intuition, obsession, madness and fantasy play their part just as ideas do.”
Vargas Llosa believes in the force of literature. Without literature there would be no rendition of mankind’s possibilities and hidden places. It is a bulwark against prejudice, racism and intolerant nationalism, since in all great literature, men and women of the entire world are equally alive. It is harder to suppress a people that reads a lot.
So he has fought for freedom of expression and for human rights regardless of geography, and has done so with a passion for liberty and with political courage and common sense – these not always in harmony in important writers. In a time of tiresome narcissism he is what Zola, André Gide and Camus embodied: an example and a bellwether.
My dear Mario Vargas Llosa; you have encapsulated 20th-century history in a bubble of imagination. It has floated on air for 50 years and shines still. The Swedish Academy congratulates you. Please step forward to receive this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature from the hand of His Majesty the King.
Estimado Mario Vargas Llosa! Usted ha encapsulado la historia de la sociedad del siglo veinte en una burbuja de imaginación. Ésta se ha mantenido flotando en el aire durante cincuenta años y todavía reluce. La Academia sueca le felicita. ¡Acérquese y reciba el premio Nobel de literatura de este año de la mano de su Majestad el Rey!
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If you’re a writer or editor or someone who follows the latest developments (such as they are) of the English language, you’ve probably spent time on various grammar and vocabulary and writing advice sites. You’ll know some of the popular ones (Grammar Girl) or the elder statesmen (World Wide Words), or your taste might run to the more specialized (Garner’s LawProse blog) or the eclectic (Language Log). There are literally more than I could list.
You might have encountered some of the eccentric groups, such as the Plain English Campaign (PEC) with its awards for outstandingly bad use. An outfit like that can do some good, although their approach and success are limited (and they’re quite rightfully not without critics).
I sympathize with PEC, as most editors probably do: some of us spend a lot of our time simplifying over-wrought writing, and it’s not always easy convincing an author to stop bloviating and just say what they mean. It ever was and ever will be.
Today’s post is in the vein of the PEC, to bring your attention to the wit and good sense of Judge Richard Posner, a respected member of the the US Court of Appeals (Seventh Circuit). He’s also described in some sources as an economist (but I won’t hold that against him). Jurisprudence aside — he’s got an impressive record– his thoughts on language use are worth your attention.
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately involving research, digestion, and summary writing on legal issues. A few times each week I’ll need to find the text of a decision and read it through for details (or at least scan it to find what I’m looking for). While most court decisions are less tiresome than many academic papers, these sorts of court documents, on the other hand, have a special consistency to them: they frequently are unnecessarily wordy and rely on overlong sentences and a peculiar dialect of stock phrases and repetitive constructions, liberally salted with legal jargon. Despite the necessity of stating the point in unambiguous terms, some decisions seem to aim for a high bar of wordiness and opacity.
So it was with interest that I recently followed a link with the headline “Richard Posner Slams ‘Stale, Opaque, Confusing Jargon’ in Judges’ Opinions.” Stale, opaque, confusing jargon? That’s the norm, so to read that a judge was coming down against it was, to use a tired cliché, a breath of fresh air.
Jargon can be a problem, but it isn’t all bad. Jargon actually serves some useful purposes, chief among them being to identify specialists in a field to each other. If someone doesn’t know the jargon (or doesn’t use it correctly), they probably aren’t a fellow professional. Every profession has its jargon: doctors and nurses use terms that others don’t (or use familiar terms in unfamiliar ways); so do engineers, web developers, soldiers, chefs, and truck drivers. Nearly everyone: another project I’m on at this time has re-introduced me to the world of enterprise software development and its curious jargon.
Jargon as a concept has no class or income level, although any specific type of jargon will probably be circumscribed by those things. While jargon is a quick way to share important ideas in a field, and a quick way to identify who is qualified in the field, it’s also used in an opposite way: it’s a quick way both to identify who is not knowledgeable in a field, and it’s a useful tool to exclude outsiders from understanding what’s going on among the ‘in’ crowd. It can be argued that in this way jargon is no different from teen slang terms, although it’s not usually a matter of knowing who’s cool and who’s not (and the terms don’t change as quickly to exclude outsiders who’ve cracked the code).
While I concede value in jargon, Posner doesn’t — at least in the writing of legal opinions. He’s entirely against the idea and believes that legal language should be accessible to the non-specialist (“everything judges do can be explained in straightforward language–and should be”). His primary argument, at least in the decision getting recent attention, is that lawyers and judges must do their part to exterminate that old literary vermin, the weasel word. He notes how “actual guilt” and “actual innocence” don’t really mean anything more than “guilt” and “innocence.” A term like “actual” on the page follows the long tradition of weasel words (Teddy Roosevelt railed against them in a 1916 speech) which, even if they don’t change the meaning of a sentence (and they frequently do) still manage to weaken the writing. (That’s the original meaning of weasel words: they suck the life out of other words, the way a weasel sucks the life out of an egg. The idea that weasel words are used by slippery people trying to weasel out of something came much later.)
Posner doesn’t mince words. When it comes to language use, the legal profession “is backward-looking” and law schools fail their students because they are “not really taught to think critically.” I agree strongly on that second point: during my entire time teaching college writing, critical thinking was a drum the department and instructors continuously beat. I can only hope we had some effect.
Sloppy and thoughtless language is a continuous concern for those who care (and if you use language at all, you should care). Only the other day I took an acquaintance to task for using the phrase “the dead of summer.” While it might seem like a natural reflection of the phrase “dead of winter” (a cliché to avoid in the first place), it doesn’t make sense. The dead of winter colorfully refers to a a particular time, literally and metaphorically: it’s both the middle (“dead center,” if you will) and the least alive (the frozen dead period of the northern winter). “Dead of summer” is a mistake, plain and simple. One might argue that the “dead center” sense applies, but to do so would erase the point of the “dead of winter” phrase. Instead, use something that makes sense to your reader or listener…height of summer, peak of summer…or put in the effort to make up a new phrase that gets your meaning across, if that’s your goal. The alive of summer? The bloom of summer? Show that you care, because “dead of summer” clearly shows that you don’t.
That phrase, “dead of summer,” by the way, is one I’ve heard used independently by at least three people over the past month. Once might be a fluke. Three times is potentially the tip of an iceberg of carelessness.
While my suggestion to stop using “dead of summer” might not get very far, Posner seems to be having an effect on his fellow justices. The decision in the case, which is very easy to read compared to most, includes this near the beginning: “Long story short: Dessart lied, the investigator didn’t, the warrant was backed by ample probable-cause, and there was no instructional error. We affirm.” That’s just the kind of language Posner champions.
His critique doesn’t stop with the language. He applies it to the way justices think and act: “The passages from judicial opinions that I’ve quoted thus far invite judicial haste and carelessness.” He’s right about that. Sloppy writing reflects and encourages sloppy thinking. It’s too bad more people don’t recognize this connection.
On top of the language issues there’s other interesting stuff in Posner’s concurring opinion (6 pages added to the 16 of the majority). For example, I hadn’t realized that the Fourth Amendment (that’s the ‘search and seizure’ one) doesn’t say anything about requiring warrants when probable cause is involved. To the contrary, it states only that when a warrant is issued, it must have cause. That’s coming at things from a completely different angle. All that stuff you’ve learned about the validity of searches from watching too many episodes of Law & Order? It might not be outright wrong, but it’s not entirely right, either.
Most of what I’ve cited above is from an interview with Posner, but it’s worth taking a few minutes to read the decision itself. It’s clear. It’s concise. It’s to the point. And quite frankly, it’s a joy to read compared to most legal opinions. That’s even before you get to Posner’s concurring opinion.
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PMM Has reopened for 2019 and the trading and busking dates are:
18 Dec: Twilight Market
Youth Day 16 June -TBC
Cape Town Int Kite Fest in October
More will be added as we go and there is a three day Dragons Den workshop in the March holidays too.
Market bookings are open here: https://goo.gl/forms/h2vLul0AbBFual7F3
Please mail firstname.lastname@example.org if you wish to arrange another venue or volunteer to assist. PMM is an NPO, no mandatory fees apply #everyoneiswelcome EARN, LEARN & HAVE FUN. Certificates for all children completing their advert, accounting and POS requirements. We are strictly single use #PlasticFree. | <urn:uuid:e2305eff-f658-44e9-be2d-410a33c14e61> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://pocketmoneymarket.com/2019/01/31/bookings-are-open-for-2019-trading-busking/ | 2019-02-23T02:01:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249414450.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223001001-20190223023001-00138.warc.gz | en | 0.87199 | 166 |
The race between incumbent Joe Moody and challenger Dee Margo was pretty much settled by voters in two precincts.
Overall, Margo won by 1,392 votes. He received 15,299 votes. Moody received 13,907 votes. The bulk of Margo's winning margin came from Fire Station 15 and Fire Station 27.
Fire Station 15 is in the Upper Valley next to White Spur Park.
Fire Station 27 is on the West Side near Franklin High School on Ojo De Agua Lane.
Combined, Margo won at those two sites by 1,036 votes.
The rest of the precincts in House District 78 were split by the candidates as Margo won 19 of them and Moody carried 18.
The Upper Valley neighborhoods that vote at Tennis West, Lincoln Middle and Fire Station 15 have become Republican strongholds.
Every Republican candidate easily won at each of those precincts.
Even U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, who lives in the area, was unable to win in the Upper Valley.
Overall, Reyes lost 34 precincts, most of them in the Upper Valley and Northeast.
State Sen.-elect José Rodríguez did not win the Upper Valley, either, as he lost in 25 precincts.
The Democratic Party continues to dominate when it comes to straight- ticket voting, according to El Paso County election results.
There were 47,198 straight-party votes cast on Tuesday.
Of those, 65.68 percent, or 30,998, were Democrat. Only 15,433 were Republican.
As Republican county judge candidate Jaime Perez said, the "moral of the story: Democrats outvoted Republicans 2.
"Republicans have some work to do for 2012."
Perez lost to Democrat Veronica Escobar.
It took until Wednesday morning, but U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, D-Texas, finally conceded defeat to his challenger, Republican Francisco Canseco. At about 9 a.m., the San Antonio congressman issued this statement:
"I have been truly honored and blessed to have represented the constituents of the 23rd Congressional District for the past four years. The voters have spoken and chosen to elect a new leader to represent them in Congress.
"I respect their decision and wish Congressman-elect Canseco the best. I want to thank all my supporters, staff and volunteers who gave tirelessly to this campaign. We let our principles guide us and I have no regrets. I believe I worked hard with our constituents to leave this District better than we found it."
Rodriguez has been in Congress since 2007. The district covers part of El Paso County.
Longtime politician and radio personality Barbara Perez is back in public office.
The former city representative and county commissioner defeated Republican Gracie Valenzuela to win the Justice of the Peace No. 4 seat. Perez, a Democrat, won with 53.19 percent of the vote.
Perez previously served three terms on the El Paso City Council.
She was also a county commissioner and a trustee on the Socorro Independent School District board.
Each time she resigned to run for a higher office and lost.
She is also a retired radio talk-show host.
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans were particularly pleased with Tuesday's local turnout, party officials said.
In El Paso County, only about 24 percent -- just under 91,000 -- of the county's more than 378,000 voters cast ballots.
That is a huge drop from 2008 when more than 178,000 people turned out to vote in the presidential election.
Reyes, one of the few Democrats in Congress who won Tuesday, said Wednesday it will take about a week before he knows what his new role in Congress will be.
With more than 50 Democrats losing to Republicans on Tuesday, Republicans now control the House and it is expected that Reyes will lose his position as chairman of the intelligence committee.
He said he will adjust to the new leadership, but emphasized that he wants to continue as a congressman for as long as it takes to make sure there is proper funding for Fort Bliss and the new Beaumont Army Medical Center.
He also wants to work on bringing a full veterans hospital to El Paso.
An e-mail allegedly sent by Republican candidate Tim Besco to other Republicans was forwarded to the news media.
The e-mail says, "thanks for nothing," and it criticizes the local GOP for not helping him.
It ends with a cuss word.
Neither Besco nor anyone from his campaign could be reached Wednesday to verify the e-mail.
Besco lost to Reyes.
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Absolutely not! The sacrament of reconciliation and penance requires, without out exception, confession to a priest. Oh and not a virtual one.
The Confession app is an aide to prepare for confession. Nothing more.
The Vatican has issued a clarification:
Father Lombardi clarified, “It is essential to understand well that the sacrament of penance requires necessarily the relationship of personal dialogue between penitent and confessor, as well as absolution on the part of the confessor present.”
“This cannot be substituted by any information technology application,” he said, thus, “in no way can one speak of ‘confession through the iPhone.'”
Leinen reiterated the same point: “To be very clear, only a priest can minister the sacrament of confession.”
He told ZENIT that the company is currently updating the program with a notification stating that “this app is to only be used in confession with a Catholic priest.
UPDATE: Now The Media is claiming that the Church has condemned the app.
Fr. Z asks, “Will newsies NEVER report on the iPhone confession app correctly?”
“First, there was a whole string of headlines suggesting that the new iPhone app meant to help people make a good confession was actually a substitute for going to confession. My review here.
Now that a statement was made by the papal spokesman that the iPhone app isn’t a substitute for confession, some headlines suggest that the Vatican has banned or condemned the app.” Read more here.
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Genus: Pararhophites Friese, 1898
Common name: none
Pararhophites range in body length from 5–7 mm (Michener 2007). They are sexually dimorphic, with females being primarily yellow, while males are black or brown with yellow patterning on the legs and abdomen (Michener 2007). Pararhophites are the only nonparasitic Megachilidae genus without sternal scopa (Michener 2007).
(modified from Michener 2007)
There are no known invasives.
Pararhophites are believed to be generalists on Zygophyllaceae. Pararhophites quadratus has been found to utilize Zygophyllum (Michener 2007). Peganum harmala may also be an important host plant for Pararhophites (McGinley and Rozen 1987).
Only the solitary nesting habits of P. orobinus are known. They have been observed nesting in small aggregations, where they excavate irregularly shaped nests belowground with an entrance burrow leading to multiple branches (McGinley and Rozen 1987). Cells are formed from pollen and sand grains moistened with nectar (McGinley and Rozen 1987). A mix of wet and dry pollen is provisioned into a receptacle in the rear of the cell (McGinley and Rozen 1987). The species goes through diapause within their cocoons (McGinley and Rozen 1987). Post defecating, inactive larvae can remain in diapause for more than 5 years (Rozen 1990).
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Love to use Layer Cakes but don’t know what to do with them?
This club is for you.
Every month a quilt from the book, “A Piece of Pie a la Mode”, will be selected.
We will work on the quilt during the club time and discuss techniques to use to successfully complete each quilt.
If you don’t want to participate one month, that is fine. You only pay if you attend. Space is limited so you might want to prepay online or at our retail shop.
The first quilt that we will make is “Arizona Trail”. A sample is hanging in our retail store.
- You must purchase the book, “A Piece of Pie a la Mode Book” by Brenda Bailey and Bonnie Bailey. All 10 of the quilts in this book are made using Layer Cakes. This book is available at our retail store or you can purchase in our online store.
- A sewing machine in good working order along with its manual.
- Rotary cutter and mat if you have one.
- Small iron and ironing pad.
- Thread, bobbins, and other basic sewing supplies.
Each month you will be given a specific supply list for the following month’s quilt.
For our March quilt, “Arizona Trail” you will need the following supplies:
- Your book, “A Piece of Pie a la Mode”
- 1 Layer Cake for the blocks
- 2 ½ yards for trail and border
- 3 yards fusible interfacing: Pellon SF101 Shape-Flex is preferred
- ½ yard for binding
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Uh-oh... seems like someone has fallen asleep while on duty and is dropping in social relevance. The plot thickens when considering HTML 5.0's follower-to-following ratio, which is 1.32. That's a healthy ratio.
@html50 doesn't tweet all that much, with an average of 1 tweet(s) per day in the past 30 days. However this seems to be a big change from a total of 8,272 since @html50 joined Twitter.
It seems like HTML 5.0 is heard on Twitter, with an audience attentiveness score of 37%, which stems from being tracked on 524 Twitter lists and normalized to their 9,101 followers.
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Genre: Chic Lit, Paranormal
When Angela's mother Fran dies and comes back as a ghost, Angela's ordinary life turns into a carnival show, starring both Angela and her nosy, dead mother. It seems Fran's got some unfinished business on earth and she's determined to get it done, no matter what. When Fran returned, she reignited her daughter's long suppressed psychic gift, one she neglected to mention to Angela, and now Angela sees ghosts everywhere. And they won't leave her alone. Fran can't help but stick her transparent nose where it doesn't belong, making Angela's life even crazier. Now Angela has to find a way to keep her old life in tact and help the dead with their unfinished business, all while trying to keep her dead mother out of trouble. And it's a lot for one woman to handle.
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About the Author Carolyn Ridder
Aspenson is a freelance writer based in Cumming, GA. She lives with her husband and three children, two dogs and one cat. Carolyn doesn't see ghosts, but swears she'd be okay with it, as long as it was only during daylight hours.
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* Disclosure of Material Connection: I am a member of Promotional Book Tours and a copy of this book was provided to me by the author. Although payment may have been received by Promotional Book Tours, no payment was received by me in exchange for this review. There was no obligation to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are entirely my own and may not necessarily agree with those of the author, publisher, publicist, or readers of this review. My Cozie Corner is not responsible for sponsor prize shipment. This disclosure is in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255, Guides Concerning Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. | <urn:uuid:b12dd0a0-dadc-437f-adcf-2d6ff41651e4> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://coziecorner.blogspot.com/2013/05/unfinished-business-by-carolyn-ridder.html | 2018-06-22T16:49:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864740.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622162604-20180622182604-00214.warc.gz | en | 0.974866 | 398 |
2010 Ford Taurus SHO 4dr Sedan AWD (3.5L 6cyl Turbo 6A)
I have had my SHO for 7 months and like the car better every day. No defects, no service needed, great performing sedan. Mine has the multi-contour seats with massage which I never thought I would use but have grown to enjoy. The adaptive cruise and blind spot alerts work flawlessly. Originally I bought this as a third car, one that I could trade off with my wife for commuting or go into the mountains for skiing. My main driver was a Porsche. This car is so good on the commute, I am afraid to let my wife try it for her commute. I don't think I would get the car back. Every guest in the car has been equally impressed.
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