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Fuwa, a city that lies on the Nile's Delta, engulfed by colour and bounded by nature. Nature serving as the first inspiration of humankind, and crafts being the first form of art created, the people of Fuwa took up kilim weaving hundreds of years ago. Today, the craft is being embraced by Kiliim Egypt, by adding a modern twist while still maintaining the authentic craftsmanship. The kilim is a traditional textile, often a rug or carpet, made of the flat-weaving technique, patterned with colourful designs projecting facets of tradition. The custom is perpetuated by generations of Fuwan families, serving as their livelihood and canvas onto which their expression of character takes place. However, as with all traditional crafts, the prevalence of cheap technology and the establishment of a globalised hyper-capitalist competitive market have left the kilim-making industry struggling to survive. Cheap labour and the domination of China-made products have unfortunately coupled with the plummeting of tourism, threatening the maintenance and the sustainability of the craft and the income of craftsmen. Kilims art of yarn and the problem of thread wool that has overcome them in the habit natural bright colors and graphics mixed with the components and designs among the Pharaonic and Arab folk art, to turn out at the hands of a virtuoso to a piece of art very magnificence and creativity, not to mention its relevance to the Egyptian heritage. It should be noted that the kilims made from coils wool sheep, and despite the simplicity of its components and drawings, but it always succeed in attracting the attention of lovers of authenticity, also the industry suffered from the development of carpet and technology industry in the countries of the world. In recent years it returned to occupy an important position with the Egyptian Interior Designers.Discover More
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As if California's budget crunch isn't bad enough, the state is on the hook to the federal government for $10 billion.
The debt stems from California borrowing the money from the feds to pay its share of unemployment benefits to those out of work. States and the federal government split the costs of unemployment insurance. The loan has been necessary because the Great Recession has totally depleted California's unemployment insurance fund.
California isn't alone.
In all, 31 states have been forced to lean on the federal government for help, totaling more than $42 billion in loans to cover their portions of unemployment insurance costs. But at $10 billion, California towers above the others in dependence upon the feds. This year, interest on the loan will amount to a staggering $250 million, adding yet another burden to the state's beleaguered treasury.
There may be a way out - of sorts. Recognizing the difficulties not only here but throughout the nation, the Obama administration has proposed a trade-off.
The proposal has two parts.
First, the federal government would waive any interest for two full years on the unemployment insurance loans. Second, in return for the waiver the states, including California, would increase the amount of workers' incomes subject to the employer-paid unemployment taxes to $15,000 from a the current maximum of $7,000.
The 6.2 percent tax minus credits amounts to about 1 percent, and has not been adjusted since 1976.
Some states have already raised the taxable levels, but most states, including California, have held back because of their already shaky economies.
All of this comes down to a potentially nasty fight between business and labor. Businesses would like to avoid any more taxes as they fight their way out of the recession. Labor would like to be assured of the continued availability of unemployment insurance funds to those who lose their jobs.
One way or another, state leaders have a tough choice to make. Either raise the dollar level for employer-paid unemployment taxes or pay a quarter billion to the feds in interest, leaving that much less in the state treasury. Ouch.
California's $10B Debt to the Feds
As if California's budget crunch isn't bad enough, the state is on the hook to the federal government for $10 billion.

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Dubai Culture invites submissions for awards
Dubai, January 18, 2012
The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) is inviting submissions from patrons and beneficiaries of the arts for the third edition of the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Patrons of the Arts Awards.
A path-breaking initiative introduced by HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, the awards are aimed at driving the growth of the city's cultural and artistic scene, by honouring the patrons who contribute to the various disciplines of the arts comprising performing arts, visual arts, film, and literature.
The awards honour their financial or in-kind contributions towards the arts, a statement from the Emirate's dedicated authority for culture, arts, and heritage said.
Saeed Al Nabouda, acting director general, Dubai Culture, said: "The Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Patrons of the Arts Awards, is the first and only one of its kind initiative in the region honouring the patrons for their noble contribution to the arts and cultural sector. Through the third edition of the awards, we want to once again, shine the spotlight on these unsung heroes, whose commitment and passion for culture should be honoured."
In its second cycle, the awards honoured 40 patrons for contributing over Dh130 million ($35.4 million) in financial or in-kind contribution towards the arts. This followed the first edition where 59 organisations and individuals were recognised for their financial and in-kind support of about Dh250 million ($68.07 million) from 2007 to 2009.
In 2010, Dubai witnessed a strong participation of the government sector in driving arts with the support extended by government departments increasing to 12 percent. Visual arts dominated the total patronage at nearly 51 percent followed by films at 33 percent, the statement said.
Performing arts recorded an increase to 11 percent of total contributions and literature received 5 percent, it said.
Potential patrons and beneficiaries can apply for the awards through the initiative's dedicated website by February 15. All applications received must be for contributions made from January 1 through December 31, 2011. – TradeArabia News Service


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Downton Abbey
Normally these Downton Abbey recaps are peppered with jokes and a generous helping of wry asides about the Dowager Countess's wry asides. Under other circumstances, this week's would be, too. If things had turned out differently, this installment would be dominated by a dissertation on the latest developments in the unceasingly dull Mr. Bates Murder Mystery (update: the pie did it!); lots of wink-wink, nudge-nudge banter about how Thomas's relationship with Hot Jimmy the Footman has made "winding the clocks" my new favorite sexual euphemism; an analysis of Edith's new role as the founder of the 1920s-British-high-society-old-media version of Jezebel; a discussion of how completely irritating it is that Isobel hired Ethel only after it was too late for Ethel to keep her kid; and the revelation that, apparently, if anyone utters the word "cervix" within a 30-mile radius of Lord Grantham, he will instantly combust with discomfort, transforming into nothing but a tidy pile of dust wearing a white bow tie.
But things are different. This is neither the time nor the recap to go into much detail about all of that because, and it pains me to write this: Lady Sybil is dead. (Read her obit here.) She lost her life after bringing a new one into the world, leaving behind a brokenhearted husband who's suddenly a single father to a motherless baby girl, as well as a family — both upstairs and downstairs at Downton — utterly wracked with grief. It was horribly, horribly sad, and unquestionably the most wrenching plot development in the entire series thus far.
"We've seen some troubles, you and I," the Dowager Countess said to Carson as she entered the Crawley house of mourning. "Nothing is worse than this." As usual, she was right.
Any attempt not to cry while watching Sybil's death scene — one in which eclamptic seizures forced the life out of her body while Tom and Lady Cora pleaded through sobs for that life to stay put — proved futile for most, even those who already had witnessed this moment weeks or months before it aired on PBS. If you managed to remain dry-eyed, I can only conclude that it's because you are a stone-cold robot who lacks tear ducts as well as the capacity to feel empathy for individuals both real and fictional. As for me, well, I kept my emotions in admirable check. In preparation for what I knew would be a rough episode, I bought twelve boxes of tissues. I only used up six.
The loss of Lady Sybil hurt, and hurt badly, because she was so damn young. Because she had such a generous heart. Because she got to be a mother for the first time for only a few hours before everything ended for her. Because that tiny girl — as ever, no boys for the Crawley family — will never be comforted by a loving hug from her mom. But it particularly stung from a narrative perspective because of the maddening roller coaster ride that led up to it.
Unsatisfied with Dr. Clarkson's prior misdiagnosis of Matthew's spinal injury and the severity of Lavinia's illness, Lord Grantham insisted that Sir Philip Tapsell should deliver the baby. After all, he's a well-known obstetrician who has delivered other very wealthy babies and, therefore, surely would prove more reliable than country bumpkin Clarkson. But between Sybil's early labor pains and Ivy's foreshadowing comment about how it might be better to give birth in the city where they "have all the modern inventions" (read: medical equipment and tons of electric toasters), it was clear that the final moments of this pregnancy would not go smoothly.
Clarkson ultimately (and rightly) concluded that Sybil was toxaemic and at risk of eclampsia. He recommended that she immediately go to a hospital and deliver the baby via C-section. Sir Philip disagreed and said all of Sybil's headaches and ankle swelling and general confusion was totally normal pregnancy stuff. Lord Grantham sided with Sir Philip because, you know, he has a Sir in his name. (This is the same sort of misguided thinking, by the way, that leads people to call Elton John or Ian McKellen when they think they may be having a heart attack.) A confused Tom essentially did what Lord Grantham said, which meant the baby would be delivered at home. And she was. And everything seemed fine.
That was the worst part: everything seemed fine. Once that child was born healthy and Sybil survived, even those who had already seen this episode may have heard a persuasive voice in their head saying: Hey, maybe she won't die this time. But the seizures came in the wee hours and when they arrived, all the white men with their medical degrees could do was stand there with no access to magnesium sulfate or any other medical means to stop Sybil from shutting down. It was infuriating with a capital I.
But even more infuriating than the doctors' lack of capacity to provide care was Lord Grantham's behavior during this episode. Holy God, does anyone else want to punch this guy in the mouth right now? I mean, he can't even bear to hear the words "womb" or "urine," but he has the audacity to decide that a C-section isn't safe for his daughter? He acted with total arrogance and flagrant stupidity, as he has all season long, what with his train debacles and his constant dismissal of Edith's feelings and his refusal to take financial advice from men whose names start with M (Matthew, Murray). To his credit, as he told the Dowager Countess toward the end of the episode, Robert knows he's largely to blame for Sybil's death. But that doesn't excuse it. At this point, his name should be legally changed to Lord Asshat, Earl of Dum-dum Judgment Calls.
Lady Cora has been remarkably patient with that man, but this time — now that his poor decision-making skills have taken away one of their daughters — she appears to have reached her limit. Even though the grief is still fresh and harsh, it's hard to imagine their marriage fully recovering from this.
Sybil's death also puts added pressure on another marriage: the one between Mary and Matthew. There's already a serious rift between them because of Matthew's desire to take charge of managing Downton's affairs, a desire that makes total sense since Lord Asshat obviously shouldn't be managing anything. But now they may feel even greater pressure to move forward with starting their own family, whether that's physically possible or not.
Contrary to my assertions in last week's recap, Lady Mary does indeed want children. But as noted by Matthew in a conversation with Sir Philip, hubby may not be capable of making that happen due to his war injury. (Uh, Matthew? I'm no doctor, but I think you should have your sperm tested, if only because that pretentious wanker told you not to.) A joyous announcement from the newlyweds — in addition to the total frenaissance that's clearly already happening between Mary and Edith — would really buck up the spirits of everyone at Downton. But it's unclear whether such an announcement will ever be made.
For now, spirits remain as low as they've ever been. The cries of that baby — oh God, didn't it just split your heart in pieces when that child wailed right after Sybil died? — are reminders of what's lost. Even the Dowager Countess, shrouded in the attire of grief, has to stop, brace herself, and wheeze out a jagged sob before she can face what's ahead.
But ultimately, in a poignant image that maybe become the one that ultimately defines this series, we see that grand old woman right herself. And she does what she always does, even when confronted with a darker day than she ever dared to imagine: She soldiers on.


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We need to change our climate for the better
Anthropogenic climate change is the greatest challenge of our time. We need to tackle it together.
There's too much carbon in the air
For the past couple of centuries, innovation and progress powered by fossil fuels have catapulted the human race forward — but not without consequences. It's time to come up with new solutions, and scale them quickly.
In 1958, a young scientist from Scranton, Pennsylvania, named Charles Keeling discovered something striking. The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere was rising by 1.3 parts per million (ppm) every year. The increase almost equalled the amount of CO2 being emitted by the combustion of fossil fuels globally. This wasn't a coincidence.
Keeling later created the Keeling Curve, showing the concentration of CO2 growing steadily.
We're setting the wrong kind of records
Before the Industrial Revolution, our air contained 280 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide on average. Now, that number sits above 400 ppm for the first time in recorded history.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, representing the work of thousands of scientists around the world, has said, "Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history." 1
What does this mean?
The buildup of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases like methane and nitrous oxide is already impacting climate systems across the planet. Continued buildup will trap even more heat, and cause problems like:
- Rising sea levels that will likely displace billions of people2
- Increased drought and flooding that threatens food security3
- Ocean acidification that puts thousands of aquatic species at risk4
Humans are creating this problem. And that means we have to solve it.
The Shopify Sustainability Fund
Thankfully, challenges motivate us. Shopify builds for the long term, so we need to play an active role in making a low-carbon future a reality.
Shopify is committed to spending at least $5 million USD annually to fight for our environment.
The Shopify Sustainability Fund will house all of our environmental investments, intelligently committing every dollar into the most promising, impactful technologies and projects fighting climate change globally.
Carbon negative commitment
Removing carbon from the atmosphere is an essential way to slow the accumulation of greenhouse gases and mitigate our impact on a warming climate. Shopify is committed to investing at least $1 million USD each year into carbon sequestration. To read more about our plans, read Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke's letter.
Carbon-neutral platform
Data centers have historically been a big source of greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. In 2018, we decommissioned all of our data servers and shifted entirely to Google Cloud to power our platform. With this change, our platform is now carbon neutral, as Google matches 100% of the energy consumed by Google Cloud with renewable energy.
Carbon-neutral operations
In 2019, Shopify began sourcing renewable power for heating, cooling, and powering our buildings. We've procured enough green energy to account for our natural gas and electricity-related carbon footprint in Canada. For travel-related emissions, which are 5x our operational footprint, we purchase verified carbon offsets.
LEED-certified offices
We look for LEED-certified office space, because it means our buildings have prioritized energy efficiency, sustainable site development, and water savings, among other environmental measures. Most of our square footage is LEED Gold or Platinum.
There is strength in numbers
No single person or organization can solve climate change alone. We admire other companies that have taken on this massive challenge with energy and leadership, especially our partners Stripe and Google.
In the coming months, we will launch more initiatives to mitigate climate change, and we will work with our merchants around the globe who want to help.
We are on a sustainability journey. We urge you to join us.
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Since the late 1970s, when American companies were fat and complacent, the focus of American capitalism has been on the bottom line.
Spurred on by activist shareholders, private-equity firms, and bonuses based on stock prices, corporate managers have become obsessed with maximizing quarterly profits.
This new focus has produced remarkable results.
Over the past three decades, big American companies have gone from having below-average profit margins to the highest profit margins in history (see chart at right).
Unfortunately, this obsession with profit maximization has come at a cost.
By focusing their entire effort on the bottom line, many American companies have reduced their value to the other constituencies that great companies serve, namely:
- customers,
- employees, and
- society.
One result of the profit obsession, for example, is that big American companies are now paying the lowest wages as a percent of the economy in history. (See chart).
This means that a record-low percentage of the vast wealth these companies have is being shared with the people who help earn it.
Another result is that companies are now scrimping on capital investments, which have also dropped sharply as a percent of the economy. (See chart).
Both of these efficiency initiatives help "maximize profit," at least in the near term.
But they hurt the economy.
And they also hurt our companies' overall growth rates.
Because every dime that companies pay out in wages and capital investment becomes revenue for other companies.
Rank-and-file employees at American companies — Walmart employees, for example — are also American consumers. They spend nearly everything they earn buying food, clothes, gas, houses, entertainment, and other products and services. This money then becomes profits and wages for companies that provide those products and services. And so on.
The problem in the American economy right now is not that there isn't enough investment capital. There's plenty of it. (There's so much of it, in fact, that some companies don't even know what to do with it: Witness the massive cash mountains building up at companies like Apple, Cisco, Google, Bank of America, JP Morgan, et al.)
The problem in the U.S. economy is that rank-and-file American consumers are over-indebted, under-employed, and broke.
And these consumers account for a staggering 70% of the spending in the U.S. economy.
To restore the economy to health, we need to persuade our companies to balance their priorities — to share more of their wealth with the employees who help earn it.
More broadly, we need to persuade our companies to focus on creating value for all of their constituencies, not just shareholders.
Take Walmart as an example.
Walmart employs 1.4 million Americans, approximately 1% of the entire American workforce. The average full-time Walmart associate makes $12 an hour — $480 a week and $25,000 a year. That's just above the poverty line.
These 1.4 million Americans who are dedicating their lives to making Walmart successful, in other words, are paid so little that they're nearly poor. Walmart itself made $27 billion of operating profit in 2011. If Walmart were to give each of its U.S. associates a $5,000 raise, it would cost the company $7 billion a year. This would reduce Walmart's operating profit to a still-extremely-healthy $20 billion. It would also give 1.4 million hard-working Americans another $100 a week to spend. And, chances are, they'd spend a lot of it at Walmart.
The same can be said for Bank of America, Citigroup, and many other huge American companies that are furiously engaged in finding ways to fire people and cut costs. In addition to their massively profitable Wall Street operations, these banks have huge branch networks in which tellers and local loan officers make modest salaries while serving their communities. Some of them would undoubtedly be grateful for a raise. And they'd probably spend it close to home.
The point is that our three-decade drive to make our companies more efficient has been spectacularly successful — so successful that, in the interests of "maximizing profits," we're now starving the key growth driver of the economy, average Americans.
To fix this, our companies need to share more of their wealth with their employees.
They need to aim to earn a reasonable profit, not a "maximized" one.
And they need to reinvest their excess profits in creating more value for their other constituencies, namely customers, employees, and society.
"Fairness" and "sharing" have become dirty words in our country, words that immediately get the speaker branded a "liberal" or "communist." This is depressing. Fairness and sharing aren't political concepts, and the fact that they're interpreted that way shows just how polarized the country has become.
But given that half the country now associates "voluntary sharing" with "communism," arguing that companies should share their wealth because it's the right thing to do won't get us very far.
So let's just base the argument on self-interest.
It is very much in companies' self-interest to pay employees more.
If companies pay their employees more, they'll increase loyalty, reduce turnover, and get better employees. Over the long term, this should reduce training and hiring costs. By increasing customer satisfaction, it should also increase revenue. By paying their employees more, companies will also put more money in the hands of American consumers, who will then turn around and use it to buy products and services from American companies. So the companies will help accelerate the growth of the economy as a whole. And as the economy grows, so will the companies. This, in turn, will help create more long-term shareholder value.
In short, to restore our economy and society to health, we need a new corporate mission in America.
We need to stop maximizing profit and start maximizing value.


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Simple tools to query and retrieve data from the ESGF's CMIP5 and CORDEX projects.
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Python code to manage the analysis of climate model outputs published in the CMIP5 and CORDEX archives
This package provides simple tools to process data from the CMIP5 and CORDEX archives distributed by the Earth System Grid Federation.
This package was developed by F. B. Laliberte and P. J. Kushner as part of the "ExArch: Climate analytics on distributed exascale data archives" G8 Research Initiative grant. http://proj.badc.rl.ac.uk/exarch
This version is a major rewrite from earlier versions.
Frederic Laliberte, Paul J. Kushner Univerity of Toronto, 2014
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC/CRSNG) funded FBL and PJK during this project.
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Police have shot dead a journalist during a protest over a sex assault on an actress in northeast India, as security forces in New Delhi fired tear gas at new demonstrations over a student's gang-rape.
After the victim of last Sunday's gang-rape in Delhi began recounting her ordeal to police, a wave of revulsion over sex crimes spread to the remote state of Manipur, where a protest was held over the attempted rape of the actress.
A police spokesman told AFP the 36-year-old cameraman, who was working for the national Doordarshan network, was "killed in police firing" while covering a protest that turned violent in the town of Imphal.
Police have yet to arrest anyone over the December 18 assault on the 22-year-old actress and model known as Momoko, who has waived her right to anonymity and who has appeared on television to demand justice.
Momoko has said that a local militant dragged her away during a concert last week and then tried to rape her before she managed to fight him off and flee.
"We want a strong message to be sent that perpetrators of such crimes have no place in our society," said Bala Bedi, a women's rights activist in Imphal who took part in Sunday's protest.
India has seen a string of protests across the country in the wake of the Delhi gang-rape, which has shone the spotlight on the frightening incidence of violence against women in India.
National crime records show that 228,650 of the total 256,329 violent crimes recorded last year were against women. Delhi has been dubbed the rape capital of India with government figures showing the number of rapes in the city rising 17 per cent to 661 this year.
The 23-year-old physiotherapy student, who has been battling for her life since the late-night assault on a bus, gave her first statement to police late Saturday in the hospital where she is being treated.
"All six men took turns to sexually assault me," the Hindustan Times newspaper quoted the victim as saying to police.
"They threw us on the side of the road where I then fainted," she added.
Her answers appeared to confirm most of the details that officers had already managed to piece together from a statement by her 28-year-old male companion who was also assaulted and thrown off the vehicle.
All six of the alleged attackers have now been arrested and remanded in custody.
Fearing more violent protests, police declared areas close to the president's residence and the parliament off-limits on Sunday and detained those who defied the prohibitory orders.
All the routes leading to landmark government buildings were cordoned off and metro stations in the vicinity were closed to the public.
However, several hundred protesters managed to breach the cordon around India Gate and braved tear gas and water cannons for the second day in a row.


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WEATHER: Flippin' cold for DC — 17 degrees at running time.
MILES: 23 — first long run of 2011!
MILES THIS WEEK: Enough.
WHERE TO: Capital Crescent Trail, Rock Creek Park, hot shower.
MOOD: Cold.
Good news, sports fans! As part of my tireless effort to whore out your favorite blog, I have managed to get it occasionally picked up by Washington news website TBD.com. And while they don't care about my constant blathering about my personal problems or persistent sexual innuendos, they do care about the posts in which I give you valuable and timely information about the DC running scene.
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College adviser from Ripon brings message of culture, faith to young women
College adviser from Ripon brings message of culture, faith to young women
by The Modesto Bee
Oct. 14--Rebekah Gregory, a 30-year-old college academic adviser from Ripon, has a passion for helping Christian young women as they struggle to live out their faith in the midst of a culture with strongly opposing values.
"Being a Christian woman in this world right now is extremely difficult," she said. "For five years, I worked one-on-one with girls at Liberty University (a private Christian college in Virginia). It became apparent to me that girls across the board were hurting. Even the most popular girls in the school, the ones dating baseball players and the ones considered the most beautiful, felt the same way -- they felt lonely. They had been told that XYZ was going to make them happy, but it doesn't. They had a lot of regret and pain instead of joy."
Gregory will share what she's learned at an evening for young women, "Truth Be Told: What God has to say about the things we never talk about." The event, at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Shelter Cove Community Church, is for any woman, but is especially geared for women ages 16 through early 30s. An ice cream social will follow the talk.
The idea behind the evening comes from Gregory's work at Liberty, where she served as a counselor and director of women's ministry. The Ripon Christian High School graduate received her undergraduate degree in communications from Northwestern College before attending Liberty, where she earned her master's degree in human services, specializing in marriage and family counseling and business management.
"I started 'Truth Be Told' with about 60 people and it grew to about 250," Gregory said. "It wasn't your traditional Bible study. It was 'Let's talk about the things that no one talks about.' "
They covered topics such as alcohol abuse, suicide, pornography, lust, feminism, sexuality, reality vs. romance, doubting God and death.
"We rarely talk about when we doubt the Lord, when our faith is shattered and we wonder if it's all a joke," Gregory said. "I don't think death or dying is talked about enough for young people, even though they've had friends who have died or committed suicide.
"We don't talk about sexual abuse enough. It doesn't matter if girls are raised Christian or Muslim or nothing at all. There are a large number who have experienced sexual abuse, and they are extremely ashamed of it, so they don't talk about it. And this sounds weird, but we don't talk enough about heaven. We are such an instant gratification generation that we're not even thinking about eternity."
One of the problems, Gregory discovered, is that Christian young women keep their true feelings behind closed doors.
"No one was admitting to each other or themselves that they were unhappy," she said. "They were just pretending."
Part of that unhappiness comes because Christian young women fall into myths that the secular world perpetuates, Gregory said.
"One of the biggest misconceptions out there is that a relationship will take away feelings of loneliness," she said. Young women too often believe that a boyfriend will give them the intimate understanding and love they desire. Instead, Gregory said, they feel alone in the midst of that relationship.
"The point is not to shy away from relationships, but to not make relationships an idol," Gregory said. "Relationships won't fill your life; God will. It's more about being purposeful in a relationship."
Another issue -- "Christian young women struggle with perfectionism or beauty. It leads to a lot of eating disorders," Gregory said. "They try hard to never sin and never mess up. They don't have space to admit they're struggling. If there aren't enough Christian guys out there or if they don't feel as spiritual or if they wonder things about God, it's an enormous pressure."
Then there is the issue of sex before marriage.
"Basically, I'm going to be saying to them, 'You hear so many messages every day all the time that push you in one direction. You're only hearing God's truth maybe once a week if you're lucky, and those aren't always coming from someone your age or from someone you think is relevant. When other things are being shouted at you, and you're seeing it on every TV show and getting it from every song you hear, and all your friends are doing that and not talking about any of the consequences, then of course you're going to fall into that.'
"I want to remind the young women that everything they're seeing on TV is only half the story. It doesn't tell them how they're going to feel the next morning or how the girl feels five years later. It never goes there."
Gregory has these tips for young women:
1. Have good female friends -- "Girls who fill them up and are good influences, girls they have fun with. I think the Lord wants us to have a strong community, and friendships are critical."
2. Redefine what adventure is -- "I think TV has sold us a very small life, this idea that going to the mall and spending a lot of money or going to a party and getting drunk or living a sexy city lifestyle is as adventurous and wonderful as we're going to feel. I think the thing that has kept me from falling into that is I've done adventurous things. I moved to Montana and worked on a dude ranch, and went to Africa, Turkey and India.
"There comes a moment for every young woman as to if she's going to listen to what the culture tells her is the next step, or make her own step. There are so many other steps! That's what blows my mind. All these young women follow a well-scripted play and do their part. What if I don't want to be in this play anymore? What if I want to do something else? Go! Do something else."
3. Be unique -- "Do whatever it takes to find out what your strengths and gifts are. Dig really deep to find out what God has designed you for. When you find that out, it brings a lot of purpose, and with purpose comes peace. Don't be a cookie- cutter girl. Find out what you are good at, and live that to the fullest."
Gregory said she's had to work through these same issues.
"To this day, I can't believe I'm 30 and single," she said. "I thought I'd be married after I graduated from college. I thought I'd have a husband and children by now. But I'm quite content. I want girls to have a different alternative than to be trapped into what the culture says she should be and do. I want to give young Christian women a different alternative. I don't want them looking perfect on the outside and not on the inside, being unhappy and lonely.
"I want them to be real women."
Bee staff writer Sue Nowicki can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (209) 578-2012.
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This is a very short course, and confusing to manipulate around if you do not have a map. Needs more direction. Some of the holes are very tight wooded holes and have hidden baskets, which make not given birdies. A great practice course for beginning players and for the advanced player, it gives some great opportunities for aces.


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Geology and Climate Change – Should We Have Entered a New Ice Age?
I was reading someone saying that they believe we are supposed to be moving into a new ice age, but that the Industrial Revolution and man made global warming has halted this progress. Now, this is by no means a new idea, but it's still a very interesting concept. The answer to this is basically "up in the air" and demands a considerable amount of careful thought, in order to even try to conceive of an answer. Since climatology is a heated topic in today's media climate, it's a topic very much worth discussing. However, there's a crap-ton of geological data and knowledge to get through on this topic of whether we're moving into a new ice age or not, which is more than what most people can fathom. Still, I think it would serve people well to try and understand climate from a geological perspective. Here's a not-so-quick run-through of what I think I've understood from it all, as the humble Sociologist that I am, using some helpful non-geological terminology, in order to make sense of the material:
Let's just skip the concept of global eras in Earth's history, that span upwards to billion year length time scales. It makes more sense to jump straight into the Quaternary period, which is the current period on Earth that we live in (which has been going on for the past 2.588 million years), within which the great diversification of mammals has been going on.
Let's call the Quaternary period a "super-macro level timespan" of climate. These "super-macro" periods switch between either warm and cool trends. Our current period is a cool one, as it's been characterized by the constant growth and decay of continental ice sheets. This is actually called an ice age, and goes by the name "the current ice age", and we're in the middle of it. This is not what most people would call an ice age, which I believe are actually called glacial ages in geology. So let's call this current ice age a cool period instead, to keep things consistent.
Within this cool period on a gigantic scale, we have a "macro level timespan" of climate that are called epochs. These epochs are also either trends of warming and cooling. Cool epochs are defined by the Earth being covered by big glaciers and constant ice, and these are called glacial epochs. Warm epochs are defined by receding glaciers and ice on Earth, and these are called interglacial epochs.
On a "meso level timespan", these epochs are then divided further into warm and cool ages. A cool age is called a glacial age, where you have vast and/or expanding ice sheets covering parts of the Earth's surface, while warm ages are called interglacial ages, where you have receding ice sheets, but still with some ice sheets covering some land. On a "micro level timespan", you can also find strictly regional variations of cooling and warming, and this is where things become extra interesting, not to mention confusing to "climate change" models. Heck, there are even "nano level timespans", where you have warming or cooling trends lasting a few decades. This would, for instance, be the global cooling trend in the 60s and 70s, and the global warming trend of the 80s and early 90s. I'm not gonna bother talking about them here, so let's ignore the nano level.
To sum it up, we are talking in terms of four different timespans of climate, from longest to shortest:
- Super-macro level: Periods. Cool or warm.
- Macro level: Epochs. Glacial or interglacial.
- Meso level: Ages. Glacial or interglacial.
- Micro level: Err… something. Let's call them trends! Cool or warm.
At the moment, we're in an interglacial age on the "meso level", which started about 11 000 years ago. This age is actually also the first age of a new epoch, called the Holocene epoch. Yes, we may indeed have "just" entered an interglacial epoch, because the last epoch, the Pleistocene epoch, which ended about 11 000 years ago, was a glacial epoch. In other words, the last epoch was characterized by what we would call ice ages, or glacial ages, to be consistent. I think it's still unknown where our epoch fits into the whole mess. We're still in the greater "super-macro level" cool period in general, because there are big areas which are still constantly covered by glaciers, yet, we're not in a glacial age, since glaciers have receded and aren't covering vast lands on the northern and southern hemisphere. We won't know what our epoch contains for thousands of years still, but it's natural to think it could be an interglacial epoch, since the generally warm data during the current epoch suggests as much.
It is however worth asking: Maybe our interglacial epoch is just an interglacial age within the continued glacial epoch that we supposedly left of? Or put differently: Our new epoch is a glacial epoch, but we've started it off with an interglacial age? Maybe. I don't know why we can call our age a part of a new epoch yet. Our epoch, the Holocene epoch, translates to the "the wholly new/entirely recent". I'm guessing it might be linked with the recent spread and great explosion of human life and civilization on Earth during this current warm age, beginning after the last ice age. In other words, what the future holds is left to be seen.
In any case, there are temperature swings within both glacial and interglacial epochs, and also within cool periods. Since we've been in a "meso level" interglacial age for the past 11 000 years, this means that glaciers are expected to be receding, yet still existent. This is exactly what we see today. Just as expected.
Within this current interglacial age on the "meso level", however, you also have smaller intervals of warming and cooling trends on the "micro level". These are often quite regional and not global. The last warm trend, at least in the West, was during the Ancient times and through the Middle Ages, up until a cooling trend happened during the "Little Ice Age", from the 1200s up to the mid 1800s. The "Little Ice Age" was quite cold by interglacial standards, but not compared to glacial standards, where half of Europe etc would probably be covered in tundra and ice. Since we're in an interglacial age and an interglacial epoch, we should not expect to see ice covering most of the northern or southern hemisphere, and we shouldn't see substantially increasing ice sheets. We should see receding ice sheets, yet some areas still covered in ice. Again, this is what we see.
Question is, have we naturally moved out of the quite cool "Little Ice Age" and just begun a "micro level" trend of warming, within the "meso level" warm interglacial age, within the "macro level" warm interglacial epoch, within the "super-macro level" cool period on Earth? Or did we prematurely halt the "Little Ice Age" by the dawn of industrialization and pollution, and kicked off a warming trend by man made means, before a natural warming trend were going to begin?
These are the actual questions to the assumption made in the introduction, and while some might believe we should be heading into a new ice age, we just don't know the answer to this. It's the big seven-hundred-and-eighty-ounces-of-gold question!
We do know, however, that we've earlier gone through much warmer trends than what we're currently experiencing, without man made causes possibly affecting the climate, so it's natural to think that what we're experiencing are completely natural variations of the Earth's climate, within this interglacial age and epoch that we're in. Heck, we also know that the former glacial epoch, namely the Pleistocene epoch, lasting for over 2 million years and ending 11 000 years ago, and covering big parts of the northern hemisphere with constant ice for most of the time, had several quite warm interglacial ages within it. In fact, the last interglacial age, which was within the Pleistocene glacial epoch, reached temperatures that are much warmer than our current temperatures.
Indeed, many interglacial ages have existed before ours. We have only been in the current interglacial epoch, namely the Holocene epoch, for 11 000 years, where we've started off with an interglacial age. In other words, there's no reason to believe that we should be moving back into a glacial trend as of now. If anything, we should probably see further warming! At this very moment in time, we're also below the Holocene mean temperature. What we're experiencing today is actually quite cold temperatures, relative to what we should expect from the geological age we're in. If the last interglacial age, during the Pleistocene glacial epoch, is any benchmark for what we should expect, we've yet to reach out peak temperatures.
And the peak temperature is key. This defines the high point of temperatures during an age. Some suspect the peak temperature during our current age was a couple of thousand years BC. This is at least assumed to be the case, and it's sits in the middle of the current timeline of our current age too. That could be true. But it's equally conceivable that we've yet to see the peak temperatures, and that the "Little Ice Age" was more of a low point before a greater warming period. Not to mention, our interglacial age could go on for thousands of years still. Again, during this current global warming trend, since the last 1800s, we've yet to reach the mean temperatures of the Holocene epoch as a whole. We're not experiencing hot temperatures by any means.
So where does this leave us? Well, global warming calculations depend on data that begin right AFTER the Little Ace Age, which was a very cold trend within our current warm age and epoch. The global warming calculations also cannot control for variations spanning a few decades, which has lead them on to pre-mature conclusions, like "global cooling" and "global warming", having now settled on the impenetrable "climate change" brand. The important question today is, is it "man made" or not?
Considering we should easily be experiencing a warmer climate than what we're currently doing, seeing as we're under mean temperature that we should expect, and seeing as climate change models depend on a false low as their starting point, which means they are measuring a completely expected and fairly rapid warming trend, with or without man made CO2 release, one can begin to wonder what the HELL "man made climate change" is all about.
So, finally! Should we have entered a new ice age by now? I think the answer is no, we're not supposed to be heading into a new ice age. There's no reason to believe so, at least. We are currently seeing stuff that we should expect to see, since we're in an interglacial age, where we could expect warmer temperatures still. No surprises here. We might move into a new glacial age soon, but it will take a long time to see temperature move decidedly in that direction. We're talking time spans of thousands of years here. As of now, we're simply moving through a warmer trend after a cold trend. These are natural fluctuations. No worries.
But let's not stop there. I'll take you one further: The Industrial Revolution didn't stall anything. It hasn't affected the temperatures once single bit. How so? Well, let's address more issues linked with this, like the theories of "man made climate change" and CO2 models. Cause last, but not least, all of the temperature data, both current measurements and historical ice core data, show that spikes in CO2 only follow rises in temperatures. While historical ice core data could show a lag in CO2 storage, meaning CO2 could have spiked long before it got stored in the ice core samples, current direct measurements cannot be analyzed in the same way, and current data show the same as historical ice core data, namely that temperature rose first. This means that CO2 does not drive temperature levels, but rather it's entirely plausible to say that temperature drives CO2 levels! Yes, there's a correlation here, but an opposite correlation of what the "man made climate change" models predict. THIS explains why they were lead down a mistaken road. THIS is why they predicted a rise in temperatures for the past 15-18 years, which didn't happen, simply because they had their models backwards. THIS is why CO2 levels continue to rise now, after temperatures have leveled out, because they could be rising as a product of the last period of warming, which happened during the 80s and early 90s. This is a plausible, competing theory to the absurdity of man made climate change. Whatever we as humans contribute to it seem not to matter at all.
Gosh. Does this mean that geology contradicts the claims of current climatology? It most certainly could look that way. Does this mean that climatology is not consistent with geological data? Well, not quite. "Man made climate change" theories could indeed coexist with the geological theories that depict the info I've gone through here. I have not debunked "man made climate change" as such, but my point is, the current "man made climate change" theories are simply not convincing at all, and there's no reason to think that geological data support what the "man made climate change" theories claim. You can equally say that geological data support theories that say the current warming trends are natural fluctuations to be expected. The "man made climate change" theories are simply riddled with mistakes and a lack of prediction power, even when we talk about decades! Yes, not years, but decades! How the hell can we then trust them to say ANYTHING worthwhile about what will happen in 2050, let alone about year 2500, if they can't even explain the past 50 or 100 years? The real world applications of these models are extremely poor. They haven't helped us one single bit.
Now, should we stop modelling the climate? No! Absolutely not. We should continue to try and improve on our ability to model the climate! But should we stick to the whole CO2 story? No, it's time we threw it out and started to look for other variables and causalities, and maybe we should begin to consider that humanity does not drive climate change at all.
To be able to do so, we need to get governments and politics out of climate science, because it corrupts the scientific debate and destroys real science, turning it into bad science and garbage pseudo-science. Climate change has become a religion; a cause for socialist activism! These activists are suffering from so much cognitive dissonance, that it has become sickening, and at this current rate, they'll destroy all of us and every ounce of prosperity that we have. Climate change fundamentalists are evil and need to be fought, tooth and nail.


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Dear Em
Well it looks now as though we will leave here for some where in the U.S. Every thing is being fixed up good here and I suppose next week when it is all fixed up in tip top shape we will be kicked out, do you get it (kick out).
Id just as leave be the first one in line and get the hardest kick when they start. I will say that I like it a great deal more now than ever before, but, well (nuf sed).
I am acting First Serg. of the company tomorrow. Things are sliding very smooth now, and I am fine
© Copyright 2008 by Richard Landers, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.


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Vineyards and wineries are distributed all across the state but there is a heavier concentration of establishments in the south. According to data provided by Dan Ward of Rutgers University in his AAWE presentation on viticulture in NJ, the state has experienced rapid wine-related growth as seen by the increase in wineries (from 15 in 2000 to 58 (including pending applications) in 2012) and acreage under vine (from 551 acres in 2002 to 2000 in 2012, an annual average increase of 14%). The soil suitability index created by the Dan Ward team shows that 1.094 million acres (18% of the state's acreage) is most suitable (on a scale ranging from moderately suitable to most suitable) for wine-grape growing. The gap between the acreage under vine today and the acreage that is most suitable for grape growing is an indication of the potential that the state possesses.
Overall, NJ is considered a warm environment with 2500 to 2600 growing degree days in the north and 3500 to 3600 growing degree days in the south, placing the state's wine-growing areas into Regions II, III, and IV of the UC Davis Heat Summation Scale (Dan Ward, Rutgers University).
In an attempt to ensure the quality and consistency of the wines being produced in the state, NJ growers instituted a program in 1999 called the Quality Wine Alliance (QWA) wherein wines are submitted to a review panel and, if deemed to have met or exceeded the review board requirements, they are awarded the QWA designation.
There are three designated wine regions (AVAs) in NJ: Warren Hills, The Central Delaware Valley, and the Outer Coastal Plain (OCP).
|Source: http://njvines.rutgers.edu/images/statewide/statewide-overview.htm
This region, the smallest of the three AVAs (95,162 acres), was awarded its designation in 1988 and occupies territory on both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey sides of the Delaware River. The northern end of the AVA is Musconetcong Mountain and the southern end is at Titusville, both in NJ, but portions of PA territory is incorporated along the way.
Based on Rutgers University's NJ Climate Zone map (see below), both the NJ portion of the Central Delaware Valley AVA and the Warren Hills AVA fall into an area designated as the North Climate Zone. According to the climate scientists at Rutgers, this zone has a continental climate with prevailing winds from the southwest during the summer months and from the northwest during winter. This zone is the coldest of the state's five zones with annual snowfall of 40 - 50 inches as compared to 10 - 15 inches in the far south. Air rising over the highlands and mountains that are characteristic of this area causes clouds and precipitation while the rest of the state remains clear. The incidence of summer thunderstorms is higher in this zone than in any other.
|Source: http://climate.rutgers.edu/stateclim_v1/njclimoverview.html
This region is noted for growing French-American hybrids, native varieties, and vitis vinifera.
Warren Hills, as was the case for the Central Delaware Valley, gained its AVA designation in 1988. The AVA covers 182,000 acres and is framed by the Delaware, Paulinskill, and Musconetcong Rivers as well as the Sussex County line.
The Warren Hills AVA falls into the previously described North Climate Zone.
The AVA is distributed over a number of "northeast-trending" ridges which are separated by broad valleys of similar orientation. Elevation across the AVA ranges from a high of 1500 feet on Kittatinny Mountain to a low of 160 feet along the Delaware River. The slopes in the AVA suggest good drainage while their orientation (south- and southeast-facing) provide good sun exposure, both highly desirable characteristics in a cooler climate grape-growing environment.
The soil is a sandy loam overlaying sedimentary (sandstone, dolomite, limestone, shale) bedrock.
The growing season is approximately 180 days long with cultivars at risk for low-temperature events such as spring and fall frosts and winter cold. The grape varieties grown are vitis labrusca and French-American hybrids (cold hardy and "less foxy") and some vinifera on south-facing slopes in the southern reaches of the AVA.
Outer Coastal Plain AVA
The largest (2.25 million acres) and youngest (AVA designation in 2006) of the NJ AVAs encompasses most of the landmass in the south and southeastern portion of the state. Twenty wineries and commercial vineyards are currently operational in the AVA.
The OCP AVA falls fully within the Rutgers University Coastal and Pine Barren Climate Zones and has a part of its southern flank in the Southwest Zone. The Pine Barren Zone, according to Rutgers, is characterized by rapid nighttime radiation of the heat collected by the soil during the daytime, resulting in "surprisingly low" minimum temperatures when compared to adjoining climate zones.
The Coastal Zone's climate is moderated by the Atlantic Ocean benefiting from the effects of warmer ocean water during the autumn and early winter and cooling breezes from the ocean in late spring and early summer. The region is at risk for damaging winds, precipitation, and flooding resulting from the occasional nor'easter (between October and April), hurricane, and tropical storm (summer months).
The climate in the Southern Zone is moderated by the Delaware Bay and this results in the longest growing seasons of all the NJ climate zones.
The topography of the OCP is mostly flat with some low hills. The soil is sandy or sandy loam with excellent drainage and moderate to low fertility.
The grapes grown in the region are similar as for the other AVAs but, in addition, there are some small plantings of Italian and Spanish varieties.
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This is the project page for the integration of SELinux policy into RPM 4. Specifically the project is focused on adding infrastructure to RPM to install and manage SELinux policies and reduce the error-prone scriptlets that have been used up to now to install policy from RPM's.
Quick Setup
Getting the Code
First clone the upstream RPM git repo. Instructions are available on the RPM get source page.
The current patch set is at [1].
Apply the patches to the RPM repo.
You need an up to date copy of libsemanage and libselinux to compile the RPM patchset. To check out these libraries use git:
# git clone http://oss.tresys.com/git/selinux.git
and build and install them with make:
# make && make install
Building and Installing RPM
# ./autogen.sh --noconfigure # ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/nspr4 -I/usr/include/nss3 -I/usr/include/db4" \ --with-external-db \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --sharedstatedir=/var/lib \ --with-lua \ --with-selinux # make # make install
Adding Policy to an RPM
You'll want a source module with the te, if and fc files. You can get one from the Reference Policy or use the one in the repo at rpm/tests/data/SOURCES/poltest-policy-1.0.tar.bz2
Add a Source line to your RPM:
Source1: poltest-policy-%{version}.tar.bz2
Build the policy during %build:
make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile -C poltest-policy-%{version}
and specify the policy options using a %policy section:
%policy %module poltest-policy-%{version}/foo.pp Name: foo
For a detailed explanation of the %policy section and the tags/options that can be used, see #%policy section.
Installing an RPM with Policy
Installing an RPM will also install its policy.
# rpm -i <rpm>
Verifying the Policy is installed
# semodule -l | grep foo foo 1.0.0
%policy section
The %policy tag is used to define SELinux policy modules that should be included in the package. A string following the %policy tag indicates that policy should be included in a subpackage.
%policy targeted
This indicates that all policy defined in this section will be included in the targeted subpackage. Similar to %package and %files, the -n option can be given to modify the final name of the subpackage.
A typical %policy section with multiple modules and options looks like this:
%policy %module policies/foo.pp Name: foo Types: mls targeted %module policies/bar.pp Name: bar Types: targeted Obsoletes: baz
The %policy section can contain the following tags:
The %module tag specifies an SELinux module to be included in the package. The format for the %module tag is
%module path/to/selinux/module
with the path relative to the rpm build directory. The module can be either a policy package (.pp) or a bzip2 compressed policy package (.pp.bz2). This specifies two policy modules (foo.pp and bar.pp) to be included in the package. Each module has several options which describe various characteristics of the preceding module. Each option is of the form Option: value, with each option applying to the most recent %module tag. In the following examples, the options are indented for readability only. Leading spaces are ignored when parsing the options.
The Name option specifies the name of the policy module. This must match the name of the module specified inside the policy.
%policy %module policies/foo.pp Name: foo
If Name is not provided, the basename minus the extension will be used. However, it is recommended that you provide the option.
The Types option is a space-separated list of policy types the module can be installed into. The special type 'default' can be used to specify that the module can be installed into any type. If the Types option is not specified, 'default' is assumed.
%policy %module policies/foo.pp Name: foo Types: mls targeted
This specifies that the foo.pp module can be installed in both mls and targeted policy types.
The Obsoletes option is a space-separated list of policy names that are obsoleted by a module. Any modules listed in Obsoletes will be removed (or ignored if installed, but in the current transaction) upon module installation. If not specified, it is assumed that the module does not obsolete anything.
%policy %module policies/foo.pp Name: foo Obsoletes: bar
This will remove the baz module at the same time as installing the foo module.
The Base option is a boolean value (Yes/1 or No/0) that specifies whether or not a module is a base module. If not specified, it is assumed that the module is not a base module.
%policy %module policies/base.pp Name: base Base: yes
This specifies that the module base.pp is a base module.
The PolicyRequires tag is added to the preamble to specify that the current system must meet certain capabilities before policy can be installed. This tag has the same syntax as Requires, Obsoletes, and similar tags, and will usually contain SElinux libraries that may be necessary to install/load policy:
PolicyRequires: libselinux >= 2.0.90
Unlike Requires, which can be met by both currently installed packages and to-be-installed packages, PolicyRequires must be met by currently installed packages only, ignoring any to-be-installed packages during dependency checks. If PolicyRequires capabilities are not met by the existing packages, but are met by to-be-installed packages, policy can still be installed, but is performed at the end of the transaction, rather than the beginning, and is followed by a full filesystem relabel. Because of the expense of a full relabel, it is recommended that this be used carefully.


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"YM2612 chip"Wohlstand wrote:Little update of audio engine (SDL Mixer X) library!
I did various fixes of playing, fixing of crashes and improved support for new libOPNMIDI MIDI synthesizer based on YM2612 chip emulator
This is an example how to use OPNMIDI synthesizer with your MIDI files:
It can do same loops as ADLMIDI (by loopStart and loopEnd markers, and by 111'th controller)
I also have updated SMBX-38A v 1.4.4 archive too
All I know is that means I can add Mega Drive music to levels. (I think I could do that already though.)


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stockholder derivative suit(redirected from Shareholder Suit)
Stockholder Derivative Suit
A lawsuit filed by one or more shareholders of a publicly-traded company in the name of the company. Often, this lawsuit is filed against a member of the company's management who committed an illegal, unethical, or negligent act. Directors' and officers' liability insurance can protect the management from losses as the result of one of these lawsuits. They are also called derivative suits and derivative action.
stockholder derivative suit
A lawsuit filed by one or more of a company's stockholders in the name of the company. A derivative suit is filed when the firm's management will not or cannot sue in the name of the company. For example, a stockholder may enter a derivative suit against the firm's chief executive officer to recover funds from a questionable or an improper act by that officer. Also called derivative suit.


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Insurer: Victims of Houston office fire died from 'pollution'
Insurance loophole claimed in fire deaths
Company says smoke that killed 3 was 'pollution'
An insurance company with a potential $25 million liability from a 2007 Houston office fire is claiming smoke that killed three people was "pollution" and surviving families shouldn't be compensated for their losses since the deaths were not caused directly by the actual flames.
Great American Insurance Company is arguing in a Houston federal court that the section of the insurance policy that excludes payments for pollution — like discharges or seepage that require cleanup — would also exclude payouts for damages, including deaths, caused by smoke, or pollution, that results from a fire.
"This is shocking. It's an extraordinary effort by an insurance company to avoid paying on a contract for insurance," said Randy Sorrels, who represents several family members in wrongful death lawsuits from the fire in a six-story atrium building on the North Loop.
Great American has asked U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal to find that the deaths caused by the smoke, fumes and soot from the March 2007 fire set by a nurse working in the building will not be covered by the policy because there is a specific exclusion for pollution and it mentions smoke, fumes and soot.
'We think it is wrong'
"We think it is wrong. It's inappropriate for the insurance company to try to run and hide now," said Jackson.
In October, vocational nurse Misty Ann Weaver was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of felony murder and one count of first-degree arson for setting the fire to conceal that she had failed to complete paperwork on time.
Great American's legal request, filed in late November and set for hearings in February, notes that there are four pending lawsuits against the property owners for wrongful death and injury, and contends that the insurance company should not have to pay on any of them.
Kevin Sewell, the Dallas lawyer who filed the request, did not return phone calls Tuesday afternoon. Great American spokeswoman Diane Weidner said company policy is to not comment on pending litigation.
Seth Chandler, a University of Houston Law Center professor who teaches insurance law, said while the insurance company's maneuver wasn't out of bounds, it will test the limits of the law.
"This is pushing the boundaries of the absolute pollution exclusion," Chandler said. "We're going to have a battle between the literal language of the policy and the way people speak of pollution."
A question of semanticsHe said the issue is an ongoing conversation between the courts and the insurance industry. Chandler said he doesn't know of any other Texas cases on this issue. Nationwide, he said, even carbon monoxide poisoning has been found to be covered by insurance despite a pollution exclusion.
Tom Baker, an insurance law expert who teaches at Penn Law school, said property insurance has a long history of being designed for fire coverage and excluding a fire's smoke is applying the law too broadly.
But, he said, smoke can be tricky and Texas may be a state where the literal meaning could be considered rather than common understanding.
"The purpose of a pollution exclusion is not to not cover people who die from smoke inhalation in a fire," Baker said. "I would hope they (the insurers) lose this."


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No. 5 Virginia (25-5, 16-1 ACC) at Maryland (16-14, 8-9 ACC)
Maryland plays its final ACC regular season game in history Sunday at noon as it takes on conference regular season champion No. 5 Virginia. It marks the Terps' third game against a top-5 opponent in six games.
Watch: CBS – Marv Albert (Play-by-Play), Steve Kerr (Analyst)
Listen: Terrapin Sports Radio Network – Johnny Holliday (Play-by-Play), Chris Knoche (Analyst), Walt Williams(Sideline); Sirius/XM 91
Fans are reminded to account for traffic when driving to the game, as the contest is a sellout!
• The Terps have played the Cavaliers more than any school in their program's history. Maryland is 106-74 in 180 meetings all-time against Virginia, including a formidable 63-24 home mark.
• Sophomore Jake Layman scored 13 points and junior Dez Wells added 11 as the Terps moved to 6-2 at home in ACC play with a 64-47 victory over Virginia Tech Tuesday. It was the first time Maryland has held an ACC opponent under 50 points since defeating Virginia, 66-42, on Jan. 27, 2011 at John Paul Jones Arena.
• Maryland was highly efficient offensively against the Hokies Tuesday, dishing 18 assists and totaling just five turnovers. It was the first time the Terps committed five turnovers or less in a game since Feb. 14, 1998 against top-ranked North Carolina.
• Former Maryland coaching greats Lefty Driesell (1969-86) and Gary Williams (1989-2011) will be in attendance at the game. Driesell totaled 348 victories at Maryland and is a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, while Williams led Maryland to the 2002 national title and is a finalist for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
• Maryland legends Gary Williams, Lefty Driesell, Tom McMillen, Walt Williams and Juan Dixon will be signing autographs prior to the contest to commemorate the Terps' final ACC game. Additionally, the first 12,000 fans will receive an ACC timeline poster, and fans can share their favorite ACC memories on an interactive wall.
Maryland Outpaces Virginia Tech, 64-47
Jake Layman came off the bench to score 13 points, and Maryland defeated Virginia Tech under a barrage of 3-pointers in a 64-47 Atlantic Coast Conference victory Tuesday night.
The Terrapins (16-14, 8-9) connected five times from beyond the arc in an 18-5 run that turned a 29-28 halftime deficit into a 12-point lead. If the teams don't meet in the ACC tournament, Maryland will head to the Big Ten after this season with a five-game winning streak against the Hokies and a 32-10 lead in the series.
Dez Wells began the charge with a three-point play and Nick Faust added a 3-pointer. After Jarell Eddie made two free throws, Seth Allen popped a 3 before Joey van Zegeren scored on a follow — the Hokies' lone basket in the first 7½ minutes of the second half.
Scouting Virginia
Virginia captured its first outright ACC regular season title since 1981 when it defeated No. 4 Syracuse, 75-56, on March 1. The Cavaliers have climbed to fifth in the Associated Press national poll – their highest ranking in over a decade.
The Cavaliers boast the nation's best defense, holding opponents to a meager 54.8 points per game. Virginia defeated every ACC team by double-digits at home this season except for Maryland.
Freshman guard London Perrantes is an excellent ball-handler for Virginia, ranking eighth in the nation with a 3.68 assist-to-turnover ratio. Akil Mitchell is eighth in the ACC in rebounds (7.0/g).
Virginia has taken six straight games from Maryland — its longest win streak in the series. Maryland has had winning streaks of 11 straight games (1950-55) and 10 (1972-76).
Last Meeting
Joe Harris scored 19 points and No. 17 Virginia stretched its winning streak to eight games by beating Maryland 61-53 on Feb. 10.
Seth Allen scored 15 points and Dez Wells had 12 for Maryland (14-11, 6-6), which had won three of four at the time.
The play of the game came in the second half when Roddy Peters' fast break layup was blocked by Justin Anderson with 10:45 remaining. Anderson quickly passed the ball to Harris, who pulled up for a transition 3-pointer to complete the 5-point swing. The basket gave the Cavaliers a 40-35 lead that led to a 9-0 run.
By the Numbers: Maryland in the ACC
- 1953-54 – Maryland joins the ACC, winning its inaugural basketball game, 53-49, at South Carolina on Dec. 3, 1953
- 3 – ACC Tournament titles (1958, 1984, 2004). The Terrapins shocked the conference in 2004, having entered the tournament with a 7-9 ACC record.
- 5 – ACC regular season titles (1975, 1980, 1995, 2002, 2010)
- 99 – All-ACC Selections, including five ACC POY's (Albert King, Len Bias (2x), Juan Dixon and Greivis Vasquez)
- 447 – Wins in ACC regular season play (447-435 overall record)
- 25 – 20-win seasons during time in ACC, and 24 NCAA Tournament appearances
Pregame Activies/Giveaways Planned for Virginia Game
Maryland athletics has a wide array of pregame activities and giveaways planned for the final regular season ACC game in history against Virginia.
The first 12,000 fans in attendance will receive an incredible ACC commemorative timeline poster that captures the most memorable Terrapin moments over the last six decades. Additionally, the first 4,000 students will be given a free t-shirt courtesy of Force 3.
An autograph session featuring Maryland legends will take place on a first come, first serve basis until 11:30 a.m. Former coaching greats Gary Williams and Lefty Driesell, in addition to Tom McMillen, Walt Williams and Juan Dixon, are scheduled to appear. The autograph area will be held on the third level concourse behind section 207 and 208.
Fans will have the opportunity to take photographs with ACC championship trophies at the top of the escalator stairs on the third level concourse. Fans are also encouraged to recall their most fond ACC moments on the "My Favorite ACC Moment" interactive wall, located on the Gate A side of Heritage Hall.
Big Ten Announces 2014-15 Home/Away Opponents
Maryland's home and away opponents for its inaugural men's basketball season in the Big Ten Conference were announced Feb. 28.
The Terps have home dates against five teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2013: Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Maryland will also host Nebraska, Northwestern, Penn State and Rutgers.
Maryland will play five home-and-home series, featuring Indiana, Michigan State, Nebraska, Penn State and Rutgers. It will also face Illinois, Iowa, Ohio State and Purdue on the road.


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HIPAA regulations cover patient records that healthcare providers print, copy, fax and email every day, so you need to have systems in place to protect patient privacy and prevent unauthorized access to any confidential patient information. In fact, security of paper documents and on-line records is tightly coupled to how rigorously healthcare providers have integrated HIPAA compliance into their daily processes for managing patient health information.
The good news is whether you are an ambulatory or acute facility, secure solutions for printing, scanning transmitting, and storing documents can complement HIPAA strategy for organizations of any size. You'll safeguard patient information and ensure compliance with patient privacy laws while improving productivity and reducing operating costs.
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Securing documents that you print, scan, copy, and fax begins at your MFP (multifunction printer). Every employee that can access these devices could potentially copy patient records and send confidential documents outside of your facility.
However, requiring passwords for every task can frustrate physicians, clinicians, and other staff members. You may want to look for an MFP that restricts what functions users can access and where they can send information. You can use that feature to set it up so that it only requires authentication for potentially sensitive functions.
For example, you may want to allow anyone to print or copy but require staff members to log in if they want to distribute a document via email or fax. You could also set your MFP so that it will only send documents to pre-approved destinations. This means unauthorized persons won't be able to obtain patient information and email it off site using your MFP.
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Witness backs bribery claims in Ecclestone trial
Bernie Ecclestone's bribery trial appeared to turn a darker corner on Tuesday.
Last week in Munich, the F1 chief executive's fate appeared brighter, when the man whom Ecclestone allegedly bribed did not seem to clearly back the prosecutors' claims.
But when Gerhard Gribkowsky testified again on Tuesday, his latest tune was not as sweet for 83-year-old Ecclestone, who faces losing control of F1 and jail if ultimately found guilty.
Gribkowsky, then an employee for a state-controlled bank and therefore a public official, admitted what he was promised by Ecclestone influenced his behaviour.
"Of course I was aware at that moment that I mentally moved to a certain extent to the side of Mr Ecclestone," he told the court, according to Bloomberg.
"I grabbed the carrot. Afterwards, I didn't negotiate with the same toughness I had until then," added Gribkowsky, referring to the sale of BayernLB's commercial stake in F1.
Ecclestone's lawyer told the court he was "surprised" by Gribkowsky's apparent U-turn on Tuesday.
"We have to wait how many versions will still emerge and what we make of them," lawyer Norbert Scharf later told reporters.


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Vacancies, backlogs plague federal judiciary
Vacancies, backlogs plague federal judiciary as partisan ties cause delays in filling emergency openings across the nation
WASHINGTON - When federal Judge Royal Furgeson Jr. took senior status from the federal bench in San Antonio in 2008, colleagues thought it would be a matter of months before his seat was filled.
Five years later, the vacancy is categorized as a "judicial emergency" and senior Judge Alan Ezra has come all the way from Hawaii to hear cases on a docket in the Western Judicial District that includes 800 miles of U.S.-Mexico border.
"It would be nice to get some help," said Chief District Judge Fred Biery in the Western District of Texas. "We are pedaling as fast as we can on an increasingly rickety bicycle."
Texas is not alone.
When two judicial vacancies occurred in Connecticut last year, senior judges from Montana, Ohio, Kentucky and South Dakota were brought in to tackle a backlog of civil cases.
"Backlogs are a huge problem in Connecticut," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. "The backlogs accumulate and cause very substantial delays."
Blumenthal said bringing in judges from other states "is fairly unusual."
"There is a reason that district court judges are appointed from the ranks of residents. They are familiar with local customs and character and culture," he said.
One Connecticut vacancy has been filled since last year. Another bench in Bridgeport remains open, although it is not considered a judicial emergency.
Nationally, there are 89 district and appellate judgeships vacant, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Some 31 of those vacancies are considered judicial emergencies because there are more than 600 cases per judge or because the post has been vacant for more than 18 months.
Partisan politics are being blamed for the rising number of empty benches, which have continued to grow in this Congress. The White House and Democrats specifically blame Republicans of slowing down the process.
The result is that emergencies exist in 21 states, including California, Texas, New York, Washington, Arizona and Florida.
The situation is so dire in California that Sen. Diane Feinstein is seeking to not only fill vacancies but also create new judgeships - during a time of fiscal austerity - to ease the caseload burden.
A bipartisan bill pending in the Senate, sponsored by Feinstein, D-Calif., would create 10 new judgeships, including four in California, two in Arizona, three in Texas and one in Minnesota - all states that include U.S. borders.
"The backbone of our democratic system is the court system," Feinstein said. "But when we begin to shortchange it, when we begin to make case-loads so high that judges cannot do what they are supposed to do, it weakens the opportunity to have real rule of law in this country."
Chief Justice John Roberts, in his end-of-the-year report in December 2012, warned Congress that constitutional rights cannot be denied and noted the ongoing battle between the White House, which nominates judges, and the Senate, charged with confirming those nominees.
He urged the legislative and executive branches of government "to act diligently in nominating and confirming highly qualified candidates."
President Barack Obama has accused Republicans of obstruction, saying his nominees are forced to wait three times longer for confirmation than his presidential predecessors.
Obama said "these months of unnecessary delays have threatened our judiciary."
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said GOP lawmakers in the Senate have held up nominees even when they have the support of their "home state senators, Republican as well as Democrat."
But Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is one of several GOP lawmakers who counter that the White House has failed to quickly nominate qualified candidates for judicial posts.
Cornyn and former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, created a bipartisan panel to screen applicants seeking judicial posts. Cornyn said he would continue that process with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Since Obama took office, six judges for Texas have been confirmed. But five vacancies remain, including the San Antonio bench that has been open for five years.
In-state rivalries
There are two vacancies, both considered emergencies, on the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Texas congressional Democrats, meanwhile, blame the senators for the drawn-out battle to fill the San Antonio vacancy.
Acting on a request by the White House, Texas Democrats offered up candidates for consideration for the judicial post in San Antonio.
But those candidates were not approved by the bipartisan panel created by the senators, who offered up their own candidate.
The White House has avoided the in-state rivalry and has yet to nominate a candidate for the San Antonio bench.
'Problem is politics'
A Texas congressional point man on judges, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, said the candidates for the San Antonio post have been left lingering, as well as candidates for other vacancies.
"I think it is correct that the White House could place a higher priority on these, but in each case where there has been a delay, it has been to get agreement of the senators," Doggett said.
Texas GOP senators have quietly exerted their constitutional power to block Democratic recommendations for the San Antonio bench, lawmakers contend.
"You'll be shocked to learn the problem here is politics," said Biery about the vacant San Antonio post.
"We have a Democratic president and Democratic congressional delegation and two Republican senators - and senators can block anything," Biery said.
Not all states suffer from in-state political rivalries but rather a larger national partisan fight being waged in the Senate.
The result has been a backlog of cases.
GOP delay tactics
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Southwest states have been particularly hard-hit by judicial emergencies because of raising caseloads due to an increase in law enforcement.
"It means that civil cases get delayed. Because of the 'Speedy Trial Act,' criminal cases take precedence. The real crunch is in the civil docket," said Carl Tobias, an expert on the U.S. judiciary at the University of Richmond School of Law in Virginia.
Tobias said the current delay in filling posts rests mainly with Republicans in the Senate.
He said GOP senators slowed down the confirmation process during the presidential election year in hopes that a Republican president would be elected to fill the lifetime judicial appointments.
Tobias said Republicans used parliamentary tactics to keep nominees from receiving confirmation votes.
"The GOP would not agree to hold floor votes on well-qualified, consensus nominees," Tobias said.
New laws will help
In New York, where there are eight vacancies - including one considered an emergency in the Eastern Judicial District - Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, points his finger of blame at GOP gamesmanship.
"Across the country, my Republican colleagues have often held up judges as a tool to slow down the legislative process," said Schumer, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Schumer said the Senate passed new rules this year which should "bring much smoother sailing" for confirmation of awaiting nominees.
Republicans, though, insist they have been fair to Obama on judicial nominations.
Baseless accusations
Since Obama's election, the Senate has approved 171 district and circuit court judges and two Supreme Court nominations, said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He accused Democrats of baseless accusations on judicial delays.
"All we hear from the other side are complaints," Grassley said. "It makes it quite difficult to work cooperatively."
Longer wait for Obama
But analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service shows that, from Jan. 20, 1981, to May 31, 2012, the median number of days an Obama nominee waited for confirmation to a district court seat was more than four times that of nominees for President George W. Bush.
According to the analysis, an Obama nominee to a federal district court waited 90 days from a positive Judiciary Committee report to Senate confirmation, compared to just 21 days for Bush nominees.
Obama's appellate court nominees waited 132 days for nomination, compared to 18 days for those nominated by Bush.
Increasing caseloads
Judicial vacancies have become an enormous problem in California, a populous state where the lag time between vacancy and confirmation is exacerbated because of the sheer number of judgeships.
California has two Senate Democrats.
Tobias said Democrats have contributed to the problem by not being expeditious in recommendations, although the White House rejected some that were offered.
California has six vacancies, three of which are considered emergencies, and one opening on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, also an emergency.
"It's an enormous number," Tobias said. "You are going to have constant vacancies in these big states with big populations. You really have to be on top of it, and this general slowdown in the Senate really affects that."
Feinstein and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., have pushed to fill the posts, but even with vacancies filled, California needs more judges to keep up with the growing caseloads.
If Feinstein's legislation is passed and signed into law, four new judgeships would be created in the Eastern District of California, which includes the California's Central Valley area that has become home to nearly 8 million residents.
The district, Feinstein said, "has the worst case-load crisis in the nation."


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Sue Sylvester is about to be immortalized in wax.
"That's supposed to happen in July," Jane Lynch told Access Hollywood's Tony Potts of her "Glee" character's waxwork arrival at the Madame Tussauds Museum. "It's Sue Sylvester, the red track suit. It's going to be kind of weird."
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It's a happy "weird" for the 49-year-old comedienne, who's having a banner year, which has included two Emmy nominations and a marriage to longtime love Lara Embry.
"It's great to say 'my wife.' I never thought I would," Jane said. "A girl saying, 'My wife,' it's pretty amazing. Times have changed."
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She added that her Emmy nominations had come as another surprise.
"It's completely unexpected, even one is unexpected," she said of her two acting nominations, one for "Glee" and one for a guest spot on "Two and a Half Men." "It's been crazy, it's been great. I recommend it, I recommend being on a hit television show and getting Emmy nominations."
Jane also weighed in on the rumors that her younger co-stars have been fooling around on the set of the FOX show.
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"They're great professionals and they have to be laser-focused on their jobs," she said. "There's no buffoonery going on."
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Government to go ahead with longer lorries trial despite cyclists' objections
Government to go ahead with longer lorries trial despite cyclists' objections
CTC campaigned against the proposed trial, with more than 1,300 cyclists writing to their MPs to object to the plans. As a consequence the trial is smaller than it might have been, but will still increase the risks to all road users.
The Minister, Mike Penning MP, in his statement to the House of Commons suggested that a partial mitigation might lie in "the effectiveness of additional vision/sensor/safety systems fitted to improve detection of vulnerable road users." Yet the Minister has so far rebutted efforts to introduce such safety systems and his Department has failed to answer a Coroner's report from earlier this year demanding a review of these systems and a plan for their installation.
CTC's Campaigns Director Roger Geffen said: "If the Minister was serious about cycle safety he wouldn't allow this trial to go ahead but would instead ensure that the existing lorry fleet - which poses a considerable threat to cycle safety - is equipped to share roads safely with cyclists and its drivers trained accordingly. The Department must ensure that the trial is not simply the thin end of the wedge: we need a proper assessment of the risks to road users and the road infrastructure."
Thanks to CTC's campaign against longer lorries during September, the initial trial is smaller than the DfT might have conducted. However, the cyclists' organisation remains deeply concerned that many more longer trailers will be permitted onto the roads in subsequent years if the trial is widened. CTC has maintained that longer lorries could represent a significant threat to cyclists' safety despite Mike Penning's claims he is "looking at how we can improve cycle safety."
The DfT's own analysis found that the threat from certain slow manoeuvres could increase by as much as 9%. Cyclists are particularly at risk from lorries engaged in such manoeuvres which, from 2005 to 2009, accounted for 40% of fatal cycle crashes involving an articulated lorry.


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Lady GaGa's much anticipated music video for "Born This Way" has hit the web, and Little Monsters are not disappointed.
Two weeks after the global pop star preformed the song live on the Grammy's, GaGa released the sci-fi inspired video exclusively on PerezHilton.com before it spread on the internet. She directed the video herself with the help of choreographer Laurieann Gibson and fashion photographer Nick Knight.
"This is the manifesto of Mother Monster," the video begins, with a narrated prologue about "the beginning of the new race, a race within the race of humanity, a race which bears no prejudice."
Kaleidoscopic images in space then give way to choreographed dancing, skeleton make-up, and moreGaGa-eque freakishness.
Billboard points out that "Born This Way" is the first No. 1 song that uses the word "transgendered," and the fashion-loving superstar said it was a goal of hers.
"I wanted to put my money exactly where my mouth is," the singer said in a Billboard interview out this week. "The Little Monsters all over the world as well as the gay community have been tremendously supportive over the years and I have in turn been supportive. Let's call a spade a spade…. this is my chance to create something that is not only supportive of my political and social beliefs--not just for the gay community, but for everyone… This is also my chance to artistically say, 'I'm not being safe with this record.'"
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Hazel Gap Wedding Venue
Cripps are delighted to be opening a stunning new wedding barn venue in the heart of the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire.
Hazel Gap is run by Cripps Barn Group an established company with many years' experience in running wedding venues throughout the UK. The style is relaxed and informal, yet professional.
We are recruiting new staff, for both bar, waiting and cleaning/maintenance. The role is casual, shifts include both weekends and evenings.
Attitude is more important than experience, although some previous bar work would be advantageous for those looking to work on the bar. Good rates of pay.
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