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3 Contrasting Contenders in Germany Vie to Succeed Merkel
Three high-profile contenders are vying to lead Angela Merkel's party as the longtime German chancellor makes way after 18 years for a successor who could shape the European Union's most populous country for the next generation.
The center-right Christian Democratic Union will elect on Friday a new chairman or chairwoman, who will be the favorite to run for chancellor in Germany's next election.
Merkel has been CDU leader since 2000 and chancellor since 2005. She moved her party relentlessly to the center, dropping military conscription, accelerating Germany's exit from nuclear energy, introducing benefits encouraging fathers to look after their young children and allowing the introduction of gay marriage.
Most controversially, she allowed large numbers of asylum-seekers into Germany in 2015.
Merkel's popularity lifted her center-right bloc for years, peaking in a 2013 election in which it won 41.5 percent of the vote. But in October, after a troubled start to her fourth-term government and two dismal state election performances, the 64-year-old announced she would step down as CDU leader and wouldn't seek a fifth term as chancellor.
Her potential successors need to lift a party polling under 30 percent. They could take the CDU, which together with the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union has been post-war Germany's most consistently successful political force, in different directions.
The CDU's general secretary since February, Kramp-Karrenbauer — often called "AKK" — is a Merkel ally and the closest to her centrist stance. She touts her own lengthy experience in regional government, which saw her become the first woman to become a state's interior minister, or top security official, and serve as governor of western Saarland state.
Kramp-Karrenbauer says she knows how to win elections, having defied expectations to win re-election in Saarland by a wide margin last year. And she says she put herself "at the service of the CDU" by giving up that job this year.
Kramp-Karrenbauer has consistently shown more willingness than the chancellor to cater to conservative rhetoric and more vocally opposed gay marriage. Recently, she has sought to put careful distance between herself and Merkel without disavowing her, saying she has had "very lively discussions" with the chancellor on various subjects.
She has talked tough on immigration issues, proposing a lifelong entry ban to Europe for asylum-seekers convicted of serious crimes. But she has warned that endlessly reheating arguments about the 2015 migrant influx is a turn-off for voters.
A one-time Merkel rival, Merz is seeking a spectacular comeback after more than a decade away from front-line politics. He stands for a more conservative and business-friendly approach.
Merz led the center-right group in parliament from 2000 until 2002, when Merkel pushed him out of that job. He left parliament in 2009, and in recent years practiced as a lawyer and headed the supervisory board of the German branch of investment manager BlackRock.
A snappy speaker, Merz lacks government experience but is well-connected in the party and has presented his time away from politics as a virtue, saying that he has "had the opportunity ... to look from outside at politics and its decisions."
In the past, he advocated radical tax reform and argued that foreigners should learn German "Leitkultur," which could be roughly translated as "majority culture."
In this campaign, he has criticized the "unregulated influx" of migrants and charged that the CDU accepted the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany, which entered the national parliament last year, "with a shrug of the shoulders." He appeared briefly to question the right to asylum enshrined in the German constitution, but quickly walked that back. And he has advocated encouraging greater use of private pension plans using shares.
A Merkel critic, Spahn became health minister in March as Merkel acknowledged pressure for renewal. He has support on the party's right — but that appears to have been largely swallowed by Merz's reemergence, leaving him as the outsider.
Spahn has made migration a focus, calling it the "elephant in the room." He has said that security is a key issue, and argued that "not everything is good again" even though the flow of migrants has slowed.
Spahn, who is openly gay, has said that his party doesn't need to "shift to the right," but it does need to start "a real change of generations." He looks highly unlikely to succeed this time, but this contest could position him well for the CDU's next leadership change.
The choice will be made by 1,001 delegates at a party congress in Hamburg, many of them professional or part-time politicians at federal, regional or local level.
Merkel has signaled that she intends to remain chancellor for the rest of this parliamentary term before retiring from politics. The next election theoretically shouldn't be until 2021, but that is uncertain.
Merkel's governing coalition with the center-left Social Democrats, the CDU's traditional rivals, has had an extremely bumpy few months. Another crisis, or an already-agreed midterm review next fall, could bring it down.
Whoever becomes CDU leader will want to follow through on promises to sharpen the party's profile. Observers struggle to imagine Merkel working well with Merz, in particular, though both dismiss that concern.
"I have no doubt that, if that is the outcome, I can work well together with Friedrich Merz, as with every other candidate," Merkel says.
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Incorporates strong typing over predicate logic programming, and, conversely, incorporates predicate logic programming into strongly typed functional languages. The style of predicate logic is from Prolog; the strongly typed functional language is Haskell.
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CoReader x CoState == Silver Bullet
The title reads: 'CoReader x CoState == Silver Bullet' ... of course, it isn't a silver bullet, but it surely reduces (exponential) complexity AND provides just-in-time realized constants that (e.g.) would, and do, strain and break production systems working on very large data sets.
So, it isn't a silver bullet, but it sure-as-heavens-to-betsy puts the 'oh, I'll just generate the (resource intensive) constant' approach and then 'oh, I just wrap each layer in another layer of if-then-else (kill me with code complexity)' approach up and down walls and mops them off the floor, please, and thank you.
Okay, so the CoReader (co)monad is suppose to give you a constant, and it does ...
CoReader readValue context = (context, readValue) -> context
with the askC function:
askC :: (CoReader r c) -> r
and so you have your constant.
The thing is, the CoReader depends on the context to be preexisting, which can be troublesome for data that are realized from an environment that is established at some point after the program begins to run, and that problem is that if you want a realized constant, you can't have the CoReader be a final value in some program component (the context isn't there yet), and then, if you wait to establish the CoReader until after the data set is realized, then you have all this checking code and establishment code, that can be rerun at any time (and, most likely, every time) you ask for that constant, which means that you don't have a constant at all, but a new value every time you ask over a data stream.
So, how does one get a realized constant from a data stream that takes time to establish and guarantee that, yes, that constant I asked for upstream or in another branch is the same constant that I'm getting now from my CoReader, because I'm not re-creating it each time I ask for a constant from the data stream I get after the program is started and initialized?
... e.g. (or, 'i.e.' in my particular case): a database connection takes time, and is usually not available with a system that needs a CoReader to be constant from the get-go.
My solution, after much head-banging with trying to make the CoReader, itself, be something that it isn't, is to have the CoReader not read the stream directly, because it may not be there or be ready, but to have the CoReader read a different 'stream' entirely: the State monad ...
Or actually, since I don't want to push all my computations thereafter up into the monadic domain, to use the CoState comonad, a.k.a. the Context comonad:
Context context value = Context (context -> value) context
with the very helpful putC function:
putC :: Context (context -> value) context -> newValue -> Context (context -> newValue) context
You're probably scratching your head, saying, "I don't see any putC in the literature..."
And, sure, you are correct, there's 'experiment' and 'modify' but then you see where I'm going ... a little this plus that gets you to putC and that's what we want from our CoState comonad: I'm in a context, gimme the thing I stowed away in there for later use without me having to thread all the baggage of a monad throughout my computation.
You wrap that in a CoReader and then you have the constifying functionality you need to say, hey, once the state is establish, then give me that constant value from then on.
So, given a data stream, context, that comes to us somewhere down the road, we have a CoState comonad, which I'll call box (for a mutable boxed type indexing into that stream, or 'context'), paired with the CoReader, reader, to give you a constant value in the pure-functional (not monadic) domain.
That's half of it.
The other half is this: now that you've got CoState paired with CoReader, you, functionally, know that this is the first read into the context, or if this the nth read where you're just returning the read/realized value.
So, what if you want to do something the first time, that you don't want to do anytime thereafter.
AND, what if you don't wish to encumber yourself with the old
if this-is-the-first-time-i'm-reading-and-initializing-this-stupid-constant
then do-something-special-here
else just-return-the-stupid-constant
logic that, well, encumbers too much programming logic everywhere?
The answer is surprisingly easy, once you have the CoState x CoReader pairing ...
With a little bit of monadic magic to provide the glue.
Because, the first time you read the constant, or, that is to say, just before the first time the constant value is ground to what (it is just about to) be(come), it's value is ... wait for it ...
As in Nothing :: Maybe.
That is, if you lift that (non)value into the monadic domain:
uninitializedValue = Nothing
value x = Just x
And, boom! You use mplus (or (+)) to do something magical the first time:
val (+) magical-initialization-code
equals your solution with dispensing with stupid boolean flags called 'inited' and stupid if-then-else tests everywhere that are now totally unnecessary, ... just redefine askC:
askC reader = realAskC reader (+) magical-initialization-code
and then you just ask for the constant, the reader gives it to you, in the pure-functional domain, and automagically does initialization code only on the first read of that constant.
Real-world example.
"Yeah, geophf," you're saying, "nice whitepaper, but what can I use it for?"
Um, impress hot babes at cocktail parties?
Get a free 'tall' latte at sbux, ... that is, after you pass over a fiver?
(Okay, seriously, 5 bucks for a small coffee? What has the world come to?)
So, let's say you're working on one of the world's largest databases (every company claims to have at least one of them ...), and you're getting 10,000 records per hour, and one section is generating up to 5 indices, but you don't know which indices you need, and which you don't, as it depends on data down-stream, and since these records are highly hierarchical XML files, with each of the layers of the hierarchy optional, we're talking WAY down stream.
So, one approach, you just getSequence from the database for all the sequences you may need, and then you're good, you insert rows with the prepopulated sequence.
Hm, 10000 records per hour, 24x7 data feed, and int is how big? 2 billion ... only?
(start-rant: Okay, does EACH AND EVERY TEAM have to relearn that you exhaust int much sooner than expected so that your 'vital system' crashes with dev and production teams working round the clock to change int into a much bigger number, when, after all, these are sequences, not (necessarily) numbers (GUID are hexa-strings-of-numerals, so why not make your precious sequence strings that you will NEVER do arithmetic on anyway, so you've set it as an int, why? :end-rant)
So, from a purely optional data input, you are probably generating all these sequences, and bringing your project to a screeching halt much sooner.
How about this.
Wrap your sequence generator in a CoReader comonad, and wrap each optional insert in the Maybe monad.
What does this give you?
In a hierarchy, it give you that you don't create a sequence you don't use, ever.
And, five levels down, when you actually do do an insert of a child record who's parent wasn't there in the data feed? It 'automagically' generates the parent record from the dataflow trace, inserts that parent first, and then inserts your child record without throwing an 'integrity violation, parent not found' error, and since it's done in the monadic domain, you wrote 0, zero, zip, nada conditional code at each later.
> return layer1 (+) deferInsert1 >>= \deferred1 -> insertm (reader1 askC) [] >>
> return layer2 (+) deferInsert2 >>= \deferred2 -> insertm (reader2 askC) [deferred1] >>
etc, etc, to your heart's content.
Which is a very different thing than:
let seq1 = getSequence
seq2 = getSequence
seq3 = getSequence
in do val1 <- return layer1
val2 <- return layer2
val3 <- return layer3
insertm seq1 val1
insertm seq2 val2
insertm seq3 val3
This example trivializes things a bit. Looking at it, it's obvious you want to defer the creation of the sequence until you know you have that row to insert into your database. Unfortunately, it is that obvious, and we intend to create thing only when needed, but then the 'real world' rears it's ugly head, and you're looking at a branching data flow where your sequence may be needed downstream if any of the branches result in an insert, and your tree is not binary, but nary, and several layers deep.
What do you do as a programmer?
Well, you just create the sequence, because you know you're going to use, because your test data says so, but the real stream is never that dogmatic and a whole lot sparser than your 'in-a-perfect-world' test cases anticipated.
And you have hundreds of tables, ... and just one of the tables has 100 million records added to it, each month.
Do you see where 'just create the sequence' can be a key factor in crippling your application soon after it goes live?
'Just create the sequence, because for each layer, a layer of complexity is added to this already complex system,' is one approach, and in industry, pretty much the standard approach.
I propose another way; in sum: the way proposed in this paper. Use the CoState x CoReader comonadic pairing to take all the complexity, put it into a paper bag, and then throw that bag into a black hole where you'll never see it again. If your data set is rife with optionality, that is: semideterminism, then wrap that semideterminism in a Maybe monad, and you have a powerful framework that is simple to understand and easy to use.
In a DBMS system I'm working on, the SLOC (lines of code) count decreased, AND the number of sequences generated decreased by a factor of 2-4. We were generating twice to four times as many sequences that we needed, ... per input record. With the CoState x CoReader x Maybe framework in place, this spurious sequence generation stopped, and the code became more declarative: I was saying what was to be done, much more so than how to go about doing it.
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Malham Cove
Renowned as being one of most spectacular pieces of limestone scenery in country, Malham Cove is also widely regarded as the crucible of British sports climbing. As the young sport developed through its initial phases in the 1980's, this 300m wide amphitheatre rapidly became the scene of some of the finest and most coveted bolt routes in the country.
The imposing limestone walls are literally draped in Britain's sport climbing history: five-star classics such as New Dawn and Zoolook stand testament to Ron Fawcett's strength and vision in the mid 80's, while local hardman John Dunne powered standards to a new limit at the turn of the decade with his icons such as Breach of the Peace, Predator and Magnetic Fields.
Some of Britain's best, including the likes of Mark Leach, Tony Ryan and Mick Lovatt all ensured that Malham continued to evolve in the years that followed, but it wasn't until Steve McClure picked up the pieces with his Rainshadow 9a and Overnite Sensation ext 9a+ that Malham returned to the forefront of British, and world, sport climbing extremes.
Although Malham boasts an incredible selection of bolt routes, those in search of trad adventures will not be disapponted by the climbs on its upper wings. Classics such as Junkyard Angel HVS 5b, Carnage E2 5b and Wombat E2 5c serve as reminders of what was already being climbed in the 60's and 70's, way before bolts made their appearance!
Malham Cove is located in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, circa 1 hour NW of Leeds. From Skipton drive north to gargrave, then follow signs to Kirby Malham. Continue past this and park at Malham. Continue on foot along Cove road and then turn off right through the gate along the obvious footpath to reach the crag.
The climbing at Malham is powerful, technical, fingery and sustained...
Campsites: Riverside Campsite and Town Head Farm. For these and all other accommodation check out www.malhamdale.com
Steve McClure climbing Rainshadow 9a at Malham Cove, taken from Psyche - 'Magic Numbers' by Posing Productions
The Yorkshire Dales National Park is famous for being one of the most beautiful areas in Britain. Make sure to check out the limestone paving above the Cove, and don't miss out on nearby Gordale Scar.
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Anomaly Vineyards is a small vineyard and winery estate located in St. Helena, the heart of the Napa Valley. We are nestled in a horseshoe shaped enclave on the valley floor sitting in the shadows of the Mayacamas range, defining the western border of the Napa Valley and home to some of the most highly esteemed vineyards in the county. From our 8 acres of vineyard we produce 1000 cases of just one wine, the Anomaly Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Results show that performance by university undergraduates on a microeconomics test was preserved after a 12-hour period that included sleep, especially for cognitively-taxing integration problems. In contrast, performance declined after 12 hours of wakefulness and after a longer delay of one week.
According to the authors, recent sleep research has demonstrated that learned information is often replayed during sleep. This reactivation of learned information may help to consolidate, or stabilize, memories. The present study uniquely extends this area of research to a realistic task that students would encounter in a university classroom.
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The study involved 102 university undergraduates who had never taken an economics course. In the morning or evening they completed an introductory, virtual lecture that trained them on concepts and problems related to supply and demand microeconomics. They were tested on the material either immediately, after a 12-hour period that included sleep, after 12 hours without sleep, or after one week. The test included basic problems that they had been trained to solve, as well as "transfer" problems that required them to integrate their knowledge of supply and demand to solve novel, but related, problems.
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Your Lucky number : 49


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Reed looks back on eventful callup day
CLEVELAND -- Evan Reed was getting a pot of coffee ready on Sunday morning in his apartment at Toledo when he noticed he had two voicemails and a text message. All were from Mud Hens manager Phil Nevin.
"He said, 'I hope you've got your truck ready, because you're driving to Cleveland,'" Reed recalled.
The Tigers had just put lefty reliever Darin Downs on the 15-day disabled list and recalled Reed. He noticed that message just before 11 a.m. ET. The game in Cleveland started at 1:05 p.m.
Reed didn't have to be there at first pitch to be eligible. Still, he had to haul it down the Ohio Turnpike. As quickly as he could, he readied a bag, threw his equipment in his truck and headed out.
"I went as fast as I legally could drive," he said diplomatically.
After driving around the stadium to try to find the players' parking lot, Reed finally arrived in the clubhouse by the end of the first inning. He usually tries to play catch before every game, but there was no chance of that.
If he was simply a depth reliever, it wouldn't matter anyway. But when manager Jim Leyland went to his bullpen for the seventh inning with a three-run deficit, he turned to Reed, whose scoreless inning set up Detroit's comeback in the eighth.
Had the Tigers scored one more run in the eighth, Reed would have been eligible for the win in a game for which he didn't see the first pitch. It would have been quite a cap to a crazy day.
"I wouldn't call it crazy," he said. "I would call it awesome."
And while the Tigers prepared to get out of town on Monday night, Reed was readying to drive back to Toledo to pick up his gear for the next series back in Detroit.


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3. The marvel of social networking which means we can keep up to date with friends both far and near.
06:23 Karen 5 Comments
Ahh, such a clearer shot of the sandals here ... like them even more now!
I might join the teal toes, too!
Hooray! Thanks so much, Karen. I love that you have joined in with teal toes, and I know my mom would be very pleased as well.
PS: I'm a big fan of those sandals too!
PSS: I added a comment to your Instagram to include the hashtag #tealtoesformarti but it's not showing up in the feed. Maybe because I'm not the owner of the photo? Could you please try to add the hashtag to your photo by way of an additional comment and see if that works? Thanks, Karen! xo
Isn't it lovely to know that we are part of a worldwide Teal Toes Club?! Absolutely adore your sandals!
Your sandals are pretty and your cause a fine one. Good post!


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Inspiration Monday: Make a Mosaic of Flickr Faves
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Yesterday I was totally inspired by sfgirlbybay and finally made my first flickr mosaic after reading this post. Coincidentally, I think Victoria was the first person who ever asked me to be flickr buddies years ago! She may have also been one of our very first "flickr faves" here at Hatch. Her photography and the photography of those in her group and blog continue to keep us all inspired week after week, and now year after year. Anyway, I think I gave every single one of these photos a "mark as fave" star when I saw them in the sfgirlbybay flickr group.
To practice being a mosaic master like Victoria, try using big huge labs. Even I figured it out easily, and I am absolutely terrible at this stuff.
flickr member links, from left to right:
1. Who knew she wore lace under her boring work clothes?, 2. Untitled, 3. Untitled, 4. Hello Weekend!, 5. Fermob chairs at Villa Augustus' terrace, 6. blue poppy pods , 7. Green Bench Monday, 8. a new start, 9. happy.


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On Thursday, Australia and Germany signed a new tax treaty, seen by many as the first step towards growing trade and investment between the two European nations. There is a need for greater closeness with regard to the tax systems of these nations in order to help prevent rampant multinational tax evasion.
Australian Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble formalized the deal in Berlin. The new deal replaces a previously existing double taxation agreement the two nations had observed since 1972. The deal came just before the arrival in Berlin of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday.
Prime Minister Turnbull and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are set to release a series of recommendations of the Australia-Germany Advisory Group in Berlin on Friday night. The Australia-Germany Advisory Group came into existence a year ago when Chancellor Merkel visited Australia for the G20 leaders' summit.
The group now includes not only Mathias Cormann, but also:
* National Australia Bank chairman Michael Chaney
* Siemens Australia CEO Jeff Connolly
* Peter Jennings of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
* Nicholas Milton, conductor of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra
* Australian National University professor Brian Schmidt
* Australia's ambassador to Germany David Richie
* Lucy Turnbull, president of the German-Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
The group's recommendations include suggestions regarding ways to improve economic and cultural ties between the two nations, who have the world's fourth and twelfth largest economies, respectively. The group also seeks greater collaborations on matters including investment, trade, the arts, security, people links, and science and innovation.
According to a report by Financial Review, the new double taxation agreement will facilitate greater collaboration on these issues by reducing the rates of withholding tax, helping to create a better climate for bilateral investment while also making it cheaper for Australian businesses to access foreign capital and technology. It will also contain new arbitration rules and other provisions designed to prevent double-taxation, a problem that can deter business investment.
The treaty also helps the two nations come closer into alignment with the BEPS recommendations issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The progress on implementing BEPS laws in various nations will be a topic of discussion at the G20 summit in Turkey.
The new tax treaty will take effect after the Parliaments of both countries have ratified the agreement and then passed the requisite legislation.


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Utterly Horrible, Vile Creature Piers Morgan Calls Kate Moss An 'Utterly Horrible, Vile Creature'
As current beef goes, this one is almost as lame as The Weeknd saying that The-Dream looks like the Hamburglar on Twitter, but public name-calling is public name-calling, and so we will share this particularly stupid incident with you: Piers Morgan, CNN's premier ruddy-faced gasbag, is still really pissed at Kate Moss.
Back in his Daily Mail days, Morgan detailed a tumultuous relationship with the model, which included her kicking him and then, somehow, getting him to apologize for it (that hints at a terrifying manipulative streak, huh?). For reasons unclear, Morgan chose this week to revive old feelings in the Mirror:
"Kate Moss is utterly horrific," he adds. "If people actually knew what she was like they would never, ever be interested in her again.
"She's just a real, spoilt little madam from Croydon. There's nothing wrong with Croydon – I was brought up near Croydon. But she's just a vile little creature."
Morgan also took the time to rag on Madonna, who he compared to Conan the Barbarian: "She's looking even more barbaric than ever at the moment, utterly grotesque."
"She's a complete con artist and those arms are just terrifying," he added.
Sure. But I bet she can punch.


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Generally I haven't had a positive attitude towards the NBN. It doesn't seem likely to fulfill the claims of commercial success and would be a really bad thing to privatise anyway. Also it hasn't seemed to offer any great benefits either. The claim that it will enable lots of new technical developments which we can't even imagine yet that aren't possible with 25Mb/s ADSL but which also don't require more than the 100Mb/s speed of the NBN never convinced me.
But one thing it could really do well is to give better Internet access in remote areas. Ideally with static or near-static IPv6 addresses (because we have already run out of IPv4 addresses). Currently 3G networks do all sorts of nasty NAT things to deal with the lack of IPv4 addresses which causes a lot of needless pain if you have a server connected via 3G. One of the NBN plans is for wireless net access to remote homes, with some sanity among the people designing the network such NBN connections would all have static IPv6 subnets as long as they don't move.
I'm currently working on a project that involves servers on 3G links. I don't have a lot of options on implementation due to hardware and software constraints. So if the ISPs using the NBN and the NBN itself (for the wireless part) could just give us all IPv6 static ranges then lots of problems would be solved.
Of course I don't have high hopes for this. One of the many ways that the NBN has been messed up is in allowing the provision of lower speed connections. As having an ADSL2+ speed NBN connection is the cheapest option a lot of people will choose it. Therefore the organisations providing services will have to do so with the expectation that most NBN customers have ADSL2+ speed and thus they won't provide services to take advantage of higher speeds.


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Doubters come laughing, but they leave scratching their heads. And Billy Williams is every bit as puzzled as the gawkers.
What's the fuss? He has tomatoes growing on potato plants.
Williams has a couple of rows of tomatoes growing in his back yard garden on Burley Street in Morenci and he also has a few rows of potato plants.
"I thought it was a little goofy," he said, when he saw both yellow and white flowers on a few of the potato plants, but he didn't think much about it until he saw tomatoes growing from those yellow blooms.
That's when he dug down into the dirt and also found a healthy crop of potatoes down below.
"I thought there had to be a tomato plant down there," Williams said, but there was nothing but potatoes.
He cut open a tomato and found an ordinary piece of fruit with seeds just like any tomato.
"Lots of people have looked and they can't believe it," he said. "I probably had 30 people over here and nobody's seen anything like this. Nature never fails to amaze us."
It's baffled a lot of experienced gardeners who laughed until they came to look for themselves. Williams watched his aunt dig down. She thought there must have been an explanation down below the surface.
Maybe he grew tomatoes in that area last season. No, that's not the case. And besides, these are cherry tomatoes and he grows a regular size crop.
Did he buy the potato seed somewhere? No, that's not it either. Had he bought the seed somewhere, he would have suspected some genetic modification, but he cut up the Yukon Gold potatoes himself.
"I planted them just like my grandpa and dad taught me," he said.
Among all of his potato plants, five are showing the—what do you call it, Williams wonders, a topato?
Williams did a little searching on the internet to see if could find other occurrences of the mystery, but he didn't come up with much more than dinner ideas.
A bulletin from Iowa State University mentions tomato-like fruit on potato plants. Normally, it says, potato flowers dry up and fall off plants, but occasionally they produce fruit—a fruit that's of no value to the gardener.
That seems to explain his strange produce, but what about the yellow flowers?
Williams isn't sure if he wants to eat any of his topatoes—a wise move since they're said to be high in solanine, a poisonous alkaloid found in potatoes, tomatoes and all members of the nightshade family—but there's one other thing weighing on his mind.
"If I dig down underneath my tomatoes and find potatoes growing, I'm moving out of here."


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Friday, September 6, 2019 - 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Flick's Family Film Festival is back this spring with FREE Movies for kids 12 and under – and tickets are only $5 for all other guests! Multiple matinee shows each day, seven days a week – showtimes vary per theatre location.
Here's the line up for their FREE Film Festival:
9/13 – 9/19: Shazam!
9/20 – 9/26: Missing Link
9/27 – 10/3: UglyDolls
10/4 – 10/10: Detective Pikachu
10/11 – 10/17: A Dog's Journey
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Portage, MI
Contact:Cost: FREE for kids 12 and under $5.00 for everyone else
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Fit-again Rodwell out to impress
Jack Rodwell hopes he has put his injury-plagued start to life at Manchester City behind him and is ready to play a more major role for Roberto Mancini's side. Press Association The England midfielder cost City £12million when he signed from Everton last summer but he has made only nine appearances, two of them starts. Hamstring problems have been the main source of Rodwell's frustration and he was out for more than three months between October and January. Since returning to fitness he has made three substitute appearances, including playing the final half-hour of the FA Cup fifth-round victory over Leeds on Sunday. The 21-year-old said: "I have been working really hard, keeping up my work and feeling as fit as ever." He added: "There is great competition, and I knew that when I joined, so I have to be patient, keep working, and see what happens. The manager knows how versatile I can be – I can play along the back as well, so I hope that is to my benefit in getting a few more games. "My main aim now is to stay fit. That has been my main problem for the last year or so, an inability to stay fit and shrug off little injuries. That has held me back and I think, if I can stay fit, the games will come." Rodwell has left no stone unturned in attempting to solve his hamstring issues, including changing his car, and he is putting in an extra hour and a half's work every day to try to ensure they are a thing of the past. He said: "You have to rule out everything and then nothing can be a problem. I think it has worked, but it is more to do with the gym work I have been doing with City. The physios have highlighted that and done a really good job. I have stuck to a six or seven-week programme where I have not had a day off. "I have hammered the work, done a lot of hamstring work and luckily, touch wood, it has worked. I intend to keep that up for the rest of my career. Hopefully I will stay fit and strong." Rodwell, twice capped by England, has played most of his football in midfield but believes his future could lie in central defence and has his eye on a similar career progression to City captain Vincent Kompany. "Any player at City is prepared to play anywhere, and I'm no different," said Rodwell. "Midfield, defence, I have even played out wide for Everton, so I will do a job anywhere and give 100 percent. Vinny is a good player, and I look up to him, watch his game and would definitely take the same path as him. He started out in midfield and is now one of the best centre-halves in the world."


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INNISFIL, Ont. — Police say a mother who came to pick up her son after he was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving found herself charged with the same offence.
Police say it started when an officer pulled over a speeding vehicle in Innisfil, Ont., just before 1 a.m. Sunday.
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Investigators say the driver, a 27-year-old Newmarket, Ont., man, failed a roadside screening test and was taken to a police station north of Toronto, where he was charged with impaired driving.
Police say when his 53-year-old mother came to retrieve him a few hours later, the same officer smelled alcohol and made her take a breathalyzer test.
They say she failed the test and has been charged with impaired driving.
Both have had their vehicles impounded and licences suspended for 90 days. They are due in court next month.


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Entrepreneurs Who Started (Really) Late
by JS
Most people reach a certain age and think that they simply can't do it (whatever it may be) anymore. I'm here to tell you that this is simply not the case. Yes, when you're young and fresh, starting a new business or running a marathon can be a lot easier, but that doesn't mean that you can't start a business and be successful when you're over 60!
Are you sitting there today thinking "man, I'd really like to write a book" or "It would be awesome if I could just open my going green store"? You're right it would be awesome. So why not go for it?
Did you know that some of the most successful entrepreneurs didn't get started until they were past retirement age? Colonel Harland Sanders (Yes, KFC Colonel Sanders) didn't venture out into the world of entrepreneurship until he was 65 years old. In fact, he used his first social security check to open his business! His business is still thriving today. If your dream is to write a book, here's another "older" entrepreneur. Sylvia Lieberman creator of Archibald Mouse Books and author of "Archibald's Swiss Cheese Mountain" didn't write her first children's book until the age of 90!
When I saw this, I thought "Why start businesses you can't finish?" But really, who starts a business that they ever "finish"? Businesses are always passed down to family members or close friends, even other owners in a business if anything ever happens to the owner. The business usually lives on for a quite a while, even after the owner is long gone. So, why not start a business that you can't finish? Everyone else does it!
My point is, you're never too old (or young) to start accomplishing your dreams. Don't let negative thinking be the barrier that keeps you from going after your goals. If you think you're too old, then you probably are. I don't mean this in a literal sense of course; I just mean that as long as you think a negative thought, that negative thought will run your life. If you think you'll never do it, you never will. The only way to succeed in life is to know that you can. Never doubt yourself, no matter what the doubt may be. Positive thinking will be the flame that sees you through a tough night. I can guarantee that!
If you have a dream in life, go for it. You only get one life to try to make that dream come true and getting to the top if half the fun! After all, Life is a Journey, NOT a destination!


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World Wide Panorama
The World Wide Panorama (often abbreviated as wwp) was started in March 2004 by G. Donald Bain, the then Director of the Geography Computing Facility, University of California at Berkeley. It has since become an ongoing series of events and attracts artists from a large number of countries.
Visitors can reach the project website via worldwidepanorama.com which originally was hosted on a server of the Geo-Images Project at geoimages.berkeley.edu. The WWP is now run by the World Wide Panorama Foundation, a California Public Benefit Corporation (a non-commercial project).
Participation is open to everyone, interpretations of the theme have to be uploaded as cylindrical or spherical panoramas as well as object vr. The required file format is QTVR.
Photography takes place during a time frame of several days before and after the solstices (longest and shortest days of the year) and equinoxes (days and nights of equal length). An iCal / Outlook compatible calendar maintained by Landis Bennett is available at icalx.com/public/landis/WWP.ics. If you need to plan your shooting schedule in advance use e.g. Wikipedia to look up the actual UTC date/time table of the coming solstice or equinox and convert that to your local time with timeanddate.com.
Event themes are chosen by the organisators, which are open for suggestions about new themes. The WWP Yahoo group is the preferred mailing list / web forum for the communication between interested artists and notices from the organisators. This list is also helpful if you run into technical problems during the preparation period.
Prep server
As soon as photography period for each event starts the prep(aration) server is opened for submissions and ready to accept new accounts. That server is located at contribute.worldwidepanorama.org/gen/ and is used to upload panorama (and sound) files as well as to edit panorama captions, further information plus a personal page for each member. New accounts that are not used to upload a panorama in time for the coming event will be deleted, i.e. such an (empty) account would need to be newly set up during the following photography/editing period.
File sizes
Beginning with the Elevation event (19-22 June 2008) the limits for maximum file sizes have been raised to
- Standard size: max. 1 MB (700 kB recommended)
- Fullscreen size: max. 5 MB (3 MB recommended)
Smaller sizes are preferred for faster download times so visitors with slow connections don't get annoyed. Sometimes there is a need to upload bigger file sizes to achieve a better quality, though. More information is available here.
An optional soundtrack should be uploaded separately as a MP3 file and can be set to loop in the editing window.
WWP contributor Tim Hatch set up a script to collect stats about the equipment used for every event. They are available at timhatch.com/projects/wwp-equipment/ both as HTML (linked to the entries, so comparing camera/lens combinations is quite easy) and as CSV (for those who want to do their own analysis).


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Major brands we stock include Santa Cruz, Genesis, Evil, Ridley, Saracen, Banshee and Ibis. Custom builds are a speciality and we offer 0% finance on all bikes.


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HowTo Install Redmine in a home directory on Debian¶
It seems that the version of Rails in Debian does not play well with Redmine. We will therefore use Debian packages for the basic Ruby and rubygems infrastructure, but install the remaining parts in a local home directory.
First, as root, run:
apt-get install ruby rake rubygems
Configure your user environment¶
As an individual user, edit your ~/.bashrc file and add a line such as this:
export GEM_PATH=$HOME/gems
Log out and back on. Make sure your GEM_PATH is set:
echo $GEM_PATH
And make the directory for the gems:
mkdir ~/gems
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gem install -i $GEM_PATH rails -y
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Afghanistan vote audit to restart at weekend
KABUL: Despite lingering disputes, Afghan electoral officials said Thursday that they will resume an audit of the presidential election this weekend after the presidential candidates sparred over how to disqualify ballots amid allegations of massive fraud.
The recount of more than 8 million votes is likely to take weeks, stalling an already much-delayed announcement of a new president to replace Hamid Karzai, the only leader the country has known since the 2001 US-led invasion that ousted the Taliban.
Preliminary results from the June 14 runoff vote showed former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai well ahead of his rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, but both sides alleged fraud.
In a high-profile bid to pull the country back from the brink of crisis, US Secretary of State John Kerry negotiated a deal that included an audit of all votes under national and international supervision and ultimately a national unity government.
But that process soon fell victim to procedural arguments between the two candidates' teams. Electoral officials stopped the audit last weekend because of the differences as well as a major Muslim holiday.
The head of the Afghan Independent Election Commission and the chief UN envoy to Afghanistan said the sides have agreed on new criteria, allowing the audit to go forward.
"On Saturday, we will restart the auditing and we kindly request the candidates, their team representatives and all other stakeholders involved in the auditing to fully cooperate with the Independent Election Commission in implementing this framework and finishing the process," Commission chairman Ahmad Yousuf Nouristani said at a joint news conference with UN envoy Jan Kubis.
Kubis signaled that patience was growing thin.
"Any delays, any uncertainties, have a major, negative impact on both the political and economic situation in Afghanistan," he said. "It's high time to complete the process of the elections."
A member of Ahmadzai's campaign, Kabir Ranjbar, welcomed the announcement. "I hope it won't be delayed because the Afghan people are waiting for the result," he said.
"And it's very important for the legitimacy of the next president to separate the clean votes and the fraudulent ones."
In a sign of more hurdles ahead, however, Abdullah's spokesman Fazel Sangcharaki said the campaign still had concerns about the auditing process.
"Our big concern is that the leadership of the auditing process is being done by the IEC while we want it to be under the observation of the international and UN observers," he said. "We cannot confidently attend the process on Saturday."
The prolonged uncertainty about the outcome of the election, which began with a first round on April 5, has threatened to derail with the US and its allies had hoped would be the country's first democratic transfer of authority and a sign of progress as the international community winds down its combat mission by the end of this year.
Both Ahmadzai and Abdullah also have vowed to seal a bilateral security pact with the US that Karzai has refused to sign. The United States says it needs the legal guarantees in order to leave behind some 10,000 troops in Afghanistan next year. If the pact isn't finalized, US officials say they may have to pull out all American forces, an undesired scenario that played out three years ago in Iraq.
Abdullah, who won the first round with a significant lead was most vociferous in alleging massive fraud after the results from the runoff vote showed Ahmadzai had moved ahead. Abdullah, a top leader of the Northern Alliance that battled the Taliban before the US-led invasion in 2001, claimed massive ballot-stuffing.
He was runner-up to Karzai in a fraud-riddled 2009 presidential vote before he pulled out of that runoff, and many of his supporters fear he could be cheated for a second time.
The UN envoy praised the commission for hammering out agreement on the criteria for the invalidation of fraudulent ballots "that complete the regulatory framework needed, not only for the audit, but for the adjudication of the results, and the recommendations of this audit."
"This opens the door to the next stage, and in a way almost the final stage, of the audit - it means the adjudication of the findings of the audit," he said.
Karzai, who was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term, has agreed to stay on until a decision has been made. The inauguration of a new leader had initially been set for Aug 2.
The president called for the audit to be completed soon.
"The people want to get the results sooner so the country can have a new president and a new government to allow Afghanistan to move forward," he said in a statement issued by his office.


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Exchange students from Europe generally come from centuries-old cities with historical pasts. That's not the case for Maëlle Delhaise of Belgium. Her home town of Louvain-la-Neuve was built in the late 1960s as a planned city to house a university.
Louvain-la-Neuve, a city of about 30,000 people, is located in the central, French-speaking region of Belgium south of Brussels. It's a city for pedestrians, with transportation located below ground and the street level designed for walkers and bicyclists.
Maëlle says she isn't accustomed to needing a car to get around, but that's certainly the case for her host family, Bill and Sarah Stiver, who live in rural Waldron.
Back in Belgium, Maëlle's mother works as a physical education teacher and her father is an engineer. She has one older sister and one younger sister, and she now has a temporary sister, Tess Stiver, who is in seventh grade in Morenci.
Maëlle's graduating class at home numbered 200 students and now she's in a school where most everyone knows everyone else.
"It's different here," she said, "but I like both."
She's enjoying the more in-depth look at America in her history class here and she also likes reading American novels in English class. Like most exchange students, she finds classes easier in America than at home, other than adjusting to the language difference.
She's a member of Morenci's cross country team and generally finishes as the number four runner. She did some running at home, but never in a competitive format. It's her first team experience and she might extend that by joining the basketball squad.
That experience would be cut short because Maëlle is in Morenci for only half of a school year. Before she returns home, she's going to a L'Arche community in Nova Scotia to volunteer. The organization was founded in Canada to create "communities" for developmentally disabled people. L'Arche now has locations in several countries around the world.
After that, it's back to Belgium for college, perhaps to study law.


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May 8, 2013 -- Now that the federal government is building health insurance Marketplaces (also called Exchanges) in 34 states, the question is: Will customers come?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the government division overseeing the roll out of the new Marketplaces, is getting ready. It recently announced that thousands of people will be hired to staff call centers tied to the Marketplaces.
Beginning in June, 7,000 to 9,000 additional people will answer phones through CMS's "1-800-Medicare" help line, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The staff will answer questions about how to apply and enroll in the new insurance plans that will be offered in the states where the federal government is partially or wholly running the Exchange.
Under the Affordable Care Act, on Oct. 1, 2013, people and small businesses will be able to purchase insurance through a Marketplace. Officials hope it will be as easy to operate as web-based travel shopping sites like Travelocity. In the Exchange, people can look for different insurance options and decide the type of plan they would like to buy. They will also learn if they qualify for tax credits to help pay for insurance or for Medicaid, the health insurance program for people with low incomes. Insurance coverage is set to begin in 2014.
Educating people and small businesses on what insurance to buy may be a big challenge, given that many people still don't know there is an option to buy health insurance. An April Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 42% of the public didn't know the Affordable Care Act had become law. Among that group, 19% thought it had been struck down by the Supreme Court or repealed by Congress.
Of those people with incomes of $40,000 or less -- those most likely to benefit from the law -- about 56% said they didn't have enough information to know how the law would impact their families.
CMS has been spending money to make the public more aware, including $28.2 million on the call centers. The funding was awarded to Alexandria, Va.-based Vangent (a unit of defense contracting firm General Dynamics), which has been operating the "1-800-Medicare" call centers for about a decade.
Those centers help people with Medicare with questions about billing, claims, medical records, and expenses. They also help them get Medicare Advantage, the program that provides Medicare coverage through private insurers. This contract builds on the work that Vangent has already been doing for CMS.
"The people who will be answering the phones will be thoroughly educated and well-trained," says Mark Meudt, vice president of marketing and communications at General Dynamics' Information Technology division.
He says because Vangent has been working with CMS for so long, "we are efficient in staffing up" and expect to have employees in place by June.
Staff will provide services for people with hearing impairments as well as services in Spanish and English. There will also be a separate line to support 150 different languages.
Information will be available by telephone, email, or fax, and there will be a web site where people can find their state information.
In addition to the call centers, the Obama administration will spend another $54 million to help states hire and train "navigators" that will also help people determine the right insurance to buy.
Sixteen other states are running their own health Exchanges, and some will have their own call centers to help people make decisions.


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Electronics makers lead the way in killing off lifetime employment system
The big domestic economic news this week is the steep slide in stock prices for Sharp Corporation. Japan's leading liquid crystal display manufacturer has seen its shares fall 73 percent since the beginning of the year due to an oversupply of television sets in a world that no longer thinks Japanese home electronics are the best that money can buy.
The only thing keeping Sharp going at this point is its parts supply business, especially the deal it has with Taiwan-based company Foxconn, which assembles iPhones and iPads for Apple and uses Sharp-manufactured liquid crystal displays. Last week, Sharp announced it was eliminating 5,000 jobs from its worldwide 56,000-person workforce, the biggest employment cut in the company's history. It is also going to slash management salaries, including the president's, by 50 percent. Originally, it was only going to be 20 percent.
In terms of pure numbers, Sharp's cuts are actually modest compared to other electronics makers. Last January, NEC announced it was eliminating 10,000 jobs. Sony also said it would cut 10,000 employees in April. Panasonic, which employs more than 360,000 worldwide, has said it has "targeted" 7,000 positions in its headquarters alone working in office services, R&D and production technology. They will either be transferred to other divisions or subsidiaries, or pressured to take early retirement. And as these companies scale back, affiliated businesses will have to do the same. Renesas, one of Japan's leading semiconductor makers, which mainly supplied NEC, will have to cut 30 percent of its workforce, the equivalent of 12,000 jobs.
Even the electronics companies that are stable right now, like Toshiba and Hitachi, haven't escaped the downsizing trend; they just carried out their massive job cutting a few years ago, which is one of the reasons they're doing relatively well right now and aren't in the news as much. Another reason is that they've moved away from consumer electronics, where the competition is just too fierce.
Not surprisingly, home electronics is no longer a field that young university graduates are interested in. Ten years ago, Sony, Panasonic and others of their size were at the top of the wish lists of college seniors, but according to the online version of the business magazine Diamond, all new graduates care about now is getting a position in the public sector. Though the official unemployment rate in Japan is only 4.5 percent, young people know that securing work does not mean security, at least not in the classic sense, so even getting a job with an "excellent company" doesn't guarantee a job for life. Only the civil service does. The government never restructures.
A survey was carried out by the employment consulting firm, Leggenda Corp., of students who will enter the workforce in 2013. More than 50 percent say their first choice is to work for the government. The Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training gets more specific. In a survey of 4,000 20-year-old men and women, they found that 87.5 percent will prioritize lifetime employment (shushin koyo) when they look for their first job. These respondents also look forward to "age-based promotions and raises," another attribute of the old Japanese employment system that has gone the way of the dodo, at least in the private sector. This is the highest percentage on record, which just goes to prove that people really don't miss their water until the well goes dry.
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LANSING – The number of Michigan's bicyclist deaths dropped 17 percent between 2011 and last year.
Meanwhile, cycling groups continue to advocate more safety measures.
Fatalities are down from 24 in 2011 to 20 in 2012, according to the Office of Highway Safety Planning.
One fatal bicycling crash occurred in Holland and four in Grand Rapids between 2004 and 2011, Department of Transportation's (MDOT) bicycle and pedestrian coordinator, Josh DeBruyn said.
Overall, 788 crashes involving bicyclists were reported between 2004 and 2011 in Ottawa and Allegan counties, and 1,487 crashes in Kent County.
DeBruyn said there were no fatal crashes in Mecosta County, although 38 crashes involving bicyclists were reported.
Earlier this year, bicyclist Carl Morgan was fatally injured when he was struck by a vehicle in Flint Township.
And in 2011, Donna DeBoe of Zeeland was cycling southbound on State Street when she entered the intersection of the Interstate Highway 196 business loop and was hit by a vehicle traveling east. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
League of Michigan Bicyclists Associate Director Jenny Jensen said, "We certainly hope fatalities will continue to decrease, but we can't just sit here and hope. We need to be out advocating bicycle safety."
Jensen said the league promotes safety by training law enforcement officers on bicycling laws, attending public hearings and committee meetings of state and local governments and distributing safety booklets to clubs, shops, police departments, libraries and organizations.
The league also sponsors an annual Bicycle Advocacy Day at the Capitol to communicate the importance of bicycling safety to the Legislature, Jensen said.
Nationally, states spend less than 0.5 percent of their highway safety funds on bicyclists and pedestrians although they account for 16 percent of all traffic fatality victims in the U.S. each year, according to the league.
MDOT press representative Janet Foran said, "Even one fatality involving a bicyclist is too many. We need to remind drivers to be focused at all times while behind the wheel. These crashes are avoidable."
Foran said center-line rumble strips cause unsafe conditions for bicyclists because some drivers feel uncomfortable passing bikers while crossing rumble strips.
Last year, MDOT conducted research that evaluated the benefits of centerline rumble strips on rural highways.
Project manager Jill Morena said although motorists tended to drive across the centerline when passing bicyclists, they do so less frequently when centerline rumble strips were present.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is required to establish national safety goals and performance measures, but isn't proposing separate goals or performance measures to improve the safety of bicyclists.
But Jensen said, "How do we know if safety is getting better if we're not counting it?"
A bill by Rep. Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, would let bicyclists go through a stop signal at an automated stoplight if it fails to detect a bicycle and change the signal to green.
Motorists proceeding through stoplights would be required to yield the right-of-way of bicyclists.
The bill is in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.


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Triple Bunk Bed Plans showing how to build a triple bunk that holds three twin size mattresses. The woodworking plan explains everything from how to pick out the lumber you need, cut it, sand it, drill it, apply finish to it and put together a beautiful wooden bunk bed that is extremely solid and sturdy. We have built MANY of these beds ourselves and offer free support when you need it. The woodworking plan comes with a hardware store-ready quick, shopping list so that you can head right out and purchase the materials you need to get started. This triple bunk bed plan makes use of widely available easy to obtain off-the-shelf lumber and materials. You can build a triple bunk bed with little or no experience in woodworking. All that you need are a circular saw, an electric drill, a sander (preferably a power one) and a few bits. This plan tells you how to build a triple bunk bed that is amazingly strong and looks great. Kids will love the ladder ends. It is easy to get in and out of and despite its height it is VERY SAFE, meeting all of the CPSC safety standards. Besides that, it is a great family project or a first woodworking project. This triple bunk plan is a favorite in camps and institutions.
This particular bunk bed plan covers construction of the triple bunk bed with variations in the ladder end to meet any need depending on whether it is being used for kids or grownups or both. The finished triple bunk bed measures 75 inches tall, by 42" wide, by 81" long and has sleeping space for three in a room with 8 foot ceilings. The greatest asset it has is that three people sleep using the floor space of only one. The headroom space in each bunk is approximately as follows: upper bunk mattress to ceiling 28 - 29", middle bunk mattress to bunkie board on top bunk 20 - 21", lower bunk 18 - 19" (*please note that we do not recommend the use of very thick mattresses with any bunk bed). We have many-many satisfied customers who have built these triple bunks and have been using them for years. Many of the beds we have manufactured have been in daily use in hotels, camps, shelters and other institutions for 17 years or more, supporting adult weight and still look great.
We have a hardware kit available that contains all of the metal hardware needed to complete the triple bunk bed. It has special black plated lag screws and furniture-grade wood screws. These are all priced at about the same price that you can get the alternate hardware locally and we include free shipping. (*Please note that no lumber is included in the hardware kit.*) Free shipping on hardware kits pertains to all 50 United States (others write for details). Great value!
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Posted by Marcia on 11th Feb 2015
Love the bunkbeds!!! The plan were simple to follow and took no time at all to build. The extra tips on having some of the lumber pre-cut were great. We stains them and used tongue oil on them to bring out the color of the stain and wood. We also brought the hardware kit which made things easier and loved the style of the bolts that show. Extremely happy with the outcome!
Posted by Chelsea on 26th Oct 2013
These bunkbeds are great. I am a 29-year-old female and although my husband brought the lumber home for me, not having any patients I cut it all by myself and put the whole thing together. It is a very sturdy set of bunkbeds and my kids are in love! I'm sure we'll use this set for years to come. The plans are very detailed and very easy to understand thanks again!
Posted by Christina on 17th Jun 2013
We LOVE this. we have 6 kids in 900sf ft. and all the kids are in one room this made it possible. could not done it other wise. great investment!
Posted by Frye Family on 28th Nov 2011
thank you - this is our 2nd set of triples we have made using your plans. The first set built 8 years ago is still holding strong!!
Posted by Judy on 24th Nov 2011
After many years of our boys' wear and tear, we donated the beds to a children's home -- for more rough and tumble play and use.
Posted by David on 23rd Nov 2011
When I was a kid, I used this bunk bed. It is sturdy.
Posted by Cathy on 23rd Nov 2011
my grandson is now using them and has had them a couple years great bunkbeds.
Posted by Steve on 22nd Nov 2011
Great Bunk beds. My kids used ours for years, we then gave them to anther family!
Posted by Ken on 22nd Nov 2011
I ordered hardware and plans for a Tripple Bunk Bed. The hardware came promptly - thank you.
Posted by Terri on 22nd Nov 2011
We purchased your triple bunk bed plans and hardware---it was probably 2 yrs ago now. We love the bed. Thank you. 3 of our kids sleep on it. We absolutely LOVE that bed. It's a great space-saver in our small bedrooms. We have so many friends that have commented on it.
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