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Hillary's Winning, Losing Weekend
By Andrew Belonsky June 2, 2008 at 8:06am · 34 comments
It was a tumultuous weekend for the Democratic party – especially Hillary Clinton.
The rollercoaster started on Saturday, when DNC leaders and lawyers converged in Florida, where they hashed out a deal on whether to seat that state and Michigan's delegates. Both states held their primaries early, thus breaking Democratic party rules. The Democratic National Committee, of course, was not pleased and threatened not to seat any delegates from those states. But, as could be predicted, they didn't want two irate states on the loose and agreed to seat delegates, but with some penalties:
A party committee voted to seat delegations from the two states at the August nominating convention, though with only a half-vote for each delegate. The deal, reached after a sometimes raucous daylong meeting, gives Hillary Clinton a net gain of 24 delegates, a margin that's unlikely to stall Barack Obama's momentum toward getting the nomination.
Despite the compromise and satisfaction on Florida, Clinton's campaign remains defiant on Michigan.
The former First Lady's adviser Harold Ickes, who is also a member of the Rules and Bylaws Committee, warned, "Mrs. Clinton has told me to reserve her right to take this to the Credentials Committee." Ickes wasn't the only one fuming. A Clinton and Obama supporter got into a bit of a spar, but all ended well. Some are wondering if the same can be said for the Clinton campaign. There are murmurs that Mrs. Clinton's preparing to bow out this week.
If that's true, she certainly didn't give any indication on Sunday, when she won the Puerto Rican primary. The Senator vowed in her victory speech that the race will not end on Tuesday, when the final primaries are held. And, in a final plea, Mrs. Clinton turned her words directly toward superdelegates, whose endorsements will decide the nominee:
So, when the voting concludes on Tuesday, neither Sen. Obama nor I will have the number of delegates to be the nominee. I will lead the popular vote, he will maintain a slight lead in the delegate count. The decision will fall on the shoulders of those leaders in our party, empowered by the rules, to vote at the Democratic convention.
I do not envy the decision you must make. But the decision has to be made. And in the final assessment, I ask you to consider these questions. Which candidate best represents the will of the people who voted?
The superdelegates better make their decision soon. Party patience is running out, and nothing loses an election like irritated, worn out voters.
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Bitch Republic
Obama shouldn't have gotten any delegates from Michigan. It's his own damn fault his name wasn't on the ballot there.
June 2, 2008 at 9:06am
Justin Bright
Agreed Bitch Republic. I hope she takes this to the convention, Obama is so incredibly flawed. Democrats have been pushing Hillary out of the race unfairly for the last two months. She has won the popular vote by more 250,000. She leads McCain by bigger margins than Obama in key states and also is winning Florida (Obama isn't).
Say hello to President McCain cuz the Democrats are NOT winning with Obama. The only experience he has is experience dealing with crazy pastors.
CHURCHILL-Y
Yep, most def this is going to the convention.
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Bitch Republic , Justin Bright of course he had to take some delegates from Michigan that's his modus operandi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Ned5TQoW4
NObama!!!
The ignorance displayed by Bitch Republic and Justin Bright is appalling. Michigan has a history of moving its primary up and in every instance before this year, the party had the same response and each candidate removed their names from the ballot. This year, Hillary didn't follow that precedent in an incredibly cynical move. To say she has won the popular vote requires incredibly tortured math and absurd assumptions. Obama has won the nomination by following the rules. Clinton is constantly moving the goal posts to try and find some metric by which she can claim victory. She didn't lose because of sexism or anything like that – he simply ran a more effective campaign. Isn't our party about fairness and playing by the rules?
It is over. She needs to accept it, as do her supporters, and come together for the good of the party. To do so otherwise is absolute insanity – a McCain presidency means a very likely anti-GLBT Supreme Court and no progress on our issues. While loyalty to Hillary is fine, I'd hope folks are loyal to the Democratic Party and what it stands for above all else.
June 2, 2008 at 10:06am
"The ignorance displayed by Bitch Republic and Justin Bright is appalling." – John
You don't understand the definition of "ignorance." Because I don't agree with you, doesn't make me ignorant.
"It is over. She needs to accept it" – John
No it isn't. She has a right to take this to the convention and she should. Obama does not have a majority of delegates. Supers are not bound and could change their minds at anytime – those are the rules. What happened this weekend at the RCB was a travesty for Democracy. Voters voices have muted by the Democratic Party. How is it that the Democratic Party should expect loyalty when they disenfranchise the voters of two key states that the Democrats need to win in order to regain the White House.
If Obama is the nominee John McCain will be President. If Hillary is the nominee there will be a Democrat in the White House in January of 2009.
M Shane
Clinton has demonstrated the same kind of strategizing that has allowed Bush to countermand the Constitution and to lie to a whole country. The reason for rules is not to change them, as in Fl and Mich.
BTW, Clintons hoopdela about winning the hispanic vote in Puerto Rico is a deranged lie soince only %20 of the voters turned out in an area which pulls around %90. h.
er "win" indicates nothing.
The deceipt behind her claiming a win in a "race ' in which she didn't have a compertitor is further bullshit.
Onre thing is thatr she has proved herself a worthy commandant of the Bush legacy of lies and derangement of rules. If you think Bush did some incredible things with the Conmstitution& the structure of American government & International law, give that thing a chance.
Well if this rings true according to Justin Bright:
Well then I guess GAYS get ready to be Obliterated. It will be a HOOT for some of you kids who can't fight.
NO PROTECTION
NO GAY MARRIAGE
NO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT!
Under McCain
because without Obama on that ticket as well. You motherfuckers don't stand a chance winning without his people supporting Hillary.
And to think that some of you feel the way you do because your girl is not at the top.
Then serves you right if you vote for McCain!
Thomas Delayed
The gay Obama kool aid drinkers are in for a big ass shock and not in that good way.
Once Obamaniacs and the emty suit loving media ensure him the nomination. Then there will be NO HILLARY to bash.
At that time, this race will become about race and not due to the KKK or any white supremiscist group but by the likes of Wright, Father Sissypants, and the rest of the black homophobic movement that are so full of hate and love to spew it in church.
Sorry, Justin, but ignorance is totally appropriate. The Michigan history – your lack of understanding of why everyone else took their names off the ballot – that's ignorance.
Also, to claim Hillary is ahead in the popular vote displays ignorance – to believe that, you have to say that every person in a caucus state doesn't count and that Michigan's votes should all be for Hillary and nobody who voted was for Obama.
Oh, and I'm one of those "disenfranchised" Florida voters – except we got exactly what the rules said we'd get if we violated the primary schedule. Disenfranchisement implies unfairly taking away someone's vote – something that did not happen.
I will concede that Hillary has "the right" to go all the way to the convention – but to do so would show an utter disregard for the party and it's chances of winning. I think more of her than to believe she'd do that. I hope that is the case – she can have a great career in the Senate (see Ted Kennedy's career after he lost to Jimmy Carter) or maybe in the Obama cabinet. Hard as it seems for her supporters to face the facts – she's lost the Democratic nomination. It's now time to look at the big picture, unite, and make sure we have a Democrat in the White House come 2009.
Bob R
Ah, there is so much hate and vitriol being spewed here it's unreal. If McCain wins in November, we won't suffer his gross incompetence for more than 4, maybe 8 years. But we will feel his intemperate Justice appointments for decades to come. So, be proud to cut off your nose to spite your face. So if/when McCain wins, you can STFU about gay rights, marriage and personal liberties UNLESS you can honestly preface your complaint with the caveat, "I voted for the Democrat…"
I don't like Hillary. I also don't like Obama. But I'll vote for either one who carries the Democratic mantle because I know what's at stake. So my petulant little sissies, if your candidate loses the nomination, stay home. Vote for McCain in a fit of spite or Nader to cop out. But you will pay the consequences. In either case should Hillary or Obama lose in '08, history shows they'll never get another chance as a Democrat to run for President.
Madonna's Boy
Gay Hillary supporters need to WAKE UP and accept the fact that she lost the Democratic nomination because of her pro–Iraqi occupation vote, pro-Bankruptcy law vote and her campaign's Rovian tactics that turned off a lot of Dem's who were TIRED of Bushco and wanted someone new, positive and progressive. These are the main reasons Hillary lost. Obama is a great nominee who is ahead of McSlain in most current polls. And I am compeletey confident that he WILL win the White House in November and out an end to the destructive direction of this country, thanks to BushCo. The real enemy is McSlain. He is truly flawed and definitely anti-gay, just ask Ellen. A McSlain presidency will mean MORE ANTI-GAY judges and more anti-choice judges on the Supreme Court, more war in Iraq, more tax cuts for the wealthy and screw the little guy. All you Hillary supporter need to wake-up and focus your energies on defeating McSlain. Hillary will back him once she concedes…she is not voting nor supporting McSlain. And neither should any LGBT American!
June 2, 2008 at 12:06pm
John, the word "ignorant" is way overused and you continue to provide a classic example of overuse and mis-use of the word in public policy discussions.
Frankly, if you need to use it to win an argument…you reveal that your intellectual argument is weak and not strong enough to stand up to rationale discussion.
I like many Hillary supporters are not ignorant. We are passionate about our candidate and believe that she is the better candidate for President in the Democratic Party. State by state polls and head to head matchups with John McCain prove our point time and time again.
Proof also exists that Obama will be a disaster for Democrats in states that favor Democrats. Take a look at the most recent Rasmussen Report polls for reliable Democratic states Massachusetts and Connecticut. Obama is in danger of losing both to McCain. Unbelievable but very true.
Obama supporters try to use the "party unity" argument to end the debate which is going on and needs to go on – who is the best Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party has an obligation to nominate the candidate with the best chance of winning in November. Super delegates are given the right to vote at the convention precisely for that reason. Obama's character problems and his disasterous handling of his church/pastor prove that he can not stand the test of a general election. All the delegates should have an opportunity to render judgment on Obama's worthiness and Clinton's worthiness at the convention. Both should be able to make their case to the Democratic Party.
When you look at the critical data, the choice is clear. Hillary Clinton is the strongest candidate and the choice of more Democratic voters through out this entire campaign.
Frankly, Michigan and Florida were poorly handled by the Democratic Party from the beginning. The voters of each state should not have to suffer for the mismanagement of Howard Dean – who I might add has clearly favored Obama over Hillary.
Democrats can count on my vote regardless of the nominee in November but it does not change the fact that Obama has very clear problems appealing to more overall voters than Hillary does. That will result in a McCain victory not Democratic Party dis-unity.
foofyjim
I think the way that Hillary bungled her campaign is the biggest testament that she shouldn't be the president. A year ago, she was the presumptive nominee. She worked the debates better than anyone else, had a huge amount of money at her disposal, and had people running her campaign that basically set up the rules for the Iowa caucuses. Then she lost Iowa. It wasn't because of "reverse racism" or "gender bias" or because the media loved Obama. She didn't sell herself to the people of Iowa. After that, his campaign became legitimate and she made one strategic error after another.
Before the primaries, I was all for Hillary. As I witnessed how she ran her campaign, with a win by any means strategy, I got turned off. She should have run as a revolutionary. She should have set herself up as the "change" candidate instead of the "experienced" one. It was all there for the taking, but she ran the wrong campaign.
To the folks that are ready to vote for John McCain. You are doing a disservice to women, liberal and progressive causes, and insulting Hillary by even considering such a thing.
Also, what about the voters in Michigan and Florida who stayed home on election day? They were told by BOTH candidates and the DNC that their votes would not be counted. Now suddenly we are counting the votes from those state? Those are the people who were disenfranchised! The anger about this situation should be directed to the state parties. They were the ones who moved the primaries up and got booted from the process.
Stop saying Hillary is winning the popular vote. That isn't true if you use anything that resembles actual math. Stop saying Hillary is winning against McCain in polls and Barack isn't. First, that isn't true, and second it doesn't mean anything. We haven't gotten to the general election yet and opinions at this point are subject to change when actual campaigning starts.
I only mean this in jest, but all the people who have analyzed with 100% certitude why Hillary is losing and Obama is winning, I'm sure you'll be hiring yourselves out as campaign managers in your local or national elections!
Mostly I'm writing to John #9, you make some good points, but I agree with Justin B – disagreement with you doesn't make the other party ignorant. For an example – how dare you say because some Dem Party hacks moved up the primary (in Michigan) that I "got what I deserved" to have my vote not counted!
Further, if the other candidates took their names off and Hillary left hers on, was that her choice or did she break the rules in some way? I've never been clear on that and to that alone I confess ignorance.
But otherwise, I am not in love with either Hillary or Obama but I think Hillary has been definitely mistreated by the media (but I agree Bill didn't help matters). If anyone thinks the media is objective – look at Jeff Gannon. He was mentioned twice or so in Wash Post & NYT and ALWAYS in the inside pages. Only one or two mentions on TV? But 24 hour 7 days a week about Monica? No, the media is not fair or objective.
June 2, 2008 at 1:06pm
Justin, I appreciate that you get the bigger picture and see that supporting the Democrat (whoever it may be) is important. But you failed to show how my use of ignorant was wrong. It doesn't matter, but I think my second post pretty clearly showed where your argument "ignored" key facts and that's the basis of ignorance. I'm not saying you are ignorant – just that your argument was not based on good facts.
As to the overall electability – do you really think Obama won't be able to win Massachussets and Connecticut? Any polling right now is pretty unreliable – we are six months out from the election and Obama has been attached not just by McCain but also by Clinton! When he becomes the canddiate, the party (including the Clintons)unites behind him and he gets its message out, Obama will win by (my prediction) a landslide.
It's a Democratic year, and no doubt that's one reason Clinton is fighting with everything she's got – I absolutely understand that and can appreciate it. I also appreciate the fact that you are obviously concerned with their relative electability (and that's an absolutely fair argument to make to superdelegates), but it seems the majority of Democrats who voted or caucussed think Obama is the better candidate for the election. Realistically, the superdelegates aren't going to change their commitments from him to her – in fact, the reverse has started to happen. It's all going to be over this week – and I look forward to working with you to bash McCain and help lead the Democratic Party on to victory in November!
queerunity
bye bye hillary, farewell dummy
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"do you really think Obama won't be able to win Massachussets and Connecticut?" – John
Something has clearly changed for Obama in Connecticut over the last month. Polling showed him blowing away McCain last month. Now this months Rasmussen Report poll shows a 3 point race. (Mind you Rasmussen and S-USA are the most accurate pollsters this cycle). It is an alarming poll.
Look at the battleground polls in Florida, Michigan and Ohio. Hillary leads McCain in all three and her poll numbers are better than Obama's in all three (note: Obama trails McCain in Florida and Michigan)
"Any polling right now is pretty unreliable" – John
Polling is what it is: a reflection of peoples feelings at the time the poll is conducted.
BTW…some very interesting poll news today in South Dakota and Montana. American Research Group released a poll showing Clinton with a double digit lead in South Dakota and only down 4 points (within the maring of error) in Montana. If Clinton wins in South Dakota…this will be HUGE as this was thought to be locked up for Obama with the support of the state party, Tom Daschle and Stephenie Herseth Sandler.
I think voters are having a little "buyers remorse" with Obama. And that helps Hillary make a strong argument for her candidacy at the convention.
"It's all going to be over this week -" – John
I don't think it will. I think this is going to the convention, but yes I will work with you to elect a Democrat President….whoever she might be 😉
"Obama shouldn't have gotten any delegates from Michigan. It's his own damn fault his name wasn't on the ballot there."
The Democrats asked all the candidates to do that, and Obama complied. Hillary did not follow the DNC rules, and yet she wants the DNC nomination.
How people justify her lunacy is astounding to me. You have to actually mince and rearrange words and logic to even get to a point where one thinks Hillary has been unfairly treated in this process. She had this nomination in the bag and lost it with nobody to blame but herself.
afrolito
Hillary had in the bag until the media decided a black president made a better story.
Too bad he'll lose in november.
It's everybody's fault but Hillary's, isn't it?
I guess it'll be Hillarys' fault when Obama loses in november right??
Gregoire: I happy to hear that someone has sense in this idiotic routine of Clinton's. Even if the party was so bizarrely insane as to bend again to her insane promotions, whart kind of president would that make: no more certainly than another Bush .
DITTO DITTO DITTO THANK YOU!
you could not have stated the case better
Even in the case that in Americas racism and antiintellectualism they put McCain in instead of Clinton, at least you would know that the best candidate possible was offered to defeat Americans desent into destruction.
Americans voted Bush into office , so they are stupid enough to do anything. As Neut Gengrich said in News week " I hope America
votes in the candidate they deserve"
The chickens may really come home to roost id= you dummies don't figure out that we'r not voting for your Mother but for a presidential candidate.
There really isn't any difference between
Clinton and McCain anyway!
The only reason Obama has made it this far is because those closet case pundits have a hard on for him. I mean I would love to fuck him and suck his dick, but that doesn't qualify him to be president. He has no meat on his bones or his brain….
And before you Obamamaniacs get started, yes I am a motherfucking cocksucking racist….so go fuck yourself becuase that record is getting old.
Well, I'm looking forward to the Peter Paul / Clinton court case in November! Could Hilary go to jail?
http://www.paulvclinton.com/
Thomas Delayed,
"And before you Obamamaniacs get started, yes I am a motherfucking cocksucking racist'
go know, karma does work
Where do all the Hillary supporters get their crystal balls?
Obama has garnered more votes than all of the Republicans together. Just FYI.
I hate to break it to you, but this election will not be decided by a few racists.
The election will be decided by a lot of racists.
And Afrolito,
You have just said it.
Please Clinton supporters remember all personal feelings aside here.
In every exit polls they ask
"Was race a factor in your decision"?
And it always a large number that says YES.
So empty suit, Jeremiah, Pfleger are all PROPAGANDA.
They choose who they feels are like them and I guess it's Hillary Clinton there something they have in common she's White like them.
So we're not the ones playing the race card it's in the exit polls foprm the ones who vote and that is REALITY!
From a "Obamamaniac" to a "Clintonista". You said :He has no meat on his bones or his brain….
And Hillary is living off of her husband. As I did vote for him both times. However he is NOT the greatest President we've ever had.
And she has done very little for NY so her empty pant suits are no different thann his and she does sell empty promises. And has mastered "The Gift of Gab"
She told Puerto Rico on Sunday after her win under her she would grant them "statehood"? REALLY
Then when the house and Senate shut her down like they did with her universal healthcare plan…Then what???????
Also Babe you said: I mean I would love to fuck him and suck his dick, but that doesn't qualify him to be president.
Also it doesn't call you racist and I believe you're not. But we're good enough to fuck. But when it comes to leading OH NO get behind thee because you can't but I can?????
UMMMMM Sounds like a case "SUPERIORISM"
or maybe I'm wrong?…smile 🙂 dear heart
OBAMA/CLINTON 08′
Mr.C
Can you give me list of things that Obama has done for the gay community?
fredo777
I'm as anti-racism as the next guy, but I really wish both sides of the fence would stop making this a damn race issue. It's nauseating.
Vote for the candidate who is more in line with you on the important issues + get over the whole gender/race thing. Ugh.
OK Thomas Delayed,
And you tell me has HILLARY not Bill…..HILLARY done anything REAL for the LGBT community. I am from NYC. The only thing she has done was march in a Gay Pride Parade and if that is something you want to call an accomplishment something is terribly flawed.
Look neither one of them believes in Gay Marriage so I'm lost. And I have said this post after post. The House and Senate are the ones that can help our community to achieve what we need. Not a President. So the anger needs to aimed at them all Presidents are empty suits in some form.
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BEN BENNIONS DFC Battle of Britain Fighter Ace
George Herman Bennions, DFC., nicknamed "Ben", was one of the leading Battle of Britain Spitfire pilots.
BEN BENNIONS DFC Battle of Britain Fighter Ace quantity
'Ben' Bennions enlisted in the pre-war RAF in 1929, serving first as an 'erk' before being selected for pilot training. His first posting saw him serving in the Middle- East with 41 Squadron, returning to the UK and Catterick, where the squadron was still stationed at the declaration of war. Patrols and scrambles were common throughout the early months of the conflict, but it was in May 1940, that 41 Squadron first saw the enemy in any number, providing air cover for the retreating BEF. Bennions recorded his first combat victory on 28 July – he was to damage or destroy 20 plus enemy aircraft during the following months, earning the DFC and becoming one of the RAF's top scorers. The squadron alternated between Catterick and Hornchurch, and although Bennions was afforded some rest between operational periods, while on the frontline the sorties came thick and fast, particularly during the latter phases of the Battle of Britain when Bennions was flying several patrols and scrambles every day. His tally grew steadily and a much deserved DFC was promulgated on 1 October 1940, the day he was due to begin a short period of leave, however, Bennions decided to have one last crack at the enemy. During the patrol, he single-handedly took on a formation of 40 Messerschmitt Bf 109s about to pounce on a flight of Hurricanes, adding another Bf 109 before being hit and forced to bail out. Badly wounded in the head, Bennions lost an eye and became one of Sir Archibald McIndoe's Guinea Pigs.His path to recovery was slow but he was determined to get back in the air and was permitted to fly but only with a passenger or second pilot assisting with take-offs and landings – it seemed that his life as a single-seater fighter pilot was at an end. Several postings later Bennions was working as a liaison officer with the USAAF. Somehow he managed to talk his way onto flying duties and was soon flying a Supermarine Spitfire on operational patrols, contrary to all orders. Never one to avoid a combat zone, Bennions was with the American forces when they landed on Corsica. Luck would desert him, however, and he was wounded again whilst disembarking from a landing craft in the first wave to hit the beaches at Ajaccio on 30 September 1943.The post war years saw Bennions offered a permanent place in the RAF but denied further flying duties – for a man with Ben's passion to be in the air, this was intolerable and he resigned his commission. Born in the Potteries but an adopted Yorkshireman, Bennions received a number of post-war honours – the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire has flown bearing his letter code EB – J. Despite his tally of 12 destroyed and a further 8 plus damaged or as 'probables' (all but one of his 'kills' being fighters), however, he never received what would have been a richly deserved Bar to his DFC.
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Families Invest in Private Security As City Crime Surges
(RepublicanPress.org) – American cities have experienced a marked increase in crime in recent months. The situation is reportedly so severe in Democratic-led San Francisco, some citizens have resorted to alternative methods to ensure their safety and the security of their property.
On Monday, October 25, media outlets reported that more than 150 San Francisco families recently hired private security companies to patrol their neighborhoods. Katie Lyons told local reporters of her concerns, saying she "[didn't] feel safe" in the community.
Lyons explained that her home has an alarm system and security cameras scattered about her property. However, her family wanted the "extra security" of having private patrol officers keep a close watchful eye over the area.
REPORT: 150+ San Francisco Families Hiring 'Private Security' Amid Crime Spree https://t.co/KOF0fml2np
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) October 25, 2021
A quick look at the San Francisco Police Department's Crime Dashboard confirmed the validity of Lyons' concerns and those of her fellow community members. Looking at year-on-year crime rates, the dashboard showed increases in 2021 of:
4.8% for homicides
8.0 % for assaults
19.0% for human trafficking
10.3% for arson; and
11.1% for larceny and theft.
Overall, crime increased 6.4% so far in 2021 as of October 24.
Figures for the last couple of months paint an even grimmer picture. While the number of homicides between August and October 24 of 2021 remained the same from last year, human trafficking increased 100%, larceny and theft shot up by 49.4%, and arson spiked 17.8% for an overall increase in crime in San Francisco of 25.1%.
Sadly, not everyone can afford to pay for private security. For those families, they are left living in unsafe conditions with little help from the liberal city government. What about you? Are you experiencing increased crime in your neighborhood? Have you considered hiring a private security company?
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The state of what was once "the granary of the east"
16 Apr, 2019 | 9:24 am
Written by Staff Writer 16 Apr, 2019 | 9:24 am
COLOMBO (News 1st): With the end of the paddy harvesting season and the dawn of the new year, the guaranteed price promised to paddy farmers still remains unresolved.
Farmers in Galenbidunuwewa, Anuradhapura claim that their state of livelihood has gone from bad to worse because of the shortcomings in the state paddy purchasing process.
"They allocate a price only after they purchase goods from the black market vendors." said a farmer
The farmers have no choice but to sell their crops to wholesale traders at a price lower than the guaranteed price. While the farmers in Galenbidunuwewa are suffering in this way, the farmers in Karuwalagaswewa, Puttalam are left with no choice but to store their harvest in their houses.
These farmers have been deprived of a proper new year celebration as a result of the authorities' inability to fulfil their responsibilities and promises.
"There is no new year for us this year. Look there is no space for a visitor to come and sit inside our house. There is paddy everywhere."
"We have been made very helpless. My husband sleeps outside the house. The children and I sleep in the kitchen."
The Paddy Marketing Board is the main government body responsible for purchasing, selling, supplying and distributing paddy and rice. However, the Paddy Marketing Board is only purchasing less than 3% of the country's annual harvest.
By May 14, 2018:
556,874 Kg of unsold paddy from 4 seasons were still in possession of the board. The National Audit office later revealed that such a situation arose due to the lack of a proper plan on purchasing and selling paddy.
Total debt of the Paddy Marketing Board to the Treasury by the end of 2017 was Rs. 17965.3 million with an interest of Rs. 623.9 million. 192.46 metric tons of paddy went waste from June to July due to poor storage standards. Data provided by the Audit department.
Over the past six years,
The government has incurred losses amounting to more than Rs. 4100 million due to the sale of paddy stocks deviating from the procurement process, based on orders of top officials of the Paddy Marketing Board. The loss to the government through the sale of paddy for animal feed should also be brought to attention.
In 2014/15 the government incurred a loss of Rs. 2483.61 million through the sale of paddy to nine private companies during the Yala and Maha season and Rs. 5.95 million by selling paddy to W.M.Mendis and Company.
While operations pertaining to the paddy stocks of the nation is severely interfered by certain politicians, officials, and private companies, the audit report further revealed that the government imported rice instead of conducting an investigation on this issue.
Although the loss incurred by the Paddy Marketing Board during the past few years amounted to Rs. 7, 889.77 million, it is unfortunate that there is no decision taken so far on the officials who spearheaded a major state organization.
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1995 rape and murder of girl: Man comes forward with new information
Singapore — A man has come forward with new information, after the family of a 7-year-old girl raped and murdered in 1995 appealed to...
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Q: Am not able to connect css to hml in visual studio code
I updated my vs code ide and i noticed that am not able to link my
html to css
using intellisense i also installed a file path plugin but my css is still not
connecting to my html.What alternative can be offered thaanks..
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../Pokemon Games/css/Pokecss.css">
A: Try doing this,
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../Pokemon\ Games/css/Pokecss.css">
If you're using a space, you need to use a special escape character \.
Do upvote me if it works!
A: The problem is the space in your url href="../Pokemon Games/css/Pok... While having a space in the file formats on your home system works, using spaces in URI/URL addresses doesn't. If you really need that space in your URL, you can represent the space with %20, or simply use a hyphen -.
More discussions on this:
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A new year begins - and Bridget Jones, the globally bestselling, unflinchingly self-disciplined, and definitely practically nonsmoking heroine, is about to discover what happens when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't been to the supermarket - not just tonight, but ever.
Lurching from the cappucino bars of Notting Hill to the blissed-out shores of Thailand, searching for The Truth in spite of pathetically unevolved men, insane dating theories, Smug Married advice ("I'm just calling to say in the potty! In the potty! Well, do it in Daddy's hand, then!"), Bridget experiences a zeitgeist-esque Spiritual Epiphany somewhere between the pages of How to Find the Love You Want Without Seeking It (can self-help books really help self?), protective custody, and a lightly chilled Chardonnay.
"7:08 p.m. Am assured, receptive, responsive woman of substance. My sense of self comes not from other people but from... from... myself? That can't be right."
129 lbs. (total fat groove), boyfriends 1 (hurrah!), shags 3 (hurrah!), calories 2,100, calories used up by shags 600, so total calories 1,500 (exemplary).
7.15 a.m. Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male thereby proving am not love pariah as previously feared. Feel marvelous, rather like Jemima Goldsmith or similar radiant newlywed opening cancer hospital in veil while everyone imagines her in bed with Imran Khan. Ooh. Mark Darcy just moved. Maybe he will wake up and talk to me about my opinions.
7.30 a.m. Mark Darcy has not woken up. I know, will get up and make him fantastic fried breakfast with sausages, scrambled eggs and mushrooms or maybe Eggs Benedict or Florentine.
7.31 a.m. Depending what Eggs Benedict or Florentine actually are.
7.32 a.m. Except do not have any mushrooms or sausages.
Bridget Jones is a joy and comfort, and Helen Fielding is bloody great.
Watching Fielding manipulate her crazy plot is a little like watching a high-wire artist cross a tightrope on a unicycle with a monkey on each hand. Fielding never falters. In fact, Fielding has created that rare thing a sequel that outshines its predecessor.
Funnier and more accomplished than the original diary, and in fact takes recognition humor into a new dimension. Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason is a glorious read, and there is a laugh on every page.
I really liked this book. Helen Fielding is a fantastic author. I have read both the Bridget Jones' books and I couldn't put them down.
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After Long Wait, Hamilton Beach Man Undergoes Successful Kidney Transplant Surgery
PHOTO: Ryan (clockwise from bottom l.), Timmy, and Christina McCabe this week welcomed home Tim from NYU Langone Medical Center. Photo Courtesy of Christina McCabe
By Michael V. Cusenza
The story of Tim McCabe and family is one of those rare narratives that make you think… about patience, about perseverance, about paying it forward.
It's also an account that teaches you about perspective.
Because after reading, or watching, or listening to the evolving tale of Tim McCabe and family, suddenly those flood waters don't seem so high; maybe that bus lane on Cross Bay won't actually trigger the advent of the Apocalypse; and that guy who just snaked your parking space really isn't the Antichrist.
The saga's latest chapter began last Thursday night when Tim and Christina, his wife of 19 years, received the call that they have been anticipating for the last seven years: We have a kidney. Get to the hospital immediately.
So they raced from their Hamilton Beach headquarters to Midtown Manhattan and NYU Langone Medical Center.
"It was a really good match and so far so good," Christina McCabe told The Forum last Friday. "We are keeping the prayers going that it doesn't show any signs of rejection."
The McCabes have been down this unforgiving road. In the spring of 2004, Tim was diagnosed with Goodpasture Syndrome, an autoimmune disease in which antibodies attack the lungs and kidneys.
By age 34, Tim McCabe needed a new kidney.
Amazingly, the search for a donor would end just as soon as it began. Christina was a perfect match.
"I felt proud that I was going to be able to help my soul mate, the love of my life, and still be alive to see it," she recalled in a November 2014 interview with The Forum.
However, not even two months after the April surgery, Tim's body began rejecting his new organ. Doctors were able to get the kidney functioning again, but on April 27, 2009, five years to the day of his transplant surgery, Tim's health nosedived as the host—again—rejected its guest. He would have to return to full-time dialysis; and his name was added to the transplant rolls in New York and New Jersey, where it has been for the last seven years.
Tim McCabe returned to his First Street home, to his doting wife and sons, Timmy III and Ryan, on Tuesday. Christina said that for now her husband must continue daily dialysis, just until "the kidney gets going" and acclimated to its new environs.
So, a Queens community keeps its collective fingers crossed.
"Even though our fight is over for now, I feel it's time to fight for someone else," Christina McCabe said. "I have to get involved somehow in pushing for organ donation."
All she has to do is tell a story.
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Q: Why doesn't my recursive longest increasing subsequence function work for large inputs? I wrote it to work on a single test case at a time.
It either takes too long on online judges or returns wrong answers
Source: The problem I used to test it on
It works perfectly for small cases:
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
int LIS[100000];
void LS (int *arr , int n)
{
if (n == 0)
{
LIS[0] = 1;
return;
}
if (LIS[n])
{
return;
}
int i = 0;
int max = 0;
while (i < n)
{
if (arr[i] < arr[n])
{
LS(arr,i);
if (LIS[i] + 1 > max)
{
max = 1 + LIS[i];
}
}
++i;
}
LIS[n] = max;
}
int main()
{
int n;
std::cin >> n;
int arr[n];
for(int i = 0 ; i < n ; ++i) std::cin >> arr[i];
LS(arr,n-1);
std::sort (LIS , LIS+n);
std::cout << "\n" << LIS[n-1] << "\n";
}
A: You said it works perfectly small cases.. than maybe it is stack overflow..
A function call consume stack memory..
If recursive call depth is too deep, stack memory runs out, and crash..
A: When you read int n value from std::cin, you have to dynamically allocate memory for your array arr, so you should first declare int *arr, then get the user input the same way as you're doing it now, and then allocate memory using arr = new int[n].
When it comes to the long time it takes to compute next values using recursive function, you should think about remaking the function to use tail recursion, which is much closer to iteration. You can check the difference by writing two programs for counting Fibonacci numbers - one recursive and another one iterative, then check how long it takes to compute ~50th value using both methods.
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Regional distributor Hiperdist, headquartered in Dubai, has entered into a strategic distribution agreement with Palo Alto Networks for the North Africa region.
[UKPRwire, Mon Nov 05 2018] Regional distributor Hiperdist, headquartered in Dubai, has entered into a strategic distribution agreement with Palo Alto Networks for the North Africa region.
Hiperdist has recently made a significant investment in its new owned facility in Dubai that has been designed to facilitate and leverage the company's growth and expansion while providing greater support to its global network with a broader geographic coverage in the MEA region.
Hiperdist is one of the fastest growing IT solutions distributors in the UAE. With a wide collage of IT brands such as Acer, Asus, Avaya, Canon, Galaxy, G.Skill, HPE, HP, Lenovo, PLDS, Ring, Seasonic, Super Micro, Synology, Tandberg Data, Vertiv, ViewSonic and Zotac, the organization's key differentiator is a relentless focus on innovative, custom-made solutions for their partners. The company's holding group, UNIDIST, houses other Hiperdist entities in Middle East and Africa region. With a market penetration supported by 23 local entities and 4 logistic hubs throughout EMEA, UNIDIST provides end-to-end supply chain solutions for all categories of IT products including computing, Printing & Imaging, Consumables, Energy, Software and Infrastructure Solutions. | {
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Description A cute ballerina in pink background, painting for your nursery or kids room decoration.
Artist Statement Nopi Pantelidou was born in Greece, and grew up in Thessaloniki.
She studied graphic design. As a young child she showed artistic inclinations, and so her parents encouraged her to cultivate her talent by enrolling her in art lessons at the YMCA when she was ten years old. She has been drawing ever since, enchanted by the creations of great artists but also the illustrations of children's books. Inspired by nature, vivid colours and all those things that make her feel beautiful, she designs and creates unique compositions.
She has been running her own graphic art studio for several years, and simultaneously, she paints and illustrates children's books. | {
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then any user can discover the location of the source file by simply placing '$2' into one of the form fields. Unless you add specific search/replace code for $1 and $2 when processing the user input data, $1 will be replaced with 'jumi' and $2 will be replaced with '[path/to/script.php]'.
Any thoughts on this? This really seems like it's way too gaping of a vulnerability to just expect people to implicitly anticipate that Jumi will do this and escape the dollar sign for this special case.
This is for any script I believe. I have some php code where I have a drop down box such as the one below. The $ comes up jumi and $2 shows the path of the page, $3 $4 & $5 show nothing. The first select below is my code, the second select is what shows on my page. Any ideas to fix this? | {
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namespace CustomNativeEffects {
namespace {
namespace MW = Microsoft::WRL;
namespace LI = Lumia::Imaging;
namespace LIWD = Lumia::Imaging::Workers::Direct2D;
namespace LII = Lumia::Imaging::Interop;
namespace WSS = Windows::Storage::Streams;
}
// Interop version of the ID2D1EffectImpl interface.
//
[Platform::Runtime::InteropServices::InterfaceType(Platform::Runtime::InteropServices::ComInterfaceType::InterfaceIsIUnknown)]
[uuid(a248fd3f-3e6c-4e63-9f03-7f68ecc91db9)]
public interface class ID2D1EffectImpl
{
void Initialize(Platform::IntPtr effectContext, Platform::IntPtr transformGraph);
void PrepareForRender(uint32 changeType);
void SetGraph(Platform::IntPtr transformGraph);
};
ref class Direct2DSaturationEffectDirect2DWorker sealed : LIWD::IDirect2DImageWorker, ID2D1EffectImpl
{
public:
Direct2DSaturationEffectDirect2DWorker(Direct2DSaturationEffect^ configuration);
#pragma region ID2D1EffectImpl implementation
virtual void Initialize(Platform::IntPtr effectContext, Platform::IntPtr transformGraph);
virtual void PrepareForRender(uint32 changeType);
virtual void SetGraph(Platform::IntPtr transformGraph);
#pragma endregion
#pragma region IDirect2DNativeEffectWorker implementation
virtual property uint32 InputCount
{
uint32 get();
}
virtual property IImageProvider^ Configuration
{
IImageProvider^ get();
void set(IImageProvider^ value);
}
#pragma endregion
private:
Direct2DSaturationEffect^ m_configuration;
MW::ComPtr<ID2D1EffectContext> m_effectContext;
MW::ComPtr<ID2D1TransformGraph> m_transformGraph;
LIWD::IDirect2DShaderDrawTransform^ m_shaderDrawTransform;
MW::ComPtr<ID2D1TransformNode> m_shaderDrawTransformNode;
MW::ComPtr<ID2D1Effect> m_d2dSaturationEffect;
};
}
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7 nights cruise in Galapagos
with Celebrity Flora
Baltra (Galapagos)
Baltra (Galapagos),Daphne Island (Galapagos),Puerto Egas (Island San Salvador),Rabida Island (Galapagos),Elizabeth Bay (Isabela island),Caleta Tagus (Isabela),Sullivan Bay (Santiago) (Galapagos),Bartolome (San Salvador),Las Bachas (Santa Cruz),North Seymour (Galapagos),P. Baquerizo (San Cristobal),Punta Pitt (San Cristobal),Puerto Ayora (Santa Cruz) (Galapagos),Baltra (Galapagos)
Experience the most untouched areas of the world with just the right touch of pampering. 600 miles off the western coast of Ecuador lies a group of islands so isolated that many of its creatures cannot be found anywhere else on earth. Welcome to the Galapagos, the inspiration for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. On his 1835 expedition, Darwin found a cluster of islands formed four to five million years ago when underwater volcanoes erupted in the Pacific Ocean. Today, these rock outcroppings, rivers of frozen lava, and coral beaches form a varied landscape that's home to the islands' collection of rare birds and animals.
Baltra Island,or Isla Baltra is as small island of the Galapagos Island.Also known as South Seymour(named after Lord Hugh Seymour),Baltra is a small flat island located near the created by geological upfit.The island is very arid and vegetation consists of salt bushes,prickly pear cactus and palo santo trees.
Bartolome (San Salvador)
Bartolome is a small island off James that offers beautiful white sand beaches fringed by luxuriant green mangroves.A recently volcanically active island,Bartolome Island has a moon-like landscape and volcanic cones.The view from the top of Pinnacle Rock is perhaps the most famous in the Galapagos with the opportunity to see up to 28 islands if visibility allows.On the beach watch for the endemic Galapagos penguins,the only penguins in the world found north of the equator.As you walk along the white sand beach you might catch a glimpse of them swimming along side marine turtles a variety of brighty colored tropical fish and white-tipped reef sharks,while the Galapagos Hawk files overhead.Marine turtles come ashore to nest here between January and March.
Caleta Tagus (Isabela)
Tagus Core is located west of Darwin Volcano on Isabela Island.The route of the trail is about 1800meters.This was a favorite spot of pirates and whalers,a tradition is still observed that has continued since that time,the inscription of the names of boats.At the start of the walk,going up and passing the staircase,is a small where we find inscriptions dating to the 1800s.It is name originated from a British warship that went through the islands in 1814 looking for Galapagos Torroise for food.During the walk you can see various land birds,we can identify the characteristic vegetation of the arid zone.Finally we observe the lava fields of Darwin Volcano.
Daphne Island (Galapagos)
Daphne Island has much to offer to those who love volcanos due to a tuff crater that exists on the island. Also visitors who love birds might have the only chance to see some of the most spectacular species.
Daphne Island at Galapagos is devided in two islands Daphne Major and Minor. Daphne Major is a volcanic island just north of Santa Cruz Island and just west of the Baltra Airport in the archipelago Colon. Although easily accessible to most visitors to the Galapagos,the national park service has restricted visits to the island. Daphne Major is the area in which two biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant examined for about 20 years examined the behaviour and life cycles of finches, with the results confirming Darwin's theory of evolution.
Elizabeth Bay, Isabela island
Elizabeth Bay is located on the east coast of Isabela Island. The bay contains many islets, which can be visited by dinghy. Penguins and blue-footed boobies can be spotted on the rocky islets. With an abundance of marine life and clear water, the area is perfect for snorkeling and viewing schools of colorful fish, sea lions, and perhaps even sharks.
Punta Pitt, San Cristobal
Punta Pitt is located in the northeast of San Cristobal Island, Galapagos. It is a popular site for visitors, mostly because it's the only Galápagos visitor site where you can see all three types of Booby as well as both types of Frigatebirds. There is a 90 m long beach at Punta Pitt, which is home to sea lions, lava lizards and marine iguanas. The sand is an olive-yellow color, the result of the ocean's erosion of lava rock and shells.
Las Bachas (Santa Cruz)
Las Bachas is considered one of the most important sites in the Galapagos fo the Pacific Green Sea turtle as nesting site.It is quite interesting during their nesting season to see the tracks they leave on the sand as they come in and out from their labour.Several steps behind the beach there are some brackish water lagoons where several waders or lagoon birds can be seen like flamingoes,lava gulls,wandering tattlers,plovens,black neck stilk,sandpipers,great blue nerons and such as well as marine iguanas basking in the sun at the edge of the lagoon.At the beach also we can see marine hermit crabs and also it is common to see small sharks right at the edge of the water.At this site it is also possible to swim and snorkel from the beach.
North Seymour, Galapagos
North Seymour is a small island in Galapagos islands. There are good nesting sites for an amazing colony of frigate birds. Here, you can admire many species of wildlife such as sea lions and marine iguanas. Beautiful, rocky coasts with clear blue waters make the place the ideal spot for diving and snorkelling. Its interesting geology create an attractive scenery and the visitors have the opportunity to explore a natural wonderland.
Puerto Egas, Island San Salvador
Puerto (Port) Egas on San Salvador Island, also called James or Santiago Island, offers the most popular walk along James Bay on a black-sand beach. On the trail, look for oystercatchers, marine iguanas, sandpipers, Galapagos hawks, Sally lightfoot crabs, and Galapagos and fur sea lions. Excursion options include a high-intensity "Survival of the Fittest" hike with swimming/snorkeling at the beach, a hight-intensity coastal walk followed by swimming/snorkeling, and a low-intensity animal observation followed by beach relaxation.
Puerto Ayora (Santa Cruz), Galapagos
Puerto Ayora is in Santa Cruz island and it is the largest city of the Galapagos islands, ready to welcome the numerous tourists that visit the area every year. It is a nice starting point for exploring all the islands. It is a small, picturesque place, easy to explore. Discover the Tortuga Bay, a great beach with white sand and live the experience of scuba diving. Admire the beautiful wildlife. Puerto Ayora is certainly the best place to stay as it offers many options of luxury and relaxation.
Rabida Island, Galapagos
Rábida Island, is one of the Galápagos Islands. The island has also been known as Jervis Island named in honour of the 18th-century British admiral John Jervis. In Ecuador it is officially known as Isla Rábida. The island is located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, has red sand beaches and a saltwater lagoon inhabited by flamingos and a bachelor sea lion colony. The landscape is studded with small volcanic craters along sharp slopes and cliffs. The rich wildlife attracts a large number of tourists.
P. Baquerizo (San Cristobal)
Puerto Baquerizo Moreno is the capital of the Galápagos Province, in Ecuador. It is located along the southwestern coast of San Cristóbal, the easternmost island in the archipelago. Island tourism sites nearer the town of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno include the Cerro Tijeretas, a nesting colony for Frigate birds and a statue of Charles Darwin. La Loberia, a colony of sea lions, lies about ten minutes by bus from the town.
Sullivan Bay (Santiago), Galapagos
Sullivan bay located on Santiago island in Galapagos, offers a unique volcanic experience. A coral beach landing leads you at a lava field which proves the volcanic origin of these islands. A special type of lava, pahoehoe, make the scenery just perfect. Enjoy swimming in beautiful, pristine beaches. Snorkelling here is, also, an interesting activity. Explore the landscapes by walking across the lava which is an amazing experience!
1 Baltra (Galapagos) ------ 14:30
1 Daphne Island (Galapagos) 17:00 18:00
2 Puerto Egas, Island San Salvador 07:00 12:00
2 Rabida Island, Galapagos 15:00 19:00
3 Elizabeth Bay, Isabela island 07:00 12:00
3 Caleta Tagus (Isabela) 15:00 19:00
4 Sullivan Bay (Santiago), Galapagos 07:00 12:00
4 Bartolome (San Salvador) 13:00 19:00
5 Las Bachas (Santa Cruz) 07:00 12:00
5 North Seymour, Galapagos 13:00 21:30
6 P. Baquerizo (San Cristobal) 07:00 12:00
6 Punta Pitt, San Cristobal 15:30 18:00
7 Puerto Ayora (Santa Cruz), Galapagos 07:00 ------
8 Baltra (Galapagos) 07:00 00:00
The Celebrity Revolution Continues with a New Ship Designed for the Galapagos Islands - Celebrity Flora seamlessly combines modern luxury, sustainability and design, redefining the expedition travel experience
Celebrity Cruises unveils another stunning revolution in ship design: Celebrity Flora is an elevated and inspired approach to marine exploration, meticulously designed expressly for the awe-inspiring Galapagos Islands.
One of the most energy-efficient ships of its size in the diverse archipelago , the 100-guest Celebrity Flora will offer seamless sea-to-shore transportation, and includes anchorless technology that maintains the ship's position while protecting the sensitive sea floor. Innovative outward-facing design gives guests 360-degree views of the islands, while personal suite attendants, new dining venues, an open-air stargazing platform, and expert-lead ecological seminars will round out the modern luxury vacation experience.
Celebrity Flora transports travelers in all-suite accommodations featuring oversized bathrooms perfect for post-adventure refreshing. These modern retreats bring the outside in through Celebrity's signature outward-facing layouts and heralded Infinite Verandas, and come complete with sustainable, natural, regionally inspired materials. Personal suite attendants cater to guests' every need.
Celebrity Flora's two Penthouse Suites are the largest in the Galapagos with separate indoor and outdoor living areas, customizable lighting and shades, and a telescope for stargazing or sea lion-peeping. Guests can also find relaxation in Royal Suites, Ultimate Sky Suites with Infinite Veranda, Premium Sky Suites with Infinite Veranda and Sky Suites with Infinite Veranda.
Inagural Date 2019
Tonnage 5.739
Length 333 m
Draught 55 m
Βeam 14 m
Double Occupancy 100
Decks 6
Έτος Ναυπήγησης 2019
Τόνοι 5.739
Μήκος 333 m
Πλάτος 55 m
Βύθισμα 14 m
Ταχύτητα 10 knots
Επιβάτες (δίκλινες καμπίνες) 100
Καταστρώματα 6
Since Celebrity's first sailing in 1990, it has been recognized as an industry leader, praised for providing spacious, stylish interiors; dining experiences elevated to an art form; personalized service, with a guest-to-staff ratio of nearly 2:1 and unexpected, trendsetting onboard activities, all designed to provide an unmatchable experience for vacationers' precious time. The introduction of Celebrity Cruises' stylish, widely heralded Solstice Class of ships has reinforced Celebrity's position as an industry leader.
It all began when Celebrity Cruises was founded in 1989 with the objective of fulfilling the travel industry's need for a high-quality, premium cruise product at an intelligent price. The company was determined to set a new, worldwide standard for cruising, and to create a distinctive expression of superior quality, grand style, attentive service, spacious accommodations, and exceptional cuisine. Believing that the dining experience is an essential part of a quality cruise vacation, Celebrity custom-built galleys to create the finest gourmet cuisine at sea, preparing everything from scratch, using only the finest, freshest ingredients. Along with the launch of the Century Class fleet in 1995, Celebrity created another industry first: a luxurious spa experience within the environment of a cruise ship, with the introduction of the AquaSpa® by Elemis. In 1997, Celebrity Cruises merged with Royal Caribbean International, bringing together two extraordinary cruise brands within one corporation, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
In 2000, Celebrity launched the appropriately named Celebrity Millennium, and with it the industry's first application of gas turbine engines, which reduce exhaust emissions by up to 95 percent over traditional propulsion systems. Celebrity Millennium and her sister ships - Celebrity Infinity, Celebrity Summit and Celebrity Constellation - nearly doubled the line's capacity in just two years (2000-2002), with each ship offering guests an unmatched dining experience in distinctive, intimate specialty restaurants. Celebrity Millennium's "Olympic," Celebrity Infinity's "S.S. United States," Celebrity Summit's "Normandie" and Celebrity Constellation's "Ocean Liners" each boast original paneling and artifacts from the famed transatlantic luxury liners after which they are named ("Ocean Liners'"includes paneling from the Ile de France), and feature dramatic tableside cooking, carving and flambé in the true French style.
Celebrity has offered rich, pampering experiences since its inception. More than 100 brand enhancements and new "tastes of luxury" were unveiled across the fleet in 2003, including welcome champagne and mimosas, cold towels and fresh sorbet poolside, expanded options in dining, including Sushi Cafés and pasta/pizza bars, sunset yoga and Pilates classes, and more. During the same year, Celebrity introduced "Concierge Class," an enhanced level of accommodations featuring new amenities and priority services, and introduced "Acupuncture at Sea," another undisputed industry first.
In 2004, the line launched "Celebrity Xpeditions," a series of highly unique events and excursions designed to offer savvy travelers once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to be treated famously in new environments. The one-of-a-kind program gives guests the premium experiences they have come to expect from Celebrity, in new and exotic settings, including cruises in the enchanting Galapagos Islands on a luxurious mega yacht, Celebrity Xpedition, and a series of premium excursion options on select itineraries.
Today, among Celebrity's ten ships are its Solstice Class ships, which exemplify Celebrity's emphasis on designing stunning ships and inviting onboard experiences for vacationers who appreciate the finer things. The ships have taken stylish cruising and impeccable service to new heights. Celebrity Solstice set sail in 2008, Celebrity Equinox in 2009, and Celebrity Eclipse in 2010. All three hold 2,850 guests (double occupancy) and have a tonnage of 122,000. Celebrity Silhouette joined the fleet in 2011 and Celebrity Reflection in 2012. Celebrity Silhouette holds 2,886 guests (double occupancy) and has a tonnage of 122,400. Celebrity Reflection holds 3,030 guests and has a tonnage of 126,000.
Celebrity's Solstice Class features the industry's first "Lawn Club" - an outdoor, country club-like venue featuring a lawn of real, growing grass where guests can practice their putting, play lawn games like croquet and lawn bowling, or simply relax under the sun and stars; the first Hot Glass Show at sea, presented in collaboration with The Corning Museum of Glass; and a slate of breathtaking new shows created in partnership with POET Theatricals. The Solstice Class also offers larger, more intuitive staterooms influenced by "Celebrity's Leading Ladies," five Boomer women with unique travel and hospitality insights. The new ships present fewer inside staterooms than other ships - 90% of the ships' staterooms offer outside views and 85% of staterooms have verandas - and feature an entirely new category of staterooms, "AquaClass," designed with spa enthusiasts in mind, offering a host of exclusive amenities. AquaClass guests enjoy unlimited access to the Relaxation Room and Persian Garden, as well as priority seating in Blu, a specialty restaurant with healthy dishes created specifically for AquaClass guests. The ships also present a two-story AquaSpa, with the Relaxation Room and Persian Garden similar to those found on several other Celebrity ships. Celebrity's Solstice Class ships also are the first in the industry to utilize solar technology, with some of the solar panels serving the dual purpose of providing shade within the Solarium as well as energy production. Celebrity Silhouette introduced several new venues, including The Lawn Club Grill, the industry's first outdoor, interactive grill venue; The Porch, with a chic Hampton's-style design, and offering casual breakfasts and lunches overlooking The Lawn Club and the sea; The Art Studio, where guests can participate in intimate, hands-on instruction from experts in drawing, painting and beading, as well as the art of food, with culinary-themed classes; The Alcoves, eight cabana-style settings for partial or all-day rentals on the perimeter of The Lawn Club, offering themed picnic baskets, an á la carte beverage menu and WiFi; and The Hideaway, with its avant-garde, cozy, tree house design, creating a quiet retreat for reading a good book or a high-tech escape for vacationers relaxing with iPads, which are available to rent.
Dining on Celebrity's ships is an exceptional experience. The vision of our James Beard featured chef for creating fresh, exciting, innovative dining experiences has produced such successes as Qsine, the "uniquely unordinary" specialty restaurant first introduced on Celebrity Eclipse, and the Lawn Club Grill, the first outdoor, interactive barbecue grill experience at sea introduced on Celebrity Silhouette. Our culinary vision is evident everywhere, from the recipes and ingredients to the table presentation to the service. Our hope is that you'll leave a Celebrity cruise having tried new tastes and gained a deeper appreciation for the way cuisine can influence your experiences. Before the launch of Celebrity Solstice in 2008, Celebrity Cruises had five specialty restaurants fleetwide; by the end of 2012, there be 45 in total.
Just as we elevated Celebrity's culinary excellence, Celebrity's Solstice® Class has redefined the brand overall. Many of the design elements, experiences and dining concepts introduced on the Solstice Class ships are so compelling that in early 2010, Celebrity announced plans to "Solsticize" its Millennium Class ships by incorporating iconic Solstice Class attributes through a significant revitalization. The first ship to be "Solsticized" was Celebrity Constellation®, that same year. Since then, four other ships have been enhanced to a Solstice Class sheen.
With its pulse on what guests want, and with an eye toward the future, Celebrity Cruises continues to innovate and to deliver unforgettable, award-winning vacation experiences. | {
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Started shooting Lady Bug this weekend. The crew is mighty and the script is fantastic! Also would like to thank our Sunglasses sponsor Julbo for keeping me in VERY COOL shades for this project! You can check out their glasses at http://www.julbousa.com/. And of course you can keep up with us during the shooting on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/theladybugmovie?fref=ts or on twitter at https://twitter.com/LadyBugMovie. | {
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Thanks to the runners and all the sponsors, $20,000 was raised today for One More Child and West Florida Foster Care Services!!!
We are so very thankful to have had the opportunity to be a sponsor and to run, but we know every day there are children who are rescued or orphaned in the Tampa Bay in need of a loving home and families who are trained and equipped to support their needs.
We believe in and have a history of supporting women and orphan care abroad, and we are thankful to have found such great organizations here locally to expand our support through our business. We are committed to continue to giving to these outstanding charities.
If you have a business, here are 3 great ways you can continue to support orphan and foster care in Tampa Bay while growing your business.
1. We will make a $500 Donation to both One More Child and West Florida Foster Care Services with any New Website or Progressive web App Development (an app and website hybrid). Total donation across both charities is $1000.
2. We will make a $500 Donation to both One More Child and West Florida Foster Care Services Plus Give Your Business a $500 Advertising Credit with any new OTT (Hulu, etc.), Google, Facebook, TV and/or radio campaign of $5000 a month or more. Total donation across both charities is $1000.
3. We will make a $1500 Donation to both One More Child and West Florida Foster Care Services Plus Give Your Business a $1500 Advertising Credit with any new OTT (Hulu, etc.), Google, Facebook, TV and/or radio campaign of $20,000 a month or more. Total donation across both charities is $3000.
Doing Good Never Expires, but the advertising credit expires 9/28/18. Advertising credits cannot be combined with any other offers. New campaigns have a 3 month minimum commitment.
1. No Outsourcing Google Ads, Social Media or SEO. Ever.
3. Premium OTT Content without TV-MA or R-Rated Programming on Hulu, NBC, ABC, ESPN & more.
4. TV Viewership Data and Ratings from comScore - Connected to 1 of Every 2 Homes in every Zip Code with Polk Automotive data and an Experian Household Match.
5. We Will Never Market Your Competitors.
Call 866-222-8514, Email or Fill Out our Form to Find Out More how we can grow your business and continue to bring hope, love and support to orphaned and foster children in Tampa Bay.
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A variety of geometric spheres hang elegantly down on the cover of this digitally printed holiday card. Perfec to send your seasonal greetings, the cover lifts to reveal your message, while your company name remains visible when the card is open or closed. It's neutral color scheme of blues and gold makes this the perfect choice for your company's holiday greeting. | {
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Recycling scrap metal can be beneficial to the environment and is a significant income stream for many industries. It reduces the amount of waste produced while preventing the need for additional mining to obtain metals for manufacturing purposes. Virtually all metals can be recycled into high quality new metals and the UK recycles around 10 million tonnes per year.
Metal can be identified as two main types, Ferrous (metals that contain iron) and non-Ferrous (metals that don't contain iron).
They can be recycled into vital secondary raw materials for the smelting of new materials. These metals can be reused many times to make new products, conserving more of our precious natural resources.
Agecko UK Ltd, is a leading waste management provider, and uses innovative and traditional solutions ensuring the waste and recycling option chosen best fits the customers' needs. Contact our experienced waste management team to discuss your requirements for short or long term rental and collection frequencies. | {
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Apprenticeship News
From Directionless to a Long-Term Career- Marshall's Time at Green Labyrinth
Marshall was a Study Programme student at Green Labyrinth and recently visited to tell us about his time here.
Before Green Labyrinth, Marshall hadn't had the best experience in education; he had been kicked out of college and after his plan to join the Army fell through, he felt directionless and told us he didn't know what his options were for the future.
As an alternative to rejoining the major colleges around Swindon, Marshall joined Green Labyrinth's Study Programme, an educational programme which promotes personalised learning and wellbeing and has a focus on learner progression. He told us he was anxious when he first started at Green Labyrinth but soon discovered "everyone was really nice" and that he "got on with everyone really well".
Marshall told us he began to feel supported and was more confident in himself "pretty much immediately" after starting, and the staff and environment at Green Labyrinth are better than any other school or college he's been to. He told us that the smaller class sizes and the emphasis on emotional and social support made him feel like more of a priority.
"I was more confident in myself pretty much immediately"
When asked about his overall experience of his time in the Study Programme, Marshall happily told us he made friends with most of the students he met while at Green Labyrinth, and his two years in the Study Programme made him more confident and happier in himself.
After Marshall completed his Study Programme, he was offered an apprenticeship as an outdoor instructor and began his new career in October 2019. Marshall told us that working as an outdoor instructor is great fun and he's planning on staying in his current position for the foreseeable future, and before starting at Green Labyrinth, he didn't even know that it was even an option, but he definitely wants to stay and progress in the industry.
In the near future, Marshall wants to travel and continue gaining qualifications so he can progress as an outdoor instructor.
When asked if he would recommend Green Labyrinth to other students, Marshall gave us an enthusiastic "Yes, definitely".
"Would you recommend Green Labyrinth to other students?"
"Yes, definitely"
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Star Wars Minute 57: Five Days' Worth of Sunlight
The small green planet of Alderaan is blown into space dust.
Ryan Haupt
Princess Leia is being interrogated by Governor Grand Moff Tarkin.
Obi-Wan Kenobi senses a disturbance in The Force.
The explosion of Alderaan in this minute.
Tarkin, Leia, Vader sandwich—they are all standing extremely close to each other.
What's the story with Dantooine? This isn't clear as system naming in Star Wars isn't clear.
An ethical dilemma in the real world similar to what Leia faces in this minute.
Did Leia simply lie about Dantooine, was she out of the loop on Rebel activities, or was she making a complex calculation about the best outcome in this situation?
Tarkin (Cushing) trilling his 'R's. Pete wonders if this was a homage to the movie Singin' in the Rain starring Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mother. (Note: Only Pete could make this type of connection; this is Pete's specialty.)
Pete says that Leia's 'surprised face' in this minute is basically just her face in real life now.
Carrie Fisher's wardrobe in Star Wars.
The guys standing in the laser chamber on the Death Star aren't wearing helmets or any other protective gear. Alex points out that even the Imperial Officers that actually pull the levers for the laser are wearing full face masks. Alex thinks they must get prisoners to do the job in the laser chamber.
What are the guys doing in the laser chamber?
Ryan talks about the destruction of Alderaan based on a discussion with a friend of his. All you need to do is apply enough energy to the core of a planet to overcome the gravitational force that is holding the planet together - "That's it!". Ryan provides actual facts and figures regarding Alderaan to explain this.
Ryan explains how the Death Star laser generates and applies energy to its target.
Physical fallout from the destruction of Alderaan.
Earth's moon and how it was created.
Giant impact hypothesis
The amount of energy required on the Death Star to power the laser.
Was the attack filmed and broadcast by the Empire?
Ryan reminds us that sound doesn't travel in space (but see SWM-Canon#Noise in space).
Referenced: Superman, Armageddon (1998).
The attack on Alderaan probably made more people join the Rebellion than anything else. How the Empire would have spun the attack.
Ben's sense of the attack. Alex thought that he said 'oysters' instead of 'voices'.
Referenced: "The Walrus and the Carpenter" poem by Lewis Carroll
Ryan confirms that, in the real world, double star systems are more common than single star systems.
Ryan did, in fact, get the correct bivalve.
There are a few exchanges in this episode whereby Alex and Pete don't hear or respond to Ryan, or vice versa. Intentional, a sound quality issue, or just a part of the cut and thrust of this podcast?
The halfway point of the movie is actually 30 seconds into minute 61.
A request to call 8-DAY-GREEDO with the exact lines of this minute and the previous minute.
Ryan does one of the best ever sign-off set-ups at the end of this episode and it completely catches Pete and Alex by surprise.
Ryan: A Long time. Alex: (Laughs) Ryan: I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself. Alex: Never apologize for quoting Star Wars.
Alex: So, you guys don't want to talk about the planet blowing up, huh?
Alex: Ryan, you're a science guy, what's the deal here?
Pete: And we just watched these too; I should have written it down. (Note - Don't worry Pete, we got you.)
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José Pedro Balmaceda (1948- )
José Pedro Balmaceda was born 22 August 1948 in Santiago, Chile. His mother Juanita owned a women's boutique in the city and his father José was a successful owner of several timber mills. He grew up with five sisters who remained in Santiago all their lives. Balmaceda attended the college preparatory school San Ignatius where he met Sergio Stone, his future partner at the Center for Reproductive Health fertility clinic in the University of California Irvine Medical Center.
Marie Stopes International
Marie Stopes International (MSI) is a not-for-profit organization based in the United Kingdom that promotes reproductive and sexual health. It grew from one small clinic, founded in North London in 1921, into an international provider of reproductive health care and information that operates in almost forty countries. The Mothers' Clinic, from which it grew, was created in the hopes of expanding couples' reproductive rights, and the modern organization continues to work toward the same goal today.
The Mothers' Clinic
The Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control was established on 17 March 1921. The first family planning clinic ever established in Great Britain, it was co-founded by Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes and her husband Humphrey Verdon Roe at Number 61, Marlborough Road in Holloway, North London. The Mothers' Clinic was one of the highlights of Stopes's extensive career as a proponent of available birth control and women's sexual equality.
The Comstock Law (1873)
The Comstock Law was a controversial law because it limited the reproductive rights of women and violated every person's right to privacy. This federal law was the beginning of a long fight over the reproductive rights of women which is still being waged. Reproductive rights are important to embryology because they lead to the discussions regarding the morality of abortion, contraceptives, and ultimately the moral status of the embryo.
2D Obstetric Ultrasound
The development of the obstetric ultrasound has allowed physicians and embryologists to obtain a clear picture of the developing human embryo and fetus during pregnancy. Obstetric ultrasonography, often referred to as ultrasound, is a technology that uses sound waves to produce images of structures inside the human body. A handheld probe emits sound waves, which are reflected back by the different structures within the body.
Subject: Technologies, Reproduction
Sterilization Act of 1924
The passage of the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 demonstrates how science has been used to drive policy throughout history. In the case of the Virginia sterilization law, the science used to draft the law was based on the principles of eugenics. With the help of Harry Laughlin's Model Sterilization Law, the state of Virginia was able to pass its own law allowing sterilization of the feebleminded, expressing sterilization as a health issue that needed to be protected from the public.
China's One-Child Policy
In September 1979, China's Fifth National People's Congress passed a policy that encouraged one-child families. Following this decision from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), campaigns were initiated to implement the One-Child Policy nationwide. This initiative constituted the most massive governmental attempt to control human fertility and reproduction in human history. These campaigns prioritized reproductive technologies for contraception, abortion, and sterilization in gynecological and obstetric medicine, while downplaying technologies related to fertility treatment.
Subject: Ethics, Legal, Reproduction
Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680)
Jan Swammerdam, known as the founder of the preformation theory based on his extensive research on insect development, was born on 12 February 1637 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Baertje Jans Corvers and Jan Jacobszoon Swammerdam. He began medical school on 11 October 1661 at the University of Leiden. A few of his classmates included Regnier de Graaf, Frederik Ruysch, Niels Stensen (Nicolaus Steno), and Robertus Padtbrugge. Padtbrugge would later join the East India Company and send Swammerdam exotic animals.
Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972)
Prior to 1971, women had some difficulty obtaining contraceptive materials due to a law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives by anyone other than a registered physician or registered pharmacist. This limited access to contraceptives had an impact on women's reproductive rights and it was the Supreme Court case Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) that helped bring the issue into the public spotlight. It demonstrated that women's bodies have reproductive as well as anatomical functions, and that the right to privacy extends to those reproductive functions.
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
The landmark Supreme Court case, Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), gave women more control over their reproductive rights while also bringing reproductive and birth control issues into the public realm and more importantly, into the courts. Bringing these issues into the public eye allowed additional questions about the reproductive rights of women, such as access to abortion, to be asked. This court case laid the groundwork for later cases such as Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) and Roe v. Wade (1973).
Weber v. Stony Brook Hospital (1983)
The New York Court of Appeals' 1983 case Weber v. Stony Brook set an important precedent upholding the right of parents to make medical decisions for newborns born with severe congenital defects. A pro-life New York attorney, Lawrence Washburn, attempted to legally intervene in the case of Baby Jane Doe, an infant born with disorders. When the infant's parents chose palliative care over intensive corrective surgery, Washburn made repeated attempts to have the New York courts force through the surgery.
Alexis Carrel's Immortal Chick Heart Tissue Cultures (1912-1946)
In an effort to develop tissue culture techniques for long-term tissue cultivation, French surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel, and his associates, produced and maintained a series of chick heart tissue cultures at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City. From 1912 to 1946, this series of chick heart tissue cultures remained alive and dividing. Since the duration of this culture greatly exceeded the normal chick life span, the cells were deemed immortal.
Evans v. People of the State of New York [Brief] (1872)
Attempts by the New York legislature to make abortion a crime regardless of the stage of gestation were permanently frustrated because the court decided that manslaughter cannot occur until the law recognizes a living being in gestation and that only happens after quickening.
York v. Jones [Brief] (1989)
The court treated frozen embryos possessed by an in vitro fertilization clinic as property owned by the parents and held under a bailment contract by the clinic. As such, the contract between the parties controlled disposition of the embryos but when the contract ended, control of the embryos reverted back to the parents. This decision had little effect on subsequent embryo cases because the circumstances were so unusual. Neither party contended the embryos had any rights.
Doolan v. IVF America [Brief] (2000)
The implication of the court's decision was that Thomas Doolan's identity or personhood existed at the embryo stage in vitro, thus the fact that he was born with cystic fibrosis was not attributable to the decision of the in vitro fertilization providers to implant one embryo instead of another. The other unused embryo may not have carried the cystic fibrosis genes, but that other embryo was not Thomas Doolan. The decision in Doolan has not been publicly tested in other jurisdictions.
A.Z. v. B.Z. [Brief] (2000)
The Massachusetts Supreme Court in a case of first impression decided that a prior written agreement between a husband and wife regarding the disposition of frozen embryos in the event of a divorce was unenforceable. This was the first case to reject the presumption that written agreements to conduct in vitro fertilization practices were binding. The court would not force the husband to become a parent merely because he signed a consent form that would have awarded the frozen embryos to his wife in the event of marital separation.
Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, has been crucial to the clarification of Roman Catholic views on embryos and abortion in recent history. His 1968 encyclical "Humanae Vitae" spoke to the regulation of birth through various methods of contraception and sterilization. This encyclical, a result of Church hesitancy to initiate widespread discussion of the issue in a council of the Synod of Bishops, led to much controversy in the Church but established a firm Catholic position on the issues of birth control and family planning.
Father Frank Pavone (1959- )
Father Frank Pavone, a key proponent of the Roman Catholic Church's pro-life movement, has devoted his life's work to ending abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, and other techniques and procedures that he believes threaten human life from conception to death. His contributions to the pro-life movement include founding a new religious order called the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life and participating in high-profile protests and television interviews for the pro-life cause.
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958)
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 15 October 1880 to Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, a suffragist, and Henry Stopes, an archaeologist and anthropologist. A paleobotanist best known for her social activism in the area of sexuality, Stopes was a pioneer in the fight to gain sexual equality for women. Her activism took many forms including writing books and pamphlets, giving public appearances, serving on panels, and, most famously, co-founding the first birth control clinic in the United Kingdom.
Subject: People, Ethics, Reproduction
Sergio Cereceda Stone (1942- )
Sergio Cereceda Stone was born 16 April 1942 in the coastal city of Valparaiso, Chile. Stone's mother Luz was a housewife and caretaker for Sergio and his younger brother Lionel; his father Sergio served among the country's twenty appellate court judges. In the early 1950s Stone's father relocated the family to Santiago to further his law career.
Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876)
Best known for his contributions to the field of embryology, Karl Ernst von Baer also pursued a variety of other areas of study including medicine, botany, zoology, and anthropology. Committing his life to scientific research, von Baer's work led to the advancement of the understanding of mammalian reproduction, development, and organ functioning. His embryological discoveries ultimately led him to a view of development that supported epigenesis and refuted long-held thinking about preformation.
VACTERL Association
VACTERL association is a term applied to a specific group of abnormalities involving structures derived from the mesoderm. Although the defects of this disorder are clearly linked, VACTERL is called an association rather than a syndrome because the exact genetic cause is unknown. "VACTERL" is an acronym, each letter standing for one of the defects associated with the condition: V for vertebral anomalies, A for anal atresia, C for cardiovascular anomalies, T for tracheoesophageal fistula, E for esophageal atresia, R for renal anomalies, and L for limb defects.
Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)
Henry Havelock Ellis was born on 2 February 1859 at Croydon in Surrey, England, to Susannah Wheatley Ellis and Edward Peppen Ellis, a sea captain. A psychologist, essayist, and physician, he is best known for his contributions to the study of human sexuality and his support of sex education and women's rights. Ellis 's work catalyzed the revolution against repressive Victorian views of sexuality.
Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC)
Established under the Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Act of 2004, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC), also known as the Assisted Human Reproduction Agency of Canada, was created in 2006 to oversee research related to reproductive technologies and to protect the reproductive rights and interests of Canadian citizens. AHRC serves as a regulatory body for the development and use of such research and technology while enforcing the guidelines and restrictions laid out by the AHR Act. | {
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Sea Power: Defence leaders say collaboration important for Indo-Pacific prosperity
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Australia's Defence leaders opened the Sea Power 2022 conference in Sydney on May 10, by outlining the importance of working with like-minded partners for a free, open and prosperous Indo-Pacific.
CAPTION: Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Michael Noonan, opens the Sea Power conference. Story by Lieutenant Commander Anthony White. Photo by Leading Seaman James McDougall.
Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Michael Noonan, told the record number of visiting international navies, industry representatives and Navy members that maritime security was vital to the region's trade, travel and economic prosperity.
"Geography is the most fundamental factor in foreign policy," Vice Admiral Noonan said.
"As our region deals with an elevated strategic competition, the Royal Australian Navy, and the Australian Defence Force more broadly, will operate closely alongside our allies and like-minded partners as a force for good against tyranny, oppression, and authoritarianism.
"The Royal Australian Navy will serve to represent our nation and the hopes we all share for a free, liberal, stable and peaceful Indo-Pacific."
Chief of the Australian Defence Force, General Angus Campbell, referred to the 2020 Defence Strategic Update when he emphasised the Indo Pacific's strategic environment had changed more rapidly than anticipated.
"The assessment of our strategic environment remains salient, including the implications for Australia's Defence planning," General Campbell said.
"The Australian Defence Force is focussed on ensuring we can deploy military power to shape our environment, to deter actions against our interests and to respond with military force when required.
"Unsurprisingly, the strategic importance of the maritime domain has been brought into even sharper relief."
Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Rick Burr, reinforced to the conference the importance of applying the joint force to the maritime and coastal domain and the imperative to collaborate went beyond Defence.
"We succeed when we collaborate with others and this collaboration extends beyond the just partnerships we share with allies and friends," Lieutenant General Burr said.
"It includes focused collaboration with industry and academia and researchers. It helps us think bigger, learn from the ideas or practice of others and improve our resilience."
These themes were further echoed by Air Commander Australia, Air Vice-Marshal Darren Goldie, who described the imperative for the joint force to be "integrated in partnerships and coalitions for purpose."
The Sea Power 2022 conference is part of the Indo-Pacific 2022 International Maritime Exposition.
More than 40 international naval delegations and more than 700 Defence industry companies are participating in Indo-Pacific 2022.
The Sea Power conference ends on May 12.
During the event, a range of expert panels will dive into maritime security challenges and opportunities in the Indo-Pacific and discuss trends, such as emerging grey-zone tactics.
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San Diego's medicinal marijuana community is in the beginning stages of a potentially long and expensive legal battle against city hall. At stake: safe access to medicinal marijuana approved by California voters in 1996.
For over a decade, communities across the state have attempted to regulate co-ops through county mandated regulations, going as far as raiding some storefronts and shutting them down for good. San Diego is no exception. Many co-op operators are currently engaged in litigation with the county's district attorney and mayoral candidate, Bonnie Dumanis.
In September of 2009, the city council voted 6-1 to establish an 11-member Medical Marijuana Task Force comprised of medical marijuana patients, social service providers, co-op operators, a legal professional, a physician, a community planner, a small business owner, a law enforcement representative, and a land use professional.
Over the course of a year, the task force worked diligently to develop recommendations that would curb abuses by certain co-ops and patients, enforcing stricter regulations, but still allowing for safe access. The city council thanked the task force members for their work, but then proceeded to move forward and essentially dismantle their recommendations.
After passing the task force's recommendations onto permit and land zoning sub-committees on March 28th, the council voted on two severely strict ordinances. If implemented, the new ordinances would not only ignore the task force's original suggestions and infringe on state law, but also act as a temporary ban of all co-ops in San Diego. The legal and financial hurdles that each co-op would have to endure to stay open will force many to close for good.
–Cue in the medicinal marijuana patients, co-op operators, dozens of community activists, and legal professionals.
Prior to the city council's first vote in March, activists, patients and medicinal marijuana advocates met to discuss the repercussions of the pending legislation. Five panelists addressed those in attendance. Among them was Eugene Davidovich, representing the local chapter of Americans for Safe Access (ASA), Stephen Whitburn, member of the Medical Marijuana Task Force, and Ben Cisneros and Attorney Rachel Scoma, both representatives of the Stop the Ban Campaign.
Organizers explained the tactics they were employing, such as a letter writing campaign to all council members and a Stop the Ban rally scheduled one hour before the council's 2 p.m. meeting. Some panelists were a bit optimistic that their efforts would pay off and ordinances would be amended to be more in line with state law.
By the time of the meeting, the council had received over 3,700 letters – one of the largest amounts on a single issue in the city's history. That afternoon, close to 300 people rallied in front of the federal building, and then marched toward city hall. The 400-seat council chambers were at capacity. Several community members were seated in an adjoining room and watched the proceedings on a TV.
Patients, parents, lawyers, and community members addressed the council for more than four hours. The majority of speakers spoke against the new regulations, but some, mostly concerned with the "pro-drug message" given to children, spoke in favor of the ordinances. In the end, the city council voted 5-2 in favor of stricter regulations.
The medical marijuana advocates received two concessions. The 1,000 foot requirement was lowered to 600 feet, and the required permit was changed from a process 4 (normally reserved for strip clubs) to a process 3, which still requires community committee approval and can take up to a year.
After the vote, the council gave Mayor Jerry Sander's office 30 days to create a budget and implementation plan. Yet, without waiting on a budget proposal, the council placed the ordinances up for a second and final vote on the April 12th agenda.
This time in greater numbers, activists were much more engaged. On the night of April 5th, they gathered at the La Jolla Brew House with five attorneys to discuss the potential litigation strategies available to both co-op operators and patients.
Costs estimated that evening for litigation, which would spread over several years, were approximately $40,000. A number that led many in the crowd to shudder and voice affordability concerns.
The morning before the April 12th vote, medicinal marijuana activists once again rallied in front of the federal building, marched, and filled the council chambers. The council expected to vote on the ordinances without deliberation, but dozens of activists requested to speak on the issue, forcing Council President Tony Young to open up the items for discussion.
Local Attorney Jeff Lake, like many of the attorneys that spoke that day, pleaded with the council to not waste taxpayer money fighting – from a legal stand point – a losing battle. They offered alternatives, the patients spoke by the dozens, and even a few people spoke in favor of the regulations; but unlike previous testimony, activists came armed with more facts.
In slideshow presentations, they presented crime statistics (which are at their lowest point), displayed county maps of the few developed industrial zones where co-ops would be forced to go, and broke down the finances. One medicinal marijuana advocate said that 50% of the co-ops were prepared to sue, that the city was risking $17 million in sales tax alone, and they would be putting over 1,200 employees out of work and on unemployment.
But at the end of the day, the council once again voted 5-2 in favor of the new ordinances. Council members David Alvarez and Lori Zapf voted against it, citing concerns of forcing the city's problems on only two districts and limiting safe access to hundreds of patients.
Activists booed the final vote and chanted "We demand safe access" while tossing empty prescription bottles on the chamber floor. Five activists linked their arms together and sang "We shall overcome" while police escorted the council members out and requested that the public vacate the chambers. No arrests were made, but activists remain determined to do everything they can.
The fight is just beginning. Co-op operators and patients will file suit against the city for trampling on their state rights, and America's finest city will unnecessarily waste millions of taxpayer funds. As far as your local co-op goes, litigation will determine if their doors are shut for good. | {
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For this project we were given a lot of freedom as long as our animated short was 30-40 seconds long and created around the theme 'bravery'. We came up with an idea we all liked quite early on, a sort of slapstick comedy about a macho man acting tough and then being frightened of a tiny spider whilst timidly trying to remove it from his house. I was cautious about settling on one idea so quickly but we all had a similar idea of what we were going for and all found the idea very funny which I think is a good sign.
Sarah was also keen on incorporating 2D into the animation somehow, so we are considering having a comic book style montage of the man 'gearing up' to fight the spider, where 2D effects such as comic book sound effects and action lines are added to the 3D animation. We also looked into how one might do stylized cel-shaded CGI (examples seen in this Youtube playlist). This 'cool' sequence then works well as buildup to the reveal that he is merely confronting a small spider and his subsequent slapstick comedy reaction to the spider landing on him. I'm glad we're doing something with elements of physical comedy as it is a brand of humour I have great interest in; I even wrote a blog post about it last year.
This is also around the time we came up with a working title for the short, Man vs. Nature. It is a play on the classification of the basic types of conflict in fiction. The fact that 'Man' is in the title is a reference to the character's machismo image which we are hoping to subvert through humour.
Much of our research and planning was done by myself and Erinn (though Sarah and Bradley also contributed!) and that research and planning can be found in this google doc which the team used to collaborate on ideas whilst keeping organised.
One of our main inspirations was Pixar's The Incredibles, particularly the teaser trailer.
We were heavily influenced by Pixar and Disney in terms of character design as well, as many of their characters have very strong use of shape language.
Since our character is a father who likes to think he is tough but is in reality quite soft in more ways than one, we were specifically looking for characters with strong square builds that were contrasted with more rounded shapes in order to make them more friendly looking. Erinn, who did our initial design for the dad character, was strongly influenced by Disney's Wreck-It Ralph for example.
We also looked at a number 'suit-up' montage scenes, mostly from superhero or action movies featuring very manly male men doing very manly male man things.
The fast and dynamic cuts of filmmaker Edgar Wright's montage scenes were another source of inspiration for the style of the opening scene.
As for the house, we are considering having the setting be some version of Scandinavian, at least in terms of interior design if not the characters themselves. Bradley and Sarah are both interested in this and gave us this link to tips on Scandinavian design.
Here are some of the character design sketches I did for this project.
We are also considering incorporating some of our concept art into photographs on the wall which could be featured in the actual short, in the credits perhaps. We all enjoy 2D art and illustration and I think this would be a fun extra which could also benefit our skills and portfolios.
For class on the 16th of November, Sarah, Erinn and I put together a short presentation – found here – where we gathered as some of our inspirations for the project as well as all of our concept art so far. We also showed our first two rough storyboards (mainly Erinn's work) to the class and explained that we were confident in how we were going to combine the two.
I'm glad to see our idea went down well and although I realise we are being ambitious in many ways with this project I am really excited to see what we can do together.
Erinn and I collaborated on this second animatic. I will say though we all tried to work together as much as possible, Erinn and I ended up dominating the story part of the production process simply because we were able to meet up and work together more often – however I do consider creating and critiquing ideas and stories to be something I enjoy doing anyway. While I was sort of in charge of writing the story (not without the others' input!) Erinn was mostly responsible for storyboarding and editing the animatics together and I am very grateful for that, as storyboarding turned out to be more difficult for me than I thought. Meanwhile the character designs and concept art has been split pretty evenly between Erinn, Sarah and I and I think it is heading in a very good direction. I'm also grateful for Sarah as she is interested in working on designing the environments for the short, as is Bradley. Bradley also says he is interested in learning rigging as well as working on the sound design and post production.
Next we will be working to bring our idea into 3D, making 3D Previs and planning the layout of our environments as well as working on modelling and maybe rigging our characters. I will also be starting into Zbrush for both this and the solo project, and I look forward to it as I really enjoyed sculpting with Mudbox last year. I hope I can pick up the skill quickly. | {
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Fairy Tail 2 – 73
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Its times like these, when words really do escape you, when a wealth of emotion just floods through your system, that you know something truly monumental has happened. Something that'll stick with you for ages, probably long past even the contain series' own eventual conclusion.
As a blogger/writer, I have this weird quirk where I have to write about an anime episode immediately after seeing it or I just can't do a decent job of it. Most of the time, that really works to my advantage, even if it is a major time sink. This time? Well lets just say I'm still reeling from what I saw on screen just now, and the words aren't exactly coming to me XD
One could argue, that the saddest thing that any invested audience member can experience is the death of a character that they're attached too. Its used to great effect in a lot of media, where full permanent death can really just mean saying good bye to an awesome character. Fairy Tail's gotten close to something resembling that a few times, even trolled us with the idea somewhat but… What happened this week I think, really captures the essence of the kind of loss that death brings.
Regardless of whether you believe in some kind of afterlife or not, when someone dies, there's one irrefutable fact: You aren't seeing them again in this life time. Its a really painful thing to come to grips with, and its that exact feeling of loss that Mashima-sensei leveraged at this point. He then proceeded to deliver the biggest gut-punch I've seen from Fairy Tail yet.
Lets make no excuses or sidestep what actually happened here. Lucy was faced with a no win situation. She could either sacrifice her best and most cherished friend, her elder sister figure Aquarius, or she could see all her friends and the world perish. And Lucy made the impossibly difficult choice of sacrificing her friend for the greater good, for all intents and purposes.
You can argue that Aquarius doesn't technically die, but I'd argue that for all intents and purposes that is exactly what happened. Not being able to see one another forever? I'd say Aquarius is dead to Lucy in all but name. Sure, Lucy doesn't have to live with the guilt that she ended Aquarius's life, but she gave up their relationship, their physical and emotional connection, all to save the world.
That's kind of a powerful statement here. The sense of loss, what Lucy and Aquarius have to endure in order to save the day? Its immeasurable. Time and time again, Lucy's most lovable and powerful quality has been her friendship and love for the Celestial Spirits. Its been a constant, feel good part of the larger story in Fairy Tail. Sometimes its used to make battles more interesting, some times for comedy, and this one time… To make the audience feel a sense of loss that is otherwise only possible with the literal death of a character.
Beyond just losing one of her closest family though, this whole decision has a deeper implication, one that we've seen constantly explored in the Tartaros arc. Simply put, Lucy had to compromise on her core being, destroy a part of herself, what makes her human, in order to become a hero. In her sacrifice, she also killed the part of herself that's been so admirable so far, i.e her uncompromising love and refusal to use her Celestial spirits as tools.
And in the end, in order to save the day, Lucy had to just that. She had to do the thing she most hated, because there was simply no other way. The sacrifice part of being a hero is something that often gets overlooked in fiction, no matter what medium you're in. But as this episode demonstrates, its the sacrifice of the things that the heroes truly cherish, that makes for the most impressive heroic acts.
I don't care what your opinions of Lucy and Aquarius have been up to this point, they deserve respect, as much as any two fictional characters can get. Their actions were just that impressive, great and utterly heart breaking at the same time.
Speaking of heart-breaking, I'd say It was the flashback scenes that ultimately broke me. I had been watery eyed till then, but once those flashback scenes of Lucy and Aquarius played, with Aquarius's regret and lonliness at forever losing Lucy… Well that just did it. The water works very much started. That sense of pain you get from loss, its unexplainable, unfair and the sort of thing that you wish with all your heart to change but… You can't. Mashima-sensei and then the Fairy Tail anime production staff just… delivered it in full there. I was largely left numb following all that intense sadness.
And man, for once, everything felt like a blurr, an unreal haze. You always hear people say: "It all happened so fast…" and that's just how I'd describe the episode. I'm not sure if that's just because of how powerful and off balancing the Aquarius sacrifice moment was, but I definitely felt like the pacing was lighting fast this week. In some ways, it did feel a bit odd, for this huge and weighty decision to just come out of nowhere. If there were a complaint I'd have for this episode, it'd be that we went pretty quickly from "Lets try and face Tartaros" to "its time for the last resort of last resorts". Then again, I'm not really sure I can hold it against the story, because these kind of insurmountable challenges do hit us suddenly and unexpectedly.
But, Lucy rose to the occasion. She was faced with a choice that no one should have to make, and she made it. For what its worth, Lucy's ultimate sacrifice did pave way for something really frigging awesome, something that I didn't quite think was possible. Lucy summoned the friggin Spirit King himself! Talk about intense! I know I should be happy and all excited about how the Spirit King is going to just own everything and all, and a part of me is but… Right now the Aquarius thing kind of used up most of my mental and emotional bandwidth.
There are some other things that happened of course, like Lammy getting killed by Jackal and what not, but like I said, right now none of that feels important. Something so major has happened, that I think it'll rock the core of what Fairy Tail is for ages to come, or at least, I hope it does. It has to, after experiencing loss like this, I wonder how Lucy will get through this? Will she tell the rest of the guild what happened? What will everyone say to her? All these future moments are going to be equally as important as what we saw go down this week.
I'll say this though… Its episodes like this. Its episodes like this that make Fairy Tail my personal favorite shounen show and one of the best anime, period. I really do feel that after an episode like this, I just feel sorry for all the naysayers who've spoke against this series, disregarded it e.t.c. To me, Fairy Tail trumps impressive series like HunterxHunter, Naruto, Bleach and I'll say it, even One Piece. The way that Mashima-sensei makes you FEEL, its just something that's uniquely his. The feel good moments, the horribly painful ones, they're all quite potent and powerful.
And I think, I have to give a special shout out to Aya Hirano and Eri Kitamura. The two of them absolutely killed it as Lucy and Aquarius, and I think this was definitely a career defining performance for both. They've created a bond between two characters that at least I personally, will remember for years to come.
And while we're on the topic, lets give some props to Lucy, the character, as well. Lucy is a character that a lot of people love to hate on, and I've never really understood that. Despite the rather unrealistic amount of times she seems to lose her clothing, Lucy is such a lovable and likable character, that I can't help but be aghast at some of the hate she receives. I'd easily call her the best female character in a shounen series (granted, she's not got a lot of competition there), and one of the best characters to come out anime as a whole. In some ways, Lucy's kind of even eclipsed Natsu every now and then, and I think this week was one of those times.
In the end, I'd like to say that this was an episode that was both tough to watch, but very very impressive to behold and experience. Normally I'd have not thought twice before giving this an S-Grade, but I don't know I just… didn't feel like it at first. Maybe its because the show just worked its magic too well… I can't seem to think of this episode in a fond manner, no matter how impressive it is. Maybe its the rushed pacing that I felt in the middle of the episode before the whole sacrifice thing actually happened? I'm not sure. I do believe that these kinds of episodes can't really be "scored" or "quantified" by conventional means. Its just something that I think is an experience to be had. Its something that those of us who're fans of Fairy Tail have been lucky to experience because… Its not every day that something can affect you so deeply, in such a personal manner. For that reason alone, I want to give this episode the highest rating I possibly can. For me, this really is the pinnacle of entertainment.
I'm not sure if there's any moment following this episode, that can top it but… I'm definitely curious to see how the story goes from here. Now excuse me, as I go pick up the pieces of my broken heart from the floor, alongside my jaw, and the mush that is my brain.
Lucy's sacrifice paved the way for the Spirit King's arrival. Now its time for Mard Geer and the Spirit King's big battle… Next week.
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The Hawks picked up two injuries in their iPro Sport Cup defeat to York City Knights.
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Coach Matt Bramald said: "Liam got a shoulder injury.
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Waterman went to hospital after taking a bang to the head.
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"Hopefully he will be okay if not for this week, then the week after."
Bramald described the game and his side's performance as "ugly", despite a huge individual effort from hooker George Flanagan.
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Bramald added: "The big down side was we had a game plan and a way we wanted to play and for whatever reason, we didn't follow it.
"It wasn't the conditions – it was a simple plan we could have carried out in any conditions.
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TRENTON, New Jersey — Supporters of Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey gathered in communities across the state this weekend at "Take Action House Parties." During the gatherings, hundreds of activists wrote letters to the editors of local newspapers in support of women's health care funding and gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy. The house parties were organized by the volunteers themselves, taking meaningful grassroots actions and engaging with their friends, neighbors, and colleagues.
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Return To Me by Pastor Teddy
Zechariah 1:1-6
Key Verse 1:3
"Therefore tell the people: This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'Return to me,' declares the Lord Almighty, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord Almighty."
Look at verse 1. "In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo." This is happening two months after Haggai began to urge these same people to rebuild the temple. John Wesley's notes mention this Zechariah as the one Jesus was referring to when in rebuking the Pharisees, he charged them with the guilt of all the spilt blood of the righteous prophets who were murdered for speaking the truth of God's word, among whom was our Zechariah. He must have been an incredibly righteous prophet to be slain by the very people he spoke the word of God to. Jesus said that they murdered him between the temple and the altar (Matthew 23:35), perhaps during a worship service. And Jesus traced Zechariah's righteous blood all the way back to the first martyr who was slain for his righteous faith— Abel whom Cain murdered just because he was jealous of Abel and angry at God for looking with favor on Abel and his offering and not on his own. If indeed this is the same Zechariah whom Jesus was referring to, perhaps the reason for killing any servant of God whose responsibility is to deliver God's word doesn't change much over time. Jealousy and envy of one another, and anger at God may be prime reasons why even God's people become callous of heart and their minds are even filled with murderous thoughts over time. We may not physically raise our hand to kill our brothers or sisters, but we have all known to despise, to envy and to quarrel— to show hostility, to harbor ill feelings and to hold grudges— to murmur and grumble and to complain against one another, even to harm one another. This is enough reason for each of us to study Zechariah with a humble repentant heart so that we may find forgiveness and renewal of heart and soul, and ultimately revival for our ministry that we might be able to do God's kingdom work.
Maybe there were many Zechariahs in God's history, but for all we know, there are only two which any serious Bible student would be intimately familiar with. The first is this Zechariah the Old Testament prophet, and the other is Zechariah the priest, father of John the Baptist. I'm not sure there's any reason for us to make any comparisons between the two Zechariahs here, but the reason I mention them is because I see a resemblance in the way this Zechariah began his ministry and the way the son of the NT Zechariah began his! We know how the Lord God had John the Baptist begin his ministry among a lost and wayward generation of people of God.
After four hundred years of absolute silence, God had John deliver a message of repentance to these people. He preached "A baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins." (Luke 3:3) And he called out to the people who came to be baptized these harsh words: "You brood of vipers!" he said to them, "Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance." he said, "And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' … The ax" he said, "Is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire." (Luke 3:7-9) John didn't mince words; He told them what they really looked like to God. They were ugly because they seemed snug and comfortable in their Jewish-ness, thinking they were God's special people, in spite of their sinful lives. They had no idea how wrong they were. It never occurred to them that they were living under God's wrath and steps away from his terrible judgment. They were like the tree God planted which wasn't bearing fruit— a tree about to be cut down. But God was now giving them a chance to mend their ways and to escape his wrath. His last prophet John, the son of Zechariah had now come to warn them, and there would be no other warnings. And his message was simple. Change your ways, or repent and prepare your heart for the coming Messiah and his Kingdom. Unless you change your ways, that is unless you repent [and be baptized as a sign of your repentance,] there is no way you can be ready to receive God's gift of life— that is, the Messiah's grace of forgiveness and his reign of righteousness in your heart! Repentance and obedient faith are essential here! And it doesn't matter who you are, children of Abraham or not makes no difference, it is your heart that God desires not your ethnic or national origin! I think John the Baptist's message shook up many people's self confidence to the core, because their confidences were misplaced and much of their faith was already deadened by their sinful lives. They needed to hear the message of repentance so that they might prepare their hearts to receive the message of mercy and hope.
Lets go back to the OT Zechariah, our prophet here. And there's a very close similarity in his message and the message of the NT Zechariah's son John. They both begin with a message of repentance to a wayward people who have gone astray from the Lord. Before our OT prophet Zechariah moves on to deliver his apocalyptic messages promising mercy and delivering visions of Messianic expectation and of hope of an Eternal Kingdom and relating of everlasting glory, the prophet begins with a message very similar to that of John the Baptist's— that is, he delivers a message that rebukes God's people and calls them to turn to God and to return to him. Zechariah begins by telling them how angry God had been with their ancestors whom he had sent into exile some seventy years ago. Then the prophet calls them in God's Almighty name to return to God, to make it back home to God where they belong. He warns them not to remain unrepentant as had their ancestors been, hardening their hearts and continuing in their wicked ways. Their forefathers had not listened to nor taken God's word seriously nor taken them to heart. Look, the prophet says to them, what had became of your people!
Read verses 5-6a. "Where are your forefathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever? But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your forefathers?" What had all their stubborn rebellion brought them but disaster! They thought they knew better than God and his outdated prophets. But did that benefit them at all? What were they thinking when they deliberately closed their ears and their hearts to the old prophets' sermons? Did they think that they were too smart to listen to such outdated words and Bible studies? Did they really think they had all the time in the world to sin today and perhaps to repent tomorrow? Were they really going to live forever? Didn't they know that when the opportunity's gone, it's gone forever! Opportunity to what? The opportunity to return to the Lord and stay put! The opportunity to listen to his word! When that opportunity is gone, it's gone! People waste their lives letting such opportunities slip by when they run after worthless opportunities that eventually perish! You will lose everything with roots and foundation in this world— because they will soon perish. One thing alone is meant to last forever. The Lord And His Words. What did the Lord want from his people? "Don't be like your forefathers who didn't listen and pay attention to me." "Return to me, and I will return to you." Let's see what all this means.
Read verses 2-3. "The Lord was very angry with your forefathers. Therefore tell the people: This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'Return to me,' declares the Lord Almighty, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord Almighty." That's why they had been in exile for nearly seventy years, in case they had forgotten, although it's possible that they'd forgotten why their ancestors had gone into exile. It shouldn't surprise you that human beings easily forget things they should never forget, especially the things relating to the Lord their God. Only a few years ago, the whole eastern block of Asia was buried behind an iron curtain spanning seventy years of communistic rule; oppression crushed even the faintest traces of faith plunging many nations under the tyranny of godlessness and despair. No one dared even hope and people suffered beyond imagination. It was God's loving hand of discipline for a depraved monarchy and a decadent church— something unforgettable. When the seventy years were over and perestroika [openness] set in, people were aware of God and his grace; they were also open to the gospel message. They couldn't forget— like the months after our 911 when the churches were still filling up and God was still on people's hearts. But generally in the once-Soviet-Union today, hardly anyone remembers the sin cause that had plunged them into such deep darkness! People so easily forget! "The Lord was very angry with your forefathers" The Lord wanted the prophet to remind these people of something they most probably had forgotten. They must have forgotten that the Lord had been extremely angry with their ancestors. And they had also forgotten something else as well. They had forgotten why the Lord was very angry with their ancestors to send them into exile. These people— these returned exiles had most probably forgotten all this in the security and comfort of their newly established lives in the land of their return. Lord help me remember your grace every moment with every breath we take, never forgetting who you are and what you've done for us in your great mercy. Amen.
So the Lord was angry with their ancestors. And so he commands the prophet to tell these returned exiles: "'Return to me,' declares the Lord Almighty, 'and I will return to you,'". What did he want of them? Actually several things. He's reminding them of why he had been angry with their forefathers, for they had strayed from him. How had they strayed from God? Actually in many ways. Their ancestors, before the exile had become as godless as the peoples and nations around them, if not even more so. They had favored the worship of other gods, and rebelled against the Lord God desecrating his Laws, and abusing his prophets. They were stubborn and faithless, and each one did as they saw fit, while still claiming that they were Jews and the special children of God. They had abandoned God, and so God had abandoned them as he had promised he would do. In the end, the word of the Lord came true and they were carried off in misery into exile, swept away by a ruthless nation. It was then that they began to come to their senses and consider returning to God. Return to me, were God's words to a people who had completely abandoned the God and his ways as set in the Bible. And these same words were being spoken now to the returned exiles for a very good reason. They had forgotten the sins of their forefathers, what their forefathers had become before the day of disaster came and they were carried off into exile. Not these words are being spoken to them because they seem to have inherited the sin of their ancestors.
It was the plea of a father to his wayward children who have gone astray and who often do things in their own way, thinking that as long as they maintain a religious appearance they would be in God's good favor. But the very fact that God said "return to me" is the sign that they had abandoned God. They had been just like their ancestors. No sooner did they return from their exile than the waywardness set in and they began to go astray almost as soon as they arrived. How so? We saw in the Book of Haggai that most of them became devoted to their own private affairs, building their own paneled houses, while the house of the Lord was abandoned and left in ruins. History such as the books of Ezra and Nehemiah the prophets attest that many of them went ahead and married foreign women contrary to the Law of God, which forbade them to marry unbelieving women or women of a different religious background. They had given in to the corruption of the flesh. Who knows, maybe just like the people of today, they thought that loving someone is more important than keeping the holiness and sanctity of God's command! Maybe like some Christians, they revered their lustful desires above the love of God. Who knows, perhaps in their twisted faith it was easy for them to convince each other that God understands why they wished to marry exotic foreign women even against God's wishes. They had surely gone far away from him in the span of a short time. Although God had extended his arm of grace to bring them back home, their hearts and minds already wondered. "Return to me", "And I will return to you". And so, each of them had so much soul searching to do to find out how they might return to the Lord.
And as this word came to them through the prophet, each of them needed to consider the consequences of returning or not returning to the Lord. It isn't easy to return— everyone knew that. Actually everyone who's had to put away something dear or precious to them, or repent of something unholy by cutting it off of their lives, as an act of repentant faith in returning to the Lord, knows that it's not easy— knows how difficult it is— that sometimes returning to the Lord is excruciatingly painful! Listen to what the prophet Nehemiah's words regarding the sin of these people. "I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God's name and said: 'You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves. Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women. Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?'" (Nehemiah 13:25-27) And here are the Prophet Ezra's words in this regard as well. "Now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all these women and their children, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law. Rise up; this matter is in your hands. We will support you, so take courage and do it.' So Ezra rose up and put the leading priests and Levites and all Israel under oath to do what had been suggested. And they took the oath." (Ezra 10:3-5) It sounds harsh. But repentance, or cutting off that which is offensive to God, the very thing that erodes away at your spiritual life until you are left spiritless and desolate and without God's blessing, and so far off from God like these people were, that kind of repentance or "returning to God" was absolutely vital to them because the alternative was much worse. "And I will return to you".
For some of them it was lust and marriages that offended God and for others it was paneled houses private affairs that too priority over God's business. But for you and me, it might be other things that lead our hearts astray from God, and leave our minds dull and thinking that as long as we invoke God's name like a magical charm, we will magically remain in heaven's favor. But if the heart is away from God, God's word must speak to us as well with the same earnestness: "Return to me", "And I will return to you." We always have to search our hearts to find out if anything might have stolen my heart from the Lord's presence and possession. And if we are honest with ourselves and with the Lord, and we see that there is, then we need to deal with it severely. If my heart has been wayward— stolen by an idol, then I must repent and [make my way back] return wholeheartedly to the Lord, casting off whatever has dared to take the Lord's place in my heart. And when I have done that, not only I am most blessed because the Lord is pleased to be with me, but I am a blessing on my community on which I now have influence. God spoke to the individual people, but also to the community as a whole. One person's return can ignite the fire of the whole community's change of heart and the nation's revival.
God would have us return to him and remain in him rather than come and go as his people the Jews did over and over throughout the centuries, where he had to rebuke, chastise and punish them and then restore them— only to repeat the cycle all over again and again. Surely the Lord willed that his people return to him and remain with him that he might remain with them forever. It was his ultimate hope that the day would come when they would return and remain with him forever, for that is God's glorious and eternal hope to be with his people. When he spoke these words to them, "Return to me", "And I will return to you", God understood his people's frailness and weaknesses and tendency for endless failures and mistakes again and again. God knew his people well enough to know that they were unable to maintain their hearts in him long enough before they lost their hearts again to the worldly things all around them. Yet God spoke these words to them not once but several times in history. Why did God do that? Because they were God's words of hope! They looked to a time when his people would return and never again leave his side. They looked to a time when they would return— and he would return— and the twain would forever be together— never to part one from the other. When was that? It was the time of the coming of the Messiah— the Emmanuel— God with us! (Isaiah 7:14)
When our Lord Jesus who is Emmanuel— God with us (Matthew 1:23) finally came to this world fulfilling God's great promise to his wayward people, he called disciples to himself. For the most part, they too were as weak and helpless as the people of whom the Lord God Almighty had to constantly rebuke, chastise and restore in history. But there were a few differences in them. If you would look at Zechariah 1:4, God had trouble with these people because they had too much wax in their ears and would not listen. They despised the prophet's words and never paid attention to the words of God spoken to them. They were prideful and arrogant. And they thought they knew better. But the disciples Jesus called to himself were open hearted and humble, and their crowning glory was they listened to Jesus' every word and accepted his teaching as the words of eternal life. (John 6:68). So before he sealed this eternal life in them with his death and resurrection, Jesus had a powwow with them the night before and taught them many secrets. One of them is that he would soon ascend to heaven and then return to be with them and in them through the Spirit of Christ. And this bonding would be forever— eternal. He said: "Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me." "If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers;" (John 15:4,6) It was not a threat, but a serious word regarding the bond we have in Jesus. It's unbreakable. It's non negotiable. The fruit we must bear depends on remaining bound and bonded to him. There is no going astray and coming back on a whim. There are no gaps in the relationship. There is nothing but a life long bond of cultivating the fruit we must bear. But there is one unchanging principle over time. Remaining in Jesus requires continued the humility of repentance, and in turn that calls for you and me to remain in his word and in his love. (John 15:4,6,7,9,10)
The people of Zechariah's time received this message from the prophet reminding them not to be like their forefathers and close their ears. To open their hearts and receive God's word. To make a decision to return to the Lord and the Lord would return to them, because it was time to make a new beginning. Look at verse 6b. We're not exactly sure who actually repented. But we are certain that repentance is always a good way to respond to the words of the Lord. May God help us listen and respond with humble faith to God's word every time. Amen.
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Sometimes They Can't Appeal Even When the Judge Is Wrong
Legal arguments such as the proper interpretation of a criminal statute which also depend on the evidence don't have to be raised pretrial, even if the evidence the argument is based on is uncontested.
Raising these arguments during trial in the form of a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal can create a double jeopardy bar to government appeal if the judge agrees with you.
And the defendant can't be denied credit for acceptance of responsibility if he goes to trial simply to preserve a legal issue.
Before going off line for the holidays, I thought I'd share some thoughts about a double jeopardy rule that we don't always think about in deciding when to make our arguments about sufficiency of the evidence. There are two types of sufficiency arguments you may have. One type of argument – which we only occasionally run into in federal court – is a case in which the government's evidence simply isn't strong enough to prove what everyone agrees they need to prove. The more common argument – though even this doesn't come up that often – is where everyone agrees the government's evidence doesn't prove some fact, but there's a dispute about whether that fact needs to be proven, most commonly in the form of disagreement about whether the statute requires some particular element. You say it does, and the prosecutor says it doesn't.
Your first impulse on running into such an issue may be to think about filing a pretrial motion to dismiss, in which you explain how the statute requires the extra element the government can't prove, or explain how the evidence as summarized in the discovery is insufficient on its face. But there's two – sometimes three – reasons to hesitate about giving in to this first impulse.
First (this being the "sometimes three" reason), you may not want to show your hand on your view of the statute or the evidence because the government may go out and fix its proof problem. Maybe they don't have any evidence right now on the extra element you're going to argue for, but they could go out and get it if they knew you were going to argue it was required. Maybe the evidence reflected in the discovery that you're going to argue isn't good enough to prove some agreed-upon element could be supplemented if you pointed out its weaknesses. In these cases, you certainly don't want to show your hand ahead of trial.
Second, even if you don't have any concerns about the government being able to fix its proof problem, the law doesn't allow a motion to dismiss that depends in part on the evidence, even when the evidence is completely undisputed. The Ninth Circuit so held in the case of United States v. Blanton, 476 F.3d 767, 771 (9th Cir. 2007), which I talk about a little more below, and also so held in multiple cases before that, see, e.g., United States v. Jensen, 93 F.3d 667, 669 (9th Cir. 1996); United States v. Nukida, 8 F.3d 665, 669 (9th Cir. 1993); United States v. Shortt Accountancy Corp., 785 F.2d 1448, 1452 (9th Cir.1986). The government may not object to you making your motion pretrial, may even prefer that you raise it pretrial, and might even argue that you're required to raise it pretrial, but they're (as they so often are) wrong. And the cases I just gave you say so.
Then there's a third reason for not making your argument or motion pretrial, which is actually my main reason for writing this post and is suggested by the title of the post. You'll note that I suggest just above that the government may prefer or even argue you're required to raise the issue pretrial. And there's a good reason they want that. That's because the double jeopardy clause bars them from appealing if the district court happens to agree with you and grants your motion before there's a verdict. That's the holding of the Blanton case I cite above, and that holding is based on a plethora of court of appeals cases and Supreme Court cases. Those cases hold that double jeopardy bars a government appeal of a judgment of acquittal entered before a jury verdict, states that "it is irrelevant if the acquittal is based on a legal error," Blanton, 476 F.3d at 771, and states that it doesn't matter "that the acquittal may result from . . . erroneous interpretations of governing legal principles," Smalis v. Pennsylvania, 476 U.S. 140, 144 n.7 (1986), quoted in Blanton, 476 F.3d at 771. The constitutional legal reasoning arises out of the rule that jeopardy attaches when a jury is sworn and the defendant is entitled to have his or her guilt decided by that jury. The reasoning is too complex to go through in full, but it's nicely discussed in the Supreme Court cases if you want to dig into it in more scholarly depth.
I've had this come up in a couple of appeals I've handled that I can offer as examples. One is the Blanton case cited above, in which the government tried to appeal a district court grant of a judgment of acquittal on an enhancement fact; the Ninth Circuit dismissed the appeal, explaining that (1) the defendant not only wasn't required to, but couldn't, have made its legal insufficiency argument in a pretrial motion and (2) the grant of a judgment of acquittal in the midst of a trial couldn't be appealed because of the double jeopardy bar (even though the trial on that fact, which had been bifurcated, was a bench trial). The other example is the case of United States v. Rojas-Flores, 384 F.3d 775 (9th Cir. 2004). The argument there was that the evidence was insufficient to prove possession of a weapon in prison in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1791 because the definition of "weapon" didn't apply to three metal "shanks" the defendant possessed. In that case, the district court had ruled against the defense, and so it was a defense appeal and the question of a double jeopardy bar to a government appeal wasn't presented. Still, it's an example of another case in which there would have been a double jeopardy bar if the district court had accepted the statutory interpretation argument, and the appellate court's consideration of the argument shows these sort of arguments can be raised for the first time during trial.
Finally, before I leave you, let me address one last concern that might be entering your mind as you read this – will your client lose the credit that our wonderful sentencing guidelines give for "acceptance of responsibility"? The Rojas-Flores case also considered this question and held that a defendant can't be denied credit for acceptance of responsibility when he goes to trial simply to preserve a legal argument. The court quoted an application note which says that a defendant cannot be denied credit for acceptance of responsibility just because he exercises his constitutional right to a trial and then gives as one example a case "where a defendant goes to trial to assert and preserve issues that do not relate to factual guilt (e.g., to make a constitutional challenge to a statute or a challenge to the applicability of a statute to his conduct)." U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1, comment. (n.2), quoted in Rojas-Flores, 384 F.3d at 780. So no reason to fear this penalty.
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Enter the Grishaverse with Book One of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the number one New York Times-bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: MinaLima Edition
Grisha: Siege and Storm
Enter the Grishaverse with Book Two of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the number one New York Times-bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas.
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
von Suzanne Collins
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.
See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series. All three books in Leigh Bardugo's New York Times-bestselling Shadow and Bone Trilogy are now available together in a beautiful paperback set.
Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air #2)
- Illustrated Edition
- The Original Classic Novel Featuring Photos from the Film!
von Louisa May Alcott
The wolves are circling and a young king will face his greatest challenge in the explosive finale of the instant #1 New York Times-bestselling King of Scars Duology. The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series! | {
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We are planning to have pre-wedding pics in Bali.
Can you please share some details on the packages you have.
If you have any question then please feel free to ask me.
Everything in the photos is exquisite. The calmness of the ocean and serenity of the ocean breeze is felt right through the photos. You did a great job in capturing the awe-inspiring images. Everything is pure bliss. From the location, the couple, the setting and the way you manage to take every single step of their emotions is perfectly shot.. It felt absolutely and completely natural. The chosen addition of sharpness and brightness is purely even. I truly love the night photos. Great job.
Thank you so much Mel !! I have already emailed you back and look forward to being part of your wedding in Bali. | {
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WingaDoos is an interactive financial literacy journey that builds strong money habits in early elementary children K- 2nd grade through engaging video based storytelling and thoughtful lesson plans.
WingaDoos was poised to make the leap from concept to classroom, in need of educator insight and execution to bring their brilliant content, created by Emmy-award winning children's TV producers, to meaningful life in the classroom context. With the implementation of financial literacy varying across the country, WingaDoos needed support crafting standards based lessons that could fit a variety of implementation models.
RYE partnered with WingaDoos at the idea stage to help craft a scope and sequence that reflects CASEL and Jump$tart standards. To ensure content met teacher needs, RYE created and provided on-site training, professional development and delivered pilot lessons in classrooms on behalf of WingaDoos.
WingaDoos school pilot implementation was a resounding success, with glowing reviews from students, teachers and administrators. The strategic advisory RYE continues to provide WingaDoos plot its development and vision of offering a comprehensive four module-based curriculum. | {
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AT3G43960 Arabidopsis thaliana
RD21 Arabidopsis thaliana
CTSV Bos taurus
cpl-1 Caenorhabditis elegans
LOC403708 Canis lupus familiaris
LOC102156614 Canis lupus familiaris
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Cp1 Drosophila melanogaster
CTSL2 Gallus gallus
CTSV Homo sapiens
CTSL2 Macaca mulatta
Ctsl Mus musculus
Os04g0670500 Oryza sativa Japonica Group
CTSV Pan troglodytes
ctsv Xenopus (Silurana) tropicalis
Disease relevance of Ctsl
Psychiatry related information on Ctsl
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Chemical compound and disease context of Ctsl
Biological context of Ctsl
Anatomical context of Ctsl
Associations of Ctsl with chemical compounds
Regulatory relationships of Ctsl
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Ctsl - cathepsin L
Rattus norvegicus
Synonyms: CATHL, CP-2, CatL, Cathepsin L, Cathepsin L1, ...
Erickson-Lawrence, M. et al., Collette, J. et al., Hayes, D.J. et al., Charron, M. et al., Katunuma, N. et al., et al.
Kawada, Hara, Kominami, Tezuka, Takahashi, Takahara, Yoshikawa, Toda, Li-Korotky, Swarts, Hebda, Doyle, Van Den Berg, Aten, Annink, Ravesloot, Weber, Weening, Gordon, Paxton, Kuemmerle, Fox,
CONCLUSION: The constitutive expression of Ctsk and Ctsl messenger RNA in normal middle ear mucosa supports a function in the maintenance of middle ear mucosa homeostasis, and their downregulation as an early event in acute otitis media may reflect a disruption in that function [1].
Cathepsin L and/or K participate in bone resorption based on bone type-1 collagen degradation and the L-type protease inhibitors suppressed the bone resorption [2].
Gel mobility shift and competitive mobility shift assays indicated that this Inr element forms a DNA-protein complex with the HIV Inr-binding protein, LBP-1/CP2 or a homologue [3].
Cathepsin L mRNA was also increased in tibialis anterior muscle of rats treated with the glucocorticoid analogue, dexamethasone, or rats bearing the Yoshida Sarcoma [4].
At 1 week, foreign-body giant cells were observed around CP-1 and CP-2, but not around ARS or ZOE [5].
Thus, the results from this study demonstrate that beta-amyloid impacts on cathepsin-L as an upstream event in the neurodegenerative process and this result highlights the potential role of lysosomal components in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease [6].
The 28- and 38-kD proteins were shown to be identical to the tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) and the proenzyme form of cathepsin L, respectively [7].
This intermediate compartment contained only small amounts of cathepsin L in comparison to lysosomes and was bound by a double membrane, typical of nascent vacuoles [8].
Reduced cathepsin L activity, increased numbers of lysosomes, and the formation of meganeurites are all reported to occur during brain aging; thus, it is possible that the infusion of ZPAD into cultured slices sets in motion a greatly accelerated gerontological sequence [9].
Hepatic collagenase activity was similar to the control; however, hepatic cathepsin B and cathepsin L activity and the intracellular degradation of newly synthesized collagen were markedly decreased 3, 5, and 7 days after partial hepatectomy compared with the controls [10].
Furthermore the mature 29-kDa single-chain and 22-kDa heavy-chain forms of cathepsin L were undetectable in endosomes, although high levels of the 37-kDa proform were observed [11].
Although it is well known that cysteine proteases are strongly inhibited by kininogen, cathepsin L could represent an alternative pathway for kinin production in pathological processes [12].
The mutagenic properties of 2-methylpropene (MP) and 2-methyl-1,2- epoxypropane (MEP) were investigated in the Salmonella assay [13].
Four phthalate esters, namely, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP, di-n-pentyl phthalate (DPP)., di-n-octyl phthalate (DOP), and diethyl phthalate (DEP) were investigated in vivo and their monoesters (MEHP, MPP, MOP, and MEP, respectively) in vitro for indications of Leydig cell toxicity in the rat [14].
RESULTS: Middle ear mucosa expression of a gene cluster encoding the lysosomal cysteine proteases, cathepsins B (Ctsb), L (Ctsl), and K (Ctsk), was modified after S pneumoniae challenge [1].
The rate of hydrolysis of three cysteine-type proteinase substrates, N-benzyloxycarbonyl-Arg-Arg-4-methyl-7-coumarylamide (AMC) (cathepsin B), Arg-AMC (cathepsin H), and N-benzyloxycarbonyl-Phe-Arg-AMC (cathepsin L), were determined in rat lung throughout the time course of the induction of Pneumocystis carinii infection by immunosuppression [15].
Analyses of a series of 5' deletion constructs demonstrated that a 120-base pair (bp) region that spans the transcription start site of the rat cathepsin L gene was sufficient to activate transcription in Sertoli cells isolated from sexually mature rats [16].
A GC-box within the proximal promoter region of the rat cathepsin L gene activates transcription in Sertoli cells of sexually mature rats [16].
Also cathepsin L participates in cell apoptosis mediated by caspase III activation [2].
Collectively, these results suggest that the GC-box is a critical regulatory element for the cathepsin L promoter in mature Sertoli cells [16].
At stages VI-VII, CP-2/cathepsin L mRNA was present in Sertoli but not germ cells [17].
In seminiferous tubules, CP-2/cathepsin L mRNA was undetectable at stage II, increased to maximal levels at stages VI and VIIa,b, and was again undetectable at stage XII [17].
We propose that at stages V-VII, secreted CP-2/cathepsin L degrades adhesion molecules which bind compacted spermatids to Sertoli cells, thereby facilitating movement of these spermatids toward the lumen of the tubule [17].
Previous studies demonstrated that secretion of Cyclic Protein-2 (CP-2) by mature rat Sertoli cells increased 30-fold from stage II to stages VI-VII of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium and suggested that this protein was concentrated around compacted spermatids [17].
On gene array analysis, cathepsin L's message abundance was significantly increased by dexamethasone, and, by in vitro assay, cathepsin L created a 14-kDa carboxyl fragment that corresponded to the sole antigen detected in IEC-18 cell lysates as well as a 16.5-kDa fragment found in the media [18].
Epoxy succinate peptide derivatives, CLIK-066, 088, 112, 121, 148, 181, 185 and 187, are typical specific inhibitors for cathepsin L. Aldehyde derivatives CLIK-060 and CLIK-164 showed specific inhibition against cathepsin S and cathepsin K, respectively [2].
In addition, by using CM-cellulose column chromatography, cathepsin B and L were separated and the level of cathepsin L activity increased significantly [19].
The sequence of rat liver cathepsin L determined at the protein level was identical with that deduced from the cDNA sequence except that in the heavy chain, residues 176-177 (Asp-Ser) were not present at the C-terminus and alanine was replaced by proline at residue 125 [20].
The precursor showed a single protein band with Mr 39 kDa on SDS/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and was immunoreacted with the anti-rat cathepsin L antibody [21].
We found that Raf activation of the ERK mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway alone was sufficient to cause morphologic and growth transformation of the fibroblasts and was necessary and sufficient to alter cathepsin L expression and targeting [22].
Furthermore, the expression of cathepsin L by germ cells isolated from 15-day-old rats (largely spermatocytes and spermatogonia) can be stimulated by Sertoli cell-enriched culture medium in a dose-dependent manner, but not by germ cell-conditioned medium [23].
Interleukin-4 and -13 promote basolateral secretion of H(+) and cathepsin L by glomerular epithelial cells [24].
Cathepsin B-like and cathepsin L-like activities fell below control values initially, but from week 8 of the immunosuppressive treatment significant increases above the control were noted [15].
Although the component protein, P-cystatin alpha itself, inhibited cathepsin H strongly, these conjugated proteins inhibited specifically the cathepsin L family [25].
In neither cell type did Ras expression increase the expression, processing or secretion of 2 other major lysosomal proteases, cathepsin B and cathepsin D. Thus, Ras utilizes different effectors to mediate transformation and to deregulate cathepsin L expression and secretion in fibroblast and epithelial cells [22].
Studies on the substrate specificity indicated that the complex had tryptase-like activities towards various synthetic substrates, but no elastase, chymotrypsin, cathepsin-B and cathepsin-L activities [26].
Furthermore, cathepsin L may play an important role in the degradation of the cartilaginous extracellular matrix in maturative and hypertrophic cell layers during successive developmental stages of the mandibular condyle [27].
1. Cathepsin L was purified from rat liver lysosomes by cell fractionation, osmotic disruption of the lysosomes in the lysosomal mitochondrial pellet, gel filtration of the lysosomal extract and chromatography on CM-Sephadex [28].
By electron microscopy, nerve cells in DRG and SC contained lysosomes labeled by immunogold particles indicating cathepsins B and L, while immunogold particles for cathepsin L labeled lysosomes of glial cells [29].
The isoelectric points of the multiple forms of cathepsin L extended from pH 5.8-6.1 ascertained by analytical isoelectric focusing [28].
The concentrations of cathepsin L in various rat tissues and peripheral blood cells of rats were determined by a sensitive immunoassay, in which the minimum detectable amount of cathepsin L was 20 pg/assay [30].
Enzymatic activity of cathepsin L increased 1.4-fold after 6 h of treatment with the high glucose, and then declined gradually to 72% of control cells after treatment for 36 h [31].
Cathepsin gene expression profile in rat acute pneumococcal otitis media. Li-Korotky, H.S., Swarts, J.D., Hebda, P.A., Doyle, W.J. Laryngoscope (2004) [Pubmed]
Study of the functional share of lysosomal cathepsins by the development of specific inhibitors. Katunuma, N., Matsui, A., Kakegawa, T., Murata, E., Asao, T., Ohba, Y. Adv. Enzyme Regul. (1999) [Pubmed]
The 5'-upstream region of the rat phospholipase C-beta 3 gene contains two critical Sp1 sites and an HIV Inr-like element. Kang, J.S., Lee, H.B., Rhee, S.G., Park, K., Yoo, O.J. Gene (1997) [Pubmed]
Identification of cathepsin L as a differentially expressed message associated with skeletal muscle wasting. Deval, C., Mordier, S., Obled, C., Bechet, D., Combaret, L., Attaix, D., Ferrara, M. Biochem. J. (2001) [Pubmed]
Reconstruction of alveolar bone defect by calcium phosphate compounds. Yoshikawa, M., Toda, T. J. Biomed. Mater. Res. (2000) [Pubmed]
Abeta-mediated activation of the apoptotic cascade in cultured cortical neurones: a role for cathepsin-L. Boland, B., Campbell, V. Neurobiol. Aging (2004) [Pubmed]
Identification of a stimulator of steroid hormone synthesis isolated from testis. Boujrad, N., Ogwuegbu, S.O., Garnier, M., Lee, C.H., Martin, B.M., Papadopoulos, V. Science (1995) [Pubmed]
Studies on the mechanisms of autophagy: maturation of the autophagic vacuole. Dunn, W.A. J. Cell Biol. (1990) [Pubmed]
Suppression of cathepsins B and L causes a proliferation of lysosomes and the formation of meganeurites in hippocampus. Bednarski, E., Ribak, C.E., Lynch, G. J. Neurosci. (1997) [Pubmed]
Hepatic collagen synthesis and degradation during liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy. Yamamoto, H., Murawaki, Y., Kawasaki, H. Hepatology (1995) [Pubmed]
Proteolysis of glucagon within hepatic endosomes by membrane-associated cathepsins B and D. Authier, F., Mort, J.S., Bell, A.W., Posner, B.I., Bergeron, J.J. J. Biol. Chem. (1995) [Pubmed]
A possible alternative mechanism of kinin generation in vivo by cathepsin L. Puzer, L., Vercesi, J., Alves, M.F., Barros, N.M., Araujo, M.S., Aparecida Juliano, M., Reis, M.L., Juliano, L., Carmona, A.K. Biol. Chem. (2005) [Pubmed]
Mutagenicity of 2-methylpropene (isobutene) and its epoxide in a modified Salmonella assay for volatile compounds. Cornet, M., Castelain, P., Vercruysse, A., Laib, R., Kirsch-Volders, M., Rogiers, V. Mutat. Res. (1992) [Pubmed]
The influence of phthalate esters on Leydig cell structure and function in vitro and in vivo. Jones, H.B., Garside, D.A., Liu, R., Roberts, J.C. Exp. Mol. Pathol. (1993) [Pubmed]
Alterations in cysteine proteinase content of rat lung associated with development of Pneumocystis carinii infection. Hayes, D.J., Stubberfield, C.R., McBride, J.D., Wilson, D.L. Infect. Immun. (1991) [Pubmed]
A GC-box within the proximal promoter region of the rat cathepsin L gene activates transcription in Sertoli cells of sexually mature rats. Charron, M., DeCerbo, J.N., Wright, W.W. Biol. Reprod. (2003) [Pubmed]
Cyclic protein-2, a secretory product of rat Sertoli cells, is the proenzyme form of cathepsin L. Erickson-Lawrence, M., Zabludoff, S.D., Wright, W.W. Mol. Endocrinol. (1991) [Pubmed]
A 14-kDa cathepsin L-derived carboxyl IGFBP-2 fragment is sequestered by cultured rat ileal crypt cells. Gordon, P.V., Paxton, J.B., Kuemmerle, J.F., Fox, N.S. Am. J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. (2005) [Pubmed]
Changes of lysosomal proteinase activities and their expression in rat cultured keratinocytes during differentiation. Tanabe, H., Kumagai, N., Tsukahara, T., Ishiura, S., Kominami, E., Nishina, H., Sugita, H. Biochim. Biophys. Acta (1991) [Pubmed]
Amino acid sequence of rat liver cathepsin L. Towatari, T., Katunuma, N. FEBS Lett. (1988) [Pubmed]
Precursor of rat epidermal cathepsin L: purification and immunohistochemical localization. Kawada, A., Hara, K., Kominami, E., Tezuka, T., Takahashi, M., Takahara, H. J. Dermatol. Sci. (2000) [Pubmed]
Enhanced cathepsin L expression is mediated by different Ras effector pathways in fibroblasts and epithelial cells. Collette, J., Ulku, A.S., Der, C.J., Jones, A., Erickson, A.H. Int. J. Cancer (2004) [Pubmed]
Evidence for cross-talk between Sertoli and germ cells using selected cathepsins as markers. Chung, S.S., Zhu, L.J., Mo, M.Y., Silvestrini, B., Lee, W.M., Cheng, C.Y. J. Androl. (1998) [Pubmed]
Interleukin-4 and -13 promote basolateral secretion of H(+) and cathepsin L by glomerular epithelial cells. Van Den Berg, J.G., Aten, J., Annink, C., Ravesloot, J.H., Weber, E., Weening, J.J. Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol. (2002) [Pubmed]
Linkage between phosphorylated cystatin alpha and filaggrin by epidermal transglutaminase as a model of cornified envelope and inhibition of cathepsin L activity by cornified envelope and the conjugated cystatin alpha. Takahashi, M., Tezuka, T., Kakegawa, H., Katunuma, N. FEBS Lett. (1994) [Pubmed]
Identification of targeting proteinase for rat alpha 1-macroglobulin in vivo. Mast-cell tryptase is a major component of the alpha 1-macroglobulin-proteinase complex endocytosed into rat liver lysosomes. Tsuji, A., Akamatsu, T., Nagamune, H., Matsuda, Y. Biochem. J. (1994) [Pubmed]
Synthesis of mRNAs for cathepsins L and K during development of the rat mandibular condylar cartilage. Ohba, T., Ohba, Y., Moriyama, K. Cell Tissue Res. (2000) [Pubmed]
Cathepsin L. A new proteinase from rat-liver lysosomes. Kirschke, H., Langner, J., Wiederanders, B., Ansorge, S., Bohley, P. Eur. J. Biochem. (1977) [Pubmed]
Cysteine proteinases in rat dorsal root ganglion and spinal cord, with special reference to the co-localization of these enzymes with calcitonin gene-related peptide in lysosomes. Taniguchi, K., Tomita, M., Kominami, E., Uchiyama, Y. Brain Res. (1993) [Pubmed]
Purification and tissue distribution of rat cathepsin L. Bando, Y., Kominami, E., Katunuma, N. J. Biochem. (1986) [Pubmed]
Expression of cysteine proteinases and their inhibitor, cystatin beta, in cultured rat mesangial cells. Makita, Y., Ishidoh, K., Kominami, E., Funabiki, K., Koide, H., Tomino, Y. J. Diabetes Complicat. (1998) [Pubmed] | {
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What We Wish Every Reporter Would Have Said About Covering The Arrival Of The Royal Baby [Video]
This reporter just said on TV what everyone of us watching was thinking. Do you think he will be fired?
Hear ye, hear ye! On this day, July 22, Prince William and yon wife Kate Middleton have successfully created the third successor in line for the British throne: a (still unnamed) baby boy.
Cassandra Rose
Kate In Labor
"Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge has been admitted this morning to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London in the early stages of labour." A royal spokesman released this news early this morning.
The Most Gentlemanly Prank You Will Ever See [Video]
I love pranks that are designed to create genuine laughter and not leave anyone hurting. This is my kind of prank. It is simple, elegant and quite funny. Especially when you consider the fellow who becomes the butt of the joke
Middleton's Nurse Found Dead
The hospital receptionist who was hoaxed by a prank call from DJ's Mel Greig and Michael Christia claiming to be the king queen asking about Kate Middleton has been found dead.This is really sad. According to Yahoo -
Kate Middleton Phone And Bank Records Hacked
I am all for journalists digging deep to get a story. I don't like this kind of journalism though. A reporter for News International has allegedly hacked into to Kate Middleton, now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, personal telephone and financial accounts. The company that did the hacking is owned by Rupert Murdoch the same guy that owns Fox and Fox News.
Signs You're Obsessed With The Royal Wedding
Living on London time, it's a phrase I am not allowed to use around my house. Basically it means in my world, the world of a morning disc jockey, I exist in the same time zone as London England. Many of you will feel that jet lag sensation this Friday when you wake up to experience "The Wedding"! Are you obsessed with the Royal Wedding? Let's take a look at some tell tale signs. Read Mo
The Royal Dress Code, It's What To Wear On Friday
This Friday it's the Royal Wedding of Prince William and the very lovely Kate Middleton. The world will be watching and many will be in attendance vicariously hosting "wedding breakfasts" while they watch on television. So if you were going to "The Wedding" what would be proper attire?
The Royal Wedding By The Numbers
It's the stuff that fairy tales are made of, a Prince takes his Princess' hand in marriage. The carriage, the castle, the satellite trucks, the TV crews, the guys selling souvenirs it's going to be a production. Tracy and the Good Morning Acadiana crew will have the coverage of the royal wedding on KATC TV 3, but here is a little inside information for those of you who just can't wait...
Two Words You Should Know If You Want Your Relationship To Last
Thank You, yes that is a phrase that you should know and speak quite frequently to your significant other. But the two words I am talking about we use more with strangers than we do with the ones we love the most. | {
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Match Genk-Besiktas Europa League the fixture is set to kick-off today 17:55 on Luminus Arena. Refereee Tobias Stieler.
Team Genk is at the top place in the table (1 place). Genk in 5 last matches (league + cup) have collected12 points. The most goals in Europa League for Genk scored: Mbwana Samata 9 goals, Leandro Trossard 7 goals, Ruslan Malinovsky 3 goals. Players with the most assists: Mbwana Samata 1 assists, Leandro Trossard 1 assists, Ruslan Malinovsky 2 assists.
In Genk not occur in the match due to injury: Vladimir Screciu, Leandro Trossard.
Team Besiktas currently is on lower place in table (4 position). In 5 last matches (league + cup) team gain 7 points. Besiktas did not win the match away from 3 games. Leading players Besiktas in Europa League is: Cyle Larin 3 goals, Vagner Love 3 goals, Jeremain Lens 2 goals. Players Cyle Larin 2 assists, Jeremain Lens 3 assists will have to be very well guarded by defenders Genk, because they have the most assists.
In Besiktas not occur in the match due to injury: Mertcan Acikgoz, Alpay Celebi, Gokhan Tore.
Direct matches: Genk won more direct matches. Genk won 1 matches , Besiktas won 0 direct matches, was a 0 draws. In 1 matches the sum of the goals both teams was greater than 2.5 (Over 2.5), and 1 matches teams scored more than 1.5 goals (Over 1.5). In 1 matches the both teams scored a least one goal (Both teams to score). | {
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Deposition of Trump Org CFO looms in DC lawsuit accusing Trump 2017 inauguration committee of abusing funds
By Jessica Schneider and Kara Scannell, CNN
Updated 10:25 PM EDT, Thu May 27, 2021
Sources: Trump Org. CFO under criminal investigation
Documents due in DC Superior Court on Friday could clear the way for the Trump Organization's chief financial officer to be deposed as part of a DC attorney general lawsuit that alleges former President Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural committee abused non-profit funds.
The CFO, Allen Weisselberg, is already at the center of two investigations in New York: the state attorney general's office has opened a criminal tax investigation into Weisselberg, people familiar with the investigation said, while prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney's office are digging into his role at the Trump Organization as part of a criminal investigation into the company, Trump, its executives and the Trump family, the people said.
The DC lawsuit, filed by Attorney General Karl Racine in January 2020, accuses the Trump Presidential Inaugural Committee of coordinating with the former President's family to "grossly overpay" for event space for inauguration events in January 2017 at the Trump International Hotel in DC.
Weisselberg's name has surfaced in recent court filings, and now DC prosecutors are working to determine why he was pulled into a review of the inaugural committee's financial records despite having no known affiliation with the inauguration.
In emails disclosed in a May 2020 court filing, Weisselberg was contacted by the Trump Presidential Inaugural Committee's then-deputy chair Rick Gates on April 19, 2017, who later pleaded guilty to charges stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller.
Gates introduced Weisselberg to Doug Ammerman, the committee's treasurer, via email and told Ammerman: "Please reach out to Allen to walk him through the auditing process for PIC and the activities that were conducted throughout the project."
The existence of these emails was first reported by Mother Jones.
The emails were sent the same day that the committee filing with the Federal Election Commission – which details it raised a record $107 million – became public, spurring news articles that identified major donors and raised questions about how the haul was spent and what would go to charity.
A person familiar with the arrangement said that Trump, aware of the press, told Tom Barrack, then chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, to send all the records to Weisselberg for review. Barrack gave Gates the assignment, this person said.
A subsequent email sent about a half hour later from Weisselberg to Gates and Ammerman requested "the latest report reflecting all revenue broken down by its sources as well as a detailed distribution schedule by vendor … ," according to court documents.
The DC attorney general lawsuit alleges that the committee improperly used funds to host a private party at the Trump International Hotel, and wasted about $1 million in charitable funds by overpaying for event space at the hotel.
Prosecutors at the attorney general's office also allege that the inaugural committee paid nearly $50,000 for a block of rooms reserved by the Trump Organization at the Loews Madison hotel. In March, prosecutors said they needed more time to investigate inconsistencies in testimony relating to the invoice for that hotel room block.
"Upon reviewing the PIC's budget reports, Mr. Weisselberg would have seen that the PIC had funds leftover," the court filing said. "The decision for the Trump Organization to punt its debts to the Loews Madison over to the PIC occurred in July 2017, after Mr. Weisselberg had reviewed the PIC's financials. As a de facto representative of Donald Trump's business interests during the relevant period, Mr. Weisselberg may have information relevant to why the PIC's funds were used to pay a debt of the Trump family business."
A lawyer for Weisselberg declined to comment. The Trump Organization has asked the judge to rule in its favor, said the attorney general failed to "adduce any competent evidence" and called the allegations "frequently fanciful." A lawyer for the company declined to comment.
The DC Attorney General's Office first said in March that it wanted to depose Weisselberg as part of its review of the inaugural committee's finances, but it agreed to wait for the judge to rule on motions for summary judgment.
The final documents related to those motions are due Friday. Sometime after that deadline, the judge will rule on the outstanding motions and decide whether to reopen the discovery window to allow Weisselberg's deposition. | {
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This compact handheld electronic calculator has an aluminum case with plastic trim and an array of brown plastic keys. In addition to digit keys, a decimal point key, and a total key in a central block, there are four keys for arithmetic functions to the right of the digit keys. A column on the left has percentage, square root, C (clear entry), and AC (all clear) keys. Above these is a power switch and three memory keys. Text behind the keyboard reads: CASIO LC-825 ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR. Text below the keyboard reads: LIQUID CRYSTAL. The eight-digit yellow liquid crystal display is above the keyboard.
A mark on the back reads: BM CASIO LC-875 (/) 1.5Vx2(DC) 0.0003W (/) CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. (/) made in Japan. Unscrewing two screws at the base of the back makes it possible to change the two squat batteries. A sticker on the inside back of the case reads: 0642719.
The calculator fits in a brown leatherette case. A mark on the outside of the case reads: CASIO (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR.
The Casio LC-825 was advertised in the Chicago Tribune December 13, 1978, but apparently was not a great success.
Chicago Tribune, December 13, 1978, p. B5. | {
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More of us are drinking recycled sewage water than most people realise
by Ian Wright, The Conversation
The Hawkesbury's waters look beautifully natural but treated sewage makes up to 20% of the river flow where the North Richmond Filtration Plant draws its water. Credit: Karl Baron/flickr, CC BY
The world is watching as Cape Town's water crisis approaches "Day Zero". Questions are being asked about which other cities could be at risk and what can they do to avoid running dry. In Perth, Australia's most water-stressed capital, it has been announced that the city is considering reusing all of its sewage as part of its future water supply.
Drinking recycled sewage is a very confronting topic. But what many people don't realise is that we already rely on recycled sewage in many Australian water supplies. Even in Australia's biggest city, Sydney, it is an important part of the water supply. This is because many large towns discharge their treated sewage into the catchment rivers that supply the city.
But Perth is now looking to recycle all of its treated sewage. At the time of writing, the city's water storages were at a low 35.3%. Cape Town's reserves, by comparison, are at a critical low of 23.5% – but Perth was close to that point just a year ago when it was down to 24.8%.
Perth has been progressively "drought-proofing" itself by diversifying the city water supply. River flow and storage in dams accounts for only 10% of this supply. Desalination and groundwater extraction provide about 90% of the city's supply. Only about 10% of Perth's sewage is recycled, through advanced treatment and replenishment into its groundwater supplies.
Justifiably, many people have concerns about drinking recycled sewage. This reflects long-standing concern about hazards of contaminated water. An example is the devastating waterborne disease of cholera, which claims the lives of more than 100,000 people a year. Cholera is rare in many countries, but is endemic in waters across Africa and much of Southeast Asia.
As wastewater treatment technologies improve and urban populations grow, however, interest in using treated sewage in drinking water supplies has been increasing. No Australian urban water supply currently uses "direct potable reuse" of treated sewage, but the concept is being seriously considered.
So how is treated sewage being indirectly reused?
There is, however, indirect reuse when water is drawn from rivers into which recycled sewage is discharged upstream. For instance, the catchment of Sydney's giant Warragamba Dam has a population of about 116,000 people. This includes the large settlements of Goulburn, Lithgow, Moss Vale, Mittagong and Bowral. These communities discharge their treated sewage into the catchment rivers.
The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority regulates these discharges, which form a small part of the total annual catchment inflow to the dam. Such recycling of sewage is termed "indirect potable reuse".
St Marys Advanced Water Recycling Plant, one of the biggest in Australia, treats sewage and discharges the water into the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Credit: Ian Wright, Author provided
Residents in some parts of northwestern Sydney also drink water that is partly supplied by another form of indirect reuse of treated sewage. The North Richmond Water Filtration Plant extracts and treats water drawn directly from the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. A major contributor to the river flow is treated sewage discharged from upstream treatment plants.
These include plants in the Blue Mountains (Winmalee), St Marys, Penrith, Wallacia, and West Camden. The largest individual discharge of treated sewage to the river in recent weeks is from St Marys Advanced Water Recycling Plant, one of the biggest in Australia. This plant uses advanced membrane technology to produce highly treated effluent before it is discharged into the river.
Available data are limited, but in the very low river flows in the recent dry summer I estimate that treated sewage comprised almost 32% of the Hawkesbury-Nepean flow in the North Richmond area for the first week of January. The water is highly treated at the Sydney Water-owned North Richmond plant to ensure it meets Australian drinking water guidelines.
Every year the river receives more and more treated sewage as a result of population growth. This is certain to continue, as Greater Sydney is forecast to gain another 1.74 million residents in the next 18 years. Much of this growth will be in Western Sydney, one of the most rapidly growing urban centres in Australia. This will result in more treated sewage, and urban runoff, contributing to the Hawkesbury-Nepean River flow.
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However, most of Sydney's sewage is not recycled at all. Three massive coastal treatment plants (at North Head, Bondi and Malabar) serve the majority of Sydney's population. These three plants discharge nearly 1,000 million litres (1,000ML) of primary treated sewage into the ocean every day. That is roughly an Olympic pool of sewage dumped in the ocean every four minutes!
Perhaps if Sydney was as chronically short of water as Perth there would be plans to recycle more of its sewage. Instead, Sydney has adopted desalination as a "new" source of drinking water, rather than treating larger volumes of sewage for any form of potable reuse.
Sydney's desalination plant sits idle about 10 kilometres south of the Malabar treatment plant. It has a capacity for supplying 250ML a day. Even though it isn't supplying water now, it is very expensive. In 2017, the privately owned plant, sitting on standby, charged Sydney Water A$194 million.
Only when Sydney's storages fall below the trigger of 60% will the plant supply drinking water. With storages at 76.5%, the plant will not operate for a while.
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The term business logic tier is suggestive enough-this is the layer where the business objects and rules are modeled. It is common practice to build applications with three layers, with each layer hosted on one tier of a three-tier architecture. The business layer lies between the persistence layer, which stores the data, and the presentation layer, which provides the user interface. In this chapter, we'll discuss some of the best practices for developing a business tier and show how WTP can be used to do this.
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December 25: Happy Birthday, Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart, born December 25th, 1899, was an American actor dubbed the greatest male star in the history of American cinema by The American Film Institute. Bogart attended a prestigious academy in Andover, Massachusetts as a young man, but he was eventually expelled from the institution. With no other options, Humphrey joined the Navy. While serving, he was injured in the bombing of the USS Leviathan. The partial facial paralysis that resulted from the attack gave him the signature vocal and facial style that he became famous for.
Many people identify Bogart as a film actor, but he actually made numerous radio appearances after moving to Hollywood. Both Lux Radio Theater and Screen Guild Players featured famous actors in their starring roles, and Bogart made numerous appearances on these programs. He also performed on Command Performance, a post World War II program that let Bogart chat with Lauren and Frank Sinatra. In addition to his regular positions, he also had several guest appearances on shows such as Jack Benny.
Bogart, a heavy smoker and drinker, was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus in January of 1956. On January 14th, 1957, weighing just 80 pounds, the legendary actor passed away at the age of 57.
"Here's looking at you, kid" - Casablanca
Labels: Command Performance, Hollywood, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Benny, lux radio theater, the greatest male star in the history of American cinema, World War II
June 14: Burl Ives
Whether it was his irascible personality in various motion pictures or as an animated host for playful reindeer, people instantly knew who Burl Ives was. Mr Ives had the voice that played to the radio audience because of its intrinsic calming quality and valued variance of intonation. Born June 14 of 1909, Burl Ives captured the American stage, movie and radio enclave with an almost operatic enhancement. One could say his first public performance was of him singing to a group of old soldiers. His uncle asked him to sing before the group and immediately his talents were noticed.
His early days had him partnered with the Boy Scouts of America as a spokesman and a former scout. Radio was a big part of Burl Ives, beginning with his first 1940's radio program called The Wayfaring Stranger, where Ives first heard the news of WWII. Mr Ives continued to work on radio guest-starring on programs such as Bing Crosby, Martin and Lewis and Command Performance. He continued to parlay his hand with folk music, becoming part of the "The Almanacs". As the war with Germany was going on, Burl Ives and his group could be seen around the country supporting the war effort and urging Americans to stay strong.
In 1947, Ives paired with the Andrews Sisters to record for Decca Records and held for weeks one of the highest selling recordings of the day. Although cleared of any communist sympathies, Burl Ives had to face the charges during the 1950s.
During this period, and into the 60's, Mr Ives performed in various motion pictures. Into the 90's, he was a great lover and performer of country music, stay involved in films and lent his voice to animated characters. He is probably most remembered as the host snowman for the classic , "Rudolph, The Red-nosed Reindeer". Burl Ives was married twice and one son.
In 1995 he passed away from complications dealing with oral cancer. It has always been a well-known belief that Burl Ives personified joy and happiness in everything he did...and lived.
Labels: Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Command Performance, Martin and Lewis, Wayfaring Stranger, WWII
April 28: Happy Birthday, Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore's 61st birthday celebrated at MGM with a few of his friends! Norma Sheaerer on his right and Rosalind Russell on his left. In back of him he has Mickey Rooney, Robert Montgomery, Clark Gable, Louis B. Mayer, William Powell and Robert Taylor.
Known to have been a reluctant performer in a family full of them, Lionel Barrymore is much loved for his annual performance as Ebenezer Scrooge on various old time radio programs. His biggest gig was in The Story of Doctor Kildare, in the role of Doctor Gillespie. Gillespie was the older doctor who graciously mentored Kildare.
He was the mayor of the town Mayor of the Town, a 1940s radio series, and made many appearances on Lux Radio Theatre, Command Performance, and Kraft Music Hall.
He would go on to shine as a screen actor in such movies as It's a Wonderful Life and A Free Soul, winning an Oscar for the latter. Ask your friends if they know who was born today in 1878. Tell 'em Lionel Barrymore -- that's who!
Labels: A Free Soul, Command Performance, Doctor Gillespie, Ebenezer Scrooge, It's a Wonderful Life, Kraft Music Hall, Lionel Barrymore, Lux Radio Theatre, The Story of Doctor Kildare
October 17: Happy Birthday, Rita Hayworth
A dancer as a child and actress and sex symbol as an adult, Rita Hayworth was born Margerita Carmen Cansino on this day in 1918.
Star of Gilda, Pal Joey, and Separate Tables, the stunning brunette was also once married to Orson Welles and romantically involved with Prince Aly Khan, Aga Khan's son.
But let's allow others to worry about her lovelife, her scandals and intrigues. We're here to celebrate her radio performances: there were many. She appeared on The Lux Radio Theatre, Gulf Screen Guild Theatre, The Pepsodent Show (hosted by Bob Hope), Suspense, and Command Performance. On these top-flight shows, she acted alongside Cary Grant, Cecil B. DeMille, George Burns, and Angela Lansbury.
Hayworth was dashing and sensual, and has been recognized by collective memory as one of the great film actresses of all time.
Labels: Bob Hope, Cary Grant, Cecil B. DeMille, Command Performance, George Burns, Gilda, Lux Radio Theatre, Margarita Carmen Cansino, orson welles, Pal Joey, Prince Aly Khan, Rita Hayworth, Separate Tables, Suspense
September 16: Happy Birthday, Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall, today's birthday girl (1924) may be the only Hollywood figure to ever win the award for Prettiest Usher, a distinction Ms. Bacall garnered in 1942 while working on Broadway. Incidentally, she made the acquaintance of ace thespian Gregory Peck while toiling in this capacity.
We may best know Bacall from her "bogey and fame", but she is now of course a legend in her own right, known not just for her elegance and beauty but for her considerable acting chops.
Her electrifying voice played no small part in this, and it is what caused her to translate to radio so well. Let's not forget that the dynamic duo of Bogey and Bacall also starred in a radio program called Bold Venture. It was sort of about Bogart's characters' love for his small boat, but Bacall co-starred, and actors like William Conrad, David Rose, and Jester Hairston were also involved.
Ms. Bacall was also a gas on such radio programs as Command Performance and Let's Playwright. In 1997, she gave an introduction to a broadcast fundraising event for Bill Clinton. How's that for versatility?
Lauren Bacall passed away earlier this year (2014) at the age of 89. Happy Birthday, Lauren Bacall!
Labels: Bill Clinton, Bold Venture, Broadway, Command Performance, David Rose, Gregory Peck, Jester Hairston, Lauren Bacall, william conrad
May 3: Happy Birthday, Bing Crosby
A stirrer of the imagination, a soother of souls, a gentle and loyal companion, Bing Crosby is a crooner for all-time, a superstar of the twentieth century. Known for his songs "White Christmas," "Surrender Dear," and "Sweet Leilani," the baritone was called "the most admired man alive" by Yank magazine.
From 1935-'43, Crosby appeared regularly on Kraft Music Hall. He also made many appearances on Command Performance and Philco Radio Time. These performances, in addition to showcasing his now-legendary vocal skills, allowed him to work with the biggest names of the day, including Peggy Lee, Boris Karloff, Al Jolson, Groucho Marx, and Fred Astaire.
The story has it that his nickname Bing (he was born Harry) came from his infatuation with the comic strip Bingville Bugle.
Labels: al jolson, Bing Crosby, Bingville Bugle, Boris Karloff, Command Performance, Fred Astaire, groucho marx, most admired man alive, Peggy Lee, Philco Radio Time, Surrender Dear, Sweet Leilani, White Christmas
April 12: Happy Birthday, Ann Miller
Today we commemorate the birth on this day in 1920 of charming and lovely screen actress Ann Miller. No flash in the pan or overnight success, Miller paid her dues and toiled for years before becoming a major film star.
She is reputed to have been discovered by Lucille Ball during a nightclub song and dance act, and went on to spectacular musical roles in such films as "Small Town Girl," "On The Town," and "Kiss Me Kate."
The versatile performer made a few, memorable radio appearances. Many of these were on the shows devoted to entertaining the WWII troops, including G.I. Journal and Command Performance. In 1940, she appeared in Forecast a series highlighting notable people from a particular state. Her episode took a look at Texas's Sam Houston.
Happy birthday, Ann Miller!
Labels: 1940, Ann Miller, Command Performance, dance, G.I. Journal, Kiss Me Kate, Lucille Ball, musical, On The Town, radio, Small Town Girl, Texas' Sam Houston, WWII
March 22: Happy Birthday, Chico Marx
It's pronounced "Chick-o." Legend has it that in an early press release, the typesetter forgot the "k," and in a spirit of whimsy, the Marx Brothers left it that way. It therefore began to be pronounced the way it was spelled, and the name essentially began going by either pronunciation.
In the fall of '32, the mispronounced Marx brother began appearing with just Groucho on a radio program called Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel, the Monday installment of Standard Oil's Five Star Theatre. Chico played Emmanuel Ravelli, the assistant to Groucho's lawyer character.
In Spring of '34, the two had a quick stint on a show called Marx of Time which lampooned current events.
Chico appeared in a handful of episodes of Pabst Blue Ribbon Town, which Groucho Marx hosted.
He also lent his talents to Command Performance, Radio Hall of Fame, and Hollywood Hotel. The piano-playing funny man died in October of 1961. His real name was Leonard.
Labels: Chico Marx, Command Performance, groucho marx, Hollywood Hotel, Marx Brothers, Radio Hall of Fame
March 16: Happy Birthday, Henny Youngman
Not quite St. Patty's Day and not the Ides of March, today is still special by way of marking the birth of comic groundbreaker Henny Youngman. There are many examples of people who adore Youngman's work. Take my wife...please. Youngman wrote that seminal one-liner, along with, "I miss my wife's cooking...as often as possible," and "I was so ugly, when I was born, the doctor slapped my mother."
Youngman was born Henry Yungman in Liverpool, England, in 1906. He learned the violin, began playing it in a jazz combo in American nightclubs, and then got into comedy. He ground out the brutal nightclub circuit for the rest of his life, though for much of it was an established star.
His fame as a comedian took him to old-time radio, with appearances on Radio Hall of Fame and Command Performance. We salute the King of the One-Liner, Henny Youngman.
Labels: Command Performance, Henny Youngman, Henry Yungman, King of the One-Liner, Liverpool England, Radio Hall of Fame
November 23: Happy Birthday, Harpo Marx
According to his memoir, Harpo Marx was thrown out of school in the second grade. But not how you might think. Literally thrown out. In Harpo Marx, the blonde-maned, second-oldest Marx brother says that Irish bullies in his New York City elementary school would convey him out the window of his learning institution.
No, the school didn't throw Harpo (born Adolph Marx) out: he quit.
From there, it was comedy on stage, screen, and airwaves. Fans of harp solos should check out Mr. Marx's appearances on Command Performance, and The Burns and Allen Show. We salute today's birthday boy, Harpo Marx.
Labels: Adolph Marx, Burns and Allen, Command Performance, Harpo Marx
October 31: Happy Birthday, Ethel Waters
Tied for Halloween for greatest significance today is the birthday of singer, actress, and pioneer, Ethel Waters.
Waters was a groundbreaker and trailblazer for many later African-American singers and performers of all stripes. She ground out a living on the hard-scrabble vaudeville circuit in the early 20th century, then became a staple of the still-developing artform known as jazz. She's best known for her big hit songs such as "Dinah," "Stormy Weather," and "Heat Wave."
She was the first African-American woman to star in a nationally-broadcast radio program, and turned in great appearances on Jubilee, The Tex and Jinx Show, The Big Show, and Command Performance. We salute a strong and successful woman and a great addition to the universe of oldtime radio.
Labels: Big Show, Command Performance, Dinah, Ethel Waters, first African-American woman to star in a nationally-broadcast radio program, Heat Wave, Stormy Weather, Tex and Jinx
September 3: Happy Birthday Alan Ladd!
Sept 3: Happy Birthday, Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd (born Alan Walbridge Ladd) debut as a lead in a major motion picture was in 1942 in This Gun for Hire. This collection includes his radio version of This Gun for Hire from Lux Radio Theater.
Alan Ladd with daughter, AlanaOther films that he starred in include, The Great Gatsby, The Blue Dahlia, and The Glass Key. He continued to star in major roles such as the critically acclaimed Shane in the 1950s and until his death in 1964. Remembered both on screen and on the radio as a top-rate performer.
This collection hopes to honor the work of Alan Ladd on radio. The second volumes contains the complete collection of Box 13, his most memorable role on radio as Dan Holiday. On the first volume there are also examples of some of his best work on the radio from shows such as Burns and Allen, Command Performance, Jerry at Fair Oaks, Lux Radio Theater, Screen Director's Theater, Screen Guild Theater, and Suspense.
Labels: Alan Ladd, Birthday, Box 13, Burns and Allen, Command Performance, Dan Holiday, Jerry at Fair Oaks, lux radio theater, Screen Director's Theater, Screen Guild Theater, Suspense
July 16: Happy Birthday, Ginger Rogers
The Rogers of Astaire and Rogers was born July 16, 1911. The lovely Ginger Rogers was a captivating dancer and actress would perform more than 10 movies with Fred Astaire and be a romantic focus of his as well. Born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence Missouri, Ginger would grow up with her grandparents in Kansas City. During this time her mother worked in Hollywood writing scripts. Due to the fact one of her cousins could not properly pronounce her first name, she took on the nickname of "Ginga'." "Ginga'" moved to Texas where where her mother was working as a theatre critic for a Fort Worth newspaper. During this time, Miss Rogers became fascinated with the stage and started to learn to sing and dance. She became involved vaudeville and the stage, performing in a number of productions. One of her most memorable was Girl Crazy, where she met the choreographer, Fred Astaire, for the first time. By 1929 she had moved onto Hollywood and became a film performer. During the years of 33-39 she made a number of films with Astaire as her dancing partner. Rogers made a number of guest appearances on radio. her academy award winning Kitty Foyle was a showpiece on Lux Radio Theatre. She also made appearances on Command Performance, Screen Guild Theatre, G.I. Journal and Suspense. Ginger Rogers had as much presence on-air as she did on the motion picture screen. She was married five times, but never to Fred Astaire. She loved to perform, be involved in civics and enjoyed people. She left this world in 1995 of a heart attack. She had danced her last earthly dance.
Labels: Command Performance, Fred Astaire, G.I. Journal, Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle, Lux Radio Theatre, Screen Guild Theater, Suspense
June, 30: Happy Birthday, Lena Horne
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born June 30, 1917. This versatile lady would grown to become an inspiring actress, singer, dancer and involved in civil rights. This descendant of notable early American colonists, John C Calhoun; Lena Horne spent a very uninspired childhood shuffling from grandparents to mother to an uncle growing up. Her mother was involved in a roving black troupe and that had an early impact on Horne's desire to entertain.
By 1933, Ms Horne became a part of the Cotton Club in NYC. She later became a part of Noble Sissle's Orchestra, with whom she made her first recording with Decca Records. She then became the main vocalist for the The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street with NBC. during the 30's and into the 40's she made a few low-budget films. In 1944, Lena was featured in the radio mystery program Suspense, which featured her singing and acting as a nightclub performer. Also during the period of WWII, Lena Horne could be heard singing on radio programs like, Command Performance, Mail Call and G.I. Journal.
These on-air programs were major hits with the servicemen overseas. By the 1950's and into the early 90's, Ms. Horne would be seen on television programs with the likes of Bill Cosby and Frank Sinatra. She was very involved with civil rights issues that affected African-Americans. Lena Horne was married twice and had a son (passed away of kidney disease) and a daughter, Gail, that became a noted author. Lena Horne left this earth in 2010 after a heart attack. The Grammy award winning singer and actress had finally gone home.
Labels: Bill Cosby, Command Performance, Frank Sinatra, G.I. Journal, John C Calhoun, Lena Horne, Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, Mail Call, Noble Sissle, Noble Sissle's Orchestra, Suspense, WWII
April 5: Happy Birthday, Bette Davis
Rumored to have intimidated--and insulted--Marilyn Monroe on the set of All about Eve, Bette Davis is one of the icons of the 40's and 50's. Known as a diva among divas, feuding with Joan Crawford and Humphrey Bogart and flicking her acerbic opinions into the air like so many ashes from her ever-present cigarettes, she was much more than a doe-eyed princess.
She first hit the airwaves in 1935 on an episode of Shell Chateau. From there, Bette Davis appeared in Command Performance, Calvalcade of America, and many episodes of Lux Radio Theater. Her most regular gig was on Whispering Streets, in 1958.
Labels: Bette Davis, Calvalcade of America, Command Performance, diva among divas, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Crawford, Lux Radio Theatre, Shell Chateau, Whispering Streets
April 3: Happy Birthday, Doris Day
On Mar. 28, 1952, CBS took the air with The Doris Day Show, a radio program featuring an established recording artist and actress. The show used the format that was by then a staple: soothing musical numbers and then performances by guests, most of them stars of stage, screen, and air. Guests included Kirk Douglas, Ronald Reagan, Danny Thomas, and Ray Bolger. Howard Keel was probably the most frequent guest, with Gordon MacRae not far behind.
As was the case with many of the big stars of the time period, Day also made plenty of appearances on the various big-name radio shows. The fetching singer-actress climbed the radio ladder with appearances on The Rudy Vallee Show, Command Performance, The Bob Hope Show, Kraft Music Hall and Stars For Defense.
The songstress who gave us "Till The End of Times," "My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time," and "I Got the Sun in the Mornin'" lives on in the memories of old time radio fans.
Labels: Bob Hope Show, Command Performance, Danny Thomas, Doris Day Show, Gordon MacRae, Happy Birthday Doris Day, Howard Keel, Kirk Douglas, Kraft Music Hall, Ray Bolger, Ronald Reagan, Rudy Vallee Show
January 3: Happy Birthday, Victor Borge
Victor Borge was a Danish and American comedian affectionately known as "The Great Dane" and "The Clown Prince of Denmark."
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Borge was a talented pianist. He spent much of his younger years learning and playing concerts. When the Nazis occupied Denmark during World War II, Borge was playing a concert in Sweden and was able to escape to Finland. He traveled to America on the USS American Legion, the last ship to make it out of Petsamo, Finland.
Borge didn't speak any English when he arrived in America, but he quickly learned by "studying" in movie theaters. Rudy Vallee offered him an opportunity on his radio show, and Borge soon became part of Kraft Music Hall. He also made many guest appearances on Command Performance, Fibber McGee and Molly, Jubilee, and Mail Call.
Victor never stopped working. He continued to perform and tour throughout his life. Even at the age of 90, Borge was still making 60 appearances a year.
Many of Borge's performances had physical elements that were more suited for television and the stage than radio. He made many appearances on both throughout his storied career of almost 75 years.
Victor Borge, the melancholy Dane, passed away on December 23rd, 2000 at the age of 91.
Labels: Command Performance, Fibber McGee and Molly, Jubilee, Kraft Music Hall, Mail Call, Rudy Vallee, The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Great Dane, Victor Borge, World War II
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OxyMem, an Irish start-up working in water cleaning and efficiency technology, has won the grand prize at Imagine H2O, a leading accelerator for water technology based in San Francisco.
The accelerator has varying topics each year with this year's theme relating to infrastructure management and is orchestrated by a team of leaders in the water, energy, and non-profit sectors at Harvard Business School whose vision is to turn water problems into opportunities.
100 companies who work in the field of efficiencies in water supplies across 20 different countries applied to the accelerator, however, OxyMem was the only Irish company among 12 shortlisted finalists, six in each of two categories (early-stage and growth stage), with the other finalists coming from the USA, Israel and Greece.
The Irish company has achieved considerable success in its two years of operation having been formed as a spin-out company from University College Dublin (UCD) by Prof Eoin Casey and Dr Eoin Syron which allows for the treatment of water with a considerably lower amount of energy usage.
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The Rocky Mountain Chapter of AHMP is a Non-Profit organization. The Chapter was originally established in October 1992. The Chapter was re-established in 2002 and recognized by the AHMP on June 23rd, 2003.
2017 Annual Budget - Proposed, needs to be approved at General Meeting of members.
The Board of Directors is a diverse group of environmental professionals located throughout the Front Range of Colorado. Contact any of the members of the Board of Directors for information on the Chapter and its activities.
President - John West, PE CHMM (2010) PMP is a Senior Environmental Engineer with Apex Companies. He has 15 years of environmental experience including government, industry, and environmental consulting. His technical expertise includes Emergency Responses, Phase I and II environmental site assessments and SPCC/FRP compliance.
Vice President -John Brown, CHMM is a Project Geologist for LT Environmental, Inc. managing and implementing large scale remediation projects and Phase II characterization activities, RCRA projects, voluntary cleanups, and brownfields remediation and redevelopment.
Treasurer – Scott Pieratt, CHMM (1996) is a Principal Geologist with Apex Companies. He manages the Pueblo office and is the Corporate Health and Safety Officer for the company. He has 28 years of environmental experience including government, industry, and environmental consulting. His technical expertise includes RCRA hazardous waste and solid waste compliance, petroleum storage tank compliance, Phase I and II environmental site assessments and remediation.
Secretary - Kurt Streeb, (CHMM) is a Senior Project manager at Terrracon Environmental Consultants, INc. Kurts specialties include asbestos, lead, and mold assessment and management, Phase I environmental site assessments and indoor air quality assessment.
Past President -Andrew Umyn CHMM (2014) is a graduate of Rutgers University and is currently Program Manager for Environmental Compliance at Iron Woman Construction and Environmental Services. Inc. Andrew's technical skills include environmental compliance, remediation services, groundwater remediation, Hazardous waste management, and environmental permitting.
Director-At-Large - Heather Barbare, CHMM (2008) has 11 years experience as a chemist in the environmental engineering field. Her technical expertise includes CERCLA/RCRA, data validation and interpretation, vapor intrusion investigation, and chlorinated solvent site investigation and remediation. She organized the first RMC-CHMM community outreach volunteer event with the Thornton household chemical roundup and continued coordination of RMC support for this event in 2013.
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Prince Kofi Amoabeng (born February 22, 1952) is a Ghanaian businessman and a former military officer of the Ghanaian Armed Forces. He was a co-founder of UT Bank which collapsed in 2017 during Ghana's banking crisis amid allegations that he had misappropriated funds from the bank. He is currently subject to ongoing court battles regarding these allegations following his arrest on 14 January 2020, and release on bail of 110 million cedis.
Early life
Amoabeng was born on 22 February 1952 in Bososo in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
Education
Amoabeng started his schooling at Penworth Preparatory School, a boarding school in Accra. He had his secondary education at the St Peter's Secondary School at Nkwatia Kwahu and Adisadel College in Cape Coast Ghana before proceeding to the University of Ghana for his undergraduate degree. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in administration in 1975 with 2nd-class upper honours from the University of Ghana Business School. After joining the military, he won a scholarship from the Ministry of Defence to pursue a course at the Royal Army Pay Corps, where he qualified as an accountant within 18 months and decided to return home upon graduation.
Career
Amoabeng began his career in the Ghana Armed Forces in April, 1975. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in November 1975.
Awards and recognition
Lifetime Achievement for Innovation in Africa, 2013
Johnnie Walker Giant, 2012. A global "Walk With Giants" campaign.
Overall Best Entrepreneur in the Maiden Ghana Entrepreneurs Award (2011)
One of two Ghanaians profiled in Moky Makura's book on Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs which profiles 16 of Africa's top entrepreneurs.
Ghana's Most Respected CEO for 2008/2010/2012.
National Honours for an Order of the Star of the Volta- Officer's Division presented by thenPresident of Ghana in 2008.
(CIMG) Marketing Man of the Year 2006
Controversies and allegations
In January 2020, Amoabeng was charged with the embezzlement of a total amount of 59.9 million Ghana cedis from UT Bank, having been a cofounder of the bank which collapsed during the Ghana banking crisis. The original charges were subsequently dropped and the prosecution intends to bring other charges.
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Q: error: not found: value assemblyJarName in assembly I am new to big data and hadoop, I am trying to make use of hadoopcryptoledger library to do some bitcoin graph analysis, I followed this tutorial Using spark-scala-graphx to analyze Bitcoin transaction graph
While executing the command
sbt clean assembly test it:test
I ran into an issue:
/home/jnikhil/hadoopcryptoledger/examples/scala-spark-graphx-
bitcointransaction/build.sbt:30: error: not found: value assemblyJarName
assemblyJarName in assembly := "example-hcl-spark-scala-graphx-bitcointransaction.jar"
Does anyone know why am I facing this issue?
A: These instructions give the answer.
Add the following to project/assembly.sbt:
addSbtPlugin("com.eed3si9n" % "sbt-assembly" % "0.14.8")
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Q: How can I prevent "Cannot redeclare block-scoped variable" in this situation? So I want a changing background on my website. I'm now on my second page and wanted to do a different background color. I copied the javascript from my first page (because it was working good) and just wanted to change the querySelectors. But then the red waves popped up. I cannot change the [red, green, blue]. Or I can but just don't know how. How can I change the const [red, green, blue] so it works like before?
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So here you got the working background.
const [red, green, blue] = [255, 255, 255];
const background1 = document.querySelector('.background1');
window.addEventListener('scroll', () => {
const y = 1 + (window.scrollY || window.pageYOffset) / 250
const [r, g, b] = [red/y, green/y, blue/y].map(Math.round)
background1.style.backgroundColor = `rgb(${r}, ${g}, ${b})`
});
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background-color: rgb(255,255,255);
height: 7000px;
}
<p>scroll</p>
<div class="background1"></div>
A: You can try doing something like this:
const scrollListener74903087 = ( color, selector, offset ) => {
const [red, green, blue] = color;
const background = document.querySelector(selector);
if (! background){
return;
}
window.addEventListener('scroll', () => {
const y = 1 + (window.scrollY || window.pageYOffset) / offset
const [r, g, b] = [red/y, green/y, blue/y].map(Math.round)
background.style.backgroundColor = `rgb(${r}, ${g}, ${b})`
});
}
scrollListener74903087([255, 255, 255], '.background1', 250);
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A: Try to use the keyword var instead of const.
var red, green, blue;
[red, green, blue] = [255, 255, 255];
// your first background codes
[...]
[red, green, blue] = [0, 208, 255];
// your second background codes
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Polly Lauder Tunney (born Mary Josephine Lauder; April 24, 1907 – April 12, 2008) was an American philanthropist and Connecticut socialite. An heiress to the United States Steel fortune through her grandfather George Lauder and her great-uncle Andrew Carnegie, Tunney drew international fame during the 1920s for her secret romance and subsequent marriage to world heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney. She almost died on her honeymoon of an abscessed appendicitis on the Croatian Islands of Brijuni. They had four children, including John V. Tunney (1934-2018), who was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from California from 1965 until 1977.
Tunney was an active supporter of the arts. She served on the board of the Metropolitan Opera Guild from 1951 to 1970 alongside her first cousin G. Lauder Greenway and was the board's vice president from 1956 to 1959. She was later a member of the Guild's emeritus council from 1970 to 1992. She was also a major benefactor of the Audubon Society and the National Wildlife Federation. Lauder died two weeks short of her 101st birthday in April 2008.
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Analyzing a Creditor's Ability to Exercise its Shareholder Rights to Prevent a Bankruptcy Filing by a Company
Frank Pecorelli
Research Memorandum
Title 11 of the United States Code (the "Bankruptcy Code") operates as a tool allowing an honest, struggling debtor to gain a fresh start absent of their burdensome debts. Generally, when a company is about to enter bankruptcy, shareholders and creditors of the insolvent company play two distinct roles. Shareholders, those with an ownership stake in the company, have voting rights enumerated in their shareholder agreement, allowing them to vote on certain actions, including the company's bankruptcy filing. On the other hand, creditors generally have a claim (i.e., a right to payment) against the company, which typically has arisen from receiving inadequate value in return for the value the creditor gave to the debtor. Thus, while a shareholder may have input into a company's decision to file for bankruptcy, a creditor typically will not. However, in certain circumstances, a party may serve dual roles—it may be both a shareholder and a creditor. Ultimately, in such a circumstance, conflict arises as a creditor is now afforded the ability to exercise shareholder voting rights and prevent a company from filing for bankruptcy.
Courts have recognized two central ways in which a creditor/shareholder attempts to block a company from filing for bankruptcy: (1) a golden share, and (2) blocking provisions. A golden share is a "share that controls more than half of the corporation voting rights and gives the shareholder veto power over changes to the company charter." The term blocking provision "is a catch-all to refer to various contractual provisions through which a creditor reserves a right to prevent a debtor from filing for bankruptcy." Ultimately, both golden shares and blocking provisions give a creditor/shareholder the ability to prevent a company with which they do business from entering into bankruptcy, eliminating the possibility of having their claims discharged.
Part I of this memorandum discusses whether a creditor/shareholder may use its shareholder voting power to prevent a company from entering bankruptcy, while analyzing the difficulty courts have with uniformly deciding the issue. Part II of this memorandum examines the conclusion of many courts, that from a policy standpoint, when a party is both a shareholder and creditor, it should not have the ability to prevent a company from filing for bankruptcy.
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shell.cp('-r', 'public/index.php', Out + 'public/');
shell.cp('-r', ['public/css/', 'public/fonts/', 'public/img/', 'public/js/', 'public/libs/'], Out + 'public/');
shell.rm('-r', Out + 'public/img/psd');
shell.cp('-r', 'init_autoloader.php', Out);
shell.cp('-r', 'OwnFunctions.php', Out);
shell.cp('-r', 'vendor/', Out);
// modify contents
try {
let changedFiles = replace.sync({
files: Out + 'public/.htaccess',
//Replacement to make (string or regex)
from: /development/g,
to: 'production',
});
console.log(cPre + 'Modified files: %s', changedFiles.join(', '));
}
catch (error) {
console.error(cPre + 'Error occurred: %s'.red, error.message);
}
//for pattern path -> https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob
//and a test function to view what files found by the pattern. secound argument is a options object(see node-glob)
// js.testPath(Out + '/module/**/*.js');
js.uglify(Out + 'module/**/*.js', true);
// js.uglify('public/js/globalUsage/loggingDesigner/loggingDesigner.js', 'public/js/globalUsage/loggingDesigner/loggingDesigner.min.js');
// global js
// minify and merge
js.add( 'public/js/globalUsage/popUp/popUp.js');
js.add( 'public/js/globalUsage/menu/menu.js');
js.add( 'public/js/globalUsage/loggingDesigner/loggingDesigner.js');
js.add( 'public/js/globalUsage/accordion/accordion.js');
js.add('public/libs/globalUsage/feedback/js/feedback.js');
js.make(TempPath+'/main.js');
// merge minified with *.min.js
shell.cat([
'public/js/globalUsage/jquery/jquery-3.2.0.min.js',
'public/libs/globalUsage/jquery-ui/jquery-ui.min.js',
TempPath+'/main.js'
]).to(Out + 'public/loadJS.js');
// clean up
shell.rm('-rf', TempPath);
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namespace printing {
// Wrapper used to keep track of the lifetime of a WebContents.
// Lives on the UI thread.
class PrintingUIWebContentsObserver : public content::WebContentsObserver {
public:
explicit PrintingUIWebContentsObserver(content::WebContents* web_contents);
virtual ~PrintingUIWebContentsObserver();
// Return the parent NativeView of the observed WebContents.
gfx::NativeView GetParentView();
private:
DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(PrintingUIWebContentsObserver);
};
} // namespace printing
#endif // CHROME_BROWSER_PRINTING_PRINTING_UI_WEB_CONTENTS_OBSERVER_H_
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This study attempts to examine the lives of Syrian refugee women, in light of their conflict-induced displacement and settlement in The Netherlands. The main research question of this study is: "How has conflict-induced displacement from Syria and settlement in the Netherlands impacted the agency and empow-erment of Syrian refugee women?" The purpose of this study is to explore the intersectional dynamics of empowerment and agency of the Syrian refugee women living in the Netherlands. The study uses concepts of gender, intersec-tionality, generational relations, agency and empowerment in order to answer the research question. The main research methods adopted are semi-structured interviews and ethnography. The study suggests that from the moment of leav-ing Syria till settling in the Netherlands, there has been significant changes in the lives of the Syrian women, with regard to their gender roles and agency. Being a Syrian woman and a refugee, they have experienced empowerment and disem-powerment simultaneously. Given the complexities experienced as a refugee woman, participating in different NGO activities is important for some as it en-ables them to empower themselves as well as contribute towards the cause of Syrian refugees by crushing the stereotypes, and by sharing their stories. In this process, many of the women find themselves as becoming the "Voices of Syria". | {
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So a funny thing happened on my way to the West Coast this week, I was invited to a product launch at Box.net. I've always been a fan of the concept of Content Management in the Cloud and the direction Box has taken in the Content Management space.
The established vendors are having to determine how to change both their business models and architecture before they more to the the cloud. Box is already there, they just need more features. | {
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Joaquin Phoenix's response to reports linking him to a Joker solo movie is about as cryptic as a clue from the Clown Prince of Crime himself.
The Academy Award nominee is the latest Hollywood A-lister linked to a Martin Scorsese-produced Joker standalone film from Warner Bros and DC, which would explore how a failed stand-up comic was transformed into the most notorious villain in Gotham City.
Phoenix is known for his love of pulling the wool over everyone's eyes — like when he spent a solid year pretending to launch a hip-hop career. It's certainly not unexpected that he's being just as cryptic about this latest role.
Talking to Fandango, Phoenix flashed a Joker-esque grin as he said: "It could be an interesting character, I don't know."
Phoenix has been linked to comic book roles before (like Doctor Strange, for example), and it sounds like he's not opposed to jumping into a blockbuster franchise like Batman.
"If you have the ability to transcend the genre, then that's what you want to do," he argued. "So I wouldn't say, hands down, no – I wouldn't do that kind of movie. There are things where I've flirted with the possibility where there was the potential for this to be… something that's actually interesting to me.
"But then for whatever reason they never got to that place where everyone else feels the same way. And that's key. Everyone has to want to explore the same thing or else it just doesn't f**king work. I'm not opposed to it. I don't make decisions on budget or things like that – it's really the filmmaker and the character."
If he were to take the role of the Joker, he'd be following in the footsteps of Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Jared Leto, who most recently played the villain in the DCEU's Suicide Squad.
There is no release date or even title announced yet for DC's Joker standalone film. | {
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Q: What frame of reference in the universe is (most) rotation-neutral? I've read on Newton's Bucket and the pseudo-special frame of reference bound to CMB but I didn't find anything that would bind the two well - so, is the CMB frame "rest frame" for a spinning body not locally gravitationally bound? If not, is any other?
Let's perform a thought experiment: we have a space probe with a powered Control Moment Gyroscope which allows us to put the probe in arbitrary spin, and accelerometers that measure local acceleration in every direction (without care what's the source of that acceleration: gravity, engines, centripetal force etc) placed at extended locations on the probe (way off center of mass).
We place the probe squat in the middle of the Giant Void so it gets as little local disturbances as possible from nearby celestial bodies (since there are none; all very distant.) Then we drive the CMG in such a way as to minimize readouts of all the accelerometers.
Will we reach a flat zero readout? And with the readout so minimized that any operation only increases it, will be the frame of reference bound to the probe non-rotating relative to the CMB-based pseudo-master frame, or will it be something else - bound to what (besides the probe)?
A: Yes, there exists a frame in which all accelerometers can in principle reach zero. If fact, there are infinitely many such frames. In some of those frames, the CMB would appear isotropic; in others, it wouldn't. (I'm assuming that you're neglecting the radiation pressure of the CMB on the probe, since that can be made arbitrarily small by making the probe small enough.)
The statement that accelerometers register no acceleration in an inertial frame (i.e. a frame in which constant-spatial-coordinate curves obey the geodesic equation), which follows from the equivalence principle, is a statement about the fundamental nature of spacetime - it would hold true in any universe described by general relativity, regardless of that universe's initial or boundary conditions, and in particular it has nothing at all to do with the existence of the CMB.
The fact that there exists a frame in which the CMB appears isotropic is a statement about the initial conditions of our universe - it certain doesn't follow from general relativity. And the existence of the CMB does not in any way affect the readings of locally moving accelerometers (except through a truly tiny amount of radiation pressure, as mentioned above). Put another way, general relativity just says that the universe appears locally like Minkowski spacetime in small enough regions. The existence of a CMB frame asserts that there exists a global frame in which the universe is (approximately) space-translationally and rotationally invariant (though not time-translationally- or boost-invariant) - a completely logically independent statement.
Also, note that "rotationally invariant" does not mean "looks the same no matter how you're rotating" - it means "looks the same both before and after you begin and end rotating, so that you are no longer rotating but are now pointing in a different direction from before."
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from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.db import models
from lino.api import dd, _, rt
from lino.core.diff import ChangeWatcher
from lino.utils.format_date import fds
from .fields import IBANField, BICField, IBAN_FORMFIELD
from .utils import belgian_nban_to_iban_bic, iban2bic
from .roles import SepaUser, SepaStaff
from lino_xl.lib.contacts.roles import ContactsUser
class Account(dd.Model):
class Meta:
app_label = 'sepa'
abstract = dd.is_abstract_model(__name__, 'Account')
verbose_name = _("Bank account")
verbose_name_plural = _("Bank accounts")
partner = dd.ForeignKey(
'contacts.Partner',
related_name='sepa_accounts', null=True, blank=True)
iban = IBANField(verbose_name=_("IBAN"))
bic = BICField(verbose_name=_("BIC"), blank=True)
remark = models.CharField(_("Remark"), max_length=200, blank=True)
primary = models.BooleanField(
_("Primary"),
default=False,
help_text=_(
"Enabling this field will automatically disable any "
"previous primary account and update "
"the partner's IBAN and BIC"))
allow_cascaded_delete = ['partner']
def __str__(self):
return IBAN_FORMFIELD.prepare_value(self.iban)
# if self.remark:
# return "{0} ({1})".format(self.iban, self.remark)
# return self.iban
def full_clean(self):
if self.iban and not self.bic:
if self.iban[0].isdigit():
iban, bic = belgian_nban_to_iban_bic(self.iban)
self.bic = bic
self.iban = iban
else:
self.bic = iban2bic(self.iban) or ''
super(Account, self).full_clean()
def after_ui_save(self, ar, cw):
super(Account, self).after_ui_save(ar, cw)
if self.primary:
mi = self.partner
for o in mi.sepa_accounts.exclude(id=self.id):
if o.primary:
o.primary = False
o.save()
ar.set_response(refresh_all=True)
watcher = ChangeWatcher(mi)
for k in PRIMARY_FIELDS:
setattr(mi, k, getattr(self, k))
mi.save()
watcher.send_update(ar)
@dd.displayfield(_("Statements"))
def statements(self, ar):
if ar is None or not dd.is_installed('b2c'):
return ''
Account = rt.models.b2c.Account
try:
b2c = Account.objects.get(iban=self.iban)
except Account.DoesNotExist:
return ''
return ar.obj2html(b2c, fds(b2c.last_transaction))
PRIMARY_FIELDS = dd.fields_list(Account, 'iban bic')
class Accounts(dd.Table):
required_roles = dd.login_required(SepaStaff)
model = 'sepa.Account'
class AccountsByPartner(Accounts):
required_roles = dd.login_required((ContactsUser, SepaUser))
master_key = 'partner'
column_names = 'iban bic remark primary *'
order_by = ['iban']
stay_in_grid = True
auto_fit_column_widths = True
insert_layout = """
iban bic
remark
"""
dd.inject_field(
'ledger.Journal',
'sepa_account',
dd.ForeignKey('sepa.Account', blank=True, null=True))
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Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences ("CALS") and Tomkins County Area Development ("TCAD") hired Silverlode to assess the University and surrounding area from a site selection perspective and explore corporate partnership strategies.
CALS and TCAD wanted to evaluate the possibility of attracting companies to locate employees and facilities on or near Cornell's campus. The intent was to foster collaboration and opportunities within the University and to address regional economic development goals of business attraction, employment growth, and new investment.
Silverlode conducted dozens of stakeholder interviews, analyzed all existing data, toured university and regional assets, analyzed potential target industries which corresponded with achievements by CALS professors, and benchmarked colocation strategies and peer institutions.
Silverlode provided the client with an assessment of regional and campus strengths and challenges related to company attraction. We analyzed protocols within the University and community and recommended next steps for strategy and implementation. | {
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Are you ready for the ultimate pub crawl of Oxford? This activity turns it into an adventure on the streets as you split into teams and test your wits, speed and skill with the Mobile Adventure App. You'll uncover interesting places and stop at some of the city's best pubs for liquid refreshments. Using GPS the app confirms you are in the right place to activate the next question or trial. Beat the clock to win challenges or you'll take penalty points. And keep an eye on what the opposition are up to with the live map and scoreboard. Has your team got the edge on the Oxford stag group? | {
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As part of our research into artists' books at The Centre for Fine Print Research, at The University of the West of England, UK, we have built up contacts over the years with curators and specialist artist's book librarians from national and international collections. Visits to our centre in 2004 by curators from Tate Britain and Winchester School of Art, prompted the concept of this project. Meg Duff, Maria White, Linda Newington and Catherine Polley, had all mentioned at various times that they spend much of their working day amongst artists' books and had considered making one themselves, yet had never quite got round to it. This inspired us to set up the project and subsequently extend an invitation to institutional and library staff that we had contact with, asking if they would each like to produce an artist's book for an exhibition. Forty-five people accepted our invitation to make a piece of work, and this relatively simple idea then snowballed into the Librarians' Books exhibition tour 2005- 2006. | {
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We understand paperwork can be a lengthy and cumbersome task. The importance of each form is for your protection and well being. Some of the forms will only be necessary in certain cases, as with treating minors and pregnant women and X-Rays.
For your convenience, you may fill out the forms in advance and bring them with you to your visit. If you do not have the opportunity to fill them out before your visit, you may complete them when you come in to the office. | {
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Talented managers, professionals and support staff are arguably the most vital ingredient to the success of a business. In an increasingly 'promiscuous' employment market, top talent is in high demand and competition for their services is intense and aggressive.
Whilst the Butler HR methodology embraces advertised recruitment assignments and database searches, experience tells us that flexibility of approach, agility of process, creative concepts, collaboration and open lines of communication with our clients are key to successful outcomes.
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Wild hogs are quickly becoming one of the most popular game animals in the United States. Occupying more than half the states in America, feral hogs are doing increasing amounts of damaged when left unchecked. For this reason, many states have lifted almost every restriction on hog hunting in an effort to help curb their destruction.
In some states, wild hogs are starting to be the most heavily pursued animal, coming in a close-second to whitetail deer in many parts of the United States. Many hog hunting guides are reporting an increase in clients with little to no hunting experience. What attracts most of these newcomers to hog hunting is the lack of legal limitations, as well as the many different methods one can employ when hunting.
Hogs are unlike most other animals in North America. For Cole Hataway, wild boar hunting is a way of life. Cole owns State Line Hunting Ranch, based in Vivian, Louisiana, and is one of the most knowledgeable guides in the southeast with a full understanding of wild pigs and an array of many different hog hunting tips to share with his guests.Cole offers us five key hog hunting tips that any hunter can use to gain an edge on these animals for their first boar season. While there are likely dozens more we could include in this list, Cole's five hog hunting tips are of value to anyone hunting wild boar.
For starters on wild boar hunting tips, Cole says to hammer out the specific method of hunting you want to use for hogs. Many states allow a wide variety of hunting methods and some can be more effective than others depending on the time of year or other factors.
The best way to decide on what method you'll use is to determine what is legal in the area you're hunting. In states like Texas, hunters can harvest hogs day or night, from just about anywhere—including a helicopter. This is one of the hog hunting tips that may seem insignificant, but planning your trip is just as important as the hunt itself.
Cole says that, among the hog hunting tips he could provide, there is no better learning experience one can get than trial and error in the woods, experiencing things for themselves.
Cole always tells anyone asking for hog hunting tips to focus on three aspects, what hogs are eating, where are they located, and where their water source is. Knowing those three bits of information will pay off in a big way as opposed to any hog hunting tips and tricks you may read or hear from anywhere else.
Some hunters may think that hogs are dense creatures that spend their time mulling around with their heads on the ground in search of food and unaware of their surroundings. Giving boars credit for being highly intelligent animals is one of the best hog hunting tips you can give, says Cole.
As mentioned above in our list of hog hunting tips, being aware of a hog's keen sense of smell is key in making sure you have the upper hand when you're in the woods. Cole says that no list of hog hunting tips is complete without specifically mentioning wild boars' sense of smell.
Cole notes that it is always best to be aware of the wind direction when stalking hogs and try to take measures to limit your own odor as much as possible when in the field. Many hunters may not think that smell factors into being a top priority among the best hog hunting tips, but Cole says it's one of the main things he considers on each hunt.
Cole says that, unlike most other big game animals in North America, feral hogs can be attracted to a particular area by using bait, or various types of food. According to research from Texas A&M University, feral hogs will remain near an area that offers regular food source, even if that food is not a naturally occurring meal. Of the hog hunting tips listed on this and any other list, Cole says it's smart to pay attention to making sure to be attentive to the appetite of wild pigs.
To find out more about how you can get in on the action with Cole, visit the State Line Hunting Ranch listing here on The Outdoor Trip. Cole says his outfitter service is family-owned and operated as he handles everything related to hunting while his wife, Carla, makes sure guests are well fed and comfortable. Cole's boys even help out in skinning and dressing hogs for customers after the hunts. | {
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Panicfilm
Documentary and Feature Films Production Company
Panicfilm Production Company was founded by Yuri Burak in 1995 in Moscow (Russia). Started with corporate video and documentary films production now Panicilm has over hundred documentaries shot or produced for National Geographic, Fox, BBC and Discovery. We also deliver content to HBO, PBS, ARTE, ABC, BBC2, TV2 Norway, RTL, TV2 Denmark, RBB Germany, Aljazeera Documentary and many others.
Among our main achievements: Oscar official entry in 2016 and two Emmy awards (2005 and 2016).
In 2020 Panicfilm has transfered its activities to Estonia and currently it focuses on international co-productions of feature films and documentaries.
© Panicfilm 2022 | {
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Editor's Note: A version of this article that includes endnotes is available from the authors, who can be reached [email protected] and [email protected].
Despite having been introduced 30 years ago, there remains no credible scientific evidence supporting parental alienation syndrome (PAS, also called parental alienation (PA) and parental alienation disorder (PAD)). The concept has not gained general acceptance in the scientific field, and there remains no test, no data, or any experiment to support claims made concerning PAS. Because of this lack of scientific credibility, many organizations—scientific, medical, and legal—continue to reject its use and acceptance.
The Presidential Task Force of the American Psychological Association on Violence in the Family has stated that "there are no data to support the phenomenon called parental alienation syndrome, in which mothers are blamed for interfering with their children's attachment to their fathers. . . ." The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) likewise finds PAS lacking in scientific merit, advising judges that based on evidentiary standards, "the court should not accept testimony regarding parental alienation syndrome, or 'PAS.' The theory positing the existence of PAS had been discredited by the scientific community"; and "the discredited 'diagnosis' of 'PAS' (or allegation of 'parental alienation'), quite apart from its scientific invalidity, inappropriately asks the court to assume that the children's behaviors and attitudes toward the parent who claims to be 'alienated' have no grounding in reality." The American Prosecutors' Research Institute and the National District Attorney's Association, legal organizations concerned with the prosecution of child abuse and domestic violence, have also dismissed PAS. | {
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I'm a big fan of David O'Daniel's movie posters. I dig the designs and the metallic and iridescent inks really make the image pop. He also takes on popular movies as well as art house fare. This time he's got new posters for The Birds (edition of 250), The Exorcist (edition of 200), The Shining (edition of 200), Metropolis (edition of 300), Repulsion (edition of 200), The Third Man (edition of 150 and each Third Man poster comes with a free poster for Brighton Rock), Rosemary's Baby (edition of 200) Taxi Driver (edition of 200), and Shoot the Piano Player (edition of 150). All posters are 18×24, cost $40 plus $9 domestic shipping or $15 international shipping. Hit the jump to check out the posters and the purchase link.
All posters can be purchased on David O'Daniel's website. | {
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I worry when he gets like this.
The Alien C.W. was buried in a pile of papers and notes this morning looking much like a harried professor at "publish or perish" time. He paid no attention to me. I sat, sipped my coffee, and watched. Actually, I sometimes like it when he is quiet. We are still under a restraining order on account of the "garage band" he started despite the fact that we have no garage.
Anyhow, he finally looked up and saw me. "I'm busy," he said.
"I can see."
"Minor assignment for the Falloonian Elders."
"Don't mind me. I'll not interrupt you."
"Good," he said. He returned to his work.
He shuffled papers, wrote a note, and turned back to me. "It's a report tracing the development of mental cognizance in your species, from the end of the Neanderthals to present. Pardon me if I'm too busy to visit."
I nodded. Minor assignments require concentration as well as major ones.
He struck through some writing and looked at me. "It was developing well for a while, cognizance was. Now excuse me."
I nodded.
He retained his stare. "You were making great progress."
"Yes. Your ancestors discovered that dances didn't make it rain and sought the physical facts. This led to findings that allowed the Egyptians to forecast flooding phenomena that led to a stable civilization lasting for a longer time than that which has passed since their last great empire. Now if you will excuse me, I'm busy."
He didn't return to his work. "I found it amusing at first that your ancestors tried to turn lead into gold."
"But then I discovered, from reading this," he held up a worn copy of The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer, "that this seeming folly actually led your folks to a development of the Scientific Method in research."
"So our development went well?"
"Not really. I'm sorry. It faltered, but I can't go into it now."
He put the book aside and turned to me again. "Seems apparent to me that religion hindered the development."
"Oh? How?"
"Can't you see I'm busy?"
I nodded. He started to go back to work but stopped.
"Seems that religion led to an understanding of power, and how to use it, as opposed to the seeking of knowledge." He reached and held up a copy of the Bible. "These folks weren't very high on knowledge."
"No," I said. "No they weren't. You can ask Paul of Tarsus if you happen to run into him during one of your enphasngs. "
He ignored me. "That set the stage for rule by force, over rule by reason, as a method of retaining power."
"Yes, all because of religion. When the dark side of politics joins the anti-cognizance stance of religion, all hell, pardon the allusion, may break loose: darkness and destruction, with the aid of religion as a tool. Now you've bothered be enough. I must work."
"Fine," I said. "But I wouldn't publish your findings here on Earth."
"Are you kidding?" he said. He buried his nose back into his notes.
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Labels: American Politics, Donald Trump, religion
I came through the living room and C.W. was reading news on my wife's Ipad. He was in the somewhat unusual shape of a well-dressed, and very attractive, teenage girl. He/she was shaking his/her head.
"What's up," I asked.
"Seelishkrepi++sar," he said, being himself, the alien. Then I heard his Galactic Universal Translator hum.
His Gut was Telling him something.
"Bizarre," he said.
"There's a feature article in your news source about the passing of a woman who became famous for having sex with every member of a Rock and Roll band in one night. The lead singer mentioned it in one of their hit songs."
"I seem to remember," I said. "So?"
"Did you know her?"
"Someone pointed her out to me in a bar once," I said, "but I can claim neither acquaintance nor recipience."
"And she was famous for that act?"
"Well, that and stories she told about performing same-same for other bands and famous musicians who came to town. They call them 'groupies' and she was the national heroine."
"So what worthwhile achievements garnered her such notice? How did she earn the acclaim?"
"Just being famous, I suppose. You aren't the first visitor who asked me about her."
He retreated into his character.
"So," she asked. "If I do the same, can I, like, be famous? I mean, like, you know, for, like, having sex with a famous person or maybe more than one." The eyes that looked into mine were as blue as a quiet winter's sky and beaming from a face as fresh and innocent as a newborn lamb's. "My friends, like, tell me I should become somebody, and I'm, like, I don't know how."
"Why don't you read something besides the news," I said.
Labels: America, Grand Funk Railroad, Rock and Roll, Sweet Sweet Connie, teenagers. conflict
COGNIZANCE
When I walked into my office/music room this morning, there sat Charles Darwin. Of course, it was the Alien C.W. shapeshifted, but gosh, he looked like the photos of Charles Darwin. I couldn't think of an appropriate greeting. I finally managed, "Dude."
"I never said it," came the reply.
"Never said what?" I sat my coffee on the desk and sat.
"Most of the things they attribute to me."
"The 'Mark Twain Effect' you mean."
"What's a mark twain?"
"A person," I said, remembering that C.W. sometimes gets deeply immersed in his character when he does what he calls "enphasing."
"Elucidate."
"False attribution," I said.
"Expand."
"Saying someone said something they didn't."
"Clarify."
"Like when you said my wife said you could borrow our car when you said I said it would be okay."
"Embellish."
"Misquoted. Now what's up?"
"I never said it."
"Said what?"
"That evolution was 'the survival of the fittest.' That counts for two misattributes or whatever you call them."
"Two?"
"Yes. I never used the work evolution."
"I think I read that somewhere."
"Then you know I never attributed descent through modification as 'survival of the fittest' or such nonsense."
"So I understand."
"How silly," he said. "If it occurred over millions of years that blindness would allow some of your species success in surviving on scarce resources, causing a change in sight characteristics, would that mean they were fit in all respects?"
"Not by the standards of the film industry."
"The what?"
"And what if it happened that the unknowing, uneducated, unlearned, and non-cognitive were to prove more adaptable to seizing political power? Fitness or extinction?" His face dropped, the long white beard forming a cushion. Then his head rose. "Tell me," he said. "If A equals B and B equals C, does A equal B?"
"Good," he said. "There's hope. But you have no power, do you?"
"Not a bit."
His head dropped again. After a long silence, I rose and turned to leave the room. As I reached the door, I heard a soft snoring.
Labels: American Politics, education, evolution, history, intelligence
The Alien C.W. was bent over my desk this morning looking much like a harried accountant. He looked up, raised his green visor, and stared at me. "Ah," he said. "Just the person I wanted to see." He stopped, took a pencil, and drew a line under a line of figures and returned to staring. "Did you find out?"
"About what?" I sipped my coffee with a great deal of deliberation. I like to mess with his three minds.
"About the census that your people take ever few weeks."
"Ten years," I said.
"Earth years," he said. "When are you going to switch to Galaxy Time?"
"In ten seconds," I said. He didn't laugh.
"Well, was it accurate? Did you ask her?"
"She's been retired for some time," I said. "In Earth years. She said it was a bit different this time. Said the census was a good as the people and institutions that undertake it."
"And it is important?"
"To orient government aid."
"Your government does that?"
It used to. Now the main purpose of the census, according to the news, is to determine legislative power."
He stared.
"Oh," I said, "And bragging rights."
He leaned back and put his fingers over his eyes in the universal gesture of exasperation. I could tell he missed his other two sets of eyes and hands. He took a deep breath and spoke. "You Earthlings," he said. "Bragging rights?"
"It's like this: If your community, city, or state is growing in population, it is a good place."
"And if it doesn't?
I made a gesture of a knife being drawn across my throat.
"Do your people understand the principle of Skroodeep++," he stopped. Thought and stared at the ceiling. I could tell his Galactic Universal Translator was speaking to him. He nodded and said, "The principle of 'cause and effect' at all?"
"A few do."
"When they do, how do they assign a cause to population growth?"
"Most often they attribute it to what they call a 'quality school system' and leave it at that."
"A quality school system?"
"That means you are correct."
He stopped. A frown of thought contorted his face. Then he relaxed. "Wait one," he said, turning to a note pad on his far side. He scribbled something and turned back. "Okay," he said. "Where were we?"
Before I could speak, he said, "Just a second. I forgot something I was supposed to do for Mrs. Big Dope. I'll be right back." With that, he arose and left the room. He no longer takes promises to that individual lightly.
I couldn't resist. Checking to make sure the wasn't watching, I walked over and checked his note pad. On it he had written a brief note, which puzzled me.
"Falloonian Elders' Report," it started. Then, "Dog whistles."
Labels: America, American Politics, census, government
I found the Alien C.W. picking my new guitar when I arose and went to my "music room" this morning. You won't believe what I saw. He had chosen the shape of a country singer and was belting out a marvelously weird rendition of the old standard "Working Man Blues."
He stopped when I walked in. "Tell me something, Slick," he said.
"I told you once not to call me that."
"Oh yeah, I forgot, Hotshot."
I ignored him. "Put that guitar down, I had to lie to the Commanding Officer about how much it cost. It's not for you to destroy."
He returned it tot the case. "Tell me something, Sport."
"As in, what?"
"Hit's Fridee, ain't it? trrying his best to imitate a southern drawl.
"All day."
"Why do your people hate their jobs so much that they only live for Fridays?"
"Not all of them do."
"Then let's you and I write a song titled, "I Love My Job" and see how it sells."
He had me there. "Don't you have something to do?"
"I'm doing it. It's called 'research.' You ought to try it sometime."
"Tell that to the Magahatters."
"They hate their jobs the most, don't they?"
I sensed a rocky road ahead. "Do Falloonians love their jobs?"
"You wouldn't understand. Why don't employers make the jobs more fun?"
"I don't know. Profits I suppose."
"But look," he said, pulling a worn and dusty book from a table, "This says that happy workers produce more."
"I'm going to leave you to your research now."
"Good," he said. "I'm working on another hit."
"I don't think that's a good idea," I said. "You had the Political Correctness Police descending on us with your last."
"This one's different," he said. "It's called 'How You Gonna Walk Straight With This Job Up Your A…?
"Stop it," I said.
"Asset account," he said. "What?"
I walked out, closed the door, and went for breakfast, walking straight as I could.
Labels: America, capitalism, work
THE ACT OF WAR
An old friend showed up this morning. Yes, it was the Alien C.W. Showed up, best as I can guess, as Mark Twain. He was still up to his old tricks. Said he had been visiting other galaxies where the craziness wasn't as severe. He acted as if nothing had happened, which was unsettling.
"Had a question," he said, "how long do your wars last?"
"What is the Standard Unifying Consistency Kinetic for engaging in a war. Your government must have an SUCK factor for controlling costs and casualties. And the private sector must have a metric for projecting Pundit Underwriting costs. The PU factor must be severe in times of war."
"And you want to know how long they last?" I asked.
"It's a phenomenon unique to your planet," he said. "Same as your penchant for knowingly being burnt by overexposure to sunlight."
"They last as long as they last," I said. "No longer. Once side just quits and then the other has to as well."
"Sort of like your standard act of sex?"
I stopped to think, and he continued.
"If you don't have a SDF, they, wars that is, could last 20, maybe 100 years," he said. See, some of the other galaxies are wondering about your planet passing the Chiroptera Scat Stability test. Too low on the CSS might bring about serious action. The ship from Tulegria that dropped your Initiation Cells on Earth are beginning to fear they have made a mistake.
"The what kind of test?"
"It's named after a joke about bat dropping and insanity. Tulegrians have this weird sense of humor."
"You mean like bat sh--?" I stopped.
"Precisely. Now our research shows that not only might these irrational acts be indeterminate, there is also the profit motive. Is it really true that both sides in these CSS acts are financed from the same sources? If so, that will increase scrutiny and accelerate repercussions."
"What sort of repercussions."
"You are familiar with the concept of a virus, aren't you?"
Labels: America, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, war
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WASHINGTON - The US state of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico has pledged to deploy National Guard soldiers to its borders with Mexico in compliance with President Donald Trump's executive order to curb irregular immigration in the region. Texas Governor Greg Abbottt, who already sent 250 members of the National Guard to the border on the weekend, announced on Monday that he will increase the number to 1,000 in the coming weeks, reports Efe news.
For his part, the Governor of Arizona Doug Ducey, on Monday ordered an initial deployment of 225 National Guard troops to the state's border area, and another 113 were set to arrive on Tuesday, for a total number of 338.
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez pledged to deploy 80 national guards later this week, which is an initial deployment of the total 250 personnel planned to be dispatched to the state's border area.
The level of collaboration of California, the fourth state that shares the border with Mexico, still remains unknown as Democratic leaders in the Golden State have strongly opposed Trump's immigration policies.
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona will initially mobilise some 1,600 troops as part of Trump's decision to provide military support to the US Border Patrol in order to tackle the increase in irregular immigration.
Trump said last week he wanted to send between 2,000 and 4,000 troops to protect the border, while the Pentagon authorised the use of the higher limit of that range on April 6. The US and Mexico share a 3,111-km long border stretching from east to west, passing four US states: Texas (1,997 km), New Mexico (289 km), Arizona (599 km) and California (226 km).
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