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With his software groovebox, Trace Reddell applies the tools and strategies of the DJ to the performance of literary interpretation and critical speculation.
Introduction by Joseph Tabbi
Trace Reddell's "Litmixer: The Literary Remediator" is what critical writing could look like once scholars and critics begin making use of the performative possibilities within networked environments. With his software groovebox, Reddell applies the tools and strategies of the DJ to the performance of literary interpretation and critical speculation. Jacques Derrida's essay, "Plato's Pharmakon," becomes in Reddell's hands not so much a master text as a set of recording masters, less a source of supporting citations than a sampling source to be played off against related discourses - on music, drugs, technology. And it's all presented in the context of a "user's manual," a rhetorical framework that both participates in techno-culture and invites further activity on the part of the reader/listener/user.
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It was a true engineering wonder of its time. Nearly 3,700 kilometres of steel pipe — pushed through some of the toughest terrain in Canada.
Up to 5,000 workers persevered through a multitude of obstacles, often under extremely adverse conditions, to build what would be the world's longest pipeline.
In 2008, TransCanada's Canadian Mainline celebrated 50 years of history — recognizing a milestone anniversary of the final weld on the first pipeline system designed to deliver Alberta natural gas to markets in Ontario and Quebec.
Construction of the Mainline's western leg began on June 17, 1956 at Burstall, Saskatchewan. Natural gas reached the cities of Winnipeg, Manitoba and Regina, Saskatchewan on the Canadian Prairies in September 1957. Workers pushed on, challenged by the terrain and the remoteness of the land — moving about one kilometre a day across Ontario and, finally into Quebec. The final weld on the pipeline took place in Kapuskasing, Ontario on October 10, 1958.
To commemorate the event, Canada Post and TransCanada unveiled a special edition Canadian postage stamp, depicting a single, anonymous welder representing thousands of labourers who worked to complete the historic pipeline.
A little known fact — a silver dollar was welded to the pipe in that location. That silver dollar is now on display at TransCanada's head office in Calgary, Alberta.
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March 10, 2021
"Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit," wrote Henry Adams.
So it is for the news business today. It is fashionable in some quarters to say local journalism is dying. But look closer. Amid the difficult search for a new economic model, a skeptical, polarized public and serious reflection over longstanding practices, the field is also full of dreamers, problem solvers and pioneers charting new ways to live up to enduring responsibilities.
I hope to highlight the dreamers here from time to time. Here are four major challenges to journalism today and four attempts to confront them that are worth watching.
How do you launch a publication in a rapidly changing community that's been poorly served by mainstream journalism?
"How do we build an outlet for local journalism that is rooted in, representative of, and responsive to communities in a city as diverse, complex and powerful as Oakland?" The Oaklandside, a new publication in that Bay Area city, asked itself as it launched last summer.
To accomplish the task, the journalists at The Oaklandside thought they had to "fundamentally understand what people care about and need more information on," the outlet wrote in a report on their process.
They couldn't rely on their experience and training to know (which would have been the traditional answer). They also had to include the community in the newsgathering (the staff was too small by itself). They needed what they called a "deep relationship" with the community if they wanted to have community support.
So in September 2019, The Oaklandside, a sister publication to Berkeleyside (founded by journalists Frances Dinkelspiel, Tracey Taylor and Lance Knobel) started listening: They did long one-on-one conversations with more than four dozen community stakeholders; held community events and conversations about journalism, even about objectivity; and conducted an online survey to get more input from hundreds of Oakland residents.
They published the learnings in a "document of insight statements" and described what they stood for in a public "founding values" document.
What they heard from their inquiries is a roadmap for any publication:
 - Cover systems, not just symptoms.
 - Invest in opportunities for people to tell their own stories.
 - Create a new and more accurate narrative about Oakland's underserved communities.
 - Make the local government more accessible.
 - Help people connect and preserve Oakland's diversity in a rapidly changing place.
 - Be practical with news people can use.
 - Have a staff that reflects the community it is supposed to understand.
The real test, of course, is the journalism this process inspires. But the signs are promising. Cover systems, not symptoms? This story does it: "Vaccination codes: what worked in Oakland, what didn't, and what's next." Create a more accurate narrative about Oakland's underserved communities? This story does it: "'We're like a little family here': Dimond District small biz owners lean on community to persevere."
One of the axioms of disruption is for any organization to ask itself, "If we were starting this from scratch, what would we do?" Starting by listening is surely a good answer.
How do journalists contend with public officials who are lying?
The first principle of journalism is to get at the truth, building on a foundation of facts, arriving at an accurate accounting of events, and finding, over time, the truth of what has or is happening.
What do journalists do if public officials just lie? The problem may seem particularly acute in the age of Trump and Twitter but it is hardly new or even particularly different now. From the Red Scare witch hunts of Joseph McCarthy to the systematic deceptions of Vietnam to the faulty intelligence over the Iraq War, news people have struggled to contend with falsehoods wrapped in blue flannel officialdom and pernicious abstraction of making nonsense sound serious.
The public radio and television outlet in central Pennsylvania, WITF, is searching for a new approach to contend with it today.
WITF has promised its community it will regularly hold accountable those who played a role in perpetuating the falsehood that the presidential election was stolen.
To do so, they intend to repeatedly identify "how elected officials' actions are connected to the election-fraud lie and the insurrection." If for instance, a Pennsylvania lawmaker introduces a bill, they will note that he "signed a letter asking members of Congress to delay certifying Pennsylvania's electoral votes despite no evidence to call those results into question."
(Eight of Pennsylvania's nine Republicans voted against certifying the state's electoral college votes on Jan. 6.)
"These are not normal times," says the station's website. With disinformation and misinformation spreading in new and frightening ways, "it is important for our journalists to adapt, as transparently as possible, to bring you the facts and not memory-hole the damage done to our democracy in the last three months."
This "wasn't a policy disagreement over taxes, abortion, or government spending," the station's announcement says. "This was either knowingly spreading disinformation or outright lying by elected officials to overturn an election …"
Some in Pennsylvania and elsewhere have suggested that the journalists go even further — and refuse coverage to anyone who has participated in the false narrative about the election.
That idea is a mistake. It smacks of blacklists and the Hollywood Ten, and WITF isn't going there.
But it will be valuable to watch how WITF's effort to plug that memory-hole plays out. They are not alone. The conservative publication The Bulwark recommends that journalists should ask and ask again, in effect, if someone believes the earth is flat.
What are some journalistic pathways to find understanding over race and politics?
One of journalism's most important jobs is to create a public commons where people can learn from each other, understand and solve problems. In today's million-little-pieces media environment, that job is tougher than ever. Various publications are looking for ways to explore our political divisions — from holding civic conversations to looking at their historical role in promoting systemic racism.
The Los Angeles Times has added a refreshingly simple approach (that Poynter's Kristen Hare has previously covered). In a series called "My Country," reporter Tyrone Beason is traveling the country to write about people wrestling with the same uncertainties over race and reconciliation as Beason himself. "There's a side of me that wants to believe this country will someday bestow on my fellow Black Americans the respect we yearn for. But there's another side of me that sucks its teeth and rolls its eyes at the notion that Black people will ever receive their due in a country where armed white men who call themselves patriots can freely ransack the U.S. Capitol while some of them wave, without irony, Confederate battle flags."
As Beason travels to the inauguration in the maiden entry, we meet a South Carolina legislator who entered politics after his sister was murdered by a white supremacist in a church; a Black minister whose congregation are mostly white Trump supporters; a white man who has left the United States after being beaten by white supremacists in Charlottesville.
It's an old-school approach to our contemporary chaos — sending a gifted, thoughtful writer out to observe and absorb. Beason is a character in his pieces but a quiet one, listening not lecturing. Two generations ago it would have been called New Journalism (think Gay Talese, Joan Didion, Truman Capote, or more recently Eli Saslow at The Washington Post or Lawrence Wright at The New Yorker).
The strength is that Beason is the through line, the observer, the listener, the searcher. The challenge is that his question is so big. Will he continue to meet illuminating characters? Will he learn something that he and we didn't know? Will his journeys be more than a line on a map? I hope so. I am hooked and taking the trip with him.
Can local journalism find a way to serve audiences and lead while chronicling the intensifying debate over voting?
Newspapers evolved from the Enlightenment in the early 17th century to make information once held by the few available to many. Journalism is by nature democratizing.
What role can it play now, when the two parties are making voting rules a defining battleground between them? One answer is to help citizens in their own communities know what the rules are so they can participate.
Last election the Philadelphia Inquirer produced "How to Vote in 2020."
For audiences, news can too often seem like a party at which you arrived late and don't know anyone when you get there. Not this. It was a digital product with as many doors into it as possible, welcoming the experienced voter and the first-timer alike. Among the entrance points: "Should I vote? Am I eligible to vote? What races are on the ballot?" It also covered more arcane rules for people who wanted to vote by mail and needed specific details.
Most compelling to me: It was produced in the five most common languages in the Philadelphia area.
In the sensationalist late 19th century of yellow journalism, Joe Pulitzer hyped the news on the front pages. But he and other publishers like E.W. Scripps used their editorial pages to teach citizenship. Immigrants had reading circles. Someone who could read English would read the paper out loud to those who couldn't. The news, even the most sensational versions, was about involving people and creating community.
And isn't community an essential antidote to chaos?
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Definition of extravasate in English:
verb[with object] (usually as adjective extravasated) chiefly Medicine
Let or force out (a fluid, especially blood) from the vessel that contains it into the surrounding area: this established the presence of extravasated blood [no object]: some cells may extravasate and form secondary tumours
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- Scattered areas of lymphocytic exocytosis and extravasated red blood cells within the superficial dermis and epidermis were also present.
- Aggressive angiomyxoma has extravasated red blood cells and thick-walled vessels, some of which may be large.
- The infant should be assessed for pallor, petechiae, extravasated blood, excessive bruising, hepatosplenomegaly, weight loss, and evidence of dehydration.
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- Tumors show a spindle cell neoplasm with prominent extravasation.
- Purpura results from the extravasation of blood from the vasculature into the skin or mucous membranes.
- This pain is a potential warning sign of tissue damage and possible phlebitis or extravasation.
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Coyote Woman
21 Jan
We, the Coyote Women, stand together today.
Viva la donna selvaggia!
Coyote Woman
by Carolyn Dunn
From the deep hills
and dark wet
a bay moon of time
and after-rain, she moves glistening
past wild alata
jimson smoke, cedar
and sage.
He has called her
one last time
and it is in her blood
to answer.
he calls,
will you ever
heed me?
baring her eyeteeth,
she moves the rough
the burning sky
cloaking the black earth
with fur.
Tell me a story,
she whispers,
a sound only
he can hear,
a sound about the crying
of last night's
Coyote Woman Waits, artist Susan B. Boulet
A story,
he says,
about a dog of a woman
who won't answer
the call
of the one who
tamed her first
by voice,
then by touch,
then by song.
A story,
she whispers,
of land
and longing
and winds
that terraced over mountains,
across plains,
bringing madness
from the land
of our birth.
These are our worlds,
yet from within
the story of my heart,
the part of me
you could not take
I'm dying,
he said
and there will be nothing
left but willows,
palm bark,
and voices
in the trees.
What will you sing
when my bones
in the ground
turn to dust?
A cry to the moon,
she answered,
the wind
a breath from
a fire's touch
upon your skin.
I'll sing a song
of death,
a toll for you
who trapped my voice
with your pale touch.
My voice is my own
and no wax,
no sealing string,
no empty hole
can keep it from moving
on the wind
across simmering
black canyons, pine, and
And my voice
will never leave
this land,
lighting fires
and fountains,
from here
to your
From The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
Tracking: Cougar and Coyote Tracks
5 Mar
How does one tell the difference between cougar tracks and coyote tracks? Several differences will help determine how to differentiate between tracks of these two animals.
 1. The general paw morphology of these two animals is similar: they have four front and rear toes. However, the most notable difference is that cougar tracks seldom have claw marks in their tracks, whereas the coyote almost always has claw marks because they cannot retract their claws like cats do.
 2. The general shape of the tracks of members in the cat (feline) family is round. Whereas, tracks of members of the dog (canine) family are egg-shaped.
 3. If you look at any track of all animals, there is empty space between the toes and the pad of their paws. That is referred to as 'negative space.' Because of the shape of the pads, the negative space of the cats paw is like a 'C' laying on its side with the open side down. Many members of the dog family, including the coyote, have a 'X' shape negative space because their pads are shaped differently and the toes are also arranged so that the two middle toes are more forward (domestic dogs have a 'H' shape negative space).
 4. Another important clue is how the tracks are arranged together during their gaits. These can vary greatly between species within the dog family; foxes, domestic dogs and coyotes move differently depending on their behavior and, therefore, they can exhibit a variety of gaits. On the other hand, the only major difference between the wild cats is their size and the ground they are on, called the 'substrate.'
Negative spaces in foot tracks
When encountering animal tracks, be sure to look at the trail of tracks rather than just one track. Many components in the environment come together with the animal to tell a story. Their tracks are like words on a page, but all the pages come together to complete the story. Often, one must 'read' all the pages in order to answer a question, "Why is this a cougar?" or "Why is this not a coyote?"
One of those pages is the animal's gait: the way an animal moves. It is not just a description of the trail of tacks, but the way and reason the animal moved to make those tracks. Why is this important? Because it helps you think like the animal. For example, cougars and bobcats walk. They usually move slowly and stealthily. It helps them conserve energy and that is their general behavior.
Coyotes, on the other hand, are usually trotters. They hunt very differently than the big cats and they trot along the land catching scent or sound of small prey, often times flushing them out of cover. They also cover long distances, whereas the big cats do not. However, both cats and coyotes walk and trot, but they spend most of their time moving at one or two gaits which are more energy efficient for them.
Coyote indirect register tracts in soft sandy mud.
Now we are starting to think like a cat and a coyote. All gaits have a rhythm, and most of those are consistent (the notable exception is domestic dog). And the gait is what leaves the trail and pattern of tracks. Walking and trotting are the most natural gaits. And here is where we can also differentiate tracks made from canine and felines.
Both dogs and cats tend to be diagonal walkers; they move opposite limbs together. When a coyote walks, its rear foot tends to fall just behind the front with the rear track sometimes overlapping the front. This is called 'indirect register'. When they trot, their rear foot falls in the front footprint, called 'direct register trot'. But one must keep in mind that coyotes have many rhythms, gaits and patterns, which is why they are referred to as 'the dancers'! Each time any animal shifts from its natural rhythm or speed, there is a reason and the tracker must ask themselves 'Why?". That is where interpretation and storytelling comes into play.
The big cat's natural walk is slow; their gait and rhythm is consistent and slow, claws are retracted, and their tracks are direct register: their back paws fall in their front footprints. Because of their size the greater the stride and distance of their tracks compared to the coyote. When they bound, such as in the act of catching prey, their tracks will cluster and group together more, such as one rear track grouped with both front paw tracks.
The best way to study tracts and animal behavior is to take a small journal notebook with pencil and a small ruler (up to 5-6"). Sketching animal tracks is usually better than taking photographs because the latter is notoriously difficult to capture the depth of field and the subtleties. With a pencil, you can shade in certain features and draw measurements. Get down on your knees or even lay down to peer and study the shapes and textures of the tracks. Also look around the area and include notes about the surroundings, especially the substrate (sand, mud, dust, snow) and the patterns of tracks. For those serious about learning tracking, you can assemble a small kit to take with you that will enable taking plaster casts of tracts. That way you can take impressions of tracks home with you for later study.
Plaster cast of coyote in Rough Run Creek, Study Butte, TX.
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Consider a conical pendulum with a 68.0 kg bob on a 10.0m wire making an angle of θ = 3.00° with thevertical. (Consider +i hat to be towards thecenter of the circular path.)
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At Schull CC, our Climate Change Activists work to raise awareness of issues to do with climate change, identify areas for action and engage with their peers and their teachers in a range of activities. They organise whole school climate protests and beach clean ups, they gather crisp packets, ink cartridges, aluminium and batteries for recycling and they have fitted bird boxes, bat boxes and an insect hotel on the college grounds and in the local community.
A current objective is to install a bottle-refill station on the college campus. Some of the organisations that these activists liaise with are; Tidy Towns, Repak Ireland, the Climate Ambassadors programme, National Spring Clean and Amnesty International.


Brazil scientists find signs of underground river
SAO PAULO (AP)? Brazilian scientists say they have found signs of a huge underground river flowing far beneath the Amazon River.
Valiya Hamza of Brazil's National Observatory says there are indications of a 3,700-mile (6,000-kilometer) long subterranean river located several thousand feet below the surface.
Hamza says the finding came from studying temperature variations at 241 inactive oil wells drilled in the 1970s and 1980s by Brazil's state-run oil company.
Hamza says the thermal information allowed his team of researchers to identify the movement of water 13,100 feet (4,000 meters) under the Amazon River.


karmaNi eva adhikaaraste
maa phaleshu gadaachana
karmaNi eva adhikaaraste maa phaleshu gadaachana
maa karma phala hetuH bhuH maa sanghaH astu akarmaNi
(Gita, Chapter 2:47)
Translation: We should act not because the actions will produce such and such result or avoid the
activity because we think the results produced may not be of our interest. Actions should proceed
from the sense of duty. One has to do his duty no matter what the consequences are.
The structure of all messages in Gita is deep and subtle. In the first part of this verse, Lord Krishna
suggests that our duty be but to act, never to be concerned with the results. In the second part,
Lord Krishna identifies the consequences if we pre evaluate the results of our actions. If we start
our action with prior expectations, then results of our actions can bring either disappointments or
over confidence. Those who do not wish to face disappointments will be afraid to act and those who
are successful will be arrogant! They both lead to a dead-end straight with eventual failures!
Gita asks us to evaluate the consequences of the two feasible mental framework. If we develop the
mental framework to conduct our duties without looking for the fruits of our action, we can accept
success or failure. Actions with such a mental framework are self-propelled without incentives.
Instead, if we specify the results before the action, we divert our attention more to the result and
less to the action. When our expectations are low, we don't pay full attention to our duty. If our
expectations are high, we face disappointments when the results fall short of our expectations.
The subtle message of "Karma Yoga" is deep and there are several other explanations:
First, time is not a parameter in spirituality and consequently action is continuous and it never
ends. Results imply an end of an action and consequently results are ruled out. That is why the
scriptures gave so much importance to the duties which have no beginning or end!
Second, all entities of the universe are interactive and consequently neither the action nor the
results of the action can be separated. Even within an intellectual framework, the results of any
action is "uncertain" due to the presence of many actors. For example, the stock broker will tell the
buyer of stocks that there is no guarantee for getting back the money invested! The future price of
the stock market is decided not by a single buyer or seller but by the collective decision of all the
buyers and sellers in the market.
Third, let me present this quotation from Gandhiji describing the Gita Ideal:
"I am a devotee of the Gita and a firm believer in the inexorable law of karma. Even the least little
tripping or stumbling is not without its cause and I have wondered why one who has tried to follow
the Gita in thought, word and deed should have any ailment. The doctors have assured me that this
trouble of high bloodpressure is entirely the result of mental strain and worry. If that is true, it is
likely that I have been unnecessarily worrying myself, unnecessarily fretting and secretly harboring
passions like anger, lust, etc. The fact that any event or incident should disturb my serious efforts,
means not that the Gita Ideal is defective but that my devotion to its defective. The Gita Ideal is
true for all time, my understanding of it and observance of it is full of flaws."
Harijan, 29 February 1936. ("What is Hinduism?" Mahatma Gandhi, National Book Trust of
India, page, 95).
Finally, the Vedantic notion of becoming Brahman implies that the actions become spontaneous. A
spontaneous action has no cause or effect. A good example for a spontaneous action is the
blooming of flowers. The flower plant blooms whether we appreciate or criticize. Such actions
essentially become inaction and generate total peace and tranquility. Are we capable for such
spontaneous actions? The answer is yes! If a child falls accidentally in a swimming pool then
someone jumps immediately to save the child. At times, people who do not swim will also jump
onto the pool to save the child. This is human instinct (spontaneous human dharma) or temporary
realization of the True Human Nature. Becoming Brahman is the permanent realization of the True
Human Nature. When we start conducting all our actions spontaneously with the yagna spirit, we
just do the action without looking for alternatives! The essence of the message of Karma Yoga is:
"Actions are inevitable and excuses are unforgivable."
Swami Dayananda Saraswati's Interpretation
Recently, Swami Dayananda Saraswati visited the Washington Area and gave several lectures on
the theme "Ahimsa and Success" from Giita. He has interpreted one of the most quoted verse from
Gita on Karma Yoga (Chapter 2, Verse 47). Several important points emerged from his lectures
relating to studying Gita:
(1) Greater depth in Sanskrit is the key to understand Gita most effectively.
(2) A great teacher (Guru) such as Swami Dayananda Saraswati is essential to study Gita.
(3) Literal translation of Gita has the potential to distort the essence of the intended message.
(4) The Gita Ideal is true for all the time but our understanding of it has potential flaws.
Gita Verse
karmaNi eva adhikaaraste maa phaleshu gadaachana
maa karma phala hetuH bhuH maa sanghaH astu akarmaNi
We only have the "right" to conduct the action and certainly we have no control over the results of
our action. We should avoid using the "results" as the motivating force of our action. We should
free from our attachment to inaction. The message will become crisp and clear if we understand its
full meaning carefully.
We are part of the nature and we need to understand our 'rights' and our 'limitations.' We only
have the skill and power to conduct our action. Our skill can help us to set up the goals and we
should use the full energy to accomplish the goals. But we have no control over the outcome of our
actions because we are not the only participants. Consequently the results are more likely different
from our expectations. The results can be more, equal, less or even opposite to our expectations. To
avoid misery at the end, we should willingly accept the outcome as nature's gift (prasad).
Overconfidence due to success and disappointment of failures will cultivate the habit of
attachments to inaction.


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Agriculture - Overview
From butter churns to diesel tractors, the Museum's agricultural artifacts trace the story of Americans who work the land. Agricultural tools and machinery in the collections range from a John Deere plow of the 1830s to 20th-century cultivators and harvesters. The Museum's holdings also include overalls, aprons, and sunbonnets; farm photographs; milk cans and food jars; handmade horse collars; and some 200 oral histories of farm men and women in the South. Prints in the collections show hundreds of scenes of rural life. The politics of agriculture are part of the story, too, told in materials related to farm workers' unions and a group of artifacts donated by the family of the labor leader Cesar Chavez.


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Candidates will undertake training to update /refresh their knowledge relating to the safety regulations, procedures and British Standards required when working on gas installations.
Entrants must have a CCN:1 and domestic appliance qualification that has not expired by more than 1 year.
5 days (2½ days training and 2½ days assessment).
Lecture notes, audio visual presentation and a range of domestic gas appliances and models.
Written and practical test in line with ACS scheme requirements.
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- Checking and/or setting meter regulators
- Identifications of unsafe situations
- The operation of and positioning of emergency isolation controls and valves
- Emergency notices and warning labels
- Checking and setting appliance burner pressures and gas rates
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- Flueing/Chimney Standards
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Homelessness and Hunger Among People Seeking Asylum During COVID-19
In August 2020, the Refugee Council of Australia surveyed charities, asylum support agencies and volunteer groups to understand better the situation that they and their clients are facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results are troubling: people seeking asylum have lost work, cannot find sufficient employment to support themselves, and excluded from the Federal Government's COVID-19 support systems like JobSeeker and JobKeeper, they are facing hunger and homelessness on a scale not previously seen in Australia.
In the few months since the survey, the lockdown restrictions have eased around the country; however, the situation for this group has not improved. Indeed, it has deteriorated further. We have heard of troubling accounts of people losing their homes as the eviction moratoria have lifted and medical providers have been treating young children in this group for malnourishment and related diseases. The health impact of the pandemic has not eased for people seeking asylum, and without urgent intervention, we fear it will worsen.
Finding work
People seeking asylum who lost work during COVID-19 have continued to search for employment: as one employer advised us, in October 2020, they advertised a part-time, 15-hours per week role that would suit many people from humanitarian backgrounds. Within three days, they had 400 applications. Agencies advised that between 55-60% of the people that they were assisting had lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic or had their hours so significantly reduced that they required financial assistance or access to a food bank.
Staying safe at home
Rent is the greatest single expense that people are facing. Of the agencies surveyed, the clients that they are supporting had weekly rents that averaged between $200-$350 per week. As people were let go from casual work (as employers could not access JobKeeper for employees who were people seeking asylum on temporary visas), they quickly used up any savings to pay their rent.
Over 88% of people seeking asylum asking for assistance from the service agencies and charitable groups had difficulty paying rent due to COVID-19
Of the thousands of people seeking asylum and accessing support from these groups, 56% are currently at risk of being evicted from their homes, and the groups estimate that 55% are at risk of homelessness (living on the streets). Over 14% are already currently experiencing homelessness (in a car, on the streets or in emergency accommodation).
Finding enough food and paying for water, electricity, and medication
The lack of access to any form of income during the pandemic has resulted in people not having money to purchase food. Over 70% of the charities' clients had to go without meals because of hardship and 75% had difficulty paying their utilities (water, heating, cooling, gas, electricity) because of hardship. The majority (60%) had to borrow money to cover rent, food costs, pay utilities, or to buy medication.
Support agencies and volunteer groups have outlined how deeply troubled they are:
"This group needs an income safety net, as NGOs can't sustain paying rents for the long-term. We are paying an extra $65,000/month on rentals and emergency relief since April and has increased to $80,000/month since October. Many people will be unable to get or return to work post COVID." ~Church-based group in Victoria
 "We've seen increases in hardship as the lockdowns have increased and as time has gone on where people have exhausted their Supersavings, and other supports. There are debts being accumulated, which are likely to result in substantial hardship and destitution for some time to come. This [data] does not account for people experiencing extreme hardship or at great risk who have been unable to access the centre or who are triaged as 'less in crisis'. We also have over 20 calls per day unanswered because of resource limitations. COVID seems to have reduced the options for people in obtaining employment or otherwise becoming independent." ~Asylum support agency
 "Clients have no safety net or opportunity to get on their feet upon arrival or after crisis. Clients' ineligibility for JobKeeper has caused a lot of distress, as they have paid tax and 'did the right thing' but still couldn't access JobKeeper like their [former] colleagues. People seeking asylum already struggled to enter the job market and are now up against even greater competition, with even more people and with more local experience and qualifications applying for the same jobs. ~ Non-for-profit service organisation in NSW
"People may come to us for one issue but do not want to raise the other issues they are facing so as not to appear 'greedy'. We are seeing people that have never accessed support before as they have been self-reliant and have had meaningful employment. We are observing increased mental health concerns. ~West Australian charity
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The police officer is lying: I never gave consent to search
It is becoming increasingly common to read police reports where evidence of drugs was allegedly found after a "consensual" search only to speak to the defendant who is adamant that he or she never gave the police officer consent to search. This is becoming common to the point that there is a judicially recognized phrase to define it; it is referred to as: "consent to search under objectively questionable circumstances."
If this has happened to you, do not give up all hope. Though it can be difficult to convince the judge that you are the one he or she should believe and not the police officer, it may not be impossible. This is because police officers often only know the law to a certain degree. They will think that they are saying and writing the "right" things to convict a person, but will overlook many details that, if accurately and properly presented to the judge, will indicate that any supposed consent to search was in fact not freely and voluntarily given.
There is a tremendous amount of case law detailing specific facts and circumstances that indicate when a search is consensual and when it is not. Whether a search was consensual or not turns on much more than the allegations of the police officer—various factors such as the amount of officers present, their specific words and actions, and where the officers were positioned are just a few variables that will affect whether a search was truly consensual or not.
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OpenViBE is a software platform that enables to design, test and use Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). BCIs are communication systems that enable users to send commands to computers only by means of brain activity. BCIs are gaining interest inside the Virtual Reality community as they have appeared as promising interaction devices for Virtual Environments.OpenViBE is a software for real-time neurosciences (that is, for real-time processing of brain signals). It can be used to acquire, filter, process, classify and visualize brain signals in real time. Furthermore, OpenViBE is free and open source software. It works on Windows and Linux operating systems.
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FedEx Corporation, formerly called FDX Corporation, is a global management services company providing customers and businesses with shipping, trade, and marketing services. It's also very focused on the impression it leaves with the people and places it serves, so it uses PEST (Political, Economical, Social and Technological Factors) to determine its market standing and what service improvements are necessary.
Political Factors
Primary political factors affecting an organization are government rules and regulations. Being an international company, FedEx interacts with various nations around the world that don't enforce tough trade regulations, granting them the privilege of getting better international services. Some other political factors of concern are political stability, industrial limitations and business standards. FedEx is successful in serving the world because it strictly abides by all relevant laws.
Economic Factors
Inflation, exchange rates and interest rates are economic factors taken into consideration, for they have the potential to distress consumers. Depression in the market affects the financial assets of the company. It's both a positive and a negative for FedEx that it provides services around the world, since it must respond to varying economic factors as a result. FedEx must be flexible with its charges, basing them on the economic status of each country it serves.
Social Factors
Social factors that affect an organization are population and educational perspective of the international and macro-economical society. These pertain to decisions organizations make to meet the needs and demands of a specified number of consumers in certain countries. Populated countries are favorable to FedEx because they have more consumers who require their services. Global organization expansion is influenced by countries with high literacy rates, something that's certainly a driver for FedEx.
Technological Factors
FedEx, like other organizations, is successful primarily due to the advancement in technology. The company took the expansion of the Internet to its full advantage by providing electronic services to customers anywhere in the world. With this technology, consumers can check the status of their transactions with just a few mouse clicks. FedEx is able to communicate with the world through e-commerce, another innovation for business-to-business transactions.


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Fairfax County has developed a new solid waste management plan at the behest of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. The plan is an integrated community strategy for dealing with trash and recycling for the next 20 years. It must address all aspects of solid waste, even those not directly handled by county staff.
Most trash and recyclables in the county are collected by private haulers. About 13% is collected by county crews. Most of the trash passes through the I-66 Transfer Station where smaller truck loads are consolidated into tractor trailer loads that are transported to the waste-to-energy (WTE) facility at the I-95 Landfill complex. At the WTE, the waste is burned and used to generate electricity—enough to serve 70,000 homes annually.
Recyclables are collected curbside or at drop-off centers and transported to a materials recovery facility. There the materials are sorted and shipped to the markets where they are sold. Buying recycled materials helps develop the markets for additional materials to be recycled.
Solid waste materials are disposed in many different ways. Household hazardous waste, including oil-based paint, antifreeze and used oil, is collected and sent to a licensed facility to be reused, combusted, or disposed. Most construction and remodeling waste goes to special landfills designed for these types of materials. Most of these are privately owned and operated. Yard waste is collected curbside and in many instances taken to the I-66 Transfer Station where it is consolidated into larger trucks and shipped to a private composting facility or a county grinding facility. Mulch made at the county grinding facility is available to the public for pickup at no cost.
Different kinds of solid waste are managed in different ways. Not every service provider manages every type of solid waste. In Fairfax County, private companies provide construction waste landfilling, hazardous waste and regulated medical waste collection and disposal, recycling and trash collection, and composting.
The county government provides recycling and trash collection in designated sanitary districts, recycling drop-off centers, citizen disposal facilities, educational programs, and transfer station operations. County staff also operate the I-95 Landfill complex where ash from the WTE facility is disposed. Household hazardous waste is accepted at the I-95 Landfill and the I-66 Transfer Station.
The WTE facility at the landfill is a public-private partnership between the county and Covanta Fairfax, Inc. The Fairfax County Division Of Solid Waste Disposal and Resource Recovery oversees operation of the WTE facility and is responsible for providing 930,750 tons of waste each year to the facility. Waste is reduced 90% in volume, leaving an ash product that is put in a landfill.
Some issues Fairfax County needs to consider in the future include:
- how to pay for community benefit programs.
- shrinking construction landfill capacities.
- how many recycling drop-off centers are needed.
- how to provide effective public education programs, sources of funding.
- the increased need for household hazardous waste services.
- should additional materials be recycled curbside.
- should all businesses be required to recycle.
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--SourceTheravada means the 'doctrine of the elders'. The term Hinayana has also been used for this form of Buddhism, but it is a misnomer. This term has been used by the Mahayana Buddhists, who reckoned that they were followers of the 'greater vehicle'. The Mahayanists to differentiate themselves from the Theravadins called the latter Hinayana, the lesser vehicle. In the pre-Mahayana period there was truly a collateral sect called the Hinayana, but this sect is not the Theravada of today. This confusion was unfortunate, and therefore, it is better to avoid the term Hinayana altogether. Any attempt to label two different forms of Buddhism as 'greater' and 'lesser' is odious.
This is confusing to me. The term "Hinayana" was used before the break-up of the Sangha by Theravadan practitioners? What does it mean that the "Hinayana" of that time was different from the Theravada of today?
I've always thought that the term Hinayana was only pejorative. But I once saw Retro mention that there are appropriate uses for the word. Please play nice. I'm not trying to create divisions or open the door for ridiculing Mahayana. I put this in the "Discovering Theravada" section in hopes of just just getting information and clarification.


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Young Adults from 14 Caribbean Countries Gather Material for Environmental Book
ROSEAU, Dominica Young adults from 14 Caribbean countries recently finished gathering material for a book on the environment they hope will get more young people involved in protection efforts.
The book will highlight environmental issues facing the region and provide examples of how younger generations can influence government policies, said organizer Frederick Arnett.
"Our purpose is to bring about a change in the mentality and attitude about the environment" among young adults, Arnett said.
The material was gathered from 30 environmental activists, ages 18 to 25, over the past week in Roseau, Arnett said.
Funding to publish the book will come from the Barbados-based Caribbean Youth Environment Network and United National Environmental Program, though no publication date has been set.
The program plans to sell copies across the Caribbean.
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Not content with synchronizing your phones to make one giant speaker? Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have developed "Pinch," an interface that lets you connect multiple devices together to form a giant disjointed display. Although the technology behind the interface remains a mystery — described only as a Wi-Fi based system — a video posted by DigInfo TV shows Pinch in action. To connect two devices, a user simply needs to pinch two adjacent screens together. The screens can be linked together in whatever alignment you choose, as the position and screen size of each display is communicated on a successful pinch.
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Many manufacturing plants employ compressed air systems in one capacity or another, and, for the most part, these systems provide similar output. While all compressed air might be the same, the engineering of that air is not. The needs of a petrochemical plant are quite different from those of an automobile manufacturing plant. Application-specific engineered air addresses those different needs.
Engineered air describes compressed air tailored to meet specific industry needs—100 percent oil-free, particulate filtered, and reliable. It goes beyond the simple output of compressed air at a specified pressure pounds per square inch. Engineered air provides the right type of air for the right application. A good example of this concept put into practice is work done at a North American ethylene plant.
Ethylene processing plants use compressed air systems in a number of ways. Air powers pneumatic tools used in general maintenance, and it is employed for other plant operations, such as blow-down and dry-out. Blow-down uses compressed air to clear pipes and vessels of debris and blockage, while dry-out uses compressed air to remove moisture from pipes prior to ethylene processing.
Ethylene plants also use compressed air combined with steam to remove the coke build-up in the cracking furnaces. Scheduled periodic removal of this solid build-up allows the overall ethylene processing operations to run more efficiently.
Recently, a world-scale North American ethylene plant was undergoing a major expansion project that required a specially designed compressor system to handle the additional requirements. With this major expansion underway, it was vital that this new system provide absolutely reliable engineered air.
In order to ensure the most dependable compressed air source possible, the compressor package included a custom-designed compressor with a high-tech control system, meeting requirements for durability and reliability, accessibility and maintainability, and high level of control (Fig. 1).
The base design for this customized system also had to meet stringent API 672 standards for packaged, integrally geared centrifugal air compressors for petroleum, chemical, and gas industry services.
Durability and reliability
A baseload ethylene plant is the lynchpin of any petrochemical manufacturing complex. Ethylene is the building block and feedstock for all the downstream feeder plants. A baseload plant is expected to run continuously, maximizing efficiencies and minimizing costs. Downstream plants totally rely on the plant to provide a continuous supply of feedstock—in this case ethylene.
This is one of the key reasons the compressor system had to be designed to be extremely durable. To ensure this durability, the customized air compressor features self-adjusting tilting pad journal bearings that can adapt to load changes, providing stability, as well as double-acting thrust bearings to accommodate all load conditions. In addition, the system features stainless steel impellers, resistant to corrosion and erosion.
All of the compressor systems had to run reliably also. An unplanned shutdown would have an adverse impact on the entire petrochemical complex manufacturing capabilities. The compressor was built with a redundant oil system, helping eliminate the possibility of system failure, allowing the ethylene plant to meet its availability targets (Fig. 2).
Within an air compressor, the oil pump is the heart of the lubrication system; it is what keeps the machine running smoothly. If the pump breaks down, the machine comes to a grinding halt. To avoid this, we included not one, but two full capacity, full pressure pumps in the design—one motor-driven auxiliary and the other a shaft-driven main.
During regular operations, the shaft-driven main is operating, while the motor-driven auxiliary is on perpetual standby for emergency situations, providing additional overall package protection. Without this redundant system, in the event of an oil system malfunction, the entire compressor system needs to be shut down. The redundant system eliminates downtime and provides a reliable source of engineered air.
Accessibility and maintainability
In order to keep the plant's compressor system running efficiently and reliably, it was essential to design the unit for maximum accessibility and maintainability. While requiring additional time and attention from plant engineers, scheduled cleaning and maintenance are a sound investment. As with all other plant operating systems, compressed air systems that have a planned maintenance program are less likely to have unexpected breakdowns. Simply put, less downtime allows for more production. In addition, consistent cleaning and maintenance practices help keep wear and tear to a minimum. This ultimately saves money in replacement parts.
The intercooler design is an example of the ease-of-maintenance design philosophy. Within a compressor intercooler, both U-shaped and straight intercooler tubes are industry practice. However, straight tubes are easier to clean than those with a U-bend design. An engineer can simply remove the water piping, unbolt the water box, and rod the tubes in place. Rodding is not possible with U-bend tubes found in some compressors.
In addition, intercooler tubes with a water-in-tube design are easier to clean and maintain than those with an air-in-tube design that require wire brush or chemical bath cleaning. This compressor features straight intercooler tubes with water-in-tube design for this very reason. The longer it takes to clean the intercooler, the longer engineered airflow is down.
Another example of important compressor components that benefit from diligent inspection and maintenance are journal and thrust bearings. These bearings help provide a stable and near frictionless environment to support and guide the rotating shaft. Properly installed and maintained, these bearings can last for extended periods of time. However, regularly scheduled inspections and maintenance keep them running reliably. The ethylene plant's compressor features horizontally split bearings, which are easy to maintain, inspect, and replace. An engineer simply removes the top half of the gear case to service. No other disassembly is required.
Interchangeability of parts is another factor taken into consideration when designing the ethylene plant's compressor system. Interchangeability contributes heavily to ease of maintenance. Interchangeable parts save time and money. Multiple stage air compressors use a bull gear and pinion system to power the impellers at each stage of air compression. The quality of the bull gears used directly determines whether they are interchangeable. The customized compressor uses high precision AGMA Quality 13 gears.
The American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) provides established gear quality ratings, ranging from 3-15. These numbers signify the quality levels, or standards, developed by the AGMA that differ per application. AGMA Quality Level 13 gears, otherwise known as aircraft-quality gearing, are generally regarded as high-precision gears. They provide lower noise levels and, under normal operating conditions, have a longer performance life. More importantly, though, they provide interchangeability.
If the gear is AGMA Quality Level 12 or below and any one of the three pieces needs to be replaced, all three pieces—one gear and two pinions—need to be replaced. However, with Level 13 gears, rather than remove and replace all three pieces, the plant engineer needs to swap out only the component in question. This saves time and money in unnecessary replacement parts.
High level of control
The operation of multiple compressors feeding into a single plant air system needs to be coordinated, monitored, and controlled in order to accommodate various applications. An initial investment in innovative monitoring technology can ultimately pay for itself.
With that in mind, the customized compressor can be accommodated with a PLC-based automatic sequencer, which permits up to eight compressor units to communicate with one another and operate in sequence according to a programmed schedule. High-tech PLC-based automatic sequencers are capable of monitoring and matching compressor supply to demand. For example, they can select which compressors to use at any given time, shutting down those compressors not necessary to plant operations, even choosing back-up units if needed. By turning multiple compressors into one, an automatic sequencer can ensure stable system pressure, which allows the entire operation to run as efficiently as possible, saving both time and money.
In addition, a PLC-based modular control system allows for remote monitoring and diagnostic checks on the compressed air systems, helping to predict and prevent any systems malfunctions that could result in stoppage of engineered air. This can save money on repairs and replacements, as well as lost production time.
The most cost-effective systems, like the FS-Elliott Regulus control system, provide state-of-the-art technology and ease-of-use. The ideal control system should feature an easy-to-operate touch screen with a graphic color display. These features allow operators to view easy-to-understand graphics while monitoring the plant engineered air systems. An advanced system also provides easy adjustment of set-points and control mode changes using the touch screen. These flexible controls are fully adaptive, changing to meet the plant's application-specific needs.
The control system also stores and logs operating data used for trend monitoring and preventive maintenance. This feature permits engineers to monitor and predict trends in their engineered air systems and act before problems arise. Extended monitoring of vital parameters is important for equipment protection, saving money in maintenance and avoiding repairs.
Ethylene plants are extremely energy conscious. A systems operation closer to surge lines saves power and minimizes wasteful unloading, while lower set-points and precise control minimizes energy usage. The advanced control system is able to make more efficient use of the ethylene plant's manpower. With easy-to-use remote control and monitoring capabilities, this system can reduce the tasks of the ethylene plant operators, allowing them to shift focus to other plant responsibilities.
An engineered air system is created with specific plant applications in mind, to increase reliability and efficiency. The custom-engineered compressor we installed at the ethylene plant was designed with the following key points in mind:
- Durability and reliability—A robust engineered design combined with key system redundancies.
- Accessibility and maintainability—Moving parts designed with ease of access and maintenance in mind.
- High level of control—High-tech control systems provide for efficient operation and allow plant operations to predict and prevent possible problems.


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While many LGBT vacationers opt for the cool, queer-friendly climes of Fire Island or Provincetown, there's another option for those who prefer to take the road less traveled: the Yellow Brick Road.
Yes, folks, that Yellow Brick Road. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, historian John Curran has identified a stretch of yellow-bricked road in Peekskill, New York as the inspiration for the one that Dorothy famously traveled in L. Frank Baum's children's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Although scholars in other parts of the country might beg to differ, Curran has conducted years of research and concluded that this bit of road is the one that sparked Baum's imagination. Curran's argument is based in part on fact: Baum lived two years of his young life in Peekskill, attending a military academy there. Legend has it that when he stepped off the boat and asked for directions to the school, he was told to "follow the yellow brick road".
Unfortunately for Curran — not to mention historians, preservationists, and literary types — only a small portion of the yellow brick road still exists today, and even that is being threatened with blacktop "improvements". If you're the sort of vacationer who likes to say, "I was there!", we'd suggest getting your pic on Peekskill's yellow brick road sooner rather than later.


Hairy crab found, according to reports in BBC News, and news@nature and ScienceNOW 8 March 2006. A crab that looks like a "cross between a gorilla and a lobster" has been found living near a hydrothermal vent at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean 1,500km (900miles) south of Easter Island. The white crab is 15cm long (6 inches) and has pincers covered with a dense coat of hair-like strands. Scientists are unsure about the function of the hairs. The crab has no eyes so the hairs may help it sense the environment, but they may also enable a symbiotic relationship with bacteria. Scientists studying the crab found many filamentous bacteria living on the hairy pincers and suggest the crab feeds on bacteria. Other scientists suggest the bacteria may detoxify poisonous minerals that come out of the vents. The crab has been named Kiwa hirsute and is so different from other crabs it has been put into a new taxonomic (classification) family of crustaceans.
Editorial Comment: Here we see another example of bacteria living in peace with other living things and probably contributing to their well being by providing nutrients and maintaining the right chemical environment. Even though we do not live in such an extreme environment, we do carry a multitude of bacteria that help maintain the right chemical environment on our body surface and in the lining of some body cavities. Bacteria are part of God's good creation, but like may other living things can produce a bad effect when they get into the wrong places or have suffered harmful mutations. The fact that this eyeless crab lives so differently from other crabs, provides no evidence for evolution, but is good evidence that crabs, including the ones which have lost eyes, have reproduced their own kinds, as Genesis states. (Ref. classification, invertebrates, symbiosis)
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Sex offender recidivism in Missouri and community corrections options. Where should we intervene? Statements by law enforcement officials have had some effect in previous debates. In doing so, Megan's Law made photographs, names, and addresses dictionary sex offender in Arizona registered sex offenders available to the public via the Internet and other forms of community notification.
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 - The discovery that Neil Havens Rodreick had managed to dupe the authorities at several schools into believing he was a school age child by shaving off his body hair and dressing as a child has shocked Arizona, and much of America. It's a bizarre twist that a year-old man would pose successfully four times as a year-old and would try to gain access to children in charter schools," said Rebecca Ruffner, the director of Prevent Child Abuse Arizona, a children's advocacy group.
 - His sex-offender pedigree was real, though; Australian police have those certificates.
 - The law protects the Arizona Citizens from re-offending sex offenders. Everyone in Arizona has access to this information.
 - The term sex offender refers to an individual who has committed a sex-related crime. While each jurisdiction has different statutes concerning what is considered a sex crime, certain crimes, such as rape, sexual abuse, prostitution, and sex trafficking, are widely accepted as sex crimes.
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What You Need To Know About Using A Cosigner On Your Mortgage
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Many people look forward to the day when they will be able to buy a home. However, some people have a hard time proving their income for the mortgage process and are unable to get a loan. For example, those who are self-employed, those who get paid from commission, or who have bad credit, might have an unusually hard time getting a loan. In these cases, a cosigner might be the best option. Here are some things you need to know about using a cosigner.
1. They Will Use Both The Cosigners and The Buyers Records
If you choose to use a cosigner, it is important that the cosigner is ready to provide all of their information. Both you and the cosigner will have to go through the process together. Each of you will have to give proof of income, have your credit score pulled, look at bank accounts, etc. There are some exceptions to this. In some cases where you have a self-employed individual who does not have a long enough history of self-employment, the mortgage lender may only look at the cosigner's income and assets. This is because they are unable to verify the income of the self-employed person. However, they still will pull assets, credit score, bank accounts and other information from both of the borrowers.
2. You Should Try To Refinance As Soon As Possible
Using a cosigner should be a short-term solution. Having a cosigner on your loan can be a risk for both of you. If you lose the house or even try to sell the house, the cosigner has a vested interest in the house, and it may become a problem in your relationship. This is why you should try to refinance the house, in your name only, as soon as possible.
Many lenders make it easier to refinance than to get the loan initially. If they see that you have made the payments without any problems, and that you are responsible enough, they will help to get you to refinance the loan.
3. Ensure Your Relationship With The Cosigner Is Strong and Healthy
There have been many financial professionals who have said to never cosign on a loan. This is because it can damage the relationship and ruin the cosigner's credit. This is why if you chose to cosign with someone, that both the buyer and the cosigner understand the risks and feel that their relationship is strong enough to stand the stress of such a transaction.


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Many idioms are based on money and payment. Test your knowledge of English idioms with the questions below. To learn more about an individual idiom, click on the "more about this idiom" link.
1. cost the earth | charge the earth
These Persian carpets cost the earth, so
 1. they must be good quality
 2. they can't be very good
 3. let's get them while they're cheap
more about this idiom: cost the earth | charge the earth
2. for my money
 1. he buys books from online bookstores
 2. he thinks bookshops charge too much
 3. he can't afford books sold in bookshops
more about this idiom: for my money
3. make ends meet
Fiona earns just enough to make ends meet, so
 1. she's looking for a better-paying job
 2. she's saving up for a car
 3. she has plenty of money
more about this idiom: make ends meet
4. pick up the tab | pick up the bill
Larry is a very generous guy and he
 1. never picks up the tab
 2. always picks up the tab
 3. occasionally picks up the tab
more about this idiom: pick up the tab | pick up the bill
5. rags to riches
This girl I knew in high school has had an unusual life. She went from rags to riches after she
 1. got a job in a bank
 2. lost millions of dollars gambling
 3. became a top international model
more about this idiom: rags to riches
6. talk turkey
Before we could talk turkey about the deal, we had to
 1. see the samples
 2. pay the money
 3. go to Turkey
more about this idiom: talk turkey
7. tighten your belt
Carly will have to tighten her belt because
 1. she's been putting on weight
 2. she's lost her job
 3. she's short of time
more about this idiom: tighten your belt
8. under the table
 1. refereeing their games
 2. influencing the score in some games
 3. playing golf in their free time
more about this idiom: under the table
9. wheeling and dealing
Thanks to some very good wheeling and dealing, Graham
 1. won the game of cards
 2. passed his driving test
 3. got the building contract
more about this idiom: wheeling and dealing
10. worth its weight in gold
James says the one thing in life that's worth its weight in gold is
 1. a good education
 2. a gold necklace
 3. a life sentence
more about this idiom: worth its weight in gold
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Eat during hard exercise, even if you want to lose weight
Posted Jan 29 2008 10:04am
Don't skip snacks during a long bike ride or other hard exercise, even if weight loss is your goal. You will need to eat food or drink sugared beverages to be able to ride long enough to burn significant calories and lose weight. Your muscles need a constant supply of sugar to keep you going. Cyclists who do not eat run out of their stored muscle sugar in about two hours. When you run out of stored muscles sugar, your muscles hurt and you lose coordination. You will not be able to ride fast because when your muscles run out of their stored sugar, they use fat for energy. Fat is not an efficient source of energy for exercising intensely. You will ride much faster when your muscles are full of sugar. Intense exercise helps you to burn extra calories after you finish your ride. Taking food or sugared drinks during a ride will allow you to exercise intensely enough to increase your metabolism so you will burn extra calories for several hours after you finish your ride.
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- female Even larger beetle than I saw before (40mm, I think). Here you could see the texture of the elytra
(upper wings), that is specific to females of this species. You also could see the green coloration of some exoskeleton parts - it's not real "color", it's effect of iridescence. This effect could be observed, when axis of view makes relatively small angle with exoskeleton surface. That's the reason, why many sources says this beetle is "brown", "olive", "green". Biologists are often not enough familiar with physics.


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Golf's Margin of Error
In all of sports, especially those using instruments, or apparatus in order to complete their function, there is a fundamental truth called "The Margin of Error".
This basically refers to a scientific happening that actually measures and allows the athlete to complete his intended task without having to be exactly perfect in his execution.
Measuring a Margin of Error
In horseshoes the margin of error would be the distance between the two legs of the shoe. That distance allows the shoe to wrap around the pin without being exactly centered. In basketball, the margin of error is that you can actually fit two basketballs inside the rim, and that produces a "margin of error" that enables a non-perfect shot to still go in.
Golf's Margin of Error
In golf, the margin of error is very small. So small in fact, that every accomplished athlete in all other sports as well as the entirety of the world's population has had the utmost fascination with the game of golf for centuries past, and we can expect that to continue into the distant future.
20 years ago, the margin of error was so small, in terms of golf club technology, that the opportunity of succeeding to any degree on "errant shots" was so limited that it produced an exacerbated amount of frustration amongst golfers. It left open the possibility of shooting good scores to only a select few, who had the time and ability to practice and maintain a fundamentally sound swing.
Through the years, with the advances of sports science and technology, golf's "Margin of Error" has tripled in size and is directly related to many reasons. Two of the most important are:
1. Golfers are Wearing Golf Gloves
It begins with the basic golf glove allowing the nerves in the hand to transfer feel to the brain, as well as cushion the vibrations of the energy transfer in the correct portion of the hand.
2. The Golf Ball Has Been Aerodynamically Enhanced
When a modern ball, which has its trajectory and flight registered on the box, is hit well it goes further. This is because the ball has been aerodynamically enhanced over the years. This, along with some basic knowledge of the respective golfer's launch angle, allows the appropriate ball to remain airborne longer, and thus produce longer shots.
The synergism that is created between ball technology and a basic understanding of how shafts play a part in launch angle, backspin rate vs. sidespin rate, as well as the kick point of the shaft, enables the average golfer to appreciate a level of success that never before could be reached.
Keep golfing,Robert R. LaPorte
"the Golf Nut"Return to the Golf Nut Learning Center


Text.XML.HaXml.Combinators is a combinator library for generating, editing, and transforming XML documents in a generic setting.
Text.XML.HaXml.Html.Generate is a small library of functions specifically for generating HTML from XML.
Text.XML.HaXml.Wrappers contains the wrapper processXmlWith, in which input files are parsed as HTML if the filename ends in.html or.htm - otherwise they are parsed as XML.
Usage: import Text.XML.HaXml.Combinators
Note that the combinator library defines the functions elm and txt rather than the expected (elem and text), to avoid a nasty name clash with a Prelude function.


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Resonant cavity integrated into a waveguide for terahertz sensing
AuthorMendis, Rajind; Mittleman, Daniel M.
A method comprising polarizing and coupling an electromagnetic beam to a first-order transverse electric (TE1) mode with respect to a parallel plate waveguide (PPWG) integrated resonator comprising two plates and a cavity, sending the electromagnetic beam into the PPWG integrated resonator to excite the cavity by the TE1 mode and cause a resonance response, and obtaining wave amplitude data that comprises a resonant frequency, and obtaining the refractive index of fluids filling the cavity via the shift in resonant frequency.
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In this fabric craft, turn a pizza box into a storyboard. Kids can bring the story to life with felt pictures.
What You'll Need:
- Unused medium-size pizza box
- Assorted colors of felt
- Blunt scissors
- Craft glue
- Trims (chenille stems, straw, yarn, etc.)
- Resealable plastic bags
How to Make Felt Storyboards:
Step 1: To make the storyboard background, cut two pieces of dark-colored felt to fit the inside of the top and bottom of the pizza box.
Step 2: Apply a layer of glue to the inside top and bottom of the box. Place both felt background pieces down in the box over the glue. Let the glue dry completely.
Step 3: Using assorted colors of felt, cut out felt pieces to make a picture. For example, if you were telling the story of "The Three Little Pigs," you would need three pig cutouts, one wolf cutout, and three house cutouts.
Step 4: Draw features on the pieces with markers. Draw the eyes, noses, and mouths on the pigs. Glue a small piece of curled chenille stem for the tail, and glue on cutout felt overalls. Draw in the eyes, nose, mouth, and teeth on the wolf.
Step 5: Decorate each house with markers, felt, and other trims. Glue or draw straw on one house, some twigs on another house, and red felt bricks on the last house.
Step 6: Place your pieces on the felt background to tell your story. When you're done playing with the storyboard, store each set of pieces in a plastic bag and place the bags in your pizza box.
Next, find out how to create a fruit display that will never go bad.


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Surveys in the Elkhorn River Basin between 1972 and 1994 documented a unionid fauna of 28 taxa. Two additional taxa were documented by museum records, bringing the total to 30 confirmed for the region. In recent collections only eleven species were found as live specimens or fresh shells, suggesting the possible loss of as much as 63% of the documented fauna of the Basin. Biological diversity was once greatest in the eastern portion of the Basin, reflecting the greater variety of habitats in this region. At present, the greatest diversity appears to be found in the western portion. This reversal of biologic diversity probably reflects the extent of habitat degradation in the eastern portion. Arcidens confragosus, Lampsilis teres f. teres, and Obovaria olivaria are newly reported for Nebraska.


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Photo Courtesy of Steve Dewey, Utah State University, bugwood.org
Thermopsis montana Nutt.
Scientific Name Synonyms:
Life Span: Perennial
Growth Characteristics: Mountain goldenpea is an erect forb, growing up to 2 feet in height and spreading by rhizomes. It blooms between May and August, depending on the elevations.
Flowers: Pea-like lemon-yellow colored flowers in a raceme. Flowers are ½ to ¾ inch long. There are five to fifty flowers which make up the inflorescence. The flower spikes arise from the leaf axils
Fruits/Seeds: The seedpods are long, thin, blue/green and covered with downy hairy. They project vertically from the stem. The pods grow quickly in the late spring and early summer, and mature in late summer. There are two to five seeds per pod.
Leaves: Leaves are alternate, palmate, with 3 leaflets, which are oval in shape.
Stems: Multiple stems up to 2 feet tall.
Mountain goldenpea is found in montane and subalpine zones. It is common in woodlands and meadows.
Soils: Sandy, well-drained soils.
Associated Species: Aspen, lupine, snowberry.
Uses and Management:
Mountain goldenpea is poisonous to cattle. The principle toxin has not been isolated, but is thought to be similar to quinolizidine alkaloids found in Lupines. The toxin causes acute muscle degeneration – cattle become weak, ataxic, and unable to stand. Animals die from hunger and thirst.
Mountain Glodenpea will remain toxic in hay, especially if seed pods are present.


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Getting a pilot's license used to involve simply showing your flight instructor that you could follow the steps to get from A to B. If you mastered the individual tasks required to take off, maneuver through the flight pattern and land safely, you were OK'd for your solo and the ultimate test of competency.
Now, however, flight schools have realized that better training involves understanding not just what to do but why you do it. This is the value of scenario-based training.
Here is an example of the value scenarios add and why in our instructional design consulting business, we often identify key scenarios and include simulations for more effective learning and behavior change.
- In our flight school, we want the pilot to be able to adjust to constantly changing circumstances and make sound decisions along the way.
- Imagine being at the controls. You have learned the mechanics of short-field landings. One day, when on your path to a standard landing, your instructor asks you to imagine an obstruction half-way down the field. You suddenly need figure out how to avoid a collision.
- You have to shift from your planned landing.
- Swiftly, you adjust the controls, descend at a faster rate and apply the brakes more aggressively than usual.
- You just completed a short field landing after assessing the situation, determining and implementing the appropriate course of action.
The best corporate training prepares the learner to operate successfully in real-world situations. With scenario-based training, learners are challenged to decide which skills to apply in various contexts; they go beyond rote learning to understanding how and when to apply what they have learned.
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The 6 major steps in mortgage loan processing
The mortgage process may seem far from simple. There's a lot that happens between your initial consultation to your loan being funded. But we'll walk you through it—and with full transparency.
During loan processing, we'll explain the details of every step, including a breakdown of all associated costs and fees. You'll know exactly what you need to submit and when, and exactly where your loan is throughout processing.
And if you ever feel you're lost—just give us a call! We understand that choosing a mortgage is the biggest financial decision of your life, and we're committed to making the process as seamless, friendly and financially valuable to you as possible.
Here are the six major milestones you'll reach during loan processing and what's happening at each stage of the process.
- The Mortgage Consultant collects and verifies all documents necessary to prepare the loan file for underwriting. These documents provide us with everything that we need to know about you (the borrower), and the property you are financing.
- During processing, the Mortgage Consultant:
- Begins verifying assets, income and employment
- Orders a home appraisal to determine the value of the property (if/when needed)
- Runs various compliance and eligibility checks to ensure the process advances quickly and smoothly
- Common documentation requested by underwriting includes:
- Evidence of Earnest Money
- Asset Verification
- Borrower Letter of Explanation (LOX)
- Gift Letter
- Copy of Note
- Source Large Deposits
- Verification of Employment (VOE)
- Fully Executed Sales Contract
- Next step: Processing submits the loan file to underwriting for initial review and approval.
- The Underwriter begins reviewing all documentation to determine whether you qualify for a mortgage.
- While the Loan Officer and Mortgage Consultant will do their best to submit a complete file, an Underwriter may still have questions and/or require additional documentation to satisfy any conditions for a final approval.
- In addition to the loan file submitted by processing, the Underwriter examines:
- The completed appraisal
- Credit report
- Other ancillary documentation pertinent to the loan
- If the loan is approved, the borrower receives a list of conditions required to be met before receiving final approval and notification of Clear to Close.
- Next step: The Loan Coordinator provides you with underwriting's preliminary decision on the loan.
- A conditional approval means that the Underwriter has signed-off on the parameters of the loan and most of the documentation, but still needs a few more items before fully approving the borrower for the loan.
- The Loan Coordinator contacts you to review the conditional approval and discuss any additional required items, as well as any ancillary documents that are needed to finalize the loan. This documentation can include:
- The completed appraisal (or updates to the existing report)
- Additional verifications
- Standard in-house items required for closing
- Once all conditions have been obtained, the Loan Coordinator will send the file back to the underwriter for a final review and approval.
- Next step: Once the loan is approved, a Mortgage Professional will schedule the closing.
- "Clear to Close" means the Underwriter has signed-off on all documents and issued a final approval.
- The mortgage team schedules your closing and reviews the Closing Disclosure (CD).
- The CD is the standardized document that details the finalized terms for the loan, including a breakdown of all costs and fees.
- Next step: Closing the mortgage.
- Closing processes vary slightly depending on the type of transaction, as well as local, state and municipal laws.
- The type of transaction—purchase or refinance—determines who can provide you with accurate final numbers.
- Purchase: You can receive estimated figures from your Mortgage Professional, but they'll need to speak with your local title company or real estate attorney for a final amount.
- Refinance: In most states, you won't be required to use an attorney to close. In that case, you should speak with your Mortgage Professional for the bottom-line.
- What to bring to the closing:
- Photo identification
- Personal check or bank check from an approved account to cover the closing costs and down payment (unless the money was wired). NOTE: Your mortgage team will advise the best way to transfer funds for your closing.
- Whether purchasing or refinancing, prepare to sign a lot of documents!
- Purchase: While the process varies by state, typically a professional explains every document and notes where to sign. The lender's wire may need to clear before you're handed the house keys and provided with copies of all the documents.
- Refinance: Depending on local laws, an agent from the title company will explain each document to be signed. If refinancing a primary residence, the loan will fund once the 3-day right of rescission has expired (on the fourth day). Once the rescission period has expired, the loan can no longer be cancelled. If refinancing an investment property or second home, the loan will fund on the same day.
- Next step: Funding the mortgage.
- The final step on the loan process is now complete: Your loan has funded!
- At this time, all documentation is complete and the funds for the loan have been disbursed to the seller (purchase) or to the payoff of the prior loan (refinance).
- You should receive your first payment statement at the closing. This should be used to make the first and possibly second loan payment.
- If you did not receive the statement or cannot find it, you can reach out to your Mortgage Professional for a copy
- Final step: You'll receive correspondence in the mail from the final servicer (the company to which you will make all subsequent payments). This information details where to make future payments and how to set up auto-pay if desired.
Hopefully, this breakdown helps you understand the inner-workings of the mortgage process. Don't hesitate to contact us with your specific questions along the way. We're here to simplify a complex process and to provide the kind of personal service and advice you deserve. We're here to get you home.


except for the looping parts). That is because the startup code we call from c does not have a clue yet about which code to call after it's done initializing. So let's take care of that here.
There is a'magic' variable that needs to be exported and which contains the address of a startup function. A c-startup/entry function to be exact.
Because this function requires to explicit have a valid format we first create a type for this function.
 TAROS_Startup_Function = function(argc: integer; argv: PPChar): integer; cdecl;
In case you are familiar with c programming then this function declaration is not real magic, but simply how a main entry code point function is declared.
ArgC is a value that corresponds to the number of parameters supplied, and the argv parameter is a list of pointers to 0-terminated strings that contains the individual parameter strings.
The last bit of information that might be important to realize is the return value. This values is normally returned back to shell and when not zero indicates an error.
Then we 'export' a variable that hold a pointer to such a function:
 __main_function_ptr : TAROS_Startup_Function = nil; cvar; export;
Note how we initialize the variable at compile time with the value nil. Remember that way above was told that not explicitly using a declaration means it is not actually exported (at least that is true for some symbols) ? Initializing this variable makes sure its symbol get's exported.
Now, you can run things with the call to function __startup_entries_next() enabled but, for sure that will gives us an access violation as the startup code now tries to jump to address zero. So we never will forget to set this address properly ;-)
So, let's fix this by creating a new function and have the exported variable point to that:
function AROSC_Startup_Entry(argc: integer; argv: PPChar): integer; cdecl;
 DebugLn('ENTER - AROSC_Startup_Entry()');
 result := 0;
 DebugLn('LEAVE - AROSC_Startup_Entry()');
We've added some debug feedback there so that we are able to check if the function is actually called ;-)
// AROSC Initialization routine
procedure AROSC_Init;
 // Intialialize SysBase variable
 SysBase := AOS_ExecBase;
 // Initialize DOSBase variable
 DOSBase := AOS_DosBase;
 // Initialize pointer to startup routine
 __main_function_ptr := _USER_;
 // Call startup_entries_init()
 // Call startup_entries_next()
Unfortunately, running this code shows there is still an issue somewhere. The code crashes on program exit. But please test and see that whatever you place inside (or call from inside) function AROSC_Startup_Entry is being executed as intended.
 - Step 6: Fine-tuning Options
If you've taken a look at the original startup.c source-code you might have noticed some odd symbols being declared. They are even described in the source-code itself.
Well, as it is the case, the c startup code is still performing some task that a) Pascal does not need and b) would require us to do additional initialization.
In order to 'disable' some of that task that the startup code is performing we need to export some symbols to turn this off.
Add the following lines to your code:
 __nocommandline : Integer; cvar; export;
 __nostdiowin : integer; cvar; export;
 __nowbsupport : Integer; cvar; export;
For the exact explanation and workings of these symbols please see the file startup.c
Can we now then finally execute our code without issues ? Well, try and see for yourself ;-)
Just note though. we are not 100% home safe yet (albeit we are almost) and, some things can be improved. Head on to the next step please.
 - Step 7: Loose Ends
First let's start with the bad news. As soon as you halt your Pascal code somewhere, things can go from bad to worse in a very rapid pace.
Normally inside your pascal code you would allocate memory, initialize objects/classes and more of suchs things. Alas, the moment you halt your program all allocated memory is not freed up in a neatly manner. This is because halt bypasses the normal exit flow. Whatever you do inside your pascal code, you would need to take care of having a graceful exit flow that takes care of things as they are suppose to be.
So in case you think you _must_ make a call to halt then make sure you have added an proper exit procedure using AddExitProc() before actually making a call to the halt function.
In a similar way, using code from the linked c-library simply can't happen when things are not initialized yet, and for sure can't happen when we've already went through the normal exit flow. This means that using c link libraries from unit initialization and/or unit finalization is not possible. If you would do so, the code would simply crash.
ToDo: more to write about caveats and further optimizing things. check-in sources for individual steps as well as mikmod library example using described method.


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Having your build scripts in XML is one of the worst things you can do for maintainability and readability.
Treat your build scripts like you treat your source code (or, how developers should treat their source code) – with respect for readability and maintainability, not just for performance.
To that end, XML is a bad candidate to have. If you have any more than 15 or 20 lines of xml in a build document:
- It is hard to tell where things start, and what they depend on
- It is hard to debug the build
- It is hard to add or change things in the build logic
- XML case sensitivity sucks
- Creating, Adding and using custom actions is a chore
To avoid XML, you can start using some of the many build tools out there that are either visual, or support a domain specific language for builds that is more readable, maintainable or debuggable than XML: