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By the Numbers - 2008-11-01
By the Numbers – 2008-11-01
$1,738 billion is U.S. manufacturing output, followed, in billions, by Japan at $952, China at $760, Germany at $643, and United Kingdom at $330, rounding out the top five in the "Pocket World in Figures 2008 Edition" from The Economist. www.economist.com. 15 November is the deadline to nominate an automation product newly available in North America between January and November 2008.
$1,738 billion is U.S. manufacturing output, followed, in billions, by Japan at $952, China at $760, Germany at $643, and United Kingdom at $330, rounding out the top five in the "Pocket World in Figures 2008 Edition" from The Economist. www.economist.com .
15 November is the deadline to nominate an automation product newly available in North America between January and November 2008. Learn more about the 2008 Control Engineering Engineers' Choice Awards at www.controleng.com/awards .
20 programmable logic controller and programmable automation controller products are listed in the September issue posting of the Product Research article on that topic. Of respondents, 92% expect to buy as many or more PLCs/PACs in the next 12 months as they did in the previous 12 months. www.controleng.com
3 companies, as of Oct. 14, tested the Tofino Modbus TCP Enforcer Loadable Security Module, introduced at ISA Expo last month. The cyber security product performs detailed analysis and filtering to improve SCADA security. www.byressecurity.com ; www.mtl-inst.com ; www.modbus.org ; www.controleng.com
88% of Control Engineering survey respondents expect to buy as many or more fuses, circuit breakers, relays, disconnect switches and surge protectors to safeguard their automation controls and instrumentation investments in the next 12 months as they did last year, according to Product Research on power protection devices in this issue. www.controleng.com
20% of U.S. public transit agencies are cutting services due to budget constraints; 46% of population has no access to public transit; and $6,251 is the amount the average two-worker household saves annually by taking public transportation instead of driving a car, says the Environmental Defense Fund. www.edf.org
9 Wikipedia sister projects include Wikiquote (quotations), Wikispecies, Wikibooks (32,552 pages as of Oct. 20) and Wikiversity. www.wikipedia.org
10 hydrogen atoms fit in one nanometer almost exactly. The wavelength of green light is approximately 350 nm. Viruses (or, more correctly, virii) vary in size from a few tens to a few hundreds of nanometers. A DNA molecule is 2.2-2.6 nm wide. Entire DNA molecules, however, are almost big enough to see: up to 73 million nm, or about .075 mm, long. Widths of the smallest structures on the latest Intel microprocessors are about 45 nm. If one micron were blown up to the width of a two-page spread in this magazine, 1 nm would be 1/64 in. wide. For more on nanometer positioning, see cover story in this issue ( www.controleng.com ) and www.wikipedia.org .
14 organizations share how they innovate in the "Innovators" supplement to EDN , which provides insights into the process even as it admits, "Innovation is hard to teach and hard to predict…." www.edn.com/innovate08
Plant instrumentation and controls: Modernize or maintain?
Kevin Finnan
Demystify the newly-released open automation platform
Stone Shi
Designing real-time process controllers
Mario Torre, Halliburton
The loop, the whole loop, and nothing but the loop
Bruce Brandt, PE
Do-it-yourself model-based control
Peter Welander
Advancing control
The benefits of reusing control logic
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Q: How to get the community license of Syncfusion? Recently, I am learning MAUI and I wanna use the UI from Syncfusion.
I tried to get the community license of it, and I followed the steps from the Syncfusion site. But there was no responding after I login with my LinkedIn account.
Guys, if you know something about this, could you please give me some suggestions or tell me if the community license is not available for applying?
Or maybe you can recommend some else good and free UI library for MAUI to me. Much thanks!

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Sign in top right corner
Select PRICING - and the Communitylicense. Then click Claim your free license.
Get License or Unlock Key , or download them (best option) so you cannot lose it .
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Learn how to draw a dandelion with out step by step dandelion drawing!
Floral doodles are some of the most beautiful and easiest doodles to try.
There is one floral doodle that I always avoided though as it looked really hard, a dandelion doodle.
Since I have been trying to a doodle a day challenge lately my confidence (and drawing skills) improved and I decided to give it another try.
The best news is that once I broke a dandelion drawing down into easy steps it was super simple.
Keep reading to find out how to draw a dandelion.
WHAT DOES A DANDELION FLOWER MEAN?
Not only do dandelions look cute but they also represent quite a few things which makes it a great addition to lots of your Bullet Journal or art pages.
Here are a few of my favorite dandelion meanings and symbolisms.
Travel and adventure. Because the seeds of the dandelion travel fair and wide on the breeze they make a great travel journal doodle.
Rising above challenges and difficulties. Dandelions can grow nearly anywhere and often in really difficult conditions. If you are going through challenges in your life a dandelion doodle would be a great symbol to add to your bullet journal vision board to remind yourself that you will rise above them.
Wishes Fulfilled. We all know that blowing a dandelion seeds means you get to make a wish. I love adding a dandelion drawing on my goals pages.
Happiness. With their bright color before seeding and warm weather growing, dandelions symbolize happiness and joy. They make a great theme for spring and summer spreads.
My favorite drawing pens: Sakura Pigma Micron and Sharpie Pen.
Something circular to draw around like the base of a cup.
Note: You will need a fine point pen and a thick nib pen to make this tutorial really easy.
This our easy dandelion drawing step by step tutorial in one picture. Below I break each step down and give you my best tips and tricks.
As I am not very good at free hand shapes my first step was to draw around the base of a cup with a pencil to get a circle I could use as a guideline.
You may decide to skip this step altogether, free draw a circle or even use a compass.
Next I drew a stem and centre of the dandelion using a thick pen.
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You can make this as simple or as intricate as you like. If you start with just a few points, you can always add more later.
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To be honest, it was always this part I thought would be tricky but just take a look at a simple dandelion seed doodle by itself and you can see just how easy it is to draw.
So all you need to do next is add a seed doodle at the end of your shaped dandelion.
I ended up adding more shape as it looked a little bare and I wanted a fluffy looking dandelion.
I also added a few seeds blowing in the breeze for movement and interest.
The last step is to erase the pencil line.
Loved this floral doodle? Check out our post of 50 flower drawing tutorials.
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"Ours is not a caravan of despair. Even if you've broken your vows a thousand times, come, come again".
I have been working as a spiritual healer and counsellor for twenty five years. More recently I have become a funeral director with Greenwood Funerals developing our own approach to supporting families when someone is dying and has died. I also lead a regular evening of Universal Worship where we meet to celebrate a chosen theme through a simple format of chants, prayers, readings, poems, stories, meditation, ritual , a blessing which we create together and a dance/body prayer. My own spirituality is grounded in a specific meditation practice (kriya yoga) and a curiosity to know what it is to become an alive, awake human being like the Buddha. I welcome the challenge of finding my place in the world as an Interfaith Minister living with truth, honesty, generosity and kindness … and a sense of humour.


A Cotswold Year: Sunshine between the rain.
This morning there is a bit of a respite, the sun is out and there is a chilly wind and its drying up. Beautiful views across the Severn valley and the Malvern Hills are visible. We sympathise with all those folks affected by the terrible storms and flooding around the country. Let's hope the Jet Stream moves over sometime soon.


A person(S) suffering from hashimoto is likely to have intestinal permeability an aspect that is commonly known as leaky gut. Apparently, a person with a healthy digestive tract bears a lot of tightly held villi that function by keeping undigested food, environmental toxins, chemicals and bacteria off the blood stream altogether,. Chronic inflammation in this region that may be associated with leaky gut leads to poor diet and imbalances in the blood sugar from which chronic stress from the same may lead to wide chasms altogether. This phenomenon is associated with the autoimmune disease altogether. In this event, the immune system is compromised and may often shot circuit from which confusions may become eminent along its own tissue.
Hashimoto is common and is an autoimmune disease that has thyroid disorder an aspect that brings about difficulties in determining what a patient endorsed with hashimoto should or should not eat altogether. Variables in this disease are associated with the different stages that depict among people during progression from which different and varying types of systemic, endocrine and autoimmune problems may emanate altogether. This brings about a difficult aspect in determining the right diet for a hashimoto patient with reference to another altogether. Moreover, this aspects depict the varying nature of problems that are eminent and determinant of the kinds of food that go through one's digestive system altogether. It is important to note that the foods that people take are dependant of the psychological, emotional and cultural differences among people.
Foods that have the similar structure to morphine are not recommended altogether since the latter constitutes of proteins that bears milk, gluten, pasta , bread and cheese altogether. These aspect depict that hashimoto depicts itself in unique manner based on persons and the type of foods that one should embrace when endorsed with hashimoto are consequently dependant of various factors altogether. On being endorsed with hashimoto, one is advised to take paleo diets that are centered among modern foods such as eggs, fish meat, fungi, nuts, roots and consequently exclude aspects such as legumes, grains, potatoes, dairy products, refined sugar, refined salt and processed oils altogether. This diets work well among most persons with hashimoto though the vegan autoimmune diet is essentially developed from avoiding meat, diary, fish and eggs respectively.
As a result of these kinds of demerits, it becomes eminent for one to determine their diets based on their consequent blood groups an aspect that is determinant of vitamin D, vitamin B12 and iron respectively. Nonetheless, irrespective of the diet, leticins are not recommended since lectins are known to be carb binding proteins that function by protecting the consequent plants and are associated with protein synthesis altogether. Lectins have properties that make them natural pesticides that repels the viruses, bacteria and fungi and the latter does not favor aspects of autoimmune oriented diets altogether. Foods that are known to bear lectins should be remedied with equivalents from which some of the foods with a good constituent of the lectins may include grains, legumes, oils and nightshades respectively.
Moreover, one should check on their intake on salts since an increase in the levels of salt may be associated with an initiation of autoimmunity. In the same line of thought, people with hashimoto are known to be of low blood pressure and consequently need salts as well as iodine despite the latter. Sugar can act as a consequent catalyst in case the sugar level increases or decreases altogether. Moreover anemia may develop based on various but related reasons and thereby patients with hashimoto need informed decisions on the kinds of foods that they embrace.


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When staying in the Mildura area enjoying the attractions of Sunraysia, come and stay at Carol's Cottage, Red Cliffs. After a long drive we are the first town you will reach on the Calder Highway and we are easy to find.
We have a delightful country style B&B in the heart of the township which is only a short walk to all the town facilities including the Red Cliffs Club, Bowls Club, Fire Station Cafe and swimming pool. We are around the corner from the shops, with newsagents, chemist, hairdressers, butchers and supermarkets. Red Cliffs is just 15 minutes drive from Mildura's major shopping precincts.
Accommodation includes all you need to make a relaxing stay with breakfast supplies, chocolates, books, movies, pretty private courtyards and shared BBQ area. Your self-contained area allows you to relax in private or mingle over a beer and barby. Free Wi-Fi internet is provided.
After a big day sightseeing through the Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, local wineries, fishing and picnicking on the banks of the Murray river or a day of golf at the Red Cliffs Golf Club, come home to the warm country comfort we have to offer.
We are pet friendly to friendly pets.
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'Your eyes get big': Why Kyle Hendricks is pitching up in the zone
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It's a trend that is becoming more and more popular with pitchers, even the soft-tossing ones such as Chicago Cubs righty Kyle Hendricks. When he takes the mound against the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday night, don't be surprised if you see his catcher coming out of his crouch on almost half the pitches he throws.
Living upstairs in the strike zone — or even higher — is no longer just for the flamethrowers. The launch-angle era has changed strategies for many, including hurlers who average 87 mph on their fastball.
"I've been doing it more lately," Hendricks said last week. "The way the game is going, the way guys are swinging, I feel like more of the holes are being presented up in the zone now."
"More" might be an understatement. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, Hendricks has thrown at least 40 pitches in the upper half of the zone in each of his past five starts. The results have been astonishing: he's 4-0 with a .198 batting average against, striking out 37 in 34⅔ innings pitched. For the season, Hendricks is climbing the ladder nearly 10 percent more than he ever has.buy nike nfl jerseys cheap
It really is as simple as that. And the converse of going really high in order to combat those swings is changing the eye level and going really low. No longer is a pitch at the knees, even a perfectly executed one, the ideal. That's where the launch-angle swings live nowadays, and can do a ton of damage on what used to be a good pitch. So in short order, Hendricks has perfected the art of going high, for a swing-and-miss, then going down near the ankles for potentially another one.
In his most recent start, the Colorado Rockies got a taste of what Hendricks is doing this season — and it's different than what they've seen in the past.
"Until you get in the box, you really don't realize he has you thinking early," Colorado's David Dahl said after going 1-for-3 against Hendricks. "Busts you in and up and then his other stuff plays off of that."
Dahl shook his head, remembering a swing-and-miss on a sub-90 mph fastball up near his shoulders.
"Your eyes get big and the next minute you realize it's by you," Dahl said.
Others claim they're surprised Hendricks throws only 87 or 88 mph, as the rising action gives his pitches some late zip. Career hitting machine — and former Cub — Daniel Murphy summed up the difference this way:
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In other words, the two-seam fastball has been replaced by a rising four-seamer and opposing hitters are biting. They're hitting just .171 off pitches in the upper part of the zone, the lowest rate in Hendricks' career.
"Weak contact is not necessarily down and away anymore," Cubs pitching coach Tommy Hottovy explained. "If that's up at their hands, or above, even at 88 or 89, that ball is by those guys, looking more like 91 or 92 mph."
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A Spy Scandal and Scandalous Hypocrisy
by Editorial Staff
Germany's announcement last week that it uncovered United States spying activity in the German defense establishment raises deep concerns as to whether our intelligence agencies are in need of a major overhaul.
In just about every aspect of the spying business, even the basics, U.S. intelligence has been failing miserably of late.
Rule number one of spying is to not get caught, especially when snooping on friends. And if that rule is broken, it's absolutely imperative to make sure that it doesn't happen again. Not doing so puts an alliance at risk.
In the span of approximately a year, U.S. intelligence agencies were caught spying on Germany not only once — but twice. First, the NSA scandal broke, which revealed that the U.S. was snooping on Chancellor Merkel's Nokia cell phone. Now, in the latest blunder, Germany alleges that two German security agents were working for American intelligence, handing over top-secret documents. In retaliation for the espionage, Germany expelled the CIA station chief.
U.S. intelligence has also faltered badly in upholding one of the cardinal principles of intelligence agencies, which is enforcing the "need to know" rule. Spy agencies are supposed to compartmentalize classified information so that if someone decides to blab all he knows to an enemy, the damage will be isolated and contained so that only a slice of a covert operation will be compromised. No individual should have more information than he needs to carry out an intelligence operation.
That this rule has been flagrantly breached first became apparent with the Wikileaks scandal, in which it was discovered that a private in the U.S. military, Bradley Manning, had access to thousands of diplomatic cables on extremely sensitive topics from around the globe. The revelation that a low-level intelligence analyst was given access to such a broad range of classified information should have sent alarm bells ringing throughout the U.S. intelligence community and triggered a thorough review of who has access to what. Instead, we found out that Eric Snowden, a relatively low-level NSA contractor, had similar unwarranted entrée to a treasure trove of classified intelligence. He knew how the U.S. was monitoring al-Qaida, how it was tapping the phones of foreign leaders, and that it was tracking Chinese military investments.
These fiascos, while damaging, might be tolerated if U.S. intelligence was getting the job done in its mandate to gather intelligence — but it is failing there as well. A lack of good intelligence led to the death of an American ambassador and four other Americans in Benghazi. The CIA has been doubly blindsided over events in Syria. First, they were not aware of the groundswell of support for the Syrian rebels. Once the rebellion was underway, and the rebels were capturing major cities, U.S. intelligence services were predicting Assad's downfall as imminent. In 2012, the CIA was predicting that the Assad regime was doomed. Then it appeared the rebels were in retreat. Wrong again.
A more recent intelligence failure has been during the last several months, where we have seen a new terrorist whirlwind, known as ISIS, coming out of Syria and into Iraq. ISIS has taken control of several strategic cities in Iraq, routing the Iraqi army, taking over former U.S. military bases and weapons, and threatening Baghdad. In a near-panic to stem this scourge from taking over the capital, the president has sent several hundred advisers to Iraq. It's bewildering that our intelligence agencies were clueless regarding the impotence of the Iraqi army and to the maniacal ferocity of ISIS.
What also emerges from the latest intelligence disaster in Germany is the U.S. government's hypocrisy about how friends who spy on friends expect to be treated. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted to the eavesdropping operation on Merkel, but has said that the U.S. would never agree to sign an agreement that would renounce spying on its allies; that it was standard operating procedure.
Such a stance reveals the double standard that Israel and Jonathan Pollard have had to endure. While the U.S. remains unapologetic in its espionage activities against its allies, it has berated Israel and punished Pollard excessively for his spying on behalf of an ally. In the 30 years since the Pollard case broke, Israel hasn't been implicated in any espionage cases on American soil. Pollard has been imprisoned for more than 28 years for passing classified information to Israel about Saddam Hussein's WMD program — information that the U.S. had promised to provide but never did.
The Obama administration is embarrassed over the latest intelligence failure in Germany. They should be equally embarrassed over their hypocritical treatment of Israel and Pollard.
Source: http://hamodia.com/2014/07/13/spy-scandal-scandalous-hypocrisy/
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Gulf Air's July 2012 edition of inflight magazine "Gulf Life" is displaying new nonstop Bahrain – Glasgow service. However there seems to be no indication that the airline is planning to start this route.
UNITED starting Fall 2012 will begin cutting operations at Houston Intercontinental, with cancellation of 4 domestic routes and 2 to Mexico. Additional service cuts to be rolled out in the coming weeks. Reservations for all routes mentioned below has been closed for travel on/after 05SEP12.
UNITED starting 09OCT12 is cancelling Houston – Paris CDG service, which currently operates with Boeing 767-400ER. Reservations for travel on/after 09OCT12 is closed. This route was launched on 06APR97, with Continental DC10 on daily basis.
AIRFRANCE has announced the cancellation of following routes from Marseille, Nice and Toulouse, starting 28OCT12. As of 29JUN12, affected flights mentioned below is still available for reservation, by the airline said it will close reservations entirely from Monday 02JUL12.
IBERIA Regional carrier Air Nostrum from 03SEP12 will begin Barcelona – Valencia domestic service, on board CRJ200 aircraft. The flight operates twice a day on weekdays, one on sundays.
Chinese low-fare carrier Juneyao Airlines from 02AUG12 to 30AUG12 is offering Shanghai Pu Dong – Tottori charter service, operating every 4 days with Airbus A320 aircraft. This will be the carrier's 2nd route to Japan.
As per 29JUN12 GDS timetable and inventory display, China Eastern is adjusting selected service to Singapore. Qingdao – Wuhan – Singapore 3 weekly service will end on 27OCT12, while Qingdao – Nanjing – Singapore is increasing from 4 weekly to daily.
Subject to Government Approval, American Airlines starting 15NOV12 resume service to Paraguay after 6 years suspension. Boeing 757 will operate Miami – Asuncion service 4 times a week. Reservation for this route is now open.
SA Express since 18JUN12 has increased capacity on Johannesburg – Lubumbashi route. The 5 weekly service is now operated with Boeing 737-200/-300 aircraft. The 737 aircraft is operated by Star Air Cargo, and served by the carrier's cabin crew. SA Express previously operates CRJ700 aircraft on this route.
South Korean low-cost carrier Eastarjet has announced the cancellation of planned Osaka Kansai – Siem Reap charter service. The airline previously planned to operate this route twice weekly from 13JUL12 to 29SEP12.
Cebu Pacific in August 2012 is introducing 2 new domestic routes from Davao, and will increase Manila – Kalibo service from October 2012.
Russian carrier Kuban Airlines in first week of July 2012 is operating 1 round-trip Moscow Vnukovo – Murmansk service. This route is only available to book online.
British Airways starting 28OCT12 is adjusting London Heathrow – Agadir service. The two weekly flight, currently operated by bmi, will be operated by BA Aircraft instead. In addition, operational days will be unified to weekends only.
Air New Zealand today (29JUN12) offers one-time Boeing 777-300ER service on Auckland – Rarotonga route, marking the first time the airline flying 777-300ER to the Cook Islands, which replaces Boeing 777-200ER flight. Cook Islands departure with 777-300ER is 28JUN12.


Thinking out loud: Where will PawSox play next season?
Thinking out loud…while wondering whatever happened to Jack LeFaivre?
I can't imagine Ben Mondor would approve of this.
There's a new Twitter account and hashtag set up. A new trademark for "WooSox" has been applied for by Minor League Baseball. Larry Lucchino, Mike Tamburro and International League President Randy Mobley were spotted in Worcester this week. Dr. Charles Steinberg has been visiting the summer league team. Rumors persist concerning the use of Holy Cross' baseball field on an interim basis, although the team has denied the last one.
Still, Worcester Magazine, which does have a bias and perhaps a stake in a move, wrote last week that an announcement of a Pawsox move to Worcester is imminent.
Maybe a move is in the works, maybe it isn't. First, I'd expect an announcement on a Worcester stadium plan, which hasn't yet materialized. Next, would be an indication of intent from the Pawsox, who haven't done anything beyond what could be described as normal, business due-diligence.
And finally, I would expect EVERY Rhode Island option to be extinguished first before talking about a move to Massachusetts' 2nd largest city. Why? First, because the Providence/Pawtucket vicinity has a much larger population base, and quite possibly, better potential infrastructure with future development around a new stadium. It also has nearly 50 years of history with the franchise.
And, no one in that organization wants Mondor to roll in his grave. Because that's what he'd do if this move as it presently stands goes through. The very reason Ben resurrected a bankrupt franchise in the '70's was to create and build a legacy in Rhode Island – providing proof that family entertainment at affordable prices could work.
It does, and has, since 1977 when the Triple-A team began. Yes, Ben Mondor was a businessman. Very shrewd. I know this, because I worked for him. Mr. Mondor is one of the reasons I remained in Rhode Island after my departure in '91 from Channel 12, because he offered me a job doing radio.
His love for what the organization stood for was very real. Nope, Ben Mondor would not approve of a move. At all. The kicker to this is, Ben would have already done a new deal to keep his team in Pawtucket. Politics, as per the norm in Rhode Island, get in the way of everything worth doing. Mondor would never have allowed that to happen.
This isn't anti-Worcester, although the city has struggled mightily in recent years with minor league sports teams. This is more pro-Pawtucket. Pawtucket gets thrown into a veritable, economical Stone Age without its team. Millions in current tax revenues will simply walk away, out of state and across the border.
The State of Massachusetts, and the City of Worcester, will laugh at Pawtucket and Rhode Island. They know what they would be getting – an effectual engine that may appear to be sputtering right now, only because politicians are bent on pumping diesel gas into a motor that has long run on regular.
I really don't think that's the legacy Mr. Lucchino and Mr. Tamburro have in mind for leaving behind. At least, I hope it isn't.
R-e-l-a-x. It's just the preseason. But the first half offense Thursday night stunk, sure. Then came a halftime change-of-direction, and pounding out two drives of 19 and 16 plays, for 84 and 90 yards respectively, and two TD's was impressive – exhibition or not.
I'd still worry about the defense, a little, if I were you. Missing a couple of starters at the beginning, Colt McCoy ripped through the "D" like he was back at the University of Texas.
Offense sells tickets, yes. Defense wins championships – still yes. You only need to look as far back as last year (last February?) to see that. Dont'a Hightower's health will be the key to keeping the Patriots in the hunt for SB LIII.
More penalty flags? We're told NFL officials will throw more of them in the preseason, then re-evaluate and adjust for the regular season. Great. Boring, three-hour games just became more boring, four-hour extravaganzas.
But the NFL ain't dyin'. There's just more choice in the stratosphere these days. The Hall of Fame game last week drew about 6.5 million viewers, and while that's down from the estimated 6.8 million who watched the game a year ago, it did outdraw this years' Game 5 of NBC's Stanley Cup Finals, NBC's British Open coverage and 63 of Fox's 64 World Cup soccer matches.
Eric Decker will become Tom Brady's new binky. A veteran with size, decent hands and smarts. He might also become Gronk's best friend, too, if he improves his penchant for the dropsies.
Bill Belichick said Malcolm Mitchell did what he could do to stick around. But I'm left with the feeling there was something more to his injury/disappearance than meets the eye.
Are we having a lazy summer, or just saving up for the fall? We suffer from so much sensory overload around here, with our teams' overall success rates, that we can't r-e-l-a-x until the next season starts…and then, with sky-high, often unrealistic expectations.
Surprise pick(s) to be cut? I've got three liable for a dismissal from Fort Foxboro – Mike Gillislee on offense, and Cyrus Jones and/or Jason McCourty on defense. All three, right now, look to be beaten out of spots by roster newcomers.
Did you see where Bill Belichick says he loves the Red Sox? I think what he really loves, is the good 'juju' the team has going for it, not just the bats or the (yikes) bullpen.
Sweeping out the ghosts of '78 last weekend? Nah, don't buy it. The '78 Boston Massacre left such an indelible mark on Red Sox Nation, I'm not certain winning it all this year (or any other year) will erase that memory. But getting out the brooms was fun at the Yankees' expense.
The current numbers tell us…the Yankees need to play at Boston's current clip (.700) to have a chance to catch them, while the Sox need to find mediocrity in a hurry. Anyone doubt either can happen?
Despite a win streak this week, the Yankees are still about .500 in their last 40 games played, thanks to some injury and underperformance. The Red Sox have an 8-game lead over New York at weeks' end, built largely without a few regulars of their own in the lineup. And yet, I still doubt. The NYY made up a game-and-a-half in the standings, in less than a week.
Not for nuthin', maybe the AL East is already won. But that's not the end game here. Like the Patriots, postseason success is what matters most. If the Yankees survive a one-game playoff (Oakland? Seattle?) the ALDS could be off-the-hook.
The bullpen still makes me very, very nervous. Watching Matt Barnes and Joe Kelly pitch is like me riding a roller-coaster. I get queasy watching them. And every time Craig Kimbrel gets into a game in a non-save situation, watch out. Dude has disinterest written all over him.
Nathan Eovaldi. Who knew? I mean, really. He's shooting our overly-egregious expectations more out of whack than ever.
Rem Dawg, you have the power of an entire region behind you in your never-ending fight with the Big C. Take care of you, and your family, and come back to the broadcast booth soon.
As much as the NCAA deserves criticism, they (finally) did something good this week. Sort of. Basketball players who declare for the NBA Draft and don't get drafted may now return to school.
There's a catch, however. The rule applies only to players who receive NBA Combine invitations, and research shows most of those players do get drafted. So, the new rule may not actually apply much in any given year, if at all.
Yet to be determined – will this also apply to college football players?
Other significant moves of note – "elite" players, including those in high school, can be represented by agents. USA Basketball and the National Basketball Players Association will apparently decide who is elite, and who isn't.
Shouldn't it be if a player is good enough that an agent wants to sign him, he should be able to sign? Hey, if you're going to open this door, open it all the way.
What about high school players who declare for the draft and don't get drafted – but sign with an agent? Can they still go to school?
"There's still an awful lot of detail and complexity to work through to this point," is what ex-PC coach and former Bryant athletic director Dan Gavitt – the NCAA's current VP for men's basketball championships – had to say after the NCAA released its new policies this week.
Then why unleash the hounds now without a proper leash? Or at least a little refining to the rules for behavior?
One more thing – I don't think these rule changes will keep anyone (player, coach or school) from cheating. Or trying to cheat, if they're so inclined. Recruiting rules aren't fixed, the AAU remains monstrous and the shoe companies? Can't touch 'em. Just sayin'.
College hoop writer/broadcaster Andy Katz, who still covers the game for NCAA.com, is bullish on the Friars – picking them second behind Villanova at this point. Most of his optimism seems based on Emmitt Holt's (closer) return to form from two seasons' ago.
Michigan head basketball coach John Beilein had double-bypass heart surgery this week, and will miss his teams' upcoming trip to Spain. But Beilein expects to return in time for the regular season to start, which includes a meeting with Providence at Mohegan Sun in November.
The Princeton Review this week listed its top schools for students packing the 'stadium' at college basketball games – and Providence's 'Friar Fanatics' ranked 9th nationally. Of note, Syracuse was #1, Xavier 3rd, Marquette 7th and UConn 8th. Seems there's still some work to do.
But I will say this – and I said it a couple of weeks ago, too – for the 3rd straight season, student season tickets at the Dunk are sold out.
This week, Providence and Learfield (the College's broadcast rights holder) announced a switch in radio stations, going back to WPRO on 99.7 FM and AM 630. It's where Joe Hassett and I started our journey 30 years ago, only this time – for the first time – the games will be simulcast on both AM and FM signals.
We're also hoping, for the first time, to be able to broadcast the radio signal LIVE on an FM frequency inside the Dunk with no delays, so you can listen to the broadcast while you watch. Just don't throw stuff at us?
As if we needed more distraction, and more spice/vice in life, DraftKings' new sportsbook is up and sports betting on your phone is now available. But you still need to be in a state that has sports wagering up-and-running to place your bets.
Party on, Wayne. URI is 10th in the nation's Top 10 party schools, as determined by the Princeton Review. Seems to me the gang at Princeton Review is having too much fun this summer. Party on, Garth.
The long-ridiculed URI football program has had two donors step up and contribute large donations for the installation of lights and Field Turf at Meade Stadium by 2020. Total cost of the upgrade, $4.1 million. Admirable, perhaps. But a little late to the party. They're trying to put out a fire with a squirt gun.
Do I have this right? The University of North Carolina can create fake classes for some of its "student-athletes" and not be punished for it, but 13 of their football players were suspended for re-selling sneakers they were given by the school as gifts?
Big changes at Mount St. Charles in Woonsocket, the legendary hockey school that once won 26 RI state titles in a row from 1978-2003. Former Friar player and coach Devin Rask, with ex-Quinnipiac player and USA U18 coach Matt Plante are moving from Selects Academy in Connecticut to rebuild the Mounties' competitive hockey fortunes with multiple age-grouped teams. Bill and Dave Belisle will still coach the high school team next season, even though it (eventually) may not be the best team on the campus.
Oh yeah. Johnny Football's CFL debut as a starting QB was a b-e-a-u-t last weekend. 11-20, 104 yards and four picks in Hamilton's 50-11 beatdown of the Toronto Argonauts. But fans still watched, almost doubling the previous CFL audience ratings on ESPN2. Yeah, and people also rubber-neck on highways, too. What is it about watching things crash and burn?
This week, the PGA of America – during the PGA Championship – is attempting to regain control of its computer servers that are presently being held for ransom by hackers. And I thought real hackers only played golf on the weekends?
If you remember Jack LeFaivre, you are a TRUE Pawsox fan. Jack was Pawtucket's radio announcer from 1991-96, and I joined him as his partner in '92-93 before I switched over to NESN's TV coverage. Dave Shea, an ex-Bruins' announcer and one of the first voices of the Washington Nationals, moved into the booth with Jack from '94-96 before Jack returned to his home state of North Carolina. LeFaivre is living in Winston-Salem, still works in radio and has a son who lives and works in Boston.
Ray: It's a concern of mine, too, especially when you saw the presumptive defensive starters (minus Devin McCourty) get gouged by Washington's 2nd string early on Thursday night. There's work to do; LB's still need to figure out a way to cover the backs, and more pressure is needed up front. Another playmaker or two is needed. And Hightower absolutely must stay healthy, which is easier said than done. Since he's never really done that before.


In honor of Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour coming to town, Dr. Susan Pearson and her team at her Silver Spring dentist's office dressed up for their patients Tuesday.
They cleaned teeth and filled cavities as monsters.
The singer's tour hits the Verizon Center at 7 p.m.


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The Great Eliminator: How Ronald Reagan Made Homelessness Permanent
Chris Roberts • 06/29/2016 6:00 pm
Ronald Reagan used a recession as an excuse to cut spending on social services –– like the safety net that existed since the Great Depression.
At Christmastime 1982, fed-up religious leaders called a press conference.
The Rev. Paul Moore, New York City's Episcopal bishop, was furious. Standing next to Methodist and Catholic bishops, a rabbi and a Muslim, Moore laid into the source of his ire: President Ronald Reagan.
At the time, there were 36,000 homeless people on New York's streets, a scene repeated in cities across the country, including San Francisco. But this new wave of needy was different. Instead of the single men with drinking problems who'd populated the hotels and alleys of South of Market after World War II, there were factory and office workers who had lost their jobs in the recent global recession slumped in doorways next to Vietnam War veterans. There were women, children, families.
During a speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1981, his first year in office, the new president — who would use the recession as an excuse to cut taxes and slash government spending to spark growth, the infamous "Reaganomics" — presented a solution to homelessness, an issue seen at the time as a temporary problem that would soon cycle itself away, just as it had several times before.
In classic small-government fashion, Reagan's fix did not involve government. If only "every church and synagogue would take in 10 welfare families" each, the president said, the problem could be weathered until it passed. It was a truly conservative approach, reminiscent of how homelessness was addressed in the 19th century.
And it was "absolute balderdash," said the Rev. Moore, according to a Dec. 25, 1982 United Press International wire story picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle. The responsibility for dealing with homelessness wasn't the church's — it was the state's, the bishop said, just as it had been since the Great Depression.
"Housing the homeless and feeding the hungry is the responsibility of the public sector," he said. "They should have a permanent policy whereby homeless persons would have a place to live."
People like then-New York City Mayor Ed Koch needed to stand up to people like Reagan and demand more help. After all, cities received the bulk of the money used for social programs like housing and welfare from the federal government.
"Don't shirk your responsibility," said Moore, addressing both the president and mayor.
Faced with a glut of poor people huddled on the streets with nowhere to live and nowhere to go — many of them war veterans, others unemployed workers struggling to adapt to a changing labor market that no longer needed their skills — city leaders in Chicago decided to take action.
They would keep a "large building heated through the night to house the homeless poor," according to headlines printed in newspapers across the country, including the San Francisco Chronicle, whose readers were also living in one of the great waves of homelessness in American history.
To better understand why people are experiencing homelessness today and why solutions have been so hard to come by, it's worthwhile to look at what put them there — and why other periods of homelessness in America eventually ended.
Tramps, vagabonds, hobos: whatever you call them, people without stable living situations have appeared in waves several times in American history.
During the Revolutionary War, it was itinerant workers, the "wandering poor" of an agricultural society reliant on worker mobility. Before the Civil War, it was unemployed mill workers, dockworkers, and miners, displaced by business cycles or changes in society caused by the introduction of a rail line or telegraph station.
After the Civil War, when a credit-fueled railroad boom went bust, breaking banks and killing jobs — the "Panic of 1873," capitalism's first major worldwide economic downturn, known as the "Great Depression" until the bigger Great Depression in the 1930s — it was freed slaves and veterans, whose wartime habits of foraging (or sometimes pillaging) the countryside for food and provisions introduced the words "tramp" and "bum" to the lexicon.
During the Great Depression, with unemployment at 25 percent and large swaths of agricultural land turned to literal dust by a combination of drought and over-farming, as many as 5 percent of Americans were homeless.
Almost always, it was temporary. As soon as the economy recovered, homeless people recovered, too. They went back inside and resumed normal lives. In the meantime, there was a safety net.
For colonial Americans living under English tradition, the community or local parish was responsible for poor residents. In the 19th century, religious and other charitable organizations offered almshouses where lodging and food were available in return for work. During the Great Depression, with one-quarter of cities offering no homeless services, responsibility shifted to the federal government, which provided job training, education, food, and housing.
Thirty-six years after the Rev. Moore called out President Reagan at Christmastime in 1982, there are now more than 60,000 homeless people in New York City.
That's more per capita than any other city in America except San Francisco, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
By the time Reagan took office, HUD was the main federal agency that offered housing and other programs aimed at helping poor and working-class people.
And beginning under Reagan but continuing with the next three presidents, HUD would see its funding reduced. By the time George W. Bush took office, it had been slashed almost 60 percent.
Reagan — who famously could not recognize Samuel Pierce, his own HUD secretary, and failed to recognize and halt a scandal in which HUD money was funneled to Republican consultants rather than building and repairing low-income-housing — didn't shirk his responsibility.
He abdicated it, a wholesale abandonment that signaled the near-end of the federal government's role in managing homelessness and housing policies, a legacy carried on by every American president since.
"Homelessness has been a persistent and enduring feature in American history," wrote retired HUD researcher Walter Leginski in 2007. "While there have been temporary lulls, from colonial times forward there has been no period of American history free of homelessness."
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But unlike in other eras, "the contemporary wave of homelessness has not subsided during good economic times."
In San Francisco, unemployment stands at a near-record low of 3.1 percent, yet there are officially more than 3,505 people living on the street — more than at any other time over the past 10 years, including during the height of the Great Recession. (Prior to the subprime crisis, when 20 percent of properties in foreclosure were rental properties, more than 1 million of the country's 2.5 million to 3.5 million homeless were employed.
(There are almost certainly many more. Homeless counts are notoriously inaccurate. The city's "official" count of 7,539 homeless people in 2015, for example, counted only 853 youths at a time when San Francisco public schools reported over 2,300 homeless children in school. This is because the federal definition of homeless does not include people living in hotel rooms or doubling up with friends or family. Nationally, in 2015, homeless counts found 222,197 homeless households with at least one child, while the Department of Education reported 1.2 million homeless children in schools. )
The divestment that began under Reagan can help explain why what was once a cyclical phenomenon, in tune with the boom-and-bust of the nation's economy, is now a permanent urban fixture — which, in the years since the subprime meltdown turned swaths of suburbia into ghost towns, has spread out of cities.
Under Reagan, federal spending on subsidized housing — including state-owned public housing, in which the poor and working class can live for a set percentage of what income they have; and housing vouchers, in which the government helps close the gap between the cost of housing and a person's ability to pay — dropped from $26 billion to $8 billion, barely enough to maintain the government's existing stock of public units.
As much a champion of conservatives as he is nemesis and near-Antichrist for liberals, Reagan's influence is seen in every tent encampment in San Francisco.
"Every park bench in America — everywhere a homeless person sleeps — should have Ronald Reagan's name on it," says Peter Dreier, an urban policy analyst and the director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
But Reagan is not solely to blame. Other American presidents are at fault — in fact, everyone who has come since.
As with reducing greenhouse gas emissions, other nations around the world have signed onto international treaties that declare housing a basic human right.
And as with widely agreed upon commitments to cut pollution like the Kyoto Protocol, the United States has never ratified the international treaties guaranteeing its citizens a right to housing, which is still in most places in America a barely regulated commodity. It's also in short supply, making low-income residents' hold on it even more tenuous.
Bevan Dufty was San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's first homeless czar, a post he held from January 2012 until late last year. At first, most of the homeless people Dufty met were the "chronically homeless" — the kind of people who had been on the streets for years.
Toward the end, "you saw everything," he said. "I met people who had lost their apartment within the last two to three months."
The one factor in common, however, was a traumatic event: a bad illness, a relationship ending, loss of a job, an eviction, or being the victim of a violent crime (domestic violence survivors, for example, suffer higher rates of homelessness).
"Something happened, and there wasn't a safety net," Dufty said.
Beginning in the Great Depression, Americans looked to the federal government for that safety net. And for most of the 20th century, federal assistance wasn't only for poor people; it created wealth and gave a foundation for a middle class.
After World War II, eight out of 10 American men were eligible for no-money-down home loans from the Federal Housing Administration under the G.I. Bill.
Forty percent of all mortgages issued in 1946 and 1947 went to veterans. There was clear racial discrimination — white veterans received more housing mortgages than black veterans, who were subjected to racially motivated tactics such as redlining. But if the lasting legacy for veterans of the War on Terror is PTSD, for their grandfathers coming home victorious from Europe and the Pacific, it was a house.
Those unable to purchase their own home could still rely on the government to help house them. Construction of public housing boomed in America following World War II, and was used by working-class individuals and families on their way to the middle class. (Mayor Lee lived in public housing in Seattle; as one of six children raised by a single mother, it's not inconceivable for someone in that situation today to end up homeless.)
Never perfect, public housing has been all but orphaned by the government. Today, there are about 1.2 million units of public housing in the United States, far less than the U.K. and France, where the state owns 11 percent and 16 percent of the total housing stock, respectively.
In 1976, the year Reagan first ran for president, the outgoing administration of President Gerald Ford asked Congress to fund 506,000 new low-income housing units, including 400,000 rent vouchers to pay for privately owned housing in the Section 8 program. That was the high-water mark for federal assistance. Under Reagan, funding for new subsidies dipped below 100,000 units per year.
By the time President Bill Clinton signed the Welfare Reform Act in 1996, fewer than 9,000 units were funded. Federal funding has since recovered, but the timing of the cuts coming during the current homeless crisis's beginnings could not have been worse.
"If we had provided 500,000 additional low-income units every year since 1976, we would now have about 14 million families living in federally assisted low-income housing," the National Low Income Housing Coalition wrote in 2002. "But we moved in the opposite direction, and so now there are still more very-low-income renter households with 'worst case' housing needs than there are families living in federally subsidized, low-income housing."
This is strongly felt in San Francisco, where local government has adapted to the Reagan-inspired federal exit from housing by handing over operation of public housing to nonprofit housing providers. (In the past few years, nonprofits like John Stewart Company, which manages the former military housing in the Presidio, has taken over management of once-notorious housing projects like the rebuilt Hunters View; other dilapidated public housing projects, like Sunnydale in Visitacion Valley, are still waiting for private investors to fund a rebuild before nonprofits take over.)
The demand is clearly here — and it will never be met. In early 2015, homeless families were given the opportunity to sign up for the chance at a public housing unit, the first time in six years the wait list for public housing in San Francisco was opened up. More than 10,000 families signed up for a chance at one of fewer than 200 units.
The wait list for a Section 8 voucher, which a low-income tenant can use to cover the growing difference between his or her means and market rate rents, is even longer.
"We had 9,000 Section 8 vouchers," Dufty says. "That's the same number we had 15 to 20 years ago. There's been no expansion of it."
With the federal government's safety net disappearing, local governments are tasked with filling in the gaps with far fewer resources — and not just for housing. With Reagan-admiring Republicans in Congress, federal money for other infrastructure like transportation has vanished, forcing vital regional resources like BART to turn to local voters to ask for tax increases to fund routine maintenance.
To his credit, Mayor Lee announced a plan to build or fix up 10,000 affordable housing units by 2020. That's something. But more than half of those are the old public housing units virtually abandoned by the federal government — nearly all of which already have tenants.
During his State of the Union address in 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a "Second Bill of Rights," which included the "right of every American to a decent home."
Roosevelt died in office the following year, but in the post-World War II era of unity that saw the formation of the United Nations, his widow, Eleanor Roosevelt, saw housing included as a basic human right alongside food, clothing, and medical care in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
America's recognition of that right appears to have died along with FDR — a true example of American exceptionalism in a world that has repeatedly affirmed housing as a basic right alongside food and medical care.
A later UN declaration in 1966, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, codified this. The UN's member nations — including the U.S., a permanent member of the UN Security Council and the UN's host nation — signed an agreement that "recognize[d] the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family," including housing. Though the U.S. signed the treaty, the Senate never ratified it, making America one of only two UN member states to fail to ratify, along with Thailand.
The U.S. has either failed to sign or failed to ratify at least six other international treaties in which housing was declared a human right.
Other nations have taken notice and tried to get our attention. In 2006, the government's response to the housing disaster in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina elicited comparisons to apartheid South Africa.
When given the opportunity in 2009, Shaun Donovan, President Barack Obama's former HUD secretary, shied away from declaring housing a human right.
In 2010, the UN Human Rights Council subjected the U.S. government to a first-ever review. UN envoys heard testimony across the country, and housing was the "No. 1 human rights issue" mentioned, according to the State Department.
Despite the testimony and the obvious gap between housing stock and population in the country, the U.S.'s official report to the Human Rights Council "carefully sidestep[ped] naming housing and other economic and social rights as rights," the National Law Center on Housing and Poverty found. Roosevelt's speech was cited, but the housing element was ignored.
That same year, Obama released the first-ever federal "Strategic Plan to End Homelessness" — which contained no action plan and no funding. The safety net was gone, and with a modest tweak to health care barely surviving a Republican-controlled Congress, it is never coming back.
Reagan's reputation as the Great Communicator extended beyond his telegenic speeches and movie star good looks. His team was responsible for the "Morning in America" political ad campaign, possibly the most famous re-election spots in the country's history.
The commercials depicted an idealized America full of flag-raising workers with nothing but opportunity in front of them. The first scene in the commercial is of a fishing boat bobbing in San Francisco Bay at dawn.
In reality at the time, then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein was a harsh critic of Reagan. She laid the blame for the Bay Area's growing homeless population — 20,000 people across five counties at that time — squarely at his feet.
"When it started, it was looked at as an emergency phenomena, something that was going to pass … a phenomenon of high unemployment and families that weren't able to maintain a house and a car payment," Feinstein told the Chronicle in 1987. "It's emerged into a whole subculture. A potpourri of many different things. Everything from frail elderly to drug abusers to alcoholics to women with children to single men to AIDS victims to the mentally ill … and that's a direct result of Ronald Reagan's policies."
If the federal government had responded to the most-recent homeless crisis with more housing or more funding rather than less, San Francisco might look more like Utah. That state cut its population of "chronically homeless" — someone without a home for lengthy periods of time — by more than half simply by giving them housing.
Instead, Reagan took it away — and then engaged in character assassination.
In early 1984, the year he was re-elected in a landslide, Reagan appeared on Good Morning America to defend his record. The "people who are sleeping on the grates … the homeless … are homeless, you might say, by choice," Reagan said. They — not him — were to blame for their own situation.
This was Reagan's other lasting legacy. While continuing his budget policies, other politicians also followed his formula of blaming and demonizing the homeless for their situation, even in San Francisco.
In 1991, when Mayor Art Agnos was unseated by former police Chief Frank Jordan, Agnos' "main criticism … is that he has been too kind to the homeless, not forcing them from parks as other cities have done and urging restraint on the police department," The New York Times reported that year.
Jordan was elected, and police started cracking down on the homeless, driving them from the temporary encampment Agnos allowed in front of City Hall. Other quality-of-life laws targeting homeless behavior followed. In 2010, midway through Mayor Gavin Newsom's vaunted 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness, voters approved a new law outlawing lying or sitting on sidewalks.
San Francisco police now spend $18.5 million a year responding to over 50,000 911 calls and other demands for service from the public directly related to homelessness. This fall, local politicians — including Supervisor Mark Farrell, a 2019 mayoral hopeful, and state Senate hopeful Supervisor Scott Wiener — will ask voters to approve a law giving police the ability to clear a tent encampment within 24 hours.
Reagan, were he alive, would surely approve. He would definitely recognize the landscape. It's just as he left it.
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Though he had said so much about it, he says here, It is superfluous for me to write to you. And his wisdom is shown not only in this, that though he had said so much about it, he says, it is superfluous for me to write to you, but in that he yet again speaks of it. For what he said indeed a little above, he said concerning those who received the money, to ensure them the enjoyment of great honor: but what he said before that, (his account of the Macedonians, that their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality, and all the rest,) was concerning loving-kindness and almsgiving. But nevertheless even though he had said so much before and was going to speak again, he says, it is superfluous for me to write to you. And this he does the rather to win them to himself. For a man who has so high a reputation as not to stand in need even of advice, is ashamed to appear inferior to, and come short of, that opinion of him. And he does this often in accusation also, using the rhetorical figure, omission, for this is very effective. For the judge seeing the magnanimity of the accuser entertains no suspicions even. For he argues, 'he who when he might say much, yet says it not, how should he invent what is not true?' And he gives occasion to suspect even more than he says, and invests himself with the presumption of a good disposition. This also in his advice and in his praises he does. For having said, It is superfluous for me to write to you, observe how he advises them. For I know your readiness of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia. Now it was a great thing that he even knew it himself, but much greater, that he also published it to others: for the force it has is greater: for they would not like to be so widely disgraced. Do you see his wisdom of purpose? He exhorted them by others' example, the Macedonians, for, he says, I make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the Churches of Macedonia. He exhorted them by their own, for he says, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago not only to do, but also to will. He exhorted them by the Lord's, for ye know he says, the grace of our Lord, that though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor. 2 Corinthians 8:9 Again he retreats upon that strong main point, the conduct of others. For mankind is emulous. And truly the example of the Lord ought to have had most power to draw them over: and next to it, the [consideration] of the recompense: but because they were somewhat weak, this draws them most. For nothing does so much as emulation. But observe how he introduces it in a somewhat novel way. For He did not say, 'Imitate them;' but what? And your zeal has stirred up very many. What do you say? A little before you said, [they did it] of their own accord, beseeching us with much entreaty, how then now, your zeal? 'Yes,' he says, 'we did not advise, we did not exhort, but we only praised you, we only boasted of you, and this was enough to incite them. Do you see how he rouses them each by the other, these by those, and those by these, and, along with the emulation, has intermingled also a very high encomium. Then, that he may not elate them, he follows it up in a tempered tone, saying, Your zeal has stirred up very many. Now consider what a thing it is that those who have been the occasion to others of this munificence, should be themselves behind hand in this contribution. Therefore he did not say, 'Imitate them,' for it would not have kindled so great an emulation, but how? 'They have imitated you; see then that you the teachers appear not inferior to your disciples.' And see how, while stirring up and inflaming them still more, he feigns to be standing by them, as if espousing their party in some rivalry and contention. For, as he said above, Of their own accord, with much entreaty they came to us, insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would complete this grace;


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The Master of Conservation Biology will enhance your career prospects by building knowledge and experience in the scientific methods used to analyse, quantify and make decisions about conservation.
Scholarships of up to $10,000 AUD are available to international students who apply and are accepted into the Master of Conservation Biology.
Classes for this program start in June each year so you can get a head-start on your studies before the official commencement of semester in July. You will receive information about start dates when you are accepted into the program.
UQ was ranked number one in Australia and 12th in the world for Environmental Sciences in the 2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Conservation professionals work in the field and in offices across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
They typically work in government departments, universities, non-profit organisations, or in industry in various managerial, educational, research and consultancy roles.
Other graduates use the Master of Conservation Biology to further their research ambitions and proceed to enrol in the Master of Conservation Science, Master of Philosophy or a PhD program, where they continue developing their research skills and make significant contributions to knowledge.
After completing seven courses in this program you may choose to transfer to the Master of Conservation Science where you'll undertake a six-month major research project or complete additional coursework. Admission is based on GPA.
You will have access to world leading academics and their research programs. Courses are taught by highly regarded academics that are world leaders in their fields.
Bachelor degree in botany, ecology, evolution, zoology or an approved discipline.
UQ or equivalent GPA of 5 on a 7 point scale.
The courses offered in the Master of Conservation Biology are set out in the course list. Each course is allocated a certain number of units (#).
The Program Rules explain what is required to complete the Master of Conservation Biology. These requirements include the total number of units you need to complete in order to graduate.
Domestic students who are accepted into the Master of Conservation Biology pay tuition fees.
An "indicative annual fee" is the average cost of enrolling in the Master of Conservation Biology at 2019 fee rates. It is calculated based on a standard full-time study load.
A standard full-time study load is 16 units per academic year. If you complete this program in one year, with a study load of 24 units, the actual fee for the year will be higher. Fees will vary according to your choice of courses, the number of courses you enrol in, their unit value, and the time you take to complete this program.
Fees may be higher in later years or if you commence the program mid-year, as all fees are reviewed annually.
All domestic student applications for the Master of Conservation Biology can be lodged directly to UQ using our online application form.
The program code for the Master of Conservation Biology is 5551. You'll need this when applying.
Domestic students enrolled in the Master of Conservation Biology may be eligible to receive Commonwealth Government income support payments. Please contact Centrelink to determine eligibility.
A limited number of Commonwealth supported places (CSP) are available for domestic students. CSP students pay a student contribution amount, rather than paying tuition fees. Domestic students who apply for entry to the program will automatically be considered for a CSP. CSPs are limited and are not guaranteed for all domestic applicants. More information about Commonwealth supported places.
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Beacon Hill Daylighting Solution | Extended Pyramid Skylight Case Study
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Extended Pyramid Skylight
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Architects: James McNeely, AIA, Principal & Monika Pauli, Principal, McNeely & Pauli Architects, Inc.
To bring more daylight into a narrow, oppressive, one story kitchen wing surrounded by tall buildings. The only access from the street to the construction site is via a tunnel. Zoning restrictions prohibit enlarging the footprint and, although the wing is long, it was divided by a chimney-breast that once served an 1837 cookstove or cooking hearth. The house is an important example of Greek Revival architecture in the Beacon Hill Historic District. The owners wanted to keep the original brick walls, despite their structural weakness, and replicate the original double-hung windows and trim. They prefer finishes used in the nineteenth century.
The owners showed McNeely & Pauli Architects a photograph of a large skylight above a windowless dining room at the back of the Sloan Club in London. They then agreed to remove the chimney-breast and replace the roof. McNeely & Pauli reinforced the brick walls with steel and raised the ceiling from 7′-6″ to 9′. They designed a 14′ long island to accommodate the sinks and range. This freed the wall facing the garden for floor-length windows. The architects designed a custom 10′ x 22′ Wasco Extended Pyramid skylight. It was split to accommodate the range hood and was assembled on site. The aluminum frame features an exterior copper cladding commonly used for skylights in the nineteenth century.
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James McNeely, AIA, and Monika Pauli have redesigned over two hundred houses in the Beacon Hill Historic District. McNeely has degrees from Yale University and Pauli from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Their prize-winning work has been published in Architectural Record, House and Home, Metropolitan Life, Fine Homebuilding, The Boston Globe, and the National Trust's Preservation News. They have specified Wasco custom skylights for many of their projects.
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Mr. Segal represents local, regional, and national builders and developers in single-family and multi-family residential projects. He also has considerable experience representing retail, office, and commercial developers in acquisitions, financing, construction, development, and leasing transactions.
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Mr. Segal earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1994. He received his B.A., with honors, from James Madison College at Michigan State University in 1991.
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Lauderdale Lakes wants American Land Ventures to build single-family homes instead of rentals
Developer is close to buying about 23 acres of land for $1.7M
Oakland Park Boulevard at Northwest 31st Avenue and American Land Venture's Granvil Tracy (Credit: American Land Ventures and Google)
American Land Ventures is close to buying about 23 acres of land in Lauderdale Lakes, where it plans to build a single-family home community.
Lauderdale Lakes commissioners originally negotiated with the developer to build 400 rental units on the city-owned lot, which sits on the south side of Oakland Park Boulevard at Northwest 31st Avenue. But Jason Robertson, vice president of development for American Land Ventures, told the Sun Sentinel that the city opted for single-family homes, instead.
The city commission is expected to approve a land-use change next week, according to the publication.
Plans are now to build 83 single-family homes that would range from 1,900 square feet to 2,700 square feet. Prices would start at $300,000, according to the Sun Sentinel.
The city's Community Redevelopment Agency purchased the land for $5.7 million in 2010. If approved later this summer, the city would sell the lot for about $1.7 million, according to City Manager Phil Alleyne. The developer previously expected to spend about $100 million on the project.
American Land Ventures also developed the 18-story New River Village building in downtown Fort Lauderdale, as well as the Nu River Landings condo building and Las Olas by the River. [Sun Sentinel] – Amanda Rabines
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South Florida's pandemic-fueled residential market poised for bull run in 2021
Kate Ford's Palm Beach estate sells for $55M
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Lauderdale Lakes affordable housing complex fetches $17M
Restoration 1 franchise founder buys North Lauderdale office and retail center for $6M
Another drugstore sells: Lauderdale Lakes Walgreens flips for $8M
Walgreens sells a store in Lauderdale Lakes for $7M
Gables Residential scores $85M loan for Boca Raton apartment complex


By promoting conservation education, innovative research, and sustainable operations, we're keeping our commitment to a green campus.
We are proud to take a proactive stance on creating a sustainable future for NAU and the Flagstaff community. Among our initiatives are conservation programs like the Green Office Certification Program through the Office of Sustainability, the Sustainability Mentor Program by Residence Life, and the Sustainable Citizen Program available to every Lumberjack. The Environmental Caucus also has five Action Teams, each with a different focus.
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Each month, we feature a guest speaker to share a topic relating to our mission. If you would like to be a guest speaker at one of our upcoming meetings, please send us an email.
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We are a grassroots, volunteer group—our informal structure allows flexibility in producing effective and creative results. Our Steering Committee guides our work, approving recommendations that are brought before the Caucus at monthly meetings. The Action Teams advance the institutional commitment to sustainability and help promote education, research, and projects that positively impact the environment.
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Our Steering Committee serves two-year rotating terms as our official operational body. Members come from diverse backgrounds and represent various university departments. The Steering Committee meets one week before the monthly Caucus meeting to plan upcoming meetings and discuss ways to incorporate sustainable initiatives at NAU.
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We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 1pm from September—May in the large pod at the Applied Research and Development building (#56). Everyone is invited to listen to, share, and connect with initiatives to help NAU move toward a more sustainable future. Email green@nau.edu to request Outlook event for the year.


ACPE announced yesterday the winners of the 2018 Innovative Program Awards. Among the three awarded was a project for CareFirst NY to to support the start of a new CPE center at CareFirst NY, Inc., a not-for-profit provider of hospice, palliative care and grief services in a three county area in the "Southern Tier" of NY where CPE has never been offered.
Transforming Chaplaincy joins ACPE in congratulating all of the Innovative Program Award winners and is enthusiastic to see a new CPE center launch soon.


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Giant oil rig arrives in Port Angeles as protesters gather on Ediz Hook
By Chris McDaniel and Paul Gottlieb published 17 April 2015 by Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — A 400-foot-tall offshore oil rig that is expected to be the focus of nonviolent protests later this morning entered Port Angeles Harbor at 7:10 a.m. for a two-week stay.
The Polar Pioneer, being transported piggyback on the MV Blue Marlin, a semi-submersible heavy-lift ship, is expected to anchor in the harbor for routine outfitting before being floated on to Seattle.
Owned by Transocean Ltd., the drilling rig is being escorted by a variety of enforcement agency vessels including Coast Guard control boats and a Clallam County Sheriff's Office patrol boat.
About eight members of Greenpeace left for the rig in boats that also included journalists at about 5 a.m.
Click here for specifications and data on the Polar Pioneer: http://www.deepwater.com/Documents/RigSpecs/Polar%20Pioneer.pdf
As the Polar Pioneer was making its way into the harbor at about 7 a.m., about 30 members of the protest group Shell No Action boarded kayaks and dinghies to greet it in what organizers said will be a peaceful protest.
Eric Ross of Shell No Action Coalition called the protest a training run for the "festival of resistance" coming up in Seattle on May 16-18.
The ocean oil-drilling process is "a travesty for the environment" and is "damning the next generation," Ross said.
Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Dana Warr said the agency has received assurances that the protest will be peaceful.
"The word on the street is that there are no intentions to break through any safety zones, that they want to peacefully demonstrate," he said. "We are glad to hear that news on Day 1."
He said the Coast Guard is being assisted by the Clallam County Sheriff's Department, Port Angeles police and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, which, like the Coast Guard, are agencies of the Department of Homeland Security.
The Polar Pioneer will be guarded by Shell Oil security during its stay in the harbor, Warr said.
The protesters say they oppose the resumption of exploratory oil drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska because they say exploration companies are ill-equipped in the event of a spill.
The Polar Pioneer is one of two drill rigs Shell hopes to use for exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea.
Greenpeace protesters will not approach closer than about 1,100 yards to the Polar Pioneer or Blue Marlin, Cassidy Sharp, Greenpeace spokeswoman for the Arctic Works campaign, said Thursday.
That distance restriction was imposed by Alaska U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason, who issued a temporary restraining order April 11 barring Greenpeace from interfering with the Blue Marlin and the Polar Pioneer.
Six activists with Greenpeace boarded the Blue Marlin and Polar Pioneer in the Pacific Ocean about 750 miles from Hawaii last week.
They returned to a nearby Greenpeace ship just hours before a federal judge in Alaska ordered them off the Blue Marlin at the request of Royal Dutch Shell.
Protesters from other groups, including people from Port Angeles, Sequim and Port Townsend can venture closer.
The protesters have said they intend to abide by the restrictions of the 500-yard safety zone while the rig is in motion and 100 yards away when it is stationary.
Shell No Action has several signs they were going to hold while coursing around the safety zone.
Some of the signs read, "Arctic Drilling Equals Climate Chaos" and "Shell Oil Kills."
"We are super pleased to have everyone" participating, Sharp said.
Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Chris McDaniel can be reached at 360-681-2390, ext. 5052 or at [email protected].
Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5060, or at [email protected].
Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, Chukchi Sea, Environment, Greenpeace, Litigation, Oil Spill, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Beaufort Sea · Chukchi Sea · Litigation · Peninsula Daily News · Royal Dutch Shell Plc
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