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ACMC begins COVID-19 vaccinations for caregivers
Hospital news | Tuesday, December 29, 2020
ACMC began providing the COVID-19 vaccine to its caregivers on Tuesday, December 29th.
ACMC received 200 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in the initial shipment. Additional shipments will arrive as supply becomes available.
"We are following the phased approach established by CDC and the State of Ohio for administering the vaccine," said Michael Habowski, President and CEO of the ACMC Healthcare System. "We are in Phase 1A. For hospitals, healthcare personnel who are routinely involved in the care of COVID-19 patients are in that phase."
"I've been waiting for the vaccine to come. I did my research and I'm excited to have it available. I
work with COVID-positive patients each day. This is the only way to stop this," she said.
ACMC Emergency Department nurse Jane Christner, RN, was one of the first caregivers to receive the vaccine at the hospital.
ACMC Emergency Department physician William Novatny, DO, said, ""I'm doing this for me, my family, and everybody else. I've been doing this for nine months. I'm glad to get it."
The hospital set up the Solarium as its vaccination site. "Safety is always our highest priority. To keep caregivers who are receiving the vaccine and those who are administering it safe, we scheduled caregivers in specific blocks of time. This ensures we don't exceed the maximum capacity of the Solarium and that we maintain appropriate social distancing," said Habowski. "There is a significant amount of education that is required to be provided to anyone who receives the vaccine, as well a substantial amount of information that we are required to enter into the State database. We built our vaccine schedule to accommodate those requirements, as well as to provide time to thoroughly clean and disinfect between the blocks of time."
The COVID-19 vaccine is a two-dose regimen. The same group of caregivers included in the first 200 dose shipment will receive the required second dose in four weeks.
"As we move through the remaining phases of the CDC and State of Ohio plan (Phases 1B, 1C, 2, 3, and 4), and supply of the vaccine increases, caregivers in each phase who volunteered to receive the vaccine will be notified to schedule their vaccine," said Habowski.
"Our caregivers have been inspiring throughout the pandemic. We owe them, and caregivers across the world, our deepest thanks. They have been going strong, day-in and day-out, for over 10 months," said Habowski. "The availability of the vaccine truly gives them, and all of us, hope that we are seeing the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. It will take time for the vaccine to become widely available, so we all need to continue to wear our mask, maintain social distance, and practice good hand and cough hygiene. We will get through this."


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The first step toward getting your business licenses is figuring out which ones you need. The Small Business Administration hosts a tool known as the SBA Business Licenses & Permits search tool. To use it, you just have to enter in your zip code and business type. It will then bring up your state's requirements as well as the local requirements. Applications can also be accessed through this tool.
If you need a particular license or permit, you can either apply online or at your local courthouse. Choosing to apply online has several distinct benefits over walking into the courthouse, application-in-hand: 1) The processing is often faster online; and 2) most states and the federal government offer discounts for those who register or apply online. If you file online, just be sure to save your pin number so you can check up on the status of your application.
Most business licenses and permits require you to pay fees. Sometimes these fees are annual, and sometimes they're periodic. Be sure to pay on-time to maintain your status, and it's best to keep a record of your payment. It's easiest if you do it online, because you'll receive a receipt via email. If you mail your payment instead, you can photocopy your check or money order with information about the type of license that you applied for. This way you'll have a record of your payment, just in case it gets lost in the mail.


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Warning: This Advice Is Very Controversial!
For as long as I can remember dating experts have cautioned against going to the movies on the first date. I am here to contest that advice.
In this video I explain how going to the movies on a first date can stimulant your date and make them feel more attracted to you.
The first tactic for getting someone to find you irresistibly attractive is to engage in an activity where emotional arousal is high.
This single tactic will be responsible for getting you more dates than any outfit or high-powered job ever will.
It's a foundation of human behavior that when our body produces adrenaline feelings of attraction to those present and sexual desire often result.
Adrenaline produced through any state of heightened arousal, generates and intensifies passionate feelings. Anytime a person is aroused such as with scary movies, their arousal will impart be attributed to whomever they're with.
Not unlike how trauma brings people together, a scary or action movie can increase attachment between the people sharing the experience. Movies are meant to affect our emotional state. The release of adrenaline as well as other chemical stimulants can intensify attraction.
When you share this experience with someone on a first date they're more likely to agree to a second date because they feel more attached and attracted to you, having encountered intense emotions with you.
Physical attraction is critical in relationships. If you're worried about having physical chemistry with your date, I recommend going to the movies, seeing something action packed or preferably scary or thrilling.
Don't worry about being able to have a conversation, they won't tell you much about themselves anyway because we are all guarded on first dates. Just focus on creating a connection and having fun! If you don't have fun together the relationship won't last anyway.


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Written by Ryan Stieg
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The crowd slowly filed into the old but refurbished arena last Tuesday night, eager for the main event. They had been anticipating it for months and after a long process, the big game had finally arrived in Marquette, Michigan.
Most of those fans had been in Lakeview Arena before, some back during its glory days of the eighties and nineties where the thin tin roof held in the noise of the raucous crowds that made opposing teams nervous to face Northern Michigan on the road.
However, Lakeview had seen better days since then. The roof was rickety, the compressor didn't work properly, the Zamboni needed to be upgraded and then there was the smell. It was the foul stench of sweaty hockey gear that lingered around the rink, surrounding it like an invisible cloud that was inescapable no matter where you ventured.
Improvements to the arena had been needed for years, but money is hard to come by in an isolated small town located in the heart of the Upper Peninsula. To be able to complete all of the tasks that the city hoped to accomplish, it would take years unless it received a massive donation to speed up the process. Last April, that's exactly what Marquette got.
For those that don't know, there is a competition every year put on by Kraft and the NHL to find the one town in America that epitomizes Hockeyville. The sweepstakes has been going on for more than a decade in Canada. Last year, Kraft decided to create an event in the U.S. and it went over insanely well. Towns across the country put in their bid for the title in hopes of winning the $150,000 jackpot that could be used for modernizing and upgrading their arenas. Eventually, the list was weeded down to 10 towns, then four and finally, one. When the announcement was made on live TV during an NHL on NBC broadcast, the hundreds of people gathered inside Lakeview erupted in cheers. As a result of their win, not only would Marquette receive the money, but it would host an NHL exhibition game in October to cap off the festivities.
So after months of planning and modifications, Marquette was ready to be placed on a national stage. Even though the game between Buffalo and Carolina wasn't going to take place until that evening, some fans who didn't win the drawing for free tickets were allowed to watch the two teams' morning skate inside Lakeview. I arrived at the arena just as the sun was starting to peak over the horizon and fans young and old lined up along the entrance to greet the arriving teams. After obtaining our media passes, my wife and I walked outside to watch the teams come in. Carolina arrived first, and the Hurricanes were mobbed by kids asking for autographs and for pictures with the players. My wife snapped away, getting her own photos for both the newspaper and her collection.
We both followed the players in and made our way up to the second deck to watch the Canes practice. Even though it was only a morning skate, the crowd made sure to cheer nice plays and a slick save by goalie Cam Ward drew a round of applause. Also during this time, I got to interact with the NBC Sports tandem of Doc Emrick and Pierre McGuire — both of whom were ecstatic to be there, as was broadcaster Liam McHugh, whose wife grew up in Marquette. When even the people who were in charge of praising your town to a national audience are excited, you know it's going to be a fun night.
After Carolina wrapped up its practice, I made my way to the media room to wait for them to arrive for interviews. Unfortunately, due to a communication mishap (or in my opinion, sheer idiocy) the Canes skipped out on the media session despite being mandated to do so. I had several difficulties dealing with Carolina's media relations staff over the past two weeks, so this was not surprising to me at all. While this mess was going on, my wife was off taking photos of Buffalo's practice. The Sabres were late getting to the arena; their plane had just landed when the Canes arrived at Lakeview. I caught the tail end of Buffalo's morning skate, where 19-year old phenom Jack Eichel pleased the kids in the crowd with some fancy moves. Once the Sabres were finished, the NHL was desperate to make up for Carolina ditching us by bringing Eichel into the media session along with fellow forward Marcus Foligno and head coach Dan Bylsma. Buffalo was more than willing to offer assistance and respond to whatever we needed. Even though we were all supposed to be unbiased, I got the feeling that most of my friends in the media were starting to pull for the Sabres.
The practice sessions were fun, but it was clear everybody's focus was on the game. As the crowd started to get settled, I watched some of the Sabres engage in a soccer juggling battle that evolved into an intense one-on-one affair. Even with the game starting in less than an hour, the team was having fun, which was appropriate for a night like this.
As I sat in my chair on the media deck, I had a great view of not only the ice but the people around it. Squished tightly together, they all leaped to their feet when the Hurricanes came onto the ice and gave the team a standing ovation. The cheers began again about 30 seconds later when the Sabres came out of their locker room and didn't stop until the PA announcer introduced the twin sisters that would sing the national anthem. After a truly awesome rendition of The Star Spangled Banner, followed by another loud ovation (this would be a trend throughout the evening), all I could do during all of this was smile. Ever since I arrived here, I was told that this was a hockey town and it was fully on display.
The first period was kind of a dud with both teams deterred by the goalies. The two main highlights were Carolina ringing a loud shot off the pipe and Buffalo goalie Robin Lehner making a eye-popping glove save that drew a "Wow" from the section in front of me. With the scored tied at 0-0, I made my way out the back of the arena for my fourth writing assignment of the night.
Before the game started, I got a guided tour of the NBC broadcasting truck, where I learned how the process of instant replay worked, how graphics were put together, how the crew communicated with Emrick, McGuire and McHugh, and how scores got put up on the ticker at the top of your television screens. Now I was going back out there again, this time to watch it done live.
It was a different experience watching it all come together. NBC told me that they were hoping a goal would be scored while I was in there so I could write about it. Sure enough, it happened soon after the second period started when Nicolas Deslauriers shot his own rebound past Ward's blocker. Watching the crew jump into the action quickly and putting together a flawless transition of the replay (they get a shot of the play setting up, a close-up or wide-view of the shot, then a reaction from the crowd) was really cool. The producer joked with me beforehand saying that when it's perfect nobody notices, but people get upset whenever the crew screws it up. So next time you're watching a goal scored on TV, keep in mind that about a dozen people just made sure you saw exactly what you wanted to see.
I also got to see the process of replaying a penalty on the screen and what should have been a goal before the first commercial break. During a scrum in front of the Buffalo net, a Hurricane forward tucked the puck under Lehner's leg pad and into the net. Unfortunately for Carolina, the refs blew the play dead. The puck crossed the line before the whistle. If this was a regular season game, a call might go to Toronto for a ruling from the league's control room. Since this was an exhibition ruling, the Canes couldn't dispute it and ask for a replay. Carolina would end up hitting three more pipes during the course of the game, so the non-goal was just another thing to add to a frustrating night.
After my behind-the-scenes look, I made it up to the media deck just in time to watch Buffalo get its second goal when Sam Reinhart deflected a shot by Casey Nelson over Ward's shoulder. This time, I got to see the crowd's reaction to a goal and it was priceless. The fans directly in front of me cheered wildly when the horn sounded and the kids excitedly clapped when it was announced that Eichel got an assist on the play. Buffalo later skated into the locker room with a 2-0 lead. Even though the fans were obviously enjoying themselves, I could tell they were hoping for Carolina to make a game of it in the third period.
Their hopes were dashed when Lehner continued to shut down the Canes offensively. Later in the period, Carolina's frustrations boiled over as Brandon Jacobs got into a spirited tussle with a Buffalo player in my corner of the ice. As Jacobs rose from the ice and complained to one of the refs, Foligno skated over and the two almost came to blows. The crowd, especially the inebriated fellows below me, were practically pleading for a fight to break out. Cooler heads prevailed, though, and Jacobs was quietly escorted to the penalty box.
In the final 90 seconds, Ward was pulled for an extra attacker and Carolina continued to ring shots off the posts. One of them almost trickled in behind Lehner. None went in, and Buffalo got a hard-earned win. When the final horn sounded, the entire arena rose in a wave and gave both teams another standing ovation that lasted for a full minute with a few whistles thrown in for good measure. After the players presented jerseys to a lucky group of people — mostly kids of course, including one who got his from Eichel — the crowd slowly made its way to the exits. Some fans seemed hesitant to leave, as if they didn't want the night to end. Some remained in their seats, either taking some final photos or just taking in what they had experienced not only that night, but over the course of the last few months.
I had to sprint down the hallway to catch some players from Carolina. Once again, we were promised that the Canes would be stopping by the media room. Of course, they decided not to. (Thanks again, Carolina.) I snagged Jordan Staal for a quick interview before I raced back to Buffalo's press conference. Each Sabres player talked about how happy he was to participate in the event and Bylsma was all smiles when he got in front of the camera. A Michigan native, he was thrilled to find out that Marquette won and that his team would be participating in the game and made sure to say so during the interview.
Once everything was finished I slowly gathered my things, and the wife and I made our way to the exits. Like the fans, I also didn't want to leave. I'd just experienced something truly magical: a town that loved hockey was handsomely rewarded for doing so. A population of 21,000 banded together for an entire summer to prepare for this massive event and reaped the spoils in one night, watching professional athletes perform right in front of them.
After reflecting on what I saw, I remembered that I still had five stories to write in what ended up being a 22-hour work day. So I reluctantly walked out of the arena. As we made our way to our car, I saw people lining up again outside the Sabres' bus, hoping to get one last autograph, photo or just a glimpse of the players before they left. Before I started the engine and pulled out of the lot, I made sure to look back at Lakeview one more time. I'll be coming back there soon for high school hockey season, but this was something that will never happen again in this town. As we drove away, I smiled. I was lucky to be a part of it.
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Dr. Matthew Engelbrecht earned his undergraduate degree at Duke University in 1996. He then completed his medical school training and his one-year internship in general medicine at Loyola University of Chicago. Dr. Engelbrecht graduated from the Neurology Residency Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then completed an additional year of training in the treatment of head and facial pain at the University Headache Center in Chapel Hill. He is certified with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
He and his wife have three children. Outside of the office, he is an avid runner and gardener.


Wait, Is That Actually Emma Watson Singing in 'Beauty and the Beast'?
"I can answer that she does -- she sings throughout this film," Stevens says in the above interview. "She sings a lot, fantastically." In fact, you'll find Watson listed on five of the soundtrack's songs, including "Belle," "Days in the Sun," and "Something There."
The doubt dates back to 2015, when the Harry Potter actress first addressed the starring role on social media, writing that it was "time to start some singing lessons." Facebook comment sections lit up. Beauty and the Beast was a precious property, and while Watson looked the part, sounding the part was key.
"I've never had to [sing] for a film role before, and I think people will be interested to see me do something very different," Watson told Total Film magazine. "It gives me a different challenge, really."
"I had three hours in a recording studio," she told Daily Mail of her audition process. "It was really raw, but [director Bill Condon] was pleased. And Disney was pleased."
"I always had loved singing, but I took this kind of massive hiatus," she told Hollywood XYZ. "I used to sing as a child and then I made seven Harry Potter films and went to university and whatever else, so [singing for Beauty and the Beast] was sort of like dusting the cobwebs off my singing voice."
"We prerecorded [all the songs]," Luke Evans told Collider. "But some of us sang live on set as well, during the takes. We were mic'd and they recorded that, and I think afterward, in sound, they'll be able to chose whether the live version is better than the pre-recorded version. So we'll never know!"
"To [sing] for the first time in a musical as big and beloved as this one, I definitely felt the pressure," she told Metro Entertainment. "Also it was such a dream come true because I absolutely loved those songs as a child, and I already knew all the lyrics before I took on the role. My love for the music carried me through it."
"At the beginning of the movie, I was nervous to sing in front of three people," she told MTV News. "By the end, I was singing live in front of 300."
"I was in tears. I couldn't believe that I -- after I managed to get through three months of singing lessons -- to see where I had got to," she told ITV's This Morning. "I couldn't believe it, I was really proud."
She also told the Daily Mail that she's going to continue taking voice lessons because "it actually really helps my acting, and my speaking voice," and "it's great for my breathing."
But to really hear Watson's Belle in action, you'll have to hit play on the Spotify embed above or head to your local theater. If you're still unsure after that, there's always Céline Dion.


A guest post from the Cantor Law Group in Phoenix AZ.
A collaborative divorce involves a husband and wife deciding to reach a settlement agreement before heading to court to finalize their divorce.
Collaborative divorce is practiced in Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada. The origins of the process in the U.S. are traced back to Minnesota Attorney Stuart Webb who, in the 1980s, began to view lawyers as "settlement" experts who could help couples before they entered the divorce court system.
Collaborative divorce is considered another form of alternative dispute resolution, similar to mediation which is used in the traditional divorce process. Unlike mediation, where a third-party, impartial mediator helps couples to resolve their differences, collaborative divorce involves attorneys for both the husband and wife working together to reach equitable agreements in a civil manner.
The husband, wife and their attorneys sign a "participation agreement" which states, among other things, that they will work together to resolve all outstanding issues in a non-adversarial way.
The attorneys meet separately with their clients, then schedule a meeting where the couple and their attorneys all meet together. If necessary, accountants, child specialists and other trained professionals are called in to assist couples.
The collaborative approach is usually chosen by couples who are parents. During the process, children are connected to a child specialist with whom they can ask questions and share their feelings about the divorce.
In the event that the couple cannot resolve their differences, the attorneys agree to withdraw from the case and will not represent the husband or wife in divorce court.
According to the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, a 2012 survey of 933 cases in the United States and Canada, showed 90 percent of the couples reached a settlement agreement in the process. In addition, 87 percent of the couples said they were satisfied with the outcome.
While results are favorable toward collaborative divorce, the process may not be financially feasible for couples earning low wages. The survey showed that the average total fees paid for the process was $24,185. Couples in a higher-income bracket would more than likely choose to pursue a collaborative divorce.
Collaborative divorce continues to gain momentum around the country. In 2009, the U.S. Uniform Law Commission adopted the Uniform Collaborative Law Act. The act was amended in 2010 and renamed, Uniform Collaborative Law Rules and Act. The measure allows states to enact collaborative divorce into law.
Article provided by Arizona Divorce Lawyer David Cantor and the Cantor Law Group. For more information on Collaborative Divorce in Arizona please see their website.


From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist and novelist comes a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test: an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love. In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. INHERITANCE is a book about secrets–secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman's urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.


Smart electrification supported by improvements in energy efficiency will be the cheapest way to decarbonise heat across Europe, a new study from the European Climate Foundation has found. It says the use of hydrogen should be limited to providing seasonal energy storage and meeting peak power demand, even in countries with colder climates such as the UK. The analysis, conducted by Element Energy and Cambridge Econometrics, explored six different scenarios for creating a zero-carbon energy system across Europe by 2050. The results were extrapolated from modelling of six archetype countries, with Germany being the most analogous to the UK due to its high winds and significant existing gas infrastructure. In half of the scenarios heating is mostly electrified ("High Electrification"), whilst in the other three electrification is more limited and low-carbon gases such as hydrogen meet a substantial proportion of demand ("High Molecules"). Household spending on energy is higher in all but one of the scenarios. It is greatest in the High Molecules scenarios, which would add between €165 and €214 billion to annual costs across Europe in 2050. The change in spending is smaller in the High Electrification scenarios, with one seeing a €23 billion reduction in annual costs by the middle of the century when compared to a continuation of the current policies. In November, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) recommended the adoption of hybrid heating systems combining electric heat pumps and hydrogen boilers as the best way to decarbonise heat in the UK. Under this model, the heat pumps would meet "baseload" demand throughout most of the year, whilst the hydrogen boilers would step in to meet peak demand on the coldest winter days. The CCC said low-carbon hydrogen cannot be produced in large enough quantities to completely replace natural gas and that full electrification is not feasible due to the huge amounts of backup generation that would be needed during periods of high demand.


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Recently the government of Zimbabwe scrapped the mask mandate that has been in force since 2020. According to the new rules, those who are fully vaccinated are no longer required to wear masks when out in public. Other countries had already made similar announcements and a lot of Zimbabweans had already stopped wearing masks in public anyway. People are still required to wear masks when going inside buildings like shops, banks and other similar enclosed spaces.
Zimbabwe has seen a significant decrease in COVID-19 in recent months. The last lockdown was a long time ago back in January when there were delays in reopening schools. The government has said that schools, which seem to be the biggest drivers of the pandemic, will still require students and teachers to wear masks. However, a lot of people feel that mask measures are now confusing and no longer necessary even though the WHO has not yet declared the COVID-19 pandemic to be over. Just to illustrate their point churches do not seem to have a mask mandate.
It is not even clear what kind of post-COVID-19 Zimbabwe is working towards. Western countries have been content to reopen with the level of cases they can handle with their healthcare systems. This means that they have already reopened even though they still have a significant number of cases. South Africa seems to have followed their lead. On the other hand, China has continued with its zero COVID-19 cases drive and introduced strict lockdowns every time cases are detected. Zimbabwe has sort of blundered in between these two policies.


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I have a question about Smith. I want to know if I missed something.
After meeting in Jane's house, Smith runs away and we see Bertram trying to kill Smith using Oscar.
Who wants to kill Smith?
A) RJ orders Bertram to take care of Smith. In this case, it makes no sense as RJ could easily put Smith next to Haffner and Stiles and kill him.
Can someone please explain me why there was a target on Smith?
2) was thinner when he was younger!
3) revealed in S5, Ep1 as it should be...late to the party !!
4) Gave himself up in the nick of time...twice he was a DEAD man and yet, he was saved by the CBI both times ??
Good timing or is it all all Red John scripted!!
Hi. I'm from Romania. It just aired the Red John episode here, turns out is Reede Smith!!!
Summer and Cho both turn into pigeons and fly to Dubai, also Bret Stiles is the secret father of every character on the list of 7. I can confirm this because I am in canada and I also saw the episode. And me to, I am in Kenya and saw it on Amazon Prime Kenya, and we are all posting from the same account. I hope this clears everything up. Any questions?
Leaked episode: Real Or Not . . .
Would have have much rather the writers used this theorist's/spoiler's outline for the finale. Would have at least gotten most of the nagging questions answered.
Follow the evidence of this "leaked" episode and I think you wind up with Reede Smith, aka Roy Tagliaferro I, as Red John Killer, with Michael Kirkland (or MAYBE Brett Partridge) as Roy 2 and his main accomplice.
This Sheriff Mac as Red John comes out of nowhere with NO backstory whatsoever.
Meet the real Red John.
The actual Sunday episode is NOTHING like the one that has been "leaked."
CBS was pulling a con. Remember they call this November Sweeps for a reason.
Wonder if the person who posted this spoiler http://www.whoisredjohn.com/See-a-theory-Red-John/13389 under Throey 13389 saw a different leaked episode. Because there are too many differences in his very detailed "spoiler" to have been from this episode, especially his/her allusions to Visualize and Roy Tagliaferro.
Makes me think the temporarily available "leaked" episode is a big prank by the CBS.


Reid Glacier, on Mount Hood's rugged west flank, is one of the most interesting of the mountain's 12 glaciers. This tumbling body of ice flows between the towering walls of Yocum Ridge and Hawkins cliffs, with the tall spire of Illumination Rock soaring above its deep crevasses. Oddly, Reid Glacier is the source of the Sandy River, whereas the Sandy Glacier gives birth to the Muddy Fork – some confusion on the part of early cartographers, perhaps? And while the Reid is among the most visible of Hood's glaciers from Portland, few hikers actually make the long climb to the high meadows of Yocum Ridge for a close-up view of the glacier.
Reid Glacier is also unique as the only one of Mount Hood's glaciers that wasn't named for a local pioneer, or simply given a descriptive name. Instead, this secluded river of ice was named to honor Harry Fielding Reid, the eminent geophysicist who is considered to be the father of modern thinking on faults and tectonic forces.
Reid never actually visited the glacier, though he was an avid mountaineer and did study the White River Glacier extensively. The Mazamas honored Reid by naming the glacier for him at a campfire ceremony held on the mountain on July 16, 1901.
Harry Fielding Reid's research took him around the world, and his groundbreaking work at Glacier Bay in Alaska was recognized by the naming of yet another Reid Glacier for the scientist. The Alaska glacier by the same name is much larger, of course, and is a tidewater glacier flowing into the Reid Inlet in Glacier Bay. Thus, the smaller Reid Glacier on Mount Hood lives in the shadow of its larger sibling in Alaska, with few biographies of Harry Reid making mention of the more diminutive Mount Hood namesake.
Today, the Seismological Society of America awards its top honor, the Harry Field Reid Medal, for outstanding contributions to the fields of seismology and earthquake engineering.


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Before Hans Koert (June 1st, 1951 - September 04, 2014) passed away on this date four years ago, I had promised him to keep some of his web domain updated, more precisely the keepitswinging blogspot, the oscar-aleman blogspot, the choromusic blogspot - all three blogs I have had access to as a co-editor and regular contributor of entries from the start of this part of Hans Koert's web activity. I made an agreement with Hans' widow to publish regular updates for four years and now the time has come to say goodbye. However, Hans' work will still be accessible in the version you find at the various sites assosiated with the keepitswinging domain which also applies for the online Oscar Alemán discography.
The Dutch Royal Library has saved a copy of everything accessible at Hans Koert's website and blogs, I'll quote from the message I had earlier this year:
"As part of the initiative of the Royal Library (KB) to save a selection of Dutch websites for future research, we also want to archive your site and keep them for the long term. It is the website and any subdomains that are accessible via the following URL (s):
http://keepitswinging.blogspot.nl/ http://keepswinging.blogspot.nl/
As a national library, the KB is legally responsible for collecting, describing and storing in the Netherlands publications, electronic or not. The KB sees it as its task to keep websites durable and kept consulted for future generations and to preserve them for loss including technological obsolescence. (-) Therefore archive the KB websites which collections are representative of the Dutch culture, history and society on the Internet. (-) Your website will be archived and stored for this purpose durable. (-) The archive versions are to consult within our own building. They will also be made available to the general public via the KB website as soon as legally possible."
For further information regarding the KB web archiving, please contact:
Peter Bode, Web archiving KB
PO Box 90407, 2509 LK Den Haag
webarchivering@kb.nl
I thank readers and visitors of Hans Koert's webdomain for your support and I also thank Hans Koert's widow, Corrie Koert, and his brother Peter Koert for the opportunity to continue part of Hans' webactivity publishing new entries to keep the above mentioned blogs updated. Also a great thank you to friends and followers who have contributed with material and information published at the blogs I have had access to.
Update April 2019
The exclusion of the name of 'Hans Koert' as editor of the blog in the sidemenu is not a deliberate choice by the present editor (Jo), but is a result of the change of policy by Blogger and Google. From April 2019 the Google+ accounts and profiles have been disabled, Hans Koert's editorial account was associated a Google+ account and this means that his name no longer is visible in the sidemenu as editor of the blog. I have tried to fix the problem, but Blogger unfortunately denies to change 'unknown' into the name of 'Hans Koert'
Update February 2020
Unexpectedly the Google account used by Hans Koert as his administrator access to the uploaded weblogs containing material from his private collection of photos and illustrations a.o. has been deleted by accident. This means that photos, illustrations and videos uploaded by Hans are no longer accessible at this and other blogs. Moreover, some blogs which only Hans have had administrator rights to handle are also no longer accessible. However, readers and visitors of the sites and blogs uploaded by Hans have an opportunity to use the Wayback Machine (WM) facility to get access to material not visible/accessible using the normal procedure. Below I'll insert links to the latest saved version of material at WM.
The original Keep Swinging blog is accessible from Wayback Machine by using this link
The Keep(it)Swinging weblog at Wayback Machine is accessible here
The Oscar Alemán blogspot at Wayback Machine is accessible here
The Choro Music blogspot at Wayback Machine is accessible here
The Hit of the Week blogspot at Wayback Machine is accessible here
The Flexible Records blogspot at Wayback Machine is accessible here
The Keepitswinging Jazzlinks blogspot at Wayback Machine is accessible here
The Slik op de Weg blogspot in Dutch only is accessible at Wayback Machine here
I cannot guarantee that all internal as well as external links will work in the pages listed at WM, but this is the only available option that I can present as the current editor-in-charge. I hope this helps some of the problem of missing photos and blogs on Hans' uploaded pages.
If you have comments or questions, please contact me at jrgnlarsen5@gmail.com


The council applied for funding from the Government's Private Rented Sector Access Fund, which is designed to help people who are at risk of becoming homeless. The fund aims to help them to secure their own private rented home.
Wyre Forest District Council made the application on behalf of councils across Worcestershire. The £399,099 grant for Worcestershire will be used to set up social letting agencies or rent bond schemes and to provide support to tenants. This could involve providing financial support to help people to access or maintain their tenancies, such as paying deposits or rent payments. There will be incentives to encourage private sector landlords to rent to people who are receiving benefits and the councils will also be looking at setting up a Private Sector Leasing Scheme.
"We offer a housing options service which provides specialist advice and is accessible to anyone requiring housing advice, experiencing homelessness or threatened with homelessness. By securing this funding our Housing Team will be able to work with colleagues across Worcestershire to help open up more opportunities to people who are facing being homeless."


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Waffle Iron Day June 29th History and Photo #WaffleIronDay – Happy Waffle Iron Day images and download free pictures. Waffle Iron Day celebrates this great kitchen gadget that makes tasty waffles. Waffles are cooked between two metal plates. A waffle iron is powered by electricity to heat the plates and create, light waffles ready for you to top with syrup, and/or your favorite fruits.
Waffles are not just for breakfast. They are good for lunch or dinner, too.
The origin of the waffle: The waffle dates back to the 1300s in Greece. Greeks cooked flat cakes between two metal pans. At the time, they topped it with cheeses and herbs. Pancake syrup wasn't around back then.
You do know how to celebrate this day…….don't you!? If you don't have a waffle iron, today is a good day to go out and buy one. If you are too busy to make waffles ourself, buy some frozen in your grocery store, or order them out at a restaurant.


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Category: Condemnation of Singing and Musical Instruments
Loud music in cars
What is the ruling on listening to songs and those who play songs loudly in their cars?.
Will the one who listened to music in this world be deprived of listening to it in Paradise?
Musical tunes on cell phones are haraam
Playing songs and music loudly in cars is a kind of committing sin openly. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "All of my ummah may be forgiven except those who commit sin openly." Narrated by al-Bukhaari (6069) and Muslim (2990). This hadeeth contains a stern warning to those who commit evil openly and broadcast it and spread it and do it blatantly. This person who commits sin openly feels no shame before Allaah or His creation, so he must be denounced and admonished.
We ask Allaah to set the affairs of the Muslins straight.
Did Dawood (peace be upon him) play a flute?
Ruling on working in an Islamic nasheed group
Ruling on religious songs; and is it a sin to listen to songs in stores and on public transport?
Dealing with a Bad Temper
Ruling on vinegar made from wine
If a female has an orgasm without intercourse
The wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), the Mothers of the Believers (may Allaah be pleased with them)
Conditions of women going out to the mosque


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require_relative "../resource"

class Chef
  class Resource
    class WindowsUac < Chef::Resource
      unified_mode true

      provides :windows_uac

      description 'The *windows_uac* resource configures UAC on Windows hosts by setting registry keys at `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System`'
      introduced "15.0"
      examples <<~DOC
      **Disable UAC prompts for the admin**:

      ``` ruby
      windows_uac 'Disable UAC prompts for the admin' do
        enable_uac true
        prompt_on_secure_desktop false
        consent_behavior_admins :no_prompt
      end
      ```

      **Disable UAC entirely**:

      ``` ruby
      windows_uac 'Disable UAC entirely' do
        enable_uac false
      end
      ```
      DOC

      # https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/user-account-control/user-account-control-group-policy-and-registry-key-settings#user-account-control-virtualize-file-and-registry-write-failures-to-per-user-locations
      property :enable_uac, [TrueClass, FalseClass],
        description: 'Enable or disable UAC Admin Approval Mode. If this is changed a system restart is required. Sets HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA.',
        default: true # EnableLUA

      property :require_signed_binaries, [TrueClass, FalseClass],
        description: 'Only elevate executables that are signed and validated. Sets HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA\ValidateAdminCodeSignatures.',
        default: false

      property :prompt_on_secure_desktop, [TrueClass, FalseClass],
        description: 'Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation. Sets HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA\PromptOnSecureDesktop.',
        default: true

      property :detect_installers, [TrueClass, FalseClass],
        description: 'Detect application installations and prompt for elevation. Sets HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA\EnableInstallerDetection.'

      property :consent_behavior_admins, Symbol,
        description: 'Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode. Sets HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA\ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin.',
        equal_to: %i{no_prompt secure_prompt_for_creds secure_prompt_for_consent prompt_for_creds prompt_for_consent prompt_for_consent_non_windows_binaries},
        default: :prompt_for_consent_non_windows_binaries

      property :consent_behavior_users, Symbol,
        description: 'Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users. Sets HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA\ConsentPromptBehaviorUser.',
        equal_to: %i{auto_deny secure_prompt_for_creds prompt_for_creds},
        default: :prompt_for_creds

      action :configure, description: "Configures UAC by setting registry keys at `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System`" do
        description 'Configures UAC by setting registry keys at \'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\''

        registry_key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System' do
          values [{ name: "EnableLUA", type: :dword, data: bool_to_reg(new_resource.enable_uac) },
                  { name: "ValidateAdminCodeSignatures", type: :dword, data: bool_to_reg(new_resource.require_signed_binaries) },
                  { name: "PromptOnSecureDesktop", type: :dword, data: bool_to_reg(new_resource.prompt_on_secure_desktop) },
                  { name: "ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin", type: :dword, data: consent_behavior_admins_symbol_to_reg(new_resource.consent_behavior_admins) },
                  { name: "ConsentPromptBehaviorUser", type: :dword, data: consent_behavior_users_symbol_to_reg(new_resource.consent_behavior_users) },
                  { name: "EnableInstallerDetection", type: :dword, data: bool_to_reg(new_resource.detect_installers) },
               ]
          action :create
        end
      end

      action_class do
        # converts a Ruby true/false to a 1 or 0
        #
        # @return [Integer] 1:true, 0: false
        def bool_to_reg(bool)
          bool ? 1 : 0
        end

        # converts the symbols we use in the consent_behavior_admins property into numbers 0-5 based on their array index
        #
        # @return [Integer]
        def consent_behavior_admins_symbol_to_reg(sym)
          %i{no_prompt secure_prompt_for_creds secure_prompt_for_consent prompt_for_creds prompt_for_consent prompt_for_consent_non_windows_binaries}.index(sym)
        end

        # converts the symbols we use in the consent_behavior_users property into numbers 0-2 based on their array index
        #
        # @return [Integer]
        def consent_behavior_users_symbol_to_reg(sym)
          %i{auto_deny secure_prompt_for_creds prompt_for_creds}.index(sym)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


Inspiration Archives - Page 2 of 22 - Pebbles, Inc.
New month, new challenge – same giveaway!
Hi friends! It's now February. FEBRUARY. January just flew by (as life tends to go these days) – but it's still hard to believe it is now gone!
With the new month, however, we have a new challenge! Keeping it as easy as January, we are going to stick with a theme instead of a specific sketch. Hopefully, this will get more people involved in the challenge! And…you can probably guess what we chose – Love and Friendship-themed projects!
This leaves so much room for interpretation! We hope you'll take it too! Here are some ideas from crafters we asked to help us get this started – let them inspire you!
As you can see, nearly anything is game! Whether you love to make cards or layouts, share your projects with friends or family, they all work! What will you make?? We can't wait to see!
Once your project is done, email a photo of it to pbsocial@americancrafts.com. If we get enough participation, after the submission period is over and the cheering time is done, we'll pick two winners to receive some of their favorite Pebbles products! We will pick at least one winner for sure.
Submissions are due by midnight, February 17th. Let's get crafting!
Furry friends, family and fun with My Bright Life and Sindi!
Hi everybody, my name is Sindi Jeffers and I'm just stopping by today to share a layout I created with the beautiful My Bright Life paper pad. I have used almost every square inch of paper in this pad on other projects. When I was asked to do a guest design post for January, I decided to get creative and use the last few remaining bits of paper.
All I had left were a few squares of paper, which I cut into strips for this project. I had this adorable photo of my son and our sweet furry friend, so I decided to create a giant paw print for my background. I found a template on the internet and hand cut the shapes I needed.
I then used the strips to cover the shape of the paw print. I decided to roll the ends of some of the strips to create dimension on my page. Attaching the top edge of each strip to the paper before rolling helps things go more smoothly. I simply rolled the bottom edge up around my paintbrush. I also folded some of the strips into loops before securing them. I love the look it created. After that, the only thing left to do was stitch around the paw print.
After that, I hand cut some clouds to scatter around my page. In order to bring out one of the gorgeous colors from the paper pad, I painted some of the clouds a soft blue. I like to double my clouds, stacking one on top of the other, in order to create even more dimension on my pages.
Here's the final layout. I hope I've managed to inspire you to keep all those scraps! Even the smallest bits of leftover paper can find new life.
Hello there Pebbles Fans, it's Terhi Koskinen here today with some very very lovely and sweet ideas for the upcoming Valentine's Day!
This is a card. Or a mini book. Or a book. I don't know. But no matter what it is, it is load with cute things and it will be sent to my best friend on 14th of February to make her day a bit happier.
Before starting to do anything, I had a vision in my mind to create a mini book full of love and memories from the happiest times with my loved one, but once I flipped through the 'Loves Me' patterned papers I knew I had to do a card – or something card-like to be send away.
I started the process by cutting out the tags from one of the patterned papers, and to add one tag with foil effect I also used the 6″x6″ paper pad.
The tags are sized 2″x3″, and to cover the back side partly of each I cut 1 1/4″x2″ sized pieces from another patterned paper. To make the result smooth and balanced, I only used one pattern to the back sides.
Then I continued the cutting fun by cutting out several blooms and flowers from one of the papers to be the embellishments.
As soon as I had all the tags ready, all blooms cut out and my foam dots on the table, I started to adhere the blooms onto the tags. In addition, few of tags got a phrase or two to complete the look.
The phrases and words are all cut out from patterned papers too. And as this card is mini book-like already, I wanted to braid some embroidery threads and decorate it with some charms and tassels – now the look of this card/book/whatever will be perfect!
To finish the process I took one metal ring and hang all the tags to it. The braid is on top of everything, hanging wild like the koalas.
Inspired? I hope you are! I never knew I'd love Valentine's Day crafts this much!
Who could resist those cute koalas!?
Hope you'll have a great day, full of love and sweet things!
Guest Designer Becky has darling cards for you!
Hello! My name is Becky Williams and I am thrilled to get to guest design for Pebbles this month.
For this first card, I adhered two different pieces of patterned paper to the card base and then used the tear strip from one of the sheets across the seam. I used the reverse side of one of the tags, wrapped it with twine, added the gold tape, staples and brad and then added a card sentiment to the front using foam adhesive. I adhered the tag to the card with foam adhesive.
For this second card, I cut strips of varying sizes the width of the card and, after tearing along one edge, layered them to create the background of the card.
I created the tag by trimming down another tag, mounting it on kraft cardstock. I cut the cute girl and "just for you" sentiment from another tag and layered them as shown, finishing off the tag with some twine.
For this quick and easy card, all I did was layer a piece of patterned paper on white cardstock, leaving about a half inch on the edge, then used my scallop border punch on the cardstock, layering that over the cute pink polka dot paper.
Once again I layered my tag on a piece of cardstock allowing the tag to stand out from the card.
For this final card I chose a black and white color scheme accented by the gold washi and some kraft-colored flowers.
I mounted the card sentiment on black cardstock and left some extra so that I could use my scallop border punch. I wrapped the tag with twine and adhered it to my card base with foam adhesive and then tucked some punched flowers under the edge.
I hope that from my projects for today you could see that you can create a set of beautiful cards with just a few supplies.
Thank you for stopping by the Pebbles Inc. blog today!


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India can avoid water wars in the future by mixing old and new solutions
admin Water 0
Drinking water shortages are known to spark scuffles , but last week, it led to Sunil Giri, 23, losing his life. Giri was beaten to death in the Ramgarh district of Jharkhand for objecting to his neighbour Anwar Hussain taking more than his share from a drinking-water tanker that had reached the drought-affected village after several days.
Similar violence over water sharing has also been reported from water-scarce districts in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana since April.
Scarcity kills in other wars too. In April, 12-year-old Yogita Ashok Desai died of heatstroke after her fifth trip to fetch water from a handpump in drought-hit Beed district of Maharashtra, when temperatures had crossed 47 degree Celsius.
In the first week of May, a 15-year-old girl died and 23 others were injured when the roof of an underground water tank collapsed while they were waiting to collect water from the almost dry tank.
Lost sources
The World Resources Institute's March 2016 report said 54% of India was water stressed, with scarcity affecting every part of the country except Himalayan region and the Ghats. "Almost 600 million people are at higher risk of surface water supply disruptions," the report said, attributing water stress to climate change and poor water management.
The map below illustrates competition between companies, farms and people for surface water in rivers, lakes, streams, and shallow groundwater. Red and dark-red areas are highly or extremely highly stressed, meaning that more than 40 percent of the annually available surface water is used every year. Find out more at the World Resources Institute's website.
With the surface water sources dwindling, people have shifted to unregulated tapping of ground water — for agriculture and drinking — leading to levels dipping by three times over the last 60 years, making groundwater the main drinking water source for 80% of the population.
Rising temperature also mean higher human loss.
Of the 4,204 lives lost to annual heat waves over the past four years, half were in the drought year of 2015.
"The deaths were a result of flawed government emphasis on building high-cost dams and canals that have wiped traditional ways of water harvesting," said Himanshu Thakkar of South Asian Network of Dams, Rivers and People.
Another concern is that 50% of ground water sources in the country are not "completely safe". Of the 660 districts, ground water in 276 districts has high levels of fluoride, 387 districts have nitrate above safe levels and 86 districts arsenic, shows data from Central Ground Water Board's latest report.
Close to 650 major towns and cities in India are on the banks of rivers contaminated with pesticides from farms and effluents from industry, said the latest report of the Central Pollution Control Board, which sickens 100 million people each year because of contaminated drinking ground water.
If that's not enough, more and more states — Haryana and Punjab in north to Tamil Nadu and Kerala in south to Arunachal and Assam in north-east — are entangled in disputes over sharing water from major rivers.
If ground water exploitation continues, the World Bank estimates that the per capita water availability in India —- where 46 farmers committed suicide every day in 2014 — by 2030 may shrink to half from the 2010 level of 1,588 cubic metres per year, which will push India into the 'water scarce' category (1,700 cubic metres per year), from its existing 'water stress' classification (1,000 cubic meter per year).
"The water situation is scary," said Arvind Panagariiya, vice-chairman of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, which is holding consultation with states on water stress management. "We have to adopt a bottom up approach with a mix of modern and traditional solutions that are acceptable and inclusive".
To start with, the water resources ministry has drafted two model bills — first for overall water management and second for ground water — aimed at improving water management and groundwater levels. Shashi Shekhar, secretary for water resources, said the water problem was escalating and the proposed laws could ensure better and efficient water management.
But, a lot depends on states as water is a state subject. Some, such as, Maharashtra and Rajasthan have started community based Jal Swabhilambhan schemes that give ownership of government-aided watershed management to the communities. "We just aid and assist the villagers in creating durable water assets. The villages decide what they want," said Sriram Vedire of Rajasthan Water Authority, who initiated the programme in half of the state's districts in early 2016.
It is too early to state whether the Rajasthan model works but independent studies have shown that similar community-based watershed management programmes has improved ground water levels in Jhabua districts of Madhya Pradesh. Panagariya hoped that it can work elsewhere too, provided "right" government intervention happens.
Mukul Sanwal, retired civil servant and former director of UN Climate Change Secretariat, said restoring traditional water harvesting and management systems like 'Bundis (household ponds)' to store rainfall water has worked and will work as it is a time-tested model, which was abandoned during the British era. "Even Mughals gave tax rebate if farmers invested in water harvesting," he said.
Source:Hindustan Times
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Spring has sprung. At 16.15.21 GMT today, Tuesday March 20, the Sun passed the celestial equator (the imaginary line in the sky above the equator) and night and day were, on this date, the same length. This is the Vernal or Spring Equinox and it marks the end of Winter or the first day of Spring, depending on how you look at it.
Space.com reckons that if you were standing on the equator at a point just to the west of the Itapará River in northern Brazil, the sun would appear directly overhead. On the Dingle Peninsula the Equinox is marked in a very different way. Dáithí Ó Connaill of Tralee Mountaineering Club discovered that the setting Winter sun shines into a megalithic tomb in Loch A'duin (The Lake of the Fort). Loch A'duin is located just below the Conor Pass on the the Dingle Peninsula. Dáithí is the best person to describe it.
The "discovery" was made following a hunch that the bronze age tomb of approximate date of 2500 B.C., which has a westerly orientation, may have had some significance due to the fact that it is embellished internally with some prehistoric rock art, leading one to surmise that it may have had some ritualistic significance, similar, in a minor way, to the passage tomb of Newgrange in the Boyne Valley, which is oriented on the winter solstice sunrise.
It was visited at the winter solstice annually over fifteen years but, invariably, the sunset was not visible due to either cloud cover or rain. There was a brilliant sunset on the winter solstice of 2014 but, alas, it did not have any unusual bearing on the tomb's orientation.
However, this led to a little thinking as to the possibility that it may have had some relevance vis-a-vis the vernal and autumnal equinoctial sunsets around March 21st and September 21st. The reasoning behind this curiosity was that, when one looks at the orientation of the monument, it seems to face directly into an imaginary "v" formed by the spur of nearby "Sliabh Mhacha Reidh" and the distant spur of "An Gearan".
It transpired that the equinoctial sunsets of September 2015 and March 2016 were visible and it was delightfully noticed that the sun on both occasions(and indeed over a few days preceding and subsequent to the equinoxes) bisected the "v" and spectacularly illuminated the tomb and the rock-art therein.
There are many theories abroad as to why our distant ancestors went to such careful planning and should lead to interesting discussions.


Every year, during special occasions (such as Christmas), we spend money to purchase gifts for those we love. Too often, however, our gifts aren't really needed. And our God-entrusted money that could have been used to lay up treasure in heaven and help people who really do need it—such as those who lack basic necessities such as food, safe water and adequate shelter—is wasted. Is there a way to express our love for family and friends on those special occasions and also serve the "least of these" in our spiritual family?
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The Thousand Islands Cup was established once again this summer to celebrate the rich racing heritage of the Chippewa Yacht Club and the Thousand Islands Region. The first race was held in 1904, and Willis Kilmer won the Chippewa Yacht Club, its first Gold Cup on the Hudson River. In 1905 through 1907 Jonathan Wainwright successfully defended the Cup for the CYC on their home course. The Thousand Islands Yacht Club defeated the CYC in 1908, with E.J. Schroeder's Dixie, now at the Antique Boat Museum.
On August 19th 2018, a group of some of the most powerful classic racers in the Thousand Islands gathered to run a portion of the original Chippewa Yacht Club Gold Cup Course. The weather was beyond perfect as the sleek mahogany speedsters glided their way to Oak Island. The Captains had a meeting around a chart table to review the course and the starting procedure. The first edition of the Thousand Islands Cup was a ceremonial event aimed at getting folks talking about racing again. A gentleman's rolling start was agreed to.
Chippewa Bay has a reputation in the Thousand Islands. It is one of those shoal infested spots that only the most knowledgeable pilots venture without a chart.
The CYC's Gold Cup course passes by quite a number of areas that are capable of removing the bottom of one's boat. The up-river competitors all elected to have a "rock guy" from the CYC race with them.
As the racers made their way to their boats, a flotilla of spectator boats had collected off the down-river end of Oak Island. One of the organizers had to take to a boat and request the spectators move farther into the River, to open the starting line. The racers rumbled to the starting line and were sent off with a cannon blast.
The mahogany monsters roared off toward the end of Cedar Island where they had a hard port turn around some nasty shoals. They sped up-river from there to Scow Island where they had to avoid another shoal at the head of Scow. From Scow, the fleet headed back toward Oak and ran along inside the infamous Triangle shoal that covers several hundred yards off the channel-side of Oak Island.
After the race, several of the speedsters delighted the spectators with bat turns and high-speed passes. Eventually, they made their way back to the Oak Island docks for refreshments and the delivery of the Thousand Islands Cup to Jim Hendler. His Baby Gar "La Te Da" proved to be the fastest boat on the course.
John Kunz and his wife Kelly are summer residents of Chippewa Bay. They winter in Watertown, NY. Along with their three sons, they enjoy the River on a four-season basis - Sailing, Rock Climbing and Skijoring. In February 2016, John took us Skijoring in the Thousand Islands. Read that article again, so you are ready for Winter 2018!
This was such a great event. John and Kelly Kuntz, and their whole family are boat lovers. John's son Dave has a fantastic book available on Amazon detailing the history of Wooden Boats of the area. Just a perfect day for this event and a great crowd gathered on the island, and in boats along the course. I'm looking forward to next years race. John and Kelly Kuntz worked tirelessly for months on this event. I was happy to see it such a success.
What a day. My gusts from Syracuse, boating enthusiasts, Art and his wife Nancy, my Daughter Katey and her husband Andy and Amy and I stood on the veranda at Ojibway Island with binoculars and watched every inch of the race. Louis Benton one of my neighbors on Shambo Island was in the race and did himself proud. I commend John and Kelly Kunz for a wonderful afternoon turning back the clock. Lets do it every year as a remembrance of times past.


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Q: Per-record classifying dates by another table's names for those date ranges Bit of a long-winded title, but essentially I've got Models for projects, with various foreign key sub-models for aspects of it.
One related table is a Model where specifically named Date periods are defined, ie. a start and end date are provided and that date is then named by the user, and linked to a set project. It's easiest to think of it as maybe quarters based off that specific project's start date, but it's not always strictly quarters so I can't use conventional 'built-in' date tools. The user has to be able to define assymetrical reporting periods.
Every project also has an Events model linked to it for specific occasions/happenings on the project, each with a date that I then need to stratify into these Project_Periods. Since it falls in a range of dates I can't just call up the usual foreign-key relations.
The absolute easiest would be just to force the user to select a Project_Period for each Project_Event they add - but there's a lot of events and I want it to be set automatically without a user being able to mismatch it.
I've thought of saving a date/calendar table for every project once the Project_Period is saved or altered - a model under Project_Peroid that then defines days inside every Project_period object - but I'm assuming that's inefficient/space wasting.
I could have it run through a For-Loop either when saving the Project_Events or modifying Project_Periods, to classify each event and assign it a Project_Period foreign-key but I'm assuming that's also wasteful or inefficient.
Similarly on the View when calling it up I could have it run through each event object to then run through a for-loop of every Period_event linked to that project with something like Period_Event.objects.filter(date__range=["2020-01-01", "2020-01-31"]) where the dates are set by the Project_Period that's being looked up, but that might also be wasteful.
Other techniques I've seen like Annotate seem more for grouping basic on already clearly defined relationships, rather than fuzzy 'within a range, within an object/row of another model'.
Maybe I've missed something basic where one can have it assign a foreignkey to Project_Period from Project_Events without a for loop, which would be ideal.
models.py:
class Project(models.Model):
    full_name = models.CharField('Project''s Full Name',max_length=120,blank=False)

class Project_Period(models.Model):
    period_name = models.CharField('Name of reporting period, e.g. Q1 or Semester 2',max_length=120,blank=false)
    period_start = models.DateField('Period Start Date',blank=False)
    period_end = models.DateField('Period Final/End Date',blank=False)

class Project_Event(models.Model):
    event_name = models.CharField('Occurence that happened',max_length=120,blank=false)
    event_date = models.DateField('Date event transpired on',blank=False)
    # ..hypothetically it would also have if I could have it assign it automatically based
    # ..on event_date falling within the period_start and period_end dates of Projec_Period
    # ..below code of course won't work as-is:
    # project_period = models.ForeignKey(Project_Period,on_delete=models.CASCADE)

Above is just hypothetical sample code, so might have a typo. I've just pruned out a lot of additional fields and further connected models.
Thanks in advance.

A: Try overriding the save method and setting the correct foreign key to Project_Period there:
class Project_Event(models.Model):
    event_name = models.CharField('Occurence that happened',max_length=120,blank=false)
    event_date = models.DateField('Date event transpired on',blank=False)
    project_period = models.ForeignKey(Project_Period,on_delete=models.CASCADE)

    def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
        event_date = self.event_date
        period = Project_Period.objects.filter(period_start__lte=event_date, period_end__gte=event_date).first()
        if period is None:
            raise ValueError("No matching period exists")
        self.project_period = period
        super().save(*args, **kwargs)

This will cause any saved Project_Event to automatically have the foreign key set. There are some caveats though you cannot use queryset.update() (Model.objects._____.update()) or use Model.objects.bulk_create as they do not use the models save method. You will need to specify correct project_period yourself (by using same logic / different) when calling those methods.

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@Mike Macgirvin , if you don't mind me bugging you, any idea why this post didn't federate to my libranet.de Friendica account? The two accounts are mutual friends but so far, none of my posts from Hubzilla show up on my Friendica stream (even though they show up for my friended Diaspora and Mastodon accounts).
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Stream the 2017 XXL Freshman Class Show Tonight in Los Angeles
Kairi Coe Published: July 12, 2017
In just a few hours, the 2017 XXL Freshman Class will take the stage in Los Angeles for their second collective show to celebrate this year's cover. Taking place at The Novo on W. Olympic Blvd. in L.A., the show will be streamed live tonight via REVOLT TV for those who can't attend.
Over the past couple weeks, XXL has released freestyles from each member of the 2017 XXL Freshman class, including Playboi Carti, who just released the video for one of the summer's hottest tracks, "Magnolia," and XXXTentacion, the 10th Spot winner whose freestyle has reached the most views in comparison to the other members of his class with over 3 million.
This week kicked off the long-awaited cyphers. The first cypher released featuring Aminé, Kyle and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, as well as the follow-up with Playboi Carti, Madeintyo, XXXtentacion and Ugly God each have over 1 millions views. PnB Rock, Kap G and Kamaiyah's cypher drops Friday (July 14) and will likely follow suit.
Last month, the 2017 XXL Freshman class came together for the New York show, which saw memorable performances from A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Aminé, Kap G, Madeintyo, Ugly God, Kamaiyah, PnB Rock and Kyle. Each rapper delivered a lively set for the crowd as they performed some of their biggest hits from the past year. Kap G opened up the show with his hit singles and surprised everyone with a Casanova appearance, while Ugly God unsurprisingly showered the front row with water while performing his hit of the same name.
For rap fans with tickets to the L.A. show tonight, doors open at 7 p.m. and the first artist is set to hit the stage at 8 p.m. PST / 11 p.m. EST. Check back here tonight at that time to watch Generation Next represent for their class in the live stream above.
And in case you missed it, peep each 2017 XXL Freshman's individual freestyle and interview here: A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, PnB Rock, Playboi Carti, Ugly God, Madeintyo, Kyle, Kamaiyah, Kap G, Aminé and XXXTentacion.
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What is the Currency of Ireland?
The official currency of the Republic of Ireland is the Euro.
Ireland uses the Euro.
The island of Ireland uses two different currencies depending on where someone is staying or visiting. The two currencies are the Euro and the Pound Sterling. The republic of Ireland uses the Euro which is normally symbolized by € as its currency. On the other hand, the currency used in Northern Ireland is the Pound Sterling normally symbolized by £. Just as the US Dollar is written as USD, the Ireland Euro's code is EUR and the Northern Ireland Pound Sterling's code is GBP. The currency is controlled by Ireland's Central Bank which is found in the city of Dublin, which is the largest and capital city of Ireland.
There are different variations of the Pound Sterling notes. The reason behind this is that every bank in Northern Ireland is mandated to issue its own notes. In spite of these differences, the coins have turned out to be similar irrespective of the bank that mints them. When an individual crosses from the Republic of Ireland to Ireland or vice versa, they need to exchange their currency into an acceptable one. Foreign exchange can be done in shops, banks, gas stations, and bureau de change. The exchange is highly dependent on the current exchange rates.
History of the Euro and Pound Sterling
The European Monetary Union introduced the Euro to Ireland in January 1, 1999. Three years later, the Euro became the major currency used for daily transactions of the member states. Thus, the Euro replaced the Pound Sterling in some areas such as the Republic of Ireland. However, six counties in Northern Ireland maintained Pound Sterling as their currency. The counties were Tyrone, Antrim, Fermanagh, Down, Derry and Armagh.
Banknotes and Issues
One Euro can be sub-divided into 100 cents. The Euro coins are in denominations of 50c, 20c, 10c, 5c, 2c, €1, and €2. On the other hand, the banknotes in circulation are in denominations of €5, €10, €20, €50, €100, €200, and €500. The Euros can be bought in ATM machines available in all cities, banks, or currency bureaus. The higher denomination notes such as €100, €200 and €500 are rarely accepted in retail outlets. The designs on the banknotes are symbolic and seek to promote architectural heritage of Europe. The windows and gateways on the face of every Euro banknote are outward signs of the European Union's commitment to openness and cooperation. There's a bridge at the back of each banknote.
One pound sterling consists of 100 pence. The banknotes which are used currently by the Irish are in denominations of £5, £10, £20, £50, and £100. On the other hand, the coins used are in denominations of 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p, 2p, 1p, £1, and £2.
When the Euro and the Pound Sterling are exchanged, 1 EUR is equivalent to 1.129 USD while 1 GBP is equivalent to 1.278 USD. Therefore, the Pound Sterling is more valuable than the Euro. However, it is not as widely as the Euro which is not only used in many other parts of Ireland but also by countries of the eurozone.
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