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Policy LP26: Landscape character
Respondent: National Farmers Union
We would urge the Council to keep the need for expensive landscape character assessments for minor development to a minimum. Should there be a threshold above which the surveys need to be carried out and below that threshold, they don't need to be done.
Respondent: Mrs Anne Wilkinson
Landscape protection:
It is surely reasonable of Ashover Parish residents to expect that existing levels of Special Landscape Area (SLA) protection would be preserved in the new Local Plan, reinforced by policy objectives expressin in the draft, GI Study, and NPPF.
Designatin has changed, with the use of the Landscape Character Assessment and AMES definitions instead of the SLA designation, but the NPPF does not dictate that this should effectively downgrade protection of significant landscapes.
It is alarming to observe that landscape protection is weakened by an apparent increasing of the level of harm allowed before a development is refused
To ensure that the policy refers to the wider character, and not just the very local context, i.e. site level, Policy LP26: Landscape Character should be amended to read "Development proposals should have regard to the Derbyshire Landscape Character Assessment and the Areas of Multiple Environmental Sensitivity. They should contribute, where appropriate, to the conservation and enhancement, or
restoration and re-creation, of the local landscape taking into account its wider landscape character type."
Welcome this policy and note tha tit draws upon the evidence set ou in the Derbyshire Landscape Character Assessment.
Also welcome referrence to the National Character Areas at para 9.12
In the context of the duty to have regard to National Park purposes inclusion of a specific policy reference regarding the need to protect the setting of the National Park is strongly advised. This could either be in the context of the landscape character policy LP26, or even a specific policy to clarify for developers how the statement in paragraph 5.39 ('The high quality countryside towards the Peak District will be protected from development') will be achieved.
(Suggested policy wording provided)
policy generally supported.
but we consider that minor rewording is required to ensure that the policy is consistent with the Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment 2013. Firstly, we recommend that "sensitivity" is removed from first paragraph as landscape characteristics exhibit sensitivity to harm, but sensitivity per se is not susceptible to harm in this context.
Secondly second paragraph should be broadened to ensure that "character" and "sensitivity" are always taken into account, even if the specific studies mentioned are in future superseded.
"where appropriate" are not necessary within
Respondent: Historic England
We welcome reference to the AMES study within this policy. It would also be helpful to make reference to the Derbyshire Historic Landscape Characterisation study within the supporting text.
Respondent: Mr Chris Proctor - Smith
The draft policy is weak and unmanageable. For example what does "have regard to" mean?
And what is significant harm? The policy should at least offer the same level of protection to AMES as the current protection offered to Special Landscape Areas.
Initial Draft Local Plan (Part 1) and Schedule of Potential Housing Sites February 2015
I wish to comment on the Initial Draft Local Plan (Part 1) (DLP) and Schedule of Potential Housing Sites February 2015.
I am extremely concerned about the housing growth targets proposed for Ashover Parish and Ashover Village in particular.
The target number of new houses is not sustainable and will have a catastrophic impact on the community.
The DLP recommends growth rates for all the settlements in the parish that are much higher than the overall NEDDC growth rate.
Ashover +40%, Fallgate +21%, Kelstedge +20% & Littlemoor/Alton + 15%.
Having reviewed the Evidence Base documents, there is no evidence that identifies any specific need or demand for the levels of growth identified in the DLP for Ashover or Ashover Parish.
There is a flawed assumption that a 40% increase in the size of Ashover will protect existing services and facilities in the village.
Quite the contrary, Ashover is able to support its existing services and facilities due to the high levels of visitors and tourists it attracts: cyclists, walkers, riders, sports teams, agricultural show, vintage car rallies, caravan and camping clubs, motocross events etc.
Ashover is an award winning village widely acknowledged for its unique character.
Visitors are attracted to Ashover because the village is "unspoilt" and the surrounding countryside is of high landscape value and accessible.
The proposed growth of over 100 houses will destroy this unique character, visitor numbers will fall and valuable agricultural fields around the village would be lost - the fields that feed this country.
Furthermore, the approach to drafting the Local Plan is flawed and there is clear evidence that the Evidence Base is being mis-used to justify housing growth proposals that have no evidential basis.
The Settlement Role & Function Study 2013 states "It should also be noted that the position of the settlement within the hierarchy does not inevitably mean that significant growth should be accommodated
there because other factors will need to be considered, such as environmental constraints."
Yet the Settlement Hierarchy Background Paper 2014 states "The Settlement Hierarchy is the basis for determining the appropriate level of new housing for each settlement."
The Settlement Hierarchy does not determine levels of new housing for each settlement it simply indicates a hierarchy of settlements based on a series of criteria.
NEDDC has failed to gather appropriate specific evidence of housing need in Ashover Parish and appears to be trying to make numbers fit.
I attended the consultation event at Ashover on 12th March 2015 and questioned what evidence of need there was to support the proposed housing targets. It was clear that the evidence has not been gathered and when I pressed for answers I was told by 2 of the planning policy representatives "everyone's got to have their share and we've worked out Ashover's share is 40%" and "they have to go somewhere"!
Ashover and Ashover Parish do not represent a sustainable location for such high levels of growth.
* The local road network is inadequate and unsuitable for any significant increase in traffic. Many roads, including all those in to Ashover village have pinch points where the road is only wide enough for one vehicle.
* Public transport is extremely limited and it is not possible to commute to the local employment centres of Chesterfield and Claycross due to the timetables.
* There are insufficient sites within existing settlement boundaries to accommodate the proposed housing target which means the development will have to be on valuable agricultural green field sites
* The majority of the landscape in the Parish is identified as an Area of Multiple Environmental Sensitivity (AMES) where development on greenfield sites will have significant harm on the landscape.
The Schedule of Potential Housing Sites February 2015 identifies a limited number of potential sites and all these lie outside settlement boundaries and in AMES and the entirity of the proposed housing target would have to be on greenfield AMES sites.
The proposed housing targets, because they are reliant on development of greenfield sites, are directly in conflict with the DLP Objectives & Policies:
D8 Environmental Protection: To protect and enhance the District's
locally, nationally, and internationally important landscape and the
wider natural and historic environment and industrial heritage.
D9 Landscape Character: To protect and enhance the character and
quality of local landscapes.
D10 Affordable Housing: To deliver significant amounts of affordable
housing to reflect identified need.
D14 Traffic & Transport: To address the impact that relatively high
levels of traffic, high car dependency and limited public transport
facilities have on the social, economic and environmental state of
certain parts of the District.
W3 To preserve the open nature of the countryside, having regard to
its proximity to the Peak District National Park.
Policy LP1: Sustainable Development
c. Locate development with the aim of reducing the need to travel
g. Protect and enhance the character, quality and settings of towns and
villages and heritage assets of acknowledged importance
h. Protect and enhance the character, quality and diversity of local
landscapes and the wider countryside
i. Protect the productive potential of the District's best quality
agricultural land, and avoid sterilisation of mineral resources
Proposals for new development will only be permitted where they
would not cause significant harm to the character, quality,
distinctiveness or sensitivity of the landscape, or to important features
or views, or other perceptual qualities such as tranquillity unless the
benefits of the development clearly outweigh the impacts.
Development proposals should have regard to the Derbyshire
Landscape Character Assessment and the Areas of Multiple
Environmental Sensitivity' and contribute, where appropriate, to the
conservation and enhancement, or restoration and re-creation of the
local landscape.
With regard to this policy I would also make the following comments:
The draft policy is weak and unmanageable.
For example what does "have regard to" mean?
And what is significant harm?
The policy should at least offer the same level of protection to AMES as the current protection offered to Special Landscape Areas.
Please keep me informed by email in relation to this consultation and other planning policy documents.
Respondent: Campaign to Protect Rural England
We very much support the Local Landscape Character led approach.


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Ex- Sandusky attorney facing sentence in $767K…
Ex- Sandusky attorney facing sentence in $767K client theft
FILE- In this June 18, 2012 file photo, attorneys for former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, Joe Amendola, left, and Karl Rominger, unload case files after arriving at the Centre County Courthouse for Sandusky's child sexual abuse case in Bellefonte, Pa. Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed released a statement Monday, March 10, 2014, that said Freed learned of allegations against Rominger that concern a divorce case and is currently using forensic accounting tools to investigate. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
PUBLISHED: August 17, 2016 at 7:34 a.m. | UPDATED: September 24, 2021 at 12:30 p.m.
CARLISLE >> An attorney who represented former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky at his sex abuse trial faces sentencing for stealing about $767,000 from clients.
Karl Rominger, a Carlisle attorney, pleaded guilty in Cumberland County in May to theft by deception and misappropriation of funds and faces sentencing Wednesday. Prosecutors say he spent the money on casino gambling and other interests.
State guidelines call for 9 to 16 months in prison. He's also awaiting sentencing in federal court after pleading guilty last month to trying to evade income taxes from 2006 to 2010. A sentencing date hasn't been set in that case.
Rominger voluntarily surrendered his law license and was disbarred last spring.
Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys. He is serving a 30- to 60-year prison term.

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Been a tough couple of weeks working on a difficult job. That one's over now, so it's time to get to the stuff the difficult job made late. yay!
In most important kitten news, she is doing well. And is insanely cute. It's been a long time since we had a kitten in the house though, and I forgot how hyper they can be. Whew. She and the big cat aren't friends yet, but there is no fighting. Just suspicion and some dirty looks.
Now that is a wiggle dress.
Another amazing vintage bathing suit pattern..
A little over the top but I thought it was pretty cool.
Quinn Cummins (yes, that Quinn Cummings) wrote an article about homeschooling for the Wall Street Journal that was excellent and balanced, and super-positive. As long as you avoid the comments, of course.
The NYPL blog posted a very funny interview with some of the kids who play magic at our local library branch.
Not much else to say, really. And now, back to work!


The IVV-Americaspiad is a multi-day Popular Sports festival for everyone, and is organized by a member of the continental association IVV-Americas and Oceania. Currently (2018), these are the federations from Canada, Brazil and Australia. The programme of activities offers the participants many opportunities to make and cultivate international friendships in a harmonious atmosphere. The first IVV-Americaspiad will take place in Brazil in 2020. Further information will follow shortly.


Look for birds on the Creeper Trail, and reflect on the beauty and wonder of nature as found in literature, music lyrics, and poetry. During a meandering walk along the trail identifying birds and other wildlife, walk leader Randy Smith will also share poetry and passages from naturalists' journals. Bring along a verse to share and binoculars for observation. Total walk length will not exceed two miles.
Holston Mountain Artisans presents a display of new and vintage quilts from Southwest Virginia and upper East Tennessee featuring work by the Wolf Hills Quilters. Admission is free.
Explore the symbolism and experience the Byzantine era through a docent-led lecture and tour of the twenty-four historic icons of St. Thomas' Life of Christ exhibit of St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
Learn about the craft of making objects from America's past—wood carving, metal working, spinning and weaving, leather working, and many other trades—and buy those hand-created treasures from the tradesmen at the Colonial Trade Faire. Sutlers and demonstrators travel from throughout the Southeast to this annual event. Open daily from 10AM to 6PM at the Fields-Penn House. Admission is free.
Find unique treasures and one-of-a-kind pieces at the Antiques Market. This year, Featival guests can stroll the Market indoors at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Browse through fabulous antiques, period furniture, porcelain, jewelry, paintings, rugs, linens, collectibles, and more! Open daily. Admission is $5.
Elaborate face painting and temporary glitter tattoos for all ages done by Aline Backes.
Commission hand-drawn portraits of your favorite people or pets by Aline Backes, a local portrait artist with over 35 years of experience. Portrait memories captured in oil, pastel, or charcoal, as well as caricature, and created live or by submitted photos.
Due to overwhelming popularity, Book Evolution is back for a second year! Kids from ages 7 to teens are invited to attend this fun workshop to write and illustrate their own books! Books will be judged on Friday, Aug 3 and winners will be announced at the Magic Show/Ventriloquist Show at 6pm. Winners will receive great prizes including having their work published (for ages 10 and up.) Admission is free. Registration is available in advance or at the event.
Students from the Barter Youth Academy Improv Troop present an interactive event sure to bring laughs to festival goers of all ages. The Troop will perform an array of improv activities while integrating and encouraging audience participation. Cheer on the bravery of these middle and high school students as they perform theatre without a script and be part of their collaborative production.


Jacob Journals: Shirley Temple's got the right attitude.
Shirley Temple's got the right attitude.
Where's that rain you promised me?
Mister, can you spare a drop?
Can't we have more drops?
With every day a pitter-patter day?
Lyrics from Shirley Temple's "I Love to Walk in the Rain"
Over on the farther left, (their right) it has Benjamin Franklin flying a kite.
Two nights ago, as I was parallel parking my car in front of my apartment, pulling forward, turning the wheel, reversing, my whole car shuddered with a loud grinding sound.
Shoot. I've hit the other car.
So I pulled forward just a bit, shut off my car, and got out. I had at least eight feet between my car and the one parked behind me. I kind of stood there, dumbly, until my roommate Satie came out, saying, "Did you hear that thunder?"
Oh. That was thunder, not my car.
So, I decided to take on Shirley Temple's attitude, and spend some time outside. I kicked off my shoes, placed my cellphone on the coffee table, let my hair down, and ran outside. It soon became a torrential rainstorm. My roommate, Shaye, and I traveled down the length of our apartment complex, skipping, kicking up water, and wringing out our soaked shirts and hair. The awnings over our apartment roofs (why is it "hooves" but not "rooves"?) were pouring down curtains of rain, there was hail, and the largest raindrops I've ever experienced.
I've always loved storms. There's majesty in the wind, thunder, and rain. I love just standing, breathing, and feeling the storm work over me.
I'm powerless, but for once, I love being so.
Other times, though, I can't understand why change is occurring. I generally like my life, like my plans, and love the easy, focused, and clear pathway I set ahead of me. While I may enjoy the afternoon thunderstorm, I definitely don't welcome the emotional storms that roll into my life, or the physical ailments that seem to cloud my perspectives. Most of all, I struggle seeing spiritually that soon I will be able to stand, grounded, and strong.
Throughout our lives, we must deal with change. Some changes are welcome; some are not. There are changes in our lives which are sudden, such as the unexpected passing of a loved one, an unforeseen illness, the loss of a possession we treasure. But most of the changes take place subtly and slowly. - Thomas S. Monson, "Finding Joy in the Journey"
Perhaps the main struggle comes from expecting to have the power to control all changes in my personal life. When the rain won't cease, or the wind shakes trees that have stood for hundreds of years, I have the faith that the storm will end. I can't stop the rain, I can't hold the trees still, so I find joy in the experience and wait for it to pass.
The truth is, I should have that trust in my personal life. I will be taken care of. My Father in Heaven knows me, loves me, and wants me to be happy. The struggles and experiences give me the opportunity to change, grow, and become someone with an even greater potential for happiness. The changes I experience transform me into a better being.
Growth and development take time. Learning takes time. When we understand grace, we understand that God is long-suffering, that change is a process, and that repentance is a pattern in our lives. When we understand grace, we understand that the blessings of Christ's Atonement are continuous and His strength is perfect in our weakness (see 2 Corinthians 12:9). When we understand grace, we can, as it says in the Doctrine and Covenants, "continue in patience until [we] are perfected" (D&C 67:13). - Brad Wilcox, "His Grace is Sufficient"
Trust. It all comes down to trust.
I need the trust to smile, walk in the rain, and look forward with optimism for the day when change will come again.
First, I had NO idea you blogged! Awesome. Honestly, this was great. Fun and uplifting.
Second, I LOVE when it's pouring rain! And it's even better in the summer.
Finally, way to quote from "His Grace is Sufficient". I love that.
I started this specific blog when I went to London-- love it.


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package CIM.IEC61970.Informative.MarketOperations.impl;

import CIM.IEC61970.Core.impl.RegularIntervalScheduleImpl;

import CIM.IEC61970.Informative.MarketOperations.MarketOperationsPackage;
import CIM.IEC61970.Informative.MarketOperations.ReserveReq;
import CIM.IEC61970.Informative.MarketOperations.ReserveReqCurve;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.Notification;
import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.NotificationChain;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClass;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.InternalEObject;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.impl.ENotificationImpl;

/**
 *
 * An implementation of the model object 'Reserve Req Curve'.
 *
 *

 * The following features are implemented:
 *

 *

 *
{@link CIM.IEC61970.Informative.MarketOperations.impl.ReserveReqCurveImpl#getReserveReq Reserve Req}

 *

 *
 * @generated
 */
public class ReserveReqCurveImpl extends RegularIntervalScheduleImpl implements ReserveReqCurve {
	/**
	 * The cached value of the '{@link #getReserveReq() Reserve Req}' reference.
	 *
	 *
	 * @see #getReserveReq()
	 * @generated
	 * @ordered
	 */
	protected ReserveReq reserveReq;

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	protected ReserveReqCurveImpl() {
		super();
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	protected EClass eStaticClass() {
		return MarketOperationsPackage.Literals.RESERVE_REQ_CURVE;
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	public ReserveReq getReserveReq() {
		if (reserveReq != null && reserveReq.eIsProxy()) {
			InternalEObject oldReserveReq = (InternalEObject)reserveReq;
			reserveReq = (ReserveReq)eResolveProxy(oldReserveReq);
			if (reserveReq != oldReserveReq) {
				if (eNotificationRequired())
					eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.RESOLVE, MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ_CURVE__RESERVE_REQ, oldReserveReq, reserveReq));
			}
		}
		return reserveReq;
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	public ReserveReq basicGetReserveReq() {
		return reserveReq;
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	public NotificationChain basicSetReserveReq(ReserveReq newReserveReq, NotificationChain msgs) {
		ReserveReq oldReserveReq = reserveReq;
		reserveReq = newReserveReq;
		if (eNotificationRequired()) {
			ENotificationImpl notification = new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET, MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ_CURVE__RESERVE_REQ, oldReserveReq, newReserveReq);
			if (msgs == null) msgs = notification; else msgs.add(notification);
		}
		return msgs;
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	public void setReserveReq(ReserveReq newReserveReq) {
		if (newReserveReq != reserveReq) {
			NotificationChain msgs = null;
			if (reserveReq != null)
				msgs = ((InternalEObject)reserveReq).eInverseRemove(this, MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ__RESERVE_REQ_CURVE, ReserveReq.class, msgs);
			if (newReserveReq != null)
				msgs = ((InternalEObject)newReserveReq).eInverseAdd(this, MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ__RESERVE_REQ_CURVE, ReserveReq.class, msgs);
			msgs = basicSetReserveReq(newReserveReq, msgs);
			if (msgs != null) msgs.dispatch();
		}
		else if (eNotificationRequired())
			eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET, MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ_CURVE__RESERVE_REQ, newReserveReq, newReserveReq));
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public NotificationChain eInverseAdd(InternalEObject otherEnd, int featureID, NotificationChain msgs) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ_CURVE__RESERVE_REQ:
				if (reserveReq != null)
					msgs = ((InternalEObject)reserveReq).eInverseRemove(this, MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ__RESERVE_REQ_CURVE, ReserveReq.class, msgs);
				return basicSetReserveReq((ReserveReq)otherEnd, msgs);
		}
		return super.eInverseAdd(otherEnd, featureID, msgs);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public NotificationChain eInverseRemove(InternalEObject otherEnd, int featureID, NotificationChain msgs) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ_CURVE__RESERVE_REQ:
				return basicSetReserveReq(null, msgs);
		}
		return super.eInverseRemove(otherEnd, featureID, msgs);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public Object eGet(int featureID, boolean resolve, boolean coreType) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ_CURVE__RESERVE_REQ:
				if (resolve) return getReserveReq();
				return basicGetReserveReq();
		}
		return super.eGet(featureID, resolve, coreType);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public void eSet(int featureID, Object newValue) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ_CURVE__RESERVE_REQ:
				setReserveReq((ReserveReq)newValue);
				return;
		}
		super.eSet(featureID, newValue);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public void eUnset(int featureID) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ_CURVE__RESERVE_REQ:
				setReserveReq((ReserveReq)null);
				return;
		}
		super.eUnset(featureID);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public boolean eIsSet(int featureID) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.RESERVE_REQ_CURVE__RESERVE_REQ:
				return reserveReq != null;
		}
		return super.eIsSet(featureID);
	}

} //ReserveReqCurveImpl

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Throughout the year we run several training courses, either here at the Centre or out in the field. These range from First Aid to Fire Safety and Child Protection. Keep an eye out here for current courses, or just give us a ring on 015394 42816 to see what we have lined up for the year ahead.
We also offer room hire for your own training courses at the Centre.
We can offer indoor room hire, including use of projector, and refreshments.
For outdoor training and workshops we have a fantastic self contained woodland facility (even if we do say so ourselves!). Ideal for Forest Schools, Bushcraft and Conservation studies.
Check out the Elf Rigg flyer for more information.


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Sackville Festival of Early Music shares lineup
Category: music August 19, 2021 43
Sackville Festival of Early Music will present in-person screenings, home streaming, and a live concert option as part of this year's event.
Stile Antico performs a sumptuous selection of music written in praise of the Virgin Mary as part of this year's festival lineup.
After a year of streaming performances, the Sackville Festival of Early Music is slowly getting back to a familiar format. To mark its 17th annual event, organizers have put together a program that combines the best of both worlds with in-person screenings, home streaming, and a live concert option as part of this year's event. And to welcome audiences back, they're offering this year's festival programming free of charge.
"Like many of you, the SFEM Team is challenged by the circumstances COVID-19 has brought to our lives. We missed seeing you in person last year," said organizers in announcing this year's festival. "More so than ever, music is important for our well-being. As an artistic medium, music allows us to process, feel, and express complex and sensitive emotions and ideas. It provides healing and comfort in difficult times. To acknowledge the isolation and various struggles of artists, audience members, students and families, and the community at large, we are excited to offer full access to our 17th season at no cost."
This year's festival will feature three curated performances.
Listen how I dance: Music to be seen and a dance to be heard (Friday, Sept. 17)
London-based and international touring ensemble Stile Antico (Saturday, Sept. 18)
Canada Concerto delle donne (Sunday, Sept. 19)
Concerts on Friday and Saturday will be available for streaming for 48 hours from the time of their release. The Sunday concert will be available for streaming live, only during the time of the event. To access all three events, audiences can register online.
As an added support to our schools, students, and parents, and as an extension of our educational mission, we are preparing a module-based learning series that will be available free-of-charge to all New Brunswick and Tantramar area middle, high, and home schools.
More info below.
Upcoming Performances:
Listen to How I Dance – Music to be Seen and a Dance to be Heard | Friday September 17, 2021 | 7:30 p.m. | In-person screening (seating is Limited) and Home Streaming available.
Les Jardins chorégraphiques presents Listen to How I Dance, a show where sound and movement become one and eras converge. This visual concert allows audiences to see musical pieces from the Renaissance repertoire performed on period instruments, through choreography where the early and the contemporary merge. The boundaries between disciplines are blurred to make way for a show where dance sets music in motion and music shapes the dance.
Music in Praise of the Virgin Mary – A sumptuous selection of music written in praise of the Virgin Mary | Saturday September 18, 2021 | 7:30 p.m. | In-person screening (seating is Limited) and Home Streaming available.
Stile Antico performs a sumptuous selection of music written in praise of the Virgin Mary, including no fewer than four masterpieces by Josquin, the 'Father of the Renaissance', in honour of the quincentenary of his death in 1521. Woven between Josquin's motets are works by composers from successive generations: the serene Ego flos campi by Clemens non Papa, William Byrd's exquisite miniature Ave Maria, and the ebullient Gaude Maria Virgo by Peter Phillips.
Concerto delle donne – A live celebration of music by women composers | Sunday September 19, 2021 | 3:00 p.m. | Live concert (seating is limited) and Home Streaming available.
Explore the often neglected yet exquisite musical contributions of women composers as we give voice to womens' artistic agency and creativity. Women were musically active in their various and diverse roles as nuns, aristocrats, and as courtesans. Their music reflects these diverse life experiences and encompasses chants, sacred motets, secular madrigals, operas, cantatas, and a variety of dazzling instrumental works. We celebrate our return to LIVE music programming by featuring the considerable talents and expertise of established local specialists of early music in this unique concert setting.
Sackville Festival of Early Music will present video footage from Listen to How I Dance free-of-charge to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia public schools and to the Drew Nursing home and paired with educational materials designed for students.
Learn more at sackvilleearlymusic.com
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stage 27 January 25, 2023
27 January 25, 2023
Black Box Productions explore globalization and immigration with new play.
Submissions are now open for the 2023 Fundy FRINGE Festival
Dungeons and Dragons at the TNB Theatre School


We are officially five star homebuilders! And we'd like to say a massive thank you to our customers for helping us achieve the highest accolade you can in homebuilding.
The results, from a national customer satisfaction survey, saw 95.7% of our customers say they are happy with the quality of their new home and would recommend us to a friend.
We are just one of 14 homebuilders in the UK to achieve the accolade for the period October 2014 to September 2015, so we are incredibly proud of this achievement.
The Home Builders Federation and National House Building Council send out a survey to new home buyers throughout the country every year. It's not compulsory for homebuilders to sign up to the scheme, but we're always keen to make sure our customers are satisfied with the level of service we provide.
Results of the star ratings are based on how many people answer 'yes' to the question: Would you recommend your builder to a friend? If more than 90% of customers agree to the statement, the builder is given a five-star rating.
Strata Chief Executive Andrew Weaver says: "Our customers are at the heart of everything we do so we're proud and honoured that 95.7% said they would recommend us to a friend.
"The five-star status is a great achievement and testament to the hard work of everyone at Strata, from our Customer Experience Managers to the Customer Care team.
"It's also a chance to say thank you to all our customers who have supported us along the way."


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All About The Aries Constellation
Ever wondered what Aries a zodiacal constellation looks like in the sky? That's what we will be answering in this article. You will learn about which celestial objects are within this Constellation's confines and mythological stories associated with this Constellation. Aries Constellation is recognized as an ancient constellation and is known as Ram. However, some cultures identify it with their own mythological stories and recognize it differently from the Ram. It's also recognized in astronomy as a zodiacal constellation as the sun passes through its boundaries.
Aries The Ram
Since it is classified as an ancient constellation, its name and earliest depiction come from the Babylonians. In the Babylonian culture, it was represented as a ram. However, this star pattern is depicted differently from the Babylonians. For instance, in the Marshall Islands, they see it like a porpoise. In China, it is seen as twin inspectors. The Hindu culture is depicted as twin Vedic Gods, and the Polynesian cultures also recognize this Constellation; however, they see it a little different.
Who discovered Aries the Ram:
Ptolemy was the first Greek astronomer who was able to catalog it. In the 2nd century, he cataloged it in his Almagest.
Where and when can you see it?
This Constellation resides in the Northern Hemisphere, where you can see it during the late autumn and early winter months in the northern hemisphere.
An easy yet definite way to find this Constellation is through finding the Pleiades star cluster, as the Pleiades stands out. Seeing the cluster makes it easier to find the Aries constellation as you know that Aries constellation is located next to the Pleiades. Due to the Constellation's shape and lack of high magnitude stars, such as Polaris in the Ursa Minora, it is hard to identify the Constellation on its own without the help of Pleiades.
Looking for constellations, you require a dark sky or a dark place where the stars shine brightly and can be seen easily. Hence, we would emphasize the tactic of finding a dark sky for stargazing, as it provides a better view when looking at the stars.
The pattern of Aries constellation:
The International Astronomical Union has released a map highlighting various properties of the stars and clusters surrounding them. The first thing to note in the diagram is the blue line that crosses the Constellation, also known as the ecliptic, representing the sun's path. In case the sun's route passes through the Constellation, that makes it a zodiacal constellation.
Neighboring Stars and Constellations:
You can see the Triangulum above the Aries Constellation and the Triangulum galaxy. On the left side of the Triangulum, we have Pisces. It is often hard to find Pisces as the stars are rather faint. And as mentioned before, about the star magnitude, the smaller the number of the magnitude, the brighter it will be. Especially in Pisces, most of the stars are of 5th and 6th magnitude, making them faint and harder to see. Aries stars stand out when you compare them to the magnitude of the Piscean stars. The Pleiades will be the main star you will use to find Aries; hence, keep an eye out for the Pleiades once you've identified the Alpha star through the Pleiades. You can easily find the Aries Constellation. Please note that constellations are not just patterns of stars; in fact, they are a cumulative bunch of stars inside the Constellation boundary.
In the diagram showed above, you can notice the white area that is associated with Aries. Hence any star falling inside these parameters is a part of the Constellation. Aries is surrounded on two sides by various constellations such as Perseus, Triangulum, and Cassiopeia are just above the Aries constellation. You can also use the arrow-like shape of the Cassiopeia to point you towards the Aries constellation. Taurus and Orion have also been placed nearby the Aries Constellation. These are some guides and strategies towards finding the Aries Constellation.
The Cluster Pleiades:
This cluster of stars uniquely identifiable in the sky is also known as the "Seven-Sisters star."
Celestial Objects:
Here is a star map of all the celestial objects and bodies you can see within the Aries Constellation. This map provides in-depth detail of all the celestial bodies available either inside the Aries Constellation or even outside it. In this map, you can notice the red spots that are all galaxies. You can easily see them in the autumn season. The autumn sky is the best time to find galaxies as we, the earth, are oriented away from the milky way, allowing distinct galaxies to shine through.
Galaxies located near Aries Constellation:
Circled in the picture below are the galaxies that are located near the Aries Constellation. Let's look at these Constellations in detail:
NGC 772 near Triangulum is an unbarred spiral galaxy. It is 130 million light-years away and is estimated to be 200,000 light-years in diameter, and is located in the lower region of the Aries Constellation.
NGC 1156 is a smaller galaxy as compared to the NGC 772. It is 25 million light-years away and is known as the irregular galaxy as it doesn't have any shape to it.
NGC 972 is a spiral galaxy that is estimated to be 70 million light-years away and is on top of the Aries constellation. It has a unique color to it as the hydrogen gas reacts towards some nearby new stars.
NGC 697 is a spiral galaxy and is estimated to be 2.73 million light-years away. It is situated at the lower end of the Aries Constellation.
What is the magnitude of the stars?
For Aries, almost all of the stars are of second or third magnitude. It is shaped as a curved line, which makes it difficult to find. Hence we suggest looking at places with a darker sky to see all the stars. The star magnitude is studied as the smaller the number, the brighter it is. Hence the stars that form the Aries Constellation are not too faint as they belong to a low magnitude.
Major Stars in Aries:
1. (Alpha Arietis) Hamal:
Hamal is the 48th brilliantly shining star amidst the sky and is the most shining star in the Aries Constellation. It is 66 light-years away and has a varying magnitude that varies around 2.04 to 1.98. The name comes from the Arab descent ras al hamal, which means Ram's head, while hamal means lamb.
2. (Beta Arietis) Sheratan:
This is a spectroscopic binary and white sequence star that is 59.6 distance in light-years away. It has a magnitude of 2.64. The name originated from Arab descent, known as "as-saratan," meaning two signs, referring to the spring equinox, that is identified combined with Gamma Arietis many years ago.
3. (Gamma Arietis) Mesarthim:
The tripartite star system was once known since the "First star in Aries" as it was closer to the spring equinox and more visible. Gamma Arietis comprises two A-type key-sequence asteroids with a magnitude of 4.83 and 4.75, and the third component is of 9.6 magnitudes K dwarf star. This galaxy is a hundred and sixty light-years away roughly.
4. (Delta Arietis) Obtain:
This star is also referred to as Botein; the name derived from Arab "Butain," which means "belly." Its magnitude is approximately 4.35, and in diameters, it's much larger than the sun, almost 13 times longer than the sun's diameter. It is 168 light-years away.
5. (c Arietis) Bharani/ 41 Arietis:
This star is also called the c Arietis, is 160 light-years away and has a magnitude of 3.61. The name is derived from Hindu astrology. A second lunar house is known as the sky's division.
6. Epsilon Arietis:
This is a dual star consisting of two A-type stars with a magnitude of 5.5 and 5.2. 4.63 is the magnitude of these twin stars in combination.
Mythology:
According to Greek mythology, Aries is recognized by the golden Ram who saved Phrixus, taking him to the Colchis. He then sacrificed the Ram to the Gods and placed the golden fleece in the temple. Phrixus had a sister named Helle, who were both hated by their mother-in-law. The Queen intentionally brought the state to the brink of famine to ask the people to sacrifice the children to the Gods. After which, she would imply that the kids had to be sacrificed to the Gods. However, when set to be offered, the cloud nymph Nephele, the children's birth mother, sent a winged gold fleeced Ram to protect the children and bring them to safety. Helle couldn't survive the journey and fell off the Ram and sank in Dardanelles. Hence the strait was renamed in Helle's memory, now known as Hellespont or Sea of Helle.
Constellation Aries can be found in the sky with the help of the Pleiades. It forms a curved line with stars Alpha and beta visible. It is surrounded by multiple constellations and is part of the zodiacal constellations as the sun passes through it. The brightest stars in the Constellation are Hamal, Sheratan, and Mesarthim.
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Merrill Creek Reservoir, located in Harmony Township, New Jersey in central Warren County, New Jersey, is a  artificial lake designed to hold 15 billion gallons of water that is surrounded by  of protected woodland and fields. These lands are themselves part of  of open spaces.

Merrill Creek is connected to the Delaware River, about  via a tunnel.  The earthen Merrill Creek Dam (National ID # NJ00864), with a height of  and a length at its crest of , was built in 1988 by a consortium of seven electric utilities, under the mandate of the Delaware River Basin Commission. It replaces the river water lost through evaporation in the cooling of 14 power plants. The owners, known as the Merrill Creek Owners Group, are Public Service Electric and Gas, which built the reservoir for the group; Jersey Central Power and Light, Atlantic City Electric, Metropolitan Edison, Philadelphia Electric, PPL Corporation, and Delmarva Power and Light.

The reservoir draws water from the Delaware in springtime, when river flow normally is abundant, and restores it in the summer, when the flow is usually meager and – compounding the problem – demand for electricity for air-conditioning is high.  In addition, by maintaining an ample Delaware River flow, seawater intrusion into the aquifers that provide drinking water to many South Jersey communities, including Camden, is minimized. Construction cost $217 million and was one of the largest construction projects in the United States in the 1986-87 construction period. The entire site was cleared of dense forest by huge tree-eating machines, and construction crews worked two 12-hour shifts to build a large earth dam and two dikes.

Launching facilities are provided for recreational boating, but no gasoline motors are allowed. The reservoir and surrounding parkland offer visitors an opportunity to engage in outdoor activity. Some of the abundant wildlife around the lake includes bald eagles, crows, white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and other various migratory birds. The reservoir is best known for its brown trout fishing. Other fish in the reservoir include walleye, yellow perch, small and largemouth bass, chain pickerel, crappie, catfish, sunfish, carp, rainbow trout, brook trout and lake trout.

The lake is about  deep, making it the deepest man-made lake in New Jersey. The depth allows for lake trout to exist and other trout to exist year round. Merrill Creek Reservoir is one of two lakes in New Jersey where lake trout exist; the other is Round Valley Reservoir in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Since 2018, the lake has been stocked with landlocked Atlantic salmon.

The lake's visitor center features natural history and cultural exhibits and offers environmental education programs for all age groups ranging from pre-K through adults.

References

External links
Official Merrill Creek Reservoir Homepage
ESPN article about brown trout at Merrill Creek Reservoir
High Resolution pictures from an NJ kayaking club

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For this Spring Stitch Fix review, I asked for items that would be great for transitioning to a warmer season!
Stitch Fix is a clothing subscription box. It's a really fun way to shop without having to actually scour the mall or a million online websites. You take a style and size survey, make any specific notes about certain items you're looking for or want to avoid, and a personal stylist will send you 5 items based on your profile.
Once your "fix" arrives, simply try everything on to see what you love. You can purchase however many of the items you want, or return the entire fix if it just doesn't work for you. If you keep everything, you will get a 25% discount. If you return it all, you will lose the $20 styling fee that you pay upfront when you schedule your fix.
You can find out more about Stitch Fix HERE.
This is my 13th fix! I had the same stylist, Roseann, for the last 3 fixes. I asked for more color to start preparing for Spring with this order and she definitely delivered. But, I just didn't love this fix. After so many really great ones, it was bound to happen eventually.
Before I get into the items, I want to also note that there was a button up chambray shirt in my last fix that I wanted to exchange, but couldn't. Right around the time this fix was shipped, Stitch Fix contacted me that the shirt I wanted had come back in stock and they had reserved one for me if I still wanted it. I opted to have that shirt sent out. This was a nice surprise, but it did play into why I didn't keep the first two shirts in this review.
Two fixes ago I kept a really cute chambray shirt that had stars printed on it. I LOVE that shirt. Then, as noted above, Stitch Fix sent me the Cloth and Stone chambray button up in my size. So, by the time I saw this one in my fix, I already felt I had enough of this type of shirt.
The cactus print is cute, but maybe not quite my style as much as the stars were. Roseann sized up for this shirt based on my previous feedback. The chest area fit perfect, but I felt it was a bit too long.
I think Roseann probably chose this shirt as an alternative for the shirt that I did get end up getting an exchange for. It's the same brand and style, but a different color. It fit perfectly.
I do like the light purple and felt it was a great choice for Spring, but once again, I just feel like I have enough button ups for now.
I have kept a lot of tops from Stitch Fix that fit into the sleeveless category, such as this one. I usually wear them under cardigans in the cooler months. But come Spring, I don't wear as many sweater cardigans and prefer shirts that have some sleeve to them.
Roseann sized up on this one too, but I think it was too big. I also didn't care for the super hot pink color or the fabric. It definitely fit my request for more color, but unfortunately just didn't fit my style as much.
When you get the notification that your fix has shipped, you can go onto the website and see on the checkout page what was sent. I have zero patience and do this little sneak peek every time.
When I saw this shirt, I felt like it was more for an older lady. I tend to forget that I am probably considered an "older lady" as 40 is all too quickly approaching.
When I took this shirt out of the box, I liked the print and it didn't look old lady-ish at all. It fit great with the exception of the very top of outside of my arms. I just felt like it was pulling tight there, maybe from the crochet detail that runs right across that area. I am assuming that this might have been the same issue I often have where the chest area is too small and the rest of fits perfect.
I love the Daniel Rainn shirt I got in my December fix, so I'm always excited to see more items from this brand. Unfortunately, this wasn't the one for me.
I don't like halter tops or off the shoulder tops because I don't have a strapless bra that's comfortable to wear with them. I also felt this print was more of a Fall vibe, than Spring. The fabric was soft, but it looked like the type that might fade fast. Obviously, there is no way for me to know that for sure without having washed it a few times.
I think this is the first time that I've sent an entire fix back. I think the fact that I was able to get an exchange for an item in my last box right as this one shipped greatly affected that.
The total for this fix was $332.00. Had I kept everything, I would have received the 25% discount of $83.00 bringing the total to $249.00.
I filled out my feedback on all of these items and scheduled my next fix with even more specifics. I wrote that I am looking for items for Spring and Summer. Tops, pants, capris, dresses, and shoes would all be great. I also mentioned that I currently love mustard yellow, turquoise, teal, coral, pinks (but not hot pink haha!), and black.
I'm looking forward to seeing what shows up!
To try Stitch Fix for yourself, click HERE! I would definitely recommend being as specific as possible in your survey and notes so that you are highly likely to receive at least one amazing item to apply your $20 styling fee towards. Have fun!


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Report: Renewables Break into Mainstream Energy Market
By Chris Rose
Sept. 22, 2014 2 min. read
Renewable energy and other low-carbon technologies are now a successful mainstream business with investors spending $207 USD billion in the sector last year, according to a report released Monday by Clean Energy Canada.
The report — Tracking the Energy Revolution — also said that carbon-based fuels would remain an important part of the global energy system for decades but added that "for the first time in more than a century, multiple signs suggest that their dominance is beginning to wane."
Global fossil-fuel power generation investment last year totalled $270 billion, the report said, only $63 billion more than for clean energy investments.
It is clear that falling equipment costs, strong investor interest, and government and business leadership are driving a global clean energy revolution, the 18-page report added.
"When it comes to addressing climate disruption, the countries that succeed on the world stage are those taking action at home," Merran Smith, director of Clean Energy Canada, said in an accompanying media release.
"We found scores of countries and leading companies — from China to the United States — that are fighting climate disruption by cleaning up their energy systems."
Smith was critical, however, of the Canadian government for showing a lack of interest in supporting green energy.
"Provincial governments are helping Canada play a growing role in that revolution, despite scant federal support for the sector," she said.
"Thanks to provincial leadership, Canada is a significant player in the global clean energy market. In 2013, ours was the second-fastest growing clean-energy market in the G20, with a 45 per cent increase in investment to $6.5 billion."
The report said China, the U.S. and Japan were the top three national investors in low-carbon technologies such as wind and solar power last year, spending $55 billion, $36 billion and $30 billion respectively.
By the end of last year 144 countries had renewable-energy targets, the report said. Uruguay has the top 2020 policy target of 100 per cent of primary or final energy to be sourced from clean and renewable sources in six years. Scotland's 2020 target is 80 per cent and Norway's is 68 per cent.
China, the world's largest polluter, invested more last year in new clean energy power plants than it did in new coal power plants, said the report, released one day before the UN Climate Summit in New York.
Sixty per cent of Fortune 100 firms now have goals for renewable energy sourcing and/or greenhouse gas reductions, the report said, adding 6.5 million people now work in the global renewable energy industry.
In a telephone interview with DeSmog Canada, Smith said the federal government is reluctant to engage the low-carbon revolution because it doesn't understand how big and how fast the clean energy transition is happening.
"This is where big investment dollars are already, and are going to," she said. "Canada needs to wake up and quit ignoring this. We can't put all our eggs in the fossil fuel basket."
She said that the U.S., the European Union, China and other nations are embracing the clean energy economy because technology costs are plunging, it can clean up the air quality, it can provide national energy security, and there are many good business opportunities.
"We are at the tipping point and this is becoming the new business-as-usual," she said. "This is real, this is big, this is unstoppable."
The Vancouver-based Clean Energy Canada is a project of Tides Canada Initiatives Society, a group of charities dedicated to social and environmental issues.
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Archduke Otto von Habsburg
Otto von Habsburg with a bust of himself at Paks, Hungary, in 2005
The funeral of the last heir to the Habsburg throne takes places today in Vienna. By family tradition his heart will be buried separately in a Bedendictine monastery in Hungary at Pannonhalma Archabbey, symbolising I suppose Vienna's claim on the Hungarian empire. The characters in his early family life feature in Miklós Bánffy's books. Many of the old aristocrats that Paddy came across in Hungary and Romania had served the collapsed Habsburg Empire.
First published in the Telegraph July 4 2011
Archduke Otto von Habsburg, who died on July 4 aged 98, began his public life as the infant Crown Prince of the multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire, and ended it as Father of the multinational European Parliament.
Within that neatly closed circle lay all the major political dramas of the 20th century, most of which he witnessed and some of which he influenced. He was centre stage for one of them — the unequal struggle against Hitler for the survival of his Austrian homeland, which he tried to conduct as an exiled Pretender in the 1930s. Not for nothing did the Führer call the triumphant march-in of March 12 1938 "Operation Otto".
All that seemed unimaginable to the world in which young Otto, as he was known, started life during the deceptively tranquil Indian summer of the 650-year-old Habsburg monarchy. He was born third in line to the throne on November 12 1912 in the small Vienna palace of Hetzendorf and christened with a string of names demonstrating that the blood of all the Roman Catholic royal families of Europe flowed in his veins: Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius.
His father, the Archduke Karl, was a great-nephew of the ruling Emperor Franz Josef, and was then serving as an infantry major-commander at the regimental barracks in the capital. His mother was the former Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma, and their marriage the year before had been that rare event in a dynasty plagued with so many matrimonial mishaps and misalliances — a happy union of two people perfectly matched in attractiveness, temperament and lineage. Their firstborn was to follow the prescription almost to the letter in his own marriage 38 years later.
At the time of his birth, the 11-nation monarchy still seemed safe, if somewhat wobbly, and his own time at its helm still fairly distant. One Viennese newspaper hailed the newborn prince as the future monarch who "according to the human calculations, will be called upon to steer the future of Europe in the last quarter of the 20th century".
The assassination at Sarajevo on June 28 1914 of the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, alongside his morganatic wife, put a brusque end to all such calculations. Indeed, the First World War which broke out six weeks later was to spell the doom of Europe's continental empires, that of the Habsburgs included.
Half way through the war, in the early hours of November 22 1916, the old emperor Franz Josef, who had ruled for a record-breaking 68 years, died at last.
An era, as well as a reign, was over, but the succession was smooth. Otto's father automatically became the new emperor, and he, aged four, the new Crown Prince. His first ceremonial appearance came on November 30 1916 when he walked, a tiny figure in a white fur-trimmed tunic, between his parents behind the hearse of the late ruler at the great funeral procession in the capital.
A month later he was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the monarchy's Magyar subjects when his father was crowned in Budapest as the new King of Hungary. The official photograph shows the young boy, dressed in ermine and velvet with a great white feather in his cap, sitting between his parents in their ornate coronation robes.
He always retained vague memories of those events, but these became much sharper when, two years later, the monarchy collapsed under the combined pressure of domestic upheaval and defeat on the battlefield.
The beginning of November 1918 saw him and his siblings stranded in a royal shooting lodge near Budapest, where an armed revolution had broken out. They were rescued by one of their Bourbon uncles, Prince René, who smuggled them across the border to rejoin their parents in the Schonbrunn Palace of Vienna. Otto had a child's eye view of the collapse of the monarchy, abandoned by the aristocracy it had created.
On November 11 1918 the Emperor Karl, though not formally abdicating, "renounced participation in the affairs of state". That same night they fled the deserted palace, heading at first for Eckartsau, their privately owned shooting lodge 40 miles north-east of the capital.
The winter there passed fairly calmly, but by the spring their tiny self-styled "court" was under threat from Left-wing agitators. (Austria had promptly declared itself a Republic after their flight from Vienna.)
Their rescuer now was not a family member but a British Army officer — Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Strutt, dispatched on the personal authority of King George V with orders to escort the beleaguered Austrian emperor and his family to safety. This Strutt accomplished in some style, reassembling their royal train for the journey into Switzerland on March 25 1919. Otto never forgot the experience. Whenever he heard in later life complaints about British indifference to the Habsburgs' fate he would reply: "Yes, but there was always Strutt."
The two and a half years of their Swiss exile were marked by the two attempts of the ex-Emperor to regain his Hungarian crown. Both were blocked in Budapest by Miklos Horthy, who had now ensconced himself in power as Regent. After the ignominious failure of the second restoration bid the family were exiled by the allied powers to Madeira, where Karl died, a broken man, on April 1 1922. That same day the nine-year-old Otto heard himself addressed as "Your Majesty" by the tiny household-in-exile. To the end of his days he remembered the shock it gave him: "Now it was my turn."
Under the protection of their kinsman, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, the family moved to Lequeitio on the Spanish Basque coast. Otto remembered the seven years they spent there as their most tranquil time of exile. They were also, for him, the most hardworking. Under the strict supervision of his mother he took, under various tutors, the Matura (roughly, English A-levels) in both German and Hungarian. His further education was also the motive for their next move — to the gloomy castle of Hams at Steenokkerzeel, in Belgium, so that Otto could take his degree at the nearby university of Louvain. It was at Hams that Otto reached his 18th birthday and was duly declared, in a family ceremony with few outside guests, "in his own right sovereign and head of the house".
However ghostly that title appeared, it was enough to impress the Austrian-born Adolf Hitler, who was manoeuvring to seize power in Germany. When in the winter of 1931-32 the young Pretender spent a few months studying in Berlin Hitler twice suggested a meeting.
The first invitation came from Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, the dim-witted Nazi son of the exiled Kaiser, and the second via Goering himself. Otto refused both times on the spurious excuse that he had not come to Berlin to discuss politics (in fact, he was doing nothing but). Hitler was incensed by the snub and it touched off a six-year battle between the two men for the fate of their Austrian homeland.
The climax was reached in February and March of 1938 when a Nazi takeover in Vienna seemed imminent, prompting a short-lived show of defiance from the Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg — a monarchist at heart but without the strength of his convictions. His vacillation prompted a remarkably courageous offer from the young Pretender to return from exile to take over the reins of government in order to repel Hitler. Schuschnigg dithered but eventually rejected the idea — perhaps just as well for Otto, who was already high on the Gestapo's wanted list.
He had moved close to the top of that list by the time, two years after the Anschluss, that German armies swept into France and Belgium. The exiled Habsburgs got away from Hams only a few hours before Goering's bombers attacked the castle, and then they joined the vast stream of refugees heading south. They eventually reached Lisbon, where they were still being hounded by the Gestapo. President Roosevelt (whom Otto had met in Washington just before the fall of France) then honoured his offer of "hospitality in an emergency" and they were all flown by Clipper seaplane to the United States.
As Otto von Habsburg later admitted, he wasted far too much energy during those wartime years in America on the faction-fighting among Austrian refugee groups instead of concentrating on the broader political picture. But, thanks largely to his personal ties with the President, he was able to repair the image of Austria so tarnished by its supine surrender to Hitler in the Anschluss. And, in the last months of the war, he worked closely with the White House in the vain attempt to lure Horthyite Hungary over to the Allied side.
Churchill, whom he met at the Quebec Conference, warmly supported the vision of a post-war conservative federation in Central Europe. Stalin put paid to those visions, however, and it was to a Communist-controlled Danube Basin that Otto returned in the spring of 1945.
He made a brief foray into Western Austria but was expelled by the reborn Austrian Republic, which had reaffirmed the anti-Habsburg legislation of 1919. He then faced a personal crisis — without a valid passport, a home or any regular income. He solved the last problem by embarking on a career as a journalist and public lecturer. This was exhausting but highly remunerative and, within five years, he had paid off all his wartime debts and was enjoying a comfortable income.
He could now think of finding a home and founding a family. The ideal partner appeared by chance in 1950, when he visited a refugee centre near Munich. Working there as a nurse was Princess Regina of Sachsen-Meiningen, herself a refugee whose father, Duke George III, had died in a Soviet concentration camp. The ideally-matched couple were married a year later and settled in a comfortable villa at Pocking, near Lake Starnberg in Bavaria. Their first five children were all girls, and it was not until 1961 that the birth of Karl Thomas, the first of two sons, assured the line of direct succession.
This prompted Otto to renounce his own dynastic claims and pursue what had long fascinated him, a full-time career in politics. He acquired dual German-Austrian nationality, and in 1979 was elected to the European Parliament as Christian Democrat member for North Bavaria. There he stayed for the next 20 years, becoming the highly regarded Father of the House and its only member to have been born before the First World War.
He proved an accomplished debater with a fluent command of seven European languages. Though he spoke on a variety of topics, his abiding theme was the need to bridge the East-West division of the continent and ultimately to bring all the nations of the old monarchy within the new European Union. He continued to work successfully at this even after his retirement, using the pan-European movement as his principal platform. He had been the president ever since the death of its founder, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, in 1972.
On October 3 2004, Pope John Paul II beatified Otto's father, Emperor Karl. It was an important event in Otto von Habsburg's life, and one that perhaps softened the blow that had occurred five years earlier.
He had hoped that his son Karl would carry on the Habsburg name in the European Parliament, but in 1999 the young archduke — who had been sitting alongside his famous father as a Right-wing member for Western Austria — was dropped by his party after a controversy over the financing of his campaign funds. A subsequent attempt to launch Karl on to the Austrian domestic political scene proved a dire, if gallant, failure.
Otto von Habsburg's wife, the Archduchess Regina, died in February 2010.
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Diageo World Class 2021 swaps Sydney for Madrid
09 December 2020 By Nicola Carruthers
Diageo has named the Spanish capital of Madrid as the host city for its 'multi-format' World Class cocktail competition next year.
Madrid will be the host city for the 2021 World Class cocktail competition
Diageo did not hold its World Class competition this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event was due to be held in Sydney, Australia, but will now be held in Madrid next year as it provides 'greater flexibility to work across multiple time zones'. Sydney will host the 2022 World Class competition.
The 2021 competition is due to be held on 5 to 8 July and will 'celebrate global cocktail culture safely and in line with all prevailing government guidelines'.
Pedro Mendonça, global reserve managing director, said: "2020 has been a difficult year for everybody in the drinks industry, but it's also been a catalyst for innovation, creativity and community. We were determined to create a safe environment where we could recognise that and give everyone something to look forward to.
"This year's event will be like no other – we've chosen Madrid, not just because it's one of the truly great destinations for cocktail culture and home to one of the world's finest cocktail festivals, but also because of the flexibility to work across multiple time zones and create a dynamic event that can adapt to all safety guidelines.
"It's a genuine privilege for me to confirm the World Class global finals will take place next year. Our priority is the safety of our people and our bartenders so we're delighted to be able to announce this unique multi-format World Class finals to safely celebrate the people taking drinks culture to new heights. Madrid is a fantastic city, full of culture and creativity and home to some of the best bars and bartenders in the world."
Furthermore, Diageo has planned a number of scenarios for the global final in Madrid. The company has looked at situations where bartenders compete in person, if it is safe and allowed, along with partially or fully virtual settings with participants competing from their own country.
Mendonça added: "The final decision on which format we'll adopt for the World Class Finals 2021 will be decided early in the new year, based on the global situation. Whatever the scenario, we will create something special and we will showcase and celebrate the very best of cocktail culture and the bartenders who make it happen.
"For now, I'm inviting interested bartenders to sign up and get practising – because next summer one of them will be named Diageo World Class Global Bartender of the Year."
Bartenders can sign up for the 2021 competition soon. For World Class updates, visit the Diageo Bar Academy website.
In September 2019, Singapore-based bartender Bannie Kang was named Diageo World Class Bartender of the Year.


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Accept to Release 'The Rise of Chaos' Album in August
Accept are ready to drop a new album and they're making sure to go big with the release of the effort.
According to a new post, The Rise of Chaos will be released via Nuclear Blast on Aug. 4, but fans of the group will get a solid preview of the new disc when the band takes the stage a day earlier (Aug. 3) at the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany.
According to the post, Accept will play a three-part performance at Wacken Open Air this year, participating in the festival's "Night to Remember" performances. Part 1 will consist of a classic set, packed with older hits as well as select songs from the new album. The band will then give way to guitarist Wolf Hoffman playing tracks from his solo album Headbangers Symphony with the assistance of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra for the very first time. On the Hoffman record, the musician covered famous opuses by composers such as Beethoven, Vivaldi and Mozart all with its own metal stamp on it. That leaves fans with Part 3, which brings all the elements together. The full group will join Hoffman and the orchestra delivering music complete with a complex multimedia show.
"It has always impressed us how seriously the bands take this evening and with how much love artists and organizers always surprise in their diversity. This is a beautiful custom, which shows and documents the level of the international rock community like no other. We also want to show something that Accept has never ever shown before and we hope we are able to offer something special to the fans," says Hoffman of playing the "Night to Remember" performance.
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Q: Provision instances using multiple cloud profiles via Salt-Cloud Python API Hope you are all well!
I'm automating the deployment of a MongoDB replica set in AWS EC2 through the Salt-Stack Salt-Cloud python API.
I'd like to use a single script to provision the servers:
client=salt.cloud.CloutClient(path'/etc/salt/cloud')
client.profile('db_node_profile',names=['host1','host2','host3'])

However, I'd like the 1st server to be created using a different cloud profile, say db_master_profile.  There is a vm_overrides option for the 'profile' client (see documentation linked above), but I can't find further detail on how it should work.
Can anyone shed some light on how vm_overrides works, if this is a possible solution, or an alternative manner to provision the instances based on Salt-Cloud profiles using a low-overhead SINGLE script?

A: The vm_overrides option is used to change the configurations of the minions in the moment of provisioning. It can override any of the configs set in the profile but it can't modify the profile which you are using.
For you scenario you could do two things:

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*Change all the configurations you would like with the vm_overrides. It would not be practical as you already have a specific profile.

Example:
client=salt.cloud.CloutClient(path'/etc/salt/cloud')
client.profile('db_node_profile',names=['host1','host2','host3'])
{
  'host1': {'backups_active': 'False',
    'created_at': '2014-09-04T18:10:15Z',
    'droplet': {'event_id': 31000502,
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                'image_id': 5140006,
                'name': u'minion01',
                'size_id': 66},
    'id': '2530006',
    'image_id': '5140006',
    'ip_address': '107.XXX.XXX.XXX',
    'locked': 'True',
    'name': 'minion01',
    'private_ip_address': None,
    'region_id': '4',
    'size_id': '66',
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}

*You could call client.profile twice in your script, once for the
first server with the different profile and another one for the
remaining servers with the default profile.

Example:
client=salt.cloud.CloutClient(path'/etc/salt/cloud')
client.profile('db_node_profile_0',names=['host1'])
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Nintendo Wii In Store
Nintendo Wii is a video game console released by Nintendo in 2006. The console has since been discontinued, but remains popular to this day. The console is best known for its motion-sensing controllers, which allow players to control games by moving their hands and bodies.
The Nintendo Wii was released in November 2006 in North America, December 2006 in Japan and Australia, and March 2007 in Europe. The console was a huge success, selling over 101 million units worldwide. The console was discontinued in 2013, but remains popular to this day.
The Nintendo Wii is popular for its motion-sensing controllers, which allow players to control games by moving their hands and bodies. The controllers were a huge hit, and are credited with helping to make the Nintendo Wii one of the most popular video game consoles of all time.
The Nintendo Wii was also popular for its exclusive games, such as Mario Party, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Wii Sports. These games were only available on the Nintendo Wii, and helped to make the console a must-have for gamers.
Despite its popularity, the Nintendo Wii was discontinued in 2013. However, the console remains popular to this day, and is still a great choice for gamers looking for a fun and immersive gaming experience.
1 Does Nintendo still sell the Wii?
2 Is the Wii eshop still open 2021?
3 Why don't they make the Wii anymore?
4 Was the Wii a failure?
6 Is the Wii Shop coming back?
7 Can I still download Wii games?
Does Nintendo still sell the Wii?
Nintendo has not released any new information on the Wii since early 2016. At that time, they announced that they were still producing the Wii, and that it was still being sold by retailers. However, they did not announce any plans to discontinue the Wii.
Despite the fact that Nintendo has not released any new information on the Wii, it is likely that they are still producing and selling the console. This is because the Wii was still being sold by retailers as of early 2017, and Nintendo has not made any announcements indicating that they plan to discontinue it.
Additionally, the Wii is still a popular console. It has sold over 101 million units since its release in 2006, and it continues to be one of the best-selling consoles on the market. This indicates that there is still a large demand for the Wii, which is likely why Nintendo is still producing and selling it.
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Overall, it appears that Nintendo is still selling the Wii. They have not announced any plans to discontinue it, and it continues to be a popular console. If you are interested in purchasing a Wii, it is likely that you can still find it at your local retailer.
Is the Wii eshop still open 2021?
The Wii eshop was a digital store that allowed Wii users to download games, applications, and demos. The store launched in December 2006 and was discontinued in March 2019.
There is no official word on whether the Wii eshop will be reopened in 2021, but it is possible that it will be reopened at some point. In the meantime, Wii users can still purchase games and applications from the Nintendo eShop on other devices.
Why don't they make the Wii anymore?
Nintendo stopped production of the Wii in 2013, so why don't they make the Wii anymore?
The Wii was a huge success for Nintendo, selling over 101 million units. But it was also starting to show its age, with games like Mario Party 10 and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U only being playable on the console.
Nintendo's new console, the Nintendo Switch, was released in 2017 and offers a more modern gaming experience. The Switch has already sold over 14 million units, so Nintendo is focusing its resources on developing games for the Switch console.
The Wii is still a popular console, so you can still buy them from retailers like Amazon and eBay. But Nintendo has stopped manufacturing them, so they are becoming increasingly difficult to find.
If you're looking for a modern console with a wide variety of games, the Nintendo Switch is the best option. But if you're looking for a console that offers a more traditional gaming experience, the Wii is still a good choice.
Was the Wii a failure?
The Wii was a console released by Nintendo in 2006. It was a seventh-generation console, and the successor to the GameCube. The Wii was a popular console, with over 101 million units sold. However, some people argue that the Wii was a failure.
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There are several reasons why people might say the Wii was a failure. One reason is that the Wii did not sell as well as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Another reason is that the Wii did not have many games that were considered to be AAA titles. Finally, some people argue that the Wii was a failure because it was not as powerful as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Despite these criticisms, the Wii was still a very popular console. It sold more units than the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and it had a large library of games. The Wii also introduced motion controls to the console gaming market, which became popular among gamers.
Ultimately, whether or not the Wii was a failure is up for debate. Some people argue that it was a failure because it did not sell as well as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Others argue that it was a success because it was popular among gamers and introduced motion controls to the console gaming market.
Nintendo has announced that the Wii Shop Channel will be closing down in January 2020. This means that players will no longer be able to purchase and download WiiWare games, Virtual Console games, and Wii Channels.
However, the Wii eShop will still be open in 2022. This means that players will be able to purchase and download new games, updates, and DLC.
The Wii eShop is a great way to keep your Wii console up to date. There are a lot of great games available, and the prices are very reasonable.
If you're looking for a great way to keep your Wii console up to date, be sure to check out the Wii eShop. You won't be disappointed!
Is the Wii Shop coming back?
Nintendo announced in February of this year that the Wii Shop Channel would be shutting down on January 30, 2019. This left many Wii and Wii U owners wondering if there was any way to get their hands on the games they had purchased from the shop.
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Now, it seems that Nintendo may be planning to bring the Wii Shop back. According to a report from Japanese website NintendoSoup, the shop is coming back in the form of a dedicated app that will be released in the spring of 2019.
The app will reportedly allow players to re-download any games or DLC they have purchased from the Wii Shop, as well as purchase new content. It is unclear at this point if the app will be available on Wii U and Nintendo Switch, or just Wii.
While Nintendo has yet to confirm these reports, it's good news for Wii and Wii U owners who have fond memories of browsing the Wii Shop for new games to download.
Can I still download Wii games?
The Wii was a gaming console released by Nintendo in 2006. The console was popular for its motion-sensing controllers, which allowed players to control the games by physically moving their bodies. The console also had a library of games that could be downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel.
However, on January 30, 2019, Nintendo announced that the Wii Shop Channel would be shutting down on January 30, 2020. This means that players will no longer be able to purchase or download Wii games from the channel.
While the Wii Shop Channel is shutting down, this does not mean that players can no longer play Wii games. There are a number of ways to play Wii games without the Wii Shop Channel.
One way is to purchase a Wii game disc. Many Wii games are available for purchase at retail stores.
Another way to play Wii games is to download them from the internet. There are a number of websites where Wii games can be downloaded for free or for a fee.
Finally, some Wii games can be played on the Wii U console. The Wii U console is a successor to the Wii console, and many Wii games are playable on the Wii U.
In conclusion, while the Wii Shop Channel is shutting down, there are a number of ways to play Wii games. Players can purchase Wii game discs, download Wii games from the internet, or play Wii games on the Wii U console.


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Poll: Biden up 5 points in Pennsylvania
The state is one of three Great Lakes battlegrounds Trump flipped four years ago to secure his Electoral College victory.
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks after touring International Union of Operating Engineers Local 66, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in New Alexandria, Pa. | Andrew Harnik/ AP Photo
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holds a single-digit lead over President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, according to a new survey of the swing state that could determine control of the White House.
A Monmouth University poll released Monday, one day before Election Day, reports that half of Pennsylvania registered voters, 50 percent, prefer Biden and 45 percent favor Trump — a 5-point lead for the former vice president.
Biden leads Trump by the same margin under a Monmouth model forecasting a low level of voter turnout, 50-45 percent. But Biden's lead expands to 7 percentage points under the high likely turnout model, 51-44 percent.
The previous version of the Monmouth Pennsylvania poll, published last month, also had Biden ahead among registered voters, 54-42 percent; under the high likely turnout model, 54-43 percent; and under the low likely turnout model, 53-45 percent.
According to the RealClearPolitics average of recent Pennsylvania surveys, conducted Oct. 26-Nov. 1, Biden leads Trump in the state by 4.3 points. Trump won Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes by 1.2 percentage points in 2016.
Pennsylvania is one of three Great Lakes states Trump flipped four years ago to secure his Electoral College victory. But Trump is polling further behind Biden in the other two states, Michigan and Wisconsin, prompting speculation that Pennsylvania will be the tipping point for deciding the presidency in 2020.
Biden, who was born in Scranton, Pa., earned the nickname "Pennsylvania's third senator" during his decades representing Delaware in the Senate. The former vice president still resides in Wilmington, Del., not far from the Pennsylvania border, and has his presidential campaign headquarters based in Philadelphia.
In an effort to dent the Democratic nominee's lead in the state, Trump has attacked Biden's remarks about the oil industry and position on fracking — the controversial hydraulic technology that has contributed to an energy boom in Pennsylvania.
The Monmouth poll was conducted Oct. 28-Nov. 1, surveying 502 Pennsylvania registered voters with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
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