Repairs and slight renovations have been ongoing in my house since my refrigerator burnt. The revamped kitchen and spiffing new ref made me think that the utility room is a bit shabby. So, the utility room was repainted. The storage cabinets were emptied of long-ago-circa-1980s relics and my laundry woman had a field day lugging home bags of melamine goodies. When the utility room was revamped, I thought that the basement needed a make-over too! It's my work place and it sure could do some cleaning and tidying up. The tidyng up went so far as I (actually, Oca and Bitoy) took out one of the French windows and placed glass blocks instead. Wow!- the light shown through and the shabbiness of the walls became evident. "Repaint the walls!" said I to Oca and Bitoy. And they did.
I had to clear my workplace with the trash that had accumulated for ahh.... ummm...15 years?! I had to let go of D1's grade 6 test papers (Huling! hahaha,I saw a test paper in Math.) I had to let go of my son's kindergarten writing tablet. I had to decide whether to throw out all the old notebooks of my kids or what. The "pain" was too much to bear that again,I had to call my laundry woman to finish the tidying up. Again, my laundry woman skipped merrily home (3 times I think) as she took home hordes of old clothes, toys and bags.
The basement is so nice and clean and comfortable, my son decided that he'd hang out in the "den" when he's home. Currently, my drafting table has been folded to make room for a sofa bed for Ethan and my son as they "hang out" in the basement. I even looked at some lighting fixtures from Dolan Designs in case there's a need to change the old ones.
I can view the garden from the basement. I decided that since the road outside is up by 2 feet (due to the upgrading of the road) there's an immediate need to make my perimeter fence higher. The work has been ongoing. I also decided to revisit the existing drainage to upgrade it to the level of the new road. The work is just too much! However while Oca and Bitoy are still at it, I think the fish pond needs a revamp too. The Kois are feeling left out.
Neverending pala ang renovations mo dyan....at may 'den' ka bigla? Yung 2 boys mo...laging nakadikit sa buntot mo noh? Btw hi-way, kamusta yung syuta ni Son mo? Kapit tuko pa din ba?
@ huling: hanep oo, nagpahaba pa yata ng kuko para lalong tumindi ang kapit! pag pray na lang natin na sana mabali kuko para makawala na anak ko. sige good luck sa pagtago ng mga stufves (plural of stuff, change f to v and add es, db?!)ni daughter dear mo.


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Romeva thinks it is unlikely they will be freed after the trial. 'We use prison to make politics. They will not let us out of here because we make a lot of a noise, they will get us out when we win,' he said, referring to the goal of independence.
Romeva, who is behind bars awaiting trial with eight other politicians and activists, also talked about the debate surrounding Spain's 2019 Budget, which needs the support of the pro-independence parties to pass.
'[Spanish Prime Minister Pedro] Sánchez needs a project, not only a budget,' stated Romeva, who made it clear that he agrees with the reluctance of his party, Esquerra (ERC), to support the Spanish spending plan.
'Without a clear project for freedom and justice, it is obvious that the authoritarian project is the one that will prevail in Spain,' he told ACN.
'The Spanish budget is an opportunity for the Socialists to tackle the underlying problem, which is not the political prisoners, but the violation of fundamental rights, the prisoners are only a symptom,' he added.


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Miombo Magic at Machinga Malawi
June 2015. Another day of testing our methodology for rapid botanical surveys for the "Strengthening the Information Base of Natural Habitats, Biodiversity, and Environmental Services in the Shire River Basin" component of the World Bank's Shire River Basin Management Program, which I described in my last story posted here. Instead of going up into cool montane evergreen forests, today we were going to survey a much more widespread, lower-elevation ecosystem, the miombo. Miombo woodlands surround Malawi's mountains like the ocean surrounds islands.
The road from Zomba to Machinga
"Miombo" may be a new word for you. It's the general name for a type of tropical woodland found across an estimated 3.6 million square kilometers in central and southern Africa, an area about half as large as the continental U.S., China, or Europe. Yes, Africa is a huge continent! Miombo woodlands cover parts of eleven countries – Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The miombo is found in a climate belt with a very pronounced and long "winter" dry season, from roughly May to November, during which most of the trees shed their leaves, the way temperate-zone trees do in autumn, at the beginning of the winter cold season. The dominant dry-season-deciduous trees of the miombo are members of the legume subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Please marvel with me at that amazing word – Caesalpinioidae – a legacy of the scientific taxonomy based on Latin root words established by Linnaeus! Botanists sometimes refer to miombo as "Caesalpinoid woodlands," or "Brachystegia woodlands," because in many places the dominant trees belong to the genus Brachystegia. Miombo woodlands usually have a grass understory because they are often open, with the trees widely spaced, and so qualify to be called "savanna woodlands" in ecological terms. OK, that's more than you may want to know. But you should know that they are beautiful. And they are supremely useful to their human inhabitants.
The ecological dynamics of miombo woodlands have been shaped in many ways by humans, but it may not ever be possible to fully untangle just how. Humans have lived in the miombo ecosystem in Africa for so long that some anthropologically-inclined forest ecologists call it an "anthropogenic woodland" or a "social forest." If "pristine" is defined by the absence of human influence, miombo ecosystems don't qualify. For example, fire is an important factor in miombo ecology, it is anthropogenic to a significant extent, and may have been so for tens of thousands of years, if not a million. Because of the long dry season, the grass understory of miombo woodlands dries out, and fires start and spread easily. Lightning is also a significant natural cause of fires in this ecosystem.
Miombo-covered ridge in the Liwonde Forest Reserve
The miombo is the native habitat of the wild honeybee, Apis mellifera. Many miombo trees have nectar-rich flowers that lure honeybees to visit and pollinate them. Since hunter-gatherer days – so for perhaps hundreds of thousands of years – our ancestors have been using fire in miombo woodlands to smoke honeybees out of their hives and steal their sweet honey.
African agricultural cultures also learned a trick for growing crops on nutrient-poor miombo soils: cut down all the trees in an area of this woodland, and burn them. The nutrients stored in the trees over decades and released in the ash of the fire will fertilize the soil for a few years, producing abundant yields of maize, finger millet, pigeon peas, and other crops. In this system of swidden, or "slash and burn" agriculture, low-density populations could move on, and wait for the woodland to recover. It doesn't work anymore, in an Africa with exponential population growth. But the fires in the miombo go on.
Because of its co-evolution with natural and anthropogenic fire, miombo woodlands have become very fire tolerant, and some species have even evolved to be fire dependent. Many miombo species "bank" a lot of their acquired energy underground, in roots, where it can't burn. That underground reservoir of stored carbon has created the conditions for a rich biodiversity of fungi – mushrooms. Miombo fungi live on the roots and utilize the underground biomass, help cycle nutrients in these poor dry soils, and periodically send up crops of delicious edible mushrooms that are harvested by local communities.
Fresh miombo chanterelle mushrooms for sale near Machinga
So we drove north from Zomba on an early June morning. The dry season was getting underway, and it was warm, but not humid. We stopped at the small village of Machinga to greet the District Forest Officer, and pick up a member of the Forestry Department staff and some local community representatives who would guide and accompany us to the site of our botanical survey. A little farther down the road to Liwonde we turned off on a narrow track through the roadside village, heading for the miombo-covered hills behind it.
We parked, gathered our plant-collecting gear, and hiked up the sunny slope to find a good location for our rapid botanical survey. This area was inside the Liwonde Forest Reserve, a forest area protected at the national level by the Malawi Department of Forestry, but here it was co-managed with the local Machinga community. The official co-management agreement gives local people the right to harvest and use certain forest resources, including mushrooms, medicinal plants, and grass for thatching their houses. In return, it is the community's responsibility to keep an eye on the area, and protect it from unsustainable uses such as charcoal production.
Charcoal for sale by the road, Machinga
Halfway to the top of the ridge the botanists determined we were in an appropriate spot for the plant survey. We had a long view toward Liwonde National Park, the Shire River, and the town of Liwonde. No deep forest shade here like yesterday in the forest on Zomba Mountain, but it was pleasant enough in the thin shade of a big Brachystegia, and the light breeze was dry and cooling.
View to Liwonde National Park and the Shire River from the survey site
The foresters from the Forestry Institute of Malawi and botanists from the National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens got to work collecting all the plants they could find. My deputy team leader, Daulos Mauambeta, sat under another tree with members of the local community, who then fanned out to find specimens of all of the edible, medicinal, or otherwise useful plants they could find here. This was the ethnobotanical extension of the rapid botanical survey methodology we had tested yesterday on Zomba Mountain.
Rapid botanical survey team getting organized
While the team was doing its botanical and ethnobotanical work, I wandered around the hillside woodland, looking. Not far from where we had established our plant-collecting base I began to see stumps of miombo trees that had been recently cut, and found the remains of a charcoal kiln. When we asked the community members about it, they told us that this was done by people from a community on the other side of the ridge. They said that they had confronted the charcoal-makers on several occasions, and tried to stop them, and had even had brought the police with them sometimes. But the charcoal-makers threatened them with violence and wouldn't stop, they told us. The miombo woodland we were sampling here is gradually losing its big, old trees to make charcoal, and its future depends on the delicate balance between the economics of charcoal production and the power of the local community, the Forestry Department, and the police to stop this illegal activity.
Recent charcoal kiln at the survey site
As was the case in the montane forest on Zomba Mountain, after about two hours the botanists and foresters had exhausted their search for new plants or trees. They had found about 83 species, 14 of which were trees – even more botanical diversity than on Zomba Mountain! That was surprising to me, because I assumed there would be fewer plants at this much drier site.
Plant collection at the survey site
The community members debriefed the group on the useful plants of the area. One species that caused a lot of excitement, and laughter – at least among the men in the group – was an understory plant with sprays of long leaves that supposedly had aphrodisiacal powers. All of us – at least the men in the group – took a leaf or two and chewed it, following the lead of the men from the local community. It tasted vaguely like spinach. If there were any effects, I didn't notice them immediately.
Aphrodisiacal plant
Another plant that was identified by local people as useful was even more fascinating to me, however. It had a small tuber about the size of a peanut, with straggling attached roots, which smelled earthy, a bit carrot-like. The botanists from the National Herbarium identified it as Dicoma anomala, of the plant family Asteraceae. The roots of this plant, according to the herbalist from the local community, is used for making a tea that cures stomach problems. If you google Dicoma anomala, you will find that its common names from Africa suggest its widespread traditional use as a medicine for stomach problems and also fever. A recent scientific paper evaluates its anti-plasmodial properties against the parasites that cause malaria.
Dicoma anomala growing at the survey site
But even more interesting were its other "medicinal" properties. It has several names in the local languages, the community members told us. Palibekanthu is one name, which means "there is nothing," or "no issues here." Another is musiyeni apite: "let him go." And another is mdima, "darkness." The explanation my deputy team leader Daulos gave for these names was: "If you are travelling at night, or during the day, put it in your pocket, and you will have no problems with people – no one will stop you, no one will bother you." The names suggest that the plant makes you invisible to trouble, or invisible to authorities or criminals who would otherwise give you trouble. "I need that!" I said immediately, without really thinking. Daulos handed me the plant specimen, and I put it in my pocket.
Dicoma anomala specimen with tuber and root
A few days later I flew from Blantyre, Malawi, on Ethiopian Airlines, through the crazy and disorganized airport at Addis Ababa, and back across several continents and an ocean, to my home in the Washington, DC, area. All of the flights were on time. I didn't experience any problems with immigration or customs, and my luggage made it with me. On the long overwater leg from Addis to Washington the flight wasn't full, and I had a whole row of seats to myself, so I could stretch out – unlike on the way over, which was crammed sardine-full, every seat taken, complete with crying babies, overflowing lavatories, and surly stewardesses. As I unpacked, I smiled as I remembered that magical sunny morning in the miombo woodlands above Machinga.
Sources and related links
Conserving the Miombo Ecoregion. 2001.
Dicoma anomala
In vitro anti-plasmodial activity of Dicoma anomala
charcoal, Liwonde Forest Reserve, Machinga, Miombo, National Herbarium, Zomba
Very nice piece, Bruce.
What about caterpillars? It seems that no piece on miombo can go by without discussing their importance to people in the landscape. but what about to the ecology as well?
Thanks Michael, glad you enjoyed this piece. Ah yes, the edible caterpillars, which are so famous in miombo lands. I tried those once in Zimbabwe, and the general impression was… chewy. Very chewy. Don't remember anything about how they tasted, just that they were pretty tough. However, as you point out, they are a highly-valued and important protein source throughout the miombo. I've seen a couple of studies from Malawi that say the 14 different species are harvested and eaten. The main ones are from the moth family Saturniidae, the giant silk moths. Two of the most commonly eaten species are Gonimbrasia belina, the "mopane worm," which is the main commercially traded species, and Gynanisa maja. I'll ask Daulos, and Wilbert, the other botanical team leader doing the surveys, if they encountered any information about local harvesting and use of mopane worms at any of the sites they visited, and maybe they can provide us with more information.
Barbara Belding
How nice to hear about miombo again Bruce…..did you try the mushrooms?
Glad you enjoyed it, Barbara. Mushrooms, yes – I did try them, both fresh, and dried, then rehydrated. In both cases it's pretty hard to get all the sand out of them… but if you can stand a little grittiness in the sauce for your nsima (maize-meal porridge), the flavor is delicious!
Well done once again. Dicoma local names are:- Musiyeni apite- let him go; mdima-darkness. Make necessary collections.
Thomas von Stamm
Great report. Gives me memories of Malawi and of Bruce – sitting on the condi of Cluny Lodge, sipping a gin tonic together.
Greetings from "the Hauptstadt"


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There are many different analysis tools in Forex trading. If you look at a chart template that some traders use, you might get easily confused by the many indicators plotted. Although Forex indicators can be helpful, basic trend analysis using simple tactics such as analyzing swing highs and lows can provide us crucial information on the existing trend of lack thereof. Trend analysis is an essential component of successful trading. In this lesson, we will go through the process of identifying and trading trends in Forex.
A trend or a tendency is a price behavior, which involves overall price increase or decrease. A currency pair is trending when it is increasing or decreasing for a longer period of time. There are two types of trend tendencies in Forex – a bullish and bearish trend.
We have a bearish trend when the price accounts for higher bottoms and higher tops on the chart. In this manner, the trend line during a bullish trend should connect the price bottoms on the chart. So the bullish trend line acts as a support. Following this tendency, in case of a new price interaction with a bullish trend line, we typically expect the price to bounce in a bullish direction.
Bearish trends have opposite functions to bullish trends. The trend is bearish when the price action creates lower tops and lower bottoms on the Forex chart. In this case the bearish trend line should be drawn through the swing tops on the chart and the resulting trendline acts as a resistance for the price. Following the bearish trend, in case of a new price interaction with the trend line, we expect the price to typically bounce in a bearish direction.
There exists various trend indicators, however, one of the simplest and most effective ways to analyze trends is thru the use of trend lines.
A trend line is an on-chart diagonal line, which connects a number of tops or bottoms on the Forex graph. If the trend line manages to connect a number of price peaks, then we expect the price action to conform to this trend line. In this manner, we can say that the basic function of the trendline is to act as a support, or resistance for the price action.
The image below will show you a classical Forex price tendency with its respective trend line and eventual breakout.
Above you see the daily chart of the GBP/USD Forex pair for November 2007 – January 2008. As you see, the Cable price accounts for lower bottoms and lower tops. This implies the presence of a bearish trend.
The red diagonal line is the bearish trend line, which contains the price action on the way down. The black arrows point out the places where the price tests the trend as a resistance. In this manner, we have a 6-times-touched bearish trend line. On the 7th interaction of the price with the bearish trend we get a bullish breakout through the down trend (red circle). The price closes a candle above the bearish trend line, implying that the trend is broken and the GBP/USD price direction is likely reversing.
In a trending market, there are two types of systematic price moves which occur on the chart. They are related to the trend and they are important to your understanding of a trend trading system. These two types of price moves are called impulses and corrections.
The trend impulse is the price move which comes after the interaction with the trend line and after the price bounces in the direction of the trend. These are the types of moves that a trend trader pursues. The reason for this is that the trend impulses lead to bigger price moves for a relatively shorter period of time.
The corrective moves during trends in Forex come after the impulse and lead the price back to the trend. The correction moves on the chart are not as attractive for trading. Traders without sufficient trading experience should stay out of the market when the price is in a correction phase. The reason for this is that corrections are relatively smaller and often last longer than the trend impulses. Why take a position for less profit potential, and for more time risk in the markets? This is definitely a riskier initiative.
Above you see the 240 minute chart of the most traded Forex pair – EUR/USD. The period is May, 2013 – June, 2013.
As you see, the EUR/USD price on the image above records higher tops and higher bottoms, which suggests that there is a bullish trend on the chart. The red bullish line on the chart is the respective bullish trend line. The green arrows indicate the price impulses and the red arrows indicate the corrections of the trend.
Notice that the trend impulses lead to relatively bigger price moves in the direction of the trend. Contrary to that, the corrections are small. The third correction on the chart has approximately the same duration as the last impulse, and later leads to a breakout in the trend. At the same time, the price move it creates prior to the breakout can be described as a tight consolidation.
After the breakout the EUR/USD pulls back to the trend line to test it as a new resistance and subsequently rotates to a new bearish trend move.
Before you prepare to trade a trending setup, you must first be able to recognize that a potential trend is underway. This is a basic component to any Forex trend trading system. Seasoned traders will tell you that "The trend is your friend!" for good reason, because the profits from a trending pair are bigger and the trades can involve less risk. So, now that we realize the benefits of trading a trending move we have to create some solid rules to pinpoint a potential trend trade setup. We will discuss a few trading techniques for spotting potential trends on the chart.
Yes, we repeat this again, because price swings are the basic characteristic of every trend on a chart. If the tops and bottoms are increasing, we have a bullish trend. If the tops and bottoms are decreasing, then we have a bearish trend. In all other cases, we have a non trending environment, – a sideways market.
Every two points on the chart could be connected with a straight line. However, if a third point lines on the same line, then we have a tendency. In this manner, the trend confirmation usually comes after the price tests the trend at the third touch, and bounces from it. When you see the bounce, you can enter an open a position attempting to catch a new trend leg.
Let's look at the EUR/USD example above. The arrows on the chart show the places where the price tests a bearish trend. The green arrows indicate the price impulses and the red arrows show the corrective moves.
The first two arrows pointing to tops on the trend are black. These are the first two points used to draw a trend line. Now we would sit tight, and wait for price interaction at the third touch. The third arrow on the trend is blue. You will notice a strong bearish response off the trend line. This would be considered our trend confirmation and prepare us for a short position. The fourth arrow is also blue, because the trend is already confirmed. In this manner, a return and a bounce from the trend would give us another trading opportunity.
The two short trades in this case both create a trading opportunity, though the 3 touch in general will typically provide a better return to risk ratio.
This is the same trend from the second example in this article. This time, you see a Volume indicator on the EUR/USD chart. Notice that the trading volumes pretty much respond to impulses and corrections as shown with the arrows above. At the same time, when the volumes start accounting for an overall decrease we see that the EUR/USD price enters a ranging phase, which leads to a breakout in the bullish trend. The trend reversal comes afterwards.
One caveat regarding Volume in Forex is that since there is no centralized exchange in the Forex Market, and thus no centralized source for Volume data, the volume readings are typically taken from your forex broker's available data, and as such will not provide a complete picture of overall volume within the traded pair. However, using the Volume indicator with the understanding of this limitation in mind, can assist you in your trend analysis nevertheless.
How to Trade with the Trend?
Since you are now familiar with the process of identifying trends on the chart, it is now time to discuss a way to take advantage of trading currency trends. We will now exhibit a trend trading strategy, which is straight forward and relatively easy to implement.
We are going to use an assistant indicator to support our trend trading strategy. This will be the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator. But before we dive into the actual strategy, let's take a closer look at the MACD.
The MACD consists of two Moving Average based lines, which interact with each other above and below a 0 level. When the faster line breaks the slower line in bearish direction while being located above 0, we expect the price to start trending in bearish direction. When the faster line breaks the slower line in bullish direction, while being located below 0, we expect the price to start trending in bullish direction.
The MACD indicator also has a histogram. This histogram displays the exact difference between the faster and the slower line.
If the histogram is positive, then the faster line is above the slower line – long signal. If the histogram is negative, then the faster line is below the slower line – short signal.
The Moving Average Convergence Divergence is also good for spotting divergence between price and the indicator. If the price is increasing and the MACD is decreasing, then we have a bearish divergence, which indicates that the trend is likely to reverse.
The same is in force but in the opposite direction for a bullish divergence pattern. If the price is decreasing and the MACD is increasing, then we have a bullish divergence. In this manner, we expect the bearish trend to switch to bullish activity.
One way to trade trends is by combining Trend lines, MACD and the Volume indicator.
We can try to match signals from the MACD indicator and the potential emerging trend line and perform a volume analysis. Imagine you have an upward price movement on the chart. At the same time, the MACD signals a bullish crossover below the 0, supporting the price increase. In this case, we can look to go long until we see a contrary signal from the MACD.
A stop loss order should be placed here below the recent swing bottom.
The same technique is in force for bearish trends. If the price starts accounting for lower tops and lower bottoms, we use a bearish MACD crossover above the 0 in order to short a currency pair.
The image below will show you how exactly this trading strategy works.
Above you see the H1 chart of the EUR/USD Forex pair. The date is Jan 5 – Jan 8, 2016.
This example starts with a bullish MACD crossover. Notice that at the time of the crossover and continuing afterwards, the EUR/USD price is ranging. However, during the horizontal move the EUR/USD trading volumes are consistently increasing. Suddenly, the price action creates a higher top, breaking the level of its previous top. This clues us in to a possible price increase, and after a short correction there is an opportunity for a long position on the chart. The stop loss order should be located right below the bottom, which should be used for the long position.
The price action continues with a new impulse on the chart. The following correction nearly hits the suggested stop loss placement. However, the price action doesn't manage to decrease significantly below the previous bottom and the stop loss sustains the danger. The price continues with two more impulse moves and their adjoining corrections.
Notice that the MACD indicator is now located in its top area, indicating that we might see the end of this bullish trend soon. However, the trade should be held until the MACD lines signal a bearish crossover as stated in the trading strategy. The last correction on the chart is sharper than usual, which causes the two MACD lines to interact with each other. This acts as an exit signal for this trade and one should close the position for a profit. As an alternative to using the MACD crossover as the exit, you could have also considered waiting for the trend line break instead to close out the long position.
Understanding price action trends in Forex helps keep trades on the right side of the market.
Bearish trends: They have lower tops and lower bottoms on the chart.
Bullish trends: They have higher tops and higher bottoms on the chart.
If a trend is not present on the chart, then we have a price range – a sideways price movement.
Some ways to visualize a tendency on the chart is by using Swing High/Low Analysis, or the trend line indicator.
The trend line is applied by simply connecting the tops, or the bottoms on the chart.
Trend Impulses: These are the moves in the direction of the trend. They are attractive for trading.
Trend Corrections: These are the moves which lead the price back to the trend line. They are not as attractive for trading and it is not recommended to trade them if you are not an experienced trader.
One way to confirm a trend is to identify the beginning of the third impulse related to the plotted trend line.
Volumes are helpful for trend confirmation. Impulses usually happen during higher volumes, while corrections appear during lower volumes.


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Q: Querying data in MongoDB-Java to remove _id and show only specified field I'm completing a Java project in Eclipse as part of my university assignment. One of the requirements of the project is to write data to a text file and read it back in, in another class. I've decided, however, to use MongoDB rather than text files.
The format of the data looks like this:
Data
When I read the data back in from Mongo I use the following code:
MongoClientURI connectionString = new MongoClientURI("<My connection string>");
MongoClient mongoClient = new MongoClient(connectionString);

MongoDatabase database = mongoClient.getDatabase("Timeline");

MongoCollection<Document> collection = database.getCollection("HistoricalFigure");

MongoCursor<Document> cursor = collection.find().iterator();

try {
    while (cursor.hasNext()) {
        system.out.println(cursor.next().toJson());
    }
} finally {
    cursor.close();
    }

This works great and prints the following from my Mongo collection:
Result
(Ignore the data - Just chucked it in randomly)
I know similar questions have been asked in the past about removing _id fields from the results and so on - So apologies for that - But unfortunately, I haven't been able to apply these examples to my own code as they do vary quite a bit.
What I would like to achieve from this is to print to the console just the value of Historical Figure so that it prints this:
Desired outcome
If anybody could assist I would really appreciate it - I assume the answer will lie somewhere within the collection.find() but I'm just unsure how.
Many thanks,
George

A: Mongo Java driver v3.x provides a helpful projection shortcut for this: Projections.excludeId().
But that's just syntactic sugar over this: new BsonDocument("_id", new BsonInt32(0))
So, if you are using a Mongo Java driver version >= 3.x then just add this projection to your find() call:
collection.find().projection(Projections.excludeId()).iterator();

If you are using a Mongo Java driver version < 3.x then just add this projection to your find() call:
collection.find().projection(new BsonDocument("_id", new BsonInt32(0))).iterator();

This projection instructs Mongo to not include the _id attribute in any documents returned by the find call.

A: U can pass an object literal with id set to -1 and historical figure to 1.
Collection.find({},{'_id':0,'Historical figure':1})

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Background
Randolph was born in Franklin, Kentucky. Prior to entering politics, he worked as an electrical contractor. Randolph and his wife, Audrey, have seven children. Randolph is a member of the Republican Party.

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This Week in Non-Discrimination: Legal Action in Florida and Missouri, Virginia Moves Forward, and #TransBillNH Picks Up Steam
By Shane Stahl •	January 26, 2018 • 3:46 pm
LGBTQ news this week saw a historic vote in Virginia regarding non-discrimination protections, and more action in the courts as Missouri will hear two LGBTQ discrimination cases this term. Additionally, the latest in a long line of discrimination cases by transgender students was filed in Florida.
The lawsuit claims the Volusia County School Board violated Title IX by forcing a 15-y/o transgender student to… https://t.co/WFtrDR0Seq
— News Daytona Beach (@NewsDaytonaBch) January 24, 2018
A 15-year-old transgender male student filed suit this week against his county's school board, claiming that their discriminatory policies have caused him mental anguish, embarrassment, and humiliation.
The plaintiff, John Doe, contests that the Volusia County School Board's policies regarding bathrooms and locker rooms are a violation of both Title IX of the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Doe has lived as a boy since the age of 7, and has repeatedly been forced to use single stall bathrooms, excluding him from equal treatment.
Doe is being represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights' Transgender Youth Project. Volusia County School Board had no comment on the pending litigation.
The cases could break new ground for #LGBT rights in #Missouri. https://t.co/SLtJgIvMLI
— The Advocate (@TheAdvocateMag) January 25, 2018
On Tuesday, the ACLU reported that the Missouri Supreme Court will hear two non-discrimination cases this term.
The first case, Lampley v. Missouri Commission on Human Rights, involves an employee sex-discrimination claim against the State of Missouri — Harold Lampley said he faced harassment for not conforming with his employer's stereotypes of masculinity. Although the Human Rights Commission declined to investigate (as the state does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation), and a trial court sided with the Commission, an appellate court found the claim was based on sex, not sexual orientation, and allowed the case to move forward.
The second case, R.M.A. (Appleberry) v. Blue Springs, involves a transgender student denied access to the bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to his gender identity.
In a 2-1 decision, an appellate court affirmed a lower court decision dismissing the case on grounds that the Missouri Human Rights Act does not protect gender identity. The Missouri Supreme Court will now weigh in.
NH Legal Assistance, which provides legal aid to low-income ppl, has endorsed #TransBillNH! This endorsement + last year's from the NH Human Rights Commission show clearly that there are gaps in the law in protecting #trans Granite Staters: https://t.co/HdBP4liPb5 #NHpolitics pic.twitter.com/wnwn80iJFd
— Freedom NH (@FreedomNH_) January 25, 2018
Ahead of next Wednesday's hearing on HB 1319, also known as #TransBillNH, several major endorsements have lent their support to the legislation, which would add statewide non-discrimination protections for transgender people to the Granite State's existing civil rights laws.
The list of official endorsements has expanded to include 10 organizations with major state and regional influence. One major new endorsement is New Hampshire Legal Assistance, which provides civil legal aid to low-income Granite Staters. They are the second organization that specifically focuses on legal protections to endorse #TransBillNH; the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights threw its weight behind #TransBillNH last year. Other significant endorsements this week included the editorial boards of two of the state's most widely distributed newspapers, the Portsmouth Herald and the Concord Monitor.
The official hearing on the bill is scheduled for January 31 at 1:00pm in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
Virginia Senate today passes bill by Sens. @JenniferWexton @AdamEbbin to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in housing and public employment, respectively, on a bipartisan 29-10 vote. https://t.co/nrUgcWUfwu pic.twitter.com/iWAKnQF26Y
— lowkell (@lowkell) January 26, 2018
On Monday, the Virginia Legislature passed two non-discrimination bills through committee, both with votes of 12-3.
Senate Bill 202, sponsored by Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria), would expand the state's existing protections for LGBTQ people in state government to apply to county and local government as well. Senate Bill 423, sponsored by Sen. Jennifer Wexton (D-Loudon County), would add gender identity and sexual orientation to the Virginia Fair Housing Code.
On Friday, the Virginia Senate, in a historic vote, passed both bills. They will move to the House of Delegates for debate; if passed, Governor Ralph Northam is expected to sign — on January 13, in one of his first actions as Governor, he signed an executive order extending non-discrimination protections to LGBTQ state employees and contractor
On January 23, first term Delegate Debra Rodman (D-Henrico) introduced HB 1466, which prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for medically necessary transition-related expenses. The chief co-patron of the bill is Del. Danica Roem (D-Manassas Park), the first transgender woman elected to the Virginia General Assembly.
"Despite federal attempts to protect doctors who seek to discriminate against LGBT people, I know we can do better here in Virginia," Rodman said in a statement. "I put forward HB 1466 because I care about the transgender community and know they deserve access to the same medical care I have."
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Strangeloop is coming out with a Web-acceleration appliance it says can boost online sales and give Web sites higher ranking among search engines.
Called Site Optimizer, the device customizes the response of Web servers for the particular browser making a request, cutting page build time in half, the company claims.
The appliance organizes page elements so they are downloaded more efficiently, reducing the number of round trip requests and responses between servers and clients.
One Strangeloop customer, Shopzilla, says the device reduced page-build time from 6 seconds to 1.2 seconds, resulting in a 25% increase in page view for the site and an uptick of 12% in revenues garnered from the site, Strangeloop claims.
The company says that search engines such as Google use how long pages take to build into consideration when ranking responses to queries.
Site Optimizer analyzes each page and creates an acceleration template for how it should be rewritten for particular browsers in order to download the quickest. This analysis and rewriting is done offline, and the templates sit ready for a request from a client. These templates are accessed in real-time as requests come in from the browsers for which the templates are created.
In rewriting pages the device consolidates page objects so they are sent in fewer bundles and reconfigures the HTML itself so objects are delivered according to each browser's preference.
Site Optimizer works in conjunction with content delivery networks such as Akamai, which places content closer to requesting clients, and application delivery controllers such as F5's, which optimize the amount of traffic sent to and from clients and servers in each round-trip exchange but don't reduce the number of round trips.
Site Optimizer comes in three models with varying amounts of RAM and processor speed starting at $25,000 plus a maintenance fee that is 25% of the hardware cost.
This story, "Web-acceleration Device Can Help Your Google Standing" was originally published by Network World.


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Not Plausible
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The room was freezing; that was the first thing Brian Sabean noticed. Before a list of possibilities could even arrange in his mind, he saw the broken window. Then he saw the workers below, scrambling to clean up remnants of chair and glass.
"Mr. Steinbrenner? Mr. Steinbrenner? I had an appointment with you?"
George Steinbrenner fidgeted in a leather chair, his teeth visible in rage.
"Grarrrrrraggghgggh! Grrraggghggaaaag! Grr," Steinbrenner remarked.
"Mr. Steinbrenner, I used to work with you years back. My name is Brian Sabean, and I think I have an answer to your playoff struggles."
"Grrararaghagiiiiiiaaaaiiigh! Nrrnrnnrraggggggghhgghg!"
"Here. Here is your problem."
Sabean pulled an 8x10 glossy picture of Alex Rodriguez from an attaché case, and calmly laid it on Steinbrenner's desk. It was a risk, as Sabean knew the picture, or even the entire desk, could likely end up in the same cement and splinter grave as the chair below. But there was no burst of rage. Instead, Steinbrenner quietly studied the picture.
"That's the problem facing the Yankees," Sabean repeated. "That is a problem you have to solve."
Steinbrenner almost looked relieved as he pulled a wallet from his back pocket. He knew what to do. He smiled at Sabean, crumpled up several $100 bills, and began throwing them at the picture.
"Uh, wait a sec," Sabean said. "That's not going to work this time. This goes deeper. And that's not really your problem, I mean, that was just a metaphor. In fact, just forget about the picture entirely. Just think of Alex Rodriguez."
Steinbrenner growled, and threw his desk lamp out of another picture window. Glass rained on the workers below, who were quick to voice their appreciation. "Thank you for the glass, Mr. Steinbrenner," shouted one of the workers. "We'll treasure this glass and broken lamp, sir!"
"Alex Rodriguez is a horrible clutch player. He is single-handedly sinking your team, and your fans will riot if he's with the Yankees next year. Now, watch this...."
Sabean pulled a portable DVD player from the attaché case, and pushed play, angling the screen toward Steinbrenner. A highlight reel started to roll, as a stocky hitter launched a homerun into the left field bleachers of SBC Park. After he rounded the bases, another clip started, and another homerun sailed over the same fence. A third video of a homerun followed, though this one seemed to be the same as the first one, just with a different camera angle. More came, but it was almost as if they were the same highlights, just with different effects added. One was the exact same footage as the first homer, but it was now being played in black-and-white. That was followed by the footage of the second homer, but this time there was a digitally created moon in the corner for the duration of the highlight.
"You see? Clutch homer after clutch homer. That's Edgardo Alfonzo. We'd love to keep him - man, how we'd love to keep him - but he misses New York. He came up with the Mets and, well, there's nothing we can do. The Mets aren't interested because they have a young third baseman already, so I'm really against the wall here. I have to trade him to you, and I'll be honest, I'm not happy about it."
Steinbrenner uttered intelligible words for the first time in the meeting. "I'm listening," he said.
"I have a sports psychologist on the Giants payroll who is convinced she can solve Rodriguez's problems in the clutch. She won't keep quiet about it. Then I got an idea. A brainstorm. If you ate the remainder of A-Rod's contract, giving him to the Giants, you can have Alfonzo. You can just take him. Yours. Boom. Done. Both problems solved."
"I'm listening," Steinbrenner said.
"Actually, I'm done. I don't really want A-Rod hitting double plays for the Giants, but I don't really see a choice."
Steinbrenner leaned back in his chair, and started to unwrap a lozenge from his desk. "I like you, Brad. I always have. We'll talk. Leave the DVD."
Sabean thanked Steinbrenner for his time, and backed out of the office door. Now came the waiting game. Did he come on too strong? Was he that transparent? The ploy couldn't hurt , Sabean knew, but it had to be played perfectly. It remained to be seen if it had. It probably was a waste of time. Nothing could be that easy. Sabean wondered if he still had the number for John Olerud's agent.
Before he could even push the button on the elevator, his cell phone rang. It was Steinbrenner. Check and mate.


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A Guide To Qualifying For The Indianapolis 500
by Ben | May 19, 2017 | IndyCar, News | 0 comments
Qualifying for the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place this weekend, May 20/21, one week ahead of the green flag for the 101srt r
The qualifying order will be determined from 6:15PM this evening following the on track action Fast Friday.
Each of the 33 cars on the entry list for the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil go through technical inspection and will receive a stick to allow it to participate in the race. All cars have to be in line 30 minutes before the session starts. Each car is given one Guaranteed Attempt on Saturday, with a qualifying run comprised of four timed laps. The resulting order determines which of two groups the cars are put in for the second round of qualifying on Sunday.
Once the cars are in line, teams can only adjust front and rear wing angles, and tyre pressures. The same rear wing mainplane has to be kept on the car for the remainder of the event once a car has qualified.
The entrant signals the official start of a qualification attempt by displaying a green flag as the car completes its final warm-up lap. The entrant can also use a yellow flag to wave off or abort a run before the four laps are completed. When the qualifying session officially ends a car that has been signalled by officials to leave the pits, and which is already moving with its engine running, can carry on and complete a qualification attempt.
Once every car has made its Guaranteed Attempt, a 'break' in the line occurs. Subsequently cars can make multiple further attempts, with or without withdrawing their earlier times. However, those who decide to withdraw their times get priority, and join the queue in Line 1. Those who don't withdraw their times go to Line 2, and can only run when Line 1 is empty.
The top nine cars on Saturday are put in the Fast 9 group for Sunday. They are now guaranteed to start in the first three rows. The remaining cars go into Group 1. All existing qualifying times are now voided.
A Last Chance Qualifying session may be held on Sunday for cars that were unable to complete their Guaranteed Attempt on Saturday because of a mechanical condition or on-track incident, and were prevented from making a second attempt.
These cars will run in a randomly drawn order and can 'bump' the slowest qualified cars out of the race. Regardless of speed, they will start at the back, behind all cars qualified on Saturday. Bumped cars are allowed to run again and attempt to get back into the race.
The Group 1 cars run in reverse order of the positions achieved on Saturday, with the 33rd placed car running first, and the 10th placed car running last. The cars have to be in line 30 minutes before the session starts. The resulting order determined positions 10th to 33rd on the grid.
The Fast 9 cars then run to determine the first nine places on the grid, with the ninth fastest from Saturday running first. The cars have to be in line 45 minutes before the session. Any car which does not complete a full four-lap qualifying run drops to the bottom of the final order, and in this case its Saturday times are used as its official qualifying result.


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Perpetual Motion: Contemporary Interpretations of Fine Art Automata
Revival of historical genre sees first art exhibition in the United States
Tom Haney, Steadfast, mixed media kinetic sculpture, 2012, 30" x 21" x 6"
Opening Reception: April 16th, 6-9pm
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February 26, 2016, San Francisco, CA — Heron Arts is pleased to present Perpetual Motion: Contemporary Interpretations of Fine Art Automata, a group show of eleven national and international contemporary artists who create figurative, kinetic sculptures in the pursuit of compelling narratives. This will be the first gallery exhibition of contemporary fine art automata in the United States. Curated by Heron Arts director Noah Antieau and Atlanta-based automata artist Tom Haney, exhibiting artists were chosen based on their craftsmanship and lifetime dedication to this artistic medium. Exhibiting artists include: David Archer (AUS), Chris Fitch (USA), Nemo Gould (USA), Tom Haney (USA), Thomas Kuntz (USA), Pat Keck (USA), Richard Landon (USA), Paul Spooner (UK), and husband and wife collaborators Dean Lucker and Ann Wood (USA). Perpetual Motion: Contemporary Interpretations of Fine Art Automata opens on April 16th, 2016 with a reception from 6-9pm and runs through May 14th, 2016.
Made from a multitude of materials and encompassing a wide set of skills from sculpture and painting to mechanics and engineering, the selected artists in Perpetual Motion: Contemporary Interpretations of Fine Art Automata create work that depicts human and animal figures in animated motion to achieve moving vignettes. This group of artists maintains an aesthetic of nostalgia while presenting contemporary subject matter.
Dating back to Hellenistic Greece, Automata — or simple machines designed to follow a set of predetermined instructions — have long captivated the human imagination. Experiencing a resurgence during the Renaissance and through the Industrial Revolution, automata were still largely playthings of the rich; elaborate adult toys displayed and enjoyed by merchants and royalty in private settings. With the European democratization of assets, the emergence of a working middle class and an expansion of leisure time, these precious objects eventually became available for public consumption through arcades and museums, in what scholars refer to as the Golden Age of Automata from 1848-1914.
While accounts of wealthy Americans traveling abroad and enjoying the automata attractions do exist, the artistry and craft remained with its European lineage and, eventually, its popularity as a European cultural pastime faded. Fortunately, this unique medium is experiencing a newfound audience in America. In addition to Perpetual Motion in May, New Jersey's Morris Museum will spearhead AutomataCon, a convention for automata enthusiasts, to be held in March. These two exhibitions mark the first time American automata creators will be shown together alongside their British, European and Australian counterparts.
About Tom Haney
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1962, Tom Haney has always been fascinated by mechanical movement. Once, at the age of 2, he became separated from his family in a museum, transfixed by a mechanical diorama. In subsequent years, his fascination would manifest itself often — he regularly took apart household items, much to his parent's disapproval. He took art classes in high school and attended college studying Industrial Design. Before becoming a full-time artist in 2000, his professional work consisted of making props, models and miniatures for television commercials, still photography and motion pictures.
About Heron Arts
Heron Arts was founded in 2013 by Mark Slee, an active member of San Francisco's creative community, who has been organizing events since the mid-2000s. Prior to Heron Arts, Slee was a member of Facebook's product design and development team. He was joined in 2015 by directors Noah Antieau and Tova Lobatz, who are pursuing ambitious programming that will encompass installations and experiential interactive environments, alongside traditional gallery exhibitions.
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A PLAGUE UNLEASHED ON THE PRIMORDIAL REALM THREATENS THE SURVIVAL OF THE SUPERNATURAL RACE. ONLY THE ACADEMY OF ASSASSINS CAN PREVENT THE RACE'S DESTRUCTION…AND THEIR OWN.
Morgan has been banned from hunting until she learns to control her powers and her impulsive nature. Her team is so focused on her training, she feels more alone and alienated than ever. She must make the heartbreaking decision to stay and fight for the men who mean everything to her or turn her back on the Academy to survive.
But the choice is taken from her when the Academy is viciously attacked, and Morgan is abducted and dumped into the Primordial Realm. Abandoned and unable to get back to the Academy, Morgan must take a crash course in survival in this alien world. As she investigates the deadly mist sweeping through the Realm, she is horrified to discover that her team has followed her, determined to earn back her trust.
With their lives in danger, Morgan will do whatever it takes to save them, even if it means entering Tartarus and uncovering the secrets of the forgotten gods. With the cure in hand, they must defeat monsters from myths and legends—and their worst nightmares—and escape the gates of hell, or risk becoming forever trapped and forced to watch the destruction of their world.
Meet the Assassins: Morgan, Kincade, Ascher, Ryder, Draven and Atlas.
4.0 out of 5 starsGreat series!
This is such a fabulous series!
I love Morgan and how strong and independent she is, but how she also has her vulnerable side and wants them all to be a team. I love her fierce loyalty to her guys, but also how she stands up to them when needed.
While I love the guys and their personalities, at the start of this book they're quite frustrating as they act/do what they think is best for Morgan, without asking her what she needs.
I love that we got to know more about Atlas and Draven in this one, and meet some new characters. Loki was adorable!!
5.0 out of 5 starsLove, love, love this book...bring on book 3!!
Like book one I really loved book 2 in this RH series by Stacey Brutger! Morgan is great in this book and you can really feel her frustrations with the guys coming through the pages...I did want to wack them and tell them to wake up to themselves!! We find out more about Morgan in this book and who she is which is exciting to see what will happen in book 3. At times the guys attitude annoyed me however that is his great s writer Stacey is...she really makes you invested in the characters and makes them appear real!! There was ALOT of action in this book and even though some breathing room would have been good for them all, I hope that we get more down time and more relationship advancement (let's hope for steam!!) in boook 3. I can't wait for them all to just develop further as a team and really stop keeping secrets and learn to trust each other!! I loved the addition of the bonus material...this really finished off this book and helped us to understand Atlas more...I absolutely loved reading this story from multiple POV as it gets the reader into everyone's emotions! A highly recommended RH book that is full of action, suspense, romance and fights! It is compelling and captivating and I cannot wait for more!!
I loved this story, I couldn't put it down. I loved the interactions between the guys and Morgan and finding out about her heritage was great, like who her father was/is. The storyline was intriguing and interesting and the characters were engaging and entertaining, I especially loved the little Loki pup. I hope there will be more soon.
Not as good as the first book. Morgan was really strong and confident in the first book and her relationship with the men was developing well. I didn't see that here. Seemed rushed to hurry the plot along. I was disappointed because I really liked the first book.
Book 2 in An Academy of Assassins Novel is brilliant. Ravished it in 36 hours only because work interfered. Now hanging out for book 3. Anything of Stacey Brutger is well worth reading.
Absolutely love this story, can't wait for the next one. Well written and fast paced. Action packed and comprehensive characters.
5.0 out of 5 starsThis book is absolutely amazing!
This book.... was everything. It was so much better than the first and i dont even understand how!
In this book we start with morgan feeling alienated and alone, the academy suddenly coming under attack and she is pushed into 'olympus'. And omg Loki! Every single mention of him made me think of an exploring puppy.
Dont get me wrong, there were moments when i was like 'why'? Morgan just kill it! But you notice in this book that though morgan does still jump head first into situations (yaaaas girl) she also goes along and waits to see what happens.
The development of the relationships are realistic, as the boys prove to morgan they dont want her to push away. Hell even i got frustrated with them. Men.
And that bomb dropped in the bonus content? Seriously i have not been so excited for a book in such a long time. Thank you so much stacey for the gift you have given us mere humans for writing this series. Im on the edge of my seat and cant wait for the next one!!


the nightmare scenarios of some studies are just not realistic.
The study, led by Catherine Ritz from Université Grenoble Alpes in France and Dr. Tamsin Edwards from The Open University, now predicts that sea-level rises are more likely to be 10cm this century under a mid to high climate scenario, and that it is extremely unlikely to be higher than 30cm. Previous studies have claimed from 30 cm to one meter rises; this study says there is a 1 in 20 chance of that happening.
"In our study — those just aren't plausible," Edwards told BBC News.
This study is unique in that the researchers have used real world physics together with the shape of the continent's bedrock and how the ice moves over it, with satellites that track changes on the continent supporting their data. The model revealed how the polar south would react if greenhouse gases rose at a medium to high rate.
"The bed of Antarctica is so important for what the ice sheet is doing, and there are parts of it that are just too bumpy and rough or are not sloping in a way that will allow for anything to happen too quickly," said Edwards.
The researchers ran the model over 3,000 simulations; this is not the first time multiple simulations have been done on this; however, it is a first for the simulations to be compared with present day, and then have the comparisons taken into account.
"People have done multiple simulations before, but what they haven't then done is see how well they compare with the present day, and put that into re-weighting the predictions.
"So, we take those 3,000 runs and compare them to what's happening now in the Amundsen Sea, and if any look as though they are going too fast or too slow, we give them a lower weight in the future.
"We're constraining the model with the observations. Nobody has really done this sort of formal scoring before," Edwards explained to BBC.
The study's central estimate raises the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) central prediction of 60 cm global sea-level rise by just a few centimeters under the mid to high scenario they used. But the UK and French team's method allowed them to assess the likelihood of sea-level rise from substantial parts of the ice sheet collapsing, which the IPCC could not due to a lack of evidence, according to the University of Bristol.
"Although extreme ice losses are an unlikely prospect, there is no reason to be complacent about the impacts of climate change on our lifestyles," he warned.


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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 27th February 2013.
Hazel Blears Labour, Salford and Eccles 11:30 am, 27th February 2013
The Prime Minister has stood idly by while hard-pressed families in Salford and Eccles and across the country have faced soaring energy bills, which are now over £1,400 a year. Last October the Prime Minister promised to take action, and I think the whole country wants to know what he is going to do now to keep his promise to those families who are struggling to heat their homes.
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The 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2019) will be held in Pisa, Italy, November 26 - November 29, 2019. It is organized by the Human Interfaces in Information Systems (HIIS) laboratory of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, Italy.
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Media release | Friends of Big Island Brewhaus Kamuela, Hawai'i – March 1, 2011 — Catching the wave of consumer interest in high quality, small batch, locally hand-crafted beer, Hawai'i Island will officially become "home" to a new microbrewery, called Big Island Brewhaus, this Fri., March 4, 2011. The community is invited to the first […]
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Kamuela, Hawai'i – March 1, 2011 — Catching the wave of consumer interest in high quality, small batch, locally hand-crafted beer, Hawai'i Island will officially become "home" to a new microbrewery, called Big Island Brewhaus, this Fri., March 4, 2011. The community is invited to the first pouring and tasting of the new brewery's first beers crafted by owner Tom Kerns, a brewmaster whose 20 years experience has won awards at the largest and most prestigious beer competitions on the planet, including five awards from The World Beer Cup, and four at The Great American Beer Festival.
Big Island Brewhaus has four brews in the tanks, so far. Paniolo Pale Ale™, which will be served on March 4th; Aloha Lager™; Overboard IPA™ (India Pale Ale); and a yet un-named Irish Stout, which will be tapped for St. Patrick's Day. All were brewed on site at the new Waimea brewery, which is officially the "highest" in Hawai'i at 2,764-feet above the sea, at Cook's Corner at the intersection of Mamalahoa Highway and Kamamalu Street next to the former Taco Tako Taqueria restaurant, C&S Outfitters and Mountain Road Cycles.
"It is rewarding to see our dreams come true. For over ten years my wife Jayne and I have envisioned owning and operating a public haus – a casual, fun community gathering place here in Waimea that combines great beer, great food and great music." The first step of their dream started with the purchase of Tako Taco, a successful Mexican restaurant in the heart of Waimea. The Kerns have been operating the restaurant since August 2008. The brewery, which broke ground in July 2010, is located adjacent to the restaurant, and gives Kerns four fermenters in which to create his liquid art – and brew his dreams come true. "We are proud to be able to blend so many local elements in our business. From the fresh, island-grown vegetables, fruits, fruit juices and herbs, to grass-fed beef from Hawai'i island ranches, and from the sweet vibes of live local musicians, we strive to respect our planet and enhance our community."
Kerns began his professional brewing career at Oregon's McMenamins Edgefield in 1993, then was invited to open a brewery in Manila, Philippines. In 1997, he became the founding brewer at Fish and Game in Kahana, Maui, and was still brewing and creating original recipes in 2005 when Garrett and Melanie Marrero took ownership of the brewpub and renamed it Maui Brewing Company. He continued as the brewmaster as the Marreros added a production brewery and canning facility in Lahaina in 2007. It was while serving as brewmaster for Maui Brewing Company that Kerns garnered multiple awards in international competitions alongside beers from all over the U.S. as well as Germany, Canada, Australia, Russia, Trinidad, Romania, Lithuania, Belgium, Japan and Singapore.
"The style of beer we are crafting harkens back more than 100 years to the early 1900s when there were small, high quality breweries in most communities. Over time, a few breweries got larger and larger, the process was speeded up, and the flavors became more homogenized," said Kerns, whose beers take about a month to brew, ferment and condition.
"We're a family business with just 10 employees working in both the restaurant and brewery; everyone does everything" – except for Kerns himself, who is the creator of the beer recipes and takes the sole lead on the brewing process.
"The community here is truly wonderful. We feel so grateful for all their amazing support," said wife Jayne, "and for the relationships we enjoy with our customers, neighbors, local farmers, ranchers and musicians."
Community festivities on Friday will include live music at 6 p.m. by Dan Brauer, guitarist for Leche de Tigre.
Fresh island Mexican cuisine, hand-crafted sodas, beers and fine tequilas are served Mondays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to closing, and Sundays from Noon to 8 p.m.. Big Island Brewhaus is family oriented and open to all ages. Consumption of alcoholic beverages is, of course, limited to persons age 21 & over.
There is live music three nights each week, including Original Music night each Tuesday, Open Mic on Thursday, and Fridays feature a variety of local musicians.
Guests are invited to dine in, take-out, or call ahead (887-1717) for drive-through service.
Big Island Brewhaus will officially introduce their new beers at the 16th Annual Kona Brewers Festival from 2:30-6:30 p.m., Sat., March 12, 2011 at King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, and will also feature samples of their fresh island Mexican cuisine.
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