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Carlow County Council Library Service opens 'Book a Browse' service
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From Monday , 29th June 2020 , members of Carlow County Library and members of the public will have the opportunity to "Book a Browse" in the
over 50,000 book collection in the Carlow Central Library on Tullow Street in Carlow Town.
Visits will last up to 30 minutes where numbers will be limited and family groups of up to 4 people who can browse the shelves and borrow items. Available initially in the Central Library, this initiative will be rolled-out in Tullow and Muinebheag branches over the coming weeks.
"We're delighted to introduce this further step towards the full reintroduction of library services.", says John Shortall, County Librarian "and we know we are presenting a service to the public which has fully considered public safety in line with the National Guidelines for the Carlow Community and our team members who will operate the service"
The service will operate in tandem with the Call & Collect model which has proved very popular and seen more than 200 library members bring books home since June 8th.
Speaking about the reintroduction of services for library , Cathaoirleach of Carlow County Council , Cllr. Tom O'Neill said "I applaud the members of the Library Team under the leadership of our County Librarian John Shortall for their work in the continuation of the delivery of services during these challenging times and for showing great innovation in terms of delivery of services in a new format given the public health restrictions and their requirements to continue to provide a service to the public". The Cathaoirleach continued to say "Given its location in Carlow Town, the Central Library is a hub of activity in the Town Centre and as a Council we look forward to welcoming back visitors in this controlled operation which is designed to ensure that members of the public feel safe while enjoying the library experience" , the Cathaoirleach concluding by saying "I look forward to seeing the Town Centre reopen in the coming weeks and we as a Council are committed to promoting the many enterprises and experiences in our Town Centre and the safe experience that they are providing their customers and clients".
To book your appointment for Carlow Library please call 059 912 9701 and have your library card to hand. Please note that only lending services are available, up to 12 items per person can be borrowed and items can be returned at any time through the book drop facility at the side entrance of the library.
If you or a member of your household is in 'self-isolation', has Covid-19 or displaying symptoms the Library Service ask that you don't engage in this service.


To be honest, I wasn't planning on writing an essay commemorating the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Then, while I was watching my beloved Jersey Shore, MTV kept airing a commercial asking "What will you do this 9/11?" Even Pauly D was going to do something. I think he said he was going to call everyone he knows in New York City. I could have done that, but none of the people I know that now live in the city were there on September 11th, 2001. Most of them in the same place I was when it happened: at school.
I was taking a test in my history class, of all subjects, when my teacher was called out of the room. He came back and told us that a plane had just crashed into one of the Twin Towers. I finished my test, the bell rang, and I went to my next class.
We were supposed to go about the school day as if nothing had happened. A few teachers had borrowed TVs from the library and their classes watched the coverage. They spread the news to the rest of us. Throughout the day I felt this mix of detachment and mild resentment. It was ridiculous to pretend that our world hadn't just come crashing down. I can't blame any of the faculty for trying to keep the day as routine as possible. They were just as confused as everyone else. The entire nation didn't know how to handle what had just happened. It was a little like my memories of when I was six and my grandfather died: things were going on that weren't quite clear, adults were acting differently, and no one was really sure of anything.
My math class was the only one I had where there was no attempt at normalcy. My teacher, though young, had lived in the city for most of her life and she recounted her memories of what was now gone forever. I think the rest of the class was supposed to participate and make it a discussion but no one else had much to say. Instead, we had the shared experience of watching her grieve. Meanwhile, kids lined up wherever there was a phone so that they could call their parents who worked in the city, or their family members who lived there. A lot of kids didn't have cell phones then. I remember wishing I had someone to call. That sounds terrible now, but I needed some shot of reality to break up the emotional haze that blanketed every classroom, hallway, and stairwell.
The strangest part was how close we were to the tragedy and yet how far I felt from it. My school was about two hours from Ground Zero, but it could have been on another planet as far as I was concerned. It only got worse. The more information surfaced, the more the distance increased. It didn't help that I didn't know anyone personally who lost loved ones on September 11th, 2001. I felt guilty about it for years until I realized that my detachment didn't destroy my empathy. Sometimes it's best just to be there while other people are mourning; to let them feel their own pain without feeling alone. I don't know if my math teacher felt any better sharing her memories with a silent class, but I know it's the best thing I could have done at the time. It was the only logical thing to do on the day when everything stopped making sense.
So there you have it: Jersey Shore actually made me think.


Back in 2016, Taiwan first began seriously focusing on offshore wind-power generation, with the aim of ending the territory's reliance on nuclear power by 2025. Now, after a two-year period of consultation and shortlisting, it has both completed its onward development strategy and identified its preferred suppliers, with the initiative expected to roll out over the next two years.
In many ways, harnessing offshore wind power is an obvious move for Taiwan. Around its coast, wind speeds of up to seven metres per second are recorded throughout the year, with the outer seas off Changhua, to the west of the territory, said to be among the best sites in the world for offshore wind farms. In combination with its solar, hydro, geothermal and biomass energy sources, such farms would be expected to provide 20% of the territory's overall power needs by 2025, enabling its nuclear-power generation facilities to be officially pensioned off.
According to local authorities, thermal sources (coal, gas and oil) provided 86% of Taiwan's power in 2017. Nuclear energy accounted for 8.3% and renewables just 4.5%, with a mere 0.6% derived directly from wind power.
This is set to change dramatically in the run-up to 2025. In August 2016, it was anticipated that, within seven years, the territory would have an installed wind-power generation capacity of 4.2 gigawatts (expressed in the familiar domestic unit, 4.2 million kilowatts), with onshore turbines providing 1.2GW and offshore turbines a further 3GW. At the time, the existing onshore capacity was 682 megawatts (projected to rise to 800MW by 2020), while the installed offshore capacity was zero (projected to rise to 520MW by 2020).
Ushering in a preliminary stage in 2012, local authorities, via the Offshore Wind Power Demonstration Incentive Programme, offered to pay 50% of the installation costs and up to NT$250 million (US$8.12 million) in subsidies to the three companies chosen to develop these pilot turbines by the 2020 initial deadline. In the end, the three successful bidders – all Taiwan-based – were Swancor Industrial, Taiwan Power Company (TPC) and Fuhai Wind Farm Corp.
As the project developed, Swancor completed work on its first two turbines in 2017, with its wind-farm sites subsequently passing the required environmental impact assessment. TPC was awarded the contract to develop the Changhua offshore wind-power demonstration project in February 2018, with Belgium's Jan de Nui Group and Japan's Hitachi signing a deal worth NT$24.99 billion (US$812 million) to manufacture and install the required turbines. The project is now expected to come online in late 2020. Following controversy over local fishing rights and a failed environmental impact assessment, Fuhai dropped out of the programme in January this year.
It was the second-stage tender, however, that attracted the real interest of overseas developers. In 2015, 36 potential wind-farm sites were identified with 22 subsequent proposals then subjected to environmental impact assessments and 19, eventually, given the go-ahead. In January this year, local authorities announced the proposed capacity and operational requirements for the planned offshore sites. This resulted in nine developers submitting bids for 18 sites, representing a proposed total installed capacity of about 10.6GW.
According to local authorities, the tenders had a combined capacity of 3.836GW, considerably above the initially targeted 3.5GW level. Three overseas developers – wpd, Ørsted and CIP – secured the largest share, perhaps reflecting the particular interest in the Taiwanese market on the part of European operators. Among the local contenders, TPC and CSC emerged as the major winners overall.
Of particular note is the impact that the highly competitive nature of the tendering had on the final pricing structure. As a result, the winning contractors will only receive between NT$2.22 (7.21 US cents) and NT$2.55 per kilowatt hour, with the specified range falling far below the original expectations of both local authorities and many within the industry. Significantly, the price is less than half of this year's officially stipulated feed-in rate for offshore wind power and even lower than Taiwan's current average electricity tariff (NT$2.60/kWh).


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PRE LITIGATION DISCOVERY: TO BE OR NOT TO BE
By Mandisi Rusa
This article has been necessitated by the continued tendency of the parties in a potential litigation who use the provisions of the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 ("the Act") to secure early discovery of a document before the commencement of legal proceedings on the basis that such document could assist them to formulate a claim against a potential defendant. According to a recent majority judgment in the matter of UNITAS HOSPITAL / VAN WYK AND ANOTHER 2006 (4) SA 436 SCA, this practise is not permissible.
The facts in this matter were, briefly, as follows:
The husband of the first respondent died whilst he was a patient at the appellant's hospital. The first respondent contended that the death of her husband was caused by the negligence of the staff of the appellant. She also believed that she had an action against appellant for damages that she suffered in consequence of her late husband's death who was suffering from crohn's disease. During his period of admission to the appellant, the deceased was treated by various medical specialists including Dr Naude. The first respondent visited her husband daily and was very critical of the nursing staff of the appellant. The first respondent lodged a complaint with the management of the appellant after her husband's death complaining, inter alia, about the vomiting and aspiration by her husband at the time he was a patient of the appellant. According to the first respondent, this occurrence took place because the deceased was given solid food to eat against the instructions of his doctors. She based her belief on the expert evidence received from various doctors who examined the deceased prior to his death.
Aggrieved by this state of affairs, the first respondent informed the appellant of her intentions to institute action against it and made a request to the appellant, in terms of section 50 of the Act, to furnish her with a report prepared by Dr Naude ("the report") which she believed was the product of investigation into the nursing conditions at the appellant and which was specifically undertaken as a result of her husband's death. The appellant refused to furnish the first respondent with the documentation she sought on the ground that the first respondent had failed to establish that she required the report for the exercise or protection of any right.
Section 50 (1) provides that a requester is entitled to the records in the possession of a private body if:
(a) the information is required for the exercise or protection of any rights;
(b) the requester complies with the procedural requirements of the Act relating to a request for access to that information;
(c) access to the information requested cannot be refused on any of the grounds provided for in sections 62 and 70.
In consequence of the appellant's refusal, the first respondent applied to the Pretoria High Court ("the court a quo") to seek an Order for access to the report.
In her Founding Affidavit, the first respondent did not specifically state that she required the report for the exercise of any right as is required by subsection 50 (a). She only averred that without access to the report, her right to claim damages from the appellant would be affected. In its answering affidavit, the appellant averred that the first respondent did not require the report for the exercise or protection of any rights as contemplated by section 50 (1) (a) of the Act in that she had already had access to whatever information her experts would require to advise her on the formulation and assessment of her claim. The allegations by the appellant were not denied by the first respondent in her replying affidavit.
The court a quo granted the Order sought by the first respondent. The appellant appealed against that decision to the SCA.
The SCA in its majority decision, per Brand JA, held that if the requester cannot show that the information sought would be of assistance for the stated purpose, access to that information would be denied. Reasonably required, the court held, is understood to connote a substantial advantage or an element of need. The court found that the first respondent did not require the report to formulate her claim for the purposes of instituting an action and that once she has instituted her civil action, the appellant would be obliged to make the report available in terms of Rule 35 of the Uniform Rules, provided that the contents of the report were relevant to the issues on the pleadings.
It was further held that once the proceedings have commenced, the rules of discovery would take over as the provisions of PAIA thus no longer apply. This view by the learned judges is borne by the provisions of section 7 of the Act which exclude the application of the Act if the record requested for the purposes of civil proceedings was so requested after the commencement of such proceedings.
Brand JA held the view that resorting to section 50 was a "fishing expedition" which could arise if the aforesaid section was used to facilitate pre-action discovery as a general practice. He also held that pre-action discovery under section 50 should remain the exception rather than the rule. In other words, it must be available to a requester who has shown the element of need or substantial advantage of access to the requested information.
The Court further held that although it is legitimate to use the provisions of section 50 to identify the right defendant, it could not agree with the Court a quo's finding that one was entitled to all information which would assist in evaluating one's prospects of success against a potential defendant. The first respondent, the court held, had a number of alternative sources of information that were available to her as to what happened to her late husband while in hospital. Furthermore, the Court held that the first respondent had failed to substantiate her claim that the report would be of assistance to her in her case against the appellant. The question whether the first respondent had shown the element of need or the substantial advantage was found not to have arisen. The appeal was accordingly upheld.
In a dissenting judgment, Cameron JA held that the litigation of the first respondent would involve issues not only of individual conduct and responsibility but would scrutinize how the hospital's systems functioned and whether institutional procedures and protocols caused or permitted actions by individual members of staff. The learned judge went on to say that the declared objects of the Act in terms of section 9 thereof suggest that where appropriate, courts should encourage transparency, accountability and effective governance in private institutions. The learned judge emphasized the importance of pre litigation discovery in that it assists a litigant or opponent to determine whether litigation should commence at all and, if it has, whether it should proceed. He further held that where access to a document can be of assistance in avoiding the initiation of litigation, or opposition to it, the objects of the statute suggest that access should be granted.
The above reasoning by Cameron JA is the same as that adopted in the matter of VAN NIEKERK / PRETOTIA CITY COUNCIL 1997 (3) SA 839 (T) at 848G. In that matter, Cameron J, as he then was, held as follows: "while the applicant may arguably be in possession of some information on the basis of which she may issue summons against the respondent, there can be no doubt that, the less information she has, the higher she runs the risk of either formulating her claim incorrectly or even of proceeding with the litigation when, with a fuller picture, she might decide not to. Another advantage of assessing information early is that, if indeed, based on the available information, the applicant does not have a case against the first respondent, the applicant will be placed in the position to know this early and therefore avoid unnecessary litigation".
Returning to the Unitas matter, Cameron JA concluded in his dissenting judgment by holding that the reasoning for his approach in the VAN NIEKERK matter was the objective of promoting early settlement of disputes by assisting potential litigants to evaluate the viability of their claims in the light of the documentation sought.
To the extent that a party must endeavour to fully investigate the strength of its claim before resorting to litigation which is usually costly and unnecessary, I support the views of Cameron JA, notwithstanding his judgment being in the minority. To me, his judgment appears to be more in step with the Constitution's values and, in contrast to the majority's formalistic interpretation of the statute, the dissent interprets it purposively and generously.

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The Delacorte Theater, can be found just off of 80th street on the southwest corner of the Great Lawn.
In 1962, the Delacorte Theater officially opened with a production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice starring George C. Scott and James Earl Jones. Summer home of the Public Theater, each season, more than 100,000 people from acrosTs the country, and around the world, enjoy free performances at this open-air theater. Tickets are free--theater-goers need only wait on line — a New York City tradition for more than 45 years. Located at the heart of Central Park, the Delacorte Theater is best known for The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park, one of New York City's most beloved summer traditions. Two plays are produced each summer, at least one of which is traditionally a play by Shakespeare. While the Theater is responsible for having introduced many a new talent to the stage, it also frequently employs more well-known actors and actresses, including Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, among others. The Theater boasts a seating capacity of 1,872, offering clear views of the stage from any seat in the house. Both Turtle Pond and the majestic Belvedere Castle can be seen in the background, completing the picturesque setting for this renowned Central Park theater.


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"Receive Comfort. You Ready?"
Comfort, O comfort my people,
says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that she has served her term,
that her penalty is paid,
that she has received from the Lord's hand
double for all her sins.
A voice cries out:
"In the wilderness prepare the way of the
make straight in the desert a highway for
our God.
Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
Then the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed,
and all people shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."
All people are grass,
their constancy is like the flower of the
when the breath of the Lord blows upon
it;
but the word of our God will stand for
Get you up to a high mountain,
O Zion, herald of good tidings;
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings,
lift it up, do not fear;
say to the cities of Judah,
"Here is your God!"
See, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd,
he will gather the lambs in his arms,
and carry them in his bosom,
and gently lead the mother sheep.
No one in the Emergency Room knew quite what to do with me as a Chaplain. It was my final Semester of Seminary, and three days a week I'd ride the train from Princeton to Penn Station, take the subway up to Columbus Circle, and walk into Roosevelt-St. Luke Hospital's ER. I loved working with the nurses, staff, and doctors in the Emergency Department, mostly because they had no idea what to make of me. What did a chaplain have to offer? I could bring someone a glass of water if I got permission from the medical team, and if someone was in pain I could request a pain consult to provide comfort, but beyond that, their training didn't cover how to utilize a chaplain as part of the healing team. Each day in the ER, I got a printout of patients, and would make my rounds. I quickly became friends with the floor's social worker. She was a force of nature that people deeply respected. She had been at ground zero after 9-11, caring for first responders for months, and was tough as nails. She helped create discharge plans, enroll people in recovery programs, find a therapist, signed people up for Medicaid, get them on food stamps. But me? No one quite knew what to have me do. Still, I showed up, and would talk with folks and their families, pray with them, and wait. After a while I would spend my time talking with the nurses and doctors. I didn't really know what I was supposed to do either, but that's what this semester was all about.
One of the new resident doctors was from Brooklyn, with a strong accent, and a no-nonsense attitude that was made for TV. She was direct, to the point, and thought I was hilarious. What was a chaplain good for? Still, I'd swing by her desk and ask if she had anyone who could use a pastoral care visit. One day I walked onto the floor and she immediately waved me over. "Look," she said, "I've got a young woman in her 20's who I want you to talk to." She explained that the woman worked at a jewelry shop and had been taking down a box from a shelf in the storeroom. The box was above her head, and was heavier than she had expected, and when she pulled it down, her arms couldn't hold it. She was wearing a cheap ring from the store, and as the box fell it hit a table, the ring had bent, and was now cutting into her finger. The doctor explained to me that the ring had to be cut off or she would lose the finger, and the young woman was terrified.
The doctor pulled out from a drawer what looked like a drill, with a circular saw drill bit. She revved it up. "I need to cut it off with this. There's a guard I need to find to put on here that will make sure I don't cut her, just the ring, but I can never remember quite how to put it on. Can you talk to her while I try to find it? Maybe you can calm her down. I mean, I could cut it off without the guard, but she would have to be completely still or else," and she revved the saw mean icingly. From the room, we both heard "Doctor, I can hear you. Please find that guard!"
I walked in and was surprised to see a young man with her as well. He shook my hand and told me he was her boyfriend. We started talking, and I realized that he wasn't helping much. He kept making jokes about the saw, telling stories of injuries that had landed him in the ER. She was terrified, with her hand bandaged, sitting up on the bed. After a while, seeing how much the boyfriend was making her nervous, she and I shared a conspiratorial glance. "Have you had anything to eat?" I asked her. "Not since breakfast. I could really go for a Snickers." I told the boyfriend where he could find one, choosing the coffee shop that would give us about 15 minutes to chat. Once he left, she looked at me and said "Thank you, he's just making me so nervous." I really didn't know what to do to calm her down beyond getting rid of the boyfriend, but I tried. After a few minutes, I realized that she was probably only a few years younger than me, and I tried to imagine what I would be experiencing in this moment. My parents lived on the other side of the country, and I had ended up in the hospital twice since I had come out East. All I really wanted in those moments was someone in the room I could trust, who would comfort me. On a whim I asked her, "Is this the first time you've been to the ER without your parents?" She immediately burst into tears. "I just want my Mom here. She has always been there when I was scared with doctors." We talked some more, and I asked her what her Mom would do if she was here. "She'd hold my other hand when they cut the ring off and tell me that the doctor knew what she was doing. I trust the doctor, but I just need someone to hold my hand." I asked her if she wanted me to tell the boyfriend to do that for her, and she nodded. "He keeps making jokes about them cutting my finger off. He tells me that he's had way worse injuries, but he's not the one in pain right now. He just makes it worse." We prayed, and I walked to the door to wait for the boyfriend to return. I looked him straight in the eye and told him what his job was. No jokes. Hold her hand. Tell her she's safe, and only look at her, not what the doctor was doing. Looking at me, he said "I really had no idea how to comfort her. This is so weird. I hate seeing her afraid." I swung by the doctor's desk, and she had found the guard for the saw. "All ready?" she smiled. "Hey," the Doctor asked. "What did you do? She seems so much calmer." I told her about asking about what her family would do if they were here. A smile came on the doctor's face. "I'll have her call her Mom on her cellphone and put her on speaker. I can explain to her Mom what I'm going to do and the boyfriend and her mom can support her. I know what it's like to be away from your family and be scared. I call my Mom all the time from the break room."
Walking into that room in the ER, I knew that this young woman was going to give permission for the doctor to cut the ring off eventually, but I hadn't realized that what she needed was to be surrounded by folks to comfort her so she could dig deep into her courage to move forward. She knew what needed to happen, but it was scary, and she just needed to be able to say that out loud, and to be heard. The doctor had tried to explain it logically to her, but this wasn't about a logical decision. Logically she knew what needed to happen. But just because we logically know something, doesn't mean we're not scared, and sometimes we just need to be human and share that we are afraid, and receive some comfort; not distraction, not to be told not to worry, but to know we're not alone, and that others are with us.
The people of God in our scripture reading this morning know it's time to leave Babylon and go to their ancestral home. Folks of all ages and abilities have been told by the Persian emperor, Cyrus, who has conquered Babylon, that they can return to Jerusalem, to Judah, and rebuild the temple. But many of the Hebrew people don't want to go. It's been 70 years, and Jerusalem had been completely destroyed. Would it be safe to return? It's a long journey. There are winding roads that could have bandits hiding in the next curve. Their carts, carrying all they own, are scary going down and up hills, and getting stuck in the middle of nowhere was a real possibility. There's a journey ahead, and it's going to be difficult. And so, a prophet, from the community and tradition of Isaiah, reminds the people that yes, they will journey through the wilderness, but they will not be alone. There are folks in that wilderness, who know the way. They can prepare the roads, the ways in Hebrew, to ease their journey. There's a job for those who call the wilderness, not a wild place, but home. Still, most of the people don't go. They stay in Babylon. But for the ones who do, life is going to be different. They are going to create a new way of life, rooted in the traditions of the past, made stronger from their time in exile, but they're going to need some comfort to head into a land none of them have ever been to.
We're in a kind of exile these days, aren't we? Not one at the hands of empires, although the shockingly poor federal response is leading to untold death and suffering during this Pandemic. But we're going to have a new administration in the White House, and there is hope coming. But right now, we're in an exile from what our lives were like before. As a congregation, we've shifted how we worship, how we exist as a church, how we live our lives together. Slowly, we're seeing the journey ahead begin to take shape. This Advent, while the virus rages, we're beginning to see how we can prepare the way into a new future, one that won't ever be the same as before, but that can build upon the best of the past, and new dreams for our future. We're in a liminal space, an in-between time, a wilderness journey. Our wilderness journey holds the potential to help prepare the way for others.
We're on our way to liberation from this virus. But there are some fears about how to get there. We are in for a difficult winter. The daily death toll is shocking, and we are beginning to experience more restrictions. Some of us have found ways to navigate this, but many of us are still trying to find our way. And now, we're beginning to hear from folks who have received the vaccines. They are so effective. But for most folks, after the first dose, many people experience a day of headaches, aches, fever, exhaustion. It's our bodies responding exactly like they should, creating a response to overcome the virus if we're exposed. But it can be scary. The vaccines we are going to get take two doses to be effective, and there's a fear that people will be reluctant to take the first dose, and when they feel sick, doctors are worried that people won't come in to take the second dose. But many of you, you'll be the first to get the vaccine, because you're frontline workers, over 65, or have medical issues that put you at a higher risk. You can help share your experience and provide comfort to those who are reluctant to get immunized. Our lives will continue to be restricted until around 70% of the population have been vaccinated. It's going to take some comfort for us to get there. And I worry if we can do it. But then I look around, and in small ways I see God at work among us, and I find hope and love abounding.
The past few weeks Cassidy has been working hard with Kevin and our choir on drive-in Church. A colleague of mine, Rev. Becca Crate, the pastor of Springfield Presbyterian Church, reached out to ask how we were making it work. And so, Cassidy created the most incredible class on how to do drive-in Church. The comfort she provided for Becca and Springfield's music minister was so loving. We were on a Zoom, dreaming about how we can gather in a new way. And we are hoping that Cassidy will be able to help other churches, who will pay her for her expertise, and provide funds for our music ministry. It's a way of us comforting and preparing the way for others, and for them to comfort and prepare the way for us financially going into the new year. It's new to all of us, but Cassidy is helping to prepare the way for others, from her experiences in the wilderness of FM transmitters and our parking lot choir. I've seen you all comforting one another as well; from our supporting our families with children, to re-imagining how to celebrate monumental birthdays for each other, to providing comfort to so many who are grieving.
Maybe you're someone who has a journey ahead you're worried about. Who can help to prepare the way for you? Maybe you've recently moved into a retirement community; so many of us know the fears of that journey. Maybe you are grieving the death of someone you love or have a family member who has contracted COVID. You're not alone. Maybe this season has made you realize now is the time to start the road to recovery and embrace sobriety. There is a fellowship of many of us on similar journeys. Some of us are on journeys of raising kids who we are fostering, or adopting, or kids that are coming out, or are gender creative. You're not in this alone. Others of us are struggling with the anticipatory grief of a loved-one struggling with dementia and are seeing that they need more care than we can provide. So many of us have walked that road. We're not going to tell you to suck it up and just jump in. Our calling as disciples is often to listen, to make space for each other to be human, and help prepare the way through offering comfort, and then to work together to make the journey just a little bit easier.
Advent is an invitation to prepare the way for God's liberation and wholeness for others. It's also an invitation for us to be comforted, so we can hear the voice of the Spirit saying, "This is the way. Walk in it. You won't be alone."
The Holy one, I often think, is busy working as a loving matchmaker for breakthroughs into liberation. We can't do this alone. We need comfort, to know we are loved, exactly for who we are in this moment, especially when we face a wilderness journey. And many of us, we have testimonies of God seeing us through, and coming even more fully into ourselves. May we hear from the Holy one words of comfort. May we connect with those who can help us prepare the way, and may we all rest in the knowledge that we are Beloved, loved enough by God to be loved exactly where we are, and who we are, while being invited into a good and broad land of freedom beyond our imagining. In the name of our Loving Divine Parent, Sibling Christ, and Holy Spirit Friend, Amen.


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Best of our wild blogs: 2 Dec 18
16 Dec (Sun) - Free guided walk at Chek Jawa Boardwalk
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The banana money trail: Prices rising in Singapore, but farmers not gaining
The cost of bananas from the Philippines has shot up, but farmers are struggling with losses, so where is the money from consumers going to, ultimately? The series For Food's Sake! investigates.
Derrick A Paulo and Anna Tolentino Channel NewsAsia 1 Dec 18;
DAVAO, Philippines: Of all the types of bananas his family's fruit business sells, the Philippine Cavendish variety is the most popular, owing to its appearance.
"They look almost perfect. There are fewer blemishes and fewer scratches, compared to the Malaysian ones," said retailer Ben Phua. "Malaysian bananas have black spots."
Those spots are actually sugar spots and thus equate to sweeter bananas, but "not many consumers are willing to accept the look of the bananas".
The price he pays for the Cavendish variety, however, has gone up by 25 per cent in the past three years. That works out at around 50 cents more per kilogramme, which is passed on to customers.
The reason for the hike is a fungal disease – one that all banana growers fear – which struck the Philippines hard in 2015 and has since wiped out plantations.
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Indonesia: 'We're only fighting fires of past sinners': Luhut defends govt's palm oil support
The Jakarta Post 2 Dec 18;
Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has rebuffed claims that he and the government were not paying attention to the deforestation and forest fires caused by oil palm plantations.
He said he was also worried about their environmental impacts on younger generations, but he claimed the government was struggling to make progress since the land concessions for the plantations, some of which were on fire-prone peatlands, had been given out by past governments.
"We're just fighting fires [created by] past sinners," he said during a press conference at his office in Central Jakarta on Friday, as quoted by tempo.co.
Luhut reiterated his derision for environmental group Greenpeace Indonesia, which had disrupted the operations of a tanker carrying palm oil belonging to the Wilmar trading company in the Bay of Cadiz near Spain, saying that the government has every right to question the local chapter of an international group.
Indonesia: Injured Sumatran elephant rescued, fitted with tracker
Nurul Fitri Ramadhani
An injured elephant was found in Panca village, Aceh Besar, Aceh, on Thursday, after she had been roaming around plantations in the area for days.
Residents reported sighting the female, which had injuries to her tail and the left side of her chest, to the Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA Aceh). The agency sent a team to start searching for the elephant on Wednesday night and she was located on Thursday.
The chairman of BKSDA Aceh, Sapto Adji Prabowo, and his team conducted surgery on the elephant on the same day. The team had to amputate the tail as the injury and resulting infection was too severe to save it.
"The surgery ran smoothly and the elephant has been given antibiotics and vitamins," Sapto said in a written statement.
Indonesia: Walhi calls for protection of Sumatran tiger
Antara 1 Dec 18;
Medan, N Sumatra, (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Forum for Environment (Walhi) has called for protection of Sumatran tiger or Panthera Tigris Sumatrae and called on the people to not hunt it.
"Protecting Sumatran tiger is not only the responsibility of the government but also the people," the executive director of Walhi North Sumatra, Dana Prima Tarigan, said here on Saturday.
She said tigers that entered neighborhoods must not be hurt or killed, adding that the animal had done it because their habitat has been damaged by the irresponsible people.
She said the killing of a tiger that recently entered Bangkelang village in the district of Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra, must never happen again.
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Alison Gillwald (Ph.D.) is the executive director of Research ICT Africa and holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Development, Policy and Practice, where she convenes a transdisciplinary Ph.D. program that focuses on information and communication technology policy and regulation.
A former regulator, she was appointed to the founding Council of the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority after heading the policy department at the first broadcasting regulator, the Independent Broadcasting Authority, which was established in the wake of the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994.
Alison also served as chairperson of the South African National Digital Advisory Body, which reported on digital migration in 2001, and was appointed to the board of the public broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation; she is currently deputy chairperson of the South Africa National Broadband Advisory Council. She has provided technical assistance to several African countries and regional bodies, advising the Ministry of Communication on South Africa's National Broadband Policy, South Africa Connect, and the African Development Bank and the Government of Mauritius on the i-Mauritius broadband policy.
She has worked extensively with multilateral agencies, such as the International Telecommunication Union and the World Bank, and served on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers President's Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation. She sits on the board of the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa.


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There's a type of Philly corruption that's legal, but corrosive. Here's one recent example—and our proposal to deal with it
Last week, when we debuted our Philly Corruption All-Star playing cards—collect 'em all and trade them with your friends!—I wrote about the culture of corruption we've long tolerated here, a culture notable for its lack of shame and for good people who regularly look the other way in the face of systemic abuse. Of course, we focused on obvious cases of corruption, like the indicted and convicted pols whose perp walks account for so many of our headlines these days.
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The real outrage is not how corrupt Philly is. It's how many good people shrug and look away
But there's another type of corruption that also sets us apart, and it's the kind that's completely legal. In some ways, it's more corrosive than good old-fashioned politicians on the take. It's traditions like Councilmanic Prerogative, the near-absolute power each of the city's 10 District Council members wield over development projects in their respective districts. It has in the past led to illegal acts—former Council members George Schwartz, Rick Mariano and Leland Beloff all went to jail for shaking down developers—but even when the privilege doesn't lead to extortion, it constantly reenforces that, when it comes to Philly, all politics are transactional. It's the product of an insider-dominated game, one in which the players seem to count on ho-hum reactions among voters to their brazen self-dealing.
Earlier this month, another example of this Philly Way reared its misshapen head when Council began its seven weeks of budget hearings, with 15 separate agencies appearing before our august legislative body in order to justify their spending of taxpayer dollars. There is one such agency that will, as has long been customary, be exempt from such transparency: Council itself, which doesn't subject its own $17 million budget to public scrutiny. Kudos to The Inquirer's Chris Brennan for raising this issue. "There is no way else to view this," he writes. "Council operates under a different set of rules than it enforces for the rest of Philadelphia's government."
Forget about the hearing. How about just publishing the itemized $17 million budget on Council's website? Put it up there for all to see—in an easily understandable format. Why wouldn't you? You either believe you're a steward of the people's money—or not.
This hypocrisy is not new. Back in 2012, Brennan worked for me at The Daily News, and he pressed Council President Darrell Clarke on it then; Clarke promised to "enhance the ability for people to see what's in Council's budget," while refusing to say how. Five years later, I guess he's still working up that plan.
What is Clarke hiding? As is so often the case in the insular world of Philly politics, he's looking out for his own little fiefdom. His Council budget, after all, is what enabled him to create a new position for his buddy, former Councilman Wilson Goode, Jr., after the electorate voted Goode out of office in 2015. Suddenly, Goode was back in City Hall, as Clarke's senior policy adviser, making $135,000 in taxpayer money—$6,000 more than he was taking in as a Councilman.
That's how Philly works—sweetheart deals from insiders for insiders, with hardly any transparency and even less accountability.
When, earlier this month, Brennan raised the issue of their institutional hypocrisy to Council members, they disrespected your intelligence by feigning puzzlement: Just how could they be transparent about their own budget? "Most of them focused on process," Brennan reported. "Would Council ask itself questions, they wondered."
No doubt, it's a vexing issue. How could Council hold a hearing on its own budget? Who would ask the questions? It conjures up the courtroom scene in Woody Allen's brilliant Bananas, in which, at the four-minute mark below, Allen the lawyer questions Allen the defendant:
We hear you, Council. Holding a hearing on your own budget must be terribly complicated. So forget about the hearing. How about just publishing the itemized $17 million budget on Council's website? Put it up there for all to see—in an easily understandable format. Why wouldn't you? You either believe you're a steward of the people's money—or not. If the latter, at least have the guts to say to your voters that how you spend their money is none of their business.
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What we eat matters not just for our health, but for the planet, too. Yet only a handful of pioneering governments have issued guidelines promoting "win-win" diets that can help tackle two of the most urgent challenges of our time: good nutrition for all and addressing climate change.
This is the key conclusion from a new study published today by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Food Climate Research Network (FCRN), which is part of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford.
Plates, Pyramids, Planet evaluates government-issued food guidelines from 83 countries, looking in particular at whether they link to environmental sustainability. At the time the study was conducted, only four countries' recommendations – Brazil, Germany, Sweden and Qatar – drew connections to the threats posed by modern food production systems and the dietary patterns that drive them. Two more – the Netherlands and the United Kingdom - have since taken steps to incorporate environmental considerations into their food guidelines.
The low number of countries overall signals a missed opportunity for many countries to promote diets and food systems that are not only healthy but sustainable, the study argues.
The study shows that most governments have yet to issue national dietary advice, and this lack is particularly apparent in low income countries. For example, only five countries in Africa have such guidelines. Most existing guidelines still fail to consider the environmental impacts of dietary choices.
The study emphasises that, to have a real effect on food consumption, dietary guidelines need to have clear links to food policies that are actually implemented, such as school and hospital meal standards and advertising and industry regulations.
"Dietary guidelines are an essential first step. They provide a vision at national level of how we could and should be eating. But often the connection with practical policies on the ground is absent, or unclear," says Tara Garnett of FCRN and co-author of the report.


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Reiki relaxes the mind and can reduce headaches, over-active thinking, insomnia, or upset stomach due to result of stress.
Physically, Reiki relaxes the entire muscular-skeletal system which promotes healing of bodily tissues.
Psychological healing occurs as conditions of anger, worry, sadness, and other unhealthy feelings can be released as well replaced with self-worth, confidence and tranquility.
"Miraculous" experiences have been reported after an individual receives Reiki.
Reiki is administered through the hands of a Reiki practitioner while the client lies fully clothed top a massage table.
The practitioner's hands are held with light touch or off the body at the head, abdomen, hips, legs, knees, back, and neck.
Towards the end of each session, the practitioner will request the client to turn over so the back side may be cleared.
CranioSacral pressure point release therapy is utilized in the beginning and end of the session.
In session, it is common to feel tingling sensations, pulsations or waves of energy flowing throughout your body. Warmth, a sense of floating, or visuals of colors, people, or animals can occur as well. Body temperature may drop a little due to resting, naps are completely welcomed.
Post-session, it is common for one to expereince a true sense of peace within, feel energetically lighter and have an overall sense of well-being. Stress or tension is minimized and strong clarity is expereince for at least a few days up to indefinitely. You may feel lighter or heavier depending on what was released from your energetic field. Lighter do to less energetic weight you carry, heavier because you will feel more grounded and connected to earth.
More focus and balance will exist in your life and amongst the relationships around you most likely. This is a re-calibration. It is important to integrate a daily practice to maintain a balanced state.


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Lita Ford Happy birthday, Lita Ford... Born on September 19, 1958 in London, England, Lita Ford is a rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, who was the lead guitarist for The Runaways in the late 1970s before embarking on a solo career in the 1980s....
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Do you provide every-other-day visits for cats?
No, and we highly advise against them. In our combined, extensive experience with cats, we are aware of several instances where a young, apparently healthy cat was in a critical state only a day later. We are committed to providing every pet in our care the most exceptional and loving care available, with a constant eye to their state of physical and emotional health; therefore, all cats in our care must be seen at least once per day.
Can you board my pet in your home?
No. Unfortunately, our staff are neither equipped nor insured to board pets in their private homes. Further, we have found the vast majority of companion animals fare far better physically and emotionally in their own, familiar surroundings than elsewhere, particularly when separated from their humans. In the rare event we believe a pet would fare better in a boarding facility, we are happy to provide referrals to quality, local kennels.
My dog is to be crated when unsupervised in my home. What sort of care arrangements do you suggest?
For crated dogs, we recommend overnight service with a midday break. At a minimum, we require otherwise-crated dogs to be seen a minimum of three times each, 45 minutes per visit, with the service period not to exceed four days. We otherwise recommend crated dogs that cannot be provided this schedule be left in the care of a reputable kennel. Again, we are happen to provide referrals, if needed.
Is there an additional charge for medication/injection/fluid administration?
No. We believe the maintenance of your pet's health - emotional as well as physical - is our most basic responsibility to them. Dependent upon their needs, we may require additional visit time, but no administration fee.
My pet is fearful or aggressive towards strangers. Will you be able to care for them?
Although we cannot care for aggressive animals (or those that display any signs of aggression during our consultation visit), we are extremely proud of our success rate with fearful pets. Only a very few have failed to become great friends with our sitters. If, after a time, we deem your pet truly and irrevocably fearful of us, we would limit the amount of time in your home to that required to provide your pet's basic needs (food, water, litter, etc.).
Can my friend/relative provide some of my pet's care?
No. Our staff must be fully entrusted with all necessary care. Should someone wish to visit with your pet during your absence, arrangements must be made with us in advance and limited to companionship.
Should my pet experience a medical issue during your care, how will it be handled?
As part of our contract, all clients are required to complete a veterinary authorization form which provides us the ability to act as your pet's temporary guardian for the purposes of seeking and approving treatment.
No matter the extent of the issue, all reasonable attempts will be made to contact and make you aware of the problem. Should your pet need to be seen by their normal or an emergency veterinarian, you would be responsible for your sitter's time (as outlined on our "Services" page), as well as all veterinary costs.
My pet is used to having free access to the outdoors. Can you accommodate this?
We do not permit any free access to the outdoors during our period of care. Any cat or dog doors must be securely latched for the duration. Dogs with securely fenced yards are permitted to play and run free in these areas under the supervision of their sitter.
We accept cash, checks (made payable to "Fur Feather Fin") and credit cards through PayPal (https://paypal.me/fffpetcare). You need not have a PayPal account to use this service.
There is no charge for services cancelled 72 hours in advance of the start date.
Services cancelled between 24-72 hours of start will incur a charge of 25% of the total service (maximum fee $50.00).
Services cancelled less than 24 hours before start will incur a charge of 50% of the total service (maximum fee $100.00).
The above policy applies to both intermittent and recurring care (ie. weekly dog walking), however in the case of recurring care, the "total service" period consists of one day of usual care.


Race the Mountain Bike endurance series that rocks!
Round 2 will take you to the hugely popular trails at Awaba MTB Park, just outside of Newcastle in Cooranbong. It's about an hour's drive North from Sydney. The course there is very flowy with lush rain forests and "old-school" bush single trails. We usually mix it up and use different trail combinations every year for this event - we'll be working together with our hosts from the Hunter MTB Club who always have great ideas and awesome trail combo's up their sleeves!
Compete for four or seven hours solo or ride the awesome course in teams – the choice is yours! Experience a fantastic endurance race and that signature Rocky Trail event atmosphere. Great for spectators to see the mountain bike racing action up close – entry is free. Stay on beautiful Lake Macquarie or in Newcastle for a weekend away!
The Shimano Mountain Bike GP is also hosting the official JetBlack NSW/ACT Bike Shop Trophy – customers and bike shop staff can ride for a designated bike shop and go into an additional ranking over the entire series. With kids races and music, the event centre will be pumping.
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U.S. OPPORTUNITY ZONES
From Site Selection magazine, November 2019
The Lands of OZs
Early Returns and Major Concerns Across the Opportunity Zone Landscape
A production studio operated by NBCUniversal Studios will be an anchor for an OZ in Albuquerque.
Photo by MarbleStreetStudio.com courtesy of Visit Albuquerque
by ADAM BRUNS
Like Twitter or a double latte, Opportunity Zones (OZs) have sparked a whole lot of chatter, but little tangible action — if by action we mean projects moving dirt, erecting walls and creating jobs in the 8,700 OZs across the United States defined by low-income census tracts.
In June 2018, by a provision in the 2017 federal tax reform legislation, the U.S. Department of the Treasury certified over 8,700 OZs through the end of 2028. Per the Economic Innovation Group, they have an average poverty rate of nearly 31%,and contain 1.6 million places of business, 24 million jobs, and 35 million Americans. According to the Urban Institute, less than 4% of them are at high risk of rapid socioeconomic change, displacement, or gentrification. But that doesn't mean they're not at medium risk.
Could OZs be used to enable company locations and job creation? The vehicles through which OZ action will take place are Qualified Opportunity Funds (QOFs). The National Council of State Housing Agencies in July published a directory of 163 of them, which collectively expect to raise nearly $43 billion. The Novogradac Opportunity Funds Listing includes 287 QOFs. Accounting and consulting firm Novogradac reported in late October that of those, 112 report having raised $3.17 billion. The total may increase dramatically by the end of this year, as taxpayers must invest by then to receive the maximum 15% reduction in capital gains.
An OZ designation was part of the context behind Grace Street Properties' recent purchase of Station Plaza in North Woodbridge, Virginia, near the new Amazon HQ2.
Of the capital reported raised to date, Novogradac reports, 22.4% ($710 million) is in QOFs focused solely on residential development, and 64.8% ($2.05 billion) is in funds planning to invest in multiple investment categories. "Operating business QOFs are lagging in reported fundraising," said Managing Partner Michael Novogradac. "The positive news is that $201 million has been raised by funds targeting solely commercial real estate, which largely serves as an indirect catalyst for operating businesses, and funds with capital of more than $2.25 billion are planning to invest solely, or at least partially, in commercial real estate."
At least a couple of OZ-related deals are big deals indeed. In September, developer Blue Ocean announced its acquisition of The Middle River Depot, located in Eastern Baltimore County, Maryland. At 2 million sq. ft., Middle River Depot, once home to B-26 bomber manufacturing during World War II, is the largest industrial building in the state of Maryland, and slated to become one of the largest OZ developments in the Mid-Atlantic under its new destination name, "Aviation Station."
The redevelopment of a warehouse property owned by Garcia Realty and Development near downtown Albuquerque into a production studio operated by NBCUniversal Studios will be an anchor of a newly designated OZ. NBCUniversal has promised to spend $500 million on production and hire 330 full-time employees.
Zones on Top of Zones
Incentives guru Timothy J. Bartik, senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Michigan, may know the history of zones programs better than anyone. Author of the new book "Making Sense of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity," Bartik says OZs are really more of a community development policy than an economic development policy.
"That is, the areas targeted are more like small neighborhoods than even the narrowest definition of a local labor market," he explains. "Most people do not work in the neighborhood they live in. Even if OZs targeted job creation very explicitly, just plopping jobs down in a neighborhood won't really be very targeted at people in that neighborhood."
Bartik sees economic development policies as more important than community development policies.
"We need strong local labor markets," he says. "We also need neighborhoods with good amenities. But I think having more good jobs underpins successful investments in neighborhoods. If a local labor market has a low employment-to-population ratio, policies to improve neighborhood amenities in distressed neighborhoods will have some trouble turning things around, and may have issues with gentrification."
Timothy Bartik, Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Image courtesy of upjohn.org
If a high crime rate is causing the distress, target a policy toward crime, he says. If it's about potholes or abandoned houses, directly address those specific issues. "Subsidizing neighborhood capital investment or neighborhood job creation will be more successful, it seems to me, if accompanied by policies that address the neighborhood's problems," he says. "We can't assume that private capital investment by itself will be enough.
"I think the federal Empowerment Zone program of the 1990s, compared to most state enterprise zone programs, provides some evidence there," Bartik explains. "The federal Empowerment Zone program provided tax breaks for Zone job creation with a $100 million block grant for each Zone, which was used to address various zone problems."
As a neighborhood program, the tax break for capital investment by itself is likely to limit OZs' impact "unless states combine this tax break with services that address the causes of the neighborhood's distress," he says. Moreover, "because of problems with the way zones were selected, we are unlikely to ever have high-quality research evidence on whether the program worked or was a boondoggle."
Rockefeller on the Case
Deborah Scott, executive director of Georgia Stand-UP and a founding member and of the TransFormation Alliance, the Atlanta SPARCC team that is focused on equitable transit-oriented development, admits to some nervousness about OZs, because "it's not clear what the community is going to get from it, and whether people are going to stay in place, with an affordable housing component. But it is an opportunity for some of these neighborhoods to see some much-needed investment" in areas that have suffered from a history of disinvestment. "These communities have been resilient and survived," she says, "but the infrastructure has declined. How do you strengthen the fabric of these neighborhoods? Opportunity Zones could be a threat and a benefit."
Are they doing it for the people who are coming, or the people who have been there for years?"
— Deborah Scott, Executive Director, Georgia Stand-UP
It's now fashionable to come in and clean up these derelict areas, she says. But the basic question remains: "Are they doing it for the people who are coming," Scott asks, "or for the people who have lived there for years?"
As if to address that concern, Atlanta will participate in The Rockefeller Foundation's Opportunity Zone Community Capacity Building Initiative, which launched in May. Atlanta, which has more than 82,000 residents living in 26 OZs, will receive $920,000 in grants and services.
"Atlanta has shown strong commitment to ensuring investments in its Opportunity Zones are designed with the most vulnerable in mind," said Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, "and we are pleased to provide additional support to ultimately lift up these communities by enabling new pathways to economic mobility."
The Rockefeller Foundation and Smart Growth America in September announced the launch of the National Opportunity Zones Academy, which will help cities drive sustainable growth by attracting socially responsible investment. The five cities selected to participate in the Academy were Chicago, Greater Miami and the Beaches, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Norfolk, Virginia.
Adam Bruns
Managing Editor of Site Selection magazine
Adam Bruns has served as managing editor of Site Selection magazine since February 2002. In the course of reporting hundreds of stories for Site Selection, Adam has visited companies and communities around the globe. A St. Louis native who grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, Adam is a 1986 alumnus of Knox College, and resided in Chicago; Midcoast Maine; Savannah, Georgia; and Lexington, Kentucky, before settling in the Greater Atlanta community of Peachtree Corners, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
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Shark attacks force World Surf League to cancel major competition in Australia
By Ryan Gaydos , | Fox News
Two separate shark attacks on surfers over the last two days forced the World Surf League to cancel one of its major completion in Western Australia, the organization announced Tuesday. (Reuters)
Two separate shark attacks on surfers over the last two days forced the World Surf League to cancel one of its major competitions in Western Australia, the organization announced Tuesday.
The Margaret River Pro, the league's second major competition, was cancelled over safety reasons due to the spate of sharks attacks, World Surf League CEO Sophie Goldschmidt said in a statement.
"Today, the WSL has made the difficult decision to cancel the remainder of the Margaret River Pro, as a result of exceptional circumstances surrounding this season's event regarding sharks and the safety of our surfers," Goldschmidt said. "This decision has been reached after many hours of consultation with a variety of stakeholders and experts."
Safety concerns forced the World Surf League to cancel a major competition. (Reuters)
The shark attacks occurred in the waters near Gracetown, the location of the surfing competition's primary site at Main Break, Goldschmidt explained. With beached whales in the area, Goldschmidt said it has attracted more sharks and increased the possibility of more attacks.
The league usually has a lot of confidence in its ability to protect surfers when they're in the water, but events in the past have forced the organization to take proper precautions, Goldschmidt said.
"However, the threshold has been crossed for the organization and if we decided to continue the event under the current circumstances, and something terrible were to take place, we would never forgive ourselves," she said.
Two men were injured in separate shark attacks Monday. A 37-year-old man was bitten on the legs and taken to a Perth hospital. The condition of the other man wasn't immediately known.
There had been three more shark sightings since two surfers were attacked near the event site, according to Fox Sports Australia.
On Monday former world champion Gabriel Medina voiced his concerns on social media over the possibility of shark attacks.
"However, the threshold has been crossed for the organization and if we decided to continue the event under the current circumstances, and something terrible were to take place, we would never forgive ourselves."
— Sophie Goldschmidt
"Today they had two shark attacks on a beach next to which we are competing. I don't feel safe training and competing in that kind of place, any time can happen.'' he said on Instagram.
World No. 1 Italo Ferreira also expressed his concerns.
"Very dangerous, don't you think?" he wrote on Instagram. "Is the safety of athletes not priority? We've had multiple alerts. Life is worth more! I hope it doesn't happen to any of us. I don't feel comfortable training and competing in places like this."
Fears of what's lurking the water brought back painful memories of then-world champion surfer Mark Fanning who fought off a shark in 2015 in a World Surf League competition in South Africa.
Fox News' Griff Jenkins and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Richard Gasquet progresses to the third round of Indian Wells, joined by Milos Raonic and Alexandr Dolgopolov
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Wildcards for Paris Masters announced
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s'Hertogenbosch: Giorgi and Mahut win big in the Netherlands
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 15.
The New York Times bestseller starring Anna Pigeon from the author of Winter Study. "Action-packed...a narrative that plunges readers into mystery [and] mayhem."—The Denver PostHoping a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Anna Pigeon and her husband Paul go to southwest Texas, where the Rio Grande is running high. The beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert and the power of the river work their magic—until the raft is lost in the rapids and a young college student makes a grisly discovery. Caught in a strainer between two boulders—and more dead than alive—is a pregnant woman. Anna will soon discover that nature isn't the only one who wants to see the woman and her baby dead...From the Paperback edition.
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Join us on our journey through movies we have never seen before! Sit down, buckle up, and prepare your earholes for Let's Go To The Movies with Ben and Ashley!
On this episode of Let's Go To The Movies we make our long awaited return with our discussion of Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade. You can expect what we were like in eighth grade, Ben missing a rad John Cena reference, and Ashley's real thoughts about the Oscars.


During its meeting of 17 February 2005, the Commission reviewed the proposed revised concept for the National Law Enforcement Museum in Judiciary Square with the specific request from the applicant for the reconsideration of the inclusion of skylights within the plaza between the museum's two pavilions.
While the Commission is sympathetic to the lighting difficulties of an underground facility, it has not yet seen a proposal that would make a skylight in the plaza acceptable. However, the Commission will entertain the review of future designs for the museum that include a skylight element in the plaza. Furthermore, the members recommended that any skylight proposed for the plaza should maintain a low profile and not obstruct access to the Old Courthouse for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
We request that the museum's design team continue their efforts to coordinate with the District of Columbia Courts and their architects for the adjacent project to adapt and add to the Old Courthouse Building to house the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. The careful coordination of these two projects is paramount to the success of both endeavors.
The Commission looks forward to further review of this project. Future submissions should include security features for the Museum and the Courts and a proposal for the museum's signs. As always, the staff is available should you require guidance.


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Reinforce the concept of Olney as a satellite community in the residential and agricultural wedge area.
Protect the Patuxent watershed including the drinking water reservoir, and agricultural and rural open space.
Protect the low-density character of the Southeast Quadrant.