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Hop on a Call with Hops and Grain's Founder Josh Hare
Hops and Grain was the fastest fundraise to $1 Million last year and they're proving their delivery prowess with the steady buildout of their new San Marcos location. As Josh says, "the concrete's moving around and walls are going up" at his brewery and you can listen to our Director of Fundraising Dylan's full conversation with Josh below. So crank up the volume and listen to this short audio during your commute or your bedtime.
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About Hops and Grain & Its History
Can you introduce yourself.
My name is Josh and I'm the founder and CEO here at Hops and Grain brewery, a six-year-old brewery in East Austin, just east of the capital city of Texas.
When did you start this adventure in beer?
Way back before the brewery was a thought of mine, I spent some time in Boulder, CO, at the the epicenter of the mountain beer scene. I was racing triathlons and road bikes and was drinking beer along with all of that. I met some really great folks who were in the beer scene in Boulder and got my wheels turning on how cool it might be work in the beer industry. At the time, I was in specialty retail, selling running shoes and gear. I fell in love with the scene and moved to Austin in 2005 and helped open a running store here.
The beer scene that connected to the health and fitness scene in Boulder was almost absent in Austin. I didn't intend on staying here, but after a few years, I decided to leave the running industry and bring those two worlds together in the city that I fell in love with, Austin. I started raising money in 2009 and then 2010, I found a property and signed a lease. And we started brewing our own beer in 2011.
Walk Us Through the Hops and Grain Brewery
Can you describe the location of the new brewery in San Marcos and its distance from the main streets?
San Marcos is a really cool town. The way it's situated is around the San Marcos river, which creates the heart of San Marcos. The university is almost right on the river. The downtown area is where all the pedestrian foot traffic exists around the square where the bars and restaurants are. We're uniquely positioned that we're walkable from the downtown square and less than a mile from Texas State and we're less than a mile from State 35, where all our delivery trucks and 18 wheelers can go in and out of our facility, and we're also 2 blocks from the downtown square. Everyone is walking around for dinner and drinks and we're right in the heart of the city. It's a cool property. We were actually looking at other properties and the developer of this property actually came looking for us and said he had this space. Sure enough, it was perfectly suited. It used to be a grocery store so all the electricity was in place, which is generally a big time sink in the construction process so we were able to go in and gutted it out. We didn't have to go through any real serious demo and reconstruction permits.
Paint a picture for those investors who haven't been there what this space will look like.
When I lived in Boulder, most breweries serviced like 1 mile radius around the neighborhood. Basically all the beer sold was at the bar. They didn't distribute anything. You couldn't get them at the stores and it became this really cool community gathering space where folks would walk from and to work. So when I moved to Austin and I decided to do this, that is what I looked for and our original location in Austin is one mile from Downtown Austin; it's on 6th street. Most people are familiar with this party area. If you go a little east of Downtown, it's a really rich manufacturing and art area, old manufacturing facilities that closed up and art, maker spaces. So neighborhoods still developed around that, making this. When I looked for properties, that's where I really zero-ed in.
The way we function is we have a tasting room, about 1500 sq ft, open 7 days a week- beer and coffee in the morning and beer in the afternoon. It's an awesome way for people to see how the beer's made. That really translates when they're shopping. We wanted to be accessible on weekends. About 2,000 people come through our tasting room on weekends and we do flights, pints, and pitchers. That's ultimately the lifeblood of our ability to grow. If we didn't have that component, there's no way we could be selling beer outside of our brewery in grocery stores, bars, restaurants. So with San Marcos, we wanted a space that was similar, walkable, close in an industrial park and felt unique. It fits our culture and ethos of the brewery.
We're not trying to go for volume. We're trying to chase the richness of the experience. Volume comes when the experience is rich. If your customers get to come in and drink the beer at the store and fall in love with the story, they'll keep buying it in the market.
Our San Marcos location will be even bigger than Austin's. This year, I think there are 36,000 students enrolled at Texas State, and they're all less than one mile away from the brewery.
Please tell us how Hops and Grain differs from other bars and brewery options in the area.
You've got a a couple options in the main square. Most of them are restaurants that have a few craft beer taps. The limited buy in downtown is parking; it's mostly street parking and either bars or restaurants. But there's nothing you can really go in to see 1) a manufacturing facility. When you walk into our tasting room facility in San Marcos, you'll see massive windows where you'll see the brewers working and see the process happening while sitting in an air conditioned space. Our property has 180 parking spots, which no one in downtown San Marcos has at all. So that itself will be quite a draw. It's incredibly unique. You've got bars and restaurants and right in the middle of all that, you'll have a state of the art 20,000 square foot brewery and tasting room. You can spend the whole night at the brewery.
How Were Funds Used?
You raised $1M on Wefunder. How was the funding used from the Wefunder campaign?
We're adding new packaging formats to our beer cans. We're doing a complete change in our packaging so they go in 6 and 12-package boxes. We put a lot of effort into a couple new brands we're rolling out. One we'll roll out this month and another we'll roll out in September. We're relying on the new San Marcos location to push them out. We started the brand design in hopes that we can really hit the ground running in September.
The construction piece was a big chunk of our cost. Just taking a property, gutting it out and rebuilding it.
Also, our equipment. A lot of people don't really understand how costly it is to build out a brewery. A brewhouse is almost $250,000 and individual tanks is about $45,000 - $50,000. Once you have the infrastructure in place then you can really start scaling. You need a base that's giving you the ability to scale up.
In Austin, we maxed out our capacity in 4-5 years. For a manufacturing business, you shouldn't max out in 4-5 years but we just didn't anticipate to sell as much as we did. San Marcos is really built out with the future in mind. We'll be able to fulfill distribution throughout Texas from that San Marcos facility.
We're also putting in another $250,000 into our tasting rooms as well. So we're really making sure that the space is designed out to accommodate customers and be able to sell growlers, six packs to go, as we continue to evolve. And we have a huge outdoor beer garden and indoors where we'll be able to seat 3x as many people as we can in Austin right now. We've built in a lot of automation too so that we'll be able to operate that brewery with the same number of employees that we have in Austin but produce 4x the amount of beer. That's been all our money's been going.
How's the San Marcos community evolving and interacting with Hops and Grain?
The last couple of months has been slow in terms of updates. I've been using the portal to keep them up to date. But the fun stuff is really happening now. It was fun for me because I got to see the rendering and the mockups but now that it's actually happening and concrete's moving around and walls are going up, it's really fun to provide frequent updates with everyone.
The whole reason we chose to go this route with Regulation Crowdfunding is building a deeper base of people who are invested in what we're doing and our story. Part of keeping people engaged with that is providing unique behind the scenes information not everyone has. So we want to keep doing that; quiet on our social media channel because we want to make sure that as we make our big steps, we get that info out to our investors first. Build a buzz within that core group of people who put their money into what we're doing. And as we get closer to opening, we'll start blasting out and get people excited. We get requests from media about updates and it's nonstop. It's awesome but we want to control the information delivery so that it maximizes the impact.
We've been updating about every 2-3 weeks but it's about to get really frequent. Shiny equipments are coming and walls are coming in.
Does San Marcos community know about you yet?
Reception in San Marcos has been awesome thus far. We already distribute our beers in downtown bars and restaurants here. So the first thing we did when we identified the property is we told everyone in the community before we leaked it out to the press. We told all our accounts here about our plan and asked for advice and feedback. That really helped out because everyone was incredibly excited about us being there. They viewed us as more traffic into the downtown district. Then we started going out to local retail shops that align with the lifestyle and culture that we have. Lots of river rafting, fishing shops. We started giving out a lot of beer to these retail shops to hand out to shoppers. Then we started chatting up about ways that we can help with fundraising, which is what we're committed to here in Austin.
We've definitely tried to get out there and communicate what we're trying to do. We're not trying to take over San Marcos but we're trying to be a good piece of that community. Half our staff went to school in Texas State and four of our production crew live in San Marcos. We're already part of this community, and we wanted to get critical feedback and suggestion from the community. Thus far, it's been well received. The property we have has been vacant for almost 4 years so everyone's excited to what's been an eyesore turn into something that'll bring traffic to the city. We'll have 20 employees in San Marcos and about 15 in Austin.
How Hops and Grain Investors Can Help
How can all your investors help you make it more successful?
The biggest thing we like about investor engagement is telling the story. I believe our potential success is based on a rich story that we can tell. There are over 5,000 craft brewers in the country right now. You can find one in almost any city. What makes you remember one is the story. And for us, that story is deeply rooted in environmental stewardship, community engagement, and industry leadership. Why we have an onsite full-time quality incensory late. We upcycle to make dog treats. We're 100% wind powered. We give a lot of beer away to our local businesses and charities because we really want that story to be something that everyone hears when they think of Hops and Grain, that we're great community citizens. That's what sticks out to people. We are trying to be as transparent as possible with all of our investors. We want to make sure they know and understand the story, because we think that they are much of a salesperson as any of the salesperson we have on staff. We want people to go out and tell our story accurately.
Engaging our investors in a way that educates them on our story is what excites me the most about having a large group of investors. The story gets deeper when more people are involved.
Are you planning to have a grand opening party for your investors in the San Marcos location?
Absolutely, I have a feeling we'll have two nights of celebration with that many folks. The very first weekend we open the doors will be only open to investors. We'll have our full staff there and full tanks of beer. We'll give everyone a tour of the brewery before we open it to the public. Then off to the races!
Anything else you'd like to tell investors?
The fun part's getting started right now. Having been a part of building a few breweries in the past, the boring part is the 6-8 month buildout for construction to before finally hitting the final stages. For everyone that's been waiting for the next steps, it's all about to happen really fast. All the fun info and news is about to start!
A huge thank you to everyone who believed in our project and backed our business. We're incredibly excited to have you on board and cheers to the future!
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Residents of Meridian Township will see the park millage finance renovations and development projects for the rest of the year.
With the .66 millage passed in the Aug. 5, 2014, general election, Meridian Township Parks and Recreation will receive approximately $1,042,000 a year for park development.
The millage will run for a total of 12 years. The owner of a home with a taxable value of $100,000 pays $66.67 a year for the millage.
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Meridian Township has 29 parks and natural areas with more than 904 acres, and keeping the parks clean is a source of pride for the community.
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Angela Johnstone - Graduated with BSc (hons I) in 2008 with a thesis entitled Identification of electron shuttles for biodegradation of chlorinated compounds. Also served as a research assistant throughout 2009.
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Nadhiah Rahman - Graduated with BSc (hons I) in 2011 with a thesis entitled Improving direct rRNA fingerprinting (DRF) technique to characterise microbial communities in complex samples.
Nik Zamri - Graduated with BSc (hons II) in 2011 with a thesis entitled The effects of electron shuttles on methanogenesis.
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Jutta Zwielehner - Joined the group from the University of Vienna (Austria) in 2009 as part of her PhD project entitled Use of stable isotope probing to identify the major consumers of butyrate in faecal samples.
Kathrin Grossmeier - Joined the group from the Technical University of Munich (Germany) as part of her MSc on a project entitled Electron shuttles for catalysing the reductive dechlorination of organochlorines.
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Ms Liza Kretzschmar originally from Germany volunteered in the lab, working with Dr Astrid Michaelsen to develop a convenient standard for quantitative PCR of functional genes involved in anaerobic perchloroethene degradation. Email: z3218219@student.unsw.edu.au
Nasim Shah Mohammadi is a volunteer student originally from Iran visiting the group one day a week May-Dec 2011. She has a BSc and MSc in Microbiology in Iran and then completed a master's by coursework in molecular biotechnology at the University of Sydney. She has worked on the effect of griseofulvin on gene expression in Trichophyton Rubrum and on the use of cellulose as a biomaterial. Nasim is now screening activated sludge isolates for AHL production.
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Das Museum Erve Kots ist ein kleines Freilichtmuseum mit Pfannkuchenrestaurant, Konferenzzentrum und Brauerei in Lievelde (Gemeinde Oost Gelre), Provinz Gelderland, Niederlande.

Geschichte
Ursprünglich war Erve Kots ein Gasthaus. Zu der Zeit des achtzigjährigen Krieges gegen  Spanien hatte Prinz Friedrich Heinrich von Oranien bei der Belagerung von Groenlo hier sein Hauptquartier.  Das Gasthaus, später Bauernhaus, wurde von der Familie Henry Vomit bis 1936 bewohnt bzw. betrieben. Ein Modell der Gräben, die bei der Belagerung um Groenlo herum entstanden findet sich im neuen Museumsgebäude.

Beschreibung
Das Museum zeigt das Leben von Bauernfamilien mit Bediensteten und Tieren aus der Region Achterhoek. Dabei wird sowohl die Arbeit mit den Haustieren als auch die häusliche Textilarbeit der Bäuerin dargestellt. Zu sehen sind mehrere mit originalen Gerätschaften eingerichtete Bauernhöfe und eine Mühle. Des Weiteren gibt es ein mit Dampfmaschinen betriebenes Sägewerk, das als Museumsanlage in Stand gehalten wird. Zum Gesamtkomplex gehört auch ein Gasthaus, eine Ölmühle und eine kleine Brauerei.

Siehe auch
 Liste europäischer Freilichtmuseen

Weblinks

 Website des Museums (niederländisch)

Volkskundemuseum
Freilichtmuseum in den Niederlanden
Oost Gelre
Gegründet 1966

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Mapping India's election
India's general elections are coming up, and many data folks are looking forward to analyze and map results spatially (assuming, as I also argued last time, that all politics are local). Until very recently, only few could do this, however, because the basic prerequisite - GIS shapefiles of India's post-delimitation constituencies and polling station localities - were only available commercially (and could easily cost several thousand US dollars). Today, I wish to present a set of draft shapefiles comprising current polling booth localities, assembly constituencies and parliamentary constituencies under an open license, shared in the hope that they enable more visualizations and better spatial analyses of the ongoing elections.
Unlike the only other set of openly licensed shapefiles I am aware of - the handcrafted parliamentary constituency shapefiles recently published by DataMeet after their Bangalore hackathon (which does not yet contain assembly constituencies or polling station localities) - I chose an automated, algorithm-driven approach, working off draft polling station locality data published online by the Election Commission. I processed this data in multiple steps to derive assembly and later parliamentary constituency shapefiles:
1. Using the district code given for each polling station, I discarded polling stations that were clearly out of place (GPS errors, typos, etc) by matching them against the outer extent of GADM's district boundary shapefiles (with some manual adjustment for cases of re-districting). This is by the way one of the reasons why my shapefiles are released under a non-commercial license - they are 'tainted' by GADM material (for which I am tremendously thankful, though).
2. With the help of some friendly people at GIS stackexchange, I calculated heatmaps for each assembly constituency point cloud.
3. Using some GRASS wizardry, I overlaid the heatmaps for each state and calculated the 'hottest' constituency for each and every location, which gave me fairly accurate boundary lines. The two grey shapes in today's post's picture for instance separate the green from the red point cloud (the heatmap approach also effectively dealt with random points out of place, though at the expense of some accuracy).
4. This was followed by a series of cleanup steps, making sure that small 'islands' were deleted, that each assembly constituency was represented by only one contingent area polygon, etc. The last of these steps was to cut the result with GADM's state boundaries - you will instinctively see the exact border line as opposed to the otherwise approximate constituency boundaries.
5. Finally, using the EC's Delimitation order, I matched in parliamentary constituency codes and names, dissolved the assembly shapefiles into parliamentary ones - and packaged everything together.
A key advantage of this algorithm-driven method over manual geocoding is speed (I am a constantly time-strapped grad student after all), but this comes at the disadvantage of reduced accuracy. More specifically, there are two sources of inaccuracy here. Firstly, the outcome's quality depends largely on the quality of the Election Commission's raw point data - which varies from district to district. Secondly, the heatmap approach itself also tends to create 'smoother' boundaries, particularly where there are very few polling stations (in really remote areas, think northern Sikkim) or many points in one place (in crowded urban areas, think Bangalore). But I believe the result still reflects the 'space under influence' of one constituency well enough, definitely good enough for visualization purposes - and better than the alternative: not being able to map elections at all.
But judge for yourself: below, you will find draft versions of these shapefiles, including (state by state) polling stations (raw and cleaned up), assembly constituencies and parliamentary constituencies. These are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, which basically means you can use them for any non-commercial purpose as long as you attribute me and this blog post as the source and share any additions or modifications on equal terms.
If you are familiar with one particular state and competent in GIS, it would help tremendously if you could have a look at the files and suggest corrections, either in the comment box below, or via email. While this post goes online, not all states are yet available, but I will add them as they come out of my algorithm over the coming days (the larger a state by area, and the more constituencies therein, the longer it takes). I intend to gather feedback until the end of April, and then publish a final set of shapefiles before counting starts on May 16. Thank you!
EDIT: Thanks to the amazing data services at my university, the final shapefiles are now published and permanently archived after slightly adjusting the algorithm (see comment stream below) at http://dx.doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2674065
April 7, 2014 - 10:00 .
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It is axiomatic among students of the New Testament that the Cross and Resurrection of Christ are the bi-focal points of the Christian faith. The number of well-known theologians and New Testament scholars who advance the bi-focal approach is extraordinary in both quantity and quality, so that anyone who demurs should do so cautiously. I am especially drawn, nevertheless, to Luke's interest in the ascension-enthronement of Jesus of Nazareth as the divine Davidic King when I think about the bedrock of the Christian faith.
These hyphenated two words describe the journey and transformation (ascension) from earth to heaven and the investiture of Jesus as Lord and Christ (enthronement). Part of my interest stems from the fact that the Gospel of Luke and Acts are rife with references and allusions to this conviction about Jesus of Nazareth and ascension-enthronement. The Lukan account of the nativity of Jesus (Luke 1-2) is replete with allusions to the Davidic heritage of Jesus. The ascension-enthronement theme was presciently announced at the beginning of the major Samaritan travel section (Luke 9:51-19:27) when Luke writes, "When the days were coming to a close for Him to be taken up, He determined to journey to Jerusalem" (9:51, HCSB). The wording "for Him to be taken up" most naturally points to the ascension of Jesus.
I like the fact that Luke did not finish his narrative about Jesus' earthly life with only post-Resurrection appearances and conversations like we have in the Gospel of Matthew. Unlike the oldest extant version of the Gospel of Mark (which has no such post-Resurrection appearances and conversations between Jesus and his followers), Luke has appearances, conversations, and even more. It is the "more" that excites me, since it is only in Luke that we find the ascension of Jesus as the final redemptive act of the Gospel. For Luke, "Jesus' earthly ministry ended on the day of his ascension" (Eckhard J. Schnabel, Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Acts, Zondervan, 2012, p. 71). The simplicity of Luke's statement is hard to miss when he writes, "I wrote the first narrative, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach until the day He was taken up" (Acts 1:1-2a, HCSB). Little wonder then that upon investigation of the "first narrative," we see that Luke did exactly what Luke said he had done, viz, he ends Jesus' earthly life ("all that Jesus began to do and teach") with the statement, "And while He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven" (Luke 24:51).
To be sure, Luke was intentional in putting the ascension-enthronement at both the end of the Gospel and the beginning of Acts. In fact, they are virtually the same number of words from the end of the Gospel of Luke and from the beginning of Acts (respectively in the Greek text). I want to suggest that this literary connection between Luke's volume 01 and volume 02 should be regarded as more than a mere literary artifact from this profuse New Testament author. In Craig Keener's words, "exaltation is the pivot on which Luke-Acts turns" (Acts, an Exegetical Commentary. Vol. 1, Introduction and 1:1-2:47, Baker Academic, 2012, p. 661). Indeed, this event of the ascension-enthronement of Jesus serves as an important theological and spiritual lens in Luke's theology and through which one experiences "the events that have been fulfilled among us" by God (Luke 1:1).
This depiction of Jesus' ascension is not some Lukan window dressing to insert Jesus into competition with a dead-but-divine Roman Emperor notion. To be sure, Rome had an ascension, known as apotheosis, to confer divine status upon emperors well behaved at the time of their death. From Luke's perspective, however, the ascension-enthronement of Jesus of Nazareth is not confocal with Rome's regal pretensions confirmed by the Roman Senate. Rather, the ascension-enthronement of Jesus is the lynchpin of Luke's writings and theology and would be there irrespective of the existence of a Roman apotheosis. In a fresh reading of Luke-Acts, one can see and appreciate how Luke employs ascension-enthronement theology to privilege various topics and themes such as redemptive history, christology, eschatology, pneumatology, and missions, to mention some of the important ones.
Great!! You're back to blogging. You were missed. Facebook just doesn't lend itself to the type of posts you can post here. I save everything you put up, so keep 'em coming. Are you by any chance open to the idea of doing book reviews?
I am fairly certain that the early Apostles and Gospel writers did not know the later iconography about Luke and the ox. What we can know from Acts and the apostolic preaching there is that the terms ἀγαπάω and ἀγάπη appear "Zero" times in Acts. There is not even a single occurrence of the noun or verb form of the classic Christian term for "love." That needs to really sink in and sink in very slowly and very, very deeply into our theology, our theology of salvation and our theology of preaching.
Thanks for this note here and in your other writings. Summary of the gospel as Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection serves Paul's discussion about the resurrection of the body in 1 Corinthians 15, but outside of that context such a summary is "truncated" (to borrow your own word). Preaching Jesus' death and resurrection but not his ascension and exaltation is somewhat like reporting a government leader's election but not his inauguration and all it sets in motion.
Acts, Hebrews, and Paul's letters lean heavily upon Psalm 110:1 to affirm that Christ is seated at the right hand of God. To omit or gloss over this aspect of the gospel is to obscure Jesus' continuing ministry in heaven and on earth as well as a critical element for shaping ethical conduct in Christ (cf. Eph. 1:20; 2:6; Col. 3:1).
Could it be that the Jesus on the throne, vested with authority to command and to judge (especially as pictured in the Revelation), is not so easily managed as the Jesus often conjured by pop culture? While certainly not an original question, it deserves to be asked, not to be harsh or lop-sided in emphasis, but to be fair with the text and honest with the human tendency to fashion God or his Son in our own image.
I think we in the West certainly prefer someone who inspires us rather than someone who orders us around. Savior certainly falls more gently upon our ears than Lord and King.
Here we see the enthronement of this man, Jesus of Nazareth, whom you killed and God raised. .
•	He was raised to sit on the throne at God's right hand.
•	Just as promised in God's plan.
•	This was God's covenant with David in 2 Sam 7 to have a Son on the throne forever.
•	And there he sits. In heaven at the right hand of God.
So, now Peter returns to the O.T. and the plan of God to show that the son of David that became David's king is our king also.
•	And if you have little footnote, here he quotes from Psalm 110.
•	Psalm 110 is the most important verse in Bible. used in God's Word more than any other passage…by far.
•	but the throne. The goal of all history was to get Jesus on that throne.
He sums it all up. Peter says, this is what I want you to know for certain.
•	This is the important point. From all of what Peter has said, this is what you must know.
Peter will have none of that. Peter says this is the important fact that he wants you to know.
•	Jesus, the man who died on that cross has been raised is now at this very moment on the throne at the right hand of God Almighty as King and Christ.
•	From the very first sermon it was made clear, that the only way into this kingdom was surrender to this king.
•	Being under the Lordship of Jesus Christ was not optional.
And the crowd saw that.
•	They saw the point that Peter wanted them to see. And they responded.
•	This was not a talk to edify or encourage. It was a talk to convince and convict it and demanded a response.
Thanks for your extensive comments.


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Superintendent Denise Pontrelli traveled in Italy last year with her family. She loves to travel for fun outside of work.
Many people wonder what the job of being a superintendent is like. "The only reason I do this is to try and make it a better experience for kids," Superintendent Denise Pontrelli said.
Denise Pontrelli is the Superintendent of Stillwater Area Public Schools. Pontrelli has been the Superintendent for three years. Pontrelli became Superintendent because she puts making connections with students and staff first. She visits students and classrooms to watch the impeccable teaching and curious students. Pontrelli came from Spring Lake Park Public Schools where she was the Assistant Superintendent/Director of Educational Services.
The day to day schedule of being a superintendent varies. The work of being a superintendent has long hours and many late-night meetings. There are some set meetings with the school board, principals and executive directors weekly however, her daily routine is very hectic and requires large amounts of planning.
Pontrelli spends a lot of time building strong relationships with teachers and students. She watches what goes on in schools and meets with innovation councils of students in order to make the best opportunities for the students.
"I think it's really about the relationship building. She does a lot of work to get to know people and understand even at the student level more than any other superintendent I have ever worked with," Community Engagement Manager, Carissa Keister said.
They have many groups to keep the students and staff working together. All of these advisories keep communication through staff, students and parents, which is very important to Pontrelli.
"The superintendent's advisory council meets with me to talk about topics of interest and how they can be involved in the district," Pontrelli said. "We try to keep the community updated on current events and things that are happening," Pontrelli said about the Talk of the District which is a weekly letter sent out via email to all parents, students and staff.
To take her mind off work and relax she enjoys spending time with her family of six children ages 15 to 28. She and her family go to their cabin for a place to "unwind and have fun outdoors," Pontrelli explained.
Pontrelli goes to her cabin with her family to relax and take a break from the busy life of being a superintendent. Her large family has strong relationships between one and other that helps her outside of work and experience new adventures.
Traveling allows her to meet many different people. At work, with her family and while traveling, Pontrelli is all about connecting with people. She wants to continue her travels to South America and head further East.
She has been to Italy, Greece, Israel, Germany, Spain, France and Norway. Besides that, she enjoys teaching and helping students.
"We're dedicated to helping our students become creative, innovative and passionate," Pontrelli stated on Stillwater Area Public Schools.
I think this article was very well written, and did Ms. Pontrelli justice. The article really reflected her life, and helped us as students learn more about a very important person in our district. The writer really focused on her personal life, rather than just her work life.
I think this article was an interesting feature story. I really like how you wrote about what she does, traveling, outside of her work with the district. For your featured image I think it would have been better for your article to include a picture of her doing her job rather than just the headshot. Your nutgraph was very informative with the background information.


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Hulda Hákon
Hulda Hákon (b. 1956, Iceland) is a sculptor and painter whose work hinges on human relations, sometimes with reference to Icelandic mythology. Text always plays an important role in Hulda's work, and while it most often originates from the daily life, when she has integrated words into her art, her viewer is confronted with a new and multi-layered sense of reality. Hákon has actively exhibited her works far and wide. She represented Iceland at the Sydney Biennial (1990) and ARS (Kiasma Helsinki, 1995). Her works are in the collection of museums in Iceland and some abroad. Her wall reliefs are in private collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands, Swiss, Spain, USA, the UK, China and Australia.
Hulda graduated from the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts in 1981 and from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1983.
She lives and works in Reykjavik and the Westman Islands.
"In my life I have tried to
make good art and to be a
nice person.
I have had four dogs,
four cats, one sheep, two horses and two parrots.
Now I have a husband,
one son, three grandsons, a dog
and a restaurant."
www.huldahakon.com
Steingrímur Eyfjörð
Steingrímur Eyfjörð (b. 1954, Iceland) is one of the foremost of a generation of artists who came to prominence in Iceland during the 1970s. His work employs a wide variety of media, including photography, comic strip, video, painting, sculpture, performance, writing and installation. His art may appear equally diverse conceptually: founded on influences as disparate as folk tales, Icelandic sagas, women's fashion magazines, religion, superstition, critical theory and many other current topics.
Eyfjörd's chains of association intersect at a nodal point of multiple meaning, forming a body of work that is multi-layered and at times perplexing yet always reveals an articulate and unexpected approach to the issues at hand. Steingrímur represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2007.
http://this.is/endless/
Sindri Freysson
Sindri Freysson (b. 23 July 1970, Reykjavík) is an Icelandic novelist and poet. His first publication, a collection of poems entitled Fljóti\ sofandi konur (The River Sleeping Women), was published in 1992. His first novel, Augun í bænum (The Town has Many Eyes) received the Halldór Laxness Literature Prize in 1998, and his second book of poetry, Hari kjarninn (The Hard Core), subtitled Spying on my own life, was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1999. Sindri's first children´s book, Hundaeyjan (The Island of Dogs) (2000), is illustrated by Halla Sólveig Þorgeirsdóttir and was originally written for Sindri's daughter. His second novel, Flóttinn (The Escape), a vivid account of the adventures and perils that a young German faces in Iceland during World War II, was published in 2004 to a critical success. His third novel, Dóttir mæðra minna (Daughter of My Mothers) was published in 2009. In October 2011, Sindri received the 2011 Reykjavík City Poetry Prize for his book Í klóm dalalæðunnar (Prisoner of the Ground-Mist). His fourth novel, Blindhríð (Whiteout), was published to a critical acclaim in November 2013, and was nominated for the DV Cultural Prize for Literature and the Icelandic Red Feather-award for writing.
Maria Ericsdóttir Panduro
Maria Ericsdottir (b. 1975, Iceland) is an award-winning Icelandic graphic designer. She is the founder of Karousel, a design and branding agency based in the heart of Reykjavik. She is also the founder and visionary of Reykjavik Print. With nearly 20 years in the design industry, Maria has a long history of creating strong brand communications for clients including Sóley Organics, Agusta, Saga Kakala, Vífilfell and the City of Reykjavik.
Having worked within design, communications and marking in California, Iceland and Denmark, she set up her own agency, Karousel, in Reykjavik (2012) to focus on a personal passion: socially responsible design and artistic projects that make life more beautiful (in the broader sense of the word).
She has an in MS in International Business from the University of Reykjavík and a BS in Graphic Design from the Sacramento State University. Maria considers social design as one of her favorite hobbies.
http://www.graphis.com/bio/maria-ericsdottir/
Jóhann Leó
Jóhann Leó (b. 1986, Reykjavik, Iceland) is an Icelandic illustrator and graphic designer. Jóhann spent most of his childhood in France and Belgium where he studied illustration. He is inspired by the rich tradition of Franco-Belgian comic strips, known as Bande Déssinés and there unique style. Jóhann is a graduate of the Icelandic Academy of Arts in graphic design. He enjoys science fiction, philosophy, folk tales and dabbles in all kinds of ventures.
http://johannleo-draws.tumblr.com/
Dagur Jóhannesson
Dagur Jóhannesson (b. 1937, Iceland) is the second youngest of eight brothers and sisters. Jóhannesson had a strong and palpable urge to create, and around the age of twenty he covered every inch of his room with paintings, some inspired by surrealism, others by cubism. He slept and dreamt inside a vast painting. But contrary to his siblings he didn't get the opportunity to fulfill his creative ambitions, he worked all his life – and still does as an octogenarian – as a farmer, although he never dreamt of becoming one. He put aside his aspirations and destroyed all his works except four. Once in a while though he picks up his whittling knives and carves small wooden sculptures, abstract, non-figurative, enigmatic. The four paintings that remain, still hang on the walls of his small farm, a testimony of substantial talent that never had the chance to blossom.


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All beneficiaries are covered for the duration of their studies unless they are disqualified due to poor academic performance. The beneficiaries of the Mayoral Bursary are selected by the Mayoral Bursary Fund Committee.
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Cameron Boyce introduces himself as an American teen actor and dancer who has gained name and fame at the early age. He is best known for his roles in the films Mirrors, Grown Ups 2, Eagle Eye, Descendants and his co-starring role on the Jessie as Luke Ross.
Early Age, Dancing, and Acting
Born on May 28, 1999, as a son to African American father and Jewish Mother, Boyce grew up along with his younger sister in Los Angeles. At the very early age, he developed a passion for dance and started to dance. Being a fan of break dance, he is a member of the "X Mob", the breakdancing crew. Boyce's paternal grandmother was the first African-Americans to attend an integrated high school in the South. Having a strong passion for dance at the early age, he made his television debut when he was nine years old in May 2008. He appeared on the Panic! At The Disco music video, The Green Gentleman, where he appeared as a kid version of Ryan Ross. In July, he appeared in the recurring role of Michael 'Stone' Cates Jr on the General Hospital: Night Shift.
Later in August, he got his debut role in the horror film Mirrors. He also made his appearance in the mystery-thriller film Eagle Eye same year. In June 2010, he appeared in the comedy film Grown Ups, co-starring as Keith Feder. The same year, he made his appearance on the web series The Legion of Extraordinary Dancer, where he showed his dance skills. In April 2011, he appeared as the guest artist on the Disney Channel series Good Luck Charlie, and he was also featured in Royal wedding as one of the dancers on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. In June 2011, he appeared in a small role in the family sitcom Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer and after two months, he featured on the Disney Channel series Shake It Up as one of the dancers.
TV Series Appearances and Net worth
He has appeared on numerous TV series including: Jessie (2011-2015) as Luke Ross, Jake and the Never Land Pirates (2012-2014) as Jake , Ultimate Spider-Man (2014) as Luke Ross, Liv and Maddie (2015) as Krahgg, Descendants (2015) as Carlos and Code Black (2016) as Brody. With his talent, this child prodigy has been awarded Young Artist Award, Best Performance in a Feature Film-Young Ensemble Cast in 2012. At the early age, he has gained name and fame as an actor and dancer, and he has been considered as the rising star in Hollywood. With his extraordinary talent, he has been able to show his strong presence in various stages and has been successful professionally. Boyce has earned net worth of $3million which is higher than the net worth of many young American dancers and actors. Boyce seems active on all social networking sites.
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Brigada 4 Roșiori a fost o mare unitate de cavalerie, de nivel tactic, din Armata României, care a participat la acțiunile militare postbelice, din perioada 1918-1920, fiind formată din Regimentul 6 Roșiori și Regimentul 11 Roșiori. Brigada a făcut parte din compunerea de luptă a Diviziei 1 Cavalerie, comandată de generalul Romulus Scărișoreanu.

Compunerea de luptă
În perioada campaniei din 1919, brigada a avut următoarea compunere de luptă:
Brigada 4 Roșiori
Regimentul 6 Roșiori - comandant: locotenent-colonel Răureanu Gh..
Regimentul 11 Roșiori - comandant: locotenent colonel adjunct Athanasescu Gh..

Participarea la operații
În cadrul acțiunilor militare postbelice,  Brigada 4 Roșiori a participat la acțiunile militare în dispozitivul de luptă al Diviziei 1 Cavalerie, participând la Operația ofensivă la vest de Tisa. . Odată cu înfrângerea trupelor maghiare pe Tisa, comandantul trupelor române din Transilvania a luat chiar în ziua de 29 iulie dispoziții pentru trecerea Tisa și pentru marșul spre Budapesta. În această operațiune, Brigada 4 Roșiori a făcut parte din grupul generalului Demetrescu. Odată cu înaintarea trupelor române în Ungaria, Brigada 4 Roșiori ocupă la 2 august Albertirsa, tăind retragerea armatei ungare spre Budapesta. Pe șoseaua Cegled—Albertirsa, trupele maghiare încep să se predea în masă soldaților brigăzii, cu tunurile și autocamioanele lor. Primind ordin ca Brigada 4 Roșiori să se îndrepte spre sud, în direcția Kecskemet, generalul Rusescu, trimite doar o parte din trupele pe care le avea la dispoziție,un regiment și 5 escadroane, acesta continuând drumul spre Budapesta, pe care o ocupă în data de 3 august.

Comandanți
 General Rusescu Gh.

Note

Bibliografie
 Drăgănescu Constantin, Campaniile din 1848/1849 și 1919 în Transilvania și Ungaria, Tipografia "Isvorul", București, 1930
 Kirițescu, Constantin, Istoria războiului pentru întregirea României, Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, București, 1989
 Mărdărescu Gheorghe, Campania pentru desrobirea Ardealului și ocuparea Budapestei (1918-1920), Editura Cartea Românească, București, 1921
 Preda Dumitru; Alexandrescu Vasile; Prodan Costică, În apărarea României Mari. Campania armatei române din 1918-1919, Editura Enciclopedică, București, 1994

Vezi și
Ordinea de bătaie a Armatei României în Transilvania, iulie 1919

Unități militare române participante la operațiile militare postbelice (1918-1920)


crime. Such fears have been fanned by a series of high profile scams and losses.
Some countries, such as Denmark, have taken a more level-headed approach, however, warning people of risks, but not rushing to implement draconian regulations.
In this article I explore the benefits and dangers of bitcoin, especially relative to the existing credit card payment system. I consider some ways that individuals can avoid financial loss and law enforcement can control money laundering. I argue that governments should not over-react, because there are reasonable regulatory approaches to tame, rather than ban this promising technology.
The bitcoin system is a peer-to-peer currency that is built on modern cryptographic innovations. In order to own bitcoins, a user must possess a wallet which is simply a pair of encryption keys. Despite the fact that a wallet is often portrayed in the media as actually holding money, the information about who owns what in fact resides in a common database which is globally copied via non-stop chatter between computers. Wallet keys just provide the ability to unlock the creation of new transactions into or out of a particular account, with all transactions being public information. Bitcoins are not in any sense stored in the wallet that you keep on your computer.
The first of the two wallet keys is the public key. This references a particular record of value, and once you know someone's public key, you know their wallet address, and you can send bitcoin into that wallet from anywhere in the world.
However, in order to actually spend the money by sending it to someone else, you need a second key: the private key. Any people who hold the private key for a wallet have control over the associated money and can spend it at will. Ownership of funds is entirely based on knowing a private key.
A person was psychologically manipulated into sending their money to a scammer.
A person used an on-line wallet where their private key was entrusted to the operator of a web site who chose to abscond with their money, or where hacking, technical issues, bankruptcy, legal actions against the operator, or law enforcement seizures rendered their money inaccessible.
A person created a wallet on their local machine which was then hacked to obtain the private key.
A person placed a wallet on a drive but then accidentally deleted it, or else the drive was lost, stolen, failed, or was destroyed.
A person printed the keys onto paper which was then lost, defaced or destroyed.
The lesson from these experiences is that users always need to understand and maintain the security of wallet keys, especially if large amounts of money are involved!
The reason why these loss scenarios are reported as problematic, and not merely resulting from lack of common sense, is that we are used to living in a society where the security of our funds is someone else's problem, and where our government, banks or financial companies are legally bound to make us whole if something goes wrong. In its present state, bitcoin puts all this responsibility back on the user.
It may seem that using the bitcoin system for commerce is full of risks, but in order to get some perspective, I want to compare it to the use of credit cards.
If you want to spend money on a credit card you need to know the card number and the expiration date, and possibly also the security code and the account holder's address. This combined information is equivalent to the bitcoin private key.
In the bitcoin system you never need to give anyone your private key – to buy goods, you use it to create a new transaction going from your wallet to an address that you obtain from the merchant. This is called a 'push model': you push money from your own account to a merchant account. The transaction only involves you and the merchant, and the merchant never obtains information that can be used to extract money from your account.
In the credit card world – an archaic system invented in the 1960s before the development of modern encryption – you must hand out your private information to every merchant that you want to buy from, no matter how shady. The system works by using a 'pull model' where your credit card information authorizes the merchant to pull money out of your account via three credit card transacting intermediaries who also take a cut. This creates the need for a whole lot of trusted parties and communication links and ends up with a situation where you are always handing out your private account key. You have no control of what each merchant does with credit card numbers and how securely they store them for future transactions. In addition, your personal financial transactions are logged by multiple agencies, who use them for targeted advertising or law enforcement activities.
Not surprisingly, the widespread dissemination of credit card information in this manner produces many opportunities for fraud. In fact credit card losses in the USA alone cost the industry $190 billion in 2009. This yearly loss to criminal activity is 20 times the current global market capitalization of bitcoin. Consumers simply would not use credit cards if they themselves were liable for fraudulent charges, and therefore since issuers are forced to absorb much of the loss, they have to work tirelessly to reduce these figures.
If the credit card payment system could be migrated to a push model by layering a user-friendly interface on top of bitcoin or by using some other future payment mechanism which does not involve disseminating private information to potential fraudsters, much of this loss would be prevented. In an ideal world, the industry should welcome such technological innovations.
Apart from the concern about fraud, much of the active opposition to bitcoin comes from government agencies fearful of money laundering or loss of monetary control in global finance.
Money laundering is the act of bringing proceeds obtained from illegal activity into the realm of legitimate operations so that the money can be spent freely. Dirty money is converted to clean money by making it seem like it came from a legal source.
Common money laundering operations involve setting up businesses which deal with consumers who frequently transact in cash, so that cash from illegal operations can be inserted as though it was legitimate income or given out in exchange for legitimate funds. Networks of local stores, casinos operations, or private ATMs are easily co-opted for such purposes. Other methods include: splitting dirty money into small batches which are moved off shore and then combined as investments into supposedly legal businesses; gaining control over small banks; or alternatively, using private transactions to purchase anything of value, such as houses, cars, diamonds, or even perhaps British premiership soccer teams, all of which can be re-sold later to obtain clean funds.
Historically, criminals have made use of relatively anonymous cash instruments, such as money orders, to break the documentation trail of fund movements. However, with the digital age many more opportunities exist for laundering that don't involve the movement of physical goods. Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, or currencies used within computer games such as Second Life, Entropia Universe, or other multiplayer games with virtual economies, facilitate money laundering because funds can be freely exchanged with dollars. Even games that only allow restricted conversion of dollars to digital goods can be used for laundering because secondary markets exist for virtual goods or for re-selling access to game accounts that have been fully loaded with credit.
The attraction of these newer routes is that they are unregulated, complex to track, and require no obvious physical goods or operations. The greater efficiency afforded by automated computer approaches to creating a clean money stream may be attractive to criminals since the cost of setting up and staffing a network of conventional business fronts for laundering may return only cents on the dollar.
The annual amount of money laundered by organized crime is largely unknown because a covert process cannot be realistically measured. Governments attempt to restrict this activity by imposing many kinds of reporting requirements on financial institutions as well as monitoring and controlling the flow of cash or wire transfers across borders. Anti-laundering practices have been criticized by financial service industries as costly and ineffective and largely driven by rhetoric.
In order to consider the extent to which bitcoin may be used for laundering, we need to understand whether bitcoin transactions are actually anonymous. There is a lot of confusion over the level of privacy in the bitcoin system because it has been variously reported in the media as being an anonymous or secretive system of payment, while at the same time it technically makes use of a completely public database which can be trivially inspected by anyone visiting the blockchain.info web site.
As an example, if one inspects the information about the wallet with an address starting with 1BeQ2fSB… which can be viewed here, it is possible to see that (at the time of writing) there were three incoming and outgoing transactions of 1.9, 7 and 4.5 bitcoins on November 3rd, November 8th, and December 17th 2013, involving other addresses which are given. It is possible to follow the chain of money transfers as far as one might desire as amounts split and merge between accounts. This information is public and is updated in real time. This means that if we know who possesses the secret key that allows control of a particular wallet, we would also have identified the owner and could follow every transaction they made. The pattern of bitcoin movements is therefore fully transparent.
However, since a new pair of wallet keys can be generated at any time, for example by going to bitaddress.org, it is easy to create an anonymous place to store funds. But merely storing funds is not of much use – we would want to buy or sell items or exchange them for dollars or other currencies.
In order to convert bitcoin to dollars, two main options exist: exchanging them for cash in a private deal with someone who wants to buy bitcoin, or else selling them on an exchange such as Mt Gox, or via a middle man operation like Coinbase. Both of these latter methods involve linking to a bank account and are potentially subject to regulatory money laundering scrutiny in every country. So while it is possible to move funds around the network with ownership deniability, it is relatively difficult to cash out of the system anonymously, especially when large quantities of money are involved.
Once a single wallet has been associated with a crime, all funds leading out of this wallet are completely traceable using elementary network analysis in real time using the publicly available transaction data, and attempts to exchange money into a bank account from any addresses that received from this source could easily be flagged.
It is not hard to envisage a public service database which is set up by law enforcement or other interested parties to track and mark suspicious bitcoin activities. Such a database would record transactions as they come in and associate metadata with all wallets to indicate if they received funds directly or indirectly from any wallets known to be associated with illegal operations. Regulators might require that exchanges consult this database before allowing people to sell bitcoin in order to obtain dollars or other fiat currencies, restricting the ability for criminals to cash out their proceeds. People involved in private commercial transactions might also use such a database to check that the funds they are receiving for goods were not tainted.
This consumer-level black-listing scenario is not however a good solution in my opinion because all coins should be equal, otherwise people can be tricked into receiving bad coins which end up being worthless, leading to loss of confidence in the currency.
One common method to increase the anonymity of bitcoin transactions is the use of tumblers such as Bitcoin Fog. A user sends the tumbler some funds and the tumbler mixes these up with bitcoin arriving over a designated time window from other users, using many internal wallet transactions to create obfuscation. Eventually the tumbler trickles the funds out, over a few hours, into one or more wallets that the user specifies at the start. This mixing service is commonly used to hide a source of funds and might have legitimate uses in corporate accounting privacy.
However, there are currently two clear limitations of tumblers when applied to money laundering: Firstly, it is not made public how many people are actually using the tumbler at any particular time, and if the volume is low compared with the amount of money to be laundered, then the illicit funds will just be mixed with themselves giving no anonymity. And secondly, the receiver will most likely need to re-consolidate the funds at the end, and so will create an obvious convergence of transactions into a limited number of wallets. The only way around this is to maintain the separation of funds at all times across many thousands of wallets using custom software.
If illicit funds are tracked using a law enforcement database, then the progressive use of distributed wallets and repeated tumbling would diffuse the marked bitcoin throughout the whole system. This is reminiscent of the adage that chemical analysis of most bank notes shows traces of cocaine. It remains to be seen whether modern network analysis can keep up with criminal innovations.
As an example of attempting to track stolen money, consider the recent Sheep scam. This was an illegal operation where around $100 million of bitcoin were allegedly stolen from other conspirators by the operator of an illicit on-line drugs marketplace which was briefly active after the well-publicized fall of Silk Road. According to commentary on Reddit, a large fraction of the stolen funds passed through this wallet. It is possible to see that much of the money went through some kind of tumbling service, but ended up in many wallets that still hold bitcoin which has not yet been used. Numerous interested parties have been following the Sheep funds as they move around. Actually cashing out all this money seems like an extremely difficult task for the perpetrator, especially if he is forced to do it by personally exchanging bitcoin for cash in private street sales. In any case, the historical records of this operation will be available for analysis by researchers and law enforcement for years to come.
While the methods I have discussed may help to track the flow of illicit funds, establishing the actual ownership of a particular wallet is more difficult, but may not be impossible.
When a person has an account with an exchange or with Coinbase, or stores money in a web-based wallet, company records will presumably indicate which wallet addresses are associated with which customer, and so are available for subpoena. This would allow law enforcement to establish the identity of certain nodes on the network and trace the flow of funds into and out of these places. Additionally, certain wallets have been publicly associated with particular operators, such as the Satoshi Dice gambling site, and various other enterprises, and ownership of these is often notated at blockchain.info.
When a transaction is initialized from a user's machine on the bitcoin network, it is necessary for that machine to contact other peers to broadcast this information. Collaboration between law enforcement and ISPs can be used along with deep packet analysis to identify the computer associated with the sending or receiving wallet address. Also by maintaining a strategic network of machines around the globe that process bitcoin operations, governments could constantly gather and record likely originators of specific financial transactions.
Based on these discussions, it is best to think of the privacy of bitcoin as lying somewhere between cash and regular bank accounts. It is as though cash were constantly monitored so that anyone can see how it was changing hands, while only occasionally knowing who spent it. As such it is open to data mining and deep computer analysis.
If certain governments try to crack down on bitcoin by making exchanges illegal, then it will not stop criminal use of the system because private buying and selling is always possible; there is always going to be an advantage to bitcoin's rapid and secure ability to enable international payment which sustains a certain minimum exchange rate. Heavy-handed local government legislation would just provide opportunities for less principled nations around the world to make a lot of money providing bitcoin services.
I think that if governments enforce the same regulations at exchanges as they do at national borders then money laundering will be similarly limited. Governments also have the resources to set up databases and servers for detailed transaction analysis around the globe to catch illegal operations without introducing draconian regulation or suppression of bitcoin commerce. If anything is to be learned by China's actions and the bitcoin price fall, it is that suppression of exchange is going to be effective for sidelining bitcoin in that nation, but could more productively be replaced with regulatory law by less hard-line authorities.
If consumer protection is a concern, this should grow organically as businesses build user-friendly payment processing products on top of the bitcoin system, creating a layer of accountability with products that are easy to regulate through traditional laws – and the public will naturally choose to use these rather than the underlying technology.
My belief is that we are starting on a revolutionary period of change here. I recommend keeping a level head and not throwing out the potential benefits of a new technology because of panic about criminal misuse when reasonable technological, commercial, and regulatory solutions seem quite feasible.
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Alabamians Should Prepare for a Temperature Drop, Few Flurries
Mary K Published: January 25, 2023
Severe weather is exiting the Yellowhammer State and moving into Georgia. For our coverage area, we still have a "Wind Advisory" in place issued by the National Weather Service in Birmingham. Some areas could see wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour.
Until 9 a.m. for Greene, Hale, Perry, Pickens, and Sumter counties.
Until 11 a.m. for Bibb, Fayette, Lamar, and Tuscaloosa counties.
Until 1 p.m. for Walker County.
My Facebook post from this morning says it all.
Mary K, Townsquare Media
For the rest of today, you should be prepared for the temperature drop. James Spann, ABC 33/40, and Townsquare Media Tuscaloosa Chief Meteorologist said that "temperatures will slowly fall through the day in most places; North Alabama will settle into the upper 40s and low 50s, with mid to upper 50s for the southern counties."
Hour-By-Hour Guide for Tuscaloosa County
6 a.m. – 53 degrees
10 a.m. – 48 degrees
Noon – 47 degrees
1 p.m. – 48 degrees
10 p.m. – 41 degrees
Later Tonight – Tomorrow Outlook
Spann mentioned that "a few sprinkles or snow flurries are possible over the northern half of the state tonight and early tomorrow. We could see a snowflake or two, there won't be any accumulation or impact. The day tomorrow will feature a mix of sun and clouds with highs in the 40s over North Alabama, with 50s to the south."
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Source: Alabamians Should Prepare for a Temperature Drop, Few Flurries
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Q: Why isn't my UIScrollViewDelegate being called in a swift playground? I wrote the following playground on the Swift Playgrounds iPad app:
import PlaygroundSupport
import UIKit
let view = UIScrollView()
view.backgroundColor = .white
view.contentSize = CGSize(width:100,height:2000)
class Foo : NSObject, UIScrollViewDelegate {
    func scrollViewDidScrollToTop(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
        print("yo")
    }
}
view.delegate = Foo()
PlaygroundPage.current.liveView = view

This creates a scroll view, whose scrollbar can be seen if you drag your finger on the view. But the UIScrollViewDelegate method never seems to be called. Why?
Edit: meant to use scrollViewDidScroll and not scrollViewDidScrollToTop.

A: I believe this is because delegate is declared as a weak property. Since the code is not keeping a strong reference to the Foo object any where else, it immediately deallocates it.
When I try to run this in the xcode, it actually gives a warning for this as well.
However, when I keep a strong reference to the delegate, it works.

A: You should create delegate variable and set to scrollView. Because delegate in scrollView is weak type
UPDATE: scrollViewDidScrollToTop only call when you tap status bar. If you want track drag of scrollview. Using scrollViewDidScroll instead.
import UIKit

import PlaygroundSupport
let view = UIScrollView.init(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 700))
view.backgroundColor = .white
view.contentSize = CGSize(width:100,height:2000)
class Foo : NSObject, UIScrollViewDelegate {
  func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    print("yo")
  }
}

let deleate = Foo()
view.delegate = deleate
PlaygroundPage.current.liveView = view

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Viborg International Billboard Painting Festival starts 1st of June 2016.
The workshop takes place in the very center of Viborg. The festival is a presentation of about 40 billboard paintings from June, July and August.
In the days leading June 1st -13th, international artists create their own new billboard painting at the square of Sct. Mathias Square.
Viborg also offers a variety of cultural experiences.


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Player Profiles – Sam Hayes
27/02/2019 Jeetinder Berman
'Player Profiles' is back again, and our next feature is about Men's 1st XI player, Sam Hayes. Sam has had a relatively short spell at Clydesdale, but has since found himself a mainstay of the 1s squad, and he owes it all to a kind gesture as Ally Walker reports:
"Match teas are important!"
A plate of pasta from a welcoming and friendly opposition turned out to be one of the reasons that 1st team player and 25 year old Sam Hayes, ended up joining Clydesdale in the summer of 2016. The background to this story started when Sam played for Edinburgh University, to which he said, "I was playing for Edinburgh Uni 2s at the time and we were playing 'Dale 2s. I remember thinking that this was a team that was serious and competitive on the pitch, but that off the pitch they were really friendly and relaxed. And there aren't many teams that lay on a match tea."
Sam (centre), who joined Clydesdale in 2016, has been a regular fixture for the Men's 1st XI for over a year. (Photo credit: Duncolm Sports Photography)
Fast forward a couple of years later in 2016, when Sam moved to Glasgow to study Pharmacy at Strathclyde University, he found himself on the right side of the city and was soon signed up for Clydesdale, starting in the Men's 2nd XI. Half a season later, he was promoted to the Men's 1st XI. "It was a big jump. I had to persevere and grow into it. And sometimes I played for the 2s which I really enjoyed too. Callum McLeod was important for me as his calm head definitely got the best hockey out of me and I started playing better and began to cement my place in the team." Like many of the 1s players, Sam – originally from Dunfermline – has (most probably) put in over 10,000 hours of hockey practice over the years. But when he was in Primary 7, Sam was a promising young footballer with Dunfermline FC juniors, which he points out "were good in those days". But he hung up his football boots when Dunfermline hockey legend Keith Forster recruited him from St Margaret's Primary School.
Pictured right, Sam paid tribute to the hospitality of the 'Dale members when he played against them when representing Edinburgh University and as a main factor as to why he joined the club. (Photo credit: Andy Lovat)
From then on, Sam spent the rest of his school years being transported around the country with youth teams in Forster's massive Chevrolet people carrier. Sam started playing for Dunfermline Carnegie's 7th team, a team which ranged in age from 13 to 80 and that played "not nice hockey" in his views. However, Sam moved quickly on and up and was playing for Dunfermline Carnegie 1st XI by the age of 15. Sam clearly has fond memories of his formative hockey years with Dunfermline Carnegie. And that's despite the "badge of honour" scar he currently sports above his eyebrow, sustained during the first five minutes of an indoor match this season, where his head collided with a reverse stick shot from a Dunfermline Carnegie forward!
Ouch! Sam sporting his scar suffered in indoor against his schoolboy club, Dunfermline Carnegie. He was in good spirits afterwards!
We're glad that Sam had many good years with Dunfermline Carnegie and with Edinburgh University too. But now we're claiming him for our own and can promise him many more good years to come with Clydesdale.
Photo credit: Andy Lovat
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