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Military Innovations of the Northern Song Dynasty
By BryceCritchfield
Foundation and Establishment
The Song Dynasty itself first began in 960 when it's founder and first emperor, Emperor Taizu of Song, first usurped the throne from the former dynasty known as the Later Zhou Dynasty. He was emperor from 960-976, and he spent these 17 years using his new power to control the entirety of China not under his control. His founding of a central government in Kaijing marked the start of the Norhtern Song period Image Source
Period: 960 to 1279
The duration of time in which the imperial Song Dynasty of ancient China existed. The Song Dynasty is an extremely important period of China's development. It is noted by modern scholars to represent a span of almost unprecedented growth and innovation in China's vast history. Advances in many fields such as science, philosophy, and mathematics lead not just to firsts in the lands of China, but world firsts as well.
Northern Song period
The first of the two major periods that make up the Song Dynasty.
Discovery of Champa Rice
A drought-resistant strain of rice spread through China, becoming the saving grace of the people during the drought of 1012 when Emperor Zhenzong (992–1022) learned of the Champa rice and sent envoys for it. Champa rice matured early, could grow where other varieties had previously failed, and was resistant to stressors such as heat, cold, flooding, droughts, and excess salinity.
A Champa Ricefield
Printing Innovations
Bi Sheng (990-1051) invented movable type printing using baked clay, which marked the origin of movable type printing. Due to its fragility, baked clay was replaced by wooden and cast metal type printing after several centuries. Bi Sheng's invention revolutionized the production and distribution of literature. National Palace Museum
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Growth of Industry and the Economy
Iron and steel production greatly increased to about 125,000 tons per year. These metals were used for many things, especially for armor, swords, and arrows for the military. Nails, tools, and chains were also manufactured for practical and artistic uses, including reinforcing bridges and statues. Coal also began to take over charcoal in the production process by 1200 C.E.
Warriors practicing with their iron weapons
Su Song and his Mechanical Clock Tower
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His Clocktower
Population Boom
The first explosion of the Chinese population occurred during the Song dynasty, largely due to technological and agricultural advancements. The population reached 100 million people, exceeding Europe's population and making China the largest country in the world during the time period.
Picture: A very large and impressive, 138-foot tall stone and wood pagoda that could've likely housed hundreds of people
Perfection and Use of the Magnetic Mariner's Compass
The use of a magnetic compass with a fixed needle dates to the Song dynasty. Instead of putting a needle in water, seafarers carried compasses with small, fixed needles that were sometimes enclosed in cases with glass. This type of portable compass made ocean travel and navigation much easier.
An example of said compass
Economy at Large
The state of the economy as a whole during the Song dynasty was extremely favorable for it's people of because oversea trade along the Grand Canal and Yangtze River being extremely lucrative. In this year alone, the government collected 18 billion ounces of silver in taxes. The Song Dynasty marked the establishment of the first known time that official, government-distributed paper money was utilized.
Photo of paper money
The Fall of the Great Song Dynasty
In the Battle of Yamen on the Pearl River Delta in 1279, the long and prosperous Song Dynasty was finally brought to an unfortunate end by the Yuan army. The last remaining ruler, a 13-year-old, committed suicide, and other family royals lived on in the Yuan Dynasty.
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Denstorf ist ein Ortsteil der Gemeinde Vechelde im Landkreis Peine in Niedersachsen.

Geografie

Geografische Lage
Denstorf liegt im Flachland der Braunschweig-Hildesheimer Lößbörde im Übergangsbereich zwischen den Ausläufern des nördlichen Harzvorlandes und dem Norddeutschen Tiefland.

Der Ort liegt an der Bundesstraße 1 zwischen Braunschweig und Vechelde. Im Westen wird Denstorf vom Stichkanal Salzgitter begrenzt.

Nachbarorte

Geschichte
Ursprünglich war die Gemeinde ein Straßendorf, das urkundlich erstmals im Jahre 1022 als "Dennesdorf" erwähnt wurde, später auch als "Dennestorp", "Dennisthorp" und "Denstorp". Im Verlauf seiner Entwicklungsgeschichte wuchs der Ort zum heutigen Haufendorf heran.

Um 1440 wurde Denstorf mit weiteren zehn Dörfern des Fürstentums Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel zum Verwaltungs- und Gerichtsbezirk "Amt Eich" oder auch "Zur Eiche" zusammengefasst. Das Amt umfasste das Gebiet westlich der Stadt Braunschweig, von der Braunschweiger Landwehr bis etwa zum Flüsschen Aue. Im Jahr 1501 verpfändete Herzog Heinrich I, genannt der Ältere, die Dörfer des Amts an die Stadt Braunschweig, unter deren Verwaltung sie bis 1671 blieben, als die Epoche der unabhängigen Stadt Braunschweig durch Rückeroberung der Fürsten von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel beendet wurde.

Im Mittelalter gehörte der Ort zum Bistum Hildesheim und war Amtssitz eines Archidiakons. Nach der Reformation wurde in Denstorf eine Superintendentur eingerichtet, die im Jahr 1787 die Gemeinden Denstorf, Groß Gleidingen, Klein Gleidingen, Lehndorf, Ölper, Watenbüttel, Timmerlah, Broitzem, Sonnenberg, Völkenrode, Wedtlenstedt, Vechelde und Bortfeld umfasste, mit insgesamt 24 Pfarrern.

Im Jahr 1802 hatte Denstorf 371 Einwohner in 52 Feuerstellen. Mit dem Fürstentum Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel wurde Denstorf 1807 in das von Napoleon geschaffene Königreich Westphalen eingegliedert. Nach dessen Auflösung im Jahr 1813, gehörte der Ort bis 1918 zum Herzogtum Braunschweig.

Denstorfs Zuordnung zum Landkreis Braunschweig und sein Status als selbstständige Gemeinde endeten am 1. März 1974 im Zuge der Gebietsreform Niedersachsens.

Denstorf war bis in die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ein landwirtschaftlich geprägtes Dorf. In der Erwerbsstruktur hat die Landwirtschaft heute nur noch eine geringe Bedeutung. Viele Bewohner des Dorfes gehen ihrem Erwerb hauptsächlich im Oberzentrum Braunschweig oder dem nahegelegenen Industriegebiet im Raum Salzgitter nach.

In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten erweiterte sich der Ort nach Südwesten und Osten durch Eigenheime und Siedlungshäuser und schließt damit an die Nachbarortschaft Klein Gleidingen an, ohne erkennbare Ortsgrenzen.

Politik

Ortsrat
Der Ortsrat Denstorf/Klein Gleidingen setzt sich aus vier Ratsfrauen und fünf Ratsherren folgender Parteien zusammen:

Ortsbürgermeister
Ortsbürgermeister ist Enrico Jahn (CDU).

Wappen

Das Wappen von Denstorf zeigt auf einem goldenen Schild ein blaues achtspitziges Kreuz in dessen Mitte sich ein goldenes Eichenblatt befindet. Das Eichenblatt symbolisiert die Bedeutung Denstorfs als Hauptort des herzoglichen Verwaltungsbereichs und juristischen Bezirks des Eichgerichts. Das achtspitzige Kreuz ähnelt dem Johanniterkreuz und steht für die Funktion als kirchlicher Mittelpunkt eines Archidiakonats, das um die dort ansässige Stammpfarrei gebildet wurde. Es erinnert zudem an die Komturei des Johanniterordens.

Das Wappen wurde am 9. September 1981 vom Ortsrat bestätigt. Der Entwurf stammt von Arnold Rabbow.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Bauwerke
 Im Zentrum Denstorfs befindet sich die "St.-Johannes-Kirche", die wahrscheinlich im 12. Jahrhundert als Archidiakonatskirche errichtet wurde. Sie bietet etwa 320 Menschen Platz und ist damit die größte Kirche der Propstei Vechelde. In der Kirche befindet sich eine etwa 1,20 m hohe Christusfigur aus dem Jahre 1525; eine lebensnahe Darstellung des leidenden Jesus am Kreuz. Die Orgel ist eine der ältesten Orgeln im Braunschweiger Land und wurde in den Jahren 1766–1769 durch den Orgelbauer Johann Christoph Hüsemann, Wolfenbüttel, erbaut. Sie hat einen spätbarocken Prospekt und eine romantische, eigenwillige Disposition. Nach diversen Um- und Neubauten des Orgelwerks im Laufe ihrer Geschichte hat die Kirchengemeinde 1983–1988 ein neues Orgelwerk mit 20 Register (neun davon aus 1912) einbauen lassen. In der Kirche finden regelmäßig kirchenmusikalische Veranstaltungen statt.
 Das Dorf wird im Westen vom Stichkanal Salzgitter begrenzt.

Landschaftsschutzgebiete
Das "Denstorfer Holz", ein Auenwald von rund 80 ha, ist seit 1969 Landschaftsschutzgebiet.

Literatur
 Anton Friedrich Büsching: Magazin für die neue Historie und Geographie. Halle 1787.

Weblinks

 Webseite der Kirchengemeinde Denstorf mit Klein Gleidingen und Groß Gleidingen

Einzelnachweise

Ort im Landkreis Peine
Ortsteil von Vechelde
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Landkreis Peine)
Ersterwähnung 1022
Gemeindeauflösung 1974
Haufendorf

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Carol Tantau is Just Tantau ... And So Much More.
March 8 is International Women's Day, so I'd like to have March stories be for the ladies, and the gentlemen who love them. There is probably no one better to speak to about women and Venice than Carol Tantau. Not only has she owned and operated her shop, Just Tantau, on Abbot Kinney since 1982, but she also operates the advocacy program at Sojourn Services for Battered Women and their children in Santa Monica.
We sat down to talk in the back of Tantau's shop, as her cats, Ricky and Lucy, cruised around and walked over her bare feet, all totally at home. Tantau grew up in Northern California, and headed to Venice in 1971, like so many who found their way here, "because it seemed like a good idea." She had her BA in music, (there is a grand piano in the middle of the shop) and was making her living as a seamstress, which led to a stint teaching quilting classes. Again, like so many who not only found their way, but MADE their way here, she often stumbled into her situations quite by accident. Like when she met her husband, Leon, who was making jewelry on the Boardwalk when she happened upon him.
They married and lived in a little one room pad on the beach, where the jewelry manufacturing soon outgrew their place, and needed to find a space for a work shop and storefront. In 1982 there wasn't much happening on West Washington Boulevard (which you now know as Abbot Kinney) other than The Merchant Of Venice (open only for breakfast and lunch) and The Comeback Inn. That meant that they could afford the space they found at 1353, where Just Tantau still operates right now. They could afford it because then the idea was that rent was based on "fair market value" - meaning a rent that enables a business to survive. Ahhh, the good old days ...
Anyway, Carol and Leon made and sold their jewelry in the shop, never adding t-shirts and sunglasses to cater to any tourists that might have happened by, because "Why would you want to be the same as everyone else?" Another point that might be well taken today, People.
They attended trade shows all over the place and began to wholesale their wares, and began buying from other jewelry sellers to bring to their shop back home. The business grew and grew. Busy as they were, when The Merchant of Venice closed at three in the afternoon, that meant the work day was pretty well done for everyone, and they'd wrap up and enjoy the rest of Venice. They were good times. (Ok, and it was not a good neighborhood at all back then, so it may have had a little to do with safety too, as they slid the metal gates closed at 3 to be closed by dark. But still.)
Years of travel and trade shows went by smoothly, but then the manufacturing business started to tank, and so did the marriage with Leon. In 2001, they split the business and the marriage, with Carol keeping the retail store, and Leon taking over the wholesale. They remain friends today, and Just Tantau remains a crucial, ORIGINAL store on Abbot Kinney. I send people there all the time to get unique gifts like necklaces made out of old typewriter key letters, or Tantau's latest pieces made out of watch and clock parts. Timeless.
Not having to travel so much anymore, Tantau began to get more and more involved with the Venice community. She was the head of the West Washington Merchant's Association (and was instrumental in getting the street's name changed to Abbot Kinney, as well as getting the palm trees planted up and down the boulevard) and then became President of the Chamber Of Commerce.
That led to involvement in the Community Police Advisory Board, and after the O.J. Simpson verdict in 1995, it was made clear that there really was no domestic violence bridge to the LAPD. Sojourn Services (the second oldest shelter in the state) created an Emergency Response team to respond to domestic violence calls, and soon Tantau found herself not only training and becoming a volunteer, but suddenly in charge of the program! Once you know her, this is not at all surprising. As she said about herself, "I have the personality for it." She now manages 35 volunteers, support groups, a legal clinic, court accompaniments, and acts as an advocate/liaison to the LAPD, where she recently began teaching about domestic violence at the Police Academy. Women, Carol Tantau has your back.
Tantau is able to do all of this important advocacy work, on top of being a small business owner on Abbot Kinney, which is a luxury she attributes to her "wonderful employees." They enable her to have the best of both worlds, and keep her perspective fresh for both. Obviously, Tantau has seen her share of change in Venice, as she has lived and worked on Abbot Kinney for over 30 years. The thing that keeps her here and that she loves the most is the diversity - endangered though it may be.
"I am in Venice by choice. This is my chosen home, I wasn't born here. There is a depth that ties me to this place ..." We share this feeling, and acknowledged the changes around here now. First Fridays and the food trucks have scared off a lot of old school regulars and neighbors from the shops because it's such a hassle, and not that fun when you don't see anyone you know anymore.
But as we were talking, Tantau made a great point. "We are still here. Real, true Venetians can still take ownership, but not if they're not here. Don't forget US." Yeah. C'mon, Venice! We can hole up and avoid the masses on Abbot Kinney, or go out there and take it back. Show THEM what Venice is about. Have OUR fun. Be nice, but don't kiss ass. Don't be all about the money, but about the sense of place. I remember hanging out once with Bunny at The Green House, and someone came in and asked if it was ok to bring in their dog. Bunny replied, "Of course, this is VENICE." Somewhere different. Somewhere special. Somewhere not like everywhere else. Somewhere with a strong history of that diversity, and somewhere that has always had our sense of fun.
Carol Tantau has so many stories of Venice through the decades, she really needs to write a book. But she's awfully busy, so take the opportunity to stop in to Just Tantau and hear some tales for yourself. Be a regular again. Be a neighbor. Share your stories. Take ownership of YOUR chosen home.
Posted by CJ Gronner at 9:30 AM
Labels: Abbot Kinney, Carol Tantau, domestic violence, gentrification, jewelry, Just Tantau, Sojourn Services, Venice Chamber of Commerce, Venice shops
Mary Goodfader March 4, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Nice story, CJ. Stay with it, Carol.
Mary Goodfader
Small World Books
Thank you for such a great story about Venice, Just Tantau and our beloved Carol Tantau. She is such a treasure for so many and her store just ROCKS!!!! No, Toto, when you get top JUST TANTAU you are NOT in TARGET!!!!!
Thanks for such a terrific post . Carol Tantau is a TREASURE. No Toto, JUST TANTAU is NOT Target!!!!!!!! :)
olivia March 7, 2013 at 5:25 AM
terrific story about Carol !
What a treasure...
Wonderful story and very well told!
Amazing Carol is truly a virtue and she is brillant too. She speaks quietly yet carries a strong voice for what she believes in. She definitely believes in Venice, in the rights of Women, in her friends and in her family.
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When Tom Faraday joined internationally renowned CERUS Biotech, he thought he'd landed his dream job. A chance to work with their famous CEO, William Bern, perhaps to change the world. But Tom has found himself in an organization in crisis. The company bet the house on a radical neural interface project, only to be blocked by a government with reasons of its own. Now CERUS is running on vapor and the corporate vultures are gathering. Bern isn't one to go down without a fight.


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Q: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.amazonaws.transform.JsonUnmarshallerContext.getCurrentToken()Lshaded/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/JsonToken; I'm currently getting this error:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.amazonaws.transform.JsonUnmarshallerContext.getCurrentToken()Lshaded/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/JsonToken;

It looks like there's a mismatch with aws sdk & fasterxml jackson but I've tried excluding as well as using dependencymanagement to no avail. Checked dependency tree but I'm not seeing anything obvious. I've stepped through the code line by line but couldn't see where the problem might be. Searched all over google but no solution seems to work.
Made sure all aws sdk is version 1.12.351 & jackson version 2.12.1
Any help is appreciated!
Here's my pom:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.mycompany.sbg.ml.spark</groupId>
    <artifactId>myapp-runner</artifactId>
    <version>1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <parent>
        <groupId>com.mycompany.sbg.ml.spark</groupId>
        <artifactId>myapp-aggregator</artifactId>
        <version>1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
    </parent>

    <properties>
        <jersey.version>2.26</jersey.version>
        <tiger.graph.data.mgr.version>3.1.7</tiger.graph.data.mgr.version>
        <uber.jar.ext>jar-with-dependencies</uber.jar.ext>
        <scoverage.plugin.version>1.4.0</scoverage.plugin.version>
        <aws.version>1.12.351</aws.version>
        <jackson.version>2.12.1</jackson.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
                <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-dynamodb</artifactId>
                <version>${aws.version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
                <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-core</artifactId>
                <version>${aws.version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
                <artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
                <version>${aws.version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
                <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-sts</artifactId>
                <version>${aws.version}</version>
            </dependency>

        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-cbor</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-module-scala_2.12</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-csv</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jdk8</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs-json-provider</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
            <artifactId>kafka_2.12</artifactId>
            <version>2.6.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.mycompany.idps</groupId>
            <artifactId>idps-sdk</artifactId>
            <version>3.90.0</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jersey-multipart</artifactId>
                </exclusion>

            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.mycompany.sbg.ml.spark</groupId>
            <artifactId>myapp-handler</artifactId>
            <version>${project.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
            <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
            <version>2.12.10</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
            <artifactId>scala-reflect</artifactId>
            <version>2.12.10</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>
            <version>${jersey.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-entity-filtering</artifactId>
            <version>${jersey.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
            <version>${jersey.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-container-servlet</artifactId>
            <version>${jersey.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-container-servlet-core</artifactId>
            <version>${jersey.version}</version>

        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
            <artifactId>spark-core_2.12</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
            <artifactId>spark-sql_2.12</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>
            <version>${jersey.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-entity-filtering</artifactId>
            <version>${jersey.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.mycompany.css.voyager</groupId>
            <artifactId>tg-writer</artifactId>
            <version>${tiger.graph.data.mgr.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spark-core_2.11</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spark-sql_2.11</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spark-hive_2.12</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.mycompany.css.voyager.schema</groupId>
                    <artifactId>tg-salesforce-schema</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
                    <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-core</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.tigergraph</groupId>
                    <artifactId>tg-jdbc-driver</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.amazon.emr.fork</groupId>
            <artifactId>emr-dynamodb-connector</artifactId>
            <version>4.15.1</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <finalName>myapp</finalName>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.2.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <finalName>${project.artifactId}-${uber.jar.ext}</finalName>
                    <shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached>
                    <shadedClassifierName>${uber.jar.ext}</shadedClassifierName>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>shade</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <finalName>${project.artifactId}-${uber.jar.ext}</finalName>
                            <artifactSet>
                                <excludes>
                                    <exclude>com.almworks.sqlite4java:*</exclude>
                                    <exclude>io.github.ganadist.sqlite4java:*</exclude>
                                    <exclude>org.bouncycastle:*:*:*</exclude>
                                </excludes>
                            </artifactSet>
                            <transformers>
                                <!--
                                    This AppendingTransformer is required for uber jars when dealin with akka packages.
                                     It expects a reference.conf to be in the JAR.
                                 -->
                                <transformer
                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
                                    <resource>reference.conf</resource>
                                </transformer>

                                <transformer
                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                                    <mainClass>com.mycompany.mlp.myapp.spark.Application</mainClass>
                                </transformer>

                                <transformer
                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>

                            </transformers>
                            <filters>
                                <filter>
                                    <artifact>*:*</artifact>
                                    <excludes>
                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
                                    </excludes>
                                </filter>
                            </filters>
                            <relocations>
                                <relocation>
                                    <pattern>org.apache.hadoop.dynamodb</pattern>
                                    <shadedPattern>shaded.org.apache.hadoop.dynamodb</shadedPattern>
                                </relocation>
                                <relocation>
                                    <pattern>net.razorvine</pattern>
                                    <shadedPattern>shaded.net.razorvine</shadedPattern>
                                </relocation>
                                <relocation>
                                    <pattern>com.squareup.okhttp</pattern>
                                    <shadedPattern>shaded.com.squareup.okhttp</shadedPattern>
                                </relocation>
                                <relocation>
                                    <pattern>com.fasterxml.jackson</pattern>
                                    <shadedPattern>shaded.com.fasterxml.jackson</shadedPattern>
                                </relocation>
                                <relocation>
                                    <pattern>com.google.protobuf</pattern>
                                    <shadedPattern>shaded.com.google.protobuf</shadedPattern>
                                </relocation>
                            </relocations>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.2.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <recompileMode>incremental</recompileMode>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>scala-compile-first</id>
                        <phase>process-resources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>add-source</goal>
                            <goal>compile</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>scala-test-compile</id>
                        <phase>process-test-resources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>testCompile</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.scoverage</groupId>
                <artifactId>scoverage-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${scoverage.plugin.version}</version>
                <configuration>
                    <excludedPackages>com.mycompany.mlp.myapp.spark.structured.reader.proto</excludedPackages>
                    <scalacPluginVersion>1.4.0</scalacPluginVersion>
                    <minimumCoverage>0</minimumCoverage>
                    <failOnMinimumCoverage>true</failOnMinimumCoverage>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>check</goal> <!-- or integration-check -->
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.10</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>copy</id>
                        <phase>test-compile</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <includeScope>test</includeScope>
                            <includeTypes>so,dll,dylib</includeTypes>
                            <outputDirectory>native-libs</outputDirectory>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.0</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>enforce</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <rules>
                                <bannedDependencies>
                                    <excludes>
                                        <exclude>org.slf4j:log4j-over-slf4j</exclude>
                                    </excludes>
                                </bannedDependencies>
                            </rules>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
                <artifactId>idps-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.0.2</version>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>test-jar</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                    <encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding>
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                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>compile</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>compile</goal>
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            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.17</version>
                <configuration>
                    <skipTests>false</skipTests>
                    <reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
                    <argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine>
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</project>


Dragon's Breath | Avi And Robin!
Click read more for the full process, and the ingredients!
We had Dragon's Breath in mind for a while, and finally had an outlet to make it. First we made the glass container. We bought an apothecary vase/jar from Michael's Arts and Crafts, and then went to designing, and etching it.
The design process as usual consisted of my design, Robin's revision, my redesign, Robin's revision, my scrap and then redesign, Robin's revision, so on and so forth. We drew from traditional apothecary label designs, fantasy elements, and general guidelines for the shape of the vase. We ended up with the image on the right, and I'm VERY happy with it. I threw some black velvet in there to make it easier to distinguish.
And if you really want, I have a vector image available. Contact me privately if you want it.
Shake with ice, this is enough for one-two shots depending on how much ice melts. You can try it without the ice melt, but be warned: it is NOT for the weak of heart.
And yeah, for some added fun we used a giant steel (cooking) syringe to extract the liquor and plunge into shot glasses. 3 Liters of this stuff disappeared in about two hours, I was as impressed as I was proud.


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Oprah Winfrey Shares Intimate Last Moments With Her Mother
By CURLYNIKKIAugust 6th, 2021No Comments
by Charise Frazier via MadameNoire.com
Oprah Winfrey is opening up about the last days she spent with her mother before she died on Thanksgiving day.
Winfrey's mother Vernita Lee, 83, died on November 22 after a long battle with diabetes, the media mogul revealed. Lee passed away at home in Milwaukee. Winfrey also revealed her deepest thoughts and fears knowing that she would have to lay the woman who gave birth to her to rest.
"In hospice care they have a little book about the little conversations," Winfrey said to People in an exclusive interview. "I thought, 'Isn't this strange? I am Oprah Winfrey, and I'm reading a hospice care book on what to say at the end.'"
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"I just thought, 'What is the truth for me? There isn't going to be an answer in a book. What is it that I need to say?' I was praying for a way in," she continued.
Winfrey recounted flying home to visit her mother after her sister Patricia called to say their mother was near transitioning. At the time she recalled finding a moment to be with her mother as she was scheduled to host the launch of Michelle Obama's book tour.
"This is the beauty of my life," she says. "There's not a thing that happens to me, that I don't look at it as a teaching, learning, experience. I knew my mother was dying. I got a call from my sister (Patricia, who Lee gave up for adoption in 1963) that she thought it was the end. I was planning to go to launch Michelle Obama's book, Becoming, in Chicago. I hopped on a plane and I went early—I surprised my mother."
"She's sitting in this little room—she loves sitting in this room where it's 80 degrees," Winfrey says. "She just watches TV all day… She's had nurses and so forth over the years. Even when she didn't need nurses, she's had nurses. She just liked having all these people."
After hosting the launch with Obama, Winfrey said she flew back home and realized it was near the end.
"I sat with my mother. I said, 'I don't know if you're going to make it. Do you think you're going to make it?' She said, 'I don't think I am.' I had a conversation with her about what that felt like, what it felt like to be near the end. I started telling all the people who cared about her that, 'She knows it's the end, so, if you want to say goodbye, you should come and say goodbye.'"
She said due to another scheduling conflict she flew to Boston, but cancelled upcoming meetings she had at home in California. But before she left, she mustered up enough courage to say goodbye.
"I stood in the doorway and I said, 'goodbye.' I knew it was going to be the last time we said goodbye, although I didn't say to her, 'This is the last time I'm going to say goodbye," she said.
However, she said the last moment did not sit well with her so she flew back to Milwaukee to see her mother for a final time.
I went back. I sat in that hot room," Winfrey says chuckling at the memory. "I watched The Bold and the Beautiful. I watched The Young and the Restless. I watched The Price is Right. I watched Steve Harvey on the Game Channel. I watched it in a loop. I sat in the room, and I sat in the room. I was about to lose my fricking mind in that room, but I sat."
"I waited for a way to say what I wanted to say," she said. "I couldn't find it that day. The next morning I woke up, and I was actually praying for, 'What is a way I can have this conversation about the end? How do I close it?' I just thought, 'What is the truth for me? What is it that I need to say?'"
Winfrey said she turned to music playing some of her mother's favorites Mahalia Jackson, Whintley Phipps and Joshua Nelson, which she could tell lifted her mother's spirits.
"What I said was, 'Thank you. Thank you, because I know it's been hard for you. It was hard for you as a young girl having a baby, in Mississippi," she said. "No education. No training. No skills. Seventeen, you get pregnant with this baby. Lots of people would have told you to give that baby away. Lots of people would've told you to abort that baby. You didn't do that. I know that was hard. I want you to know that no matter what, I know that you always did the best you knew how to do. And look how it turned out.'"
Winfrey's sister Patricia was also able to make peace with her mother before she died in the hostel room.
"In that moment, my sister was in the room. My mother's had real problems since my sister came back from the adoption. My sister said, 'Please forgive yourself, because I've forgiven you for giving me away.' It was just really sacred and beautiful. I would say to anybody—and if you live long enough, everybody goes through it—say the things that you need to say while the people are still alive, so that you are not one of those people living with regret about what you would've, should've, could've said."
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WOW! Fabulous post, Rita ! I simply have to repost this one!
The destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 has been preserved in ancient times by an eye witness account, namely that of Pliny the Younger. The literary evidence and the spectacular finds from the site has made Pompeii one of the most well know archaeological sites in the world. However there is another well know site in the ancient world which was destroyed by volcanic eruption ,that of Akrotiri on the island of Santorini Greece.. Unfortunately, there is no literary evidence for the destruction of Akrotiri available to us. In actual fact the city was only discovered by an archaeological excavation carried out in 1967.


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Olivier Awards cancelled
Reporter: David Chadderton
The Society of London Theatres (SOLT) has announced that it has cancelled the 2020 Olivier Awards, due to take place at the Royal Albert Hall on 5 April.
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ABC's long-running morning news program, "Good Morning America," will be celebrating its 40th anniversary by broadcasting nonstop for 40 hours, the network announced Thursday.
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ABC's news program gets name change
ABC says its U.S. evening news broadcast will be called "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer," starting Monday.
Sawyer hosts her last 'GMA' episode
Diane Sawyer hosted her last "Good Morning America" show Friday and is preparing for her new role as anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight."
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New York's Long Island University announced this year's George Polk Awards for excellence in journalism in 14 categories, led by a writer for the New Yorker.
I was for infrastructure being built in the state. And it's not inappropriate for a mayor or for a governor to request and to work with their Congress and their congressmen, their congresswomen, to plug into the federal budget along with every other state a share of the federal budget for infrastructure
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Charles "Charlie" Gibson (born March 9, 1943) is an American broadcast television anchor and journalist.
He is the anchor for World News with Charles Gibson, the flagship evening newscast by the ABC News division of the ABC television network.
He became anchor on May 29, 2006, when the program was known as ABC World News Tonight. He also anchors the ABC News five p.m. (Eastern Time) Information Network weekday newscast on ABC News Radio.
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Finland's Dirty Secret – Part 2: Political Controversy
Finland's political infighting eclipses this forward-thinking country's dirty secret - its continued reliance on peat, an outmoded fossil-fuel, as a source for energy.
Maren Krings
This article is the second part of a series entitled Finland's Dirty Secret. Part one of the series, Extracting Peat for Energy can be found here.
In the public eye, Finland is viewed as a global leader in a multiplicity of progressive institutions, from education to environmental policy. Just last year, the country ambitiously pledged to go carbon-neutral by 2035. However, Finland has a dirty secret when it comes to how it derives power, one that its own people don't even know about, aside from a few farmers and activists.
A ditched peat bog in a very dry state close to Savonlinna, Finland
The Finnish self-adulation regarding its forward-thinking approach to climate change, often echoed by the international community, is undermined by its continued reliance on peat, a toxic fossil-fuel, as a source for energy.
People walking over the Lasipalatsinaukio plaza in the country's capital.
After introducing the environmental harm caused by Finland's peat extraction in Part 1 – Finland's Dirty Secret: Extracting Peat for Energy, our reporting will now expose the political controversy surrounding Finland's continued reliance on this forgone fossil-fuel. The most culpable peat miner in Finland is a state-owned company called VAPO. As long as a corporation tied to the government continues profiting from a thriving peat industry, the truth-tellers will be marginalized, and Finland's secret will remain just that.
The Finnish fate is directly linked to the rest of Europe and the world. The Scandinavian carbon sequestration, or "carbon sink," is Europe's equivalent to the Amazon, and therefore a common responsibility that our world cannot afford to allow to be mismanaged by a nation that has heavily given in to the ways of easy exploitation of natural resources for more than 70 years.
ONGOING POLITICAL DISASTER
The entrenched political standoff between the Green Party and the Center Party is preventing any significant regulations to be passed that might rectify the ongoing peat disaster in the near future. As of August 16th, 2019, a budget draft from the Ministry of Finance has revealed that a suspension of the tax reliefs on peat will most likely fail. Disingenuous political messaging is partly to blame.
Green Party politician Satu Hassi stands in the middle of the economic pillars of the Finnish Nation, shipping, forestry, agriculture, and. industry
Nonetheless, Green Party politician Satu Hassi continues the fight. When we spoke to Satu, she broached the industry as a whole, "Peat extraction is called peat production, which is a misleading terminology because it is the natural wetlands that produce peat, then you mine peat, you don't produce it, but that stops the natural production of peat. The peat industry deliberately chooses these much nicer sounding words to not reveal their dirty process." On the significance of the issue, Satu went onto explain that "the whole peat extraction and burning is one of the biggest environmental problems in this country. It is disastrous for the climate but also for the water, our lakes and rivers and waterways are polluted and ultimately it all ends up in the Baltic Sea."
PASSIVE POLITICAL ACTION
Paloma Hannonen is conservation officer for the Finnish Association of Nature Conservation.
"For the climate peat is even more harmful than coal."
There are a number of environmental groups who are fighting to phase out the peat industry even sooner than the coal industry. However, the Finnish legal system may not be their best ally in this fight. The Finnish Association of Nature Conservation, led by the conservation officer Paloma Hannonen, foresees issues within the Finnish constitution, leaving ample room for interpretation of the forestry laws, putting the peat mires and wetlands at high risk of being exploited by the forest and energy industry. Meanwhile, Greenpeace has refocused their activism to remind politicians to stick to their plan of a carbon-free nation by 2035. They have now repositioned themselves from a proactive organisation, to promoting passive political interaction.
Portrait of Juha Aromaa – Communications Manager at Greenpeace Nordic (Helsinki).
In contrast, the young organisation "Turvesuomi" (Finnish Peat), formed in the spring of last year with the aim to bring attention to the issue by activism. The organizations leader, Mikko Neuvo, adamantly collected data on the emissions of the peat industry and information on the internal political fight, publishing daily on the topic through the website www.turvesuomi.fi. He started a movement of like-minded individuals, gathering on peat mires for demonstrations and showing a public stance in opposition to this dirty industry. Neuvo continues to raise awareness and fight for an earlier phase-out of peat. "It is a shame for my country to still be using this dirty energy source. New calculations show that Finland's carbon sink will be 17.9 million tons of carbon dioxide versus the previously anticipated 35 million tons by 2035."
Activist Mikko Neuvo squats next to a drainage ditch at a peat bog in a very dry state close to Savonlinna, Finland
In the midst of a political crisis this December, Sanna Marin became the world's youngest currently-serving state leader. After the incumbent Antti Rinne was dismissed from his office for mishandling state issues, Sanna has stepped up to tackle a political cleanup as well as bring back a country that has heavily derailed from its promise to become a fossil-free nation. The nearly spent Finnish carbon budget keeps the eyes of many, especially those opposing the current political management, on the dirty industries of peat, coal, and non-sustainable forest industry, to sharply focus on the progress.
"peat burning must end."
The Swedish-Finnish company Stora Enso, the world's second-biggest forest enterprise, with the company headquarters in Helsinki, revealed that "We do not directly own forests or peatlands in Finland. We purchase wood mainly from private forest owners to make renewable and recyclable products." This statement fails to mention that Finnland, unlike its neighbor Sweden, allows harmful clear-cutting even on National "old-growth" boreal forests, which have not been inventoried for species, or carbon sequestration, making the claim for a "recyclable product" rather questionable. Further Stora Enso writes, "We are committed to sustainable forestry practices and it is our firm intention to drive down our fossil fuel use, including peat, to as close to zero as possible, within a decade, using technically and commercially feasible means." However, a map from P. Keto-Tokoi and T. Kuuluvainen, documenting the disappearance of boreal "old-growth" forest from the Finnish landscape between the year 1000 and 2010 shows a development in forestry that can't be further away from being called sustainable.
The disappearance of boreal "old-growth" forest from the Finnish landscape between the year 1000 and 2010.
Although a significant amount of damage is occurring on site at peat farms, not all farmers are willing to speak out against extraction. Peat farmer Harri Haavikko attempted to defend the country's extraction practices. "The peat industry in Finland, as it is, is sustainable. Less peat is harvested every year and the emissions are very low due to the modern techniques." However, Haavikko makes no reference to any quantifiable data to support his broad claim. Haavikko rebuffed any further discussion by referring to an industry that has become "very hostile and political around the profession of peat farming and the debate is based on assumptions of ignorants."
Linnunsuo is the first site of a rewilding project in Finland, lead by the NGO Snowchange Coopertative. The Aerial shows the site 9 years after the peat extraction stopped.
Finland has often positioned themselves on the high ground when it comes to climate change and healthy ecosystems. However, much of this is being undone. While political parties waste valuable time, the industries will seize hectare by hectare of virgin peat mires and drain their waters into the clean lake-system, continuing the pollution and destruction of the natural environment.
The use of peat to produce energy is not limited to Finland alone. Russia and Ireland are also using it for energy generation. However, Ireland has taken an active step forward and will put a ban on peat burning as of 2029.
Even countries not using it for energy purposes have stepped forward. The United Kingdom, for example, has put a ban on peat to be used as garden soil, starting from next year. Although professional gardeners have an extra ten years to comply with the peat ban regulations.
To comply with the actions required as per the IPCC paper from November 2018, addressing in particular climate change, Finland should set a positive example. Its importance cannot be understated, as Satu Hassi puts it, "for the climate peat is even more harmful than coal. The burning of peat includes the wet material that needs a great amount of energy for the drying process. Therefore you produce more CO2 per useful energy with peat than with coal and it is evident that peat burning must end."
Political lobbying and fighting need to stop immediately. Everyone must work together to meet joint goals. In the middle of a climate crisis, there is no time nor tolerance to fight over political positions of power. Even if that means phasing out antiquated industrial practices that cannot be justified with an already depleted carbon budget in a modern nation such as Finland.
Stay tuned to The Outdoor Journal for Part 3 of Finland's Dirty Secret – Solutions (Reversing the Damage).
All photos by Maren Krings


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The MCC is located 400 meters from the S-Bahn station Berlin-Schöneberg. From there up Torgauer Straße, turn left onto the EUREF campus and then straight ahead - with the historic gasometer on your right - towards the red brick building with the tower. The main entrance of the institute, in the middle of the picture above, is marked "Haus 19".
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Arriving at central station (Hauptbahnhof), take the S5 or S7 one station to Friedrichstraße and change to S-Bahn S1 heading to Wannsee. Get off the S-Bahn at destination Schöneberg and leave the station via exit Dominicusstraße. Cross the street and turn into Torgauer Straße, which is directly across the station gate (2 walking minutes).
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Both exits take you onto federal highway B1. Stay on that route until you reach the street Sachsendamm. Turn left onto Dominicusstraße and take your second turn on your right, Torgauer Straße (that junction is located underneath a rail track bridge). Once on Torgauer Straße, the EUREF-Campus will be your first turn on your left.
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Gezicht Hogebeintum is een van rijkswege beschermd dorpsgezicht in Hogebeintum in de Nederlandse provincie Friesland. De procedure voor aanwijzing werd gestart op 5 november 1987. Het gebied werd op 27 september 1991 definitief aangewezen. Het beschermd gezicht beslaat een oppervlakte van 58,1 hectare.

Het terpdorp heeft zich ten tijde van voor de bedijking ontwikkeld tot een van de hoogste terpdorpen van Friesland en heeft nog steeds een radiale verkavelingstructuur.

Panden die binnen een beschermd gezicht vallen krijgen niet automatisch de status van beschermd monument. Wel zal de gemeente het bestemmingsplan aanpassen om nieuwe ontwikkelingen in het gebied te reguleren. De gezichtsbescherming richt zich op de stedenbouwkundige en cultuurhistorische waardering van een gebied en wil het toekomstig functioneren daarvan veiligstellen.

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PNG Hunters face Northern Pride in top of the table clash
The SP PNG Hunters will face off last year's minor premiers, Northern Pride, in a fascinating top-of-the-table Intrust Super Cup clash.
Both teams have started the season with three straight wins, setting the scene for an epic contest at Kalabond Oval, Kokopo.
The SP PNG Hunters have moved up a notch on the Intrust Super Cup points table, following their decisive 46-14 win over the Central Queensland Capras on Saturday.
The Capras were on the receiving end of fast-improving Hunters, who enjoyed the perfect weather conditions to pile on 9 tries to the visitors' three.
Six players missed out, including Adam Korave with his hamstring injury, who will be hoping to come good in this weekend's match against the Northern Pride, before continuing their away matches in round five and six.
Both teams are locked on six points apiece, and have amassed 94 points, each in three games played so far.
Hunters' glory minute against the Northern Pride outfit in the trial match, will put on more effect in this season's proper match. Coach Michael Marum stays true to his word, hoping for another home ground victory.
The Queensland Rugby League provides all the match officials, referees and touch judges.
The first two visitors played the Hunters, have flown direct to Tokua Airport, on a charter flight from Cairns, but now all remaining teams will fly via direct Air Niugini Commercial routes to Kokopo.
In the other draws, Mackay Cutters will take on Manly Seagulls, Burleigh Bears go up against Ipswich Jets, Redcliffe Dolphins host East Tigers, Magpies will play Tweed Heads Seagulls and Norths Devils will be ready to scare Sunshine Coast Falcons at Bishop Park, while CQ Capras are on bye.


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Price, not advice, spurs health food choices: study
3 Mar, 2010 03:00 PM 3 minutes to read
By: Martin Johnston, Martin Johnston
Senior journalist, NZ Herald
martin.johnston@nzherald.co.nz@MartinJohnston6
Research on the benefits of slicing sales tax off healthier foods has strengthened the Maori Party's struggle to introduce this policy.
The year-long study of 1100 supermarket shoppers found that those given a discount of 12.5 per cent - the level of the GST sales tax - on healthier foods increased the volume of these foods they bought by 11 per cent.
Fruit and vegetables comprised two-thirds of the increase.
But in a comparison group who were instead given advice on healthier options they could purchase, based on the foods they were routinely buying during the study at Pak'nSave supermarkets, there was no change in their quantity of healthier foods.
Despite the increase in healthier-food purchases, the amount of less-healthy food did not change. But the researchers said the increase in fruit and vegetables "represented an improvement in overall diet", because most people ate too little of these foods.
The increase in the discount group's healthier purchases was considered only a "modest" improvement, but it underscores the assertion of many public health practitioners and researchers, that to address the growing obesity rate, changing the food "environment" is more important than educational measures. This position is in contrast to the Government's approach, which falls more on the side of education. National has also rejected the idea - pushed by the Maori Party and many in public health - of removing GST from healthy foods.
The Maori Party has drafted legislation that would introduce this policy, but it has not yet won selection from the ballot for member's bills.
"We're still lobbying the Government [on the policy]," a Maori Party spokeswoman said yesterday. "Even if National is going to say no, that doesn't mean the Maori Party is going to stop pushing for it."
The researchers, from Auckland and Otago Universities, say their findings show the importance of considering pricing interventions rather than relying exclusively on personal responsibility to improve diet.
The researchers suggest considering a range of policies, including removing GST from healthy foods, subsidising healthier foods, targeting subsidies to those on low incomes and giving subsidies to the producers and manufacturers of healthier foods.
Co-researcher Professor Tony Blakely acknowledged that removing GST from some foods would complicate the tax, but said many countries had some form of food-exemption system for their sales taxes.
* Discounts led to an 11 per cent increase in the volume of the healthier foods purchased.
* Advice on healthier foods had no effect.
Source: Auckland University and Otago University.
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The following information is applicable to people who are fully vaccinated and traveling from Sint Maarten to Hungary.
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Transit is allowed for specified routes
Cases Per Million
Decreased by259.72
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The Album for Horn and Piano contains a subsumptiopn of various pieces of music by Carl Eisner which have not been published till today. The manuscripts of these works are kept in the library of Dresden.
Capriccio pour Cor chromatique et pianoforte sur des Themes finoises et Suedoises - Eisner works out Swedian and Finnish themes which he might get to know during his stay in Russia.
"Der Blinde" (The blind man) - This is an arrangement by Eisner of the work of Carl Keller "Der Blinde (eine Fantasie) mit Begl. d. Pianoforte oder d. Guitarre" for voice and piano, published 1840 by Peters.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress rejected President Donald Trump's proposed cuts to diplomacy and foreign aid budgets as dangerous to national security on Wednesday, setting the stage for a budget battle with the White House.
Representative Eliot Engel, Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Trump's proposal was "dead" as soon as it arrived in Congress, during the second of two House of Representatives hearings where Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took questions from lawmakers for some seven hours.
"This budget ... signals to the world that the Trump foreign policy is one of disengagement," Engel said.
The senior Republican on the House subcommittee that oversees State Department spending, Hal Rogers, described the budget plan at an earlier hearing as "woefully inadequate" to cover the administration's foreign policy and security goals.
The proposal slashes the State Department and aid budget by about $11 billion to $40 billion, he said.
"Given what the world looks like right now, this approach seems detached from reality," Rogers said, citing the need for U.S. leadership in a world with millions of displaced people, more countries facing instability and rising tensions.
Democratic Representative Nita Lowey, who chairs the full Appropriations Committee, also rejected the "draconian" cuts. "I am astonished that three years into his administration, the president still does not appreciate the merits of sustained investments in diplomacy and development," she said.
In written remarks before the hearings, Pompeo said the budget sought to double funds for countering China's increased aggression, and strengthen systems to target Russia's growing threats to the United States and Western world.
Pompeo said resources would also fund work to reach a deal with North Korea on curbing its nuclear programme and push back against Iran's role in Iraq, Yemen and Syria.
He said the budget also requested new authority to support a democratic transition in Venezuela, including transferring up to $500 million to foreign assistance accounts.
Trump's proposal calls for spending more U.S. taxpayer money on the military and a U.S.-Mexico border wall, while overhauling social safety-net programs in a budget plan likely to die in Congress but live on in his 2020 re-election campaign.
Pompeo came under repeated questioning to explain the administration's policy towards Saudi Arabia, from lawmakers concerned about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident, as well as the imprisonment and abuse of women's rights activists.
Several Democrats sharply criticized an expanded anti-abortion policy Pompeo outlined on Tuesday, which cuts funding to groups that support abortion rights. "Your budget and action is devastating to the health of women around the world," Frankel said.
"Your administration is abortion obsessed," she said.
Republicans said they backed the policy and several praised Pompeo for his stance.
Pompeo was reluctant to detail the administration's plan and timeline for releasing an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan developed by White House advisers Jason Greenblatt and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.
He said the proposed plan sought to tackle areas of a Middle East conflict that previous U.S. administrations failed to resolve.
Pompeo was pressed by Democrat Barbara Lee about proposed cuts in funding to African countries. She said Trump sought cuts of 56 percent to Ghana, 33 percent to Ethiopia, 14 percent to Mozambique, 44 percent to South Sudan, and 71 percent to South Africa, mostly in global health funding.
"This is after a well-documented track record of controversial statements from the president identifying certain countries as 's-hole' countries, and quite frankly, attitudes towards the continent in general," said Lee.