A look at the complexity of catering to both pet owners and pets in the pet food market.
In spite of the myriad ways to communicate with each other and customers, physical attendance to pet industry tradeshows continues to grow.
Though the new documentary claiming to "expose" the pet food industry's unwillingness to communicate the truth gets a lot wrong, it does pin down one facet of consumers the industry has been aware of for some time.
Valuable pet food research exists that could educate the industry and consumers alike, but there's a communication disconnect that must first be bridged.
With pet food trends becoming more nuanced and plenty of options on the market, innovation will be key to success on the pet store shelf.
Euromonitor International's latest consumer report provides some interesting insight into current global pet food consumer actions.


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We're through the looking glass, people. We can tell by the way we're gawking in awe at the Chicago Cubs, a team that hasn't won a World Series since Ford was introducing the Model T.
And, heck, we could be gawking in even more awe at the Cubs in the near future. They're already great, but apparently they want to be flawless.
This winter has already seen the Cubs take a roster that produced 97 wins in 2015 and augment it with Jason Heyward, Ben Zobrist, John Lackey and a couple of bullpen additions. Cue Sahadev Sharma of Baseball Prospectus to sum it up: "It's rare that a team has a perfect offseason, but what the Cubs have done...is as close as one can get."
#Cubs have agreed to terms with Jason Heyward, multiple sources say, and are not done yet. They are trying to trade for a starting pitcher.
#Cubs have had trade dialogue with #Padres (Tyson Ross) and #Indians (Carlos Carrasco, Danny Salazar), sources say.
About this, there are two things everyone should understand.
First, the Cubs are eyeing some sensible targets.
The Padres seem to be in full sell mode, and Ross is their top trade chip. Things are a little different in Cleveland, where the Indians may have no interest in trading Salazar, a young, talented starter with five years of club control left. But they do need help on offense, and dealing Carrasco may be their best hope of getting it. He's not as young or controllable as Salazar, but he is equally talented and may be in even more demand than Salazar.
Second, all this being said, the Cubs don't actually need Ross or Carrasco.
If we were to hop in a DeLorean and go back to when the Cubs got bounced from the National League Championship Series by the New York Mets, we'd find club boss Theo Epstein with a relatively short shopping list for the offseason.
"We want to continue to add impact pitching, we want to continue to add starting-pitching depth at the big league level," Epstein said, per Carrie Muskat of MLB.com.
This mission would appear to be accomplished.
In Lackey, the Cubs added a veteran starter who's coming off a 2.77 ERA over 218 innings in 2015. He's only the Cubs' No. 3 pitcher behind aces Jake Arrieta and Jon Lester and is followed by two solid starters in Kyle Hendricks and Jason Hammel. Behind them is a depth chart that includes swingman extraordinaire Adam Warren and former All-Stars Trevor Cahill and Travis Wood.
Elsewhere, Jeff Sullivan of FanGraphs points out that much of Chicago's projected WAR is coming from its starting rotation. As of now, only the Los Angeles Dodgers' rotation is pegged for more WAR in 2016.
Now, WAR projections definitely aren't gospel. They've been known to go awry, and it's not impossible to imagine that happening with Chicago's rotation. Arrieta may be coming off a Cy Young season, but it was one that required a hell of a workload. Lester (31) and Lackey (37) are older pitchers. Hendricks and Hammel are what they are: back-end starters.
So, though another starter isn't entirely necessary for the Cubs, it's not a bad idea either. Especially if said extra starter is Ross or Carrasco.
Ross is really good. The 28-year-old right-hander owns a 3.03 ERA across 391.2 innings over the last two seasons. Walks are his Achilles' heel, but those can be easily downplayed when one racks up as many strikeouts and ground balls as he does. Courtesy of one of the nastiest sinker/slider combinations in the business, Ross is tied for 13th in strikeout percentage and ranks second in ground-ball percentage since 2014.
Carrasco is also really good. The 28-year-old right-hander owns a 2.99 ERA over 252.2 innings in 40 starts since moving into Cleveland's rotation at the end of 2014. Using a hard fastball, an electric slider and a vanishing changeup, Carrasco has racked up more strikeouts than all but eight other pitchers since he became a starter, per Baseball Savant.
Of course, success on one team doesn't necessarily lead to success on another team. But for either Ross or Carrasco, that shouldn't be a concern with the Cubs.
In San Diego, Ross has succeeded as a ground ball-oriented pitcher despite not having a great infield defense behind him. With Kris Bryant at third, Addison Russell at short, Zobrist at second and Anthony Rizzo at first, the Cubs have one of the best infield defenses in baseball.
Meanwhile, in Cleveland, Carrasco has succeeded as a strikeout-oriented pitcher despite not having a great strike-framer catching his pitches. In Miguel Montero, the Cubs have a catcher whom Baseball Prospectus rated as a top-five framer in 2015.
Point being: A move to Chicago could well result in either Ross or Carrasco getting even better than he already is. And with either of them aboard, the Cubs rotation could boast as many as four No. 1 starters in the next couple of years.
That's a scary thought for the competition in its own right. But when placed in context of what else the Cubs are working with, it becomes even scarier.
We've already discussed how loaded the Cubs are, as we noted last week that signing Heyward to a $184 million contract seemingly completed the ensemble, particularly where the Cubs lineup was concerned.
Heyward and Zobrist are joining a lineup that rode a power uprising to a .754 OPS in the second half of 2015. All the Cubs offense was really missing was at least one table-setter who could handle patience and contact. In Heyward and Zobrist, Chicago's lineup now has two of those. In addition, Heyward figures to give the Cubs the good center field defense they were missing in 2015.
Elsewhere, the Cubs are returning the key members of a bullpen that, if you ask FanGraphs, actually produced as much WAR as the Kansas City Royals' bullpen in 2015. Hector Rondon, Pedro Strop and Justin Grimm give Chicago's bullpen three power arms, and Warren, Cahill and Wood give it depth.
With all this being the case, the only potential downside of an upgrade to the Cubs' already awesome rotation with Ross or Carrasco is that they would have to take a part or two out of the roster they already have. Would they have to part with any major leaguers they would miss?
Well, it seems certain that acquiring Ross or Carrasco would require the Cubs to surrender MLB-caliber talent. Jayson Stark of ESPN.com has reported that the Padres want a young, controllable shortstop. In Cleveland, Paul Hoynes of the Plain Dealer and others have noted the Tribe's need for outfield help.
It's not hard to narrow down which players would interest San Diego and Cleveland. The Padres would probably want a package built around Javier Baez. The Indians would probably want one built around Jorge Soler. Which is a complication, of course, as both figure into the Cubs' plans going forward.
But could the Cubs survive without either of them? Probably, yeah.
It wasn't long ago that Baez was viewed as an elite prospect, but these days he's being groomed as more of a utility player. Soler was also an elite prospect not long ago, but his rough 2015 season raises the question of whether the Cubs are better off using Chris Coghlan as a regular in right field.
So, yes, the Cubs probably could survive just fine if they had to give up Baez or Soler. And considering they have a farm system that Jim Callis of MLB.com ranked No. 4 in baseball as recently as mid-August, there's always a chance the Cubs could deflect talks to younger players instead.
Granted, because the Cubs don't actually need Ross or Carrasco, they could just back off and say, "Thanks, but we're good." Which would be true. They're plenty good. More than good enough to win the World Series in 2016, in fact.
But it won't be surprising if the Cubs actually go through with acquiring Ross or Carrasco. That would require determining that "more than good enough" isn't actually good enough. After 107 years of waiting for a World Series title, the Cubs may darn well be willing to go that far.
If they do, the Cubs will have taken an excellent team and made it virtually flawless. Folks on the North Side will start talking about printing World Series tickets not in jest but in all seriousness.
Through the looking glass, indeed.


Recently I got to speak with Brandon "The Irish Hammer" Teague. An inspiring young man, with dreams, and goals of being an MMA champion, Teague is determined to make that happen.
Brandon Teague: My name is Brandon Teague and I was born with cerebral palsy. I'm a future MMA fighter, a Special Olympics athlete, and deputy sheriff as well.
Kerry Stellar: When did you decide that you wanted to become a mixed martial artist?
Brandon Teague: Since I was 7 years old I wanted to be a fighter. The first fight I watched, Forrest Griffin vs Stephen Bonnar TUF season 1 finale it changed my life.
Kerry Stellar: What styles of fighting do you currently do?
Kerry Stellar: You have many medals and accolades tell us about them?
Brandon Teague: I compete in 100-meter dash slalom and I have the support of you, my friends, and my family. It wouldn't be possible without the support, I love reaching new levels.
Kerry Stellar: Who are some of the fighters you look up to?
Brandon Teague: Michael Chandler, Royce Gracie, Chuck Lidell, Jessica Eye, MVP, GSP, Matt Hughes, Forrest Griffin, and Frank Mir.
Kerry Stellar: Do you think there should be an organization or division for athletes with disabilities?
Kerry Stellar: What is it like being a deputy sheriff?
Brandon Teague: It's a fun roller coaster, I love patrolling, and getting the bad guys off the streets. It's an adrenaline rush.
Kerry Stellar: Where does your name come from?
Brandon Teague: My name came from my ancestors that came to America all the way from Ireland, and I came up with the nickname "The Irish Hammer" because my hands hit hard like a hammer hitting a nail.
Kerry Stellar: What would you like the world to know about Brandon "The Irish Hammer" Teague?
Brandon Teague: I'm one determined fighter, I never quit, and I always keep coming, that's what a warrior I am.
Kerry Stellar: Where can everyone follow your amazing journey?
Kerry Stellar: Thank you so much again for taking the time to speak with me, Brandon.


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1st Tehran International Marathon
The first marathon in Tehran's history was held on Friday, drawing hundreds of experienced and neophyte runners from around the world.
But the race encountered some hurdles, amid confusion over whether women would be permitted to run. In the end, they were allowed to run a separate half-marathon of 21km, rather than the men's full 42km marathon. They were also obliged to conform to a dress code, including a hair covering and a ban on any clothing that revealed bare legs.
The full marathon started at Azadi (Freedom) Stadium, and passed by the iconic Azadi Tower, a prominent structure during rallies in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Other landmarks along the route included Ferdowsi Square, built in honour of the famous Persian poet, and the Tehran City Theatre along Valiasr Street, one of the longest avenues in the Middle East.
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April 7, 2017 - Athletes of Tehran's Marathon are seen at Azadi Square during the 1st International Persian Run in Tehran, Iran.
Over a thousand runners from more than 40 countries ran 42km in Tehran from Azadi Sport Complex until Azadi Square.
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Norwich City striker Lewis Grabban is grateful he is getting more opportunities under new boss Alex Neil.
The 27-year-old scored his first goal since December in Tuesday's 3-2 win over Charlton in the Championship.
"I think the new manager has given me a chance," he told BBC Radio Norfolk.
"That was a bit lacking in the last regime and I found opportunities hard to come by. But this guy has come in and given me three starts and hopefully I can repay him."
Grabban was signed from Bournemouth last summer by former boss Neil Adams and scored six goals in his first nine games for the Canaries.
But he did not start any of Adams' last seven games in charge, before he stepped down as City boss at the start of January.
After three consecutive starts for Neil, he was able to contribute a goal to Norwich's dramatic win at the Valley.
After taking a 2-0 lead, the Addicks pulled back to 2-2, before Cameron Jerome's late winner.
Neil, who has won four of his six games in charge, was seen to have stern words with his players after the final whistle.
"We've had two clean sheets in the last two games and I'm not pleased we didn't have another one," he said.
"We need to make sure we cut those errors out. The players are disappointed themselves and it's something we want to improve on."


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Q: How can I multiply an nxn matrix A in fortran x times to get its power without amplifying rounding errors? How can I multiply an NxN matrix A in Fortran x times to get its power without amplifying rounding errors?

A: If A can be diagonalized as
A P = P D,
where P is some NxN matrix (each column is called 'eigenvector'),  and D is an NxN diagonal matrix (the diagonal elements are called 'eigenvalues'), then
A = P D P^{-1},
where P^{-1} is the inverse matrix of P. Therefore the second power of A results in
A A= P D P^{-1} P D P^{-1} = P D D P^{-1}.
Repeating multiplication of A for x times yields
A^x = P D^x P^{-1}.
Note here that D^x is still a diagonal matrix. Let the i-th diagonal element of D be D_{ii}. Then, the i-th diagonal element of D^x is
[D^x]_{ii} = (D_{ii})^x.
That is, the elements of D^x is simply x-th power of the elements of D and can be computed without much rounding error, I guess. Now, you multiply P and P^{-1} from left and right, respectively, to this D^x to obtain A^x. The error in A^x depends on the error of P and P^{-1}, which can be calculated by some subroutines in numerical packages such as LAPACK.

A: as alluded to in the answer by norio, one can employ in general the Jordan (or alternatively Schur) decomposition and proceed in a similar fashion - for details (including brief error analysis) see, e.g., Chapter 11 of Matrix computations by Golub and Loan.

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During Lent, the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, will feature a weekly Lenten message written by one of our priests and recorded by the Office of Communications.
For the third week of Lent, Fr. William T. Ledoux, Pastor of St. Mary Church, Cranston, Rhode Island , offers this reflection - click here.
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The Burden Of Colon Cancer Shifts From Rich To Poor : Shots - Health News Rates of colorectal cancer have dropped nationally, thanks to better screening. But people who don't have access to health care are more likely to miss out on screening, and face increased risk.
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Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths for both men and women in the U.S. It used to be that wealthy, white northerners had the highest death rates. But in the past few decades the trend has shifted, and now the people at highest risk are poor, black southerners.
Between 2008 and 2012, the death rates due to colorectal cancer were highest for blacks that held a high school diploma or less, according to a paper published Monday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But this isn't so much about education or race as it is about poverty. "It's not about your skin color. It does matter," Dr. Ahmedin Jemal, vice president of surveillance and health services research at the American Cancer Society and an author of the study, tells Shots. But the effect of race, he says, "is very small compared to the disparities that you see by socioeconomic status."
Indeed, Jemal and his colleagues found that non-Hispanic whites who didn't finish college were two times more likely to die of colorectal cancer than those who had at least a bachelor's degree.
Smoking is more common among low-income groups, Jemal says, and is a risk factor for colorectal cancer along with obesity and physical inactivity.
Big Drop In Colon Cancer Fuels Push To Get More People Screened
"I think the reason that you're finding it in blacks and in lower incomes is probably less access to [health] care," says Ann Zauber, an attending biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. As screening tests including colonoscopies became more widespread in the late 1980s, people with health insurance were more likely to get screened, and to get precancerous polyps removed before they became cancerous.
Geography also plays a role. The authors found even among the most educated whites, the death rate for colorectal cancer in Mississippi was 8.9 per 100,000 people, compared to 3.8 per 100,000 in Connecticut. Low taxes on cigarettes could be one reason why, Jemal says.
You Got What In The Mail? Home Test Boosts Colon Cancer Screening
And state policies can also really help, Zauber says. She points to Delaware's programs like the Delaware Cancer Consortium and the Delaware Cancer Treatment program, which ensured insurance coverage for screening for all state residents. It's credited with the 41 percent drop in colorectal mortality rates for African Americans between 2002 and 2009.
Jemal and his colleagues think that half of all premature deaths from colorectal cancer of people between the ages of 25 to 64 could be prevented by reducing ethnic, socioeconomic and geographic inequalities.
Says Jemal, "Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable cancers by reducing risk factors and by improving access to care."


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Posted on September 2, 2019 by englewoodindependent
City to purchase new wheel loader
By Ron Nunnari - Rnunnari@aimmediamidwest.com
A new Komatsu Wheel Loader, model WA270-8 at a cost not to exceed $155,000 will replace this twelve year old unit pictured above currently in use at the City of Englewood yard waste composting facility.
Photo by Ron Nunnari | AIM Media Midwest
ENGLEWOOD — Tuesday night Englewood City Council passed a resolution to approve the purchase of a new Komatsu Wheel Loader, model WA270-8 at a cost not to exceed $155,000.
The new wheel loader would replace a 12-year-old Komatsu currently in service.
The city received three proposals for a new wheel loader; one each from Caterpillar, CASE Equipment and Komatsu.
"The Komatsu is the staff's choice and it is also the least expensive," said City Manager Eric Smith. "They are all three within the same realm. In fact, between the CASE and the Komatsu there is only a few hundred dollars difference but we are recommending that we stay with Komatsu."
Smith told council that when it comes to buying municipal equipment it is a win-win for the city. First, there is a municipal discount. Smith contacted local contractor Doug Balsbaugh, owner of Balsbaugh Excavating, and asked what he recommended because he buys massive amounts of equipment. Balsbaugh buys a lot of Komatsu equipment and highly recommended that brand.
"If he had to buy the same piece of equipment he said he would have to pay over $200,000," Smith noted. He also said the trade-in value of the existing Komatsu would be substantial. Smith said he expects the city to sell its existing Komatsu on govdeals.com for anywhere between $40,000 to $50,000. Govdeals.com is the place to bid on government surplus and unclaimed property including heavy equipment, cars, trucks, buses, airplanes, and more.
The other factor that benefits the city is that it would not have to pay tax on the new purchase.
"As a public agency we don't have to pay tax, so it really pays to replace the equipment on a regular basis," Smith said. "The one we have is twelve years old. It still works fine and it still has life left in it and that is why it would have value for somebody else."
The city was offered zero percent financing, but Smith said the city prefers to pay cash for purchases of this nature.
In other business, council passed a resolution approving the city's five-year Capital Improvement Plan for the years 2020 through 2024 totaling $13,737,948. The Capital Improvement Plan serves as a long-range plan to aid in budgeting and setting aside adequate reserves to fund future projects. The availability of grant funding for projects slated in later years of the plan might expedite the actual completion of a project. Non-critical projects might be delayed pending the availability of support revenue.
During the City Manager's Report, Smith informed council that land along Main Street has been sold to MetroNet, which will be installing a tower and box for its equipment. MetroNet is currently installing a fiber optic network in Clayton, Englewood, Union and Vandalia (as well as other jurisdictions in the Miami Valley) that will provide fiber optic telecommunication services, including high-speed Fiber Internet, full-featured Fiber Phone, Fiber IPTV with a wide variety of programming, and a home security product called MetroNet SmartHome. Smith said service should be available sometime after the first of the year.
New police body cameras have been installed and are operational. Smith said the new body cameras are a gigantic leap forward compared to the original body cameras being used.
The water softening equipment being installed at the city's water treatment plant is well under way. Smith said he wasn't sure when it would become operational, but said the city was hoping it would be up and running by the latter part of October.
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TEHRAN — US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's sacking shows that Washington is set on quitting the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, Iran's deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday.
"The United States is determined to leave the nuclear deal, and changes at the State Department were made with that goal in mind — or at least it was one of the reasons," Abbas Araghchi said in comments carried by state new agency ISNA.
US President Donald Trump announced Tillerson's departure in a tweet on Tuesday, saying he would be replaced by Central Intelligence Agency Chief Mike Pompeo, who takes a much harder line on Iran than his predecessor.
Trump has repeatedly slammed the 2015 nuclear deal, under which Iran agreed to freeze its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of crippling international sanctions.
Despite Tillerson's determination to stick with the deal, Trump has threatened to scrap what he has dubbed a "terrible" agreement unless tough new restrictions were placed on Iran by May 12.
A US exit could kill the pact between Iran, Germany and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
The deal's backers have presented it as a victory for diplomacy and nuclear non-proliferation efforts.
The UN's nuclear energy agency, the IAEA, confirmed in February that Tehran had met its obligations under the agreement.
His comments contrast with those of Iranian officials including President Hassan Rouhani, who has said Iran will stick with the agreement as long as it is beneficial for the country — even if the United States leaves.
While Iran has reaped massive economic benefits from the accord, notably by being able to resume oil exports, it is still constrained by US sanctions in other areas.
Lower House Speaker Atef Tarawneh on Tuesday conveyed a verbal message from His Majesty King Abdullah to Iran's President Hassan Rouhani.


…………………. The stand of the University is that the appellant College has admitted students without having the necessary affiliation for the academic session 2015-16. This kind of conduct has become a disease, and when the conduct becomes a disaster, it is a disastrous phenomenon. ………..
Supreme Court has equated the practice of granting admission in absence of affiliation or in anticipation of affiliation, as a disease and has also cautioned that such disease has potential to become a disaster.
The Court was hearing an Appeal filed by a College against concurring Judgement of Allahabad High Court, refusing to consider the case of College for extension of earlier approval or admitting students, as the College, within the timelines prescribed by the Supreme Court, could not secure affiliation.
The College was earlier granted provisional affiliation for a period of 3 years, later it applied for constituting an Inspection Panel for granting permanent affiliation to the University. An Inspection Panel was constituted to submit status report and report was also submitted. However, as per time schedule prescribed by the State Government, the Inspection Report was not received within the prescribed date. In the absence of the required Inspection Report, the University did not grant permanent affiliation to the appellant. No appeal was preferred before the State Government.
The College being aggrieved preferred a Writ Petition before Allahabad High Court, which declined to interfere. Being dissatisfied with the order passed by the learned Single Judge, the College preferred Special Appeal before the Division Bench.
It was urged before the Division Bench that application for grant of permanent affiliation in respect of subjects was made well within time and the Committee had recommended extension of temporary affiliation but there had been failure on the part of the University, which had caused grave prejudice to the college.
The Division Bench noted that the State Government has formulated a time-frame for consideration of applications for affiliation and a person aggrieved by the decision taken by the University was entitled to prefer an appeal against the same to State Government. In the facts of the case the affiliation was neither granted by the time fixed nor was any appeal preferred before the State Government Being of this view, it dismissed the intra-court appeal. Hence, the College approached the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court refused to consider the prayer of the Appellant College stating that in light of time schedule, benefit cannot be extended, as the College has not maintained the time schedule fixed by the State Government pursuant to judgments of Supreme Court.
Fixing timelines for affiliation and admission process was certainly a welcome change at the instance of Supreme Court. But in some cases, the authorities acting in adhoc and arbitrary manner deny the right to an Institution, with an argument that, "If you think I am wrong, go to Court". The Institute then goes to Court, hires lawyer, attends hearing in anticipation of justice.
As an Institute is made to suffer even in genuine cases, shouldn't the concerned office or authority be also held accountable for acting in adhoc and careless manner. There has to be balancing of roles. Only the Institution cannot keep suffering.


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Document on Public Exhibition
Please 'contact us' for more information.
Councillors needs you input into the Operational Plan for 2018/2019
Prohibited Electrical Articles
The Council has been advised that the three new Cummins generators for the Powerhouse, ordered to replace the existing generators, will now not be ready for shipment before 30 June 2018. This delay will impact on the arrival date and ultimately the installation, testing and switch over from the old to the new generators. At this time a go-live date is not known but the Council is working with the suppliers to minimize further delays.
To ensure that the demand on the existing generators remains manageable and existing electrical supply can be maintained, new applications to install prohibited electrical articles will not be recommended for approval by the Minister, apart from Electrically Boosted Water Heaters. This measure is effective from Monday 28 May 2018 and will be reviewed once the new Powerhouse generators are fully operational.
Prohibited articles are as follows (as detailed in schedule 1 of the Electricity Supply Regulation 1986):
• Electrically-boosted solar heaters rated higher than 2.4 kilowatts
• Heaters for spa pools, swimming pools or saunas
• Domestic appliances rated higher than 2.4 kilowatts
• Cooking ranges
• Hot plates
• Ovens
• Washing machines fitted with electrical elements
• Electric welders
• Air conditioners
• Microwave ovens fitted with electrical elements
Prohibited articles unless prior approval (prior to 28 May) has been obtained (as detailed in schedule 2 of the Electricity Supply Regulation 1986) will not be approved by the Norfolk Electricity until further notice:
• Electrically-boosted solar heaters rated at 2.4 kilowatts or less (must be fitted with a quartz time clock)
• Water heaters (must be fitted with a quartz time clock)
• Electrical motors, including motors for pump (in some special cases special starters or time switches may be required)
• Electrical clothes dryers – approved design and rating (time switches may be required)
• Dish washers
• Sports area lights
• Electric radiators
Lotta Jackson
Public Meeting: Draft Operational Plan - Including Budget, Fees and Charges - And Documents on Public Exhibition
Norfolk Island Environment
Remote Piloted Aircraft (RPA"S) or Drones
This Week's Quirky Products Available on Island
Mayors Update - Keeping the Community Informed
'INTRODUCTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN AWARDS SYSTEM UNDER THE FAIR WORK ACT 2009 (CTH) IN ITS APPLICATION TO NORFOLK ISLAND
"As I advised in last week's press the following motion was unanimously agreed by Council on 16 May 2018:
Council requests that the Mayor make Minister McVeigh aware of the many representations and serious concerns held by the Norfolk Island business community relating to the imminent introduction of the Australian Awards System under the Fair Work Act 2009 (CTH) in its application to Norfolk Island; and Council's support for progression as a matter of urgency of the review and monitoring of the impact of Commonwealth reforms on Norfolk Island as foreshadowed by the Minister in his letter to the Mayor of 20 February 2018 and endorsed by Council at its March 2018 meeting.'
"In writing to Minister McVeigh this week I spoke of my responsibility as a leader in the community to bring issues of community concern to the Minister's attention as they arise; and that the above motion of Council relates to just one of a number of community concerns at this time" Mayor Adams said. "I provided the following background information to assist the Minister in his consideration of Council's motion."
'The transition year 2015/2016 saw many changes brought or to be brought to Norfolk Island; and I am confident that you appreciate that the culture and way of life of the Norfolk Island people has evolved over a very long time independently of the culture and way of life of elsewhere. This fact was taken into account by the Australian Government in respect of Capital Gains Tax with special dispensation being made in respect of timing of its application to Norfolk Island (media release Minister Paul Fletcher 23 October 2014).'
"I took the opportunity to bring to the Minister's attention" the Mayor said, "that leading up to the transition year the then Minister Jamie Briggs established an Advisory Council; and that on the matter of consultation on changes to legislation applicable to Norfolk Island the Advisory Council in their final report to the Commonwealth in 2016 recommended –
"…that the Australian Government establish a community consultation process to be applied for changes to laws on Norfolk Island which includes an impact assessment, a set timeframe for responding to the Minister and involves the Administrator and Regional Council'.
"It was this motion of the Advisory Council that prompted Council's earlier resolution of 15 February 2017 conveyed to former federal minister Fiona Nash that recommended transitional arrangements and impact assessment needing to be undertaken to ensure the extension of NSW legislation is seamless and harmonises with the culture and way of life of the Norfolk Island people that has evolved over time; and in that case, independently of the culture and way of life of the people of New South Wales.
"It was also important to bring to the Minister's attention that as a consequence of Councilrepresentation the Commonwealth put in place a Legislation Consultation Framework to "guidethe Australian Government's consultation on legislative changes, including amendments toexisting laws and the application or creation of new laws" Mayor Adams said "and to mentionthat notwithstanding that the Fair Work Act 2009 commenced on Norfolk Island in a modifiedform on 1 July 2016 with its full implementation on 1 July 2018, impact assessment andcommunity consultation as recommended by the Advisory Council in their 2016 Report to theCommonwealth did not occur.
I also thought it was important to mention that the recent community meetings conducted byofficers from the Fair Work Ombudsman Office did little to assist in the education/consultationprocess and certainly did not constitute impact assessment."
"As we all know the Norfolk Island economy is almost solely based on tourism" the Mayor said,"and it remains an unknown at this time how the introduction of the Modern Awards System onNorfolk on 1 July 2018 will impact on this vital industry. I have sought the Minister's thoughts onhow at this very late stage an impact assessment might occur."
"I look forward to meeting Minister McVeigh in Canberra next month" the Mayor said.
Robin Adams JP
DRAFT OPERATIONAL PLAN AND COMMUNITY MEETING
At the 16 May Ordinary Council Meeting the Draft Operational Plan 2018-2019 was presented and Council resolved to adopt the draft and place the Plan on public exhibition for 28 days.
Public submissions can be made until 4:30pm on 13 June 2018, a separate media release has been issued with full details.
A public meeting will be held at 5.30pm-7pm on 28 May 2018 at the Paradise Hotel to inform the community of the draft Operational Plan 2018-2019 before public submissions close, and for an opportunity to answer related questions.
Council's annual operational program is contained within the Operational Plan that is developed each year in line with the requirements under the Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) (NI). The Operational Plan contains the activities to be carried out during the year, the revenue policy, rating structure, fees and charges and the annual budget.
This is the third Operational Plan that has been developed for the Norfolk Island Regional Council, and therefore the third year of the Delivery Program which is the project plan that was developed by the Councillors for their term in Council.
The key projects that were planned for in the first year, and tendered for in the second year, will be progressed and/or executed in the third year. These key projects are:
• Waste - project to ensure the discontinuation of burning and dumping of waste into the sea
• Airport – apron, taxiway and runway rehabilitation
• Sewer treatment – develop a strategy and determine best solution
• Telecommunication – 3G/4G project
• Electricity – progress the Energy Solution project
Each of these government business areas are delivered on the premise of "fee for services" and they have been budgeted to break even, or with the aim of a surplus budget (any surplus will in the future pay for the upgrade of related assets).
The Waste Management budget was the most challenging to balance due to the cost of bailing and shipping legacy waste, such as asbestos, off the island. Therefore, the deficit in this fund had to be off-set by savings in other areas, supported by the general fund that is offset by the financial assistance grant.
Council was successful in obtaining a 50% contribution to the Tourism Marketing fund with$385,320.00 from the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Citieswhich means that Council can continue to deliver Tourism Marketing at the same levels asthe previous year. Tourism is the backbone of the Island's economy and Council remainscommitted to supporting the industry. This commitment is further highlighted with theintroduction of negotiated rebates on the Regular Passenger Transport charges forcommencing air services on currently un-serviced routes.
The social and environmental areas of the Plan will address advocacy roles relating toeducation, training, health, and well-being; the completion of the Environment Strategy,and the focus on clean water and pests and noxious weed eradication. Heritage and Culturefeatures in its own chapter and governance and leadership includes the continuation of atransparent and accountable Local Government.
Council continues to focus on the objectives in the Community Strategic Plan with the aimto be the "Best Small Island in the World".
OVERVIEW OF COUNCIL MEETING
The last Ordinary Council Meeting for 2018 was held on 16 May 2018, some of the matters discussed are detailed below.
The Draft Operational Plan 2018-2019 was presented to Council which includes the Rating Structure, Activities, Revenue Policy, the proposed fees and charges and the proposed budget for 2018-2019. For more information on the Plan, please see separate media release.
Council awarded the tender submission of the Unique Tourism Collection Pty Ltd for the contract as the Single Source supplier of Tourism/Marketing Services to Norfolk Island Regional Council for the period 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2021. Council also approved for Blue Arcus Technologies Incorporated, the preferred tenderer for the 3G/4G mobile phone system at a capital cost of $3.028 million, be contracted to provide 3G/4G services once funding for the project is finalised.
Council approved to write to Minister Dr John McVeigh to amend the Norfolk Island Standard Time Ordinance 2015, to include daylight saving time to commence on the first Sunday each October and end on the first Sunday 1 April.
The Quarterly Financial Review Report was presented (as at 31 March 2018) which shows an improvement in Councils projected financial performance to $1.396 million deficit from $1.996 million deficit year end 30 June 2018.
A Waste and Environment Status Report was provided, some of the items included were: The delivery of the multi-purpose baler has been further delayed and will be shipped together with the sorting line on 22 June 2018 unless there is a delay with the shipping schedule; Council has commenced inspections of sanitary facilities within the KAVHA catchment, approximately 30 properties have now been inspected. The data gathered from these inspections, and ongoing inspections in the KAVHA catchment, will feed into the Water Quality and Wastewater Management Strategy that will be prepared in the 2018-2019 year; Council has engaged SMEC Consulting to prepare an Environment Strategy for Norfolk Island. Work on the strategy is well underway. The SMEC team will be on island between 28 May and 4 June 2018, to conduct community consultation.
The Council Meeting Resolution Review and Quarterly Review of Activities were both presented to Council in full detail, the key activities being: The multiple tenders that have been progressed; the first value based rating models were created; Hindle Group progressed their Economic Development Activities and Professor Richard Bush presented on the Project Brief for the Green Economy Blueprint.
A Mayoral Minute regarding the introduction of the Australian Awards System and a Notice of Motion regarding a Community Strategic Plan - Preamble were submitted by the Mayor. For more information, be sure to check out the Mayor's Update in this week's media.
An Investment Report was provided and noted, with the interest accrued on investments during the month of April 2018 being $22,654.57 and the total deposits held being $13,976.951.
Three (3) Reports from Committees were presented:
• Minutes of the Tourism Advisory Committee Meeting held 3 May 2018
• Minutes of the Public Reserves Advisory Committee Meeting held 1 May 2018
• Minutes of the Heritage and Culture Advisory Committee Meeting held 27 April 2018.
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The Graduate Announce Indefinite Hiatus
By Frank Wu ⋅ July 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment
Filed Under the graduate
After six years together and two solid studio albums, The Graduate have announced today that they will be going on an indefinite hiatus. You can read a personal statement from the band below.
"To all of our friends, family, and fans,
You may have noticed things have been very quiet lately around The Graduate camp. If you've followed our band closely you know that the past few years have been full of trials, twists, and turns. We did everything we could to keep things going this long, however after almost 6 years The Graduate has begun entering the realm of indefinite hiatus.
We all feel extremely lucky to have been able to play so many shows in so many different places, and want to personally thank everyone who came out to a gig, picked an album or shirt, bought us a drink, helped us book a concert, let us crash in your homes, and everything in-between. We were fortunate enough to work with so many great people (far too many to name). We're very proud of all the work we've done together, and grateful for all the support.
Things may not have always ended up the way we wanted, but for the most part we were able to do things our own way. We hope that the songs we made will stay as close to you as it will with us. No matter what happens, no one can ever take away the music.
We will be playing four farewell shows around our hometown area. We're very sorry that we can't play one last show in every city we've come to love, but we hope that you'll try to make it out to one if you can. If you want to reach out to us, we'll try to reply to as many people as we can. Thank you again, we'll miss this.
Tim, Corey, Matt, Max, & Jared
thegraduatemailbox@gmail.com
Farewell Shows:
Aug 13 – St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
Aug 19 – Springfield, IL @ The Hilton
Aug 20 – Quincy, IL @ The State Room
Sept TBA – Chicago, IL
More info soon, please keep checking back"
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Self-Projects of our Institute
Photo 1: Self-Help Project
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Establishment of Mary Queen of Peace Primary School
There is apparent peace now and the children who underwent those turmoils and some who were born in captivity are now mothers and fathers or grand parents of the current children in Mary Queen of Peace.
Mary Queen of Peace has come out as an Institution to give a lasting Psycho-social support which need could still seep in the lives of our current babies and children. The Institute of the Little Sisters therefore felt it important to have in place a school that can impart and instill Peace as a virtue and a value to have citizens who can profess peace in their lives naturally; citizens who have skills to resolve conflicts, who can share at round table challenges and propose solutions to them.
Sometimes Dreams are real presentiments that can come true. Sr. Angelina Akello our Dear implementer of this Support school in a dream received a Dove of Peace (with olive leaf on its beak like in the story of Noah in the Ark) released from the hands of Mother Mary. She said in the dream there were very many religious who opened their hands to receive this dove and she was among them. The dove flew out and came straight to land in her hands.
With this the following day she felt the mission to start a school that will convey messages, feelings and actions of peace.She felt this would be more convincing and sustainable with an Institution for children than adults. That time her Superior General Mother Miriam Kozoa readily accepted the idea and in 2010 Sr. Angelina started the project. Looked for a piece of land and started. Now it has reached Primary 5 from Nursery.
Mary Queen of Peace is this school. Visit it, Support it and you get the impressions right from the gate but more so in the behavior of the children. The school rock is prayer with special devotion to the Blessed Mother Queen of Peace.


I've been hearing a spectral Hum just since this Spring. It sounds like distant thunder. Just yesterday I went to a weather channel to see if there were storms anywhere. Not at all. The first I noticed it was that nasty weekend we had spate of tornados, one which ploughed down a strip through Moore, OK.
That weekend at the pool I asked my daughter if she heard it. No, know one else did either. Since then I've been hearing it fairly frequently. I marked it up to a heightened sensitivity due to allowing my Mini Cooper to get some hail damage. That weekend there were in fact storms in the area. Though, when I heard the 'thunder' they were a few hundred miles away.
I'm in the right age group for experiencing this phenomenon, but it doesn't bother me, at least yet.
Oh boy. As most of you know I had surgery in the beginning of summer, and because of that I hadn't gone in the pool all season, until last week. As I was floating in the pool I could hear a low hum. I couldn't hear that in regular air, but I could hear it when my ears were submerged. Now, we've had this pool for approx. seven years, and had never ever heard this hum before. So yesterday I went in again, started floating, and- there was the hum.


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Q: using amxmlc to compile .as into .swf from the command line Here's what I'm doing:
amxmlc -load-config obj\config.xml

Here's what I'm getting:

Error: Missing builtin type Object
Error: Unable to build SWF C:\Users\m\work\project\bin\ApplicationName.swf

Here are the contents of config.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--This Adobe Flex compiler configuration file was generated by a tool.-->
<!--Any modifications you make may be lost.-->
<flex-config>
  <target-player>11.8</target-player>
  <benchmark>false</benchmark>
  <static-link-runtime-shared-libraries>true</static-link-runtime-shared-libraries>
  <compiler>
    <define append="true">
      <name>CONFIG::debug</name>
      <value>false</value>
    </define>
    <define append="true">
      <name>CONFIG::release</name>
      <value>true</value>
    </define>
    <define append="true">
      <name>CONFIG::timeStamp</name>
      <value>'11/26/2013'</value>
    </define>
    <define append="true">
      <name>CONFIG::air</name>
      <value>true</value>
    </define>
    <define append="true">
      <name>CONFIG::mobile</name>
      <value>true</value>
    </define>
    <define append="true">
      <name>CONFIG::desktop</name>
      <value>false</value>
    </define>
    <optimize>true</optimize>
    <omit-trace-statements>true</omit-trace-statements>
    <verbose-stacktraces>false</verbose-stacktraces>
    <source-path append="true">
      <path-element>C:\Users\m\work\project\src</path-element>
      <path-element>C:\Program Files (x86)\FlashDevelop\Library\AS3\classes</path-element>
    </source-path>
  </compiler>
  <file-specs>
    <path-element>C:\Users\m\work\project\src\com\client\ApplicationName.as</path-element>
  </file-specs>
  <default-background-color>#FFFFFF</default-background-color>
  <default-frame-rate>30</default-frame-rate>
  <default-size>
    <width>1920</width>
    <height>1080</height>
  </default-size>
</flex-config>

And here's ApplicationName.as:
package com.client {

    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.desktop.NativeApplication;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.display.StageAlign;
    import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
    import flash.ui.Multitouch;
    import flash.ui.MultitouchInputMode;

    public class ApplicationName extends MovieClip {

        public function ApplicationName () {

            stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
            stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
            stage.addEventListener(Event.DEACTIVATE, deactivate);
            Multitouch.inputMode = MultitouchInputMode.TOUCH_POINT;
        }

        private function deactivate(e:Event):void
        {
            // make sure the app behaves well (or exits) when in background
            //NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();
        }
    }

}

I can build this fine from Flash, Flash Builder, and FlashDevelop - but whenever I try the command line I get an error. And idea what's up with that?

A: You missed playerglobal.swc in your config. The minimal compiled config should be:
Flex 4:
<flex-config>
<target-player>11.1.0</target-player>
<default-frame-rate>40</default-frame-rate>

<compiler>
    <locale>
        <locale-element>en_US</locale-element>
    </locale>

    <external-library-path>
        <path-element>${flexlib}/libs/player/{targetPlayerMajorVersion}.{targetPlayerMinorVersion}/playerglobal.swc</path-element>
    </external-library-path>

    <library-path>
        <path-element>${flexlib}/libs/player</path-element>
    <path-element>${flexlib}/libs/player/{targetPlayerMajorVersion}.{targetPlayerMinorVersion}</path-element>
    </library-path>

    <optimize>true</optimize>
</compiler>
</flex-config>

Flex 3:
<flex-config>
<target-player>10.0.0</target-player>
<default-frame-rate>40</default-frame-rate>

<compiler>
    <locale>
        <locale-element>en_US</locale-element>
    </locale>

    <external-library-path>
        <path-element>${flexlib}/libs/player/{targetPlayerMajorVersion}/playerglobal.swc</path-element>
    </external-library-path>

    <library-path>
        <path-element>${flexlib}/libs/player</path-element>
        <path-element>${flexlib}/libs/player/{targetPlayerMajorVersion}</path-element>
    </library-path>

    <optimize>true</optimize>

    <warn-no-constructor>false</warn-no-constructor>
</compiler>
</flex-config>

You need to add path to the playerglobal.swc from this example.


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Jan. 15, 2019 / 9:10 AM
Petrobras preempts three pre-salt areas ahead of sixth auction
Roberto Castello, new president of Petrobras, as he delivered a speech during a transfer of powers ceremony in the headquarters of the company in Rio de Janeiro on January 3. Photo by Antonio Lacerda/EPA EFE
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Brazilian state oil company Petrobras wants to exercise pre-emption rights for three areas ahead of the sixth bidding round of pre-salt offshore oil to be held later this year.
The Brazilian state oil company said it has notified Brazilian energy officials it wants to exercise its rights to secure operatorship in the pre-salt blocks of Aram, Norte de Brava and Sudoeste de Sagitario.
Petrobras wants to become the operator of those fields with a 30 percent stake, which may be increased by forming a consortium during the bidding process.
The sixth round was approved in mid-December and is also set to include the areas of Boomerang and Southern Cross, which is a combination of the former Southeast Lula and the South and Southwest Jupiter blocks. It will be held November 1, 2019, an Offshore Engineer report said citing sources.
RELATED Total raises Lapa stake, creates JV with Petrobras for renewables
The pre-salt auctions are done under production sharing agreements. New Brazilian oil officials appointed after Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro started his government in January have said that there has been no decision so far to change that concession modality for pre-salt, as has been speculated, the report added.
More pre-salt auctions are planned for 2020 and 2021, it said.
In addition to the pre-salt bidding, Brazil is also set to carry out in October a 16th auction of oil areas under the concession regime. It will include 42 blocks in seven areas.
RELATED Petrobras to expand domestic oil production by 10 percent in 2019
In the fifth pre-salt auction held in September Brazil awarded all four areas it had offered in 35-year contracts, a September 28 report from O Globo said.
The blocks were Saturno, Tita, Pau-Brasil and Sudoeste de Tartaruga Verde. Shell, ExxonMobil, and BP led consortiums that won the first three blocks with the last being awarded to Petrobras, according to a Energy-Pedia report.
The pre-salt fields located in deep waters have tripled production in the last four years, from 500,000 barrels per day in 2017 to 1.5 million barrels of oil per day in 2018.
RELATED Petrobras sells stakes in Brazilian fields worth $823M to focus on deepwater
Pre-salt is a sequence of sedimentary rocks formed by the separation of the current American and African continents, about 150 million years ago.


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Mississippi Runoff Takes Financial Toll on GOP (Video)
By Eliza Newlin Carney
Posted June 24, 2014 at 4:02am
In the Mississippi runoff, McDaniel, above, is seeking the GOP nod over Cochran. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Mississippi's bruising GOP Senate primary, which voters will decide Tuesday in a runoff (get live results here!), has come at great cost — more than $17 million — to Republicans.
More than 30 Republican-friendly outside groups, from Club for Growth Action to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have lavished in excess of $11.3 million on the race, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That's almost twice the $6.1 million spent by Sen. Thad Cochran and his tea party challenger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel.
Liberal groups have essentially sat out the Mississippi primary, rated a Safe Republican contest by the Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call. As of early May, conservative groups had spent three times more attacking one another in primaries around the country than they had against Democratic candidates, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity.
"This is the tea party's last stand, and their best chance to knock off an incumbent senator," said Kevin Broughton, communications director for the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, which has spent close to $800,000 on McDaniel's behalf. Broughton called the contest "an important race for Mississippians and for the conservative movement as a whole."
McDaniel has also reaped the rewards of $1.3 million in spending by Senate Conservatives Action, and has been buoyed by a barrage of last-minute ads, rallies and door knocking organized by dozens of conservative groups, small and large. These include a political action committee called Conservative Strikeforce and the California-based Tea Party Express, which weighed in late but is trumpeting its pro-McDaniel bus tour as "ground zero in the battle between the D.C. insider class and the tea party grass roots."
The biggest spender on McDaniel's behalf — and in the race as a whole — has been Club for Growth Action, which has shelled out $3.1 million, CRP data show.
For his part, Cochran has gotten a boost from $1.2 million in spending by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and another $1.8 million by Mississippi Conservatives, an unrestricted super PAC run by Henry Barbour, the nephew of GOP operative and former Magnolia State Gov. Haley Barbour. The super PAC's top donors include Sanderson Farms CEO Joe Sanderson, who gave $100,000, and Richard Wax, who owns a company that sells wholesale seeds and bulbs and who gave $50,000.
Marked by headline-grabbing dramas and controversies on both sides, the race has been dubbed "one of the most bitter, mudslinging-est, bizarre political hootenannies in state history" by the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger.
Four McDaniel enthusiasts face criminal charges after barging in to photograph Cochran's wife in the nursing home where she lives. The Tea Party Patriots have filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against the Mississippi Conservatives super PAC for receiving a $219,540 loan from Mississippi's Trustmark Bank. PAC organizers have called the complaint a political stunt.
The race has drawn visits from such nationally known conservatives as tea-party-activist Sarah Palin and former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa. Cochran, in the meantime, has courted African-American voters in what some have cast as a desperate effort to counter McDaniel's momentum.
Pro-McDaniel forces gained steam after economic professor Dave Brat's surprise win over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Virginia. In an echo of Brat's attacks on Cantor's K Street and Wall Street ties, McDaniel's allies have turned one of Cochran's central campaign themes — his ability to deliver federal dollars to Mississippi — into a strike against him.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee and Cochran's Senate colleagues have rallied to his defense, and the incumbent may yet eke out a victory. But as GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his GOP colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham, learned in Kentucky and South Carolina respectively, winning doesn't come cheap.
McConnell trounced tea-party-challenger Matt Bevin in the Kentucky primary, but he spent $11 million in the process. Graham spent $8.5 million to fend off a bevy of GOP challengers in his primary. But that adds up to almost as much as he spent for his entire re-election campaign in 2008, which was $9.7 million.
In conservative Mississippi, the drawn-out GOP primary and runoff have left Democrat Travis Childers, a former congressman, sitting far off on the sidelines. After entering the race in late February, Childers had raised $124,000 by the end of May, according to his April quarterly, pre-primary and 48-hour reports filed to the FEC.
Allies for both GOP candidates have voiced confidence that whoever wins the runoff will go on to win the general election.
Kyle Trygstad contributed to this report.
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CONFERENCE : ART ET ARCHITECTURE, SCENOGRAPHIE POUR L'HOMME
Cultural , Historic , Lecture in Carcassonne
Since the dawn of time, two accomplices, the artist and the architect, have invited visitors to escape to a chosen space — their work — and appeal to our senses. In the 19th century, photographers and filmmakers joined them, in turn offering a setting, angle of view, dances of light and shadow. Today, in a progression so natural that it goes unnoticed, immersion in the work of art is dressed in digital music and 3D representations: daily interlocutors of lovers of Culture and heritage. The... Read more
Since the dawn of time, two accomplices, the artist and the architect, have invited visitors to escape to a chosen space — their work — and appeal to our senses. In the 19th century, photographers and filmmakers joined them, in turn offering a setting, angle of view, dances of light and shadow. Today, in a progression so natural that it goes unnoticed, immersion in the work of art is dressed in digital music and 3D representations: daily interlocutors of lovers of Culture and heritage. The result is a fiction of the present, the past or the hoped-for future. A perspective that suggests individual freedom by the confusion stimulated between reality and virtuality. Seductive, of course, where the imagination — an invitation to the journey of the possible — nevertheless risks being reduced to a determined path. There remains however the obligatory passage of an airlock: the "mondo inverso" staying in the dark room or projected by the mirror, today transposed in the evaluation of a dependence of our acts subjected to the fiction. The man detects his destiny there or at least he lingers on an introspection that this meeting offers him. At the essence of Humanism. However, recently, the space afforded to the spectator-actor has been reduced to the dimension of a keyhole in which to slide his eye: the smartphone screen. Without forgetting of course to adjust the earpiece in the hollow of the ear ... Can we therefore, again, prejudge Art that it is based on a connivance between perspective and scenography?
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this is the chit chat forum. you need customer service, if you click on the little green envelope on the right hand side of the screen you will be able to email customer support with your issue and they will be able to help you.
It is my understanding that you will not be able to get to the next shop in this game unless you have certain upgrades and that the game is designed this way by intention. A lot of people thought this was a glitch, but apparently it is not.
It might help to check out the full game forum for some more help on how to get the upgrades you need to progress to the next shop. I've gone ahead and moved this thread over to the full game forum for 2 Tasty just to keep Chit-Chat nice and tidy.
It's a cup, a rather small cup, like one that is half the size of a coffee mug. I don't remember where I saw them specifically, but one of them might have been on the floor.


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Four Manchester United fixtures at the start of the 2019/20 season have been amended after the Premier League announced the broadcast selections for August and September.
The Reds' second match of the top-flight campaign, against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux, has been moved from Saturday 17 August to Monday 19 August at 20:00 BST.
Related Story: Manchester United vs Leeds team line ups: Aaron Wan-Bissaka to make his first start
Manchester United kick-off for the fourth game of the season, versus Southampton at St Mary's Stadium on Saturday 31 August, has also been altered, from 15:00 to 12:30 BST.
The trip to West Ham United's London Stadium has a new date: it was scheduled for Saturday 21 September, but will now be played on Sunday 22 September at 14:00 BST.
Related Story: David De Gea and Romelu Lukaku ruled out of friendly against Leeds United in Perth
Meanwhile, in perhaps the most eye-catching change, Manchester United big game against rivals Arsenal has been moved from Saturday 28 September to Monday 30 September at 20:00 BST.
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Axel Tuanzebe signed a new contract, which will keep him at the club until June 2022


Even though the number of public charging stations in the Netherlands tripled the last four years to 40.000 units, it still needs some organizing when you want to cross the country with an electric vehicle. "It is like solving a Chinese puzzle", AD (Algemeen Dagblad) writes.
In the meantime, it is possible to charge an electric car all over the country. Compared to other European countries, the Dutch surely are champions when it comes to electric vehicle infrastructure.
Every municipality in the Netherlands has at least one charging point. Last summer even the last Dutch municipality without a charging station, Onderbanken, changed tack.
Charging in the urban agglomeration, where charging stations are shooting up like mushrooms, is no problem at all. Amsterdam has 3.839 charging points, Rotterdam 2.436, Den Haag 2.081 and Utrecht 1.455. In the thinly populated areas, however, the driver of an electric car has to be well organized and plan his route.
At provincial level, like in Groningen, Zeeland and Drenthe, there are hardly 600 charging stations per province. As a comparison, the city of Breda alone has 544 of them.
The quantity of 40.000 charging points may sound impressive but this figure is largely insufficient for the ambitious plans of Dutch Minister-President, Mark Rutte. In 2020, 10% of all sold cars should be fully electric, and Holland should have 3 million fully electric cars driving around by 2030.
According to figures from RDW, the management organization of the Dutch government responsible for car registrations, today there already are more than 132.000 electric cars (plug-in hybrids included) driving around in the Netherlands. 34.000 of them are fully electric.
Those vehicles don't have to rely on public charging stations alone. Some have a charging point at home, others use the one of their employer. According to the energy providers, there must be about 93.000 private charging points in the country.
Driving an electric car usually is the privilege of a lease car driver. A fully electric car has an advantageous addition for private use. Most fully electric cars – 17.000 – are registered in Almere, which happens to be the home base of some of the biggest lease companies.


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Crack the Funding Code demystifies the world of angel investing, venture capital, and corporate funding and lays out a strategic pathway for any entrepreneur to secure funding fast.
Lack of funding is one of the biggest reasons small businesses fail. In 2016 in the United States alone, more than 31 percent of small business owners reported that they could not access adequate capital, and the lack of capital prevented them from growing the business/expanding operations, increasing inventory, or financing increased sales.
Most business owners believe that their only feasible funding options are (1) savings or personal credit, (2) friends and family or (3) bank loans. They may have heard about venture capitalists or angel investors, but they don't have enough information about what these investors do, what they can provide for a business, and on what terms. What's worse, entrepreneurs often don't know how to access the people who are looking to put their money into young companies with potential.
Finally, business owners don't have enough expertise to navigate the treacherous waters of outside funding. Many small companies don't believe they are the type of company that gets funded. Even when business owners are brave enough to look for the right outside investors, they don't know how to create the compelling pitches or how to structure the deals that will get them the funding to expand and grow.
Crack the Funding Code will show readers how to find the money, create pitches that attract investors, and then structure fair, ethical deals that will bring them new sources of outside capital and invaluable professional advice. It will give readers the broader perspective--how funding works, how investors think, and what they need to hear to put their money where your mouth is. Every entrepreneur who reads this book will get easy-to-follow deal checklists, a roadmap of where and how to locate the best funding resources and top business mentors for their particular industry and/or geographical location, and a step-by-step process to create pitches that make their idea or business irresistible.


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Grimes and Chelsea Manning break up after four…
Grimes and Chelsea Manning break up after four months: report
Neither Grimes nor Manning ever confirmed the dating rumors, which emerged shortly after the musician announced that she had broken up with Elon Musk
ROBYN BECK/GETTY IMAGES Canadian singer-songwriter Claire Elise Boucher — aka Grimes — outlined an unusual workout regimen in a social media post.
By Martha Ross | mross@bayareanewsgroup.com |
PUBLISHED: July 14, 2022 at 7:31 a.m. | UPDATED: July 14, 2022 at 3:31 p.m.
It's been an eventful seven months for Grimes, capped by a report this week that the musician has ended her four-month romance with famed WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
A source has told Page Six that Grimes, born Claire Elise Boucher, and Manning have broken up, while a second source said that the two "had been breaking up for a while."
Chelsea Manning, the technology and security expert and whistle blower, came to speak at Mills College as part of the school's Trans Studies Speaker Series on April 13. (Andy Kropa/Associated Press archives)
News that the two were dating first surfaced in March, shortly after Grimes revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair that she and longtime boyfriend Elon Musk had welcomed a second child, a daughter born via surrogate. Right after her interview with Vanity Fair was published, Grimes dropped the news via Twitter that she and the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had broken up.
According to Page Six, Grimes and Manning, both 34, became serious about each other pretty quickly. A source told Page Six in March that they were living together in Austin, Texas. According to Vanity Fair, Grimes was living in Austin to be close to Musk; his Tesla factory is located there.
"They're getting serious. They U-Hauled it," the source told Page Six.
Representatives for Grimes and Manning never confirmed the relationship, and Manning refused to discuss the dating rumors in an interview with the Daily Beast in June. The only issue Manning would address is that she was not living in Austin.
"I'm not gonna get into my dating life," Manning told the Daily Beast. "There's been a lot of speculation and a lot of news stories. I have not changed my perspective on this: I don't like speculation about my private life. I prefer to keep my private life private."
Manning added: "I don't want to get sucked into celebrity-culture stuff. The one thing I will say is that I live entirely in New York. I don't know where this idea came about that I would live remotely close to Texas. I travel a lot, but I'm based in New York."
In the March Vanity Fair story, Grimes revealed the name of her daughter with Musk: Exa Dark Sideræl. Grimes said they call the girl Y, a fitting name, considering that Y has an older brother called X, born in May 2020; his full name is X Æ A-XII. Grimes also talked about how her relationship with Musk was "fluid." When Grimes subsequently tweeted that she and Musk had broken up for good, she also said "he's my best friend and the love of my life."
Since then, the world has learned that Musk has become the father of more children. Last week, the world's richest person appeared to confirm a report that he had welcomed a new set of twins with an executive at one of his companies. The twins were born in November, the month before Musk's daughter with Grimes was born. The twins bring to 10 the total number of children he has fathered with three different women since the early 2000s.
"Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis," Musk tweeted last week. "A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far."
Meanwhile, Manning is a former U.S. soldier who made headlines in the early 2010s for leaking hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, including about U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was convicted by court-martial in 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act. She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017 when President Barack Obama commuted her 35-year sentence. She also came out as transgender in 2013 and is reportedly writing her memoir.
Martha Ross | Features writer
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Three-month-old Horace Boone died this date, October 20th, in 1839 of a bowel inflammation and was buried at Bethel Burying Ground. The underlying cause may have been Colic. Infantile colic is benign paroxysmal abdominal pain during the first three months of life. Intussusception or tearing can occur of the intestines or bowels and death follows. Today the child would have surgery to repair the tear and leave the hospital in three days. In 1839 there was no such remedy.
Susan (29) and Horace, Sr. (34) lived at 4 Burd's Court (now Alder Street) in center city Philadelphia. He worked as a porter and she as a laundress. They paid $4.25 a month for their room. In the 1847 African American Census, they reported a total of $600 in personal property which was a large amount comparatively. The Boones would go on to have four more children: Henry, Theodore, Ashley and James according to the 1850 Federal Census.


The new mayor of Sawbridgeworth has said that the town council will keep a 'very close eye' on developers, following the start of her term.
Councillor Angela Alder, who has become mayor for the fourth time, has said that while they will work with developers, they will also ensure that housing allocations are met.
Mrs Alder said: "The most important thing is to work with the developers as much as we can, and we have to keep in mind the interests of the people of Sawbridgeworth.
"There is not a lot more that I can say but we will be careful that we don't let them exceed the housing allocations of the three different sites. We will be keeping a very close eye on them."
Speaking after the Sawbridgeworth Civic Ceremony on Sunday (June 3), Cllr Alder said that she would continue to improve the quality of life for all people in the town.
She said: "I can't do it by myself, only as part of a team.
"One of the things I will be doing, and I did last time as mayor, will be inviting school children to come into the council offices to learn first hand about local government and how it works.
"They won't just be meeting me, they will be meeting our officers who we rely on and who help us do so much. We have staff that do just a wonderful job for the town."
Cllr Alder has represented the residents of Sawbridgeworth on and off for 30 years and helps run and works for charity organisations in Bishop's Stortford.
As with all mayors, she chose to support the Friends of Jacobs and Gardens Neuro Centres as her chosen charity to support throughout her term.
She said: "I have supported different local charities in each of my terms as mayor. I have visited the Jacobs and Gardens Neuro Centre on a couple of occasions in the past and I will be pleased to support it."
Councillor Heather Riches was elected deputy mayor by Sawbridgeworth Town Council at the same time that Cllr Alder was elected mayor.


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Quebec: What Happened?
by Michael Sean Winters
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Yesterday, I gave my touristy impressions of Quebec, enthralled by the beauty and charm of the city I was visiting. Today we turn to the question that sits at the center of all conversations among Catholic intellectuals and pastors in the province: What happened?
The Quebecois have a distinct culture and the centerpiece of their efforts to preserve that culture has focused on language, maintaining the province's Francophone ways in the midst of a sea of Anglophones. But, one of the traditional foundation stones of the culture virtually collapsed within the past two generations, the Church. Unlike the US, where it was the movement of large sectors of the populations from ethnic, religiously monochromatic neighborhoods to the pluralistic suburbs that accelerated the decline of Catholic culture, in Quebec the process was different: The people in the suburbs were Catholics too.
What to make of this? It is a large question and I hope to spend some time over the next few years asking that question and searching for answers. In part, I wish to undertake this search because the question is at the heart of the New Evangelization, which will succeed or fail based on its ability to inculturate the Gospel in the 21st century. The other reason to pose the question about Quebec is because when we pose the question in the U.S., sometimes the issues are so close to the bone, the explanations tend to the ideological. Sometimes it is difficult to look at one's own situation head-on, and more light is shed by looking at an analogous situation, and the light refracts over to one's own situation.
In the U.S. many of our conservative friends place the blame for the collapse of Catholic culture on the social and moral revolutions of the late 1960s and 1970s. Some go so far as to lay the blame at the Second Vatican Council or, at least, at its implementation. These conservative critics tend to adopt an apocalyptic vision when they look at the world today. They discern only civilizational struggles and crises. Of course, it takes a uniquely surly personality and a lack of historical perspective to look at the world over the last one hundred years and think the 60s and 70s was the problem. I would put my money on the 1930s and 40s. The blood-soaked lands between the Elbe and the Urals, where Hitler and Stalin took turns being the greater monster, are my evidence.
More to the point, anyone whose nostalgia for the Catholic culture of the 1950s leads them to condemn only what followed must contend with the fact that a robust culture does not disintegrate within a generation. What was so hollow at the core of that apparently vibrant culture that it could not withstand the winds of change brought on by the revolution in consumerism, the revolution in sexual relations, and other secularizing forces? What confluence of socio-cultural forces turned that Catholic culture into matchsticks and burned them in the twinkling of an eye?
The collapse of the Catholic culture in Quebec was not like the collapse of Communism in Europe, but there are similarities. Obviously, as Catholics, we do not believe that the Catholic culture of Quebec in the 1950s was a tissue of lies, a congeries of institutions ridden with corruption. People like to credit Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan with the defeat of communism but, in fact, their contribution was to kick the last leg out from under an institution that was hollow at the core and it fell as a hollow tree falls in the wind. John Paul II and Ronald Reagan get credit for kicking that last leg out, to be sure, but if they had never emerged on the international scene, a different wind would have had the same effect. I wonder if it is so about the collapse of the Catholic culture in Quebec.
I do not want to pre-judge the matter, but reading this morning's Washington Post, it is hard not to recognize the baneful influence of a consumer mentality on a culture. Melinda Henneberger looks at the state of eugenics in America today. This is an article that must be read by anyone who is serious about the future of Catholicism and/or the future of modern liberal democracies. Amongst other things, Henneberger quotes Michael Sandel, from his own short, must-read book, The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, in which he wrote: "To appreciate children as gifts, is to accept them as they come, not as objects of our design, or products of our will, or instruments of our ambition." Yet, as Henneberger shows, the campus newspapers of most Ivy League schools are filled with ads seeking surrogates for pregnancy or sperm donors that treat the prospect of children in precisely this way. (I will have more on this issue early next week.)
Still, the Church must not only look outside for answers, it must look inside. It must ask how and why its clergy became so divorced from the lives of their people that they could not impede the collapse, in fact, they barely saw it coming. We must know the cause of the problem before we seek a diagnosis, and we must be candid about the results of early attempts to cure the patient: So far, nothing has worked. Attempts at restoration failed. Attempts to be more "relevant" have failed. There is something deeper at work here than the traditional ideological divides within Catholicism have been able to address, or even to narrate convincingly.
Quebec is far and it is still cold. (My feet still feel cold and wet from trudging through the streets of the old city Wednesday night!) But, I met some wonderful people at the Theology School at Laval University, and hope to spend time talking with more of the clergy and people when I return this summer. The Quebecois are not only our brothers and sisters in the Lord, the problems they and we face are similar enough that we need to discuss the collapse of Catholic culture on both sides of the border the way any family discusses a common problem. As Henneberger's article makes clear, the stakes are high because modern, liberal cultures tend to lack self-correcting measures, except in the face of catastrophes. I would submit that both the poverty rate and the abortion rate in the U.S. qualify as a catastrophe, but most people in America move about their business as if nothing is wrong. I do not share the apocalyptic view of this catastrophe that animates so many of my conservative friends, I see great good in modernity as well as great moral stupidity, but to paraphrase the astronauts on Apollo 13, "Quebec, we have a problem." We have that problem in the U.S. too, a culture that has forgotten God. Perhaps we can learn from each other how to encourage both our cultures to become less forgetful and more faithful and, just so, more humane.


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