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2020-0202 1 7 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE relating to a capital improvement project; making a supplemental appropriation of $15,526,000 to the building repair and replacement fund; and amending the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18835, Section 126, as amended, and Attachment A, as amended. Passed Pass Action details Not available
2020-0207 2 8 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE proposing an amendment to the King County Charter, to more broadly prohibit discrimination on the basis of family caregiver, military or veteran status in county employment and in county contracting with nongovernmental entities; amending Section 840 of the King County Charter; and submitting the same to the voters of the county for their ratification or rejection at the next general election to be held in this county occurring more than forty-five days after the enactment of this ordinance. Passed Pass Action details Not available
2020-0237 1 9 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE relating to establishment of an electric scooter share pilot program; amending Ordinance 18989, Section 2, Ordinance 18989, Section 6, and Ordinance 18989, Section 8. Passed Pass Action details Not available
2020-0229 1 10 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE making a net supplemental appropriation of $17,593,000 to various general fund agencies, a net supplemental appropriation of $83,587,500 to various non-general fund agencies and a net supplemental appropriation of $20,214,000 to various capital fund budgets; and amending the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18835, Sections 7, 21, 21, 24, 26, 26, 27, 31, 32, 34, 36, 43, 44, 46, 47, 50, 51, 52, 52, 53, 64, 71, 71, 72, 72, 79, 79, 84, 84, 85, 85, 90, 92, 94, 94, 101, 101, 102, 102, 109, 109, 112, 118, 125 and 126, as amended, Ordinance 18335 as amended by Ordinance 19022, Section 1, as amended, and Ordinance 18335, Attachment A, as amended. Passed as Amended Pass Action details Not available
2020-0205 1 11 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE proposing the position of King County sheriff be returned to an appointed position with a requirement for consideration of community stakeholder input during the selection process, and with the county executive being responsible for bargaining with the department of public safety's represented employees; amending Sections 350.20.40, 680.10 and 890 of the King County Charter and repealing Sections 645 and 898 of the King County Charter; and submitting the same to the voters of the county for their ratification or rejection at the next general election to be held in this county occurring more than forty-five days after the enactment of this ordinance. Passed as Amended Pass Action details Not available
2020-0231 1 12 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE proposing to amend the King County Charter relating to the county sheriff and the department of public safety; amending Sections 350.20.40 and 890 of the King County Charter and repealing Section 898 of the King County Charter; and submitting the same to the voters of the county for their ratification or rejection at the next general election to held in this county occurring more than forty-five days after the enactment of this ordinance. Passed as Amended Pass Action details Not available
2020-0222 1 13 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the memorandum of agreement regarding the COVID-19 Testing Agreement covering employees in the Seattle-King County department of public health and the department of adult and juvenile detention; and establishing the effective date of the agreement. Passed Pass Action details Not available
2020-0223 1 14 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the memorandum of agreement regarding the COVID-19 Testing Agreement covering employees in the Seattle-King County department of public health; and establishing the effective date of the agreement. Passed Pass Action details Not available
2020-0230 1 15 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the collective bargaining agreement negotiated by and between King County and King County Corrections Guild (department of adult & juvenile detention) representing employees in the department of adult and juvenile detention; and establishing the effective date of the agreement. Passed Pass Action details Not available
2020-0236 1 16 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the collective bargaining agreement negotiated by and between King County Washington State Nurses Association (Staff Nurses - Departments: Public Health, Adult & Juvenile Detention (Juvenile Detention)) representing employees in the aforementioned departments; and establishing the effective date of the agreement. Passed Pass Action details Not available
2020-0242 1 17 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the collective bargaining agreement negotiated by and between King County Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 587 (Metro transit department) representing employees in the Metro transit department; and establishing the effective date of the agreement. Passed Pass Action details Not available
2019-0413 1 18 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE relating to comprehensive planning and development regulations; amending Ordinance 12075, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.025, Ordinance 11955, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.055, Ordinance 263, Article 2, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.010, Ordinance 11653, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.017, Ordinance 10810, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.100, Ordinance 11166, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.337, Ordinance 13147, Section 19, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.18.030, Ordinance 13147, Section 21, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.18.050, Ordinance 114047, Section 4, and K.C.C. 20.18.055, Ordinance 13147, Section 22, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.18.060, Ordinance 13147, Section 23, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.18.070, Ordinance 12196, Section 9, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.20.020, Ordinance 13147, Section 34, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.22.170, Ordinance 10870, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.01.070, Ordinance 10870, Section 21, and K.C.C. 21A.02.110, Ordinance 10870, Section 22, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.04.010, Ordinance 10870, Section 23, Deferred Action details Not available
2019-0490 2 19 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE authorizing the vacation of a portion of NE 99th Place, file no. V-2708; Petitioner: Lake Washington School District, Number 414. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0073 1 20 Motion A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Kimberly Deriana, who resides in council district two, to the King County cultural development authority (4Culture), as an executive at-large representative. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0075 1 21 Motion A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Eugenia Woo, who resides in council district two, to the King County cultural development authority (4Culture), as an executive at-large representative. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0240 2 22 Motion A MOTION declaring racism a public health crisis and endorsing the declarations of the King County executive, public health - Seattle & King County and the King County board of health. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0241 1 23 Motion A MOTION of the county council accepting bids for the purchase of the county's Sewer Improvement and Refunding Revenue Bonds, 2020, Series A (the "2020A Bonds"), in the aggregate principal amount of $179,530,000, the county's Sewer Refunding Revenue Bonds, 2020, Series B (Taxable) (the "2020B Bonds"), in the aggregate principal amount of $186,745,000 and establishing certain terms of such bonds, all in accordance with Ordinance 19112. Passed Pass Action details Not available
2020-0256 1 24 Motion A MOTION appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the November 3, 2020, general election regarding Ordinance 19117 providing for the submission to the qualified electors of King County, at a special election to be held in conjunction with the general election on November 3, 2020, of a proposition authorizing the county to issue its general obligation bonds in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $1,740,000,000 or so much thereof as may be issued under the laws governing the indebtedness of counties, for the purpose of providing funds to public health, safety and seismic improvements for Harborview Medical Center. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0257 1 25 Motion A MOTION appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the November 3, 2020, general election regarding Ordinance _____ (Proposed Ordinance 2020-0231) proposing an amendment to the King County Charter relating to the county sheriff; amending Section 350.20.40 of the King County. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0258 1 26 Motion A MOTION appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the November 3, 2020, general election regarding Ordinance 19125 proposing an amendment to the King County Charter to grant the office of law enforcement oversight subpoena powers; amending Section 265 of the King County Charter. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0259 1 27 Motion A MOTION appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the November 3, 2020, general election regarding Ordinance 19139 proposing an amendment to the King County Charter to reestablish the office of county sheriff as an executive appointed position represented by the executive in collective bargaining with department of public safety employees; amending Sections 350.20.40, 680.10 and 890 of the King County Charter and repealing Sections 645 and 898 of the King County Charter. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0260 1 28 Motion A MOTION appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the November 3, 2020, general election regarding Ordinance 19116 proposing an amendment to the King County Charter to clarify when an inquest will be held and to require the county to assign an attorney to represent the family of the decedent in the inquest proceeding; amending Section 895 of the King County Charter. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0261 1 29 Motion A MOTION appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the November 3, 2020, general election regarding Ordinance 19124 proposing an amendment to the King County Charter removing restrictions related to the disposition of real property for less than full value when the property would be used for affordable housing; amending Section 230.10.10 of the King County Charter. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0262 1 30 Motion A MOTION appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the November 3, 2020, general election regarding Ordinance 19135 proposing an amendment to the King County Charter to more broadly prohibit discrimination on the basis of family caregiver, military or veteran status in county employment and in county contracting with nongovernmental entities; amending Section 840 of the King County Charter. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0263 1 31 Motion A MOTION appointing a committee to write the voters' pamphlet statement for the November 3, 2020, general election regarding Ordinance 19123 proposing an amendment to the King County Charter to replace the word "citizen" to either "public," "member of the public" or "resident," as applicable in the King County Charter; amending the Preamble and Sections 260 and 800 of the King County Charter. Deferred Action details Not available
2020-0227 1 32 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the updated 2020-2025 King County Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan, as approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0239 1 33 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the collective bargaining agreement negotiated by and between King County Washington State Nurses Association (Supervisors and Managers - Department of Public Health) representing employees in the aforementioned departments; and establishing the effective date of the agreement. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0244 1 34 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE concurring with the recommendation of the hearing examiner to approve, subject to conditions, the application for public benefit rating system assessed valuation for open space submitted by Jane and Brian Raker for property located at 14900 176th Avenue NE, Woodinville, WA, designated department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources division file no. E20CT007. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0245 1 35 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE concurring with the recommendation of the hearing examiner to approve, subject to conditions, the application for public benefit rating system assessed valuation for open space submitted by Stephen and Kathleen Wennstrom for property located at 22404 111th Avenue SW, Vashon, WA, designated department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources division file no. E20CT006. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0246 1 36 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE concurring with the recommendation of the hearing examiner to approve, subject to conditions, the application for public benefit rating system assessed valuation for open space submitted by Nora Hightower for property located at 31404 SE 392nd Street, Enumclaw, WA, designated department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources division file no. E20CT004. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0247 1 37 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE concurring with the recommendation of the hearing examiner to approve, subject to conditions, the application for public benefit rating system assessed valuation for open space submitted by Jason DeSanto for property located at 40525 224th Avenue SE, Enumclaw, WA, designated department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources division file no. E20CT003. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0248 1 38 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE concurring with the recommendation of the hearing examiner to approve, subject to conditions, the application for public benefit rating system assessed valuation for open space submitted by Weldon King and Alison Wells for property located at 18525 SE 396th Street, Auburn, WA, designated department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources division file no. E20CT002. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0250 1 39 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE relating to the King County Puget Sound Taxpayer Accountability Account fund appropriation; and amending the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18835, as amended by Ordinance 19022, Section 1, as amended. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0253 1 40 Ordinance AN ORDINANCE prohibiting law enforcement personnel from questioning, except in limited circumstances, persons under the age of eighteen when Miranda rights are administered and prohibiting law enforcement personnel from requesting permission from a person under the age of eighteen to conduct a search of the person or property, abodes or vehicles under that persons control unless legal counsel is provided for that person; and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 2. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0195 1 41 Motion A MOTION acknowledging receipt of the final report on the coordination of the delivery of benefits and services to low-income King County residents required by the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18835, Section 62, Proviso P2. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0249 1 43 Motion A MOTION approving the implementation plan for investment of Puget Sound Taxpayer Accountability Account proceeds, in compliance with Motion 15492 and the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18835, as amended by Ordinance 19022, Section 1, Proviso P1, as amended. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0251 1 44 Motion A MOTION acknowledging receipt of a report regarding compensation for members of boards, commissions, committees and task forces, in compliance with the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18835, Section 19, as amended by Ordinance 19021, Section 3, Proviso P8. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0254 1 45 Motion A MOTION requesting the executive to review and report on county policies and materials related to the Public Records Act and update as necessary to account for permanent and temporary telecommuting in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0255 1 46 Motion A MOTION requesting the executive develop a plan to implement the recommendations in the department of community and human services and public health - Seattle & King County report on the coordination of the delivery of benefits and services for low-income King County residents and explore additional recommendations to improve the coordination of benefits for individuals held in King County jail facilities. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available
2020-0264 1 47 Motion A MOTION requesting the executive create a housing development strategic plan. Introduced and Referred Action details Not available

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Pics of this when you get it done/ close to finished, please.
Probably would have been easier to get yeast and go from there, but he literally made it from scratch. You start with a 50/50 mixture of bread/wheat flour and add water. Everything is mixed with the hands so you get yeast from the flour, air and hands. It takes ~20 feedings (1/day) till you start seeing decent progress. Followed the instructions in the Tartine Bread book.
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There were two main things I took away from last night's game in Montreal when I left the Bell Centre: The Leafs powerplay looks scary good and Jesperi Kotkaniemi can hang with the big boys.
The Canadiens 3rd overall pick went toe-to-toe with two of the best centers in the game, Auston Matthews and John Tavares, and didn't look out of place at all. Canadiens coach Claude Julien stopped short of saying it but I will – the Canadiens outplayed Toronto at even-strength last night and Kotkaniemi was one reason why.
In 8:41 even-strength minutes against Matthews and Tavares, the Canadiens out attempted the Leafs from the slot 6-1 with Kotkaniemi on the ice and outscored them 1-0. While that provides a snapshot into the effect Kotkaniemi had while on the ice, it doesn't tell the full story as to his individual impact on the game.
His poise and vision with the puck was noticeable throughout the game – look no further than his assist on Brendan Gallagher's 2nd period goal.
Kotkaniemi finished the game with 19 completed passes at even-strength, more than any forward in the game. As nice as the feed to Mete was, which set up Gallagher's goal, subtle plays like this one in the neutral zone, which led to a controlled zone entry and a shot at the net, show a high level of skill and confidence.
Kotkaniemi's ability to distribute the puck in transition and set teammates up in the attacking end showed in his impressive passing metrics.
Those "good things" include his awareness away from the puck. Kotkaniemi recovered 16 loose pucks at even-strength, the most of any Canadiens forward. Even the best players in the game don't have the puck on their stick 90% of the time they're on the ice so what you do away from it is incredibly important and is often the steepest learning curve for young players. Not the case last night for Kotkaniemi.
There has been a clear and impressive progression in Kotkaniemi's game from his first rookie game in Laval to what we saw last night against the Maple Leafs. In his first big test against elite center competition, Kotkaniemi passed with flying colours.


Central Greece Region (Greek: Περιφέρεια Στερεάς Ελλάδας, Periféreia Stereás Elládas, properly translated as "Continental Greece Region") is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. The region occupies the eastern half of the traditional region of Central Greece, including the island of Euboea. It is the second largest geographical region of Greece.To the south it borders the regions of Attiki and the Peloponnese, to the west the region of West Greece and to the north the regions of Thessaly and Epirus. It includes five regional sections, Boetia, Euboea, Evrytania, Phthiotis and Focis.
The region is one of the most mountainous in Greece, having some of the highest elevations in the country. The climate varies according to altitude. On the coast is generally Mediterranean with hot summers and mild winters and inside, at a higher altitude, is Continental with snow in the winter.
The Region of Central Greece has significant production base.
Agriculture is well-developed in most areas and the main products of agricultural production are cereals, vegetables, olive oil, grapes and wine. Farming, poultry farming and beekeeping are developed as well. It is also significant the production of mineral ores and rocks, since the subsoil of central Greece is very rich in minerals resources. Sterea Ellada posseses a relatively developed tourism infrastructure and a growing services sector.
The region has traditionally been known as Roúmeli (Ρούμελη), a name deriving from the Turkish word Rumelia or Rumeli, meaning "the land of the Rûm". The official name Stereá Elláda ("Continental" or "Mainland" Greece) derives from the juxtaposition with the Peloponnese peninsula across the Corinthian Gulf.
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Cardio exercise five days a week. The days I do strength training – I will do 20 minutes intense cardio. The other two days are made up of 45 minutes cardio – rotating between interval training and training at 70-80% max heart rate. I vary my cardio workouts between bike, treadmill (both incline walks and runs), step machine, and rowing machine. In addition to this – I got rid of my car and depend on biking and walking to get around in an effort to include more cardio activity in my life.


Oliver Schmidt, a Volkswagen (VW) engineer, was charged in a criminal complaint in the U.S.
He was charged for his alleged role in a nearly decade-long conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen "clean diesel" vehicles.
Schmidt was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, to commit wire fraud and to violate the Clean Air Act.
Schmidt was arrested on Jan. 7, 2017, in Miami and will make an initial appearance today, Jan. 9, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. EST before U.S. Magistrate Judge William C. Turnoff of the Southern District of Florida.
According to the complaint, Schmidt joined VW in or about 1997, and from 2012 to March 2015 was general manager for VW in Auburn Hills, Michigan, where he was primarily responsible for communicating and coordinating with U.S. regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB).
In March 2015, Schmidt was promoted to principal deputy of a senior manager of VW and returned to VW headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, where he played a direct role in VW's response to questions from U.S. regulators.
In about 2006, VW employees based in Germany in the engine development department started to design a new "EA 189" 2.0-liter diesel engine for sale in the United States.
When employees realized that they could not design a diesel engine that would meet the stricter U.S. emissions standards, they allegedly designed and implemented software to recognize whether a vehicle was undergoing standard U.S. emissions testing on a dynamometer or being driven on the road under normal driving conditions (the defeat device) in order to cheat the emissions tests.
As part of the certification process for each new model year, including model years 2009 through 2016, the co-conspirators continued to falsely and fraudulently certify to EPA and CARB that VW diesel vehicles met U.S. emissions standards and complied with the Clean Air Act, according to the complaint affidavit.
By the summer of 2015, U.S. regulators had discovered that VW diesel vehicles emitted substantially higher emissions when being driven on the road than when undergoing standard U.S. emissions tests and had repeatedly asked VW for an explanation of this discrepancy.
The complaint alleges that Schmidt knew that the reason for this discrepancy was VW's use of defeat device software. Nevertheless, in the summer of 2015, Schmidt allegedly agreed to travel to the United States to participate in direct conversations with U.S. regulators.


Computer administrators are tasked with overseeing the daily operation of computer networks. They manage the configuration and upkeep of such networks, including identifying and resolving issues and updating equipment and software. They gather critical information from network users to determine problems and document troubleshooting efforts to help pinpoint solutions. The majority of computer administrators work full-time hours. Because a functioning network is key to the success of businesses, these professionals may have to work overtime, such as during nights and weekends, to solve issues.
Computer administrators analyze and determine what an organization requires in both a network and computer system prior to setting it up and configuring it. If a system is already in place, updates might be necessary.
They are responsible for all installation tasks, including all required network hardware and software. In addition, they are also responsible for adding users to the network and assigning and updating security permissions.
Another key task is collecting and recording data to evaluate the network or system's performance with the end goal of optimizing the system in a way that makes it work better and more efficiently.
Once the network is set up, computer administrators must maintain the network and computer systems, including security functions, to ensure optimal performance. Scheduling routine maintenance is also necessary.
Because computer administrators are responsible for installing and updating different types of computer hardware and software within the network, they must train users on proper use through one-on-one or group training sessions, slideshows, or instructional PDFs.
Computer administrators must evaluate problems identified by users and make various troubleshooting attempts to solve them. They also must document their attempts for reference.
The education and training required for a computer administrator can vary depending on the employer. Some employers require a minimum of an associate's degree, while others require a bachelor's degree in an area such as computer or information science. However, a bachelor's in computer or electrical engineering can also meet requirements. College courses cover networking, systems design, and programming. Continuing education is also necessary due to changes in network technology.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) lists the median annual salary for computer administrators as $81,100, with a median hourly wage of $38.99. A computer administrator in the 10th percentile earns approximately $49,830 a year, while the highest paid in the field make $130,200 a year.
According to the BLS, 391,300 computer administrators are employed in the United States. Projected employment growth for this sector is 6 percent through 2026.


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Firma yellowTAB była odpowiedzialna za następujące wersje systemu:
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RC1-RC4 (Neo) – wersje testowe
R1 – pierwsza wersja finalna systemu zaprezentowana w marcu 2005 roku na targach CeBIT; cena: €99
R1.1 – pierwsza aktualizacja systemu wydana w październiku 2005
R1.2 – druga aktualizacja wydana w kwietniu 2006

Inne wersje:
 w lipcu 2005 opublikowana została płatna wersja LiveCD
 w październiku, wraz z wydaniem wersji 1.1, upubliczniono bezpłatne LiveCD
 25 września 2006 wypuszczona została bezpłatnie Zeta LiveCD 1.21 (wydana przez magnussoft)

W kwietniu 2007, dystrybucja Zety została wstrzymana, ponieważ jak się okazało ani Bernd Korz (założyciel yellowTAB) ani samo yellowTAB nie miało praw ani na modyfikację kodu źródłowego BeOSa ani na jego dystrybucję. Firma twierdziła na początku że ma takie prawa i zdobyła je jeszcze w czasie istnienia firmy Be, Inc, czyli przed przejęciem prawa do kodu systemu BeOS przez firmę Palm.

Zobacz też
 Haiku OS

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona systemu ZETA
 ZETA 1.21 LiveCD
 Oświadczenie w sprawie wstrzymania dystrybucji ZETy

BeOS

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Q: Can't get Swift NIO Transport Services to resolve in PM in Xcode 13 beta I'm trying out Package Manager in Xcode 13 Beta. I've got Nimble to resolve and be available for my tests but I'm having trouble getting Swift NIO Transport Services to resolve.
Originally I tried this:
    dependencies: [
        .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-transport-services.git", branch: "main"), // from: "1.0.0"),
    ],
    targets: [
        .target(
            name: "Simulcra",
            dependencies: ["swift-nio-transport-services"],
        ),

Which produced the error "product 'swift-nio-transport-services' required by package 'simulcra' target 'Simulcra' not found." even though the package would resolve and be visible in Xcode. So I tried this:
    dependencies: [
        .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-transport-services.git", branch: "main"), // from: "1.0.0"),
    ],
    targets: [
        .target(
            name: "Simulcra",
            dependencies: ["NIOTransportServices"],
        ),

Which gave me the error "dependency 'NIOTransportServices' in target 'Simulcra' requires explicit declaration; reference the package in the target dependency with '.product(name: "NIOTransportServices", package: "swift-nio-transport-services")" So I then did this:
    dependencies: [
        .package(name: "NIOTransportServices", url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-transport-services.git", branch: "main"), // from: "1.0.0"),
    ],
    targets: [
        .target(
            name: "Simulcra",
            dependencies: ["NIOTransportServices"],
        ),

Which gave me the error "'simulcra' dependency on 'https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-transport-services.git' has an explicit name 'NIOTransportServices' which does not match the name 'swift-nio-transport-services' set for 'https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-transport-services.git'"
And now I'm at a lose as to what to do next. Any ideas?

A: Oh I got it. Just realised I was miss-reading the errors and I needed to change the dependencies to this:
    dependencies: [
        .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-transport-services.git", branch: "main"), // from: "1.0.0"),
    ],
    targets: [
        .target(
            name: "Simulcra",
            dependencies: [.product(name: "NIOTransportServices", package: "swift-nio-transport-services")],
        ),

Didn't realise I could specify the depdency using .product(...). SPM being new to me :-)

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Will E-Books Feed University Presses — Or Eat Them? Part One
By Karin Wulf
What roles are e-books now playing, and what roles will they play, in scholarly disciplines for which books are a primary, often the apex, scholarly form? This is the first of two posts about e-book publishing and university presses. I'll lay out here some of the basics, and next week I'll be joined by Lisa Bayer, Director of the University of Georgia Press and John Sherer, Spangler Family Director of the University of North Carolina Press, for a closer look at how these issues and more are playing out at their presses, and what they see for the future of university press e-books.
Book disciplines are facing a lot of the same questions about digital publishing that journal-based disciplines have been trying to answer for two decades. How can we deliver this scholarship in digital form cleanly, efficiently, and sustainably? How will libraries acquire it? How will readers access and then use it? How will authors understand their relationship to the publisher of it?
This is not to say that e-books are new; they're not. But the simultaneous pressures, themselves not new, of increasing scholarly output, pinched library budgets and the intensive resources needed to produce scholarly monographs are pushing university presses to think about new ways that digital books can alleviate these and other pressures, including the important goal of increasing access to scholarship.
There are three basic things to know about scholarly e-books. The first is that university presses function in two value markets: scholarly and financial. University presses have a mission to serve the development of knowledge. It is a resource intensive mission. And that mission is usually difficult to square with economic markets, because so few scholarly books make back their costs. If scholarship is protein, the market often prefers sugar. But as a society, we need protein, and we need to support its production. This reality is at the heart of the debate about Stanford University Press, and it is at the heart of projects such as the UNC Press Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, led by John Sherer.
The second is that platforms to distribute and access e-books have been developing in interesting ways. The big aggregators, JSTOR, Project MUSE, and Oxford Scholarship Online, have been joined by university presses exploring direct sale to libraries of their own lists. JSTOR, begun in 1995 as the Journal Storage Project, was the brainchild of William Bowen's insight that the increase in scholarly journal output needed to be stored digitally simply because libraries were running out of space. The implications of providing journals digitally have been profound, and reach well beyond providing more journals for less bricks and mortar space in research libraries. Among the most positive outcomes is that access can be expanded as internet access expands. Among the most challenging are that digital production requires constant technological updating, requiring additional expertise, time and costs for publishers. The connection that scholars might have once felt for the societies that publish a lot of scholarly content has been reduced, as both individuals and libraries acquire their content through aggregators. These issues are the same for books– and maybe more so.
Books at JSTOR launched in 2012, and now includes over 75,000 scholarly e-books. Plenty of presses offer their e-publications via multiple outlets. Yale University Press, for example, lists 11 access points for its e-books (including single title sales through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.). A few presses are also striking out on their own to provide direct content access. Earlier this year the University of Michigan Press E-Book collection launched, and the press Director Charles Watkinson describes it, even in early days, as a "qualified success." As he pointed out, it's not only a matter of offering access to an individual press's titles, but getting into the workflow, which means getting discovery to those titles through the big services, ProQuest, EBSCO, and OCLC.
The third is that the question of how digital text can serve longform scholarship — for the scholar producing scholarship, and for the reader consuming it, remains unanswered. I can report from the ground that e-books are both the bane and the salvation of my graduate seminars. Students still report that they prefer print, when they can afford to buy books or when they can get a copy from our library at William & Mary or through interlibrary loan. But in the absence of print, digital is essential.
This has long been a question for scholarly publishers and librarians. Will scholars and students adapt to digital text? Can our eyes–and brains — absorb complex arguments without the tactile reinforcement of interacting with the page (turning it, dog-earing it, marking it)? My anecdotal observation is that more students are appearing in class with tablets, contrary to my expectations that laptops plus smartphones were going to limit tablet use if only because of cost. They are using those tablets to access e-books from the library, and to save book chapter PDFs. The friction variable is considerable, as some platforms make it harder to locate or to navigate within different sections of a book. And don't get me started on what it is like to try and read the source notes on any of these platforms (short version: gruesome).
Externally developed technologies are making an important impact, too. The utility of PDF apps plus tablet pencils that allow markup makes a huge difference in e-text usage. That makes sense, as I have seen the journal and book editors at the Omohundro Institute shift to using large size iPads and pencils for editing work. And I now ask all students to send papers to me as PDFs so I can "write" in the margins and across the text and email back a flattened copy. This system affords most of the virtues of paper. Whether most is enough, and whether this is a systemic trend is another matter as libraries contend with limits on e-access and the costs of purchasing e-books. Books at JSTOR initiated a look at "Reimagining the Monograph" to ask what readers (are readers "users" now?) most want. Some of what the study uncovered is the important compatibility and complementarity of traditional paper books and e-books or digital projects. These are additive forms, not replacement technologies.
But this just scratches the surface, given that "books," and especially e-books, are a shifting form. Presses are beginning to support the changing form of books in response to Digital Humanities research outputs. Michigan's Fulcrum and Stanford's digital project publishing are offering scholars a way to represent complex digital research and interpretation. And, at the Omohundro Institute we are working on the second iteration of the OI Reader, our platform for multi-media scholarship. These are also expensive developments, meaning that the pressures on mission-driven university presses continue — or perhaps the opportunities for university presses to lead continue to expand.
Karin Wulf
@kawulf
Karin Wulf is Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and Professor of History at the College of William & Mary. She is a scholar of early American and Atlantic history working on gender, family and sexuality.
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16 Thoughts on "Will E-Books Feed University Presses — Or Eat Them? Part One"
Good thoughts.
I have long held that publishers should jointly fund an e-book / digital reading platform and take some of Amazon's business. The kindle is great for a novel, but it's a horrible tool for many books — including academic books — and it's awful for magazines.
Why are we allowing Amazon to get between us and the reader, and to control the customer relationship? Disintermediate them!
By Greg Krehbiel
Jul 30, 2019, 8:11 AM
When it comes to scholarly books (excluding textbooks), the target market in direct terms is academic libraries, not individuals, and since Amazon has no ebook program that works well with libraries, they are pretty much irrelevant. The biggest sellers of scholarly ebooks (for university presses) are EBSCO and Proquest. Of course, libraries purchase on behalf of their patrons, but it is librarians making the purchase decisions that make or break university press budgets. Reading platform UX is only one of many factors going into those decisions and by no means the most important one, because we buy for the long term, and in the long term, the platform technologies change significantly.
By Melissa Belvadi
This is not true. Most academic books are sold to individuals. For university presses on average about 25% or less are sold to libraries.
Are you counting print book sales in that data, because our context here is specifically ebooks. I would really be interested in the source of data that says that the majority of academic ebook sales are to individuals, not libraries.
I did the research myself as part of a series of Mellon grants and published the findings on the Scholarly Kitchen. Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka S+R has also studied related issues, which are published on the Ithaka site. The context of Karin's post was NOT ebooks alone but books overall as it should be, because that is what publishers work with, In any event, with ebooks comprising only about 20-25% of overall revenue, it would be very odd indeed not to include print. The fact is that libraries are not the center of the book publishing universe.
Information on the studies can be found here:
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/07/23/good-data-bad-data-know-ive-share-library-book-acquisition-patterns/
https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/2019-report-library-acquisition-patterns/
Thanks for the links, David, and thanks Joseph for doing that research – it's very interesting, although since it was library-acq focused I didn't see it answering the question about the ratio of library to non-library scholarly book purchases, but maybe I missed it or that's in some other study. By the way, our experience as a small academic library in Canada is totally different from what that study found in the US as well as totally different from what the blog post commenters said. We are using Amazon, not Gobi, as our dominant-by-far source of print book purchases, and we do NOT have separate pots of money for firm orders (print or e) versus DDA. Our entire monograph budget is all one pot and that includes everything even book subscription packages.
You say the "target market in direct terms is academic libraries, no individuals, and since Amazon has no ebook program that works well with libraries, they are pretty much irrelevant".
The target market may be academic libraries, but the target of academic libraries ARE individuals.
My university bookshop has stopped selling paper books and now they're selling ebooks. I hate it. It's definitely convenient particularly for studying from a distance but I'm sure there are many out there like me that when it comes to studying, it has to be paper.
By Lost Book Worm
Aug 6, 2019, 1:45 AM
This post spends a lot of room about the technology/UX aspects, and virtually none at all on the purchase model aspects, which I believe in the medium/long run are going to be far more important to the question posed in the post title. TL;DR version: University presses need to embrace DDA and EBA purchase models, or else the commercial publishers are going to swallow every last monograph dollar in library budgets just as they have journal dollars through Big Deals. JSTOR and Project Muse are both providing wonderful EBA options for university presses, and any presses that think they will do better financially by going it alone are in for a very bad shock in the next few years. DDA = demand driven acquisition, EBA = evidence based acquisition. Both provide libraries the chance to make the books discoverable and usable before actually committing to full purchase. In DDAs, the patron's action of using the book triggers the purchase of it, whereas in EBA the librarians make the decision annually, selecting from a larger list that patrons had access to (but didn't necessarily use), with the help of the usage data that the platform provides. Participating in either of these models means that the libraries' catalog systems become sales platforms for the publisher (what librarians call "access points" for "discoverability"). If you aren't "in", you're missing a critical sales channel.
Thanks for your comments, Melissa! Next week Lisa Bayer and John Sherer will be talking about some of these issues with me, and I know there are other folks who have specific thoughts about why independent delivery isn't in conflict with, in fact can be even more attentive to DDA/EBA.
>They are using those tablets to access e-books from the library, and to save book chapter PDFs.
Thanks for the post Karin.
Looking at a vendor report from one of our digital rights restricted e-book course texts many of our undergrads are also printing out as many pages of from those e-books as they can. So the e-book 'outcome' for some readers may still be that tactile, dog-eared & page turning, experience that you mention in your post.
By Dave Clemens
DDA/EBA present serious sustainability issues for publishers of scholarly monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences – very different from STM and some professional areas. Historically, the 'trigger' or purchase rate of titles put into library DDA pools has been around 3%. In the meantime, library purchase of the publisher's titles, in print and digital formats, drops off because the titles are in fact available via the library DDA pool (a virtual 'consignment' shelf). For low use/low circulation books, these models pose real challenges for publishers. It's sort of like going I to a restaurant, eating half the meal and expecting the restaurant to accept half the price, while in fact the whe meal had to be prepared and presented. I'm not opposed to the models, but it's important to bear in mind that they do not suit all publication types.
By Michael Zeoli
Aug 6, 2019, 11:14 AM
As a librarian, I reject your analogy. That's more akin to our wanting to pay for only a couple of chapters if usage data showed only a couple of chapters were used. In fact, if any part of the book is used (exceeding thresholds designed not to charge for minimal browsing behavior), the library pays for the entire book. Don't give us ideas or we'll start asking to only pay per chapter! (hmm)
While DDA/EBA do present budget sustainability problems for publishers, that's because the libraries are faced with intractable budget sustainability problems too, mostly caused by the greed of journal publishers and a bit by the selfishness of state governments and their voters not wanting to fund higher ed properly. Nevertheless, the reality that publishers have to face, at least with smaller libraries like mine, is that if you refuse to play the DDA/EBA "game", the alternative is not that you'll get more of our money. The reality is that you'll get none at all. Having a 3% chance is better than zero, and hopefully, if you believe in the concept of free markets, this competition will incentivize publishers to produce books that library patrons actually want to read, and market them (eg titles chosen with market in mind, enhanced marc records for catalogs) better. Give us better books and you'll do better than 3% – the patrons will judge you. The days when you could just produce whatever took some editor's fancy and count on library approval plans to just buy them automatically regardless of value to their patrons are long gone and will never return. Your "whole meal", presumably the whole publisher catalog of new books, is full of unacceptable choices, and the "consumers" are finally getting to actually choose at the "point of purchase" rather than after the money is already spent by their institution.
Every publisher whose records I have reviewed shows a decline in revenue from participation in DDA programs.
Aug 6, 2019, 2:27 PM
Monograph revenue from academic libraries was declining before DDA existed. The real question is whether revenue went back up for publishers that (a) pulled back out of DDA AND (b) did NOT subsequently join or create an EBA program, but just went back to the older sales models. Since university presses are too small to create their own EBAs like the big commercial publishers offer, they have to join the combo ones offered by JSTOR and Project Muse, which I'm guessing has a similar effect on their sales to DDA programs in that they individually don't have that fixed guaranteed deposit account revenue. I'd be very interested in knowing if that's wrong, if the upresses get any kind of guaranteed deposit portion from those programs.
Melissa, you are correct that books were in decline in academic libraries before DDA came around. That said, I don't think it's correct to characterize the choice as either participating in DDA or "going back to older sales models". If DDA were the answer, EBA would not have been invented (EBA was born of large publishers trying to find a way out of the deleterious effects of DDA with aggregators), and we would all be living happily (ever after). There's no going back, but only forward. In fact, we're seeing a remarkable flourishing of hybrid and new models, especially with regard to Open Access. Where we end up, no one knows, but where we are and where we have been do not offer fully formed answers to the issue of sustainability. For the immediate future, models will continue to be experimented with.
All the providers are in competition with one another, have differing strategies and interests (some interested only in ebook sales, not 'book' sales), and all need to pay their staff and have funds to reinvest in development, etc. Libraries need to view vendor pitches of this model or that with a gimlet eye. It's worth bearing in mind that it took a century after Gutenberg launched the movable type printing press for business models to find sustainable models. Some of the greatest publishers of the era died in poverty.
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Monastery (Drake's Fortune)
Church, library, graveyard, catacombs
Spanish (formerly)
Sanctuary?
On the Trail of the Treasure
Race to the Rescue
Gold and Bones
The monastery is a major location on the hidden island in Drake's Fortune. Located high up in the mountains, it was originally made by the Spanish, who constructed the treasure vault underneath it, where they stored El Dorado. It was used by Roman, Navarro, and their mercenaries as their main base of operation while in search of the treasure. It first is visited in "Sanctuary?", being the main location for the middle and last part of the game.
Drake's Deception features a Co-op Adventure map based on the monastery, titled "Monastery".
1.1 Prior to Drake's Fortune
1.2 Drake's Fortune
2.2 First structure
2.3 Main plaza
2.4 Library
2.5 Catacombs
2.6 Church
2.7 Graveyard
Prior to Drake's Fortune[]
Some four hundred years ago, the monastery was constructed by the Spanish as part of their new colony, creating a small village with a church, library, and graveyard. They also used the underground caverns to construct a treasure vault, where they hid El Dorado and the other gold and treasure taken from the Americas. At some point, the monastery was abandoned, with all of the Spanish either turned into descendants, or fallen prey to them.
Sir Francis Drake visited the monastery later, discovering the Spanish' secret treasure vault, where he ultimately perished. Later, during or prior to World War II, the Nazis constructed a bunker underneath the monastery, and also moved El Dorado to a new cavern underneath the graveyard.
Drake's Fortune[]
Nate and Elena eavesdropping on Sullivan.
Nate and Elena first decided to head to the monastery in "Trapped", after witnessing an alive Victor Sullivan being taken by Roman and Navarro on-board a helicopter headed for the mountains. They arrived in "Sanctuary?" and quickly found a captive Sullivan, whom they rescued. He explained he was supposed to help Roman and Navarro find El Dorado, but instead had sent them on a red herring. Deciding the try and find the treasure themselves they used Francis Drake's diary to discover a secret room and passage to the catacombs.
Eddy's conflict with Roman and Navarro.
Nate explored the underground area in "Going Underground", eventually resurfacing in the church, where he solved a bell puzzle to gain access to another hidden underground tunnel. Underneath a mausoleum he overheard a conversation between Roman, Navarro, and Eddy Raja, who got fired due to his failures to eliminate Drake. In "On the Trail of the Treasure" Sully sent Nate word of a hidden gallery in the church, which Nate uncovered, after which he found out that the entrance to the vault was inside the mausoleum.
Relaying this to Sully and Elena, they went and made a distraction to lure Roman and Navarro away, allowing Nate to eliminate the remaining mercenaries and clear the path for his friends before they descended into the vault, accidentally leaving Sully behind at the last second.
Navarro and Elena watch as Roman is about to open the sarcophagus.
In "Race to the Rescue" Nate eventually resurfaced alone, as Elena was taken hostage, and met up with Sully, rescuing him from a large group of mercenaries. Nate explained that El Dorado was cursed and that they had to rescue Elena and stop Roman and Navarro from taking the treasure. They accessed the second secret passage in the church, underneath the altar, and during "Gold and Bones" witnessed Navarro betray Roman, tricking him into opening the El Dorado sarcophagus. After killing Roman Navarro had his men lift El Dorado with a helicopter to his ship, until the descendants suddenly arrived.
Nate hitches a ride on the net of the statue.
Nate and Sully managed to free themselves when the descendants appeared, distracting the mercenaries holding them at gunpoint. Navarro fled with Elena, forcing Nate to chase after them, only managing to jump onto the golden sarcophagus and hold onto the net that was being used to lift it. He then left the monastery behind as the helicopter took him away.
Geography[]
The monastery is situated in the northwest area of the island, constructed amidst a small mountain range. It can be reached by going uphill on a large river, which itself leads past the Drowned City. At the end of the river is a long stone staircase, leading uphill through the jungle, which ends at a large structure. Past it is the main plaza, a large open area, surrounded by the church, library, and a row of tall houses. The houses are noticeably more derelict than the other structures, but they remain standing at around three to four stories tall on average.
First structure[]
The first courtyard.
The first structure visited is a large square building centered around a courtyard. It only has two floors, with the second having mostly fallen down in places, with the remainder of the structure also having partially collapsed at the back end. There are numerous doors and gates to the interior, but most are locked or inaccessible. The courtyard itself is mostly empty, save for a single fountain with an angel statue, with several markers left by descendants on top. At the back of the structure is a small open space between it and the church, with a large gate leading to the plaza.
Main plaza[]
The main plaza.
The main plaza is a large and open area, with a massive and ancient tree in the center. Several stone pillars and archways surround it, with most of it no longer standing or altogether there anymore. The south end of the plaza features the front end of the church, to the left of it is a blocked passage. The east side is where the library is located, with between the two buildings the passage leading to the first structure. The northeast corner holds another blocked passage, and on the north side stands a noticeably tall tower of around five to six stories tall. The west end is a simple row of smaller-sized structures, which continue past a tunnel on the northwest end. The tunnel leads to a dead-end, past which is the exit to the Nazi bunker, as well as a radio tower.
Library[]
The library.
The library is a large chamber, lined with bookcases. It has a large walkway filling in as a second floor, spread around the entire wall of the room, with a few ladders allowing a way up and down. It is supported by pillars and has a wooden railing lining the inner side. Part of the ceiling has collapsed, with a pile of rubble being located near the door. In the middle of the room stand four large bookcases, face one another, with on top of each a statue. The statues function as part of a puzzle, and rotating them all in the right direction will reveal a fake wall leading to a hidden room, set underground. It contains more bookcases, as well as a few paintings. Two torches on the wall can be rotated, which reveals another secret passage, leading into the catacombs.
Catacombs[]
The underground catacombs.
The catacombs are subterranean passageways and caverns located underneath the monastery, used as a burial ground by the Spanish. They contain many human remains, primarily skulls, but also sarcophagi and alcoves in the walls where bodies were laid to rest. The first entry to the catacombs was underneath the library, which led to a hatch inside the church. Inside the church was another hidden hatch, which only opened if both bells were rung at the same time, as discovered by Francis Drake. This second tunnel led underneath the graveyard, in particular the largest mausoleum, and exited into the back lot between the church and the graveyard.
Nate and Elena looking at a map of the cavern.
A second catacomb was located underneath the altar inside the church, also known as the 'lair'. Originally, it was a small collection of rooms leading to a large open cavern, which in itself was connected to the entire underground cave system. The Nazis decided to move El Dorado here, digging a hole into the graveyard, and using it to move the golden sarcophagus. With their demise, the descendants returned, treating the area as some kind of holy place, as is apparent in the large number of markers and trophies they have placed in the cave where El Dorado is located, including entire jeep frames taken from the Eddy Raja's pirates.
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The church.
The church is one of the main locations in the monastery, with a prominent place in the plaza where its two front towers are some of the tallest structures. The inside is mostly barren, with a large space that reaches to the ceiling, and only a floor with rows of pews. To the right of the entrance is one entrance to the catacombs, with another in the left wing, and a third underneath the altar at the back. There are two small wings, each of which houses a large bell. Although there is no second floor, there is an upper area above the entrance, and there are a number of planks and chandeliers that can be traversed to reach the area above the altar.
The interior of the church.
High above the altar is a single stained glass window, depicting the Sacred Heart. To the left and right of it, in the wing areas, are two large keys set into the walls. The keys could be lowered, which opened the glass window, revealing a hidden gallery. The gallery had another series of windows, one of which also depicted the heart, and when opened looked over the largest mausoleum in the graveyard.
Graveyard[]
The monastery graveyard.
The graveyard is located behind the church and is filled with sarcophagi, gravestones, and mausoleums. It consists of a large open space, with a recessed area in between two strips of land, with each part containing a gate leading to an area on either side of the church. The recessed section has a large pit in the center, leading directly to the El Dorado cavern. The largest mausoleum stands on the left, near the back of the cemetery, with the Sacred Heart depicted on the roof. It is largely empty inside, with a series of round switches set into the walls at fixed intervals being the most notable feature. Each switch can be rotated, and when all are in the correct position they unlock a secret passage to the treasure vault.
Concept art of the monastery entrance.
Concept art of the first courtyard.
Concept art of the lair.


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Meet AJ Parsons, a Men's Physique competitor in the NPC, who was nice enough to take the time and answer a few questions about his experience with staying motivated, goal setting, and how CBD (Herbstrong in particular) has been a game changer for him, as an athlete. Questions 4-6 are all about CBD.
What pushed you to become an NPC athlete?
"When I first started lifting it was just a hobby and something to do. After about a year I was influenced by social media and became motivated to become the best version of myself with no excuse. When I started to see the progress I became addicted to physical health and now it is a way of life for me."
What is the hardest part of competing?
"The hardest part is that progress takes what seems like forever, but you can lose it relatively fast. When you're prepping for a competition, the attention to detail of your diet, cardio, training, water intake, and sleeping is exhausting. Losing fat, dipping into the single digit body fat percentage range takes weeks if not months of perfect consistency to achieve that goal. The second you lose that focus or start to dip away from that goal you will not see the results that you are looking for. By far the hardest part is the discipline that it takes to achieve your goals."
How do you stay motivated?
"For me, motivation is never something that I have really lacked. I will say getting started was the hardest part. I used to write down goals and when I would meet them I would cross it off. However, I did something different. I wrote down short term goals (something that can be done in 2 weeks), a medium length goal (what could I get done in 1/4-1/2 a year), and long term (goals that you won't reach until the first two are met and then some). I think having a clear path to the steps it takes helps tremendously. I think a lot of people fail to reach their goals because they do not know the steps it takes to reach them. Challenge yourself, learn, get uncomfortable, and ask questions."
Were you worried about trying CBD before actually giving it a shot?
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Karl Friedrich Ludwig Kannegießer, född 9 maj 1781 i Wendemark vid Stendal, död 14 september 1861 i Berlin, var en tysk skriftställare.

Kannegießer gjorde sig ett namn som översättare från såväl klassiska som moderna språk (även svenska) och särskilt för sin tolkning av Dante Alighieris Divina Commedia (1809–1821), till vilken han även skrev en kommentar.

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Judge: Attorney in psychiatric hospital may continue practicing
Eric Dexheimer @Dexinvestigates
A Williamson County judge on Friday refused to prevent an attorney locked up in a state psychiatric facility from continuing to practice law.
Carolyn Barnes has been held at the Kerrville State Hospital for the past a year and a half after a judge found her incompetent to stand trial on charges that she fired a gun at a census worker in May 2010 — an incident Barnes claims did not occur. During that time, Barnes, who has been licensed as an attorney since 1984, has continued to represent clients.
But three weeks ago, the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals declined to rule on a motion she'd filed from the state hospital to dismiss charges against one of her clients. Given Barnes' status, the appellate court said it couldn't rule on her request.
"We question whether Barnes, having been found incompetent to stand trial in her own matter, may represent (a client) in this separate matter," the justices wrote. They sent the case back to county Court-at-Law Judge Doug Arnold to untangle.
On Friday morning, however, Arnold declined to act.
"Ms. Barnes is, as of this moment, a licensed member of the bar," he said. "It wouldn't be appropriate of me to unilaterally decide if she's competent to act as an attorney."
He added that the State Bar of Texas, which is responsible for licensing attorneys, was conducting its own investigation into Barnes' capability to practice. The organization has the power to bar an attorney from practicing due to a disability — physical or mental — but rarely does so.
A spokeswoman for the State Bar's disciplinary counsel declined to comment on Barnes' case.
As proof that Barnes was incapable of representing clients, Assistant County Attorney Kevin Stryker noted that a judge already had determined that she was unable to stand trial in the criminal case against her because of her mental state. Her incompetency status was recently reaffirmed in an August hearing in state district court in which she was recommitted to the state hospital for up to another year.
Barnes has approached the equation from the opposite end. She has contended that because she'd been permitted to continue practicing law, she could not possibly be considered incompetent to stand trial — a determination that finds a defendant incapable of understanding the charges and unable to participate in his or her own defense.
According to both Barnes and Arnold, Barnes' treatment team at Kerrville has recently determined that she is now competent to stand trial. Barnes said she expects a judge to hear the matter in mid-January. If she is found competent, she would be returned to the Williamson County Jail to await trial on the shooting charges.
On Friday, Barnes' client, Randy Gourley, learned that because Barnes could continue to act as his attorney — and because she could not currently attend court — his case would be postponed indefinitely. In 2009, Williamson County prosecutors charged him with theft of property, saying he tried to sell stolen prescription pet medication on the Internet. He says he didn't know it was stolen.
"Par for the course," he said. "It's already been four years now."


At Best western Rose and Crown, we recognise the social and environmental responsibilities that we carry on the behalf of our guests and our employees.
Our aim is to recruit local staff to support the local community as well as to reduce fuel emissions.
We are currently involved in participating in work experience for students as well as mentoring to schools in the locality. Whenever possible we will support local charities by giving complementary meeting rooms.
Our commitment is to minimize the negative impact of the Hotel on the environment.
All of our kitchen oil is sent for recycling.
Bottles and Glass are recycled via our own bottle bank.
We encourage Kitchen and Bar staff always to ensure that they only use dishwashers once fully loaded.
Have a towel usage policy in place, encouraging guests to re-use towels.
As much as possible we use Biodegradable cleaning products.
As we refurbish the Bedrooms toilets, we install dual flush/low volume cisterns.
Bedroom televisions are switched off by our housekeeping staff (not on standby).
Re-use of envelopes and other paper for internal communication.
Use of E-mail wherever possible to save on paper.
We always welcome guest's feedback and staff feedback.
Hard-wired some detectors throughout the complex.
Fire extinguishers strategically placed throughout the staff areas and public areas.
Building emergency lighting tests carried out weekly.
Building complies with the Fire Laws.
Bedrooms have got emergency information posted.
There are emergency doors in each floor.
Audible smoke alarms, and monitored on a weekly basis.
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Since 2004, DeLonghi has sold just over a million of coffee machines in Germany. To celebrate this achievement, the limited gold edition of Magnifica ESAM 3000, the first DeLonghi espresso machine sold in Germany, was introduced in March.
There were only 400 gold Magnifica espresso machines offered on the auction. All proceeds went to charity. DeLonghi.


Union Station by Joe Fiorito takes a look at the stories of the everyday people of Toronto. The author avoids telling the stories of those you see in the newspapers and magazines. In other words, the stories told by Fiorito are not about politicians or any 'Hollywoodesque' like stars. Instead, Fiorito tells the stories of the common people of Toronto.
The book takes a look at the stories of the people who own the local corner store or restaurant, local homeless person, local seniors and others. These stories tell the trials and tribulations of everyday life that people are in Toronto are facing either on their own or with others. The stories include drug addiction, losing the local grocery store, prostitution, housing, and attaining health care.
The book's concept of telling the stories of the average person is quite unique. No where else has one come accross the telling of the stories of average people in Toronto except in the newspaper. Even at that, the newspaper doesn't cover a lot about the average person except for the death notices. This is where Union Station is unique.
Telling the stories of the average person means the reader can readily identify with the stories being told. This book provides just that connection on a personal level. It was the first book I tried blogging about after reading each chapter. Each chapter got me thinking about different issues Toronto were dealing with. The issues of how to make it easier for immigrants to integrate themselves into Canadian society were most interesting. These issues that Fiorito tells first hand stories about immigrants in Canadian society include attaining health care and learning English. The plight of the immigrant was just one topic that found my mind wandering while blogging. There were lots of others of course.
Fiorito writes the book in a style that allows the reader to believe it is them who is having a conversation with the person's story that is being told. While reading a chapter from Union Station the reader feels as if they and the person telling the story are sitting in a Tim Horton's having a conversation over coffee. While reading the chapter, the reader might feel like nodding their head in understanding what the Fiorito is attempting to convey. It is this style of telling the stories of the common person that makes the book so accessible to the average reader.
Stories of the everyday person can be hard to tell. Do you attempt to make them interesting to the reader by embellishing the story a little bit? Or does the author tell the story like it is? Fiorito tells the story 'like it is' by making you feel like you are there experiencing it yourself. Also the Fiorito wants you to start thinking right after finishing reading the chapter. Fiorito's writing style and the fact this book is about interesting events that occurred to the person you might run into on the corner is what makes this book so worthwhile to read!


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New Elite: Ava Cowan
Last weekend, the NPC crowned several new IFBB Pros. Of everyone that became a pro, perhaps there was no name bigger in any division than the one of Ava Cowan. Ava is one of the most recognizable competitors in IFBB Figure, and she hasn't even stepped on a IFBB stage yet. Her participation in various federations prior to the IFBB, as well as her many television appearances, have made her quite the star these days.
At the beginning of her career, she competed in the NPC in hopes of becoming an IFBB Pro, and things didn't go as she hoped and things just...well, erupted, to put it nicely. She then decided to go to the FAME organization, and things began to click for her. She took over FAME and the Fitness Universe organization like it was no big deal. She also went on to be in several television appearances, including MTV's Made and Lifetimes The Balancing Act.
Earlier this year, Ava revealed that she was planning on reentering the NPC again after putting her demons aside. She didn't have a long stay in the NPC thought, but for great reason. Within a matter of literally a couple of contests, she won her pro card and fulfilled her dream of becoming an IFBB Figure Pro. With her dominance in every federation she's ever been a part of so far, it's only a matter of time before she brings that kind of drive and determination to the IFBB. Look for Ava to shine bright in 2010 and beyond, and possible go down as one of the top figure competitors of all time.
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From my album, El Nido resort in Palawan, the Philippines
While I was staying in the Philippines as a JICA expert for an IT project, I went to El Nido Miniloc resort on Palawan island from August 19 to 21, 2005 with my two sons who were visiting me. From Manila, we took a one-hour flight to El Nido airport on a Dornier 228 twin turbo-prop aeroplane (now it's been replaced with a bigger aeroplane), then by a 45-minute boat ride to the resort.
Arriving on August 19, 2005
Riding a kayak in a quiet lagoon (August 19)
Lots of activities on the second day
The third day (the last day)
Home....
The Philippines......
What were the features of the Japanese immigration to the Philippines and how did WW2 affect them?
Manila, the capital of the Philippines, its historical and geographical background
The relationship between Japan and the Philippines during the 16th and 17th Centuries
Sister Theresia Unno (1911-1989) who helped to support the plight of Filipino-Japanese living in Baguio, Northern Luzon.
The concept of national interests redefined based upon my own experience in the Philippines
Ms. Ma. Corazon M.Akol, the funding president of the PhilNITS
Manila Cathedral and Japan
The Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade route
F. Sionil Jose, a Filipino writer
Waywaya, a short story by Sionil Jose
I have lived in the Philippines
Father Nishimoto passed away in the Philippines
Jorge B. Vargas (1890-1980)
Japan-Philippines relationship
Carlos B. Teraoka
Jose Rizal (1861-1896)
World heritage sites in the Philippines


Chitwan National Park is a UNESCO protected World Heritage Site which was designated as a national Park in 1973. The park is world renowned for Rhino sightings in great numbers. With mixed vegetation of Savannah, Riverine and Sal forest, Chitwan is Nepal's most visited National Park and a haven for wild life aficionados. Four of the Big Five can be seen (Rhinos, Tigers, Leopards and Asiatic Elephants) along with a rich population of 4 types of Deer, Wild Boars, Marsh Muggars and Ghariyals. Due to its closeness to Himalayan circuit the park also shelters winter and summer migrants along with its more than 500 native bird species. Chitwan is a bird watcher's paradise - indigenous and migrant species like Great Hornbill, Ruddy Shelduck, Pied Kingfisher and Red Headed Trogon can also be found. Strict conservation policies and military patrolling have decimated poaching incidents and the park has been showing a growth in the Rhino Population.
Chitwan is a hindi word formed by two independent words Chit and Van translating to "heart of the jungle". The shape of the park is largely dictated by the disposition of the three rivers which form much of the boundaries- the Narayani and Rapti in the north, and the Reu flowing through the National Park. The topography and variety of habitats- savannahs, riverine from valleys, sal of the hills and chir pine along the ridges contribute to the forest's beauty and complexity.