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Building solar block by block
with Kristel Porter & Marie Donahue
Metro, MN
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In September of 2020, Kristel Porter, Founder and Executive Director of MN Renewable NOW, a nonprofit working to advance a renewable energy future in North Minneapolis and beyond, sat down virtually for a conversation with Marie Donahue, Sustainability Storyteller with CERTs.
Porter shares what inspires her to work on clean energy, how she and her team navigated challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, and her grassroots vision to advance local renewable energy and address issues of climate change and racial inequities block by block.
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How and where do we get our energy? How can we change that around? All of us turn on lights in our homes and expect things to work. We heat our homes. We get in our cars and we drive. We're all dependent on energy—all of us, everyone. I don't see that changing any time soon… So, how do we harness energy in a renewable way?
Kristel Porter, Founder and Executive Director, MN Renewable NOW
Marie Donahue: Welcome, and thank you for joining us today, Kristel! Could you share with us a bit about your background, your role at MN Renewable NOW, and what drew you to this work?
Kristel Porter: I am the founder of MN Renewable NOW. It started with a lot of conversation around my passion and my vocation—to get folks in my community and my network to start thinking about how we are going to get our energy moving forward. I founded MN Renewable NOW in 2018, in December, but the work has been going on for quite awhile, even before we became official.
At the time, I was an executive director of a neighborhood association in North Minneapolis. I spent so much of my time on environmental issues. A neighborhood association is a place-based organization; they focus on different issues that are important to the community at the time—anything that you could think of. I began to notice that a lot of the grants I was applying for were around environmental issues. I wrote these grants and was pouring my heart into them and the narratives. I was getting them funded.
So, I started to ask, "Am I in the right place?" I went to Augsburg College and the main theme of our program was, "What's your vocation? What's your calling?" Whenever I'm in a situation where we're talking about environmental issues, like climate change. My ears perk up, I get excited. I get inspired. I had to really start asking myself, "What is it that I need to be doing while I'm here on this planet? Why am I here? What's the purpose?" If this work always got me excited and always pushed me to keep going and to work harder, then that's what I need to be doing.
I chose to start the nonprofit MN Renewable NOW, even though I'd been doing the work for a very long time in my own personal life. I said, "I need to make this a job. I need to be able to focus 100% of my time." So I organized it, put together a board, and here we are today.
I was inspired as a young child, too. My mom recently said, "Kristel, you were a little too independent when you were younger. I never knew where you were." I was seven or eight years old on my bike. On these long bike ride trips and walks, I was always picking the nature trail. I would cut through the woods to get to where I wanted to go—instead of going around the street and following the path. I never spent time in or on manmade structures. I was always in nature. I developed this deep relationship and respect for all living things. It was a bit of a weird relationship, since I don't feel like this happened with my other six siblings. But because I was always in nature, I had this deep love for it. And then some of my favorite shows were ones like Captain Planet [laughing]. All of these things shaped me and molded me and inspired me to do the work that I am doing now.
Marie Donahue: To follow up on this, where did you then see energy as being an important part of the picture, and how did you make that pivot?
Kristel Porter: The pivot to energy was—because I had this love for the environment—I started to understand that we had to do things to protect that. I developed this understanding about how all things are connected indirectly and directly.
When I first found out that we had a climate issue, it was when I watched An Inconvenient Truth. It blew my mind. It made me realize that this is something that really could be an issue. And then I did research on my own. I educated myself on these issues, and I started to realize that yes, this is a big issue. In my way and with my personality, if I see an issue, then I try to figure out what's the quickest way we can get to the solution. And what is the biggest issue within that issue? What's causing it?
My first response to that was, "How and where do we get our energy? How can we change that around?" All of us turn on lights in our homes and expect things to work. We heat our homes. We get in our cars and we drive. We're all dependent on energy—all of us, everyone. I don't see that changing any time soon. Unless everybody just woke up tomorrow and was like, "All right, we're going to go back to living off the land and off the grid." Which would be a dream for me [laughing]. I would be totally fine with that. But the majority of folks would be like, "No, that's not happening."
So, how do we harness energy in a renewable way? That was my big thing. That was the biggest issue. I've done a lot of work around water conservation and soil, but energy is my biggest passion because that is the big issue that's increasing the pace of climate change. That's why I went into renewable energy work.
Marie Donahue: With those big issues in mind, how are you feeling about the state of clean energy in Minnesota in these times? Thinking about climate, but also the public health crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism too. Your organization is fairly new, and you're jumping right into navigating all of these issues. So, how do you feel given the weight of all of these things?
Kristel Porter: Well, I feel terrible about 2020, to be honest. I feel like we were robbed as a people. Especially when it comes to this year's legislative session. I was really excited. It was the end of February when I walked with about 15 youth to the Capitol, along with MNIPL (Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light) and Climate Generation, Will Steger's group. We all did some amazing lobbying and met with legislators around the Minnesota Green New Deal.
Because of the situation with COVID—something I never thought I would see—a large number of legislators killed the possibility of that passing this year. They were worried about the financial status of our state. We didn't know what was going to come from this situation, how bad it was going to affect the economy, how bad it still is affecting the economy. But they didn't feel comfortable with letting this pass because of the unknown.
Yet, this Green New Deal was or would have been a good way to combat the issues that are going on right now. Programs to support job training for people of color, a fossil fuel facility construction moratorium—that is, a way to stop the building of new plants that required fossil fuel burning of any kind—and a greenhouse gas reduction strategy. It was pushing energy efficiency, incentivizing power storage, and electrifying all sectors of the economy that are powered by fossil fuels. It would have been so amazing for something like that to pass.
I think about my community and living in North Minneapolis. If you took an aerial shot of North Minneapolis, and you color-coded the Black residents in shades of red or blue—then the darker the shade of the red or the blue, the closer you get to manufacturing facilities. Such as the two roof shingle companies that are situated in North Minneapolis, in the Green Zone. So it's no surprise that North Minneapolis has the highest hospital rates for asthma, chronic bronchitis, and things like that.
When I think about that in relation to COVID-19, it's also no surprise that Blacks have the highest rate of COVID-19 related deaths. It's not surprising because it's not like North Minneapolis is unique to any other Black neighborhood in any other state. If you look at Black neighborhoods all over the country, they're usually situated near an incinerator, or industrial waste and manufacturing facilities. It was planned out—the city was planned out that way. It definitely makes me nervous, and it's very disheartening.
One of the things that was in this Green New Deal was not calling the HERC (Hennepin Energy Recovery Center)—which is the Hennepin County incinerator, where they burn trash in North Minneapolis for the entire Hennepin County—not to call energy from the HERC renewable energy. When you have something labeled as renewable energy, then there are subsidies connected to that. And there's even the feeling of, "Oh, wow, it's renewable!" But it's not. It just is not. Especially when you're talking about the effects that it's having on the community directly around it.
So, that would have been a nice win. But now I feel like we rewound 20 or 30 years this year, when it comes to forward momentum that we had going and when it came to addressing the climate change issue.
We're going to start doing the work that others are doing ourselves. Instead of waiting around for public dollars and funding to be available or waiting for our state legislature... we started partnering with the for-profit sector and investors to go ahead in doing the work to move our community into a renewable energy space.
Marie Donahue: It's hard to recognize just how much has shifted in these times. And yet, there are a lot of things that you've been active on since too. So, I'm curious, how did you adapt or shift in your approach to your work to move forward? Appreciating and holding all of that frustration you felt, too.
Kristel Porter: I would say, we're definitely spending less time in the streets and focusing on more online methods [laughing]. But, in the beginning of this pandemic, we really took to the streets in a special way. I was definitely down in the dumps about this year, since we were supposed to be throwing the first renewable energy and conservation fair that would ever have taken place in North Minneapolis. That was supposed to take place on April 4th of this year. We had many vendors and sponsors and were ready to roll. Then this thing hit, and it was very disheartening because I felt like this was a great opportunity to bring a lot of the movers and the shakers in that space to come to North Minneapolis and also for North Minneapolis residents to come and learn. There were a lot of people really excited about attending. But what we did was we went, "Okay, well, what can we do right now?" We don't have any of the funding coming in from this renewable energy fair and things are being held off. What can we do?
We co-started a group with many people all over the city of Minneapolis, called the Family of Trees. If we can't do too much right now, especially when it comes to public dollars because a lot of the funding pools were just frozen for a time, then what is a way that we can still do our part? We focused on mitigation, the sequestration of carbon out of the air through trees and planting trees. We threw a concert in my backyard. We set up a stage and did a whole concert on Earth Day. We had well-known artists perform, and in between songs, I did a teaching on how to stratify tree seeds. Then we gave away trees to the community. People would show up during this live concert and grab a tree to plant wherever. We were able to, as a group, plant about 3,000 trees in North Minneapolis this year. That was one amazing endeavor that we were able to do. But we had to shift our priorities.
We had a Renewable NOW leadership conference for youth planned this year that was obviously not going to happen either. Since we didn't have that, we started to think bigger. At first, we focused on ways that we could partner with others who were doing the work. But now, we've been able to start thinking about how we're going to start doing the work that others are doing ourselves. Instead of waiting around for public dollars and funding to be available or waiting for our state legislature to pass a Green New Deal, we started partnering with the for-profit sector and investors, to go ahead in doing the work to move our community into a renewable energy space.
Marie Donahue: Could you speak more specifically to what you're fundraising for and what you're interested in seeing happen on the ground? I was looking at your website and saw the Solstar Project being this vision for getting solar onto homes and making residential solar investments. I'm curious what the vision for that project is, the nuts and bolts of it, and to have you talk a bit more about that project.
Kristel Porter: There are a few different projects, some we've had to put off, like I said. The Renewable NOW Leadership Conference is one, which thanks to CERTs, we were going to be able to still put on, but we're pushing that to spring of 2021 (Porter was a featured speaker at the virtual 13th Annual Metro CERT Resource Event, where she shared about MN Renewable NOW's work to support access to clean energy among Black residents in North Minneapolis, as communities across Minneapolis build back greener). We'll need some time this school year to engage youth in order to get them there. We still don't know what that's gonna look like. Right now, it's distance learning, but who knows what will happen in the second semester. Hopefully we can figure out a way to get the kids back in school!
Then, our Renewable NOW Energy Fair is going to be pushed to August of next year. We're looking at outdoor spaces—North Commons Park and taking over the whole park. Having different demonstrations out there would actually be really good for solar demonstrations to have those outside. I'm really hopeful about that happening and being successful.
But the thing we're working on now—which doesn't require social distancing—is the Solstar Project. In this project, we're building racial equity through renewable energy. When we talk about renewable energy, most people usually think solar panels, especially when it comes to people's ability to participate. They may envision a solar panel on their roof, or their garage, or somewhere, to generate electricity and lower their electric bill. The issue with this, if you talk to any solar installer or any company that's doing residential solar installations and ask them how many of their customers are people of color—they would probably say none or one.
It's not easy to get solar on your home. It can cost up to $30,000, you have to get financing. That's just not possible for many people in my community.
We're already feeling the effects of gentrification, which is raising property values. We've seen our property taxes go up higher than ever before. We're just barely making it and struggling. Especially with COVID, we're losing jobs. We're trying to teach our kids at home. We're barely treading above water. And, so the idea of getting a $30,000 solar installation on our roof is just not even a thing we're going to be thinking about.
Even though we have these distractions of COVID-19 and riots going on in our community, the issue of climate change hasn't gone away, magically. It's still here, and it's actually getting worse. How are we going to be able to help these communities that have the lowest area median income in the entire state of Minnesota, get $38,000 installations on the roof?
We got together with different folks, and we figured out a way. What we plan to do—we plan and we're doing it—is to get investments from different investors throughout the state of Minnesota. Anybody who wants to invest really, and to raise the money for this project.
We have a little over $300,000 already, and our goal is $750,000. Investors would invest and then get back 2.5 percent every year, at the end of every year. For six to seven years, we own the solar panels that are on top of those rooftops. Then after seven years of receiving all the tax credits and once all of the investors have been paid back, then we would pass the titles of the solar panels over to the property owner. We're also hoping to find a couple commercial properties in North Minneapolis, next to a lot of activity, such as bus lines or perhaps a corner store, so people can see these solar panels on top of the roof.
We also put together an amazing crew—the Solar Dream Team is what I want to call them to figure out how we were gonna get all of this work done. We were determined to make sure that all of the moving pieces of this project were made up of North Minneapolis residents. The residential contractor is coming out of North Minneapolis.
People won't just see the solar panels sitting on these roofs, but they'll also see a group of men who look like the community installing them. I'm hoping that sparks conversation and gets people excited.
As black men, our solar installers are residents of North Minneapolis; they're already doing work for other companies. They happen to be Black, even our solar assessor, the one who goes out and assesses the roofs, is a trained solar assessor and is Black man from North Minneapolis.
People won't just see the solar panels sitting on these roofs, but they'll also see a group of men who look like the community installing them. I'm hoping that sparks conversation and gets people excited. Maybe it will inspire some youths walking by or residents who are walking by to think, "Hey, I wouldn't mind doing something like that." And just learning. A lot of people have no idea how solar energy works, but they might be able to join the conversation. That's really exciting.
We're going to be releasing the application soon, too (now available here). People will be able to start applying for these installations on their roof. We can only do 24 to start because if we do more than 24, then we would have to be registered as a public utility company. Who knows, that might be something we'd end up doing in the future [laughing].
But for now, we want to keep it simple, as simple as it can be, to get these initial roofs covered. I do a lot of door knocking in North Minneapolis and lit dropping. It's funny because in my brain, I know that the average number of homes on each block in North Minneapolis is 22 homes. Essentially we're addressing the issue of climate change and racial inequities, block by block. One block at a time.
Of course, it's not going to be just one block at a time. It sounds like a beautiful picture to go one block. Then next block, and next block, and just get it done… But slowly, I hope to see these dots pop up on the map. My plan and hope is to make North Minneapolis a renewable energy Mecca—a model for the rest of the country. So people can see how your income, your race, where you are geographically located, or where you were born—these should not limit your ability to participate in this movement.
Essentially we're addressing the issue of climate change and racial inequities, block by block. One block at a time.
Marie Donahue: I'm curious at this stage, if there is anything else your team still needs or that you're looking for to help with this vision, and how are you ultimately thinking about measuring success for this project?
Kristel Porter: Obviously, more funding will still be needed. We have enough funding to start though, and that is what's really exciting. I really don't want to get too caught up in reaching that $750,000. I want to focus on what we have. We have $300,000. We have that amount. So let's do the engagement work, let's start the solar assessments, and let's start getting solar on these properties. Hopefully people will see that this work is happening, and they'll see that it's working, and more people will want to invest in the project. And we'll finish and reach the end of this project. But this is just one project out of many that is going to happen. And like I said, 24 at a time, to get to that end. We would definitely need to fill in the gap when it comes to funding, but we also need to spread the word too.
I'm not thinking about just us or our projects when it comes to this issue or addressing where we're going to get our energy. There is no room for competition. I don't have time for that. We need to be sharing our blueprints and our ideas in the work with anyone who is willing to listen, so that others can model or replicate it. I want people who are listening to this to go, "Wow, I could do that too," and do it in their community too.
I feel like we can't really wait around for our government to take this issue seriously, as a whole. There's just too much division, and this issue is moving rapidly. It's getting worse every day. The only way that we're going to be able to let our leaders and our decision makers know how we feel is by moving without them. We're just going to show them what we want, and how can we get together as a people and address this issue together.
I'm hopeful that the people listening to this or who come across this online, think, "Wow, this is a great idea. I love this." And shares this project with their friends, shares it with their family, shares it with the people in their network, who are really into this work and really passionate about this work. Hopefully then, we'll see more projects like this popping up all over the place. And we can show the public utility company: This is what we want. This is what we're demanding. When it's shared and other people see our project, they'll want to see it happen and want to see it succeed. They'll support it. And if they pull off a project like this that it will succeed, as well.
Marie Donahue: At the Clean Energy Resource Teams or CERTs, we work throughout the state of Minnesota. What would you like others working on renewable energy or those in communities across the state to learn or act on in terms of how to approach this work at a community level or in their neighborhoods?
Kristel Porter: We can't do this alone. Nobody can do this work alone. If you want to pull something like this off, it's really who you get to the table. We can't keep waiting around for some magical solar-wind-hydro fairy to come down from the sky and make everything better.
The power of this movement did not go away. It's crazy because last fall was one of the most inspiring times of my life. Seeing high school students leave school and march to the Capitol and demanding our leaders start focusing on this issue. We're seeing these youth making statements and making these demands because they're the ones who are our future. You've got all these adults, who are making decisions for them and treating it, as if it's a game of chess. And you've got these young people who are saying, "Hey, wait a minute. You know, I have to live on this planet much longer than you, you know, and I might want to have a child. So what about them?"
Then with the whole COVID-19 situation, the students were all divided. They were all sent home, told to stay inside, and their movement almost disappeared, but it didn't go away. It's still here.
We need to remind ourselves that climate change is only going to get worse, if we keep ignoring it and keep brushing it under the rug. I've spent time in organizations that focus on the democratic process, organizations that work on different issues, whether gender, racial, or economic issues, and they also focus on environmental issues. But for some reason, the person who directed environmental issues was always dismissed as the little step-sister, within organizations like these. The "green" person, the environmental person was always inside of a glass jar, screaming and pounding on it. Nobody hears them even within those spaces.
The crazy thing is this issue affects everybody on this planet. Every living thing, no matter what color you are, where you live geographically, we're all going to be affected by it. We all have to keep moving. If you are just as passionate about this issue, as I am, don't stop talking about it. Keep talking about it. Keep posting on your social media about it. Try to connect with people who are as passionate about it as you are. Who are actually up here doing the work. Try to get them together at the same table. You'd be surprised what you guys might come up with.
If you had asked me a year ago, was I going to be working on a project to retrofit 24 rooftops with solar in North Minneapolis? I would not have believed you. I was more focused on: Let's throw an energy fair. Let's do a youth conference. Let's get people to sign up for renewables and maybe connect them to a community solar project.
You'd be surprised by the people in your network. If you scroll through your phone or your email or your Facebook and see the people you're connected to, you'd be surprised what you might be able to accomplish. I really hope that people take away from this: the ability to dream and not be limited by what obstacles are in the way. Don't think about it. What can we do? What can we get done together?
Marie Donahue: What is next for you—you along with others, since it seems like that's a big part of your work? What is next on the horizon in this work?
Kristel Porter: I would say next steps are to start considering how not to be limited by that 24 rooftops number. Let's move up to a 25 or more, and let's start our own public utility company. That would be really cool. Then trying to figure out who will run MN Renewable NOW [laughing], once I seek public office. Because as much as I want to push and do what we can do outside of the public realm, it would be really great to see some more public dollars trickle down to the little guys, so that we can get more work done.
Thinking on a bigger picture, how can we say: This is what we want. We're going to start our own public utility company. This is what we're going to do, if you're not going to listen to us. If you're not going to move fast enough, we're going to take matters into our own hands to change over the grid ourselves.
If anybody is listening to this, who is like, "Yeah, let's do that." Give me a call, contact us on mnrenewablenow.org—find my number and email, and let's get it done.
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New Delhi, Feb 16 (Calcutta Tube) The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Tuesday denied that performance of ministers would be judged by bureaucrats and categorically maintained that the 'entire process has to be driven by the ministers'.
'It is not factually correct to say that serving officers will evaluate the performance of the ministers,' the PMO said in a statement. 'The Prime Minister's order is clear that the entire process has to be driven by the ministers.'
The lengthy clarification followed media reports that the government had developed a Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES) under which the performance of ministers 'would be reported by bureaucrats'.
'It is also not true that a minister and secretary are jointly required to sign the Results-Framework Document (RFD),' the statement said.
'The PM's order does not have any such requirement. The minister has the prerogative and the final authority to decide on the priorities and deliverables for the concerned department at the beginning of the year.
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Do half of all marriages really end in divorce? It's probably the most often quoted statistic about modern love, and it's a total buzz kill, in line with saying that half of all new shoes will give you hammertoes or that 50% of babies will grow up to be ugly. Now the divorce stat is coming under scrutiny — and not just because of its unromanticity.
"It's a very murky statistic," says Jennifer Baker, director of the marriage- and family-therapy programs at Forest Institute, a postgraduate psychology school in Springfield, Mo. She's often erroneously credited with arriving at the 50% figure; it was around long before she used it. Figuring out divorce rates is tricky. Not all states collect marital data, and the numbers change dramatically depending on the methods and sources that are used. In the end, the best that researchers can do is look for trends within a specific group or cohort (say, all people who married in the 1980s) and project what will happen. As Baker says, "It's very difficult to know, if a couple gets married today, whether they'll still be married in 40 years."
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But in an upbeat new guide to marriage, For Better, Tara Parker-Pope, a New York Times reporter (and divorcée), devotes a chapter to debunking the 50% stat, at least among the subset of the population that reads books like hers. Since the 1970s, when more women started going to college and delaying marriage, "marital stability appears to be improving each decade," she writes. For example, about 23% of college graduates who married in the '70s split within 10 years. For those who wed in the '90s, the rate dropped to 16%.
According to research at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, one of the clearest predictors of whether wedding vows will stick is the age of the people saying them. Take the '80s: a full 81% of college graduates who got hitched in that decade at age 26 or older were still married 20 years later. Only 65% of college grads who said I do before their 26th birthday made it that far.
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But just 49% of those who married young and did so without a degree lasted 20 years, a cohort that Parker-Pope spends little time discussing. Instead she contends that the 50% stat is a myth that persists because it's something of a political Swiss Army knife, handy for any number of agendas. Social conservatives use it to call for more marriage-friendly policies, while liberals find it handy to press for funding for programs that help single moms.
Moreover, Parker-Pope argues, all the talk about grim marriage stats becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. "It makes us ambivalent and more vulnerable to giving up when problems occur," she writes.
Perhaps, but there may still be truth to it. Penn State sociologist Paul Amato, in a thorough new report on interpreting divorce data, writes that the half-of-all-marriages-end-badly figure still "appears to be reasonably accurate."
What seems most clear is that less-educated, lower-income couples split up more often than college grads and may be doing so in higher numbers than before. "The people who are most likely to get divorced have the least resources to deal with its impact, particularly on children," says Amato.
Talk about buzz kill.
See pictures of couples happily married for 50 years.
See the best pictures of 2009.


Senate Bill 9 "National Criminal History & Criminal History Records of School Employees"
1. What does SB 9 require a district to do as soon as possible?
SB 9 became effective when the Governor signed it on June 15, 2007. However, many of its requirements, including all those that apply to certified educators and substitutes, will be phased in over the next four years. The following types of school employees and volunteers should have a background check as soon as possible. These employees will not be required to be fingerprinted and will not go into the DPS clearinghouse but must be given a name-based background check.
Noncertified employees hired before 1/1/08 (if hired on or after 1/1/08, will be fingerprinted).
Contractor employees hired before 1/1/08 who have direct contact with students (if hired on or after 1/1/08, will be fingerprinted).
2. What if my district has already fingerprinted some or all of its employees?
SB 9 requires that certain school employees be fingerprinted in such a way that their national criminal histories can be reported and updated through the DPS clearinghouse. Unfortunately, it is not possible for DPS to transfer existing fingerprint data into the clearinghouse unless it was associated with an SBEC application for certification. Therefore, even if school employees that SB 9 requires be fingerprinted have previously been fingerprinted by a district, they will have to be fingerprinted again so that their criminal histories and updates can be entered into the clearinghouse.
3. What if my district wants to go ahead and fingerprint all employees now?
TEA, SBEC, and DPS will establish rules and procedures to authorize an employee to be fingerprinted so that the national criminal history information can be entered into and updated through the clearinghouse. Districts have the authority to immediately do any type of criminal background check on their employees that the district decides is appropriate, but those employees that SB 9 requires to be fingerprinted and entered into the DPS clearinghouse (certified, noncertified hired after 1/1/08, and substitutes) will have to be fingerprinted again if their fingerprints were not authorized by TEA, SBEC, and DPS.
4. What is the DPS clearinghouse?
The clearinghouse created by SB 9 will be administered by DPS which will develop specific procedures for its use. The clearinghouse will be a database containing an employee's national criminal history based on fingerprints, photos, and other identification that will enable the employing school district and TEA and/or SBEC to have access to not only the employee's current national criminal history, but also will provide updates of the employee's subsequent criminal history.
5. How and when will certified educators be fingerprinted?
6. What standards will TEA apply when deciding employability for non-certified individuals based on their criminal history?
(2) at the time the offense occurred, the victim of the offense described by Subdivision (1) was under 18 years of age or was enrolled in a public school.
Subsection (b) provides that this prohibition on employment does not apply to a conviction under Title 5, Penal Code, if the date of the offense is more than 30 years before. Title 5, Penal Code, Offenses Against the Person, includes such offenses as murder, kidnapping, sexual offenses, and assaults.


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Icarus Films Announces theNorth American Theatrical Release ofMY IMAGINARY COUNTRY
Posted by BK on August 10, 2022 in Arts, Music, Showcase | Leave a comment
The Latest Film by Master Documentarian
Patricio Guzmán Is an Urgent and Inspiring Chronicle
of How a Popular Uprising Sparked Deep Political Change
The Cannes Film Festival Official Selection
Opens September 23 at the IFC Center in NYC,
September 30 in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles,
and San Francisco ** Filmmaker Available for Select Interviews**
** NYC Press Screening TBA **
Icarus Films is proud to announce the North American theatrical release of My Imaginary Country (Mi país imaginario), the most recent film by Chile's master documentarian Patricio Guzmán which premiered to standing ovations at the Cannes Film Festival last May.
The documentary feature will have an exclusive engagement at IFC Center in New York City beginning on Friday, September 23, followed by openings at the Laemmle Monica Center in Los Angeles on Friday, September 30, as well as in Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco also on that date.
In October 2019, without warning, a revolution exploded across Chile. It was an event that Guzmán had been waiting for since 1973, when a violent military attack overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, and became the ending of Guzman's most famous film, and one of the greatest documentaries of all time, The Battle of Chile.
Now, millions of people took to the streets of Santiago and across the country, demanding economic justice, free education and health care and fundamentally, a new constitution.
Featuring harrowing front-line protest footage and interviews with dynamic activists—of a movement largely led by women and feminist leaders—My Imaginary Country powerfully, yet elegantly connects Chile's complex, bloody history to the country's contemporary social movements, and leading to the recent election of a new president.
An urgent and powerful film, My Imaginary Country also serves as an inspiring and exemplary tale for other nations of how a popular revolt can spark deep political change.
My Imaginary Country's North American release is closely tied to two important upcoming political dates:
On September 4, 2022, the Chilean people will vote on adopting a new, radical constitution for the country – the most important fruit of the transformative protest movement documented in the film.And that vote will take place just one week before the 49th anniversary of the US supported military coup that brought Pinochet to power, on September 11, 1973.The IFC Center will commemorate not only this "other" September 11 but also the incredible arc and accomplishment of Guzman's work over more than fifty years, by accompanying its presentation of My Imaginary Country with screenings of his earlier films, including The Battle of Chile, which itself premiered in Cannes, in 1975."My Imaginary Country drips with the contagious thrill of hope…
It is hard not to be moved."
—Rafaela Sales Ross, The Playlist
"With civil liberties in America under attack,
those willing to fight to keep the liberties we have in place
could learn a thing or two from the Patricio Guzmán documentary."
—Valerie Complex, Deadline
"It's a vindication, not just for the nation, but for its most clear-eyed,
full-hearted chronicler. Would that all countries were so lucky as to have
a Patricio Guzmán, to help with the painful process of recovering
what has been lost and, as with My Imaginary Country,
occasionally to celebrate what has been gained."
Theatrical dates confirmed (more cities TBA)
New York, NY: Opens Friday, September 23 at the IFC Center
Los Angeles, CA: Opens Friday, September 30 at the Laemmle Monica Center
Chicago, IL: Opens Friday, September 30 at Gene Siskel Film Center
Boston, MA: Opens Friday, September 30 at The Brattle
Minneapolis, MN: Opens Friday, October 21at MSP Film at The Main
Seattle, WA: Opens Friday, October 26 at Northwest Film Forum In Spanish with English subtitles. Writer and director: Patricio Guzmán; Producer: Renate Sachse; Co-producers: Olivier Pere, ARTE France Cinéma (France) and Alexandra Galvis, Market Chile (Chile); Cinematographer: Samuel Lahu; Sound: Juan Carlos Maldonado Dubo and Aymeric Dupas; Editor: Laurence Manheimer; Original Music: Miranda y Tobar; Executive producer: Benjamin Lanlard; Production companies: Atacama Productions, Market Chile, Arte France Cinéma; Partners: CNC, ARTE Cinema, ARTE TV, Creative Media Europe, Region Ile de France, Consejo Nacional de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio (Chile). An Icarus Films release.
Patricio Guzmán was born in 1941 in Santiago, Chile. He has dedicated his career to documentary cinema. His films have screened widely and received international recognition. Guzmán studied at the Official School of Cinematographic Art in Madrid. From 1972 to 1979, he directed The Battle of Chile: Part I-III, a five-hour trilogy about Salvador Allende's government and its fall to General Pinochet in a deadly military coup. Named one of the 10 best political films in the world by Cineaste, this film is the foundation of Guzmán's cinema. After Pinochet took power, Patricio Guzmán was arrested and imprisoned at the National Stadium, where he was subjected repeatedly to simulated executions. In 1973, he left Chile and moved to Cuba, then to Spain, and then France, but remained very attached to his country and its history. Guzmán is the president of the International Documentary Festival in Santiago, Chile (FIDOCS), which he founded in 1997. The Cordillera of Dreams (Cannes 2019) closed a trilogy which began with Nostalgia for the Light(Cannes 2010) and The Pearl Button (Berlin 2015). His latest film is My Imaginary Country.
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The Real World Ex-Plosion
Real World will live to age 30: MTV renewed it
Although it was facing down its own demise, The Real World has been renewed by MTV, since its 29th season. That's because The Real World Ex-Plosion, was a success: it was the franchise's "highest-rated season since 2011" and "was up 44 percent vs. last season, and experienced 33 percent growth from the season debut to …
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The exact same thing made and destroyed The Real World
Blame Delicious Deliveries for the decline of The Real World. The Miami cast's attempt to create a business using $50,000 was forced on it by producers, who required the cast to engage in a conflict-creating project together. It was a response to the relative boredom The Real World London, which itself was just the fourth …
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Real World Ex-Plosion: Big Brother's 10-year-old twist comes to MTV's dying show
MTV announced this afternoon that the next season of The Real World will have 12 cast members, bringing in the ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends of the usual seven-person cast to ambush them and create crazy drunken stupid drama. How creatively bankrupt is The Real World? It is using the 10-year-old twist from Big Brother 4, then …
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Real World back to San Francisco, but MTV may be ready to cancel the series
The Real World will return to San Francisco for its 29th season, but there are signs that MTV may be over the show. The house will be located at 1244 Sutter Street in what is "the former home of the Avalon ballroom which hosted headliners such as The Doors, Janis Joplin and The Grateful Dead," …
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Louisville, KY – On September 21 from 10:30 am until 12:30 pm, the Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), located at 1839 Frankfort Avenue, will offer a program titled Ten People Everyone Should Know Whose Blindness Doesn't Define Them.
Nearly everyone knows about Helen Keller and Louis Braille, but other people who were blind have also made impressive contributions to our world. Jacques Lusseyran worked with the Resistance in France during World War II. Morris Frank pioneered the use of dogs as guides for the blind in the U.S. and harpist Turlough O'Carolan became Ireland's national composer.
Each of our ten presenters, all of whom are blind, will talk about individuals with whom they feel a connection, who have accomplished remarkable things, or lived a remarkable life. The event is free, but registrations are required. Call 899-2213 by September 19 to register. Best for adults and children age 12 and up.


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Q: How to make my own character encoding in C++? I need to define a character set in C++. I have already checked the document here, but what I am looking for is little more wide range. For example I have letters like this.
To type these characters, I will make a virtual keyboard. I am assuming that I have already give a code for each character. I have the font of this character set. Problem is, when I hit a key from virtual keyboard, it will write the key as, for example, 'q'. It will look like, in text field, one of the letters in the photo that I showed, but at the background, the actual letter is 'q'. When I copy that letter to somewhere else, it will write 'q' letter. Example Image
Although I have no intention to copy that letters somewhere else, I would like to give them a code and, when I write, it will be different than 'q'.
I wouldn't have a problem with representing that letter with 'q' if I didn't work with at least two ancient languages. (Ancient Greek, Ancient Turkish)
It will be like an ASCII encoding, but isolated from outside of the program.
I hope I described my problem well.

A: Ok, let's take a stab at an answer.
First, don't bother with narrow characters. That's just a pain to work with. Use wchar_t. Secondly, on relevant systems wchar_t maps to some form of Unicode, and Unicode has a Private Use Area (PUA). Assign PUA values to each of your characters. This takes care of the binary representation of your texts.
Secondly, you'll need an input method. This is OS-specific, and you haven't specified which OS. And we don't know what script you have, so we don't know whether keys to characters are a 1-to-1 mapping or more complex.
Finally, you'd need a way to display these scripts. This can be solved in two ways. Either you provide a font to the OS, and let the OS render your texts with that, or you take over rendering yourself. Neither is easy, and both are to a degree OS-specific (which we still don't know).

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Senior Services Marketplace >
Financial Planning >
Getting Your Affairs In Order Marriage Contracts
Getting Your Affairs in Order - Marriage Contracts
The phenomenon of second marriages has become commonplace in modern society.
It is not uncommon for a second marriage to take place somewhat later in the life, and at a time when the children of both partners are independent adults. It is not uncommon for those children, having expectations as to their inheritances, or concerns as to the financial security of their parents, to be apprehensive that mom or dad may have made an unwise choice of a new partner, and that the relationship may fail. In cases where one of the two partners is significantly younger than the other, the concerns of the children of the older party may be heightened.
In these circumstances there is every potential for tension or conflict within and between families. While these consequences are sometimes unavoidable, there are circumstances in which they can be avoided, or at least minimized.
Particularly, although not only in cases where the new partners are of significantly different financial means, it is well for the parties to consider entering into a marriage contract. Preferably, the contract is entered into prior to marriage, but the contract can be entered into during the course of the marriage as well. Marriage contracts are recognized as valid agreements under the Ontario Family Law Act. By a marriage contract, the parties may specify their rights and obligations towards each other during the marriage, and on separation, divorce or death. The contract may deal with ownership in or division of property, support obligations or any other matter arising in the event of a breakdown of the relationship.
The Family Law Act requires certain formalities for the validity of a marriage contract. It is important in terms of the enforceability of the contract that each party have had independent legal advice, and that each makes full written disclosure of his and her assets, liabilities and income to the other.
To many, it will seem that a marriage contract is not in keeping with the trust and affection which is typically inherent in a new relationship. To be sure, there can be some awkwardness in the process of concluding a marriage contract. Those considerations are generally greatly outweighed by the value of the degree of certainty the contract produces for each party, particularly in planning for the disposition of each of the partners individual estates, and, as is indicated above, a marriage contract can have the salutary emotional benefit of alleviating concerns and possible tensions between the family members of each of the parties.
For more information about marriage contracts, contact Larry Enfield, a partner with Enfield Wood LLP, who has practised estate planning administration since 1977.
To learn more about Larry Enfield and Enfieldwood LLP, visit the website http://www.enfieldwood.com/
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We close our eyes and we dream. We dream about foreign travel and exotic locations. We dream of a quiet country home and peaceful surroundings. We dream of a stress-free… [ more ]
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Yesterday Marsman and Djorjx faced off in a high-level finals at the Esports Game Arena, solidifying their spots in the ranking. At this point no one can be certain of their position though, because SIX more qualification tournaments are coming up. The first of those is this Wednesday at Outpost Gamecenter in Antwerp – the first-ever DSCL event on Belgian soil!
The tournament starts at 19h and takes place at the Blizzard Community day at Outpost, which has a €10 entry fee and features lots of activities. However if you're just coming for the StarCraft matches you also just pay by the hour for use of the PC (you don't have to bring your own PC!). There'll be some small prizes for the winners, and of course another batch of DSCL Nationals points to be won. The Gamecenter itself is also worth a visit – it's a really fun place with loads of boardgames as well as e-sports facilities. See their website for all information about the event. GLHF to those playing!


What is the impact of Brexit on the future EU/UK relationship on environmental policies?
On 29 March 2019, the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union, after over 45 years as a member. During this time, the EU has developed a body of environmental law (the environmental acquis) which aims to protect species, habitats, and rivers, regulate wildlife and timber trade, and limit air pollution across the EU.
While there remains considerable uncertainty on the shape of the future EU/UK relationship, the way in which environmental issues are dealt with can have serious impacts on citizens across Europe.
In the EU, WWF as part of the Green10 has developed a position on EU-UK collaboration in the field of environmental protection, to advise decision-makers in the EU on how to address environmental matters in the ongoing negotiations.
Due to the transboundary nature of environmental issues and shared commitments on climate change and sustainable development, WWF believes that commitments by both the UK and the EU27 to maintaining high standards and enforceability of environmental rules is needed in any agreement, as well as continued close cooperation, with the objective of strengthening rules for legitimate public interest purposes.
It is estimated that Natura 2000, the European network of protected areas, can provide benefits worth a minimum of € 200-300 bn per year, and between 4,5 and 8 million jobs.


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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, developed by Sledgehammer Games, harnesses the first three-year, all next-gen development cycle in franchise history. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare envisions the powerful battlegrounds of the future, where both technology and tactic have evolved to usher in a new era of combat for the franchise. Delivering a stunning performance, Academy Award winning actor Kevin Spacey stars as Jonathan Irons - one of the most powerful men in the world - shaping this chilling vision of the future of war.


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Q: Defining Keras Models for Arrays I have 3 inputs that will go into my model, They are:
1. 20 X 20 List
2. n numbers of X [2] array or like  [ [a,b], [c,d], ......]
3. [a,b] array
That's it making the model simple but I do not understand how to define the inputs and outputs for this.
The model should have 2 hidden layers of 32 each.
    inputBoard = tf.keras.Input(shape=(20,20))
    x1 = tf.keras.layers.Flatten()(inputBoard)
    boardDense = tf.keras.layers.Dense(32, activation='relu')(x1)

    inputAgent = tf.keras.Input(shape=(None, 2))
    x2 = tf.keras.layers.Flatten()(inputAgent)
    agentDense = tf.keras.layers.Dense(16, activation='relu')(x2)

    inputReward = tf.keras.Input(shape=(1,1))
    x3 = tf.keras.layers.Flatten()(inputReward)
    rewardDense = tf.keras.layers.Dense(4, activation='relu')(x3)

    concat = tf.keras.layers.concatenate([boardDense, agentDense, rewardDense])

    hidden = tf.keras.layers.Dense(32, activation = 'relu')(concat)
    hidden2 = tf.keras.layers.Dense(32, activation='relu')(hidden)

    output = tf.keras.layers.Dense(4, activation="softmax")(hidden2)

    self.model = tf.keras.Model(inputs=[inputBoard, inputAgent, inputReward], outputs = output)

    self.model.build()
    optimizer = tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(lr = self.learningRate)
    self.model.compile(loss = 'mse', optimizer = optimizer)
    self.model.summary()


Jan has picked out the best home for us. We have a special needs little girl and Jan keyed into our special requirements. She also took care of the little things like the well inspection, termite letters, and may other things i would have never thought of.
I could call her any time or any day.
Jan was absolutely wonderful!!! She was very thorough and did a great job helping us find our house. She has a great work ethic, very polite and kind, and extremely knowledgeable of the area and business. I highly recommend her!


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The Wolseley tearoom, a ten-minute stroll from the Metropolitan London hotel, provides a convivial atmosphere for a spot of tea with a friend or an extended "business" luncheon.
keep'em coming!
Hospitality Design, the premier New-York based trade magazine, has bestowed upon Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort by Anantara two, count'em, two awards this year. The annual awards honor hotels and resorts that utilize new materials and innovation in their creative process.
Qasr Al Sarab, in Abu Dhabi's Liwa Desert was awarded 'Best Hotel Spa' and 'Best for Luxury Public Spaces.'
Built to resemble the traditional Emirati forts found in this expansive desert, Qasr Al Sarab is an explorer's paradise. Arabian ritual and tradition are the inspiration for the design of the resort and it's on-site Anantara Spa as well, incorporating natural elements of water, wood, and stone with rich, earthy colors. The treatment menu reflects this in its signature mix of Eastern and Western beauty and wellness rituals. The Spa blends the time-honored Middle Eastern cleansing bath, the Hammam, with tranquil Thai methods to promote wellbeing, balance, and serenity. Treatments utilize natural and indigenous ingredients, such as dates, sand, honey, and olives to produce unique spa journeys for guests.
gwyneth loves como
Turns out Gwyneth Paltrow loves Parrot Cay of COMO Hotels and Resorts and COMO Shambhala! It's all in the June issue of Spain's TELVA fashion magazine. Gwyneth says "I get lost in the private Island of Parrot Cay, in the Bahamas, and I spoil myself with a massage in the Shambhala Spa. I come out renewed!"
hotels go high-tech
Admittedly, no one can keep the innovative pace of Steve Jobs. But hotels, in their pursuit to give guests an ever-richer experience, delivered ever more quickly, are helping to push technology to its limit. We aren't speaking of iPod docking stations in every room – those seem as de rigueur as the VCR was in the 1990s. Here's what's next…
Royal Mansour Marrakech
cocktail heaven
At Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme, guests are able to learn the secrets of the skilled and experienced bartenders at the famed Le Bar. Whether it is a simple gin drink or a frozen cocktail, favorite beverages will be demystified. Head barman Yann Daniel organizes cocktail classes available to anyone who is interested two Saturdays each month from noon to 2:30pm. Each class has a specific theme or main liquor that is used in all of the drinks that are made during the session. Upcoming themes are Rum, Gin, Champagne, and Whisky. The choices are endless, with a mix of classic drinks, like mojitos and cosmos, and inspired in-house cocktails, like the award-winning Park Flower or the sweet and creative lemon pie martini. Executive Chef of Michelin-starred Pur'Grill Jean-François Rouquette personally prepares tapas to accompany the long-awaited tasting of the cocktails. This is a fun and exciting way to learn how to make cocktails and mixed drinks for social events!
10 reasons to visit nantucket this fall
Does this sticky hot summer weather have you looking forward to the fall? If so, might be time to start planning a fall vacation to Nantucket. The summer crowds have dispersed, the water is the warmest it's been all summer, and restaurant reservations are much easier to come by. If that's not enough, here are 10 Other Great Reasons to Visit Nantucket This Fall.
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brit breaks
Dreaming of a getaway to the English coastline or the rustic countryside, but don't want to break the bank at a pricey hotel? Get all the comforts of home at one of the charming NEW National Trust holiday cottages. Live like a local in these idyllic, self-catering abodes – perfect for families or large groups. They certainly have us lusting for an English Country mini-break.
Make sure to join the Royal Oak Foundation – the National Trust's U.S. affiliate – before crossing the pond for free access to over 300 historic houses.
The Metropolitan London was named one of the top 10 party hotels by Sherman's Travel. As a guest at the hotel, you get access to the members-only Met Bar and can rub elbows with the regular celebrity guests. Unleash your inner rock star with "rockaoke" (karaoke with a live band) or fill up on Michelin-starred sushi at Nobu.
espa's sue harmsworth honored by queen
Congratulations are due to Susan Harmsworth, the CEO and founder of ESPA International! Recognized as part of the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honors, Sue was cited for her outstanding services in the spa and beauty industry. Sue now proudly holds the title of MBE, which stands for Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Sue founded ESPA International in 1993; the company now operates spas in 55 countries internationally and has an ever-expanding line of naturally effective skincare products and spa treatments. Her work with ESPA has made Sue the premier expert in the spa industry – she now sits on a number of international spa and hotel boards.
Despite her new grand title, Sue is always available to offer the best expert spa and skincare advice. From diagnosing skincare issues to creating your very own at-home spa, Sue can guide you through the ins and outs of spa and skincare. Let us know of any questions you have and we'll find out what Sue would do!
marrakech on our minds
This article makes us want to hop the first plane to Casablanca. See the hotel fit for – and built by – a king. The dazzling tilework and soft lantern light create a magical arabian night and the individual riads are dripping with decadent decor.
shop like a chef
Everyone wants to shop where the chef's shop, and Richard Ruben – chef and author of "The Farmer's Market Cookbook" – has just listed his favorite farmer's markets. On the list was the Santa Fe Farmer's Market, known for its amazing variety of chili peppers. Visit this market in style with the Fresh Santa Fe package at the Inn on the Alameda. Stock up on habaneros, chipotle peppers, and other piquant peppers to add some heat to your chili or some kick to your bbq sauce.


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Q: Reverse proxy for gitlab and taiga - docker I'm trying make load balancer with nginx about 4 hours and I don't have more ideas how to deal with it.
My plan is:
client -> nginx load balancer -> gitlab or taiga.io
For now my nginx conf:
upstream gitlab {
    server localhost:8081;
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name git.localhost.com
    client_max_body_size 300M;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8081/;
        proxy_set_header Host           $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP      $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For    $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto  $scheme;
    }
}

Gitlab working on localhost:8081 fine.
When I goes to git.localhost.com i see only 502 error with error log:
 6#6: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 172.19.0.1, server: git.localhost.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:8081/", host: "git.localhost.com"

What I'm doing wrong?
I tried this: Gitlab 5.3 behind nginx reverse proxy and still does not works.

A: There must be some discrepancy between http://localhost:8081 (which works) and the location to which nginx is proxying your requests (which doesn't work).
Currently your upstream block is not being used.
In proxy_pass, try replacing http://localhost:8081/ with http://gitlab.


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A busy night on Rue Saint-Paul in Montreal's Old Town. (Stephan Poulin/Tourism Montreal)
Choose Montreal if you're looking for an arty, historical adventure
Patti Nickell, Lexington Herald-Leader
MONTREAL — In recent years, I have made it something of a habit to celebrate my birthday in some far-flung corner of the world. I've gotten a year older in Munich, Germany; Lausanne, Switzerland; New Zealand and Hong Kong among other places.
This May 15 found me in Montreal. As birthdays go, it wasn't one of my best, weather-wise. Steel-gray skies opened up to release fat droplets of rain as I stared dispiritedly from my hotel window, wishing I had chosen to spend this particular birthday in Hawaii.
But if travel writers are supposed to possess one quality, it's resilience. Was I just going to sit here and mope when I was in one of the most charming cities in North America? After all, what could a little rain hurt?
With that in mind, I grabbed my umbrella and headed off to explore Old Montreal with its collection of ornate buildings that look as if they were transported from a Grimms' fairy tale. In actuality, they were erected by the French settlers who came here in 1642 (Montreal celebrated its 375th anniversary last year).
My first stop was at Notre Dame Basilica for a look at its impressive stained glass art before heading to Place Jacques Cartier, the gateway to the Old Port and named for the explorer who first claimed Canada for France more than a century before the founding of Montreal.
This makes it all the more baffling that the square's oldest public monument (1809) doesn't celebrate the intrepid Jacques, or even a Frenchman, but rather Britain's Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Over the years, it has been the subject of controversy, as one might expect from a statue honoring the architect of a British victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar.
I asked several Montrealers why this statue, but none of them seemed to know either. One did tell me that there was an unsuccessful plot in the late 19th century to blow up the column. However, it still stands in this militantly Francophone city, predating its London counterpart in Trafalgar Square by 34 years.
By now the steady rain had lessened to a drizzle, which brought out an assortment of street entertainers, from mimes and jugglers to minstrels and troubadours.
As I listened to a guitarist strum the haunting melody of "Are You Going to Scarborough Fair?" it occurred to me just how deeply this city's creative juices flow.
I have been to its wonderful jazz festival, and I have seen several performances of its famous Cirque de Soleil, however I had never heard of Moment Factory, a Montreal-based multimedia studio that has produced some 500 unique "sound and light" shows worldwide.
I was determined to rectify that, and that night, I made my way back to Notre Dame for Moment Factory's stunning show AURA. Entering the cathedral, I could see the stained glass panels I had marveled at earlier illuminated by thousands of flickering candles.
Taking my seat, I wasn't sure what to expect, but it definitely wasn't the laser show, coupled with orchestral music, that kept the audience mesmerized for the next 25 minutes. Silver and gold streaks of light bounced around the nave, highlighting the cathedral's interior, while the visuals — again in multi-colored light formations — exploded in celestial starbursts. It might have been the best birthday celebration I've ever had.
I had a chance to see more of Moment Factory's work the next day at Pointe-a-Calliere, Montreal's Archaeology and History Complex. Situated on the exact spot where the city was founded, Pointe-a-Calliere combines archaeological remains with innovative exhibits to tell Montreal's story.
Descending to an underground tunnel, I arrived at what may be Moment Factory's most unusual production — a dazzling sound and light show in an even more unusual setting — the city's first sewer. Constructed over a period of six years (1832-38), there was nothing comparable in the New World at that time.
Over the course of the next few days, I was to discover that creativity was the common link that bound together Montreal's diverse neighborhoods. In the Old Port of Montreal, I treated myself to a massage at Bota Bota, a historic ferry that once plied the St. Lawrence River, and now serves as an upscale spa and yoga studio.
I took a walking tour of Plateau Mont-Royal with its multi-colored houses, outdoor staircases and narrow, shady cul-de-sacs, and Mile End, the incubator to which all those creative types — artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers — gravitate.
On another day, I signed up for a foodie walking tour in one of the city's farther flung neighborhoods, Rosemont, with its famous Jean Talon Market and tiny, hole-in-the-wall ethnic restaurants. At one of these, Los Planes Salvadoran Restaurant, I sampled pupusas, a traditional corn tortilla stuffed with pork and cheese and served with curtido (pickled cabbage).
If there is one area in which Montreal's creativity reaches its zenith, it's in the cuisine. I had three of the best meals I've experienced west of Paris and north of New Orleans.
At Helena, a Portuguese Restaurant in Old Montreal, I started with a tomato and goat cheese salad, and ended with pork chops accompanied by clams and tomatoes, garnished with tarragon, mint and delicate sprigs of parsley.
Another memorable dinner was at Brasserie T! in the Quartier des Spectacles, Montreal's cultural heart. From my table in the tiny glass cubicle overlooking a plaza of dancing waters, I sipped a South African chardonnay, and feasted on smoked sturgeon and potatoes, gazpacho and goat cheese souffle.
Back in the Old Quarter, I opted for Accords Wine Bar and Restaurant where I had a typically French-style meal of oysters and an assortment of Canadian cheeses paired with an icy Chablis, followed by a tomato tartlet with mozzarella, basil and white balsamic.
Like their French ancestors, Montrealers revel in the pleasures of the table, and can turn even the simplest of meals into a gastronomic experience.
On my last day and still in birthday mode, I decided to indulge in afternoon tea at the elegant Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Referred to as "the Grande Dame of Sherbrooke Street," it embodies all that the luxury hotel brand has become known for.
But it also has its stories to tell. This is where Howard Hughes, wandering the lobby in shabby attire and tattered house slippers, was mistaken for a vagrant by the hotel's general manager, and where Elizabeth Taylor, her hair braided with yellow roses, married Richard Burton for the first time.
A book on the Ritz-Carlton, "No Ordinary Hotel," tells it all, "it's immaculate doormen have doffed peaked caps in the summer and fur hats in the winter to an assortment of dignitaries from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and the Shah of Iran to former '60 Minutes' correspondent Mike Wallace and rock icon David Bowie."
As I was ushered into the elegant Palm Court — part of a recent $200 million renovation — and presented with a glass of champagne, I decided that rain or no rain, Montreal was a pretty good choice for a birthday celebration.
(Patti Nickell is a Lexington, Ky.-based travel and food writer. Reach her at pnickell13@hotmail.com.)
IF YOU GO TO MONTREAL:
Where to Stay: The Gault is located in Old Montreal, within walking distance of its historic attractions, the Old Port and the shops and restaurants of nearby McGill Street. With a vibrant decor, complementary continental breakfast and a charming staff eager to satisfy your every need, it's a perfect base for exploring the city. hotelgault.com.
Where to Eat: Restaurant Helena, restuaranthelena.com; Accords Wine Bar & Restaurant, accords.com; Brasserie T! brasserie-t.com
FYI: mtl.org (website for Tourism Montreal)


Most people figure the best time to have an oil change is around every 3,000. Although this is commonly considered a general rule, the actual optimal time to change the oil can be found in your owner's manual. Most car owners understand that their engine oil need to be changed, but a significant number of drivers don't know specific details about the different types of engine oil. So our experts at Christian Brothers Automotive Eagle's Landing are shedding some light on the different types of engine oil vehicles use.
Conventional oil, also called mineral oil, is made out of crude oil taken from the ground and processed at a refinery. After the oil has been processed, additives that help to enhance the viscosity and engine protection properties are added. Conventional oil is the most economical type of oil.
Using non-conventional, high-performance fluid additives creates extra resistance to oxidation and enhances low-temperature properties. Vehicles that are often times in stop-and-go traffic or have to run in extreme temperatures can benefit from using synthetic-blend oil. This type of oil can also be very good for trucks and SUVs that regularly tow trailers or carry heavy loads.
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* [SocketStream](http://socketstream.com)
* [ExpressJS](http://expressjs.com/)
* [AngularJS](http://angularjs.org)
* [Twitter Bootstrap](http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)
* [Jade Templates](http://jade-lang.com/)
* [MochaJS](http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/) _testing_
* [SinonJS](http://sinonjs.org/) _testing_

I'm using it to seed new web apps, and as a playground for quickly trying new things.

```sh
$ npm install
$ node app.js
```

To run server side tests

```sh
$ make
```

To run client side tests

```sh
$ node app.js
```

...then open browser to http://localhost:3000/tests

## Routing Examples

Demo app has some routes that are 100% client side, and some that are server-side...meaning client side routes are intercepted by Angular and handled in the browser, since this is a single page app.  Conversely, server side routes are handled as new HTTP request to the browser which are processed by ExpressJS routing -- demonstration of how one can still provide a web service API on top of the SocketStream RPC/WebSocket application (e.g. for other clients or integration points).

### Client Side Routing

Handled by [route.js](https://github.com/americanyak/ss-angular-demo/blob/master/client/code/app/routes.js) and [AppCtrl](https://github.com/americanyak/ss-angular-demo/blob/master/client/code/app/controllers.js#L14) and the [AngularJS ng-switch](http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngSwitch) directive.

Example Routes
* http://localhost:3000/foo
* http://localhost:3000/bar

There is a controller for each route.

### Server Side Routing

Any JS files found under [routes](https://github.com/americanyak/ss-angular-demo/tree/master/server/routes) dir will be added to ExpressJS routing processor.  There is a [demoRoute.js](https://github.com/americanyak/ss-angular-demo/blob/master/server/routes/demoRoute.js) which shows a standard web service request that returns some JSON

* http://localhost:3000/demo

There's also an [example of shared middleware](https://github.com/americanyak/ss-angular-demo/blob/master/server/middleware/demoMiddleware.js) -- a piece of middleware that can be injected into the path for both websockets and standard ExpressJS http routes.

That piece of middleware will run if a client hits http://localhost:3000/demo and it will also run if they call `ss.rpc('demoRpc.get', function (err, resp) { });`

# Credit Due

* [@polidore](https://github.com/polidore/ss-angular) - the angular services in here that wrap socket stream `rpc` and `pubsub` were derived / borrowed from the ss-angular project
* Pierre-Yves Gérardy for his [great ideas on setting up client side unit testing with SocketStream + AngularJS](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/socketstream/jDDCkQJpsDM/discussion)


Do you want to inspire your students to promote your school or university?
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You don't get a second chance to make a first impression. With new students looking at multiple schools and universities you want to make sure their first impression of your school or university counts. Our Promotional Technology Gift Sets are a great way to grab their attention. These sets include a Power Bank, Bluetooth® Speaker, USB Flash Drive and a USB Car Charger. A great starter pack that they'll use daily. You can either offer this in person at an event or even post these out.
Once your students graduate or complete their final exams how can you ensure your school will still be remembered?
The answer is to offer promotional technology products as gifts. These can range from USB Flash Drives, to store information such as yearbooks and alumni information, to Branded Speakers and Headphones. The more practical the product the more your students will use them.
Sports teams are united through their uniform and team colours. What better way to extend the brand awareness of your school or university team than to offer matching Branded Headphones.
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Cocky Simeone believes Atletico started beating LFC before a ball was even kicked
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Diego Simeone was his usual, cocky self after his Atletico side managed to scrape a 1-0 victory against Liverpool at home in the Champions League.
He believes Atleti started winning before a ball was even kicked. In his post-match interviews, he explained how seeing the support for the team calmed him – if you can call repeated leaving your technical area for 90 minutes 'calm'.
"I think we started winning the game when our bus turned at the roundabout and we saw the reaction of the people. It enthused us. Something beautiful woke up in us," he's quoted as saying by the Liverpool Echo.
"The feeling that came out of the people, the reply of the people, I've rarely seen from our fans at this level. They were there the whole game. It made me want to put my boots on and go on the pitch."
The Argentine admitted that he rarely sees support for the Spaniards at such a level, and we can only be forced to assume that's because Liverpool were in town.
To be fair to Simeone, he then explained that nobody will forget beating the "best team in the world" in the Reds – a rare compliment, even if a back-handed one.
"It's not the best night because we've not won anything but it was exciting. It was unusual," he continued.
"It was a match people won't forget – to beat the best team in the world, who've won a lot of games. We've not got past them but we've beaten them because in a match everyone has a chance."
I mean – fair enough, they did just beat the reigning Champions of Europe, it is understandable why Diego, the players and the fans were a little overly-hyped up.
But it is only half-time, and Liverpool will get a chance to exact their revenge at Anfield in a few weeks' time. If the Reds come out the traps, like we've seen so many times this season, it'll put the game on its head.
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Charens – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Owernia-Rodan-Alpy, w departamencie Drôme.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 31 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 2 osób/km² (wśród 2880 gmin regionu Rodan-Alpy Charens plasuje się na 1585. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 742.).

Bibliografia

Miejscowości w departamencie Drôme

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I am looking at how the output grid resolution affects HYSPLIT performance using measured data. I am quantifying the performance using statistical metrics. It seems that there is no general rule for what output grid resolution should be used. Using a higher resolution (even with more particles) doesn't seem to improve the predictions of the model compared to a coarse resolution. Is this something that is common across all release scenarios or possibly just the scenario that I am looking at.
It is not generally true that increased output grid resolution will improve model results. Sometimes it will actually degrade model results.
Generally speaking, higher concentration grid resolution may be beneficial for predicting concentrations at shorter transport distances and times or near the edge of the plume (when the concentration field is more variable), and when you have higher resolution NWP data.
same as the average over the larger piece.


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Opinion | India's response to Pulwama by crossing LoC has altered conflict dynamics
3 min read . Updated: 27 Feb 2019, 12:26 AM IST Kapil Kak
The major global powers will wait and want to know what Pakistan's reaction will be
The dastardly Pulwama attack caused casualties which were well beyond the acceptable threshold. It involved maximum number of security forces being killed by a strike by Pakistan and its terror outfits—the number has been the highest since terrorism began in Kashmir 30 years ago.
India had no choice but to retaliate and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the political leadership were categorical and certain that Pakistan would have to pay a price for Pulwama and retaliation would take place anytime. This was expected and every Indian was waiting for it to happen. Questions were being asked by one and all as to when a strike, in response to Pulwama, would take place.
The temperature in India had been steadily rising. In terms of levels of alertness, from the day the Pulwama attack was carried out, Pakistan was alert and ready. It realized that there would be retaliation in whatever form from India and so they were on high alert from the very beginning.
For us, everything has gone along expected lines. However, there is something notable here: It was only during 1971 that India had gone into mainland Pakistan to conduct strikes. In between, there have been cases of terror attacks, Kargil, surgical strikes, so on and so forth and other strikes including firing across the border. But all through, we have remained within the Line of Control (LoC). Now, going across Pakistan, into a major terror facility of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) located on Pakistani soil, on mainland Pakistan very close to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has altered conflict dynamics.
A lot of things will change now because India's leadership, including the military, believe any action on mainland Pakistan could start escalations and controlling it would be extremely difficult. It could potentially invite the use of nuclear weapons, which would be a disaster of epic proportions—one that was last only witnessed in 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To cut a long story short—it would be terrible and so the Indian leadership has always been very hesitant to cross the LoC.
In Kargil, we had every reason to cross over into Pakistani soil, because Pakistan had crossed the LoC and occupied Indian land that had been clearly defined in the maps, post 1971. What happened on Tuesday is a major departure from the usual Indian reaction. This also enhances the level of response from Pakistan. But so far, the reaction that we have seen from them is similar to that after the surgical strike—a clear element of deniability. They have been evasive in their acknowledgement, despite our claims that we had demolished the Jaish facility in Balakot.
Much will now depend on how Pakistan reacts. The major global powers will be with India, but if it takes an escalation route, then that support too will dilute because their fear is that if the game turns into limited war, there will be increasing stakes of major conflagration. It will be an extremely precarious situation, and everyone will be extremely bothered about such an eventuality. So, over the next few weeks, everyone will wait and will want to know what Pakistan's reaction will be.
India has been very calm. We have been very restrained all through. The foreign secretary's use of language has been restrained and his language, astute. He has drawn the context setting very precisely as to how Pulwama happened and how attacks have taken place all these years by Pakistan. He has also very carefully highlighted how we have been warning Pakistan and how they have continued these attacks.
Even in our restraint, we have again brought out the fact that we had information from intelligence that more attacks were likely and so we went for a non-military intelligence-driven approach and attacked a terror facility to pre-empt these strikes.
Kapil Kak is former air vice marshal, Indian Air Force.