Just a few more shots from the Flower Seller at the Farmers Market.
Visit Monochromia to see this first image in B&W. Do you have a preference?
Next time I'll bring my camera!
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Yes, what Marlene said. These pics are stunning.
Alys, the vendor was a lone woman and her flowers were stunning! Gorgeous bouquets for $20!!
Wouldn't that be a treat?
I adore the coloured version of the monochromia shot! And the last pic taken without a camera, those layers of colours are just delectable!!
I was just telling Alys that this flower vendor had the most stunning flowers. We could not stop exclaiming over them!
Those are amazing!!! And, since I dream in color(!), I always prefer full color renderings (even though the B/W versions have such great detail).
Thank you, Doreen. Aren;t those colors amazing?
These image prove that it's the photographer and not the camera Laurie 😀 These are absolutely gorgeous.
Thanks, Joe. You are always so supportive of my efforts.
I have to agree with you Joe. Laurie's an artist, and using one tool or another doesn't negate that.
Derrick, I'm agreeing with you. The B&W just popped yet looked almost silky.
Mary, I'd send you these in a heart beat in the winter … although my sister and I both asked the vendor how long she would be selling. Sadly, not for much longer.
Her flowers were just stunning!
That last shot almost looks like a painting. Beautiful!
I actually prefer the middle shot here. The way the colours and textures overlap feels so intertwined in that image. Like a bouquet I'd like to have in my home.


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It is somewhat quieter today. It seems as though the Hamas has been surprised by the Israel's latest moves which they did not anticipate. I hope that Israel will not be the first one to blink.
I am attaching herewith a letter (not too long) written by Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld, Prof. Eitan Israeli and your humble servant. This letter was written as a reply to a letter published in the prestigious English medical weekly magazine called, the Lancet. I am not attaching the biased, one sided, anti-Israel, vehement letter as I do not want to help its circulation. I believe that from our answer you will be able to get the gist of the Lancet letter.
TO THE AUTHORS OF THE OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE IN GAZA
On June 12th, the day three Israeli teens were abducted and murdered in the West Bank, Hamas began launching rockets aimed at Israeli civilians. For three weeks Israel showed great restraint, but Hamas' incessant missile attacks continued, culminating in a barrage of 70 missiles fired on July 7th alone. Israel was left with no choice but to embark on a military operation to defend its civilian population. There was no word from the authors of the "open letter" (1).
For several years Hamas, designated as a terrorist organization in many countries including the US, the EU and Canada, has invested heavily in a formidable terror infrastructure which includes some 12,000 missiles covering most of Israel's territory. It has also built dozens of attack tunnels whose sole purpose is to infiltrate Israel and conduct terror attacks killing and kidnaping Israel civilians. Again total ignorance on the part of the authors or any others in the European medical community.
The main objective of Operation Protective Edge is to restore quiet to Israel's citizens. Israel's right to defend itself was widely recognized by the international community, including most recently by EU foreign ministers on July 22nd. Israel's actions are aimed at curtailing Hamas terror capabilities in Gaza, but do not target the people of Gaza in any way.
In this context, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been doing the utmost to minimize harm to uninvolved civilians. It strictly abides by the principles of international law and the law of armed conflict, which calls for a distinction between civilians and military forces, and for careful consideration of the expected military gain of any action, weighed against the potential collateral damage.
Among the measures taken by the IDF to minimize the risk to Palestinian civilians are prior announcements about impending attacks, phone calls, pamphlets and warning shots. In many cases missions were aborted because civilians were identified dangerously close to the target. What other army do that?
Whereas Israel is conducting itself carefully so as not to harm civilians, Hamas acts in flagrant violation of international law and with utter disregard for human life, whether Israeli or Palestinian. It has systematically been committing a double war crime, by deliberately targeting Israeli civilians while using its own civilian population for cover.
Indeed, Hamas has perfected the "human shield" tactic, hiding weapons and terrorists in hospitals, schools and mosques. In at least two instances UNRWA found missiles hidden in its schools, and journalists reported having seen Hamas leaders hiding in the Shifa hospital. In addition, Hamas has urged and even forced civilians to remain where fighting takes place, to deter Israel from attacking.
Israel has agreed to the Egyptian brokered ceasefire of July 15th, but Hamas rejected it. Israel approved two humanitarian windows to ease the burden on the civilian population in Gaza, but Hamas broke the ceasefire in both occasions.
In light of all this, Hamas is solely responsible for any civilian casualties on either side of the Israel-Gaza border.
So our learned colleagues you have sinned by omission:
1. You omitted to mention the brutal kidnapping of three Israeli youth by Hamas in the west bank (by orders from the headquarters in Gaza) and their brutal murder.
2. You omitted to mention that hundreds of thousand innocent civilians around Gaza and as far as 40 Km from Gaza were, for 14 years targeted by missiles from Gaza. For the last 15 days. Five million people were threatened by missiles..
3. You omitted to mention that Hamas Terrorist organization spent hundreds of millions in smuggling and manufacturing missiles to be launched at civilians, using the Gaza civilians as protection for their weapons. Instead of building housed, hospitals, clinics, schools and other civil institutions, they buried (literally) all this money in the ground.
4. You also omitted to mention the tunnels dug underground from neighborhoods in Gaza into Israel's Kibbutzim on the Gaza border for the sole purpose of massacring as many innocent (intentionally) and kidnapping as many as they can.
5. You omitted to mention that three humanitarian cease fires accepted by Israel were broken by the terrorists of Hamas.
6. You did not mention the fact that the field hospital built on the Israeli side of the Gaza border (near Erez crossing), to help and treat wounded civilian Palestinians, is standing empty and is a target of mortar bombs fired by those who claim to care for their civilians.
7. You preferred to ignore the reason for a blockade on Gaza. The smuggling of weapons and missiles aimed to kill as many Israeli civilians.
8. The Authors omitted the fact that Israel's ground offensive was launched for the reason to save the life of uninvolved by targeting terrorists only. The terrorists chose to hide behind civilians, use hospitals, schools Mosques and UNRWA institutions as their headquarters, centers of arms and launching pads for their missiles. UNRWA launched its own investigation after the discovery of missiles arsenal in two of their schools.
9. No army in the world warned people before attack. The Hamas threatened its own people not to leave their homes or they (the Hamas terrorists) will blow it up themselves. The bombing of Wafaa hospital in Shagaiya was done after four days of calls to the Director of the hospital and the assurance that the hospital was vacated. There is a large amount of footage showing terrorists shooting from the hospital at the Israeli soldiers and using the building as their headquarters.
10. The only lifeline to Gaza before the beginning of this war was Israel. Water, gas, electricity, medical supplies, food. Israel continue sending supplies while the fire is still raging. (2, see attached).
P.S. One of the authors, MG, days after the atrocity of Septmber 11, 2001, in an interview for the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet , when asked "Do you support a terror attack against the USA?," Gilbert replied, "Terror is a bad weapon but the answer is yes within the context which I have mentioned."
This is not the first time The Lancet takes an unjustified stand against Israel (3,4). We hope the Journal will publish the view of the other side as well.
Eitan Israeli, Shaul Amir, Yehuda Shoenfeld
1. Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert,
Swee Ang, on behalf of 24 signatories. An open letter for the
people in Gaza. Lancet 2014; Published online July 22, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(14)61044-8/
2. http://www.cogat.idf.il/ Sip_Storage/FILES/2/4512.pdf
3. Ciechanover A, Shoenfeld Y, Shemer Y, Eidelman L, Borow M. Response to health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory [Letter]. Lancet 2011; 378: e1
4. Israeli E. Shoenfeld Y. The Lancet against Israel Isr Med Assoc J. 2013L15:2.
Attachments: The Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip:
Detailed Information on Humanitarian Supplies transferred into Gaza today, July 23
List of goods entering Gaza through Kerem Shalom Crossing:
Quantity Food Gas Fuel & Diesel Total trucks
*1 *2 *3
Tons/liters 2,120 tons 109 tons 610,000
liters 2,230 tons
610,000 liters
Trucks/
tankers 106 5 17 128
*1 – Food products, mainly Jordanian Aid
*2 – Gas for home use (cooking)
*3 – Fuel for the electricity power plant, and diesel for public transportation, including for the use by UNRWA
It looks like ceasefire is around the corner. I am not sure how long it will last. Israel is still vague about its intentions and for once, we are initiators and not responders. It is now for us to make the decisions, agree or disagree and make sure that our conditions are heard and understood.
Today, I called one of my old friends from Nachal Oz. Daum was with me in the group that went to kibbutz Nachal Oz, I left the kibbutz when I got married and he is still there. I called him as I got a message from BBC, that they want to talk with me. In the conversation, the reporter asked me to help her get a a video diary like account, of somebody from the south.
As it happen, my friend recorded every day in the last month. He will send it to me and I will pass it over to the BBC. I told the reporter that we have a very bad experience with the BBC, and I hope that this time, she'd better not let me down and report objectively (Maybe I am naive).
Daum told me that the devastation is beyond belief. It is not the damage to houses in the Kibbutz ("only" three houses damaged) but 50 years of hard labor in the fields, 50 years of land reclamation that were destroyed under the chains of the tanks, cannons, tracks and armored vehicles. All the irrigation systems that were destroyed, all the fields that can not be prepared for the winter sowing. Kibbutz Nachal Oz is depending on agriculture. It's milk production is one of the highest in Israel and in the world. Not lately though, every trauma to the milking cows affects the milk production and the cows there, as he says, going crazy with the noise of the shelling on our part and the rockets and missiles from the Palestinian side, thus their milk production is much lower and it has economic effect.
His daughter and two grand kids left the kibbutz a month ago. They were about to be accepted as full members to the kibbutz. They are now reconsidering their decision. They are afraid that maybe, just maybe, there is another tunnel leading to the kibbutz, which is only 400 yards from the border fence.
The compensation the Government agreed on is 80% of their last year's income. No way that can compensate all the above mentioned damage done to the yielding fields.
My heart is going out to them, I am heart broken and yet this side of the war is never told. Maybe this post will shed some light on the plight of my friends on the border of Gaza.
If the ceasefire will hold, this will be my last daily post on the operation in Gaza.
At 7:56, the sires went off and we went to the secure room for what we hope, was the last time for now.
The Hamas was beaten but not defeated. It lost by points but not by K.O. Many of the Hamas abilities are now weakened, 32 tunnels (one of their strategic abilities to terrorize Israel) were destroyed. Their rockets could not penetrate the Iron dome and enabled Israel to strategize its moves without the pressure of mass casualties or mass devastation. The Hamas leadership is underground and will most likely stay there for the foreseeable future.
On the down side, our standing in the world is at the moment, rock bottom. Demonstrations against Israel are gathering momentum and are turning anti Jewish and Antisemitic. The Human Rights Agency decided to establish an investigating committee to investigate crimes against humanity done by Israel during the operation. They will not investigate crimes against humanity performed by Hamas such as using people as human shield, launching rockets at civilians without discrimination and more. I am sure that we will persevere and achieve what we aim to achieve, security and quiet time for the citizens of the south of Israel and all its citizens.
The Israeli delegation will leave for Egypt tonight to discuss long term settlement. I hope that the rare alignment between past adversaries will bring an acceptable settlement which will include the beginning of demilitarization of Gaza (which is going to be very difficult if not impossible), control over the use of materials brought to Gaza to make sure it is used for Gaza's rehabilitation and not the rebuilding of Hamas's terror abilities and cessation of use of any means to terrorize Israel.
As I am writing this post it is still quiet and it looks like it will remain quiet at least for the agreed 72 hours.
Let us all hope and pray that this is the beginning of the end and not the end of the beginning.
And I was hoping that my next post could be about love, friendship and a better world.
All of the elements were in the right place. Hamas beaten but not defeated (so they can save face), Egypt as a mediator (although hates the Hamas), the American support and remote participation and the Saudi silent backing. It looks like the assumption that the Hams irrational behavior is their rational. So far it does not look like Israel will go on ground offence for now. At the same time, Israel's negotiating team left Egypt an hour before the end of the ceasefire when it was obvious that the Hamas will resume fire in order not to even seem like negotiating under fire. Israel tried to contain the attacks to a certain degree, but after 20 rockets and Mortar bombs, it retaliated and still does.
The Islamic Jihad is trying to move the attention from Hamas by claiming responsibility for the shooting. They cannot fool anybody (perhaps some of the Europeans will buy it). The fact is that the ceasefire held for 72 hours just because Hamas imposed its will on all the other functions and rogue organization.
I hope that the world that is so quick to blame Israel for all the atrocities on earth will open its eyes.
I hope that the world who keeps on focusing its anger on Israel will open its eyes and look at northern Iraq where a genocide of non Muslims is performed by ISIS; to Syria, where over a thousand deaths a week is a "normal" death toll; to northern Lebanon where ISIS is fighting the Lebanese and are threatening to conquer Lebanon.
All of a sudden, our problem seems small, doesn't it? But it believe me , it is not. The Hamas and ISIS are two of the same, motivated by sick murderous and bloody extreme ideology that will not let off until it fulfills its goal, a creation of a Muslim Caliphate which will eventually rule the world.
I spoke to a friend from Kfar Azah who made a beautiful documentary about the life of her family under fire. The film is called, "Border Living" it is 54? minutes long. She tried to enter it to Film Festivals and the reply she got was, we can't accept it as we do not have the "other side". The documentary is totally apolitical, has no leaning to the right or to the left, only describes the life of one family with kids in an impossible situation.
If any of you, my friends, have any access, influence or ability to show this documentary, please let me know and I will refer you to Ronit Iferrgan. You can Google her or the name of the Documentary and get more information.
Well, that is all for now. Let's hope that my nest posts will be all about love and not war.
Shabbat Shalom and I mean it literally!!!
Here we go again. 72 more hours of ceasefire as from 12:00 am Israel time. No body knows if it will hold. In the last couple of days, the terrorists kept on launching rockets. This time around Gaza and "only" as far as Ashkelon. They wanted to bring Israel to the negotiation table under "war of attrition" of our southern citizens. Israel withdrew the negotiation team from Cairo on Friday morning, knowing that the first ceasefire of 72 hours declared on a Tuesday, will not be extended and broken by Hamas as it did, and refused to negotiate under fire. The Hamas washes its hands off from the rocket launching in the last couple of days, saying that it is the Islamic Jihad and other rogue organization, trying this way to eat the cake and have it at the same time. This time Israel did not fall for it and will continue the talks only when total quiet will be fully implemented.
Today Israel had to close the only gateway of humanitarian aid to the citizens of Gaza, the Kerem Shalom passage. The terrorists kept on firing at the vicinity of the gate, and thus threatening the lives of the people working there to bring relief items to Gaza. Go figure!!!
Meanwhile the world is slowly waking up to the global threat of ISIS (now it is only IS which stands for Islamic State). The US is the first to do something to stop them from slaughtering tens of thousands of non Muslims or even non extreme fundamentalists Muslims. It looks like GB will join and maybe, just maybe, more will join to stop this growing threat from spreading and change life as we know it and would like it to be.
Perhaps the biased magnifying glass, which the world is looking at Israel through, will now, for a change, turn in another direction.
Let's all hope that the ceasefire will hold this time more than 72 hours and lead to a new order in our beaten and painful region.
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Shaul Amir has served two terms as Shaliach to the Denver area from Israel, the most recent combined with directing Allied Jewish Federation's Israel Center from 2002 to 2007. He and his wife Kika now live outside Tel Aviv and enjoy welcoming visitors from Colorado to Israel.
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Ex Scientology Kids • View topic - OSA Targeting Emma?
and took pictures of her house and car, and rifled through her mail.
felonies and to gain a conviction.
the world of their criminal fair game tactics.
Alanzo, please read the rules of the Harassment forum before you post here.
However, since I would have made a post about this myself, it stays.
Yeah Kendra. I knew about the rules, but I also would have posted this as Emma is ESMB in my mind and so she's family.
So when I saw it, I just let it be too.
Tru2form wrote: Alanzo, please read the rules of the Harassment forum before you post here.
I was very excited. I'm a very excitable boy. I didn't know. And I probably couldn't help it even if I did.
No worries, hun. Any fair game of Emma is a fair game of ESK. Period.


The People's Bank of China (PBoC) is reportedly considering a blanket ban on ICOs if lawmakers find "large risks" to consumers.
According to reports from a meeting earlier this month by local news outlet Tencent, the PBoC is actively assessing possible limits on ICO activities in China.
A source told the publication that the meeting included participation from the country's Securities and Futures Commission, and Banking Regulatory Commission among others.
Among the tools under consideration are controlling the size of ICOs, beefing up requirements for disclosure of information and more overt warnings about the risks associated with investing.
"In addition, if a large risk is found (for investors), the regulator will suspend all activities associated with ICOs and address them," Tencent stated.
The warnings echo a similar tone from the PBoC on cryptocurrency exchanges themselves earlier this year. After investigatory measures, regulators shut down Chinese exchanges for multiple weeks in order to put new legislative framework in place.
While exchanges are now compliant with demands, ICOs still operate in a legal gray area in China, which has led to warnings over the potential punishments for those participating in sales not to authorities' liking.
The PBoC gave notice of its intention to regulate the ICO market in June.


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Gossip Girl To Stop Being Polite, Start Getting Real
The only thing that surprises us about the upcoming debut of NYC Prep, Bravo's not-so-thinly-veiled reality version of Gossip Girl, is that it took this long for them to roll out the idea. As early disciples of Josh Schwartz (btw, congrats on your wedding!) will recall, it was GG forerunner The O.C. that originally begat The Real Orange County: Laguna Beach, thus kicking off the "quasi-reality based on fiction" craze. Now the network that spawned The Real Housewives of [Insert Location] is poised to bring us a show that promises a peek into the lives of real Upper East Side prepsters and the public school outcasts that circle them. The show won't premiere until June 23, but Hulu just put up a twenty-minute sneak peek, and we have to say, it's good.
There are so many things wrong with this preview and the world it represents — the sex, the drugs, the entitlement, the girls' mistaken delusion that they can rock Blake Lively-style super-long hair — and naturally, we can't wait for more.
It's clear to us that PC is channeling Chuck, what with his decadent dastardliness, but Sebastien also seems to fit the Bass mold. Meanwhile, every tiny brunette has Blair's prim style down, though in terms of social climbing aptitude, we see a little Jenny Humphrey in there too. The lone public school chick? Clearly a female Dan. And then there's the blonde, Jessie, who is neither a Serena, nor a Blair, nor a Jenny. She's not even a Vanessa. No, she reminds us of Orange County's own Lady MacBeth, Julie Cooper. Help us out, which Schwartzian archetypes did we miss?


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One of my important realizations in Human Capital is that there are things that you do at work that matter a lot in a company. Unfortunately, the company neither notices it nor gives value/invest on it.
That's why it's essential to classify tacit (implied) knowledge that contribute to the human capital of the organization. I have classified one useful and common skill that most information security professionals do that is not part of their role and undervalued by the organization yet it contributes a lot in the organization's human capital.
I have examined a common skill by infosec professionals called "Cyber Threat Intelligence" (CTI) where the analysts are proactively look for attacks rather than reacting to it as they happen. They try to predict, analyze, detect and respond to Zero-day attacks too.


The tire company and private label card issuer have been working together to build the reach of the Goodyear credit card. This new phase of their relationship involves taking the card to the next level by adding digital capabilities giving added value to customers and Goodyear dealers.
People who sign up for the Goodyear card can use it to access special offers and finance their tire and service purchases. Cardholders also get mail-in rebate opportunities, and can double them for certain kinds of services and tires during promotional periods at the company's 2,200 locations in the U.S.
Need your tires rotated? You can get that for free with this card along with $5 off oil changes. There is no annual fee for the card, and fraud protection is part of its benefit package, as is ATM access and 24/7 account management.
Citi Retail Services is a unit of Citi which offers customers access to both commercial and consumer credit card products. They provide private label and co-branded products to a wide range of retailers, along with loyalty programs, marketing services and transaction data analytics. Their customers include Sears, Shell, Best Buy, ExxonMobil and Macy's.
Goodyear is well-known tire company founded by Frank Seiberling in Akron, Ohio, in 1898. They employ about 67,000 people while manufacturing their products in 50 facilities located in 22 countries around the world.


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package org.vasttrafik.wso2.carbon.community.api.beans;

import java.util.List;

import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;

/**
 *
 * @author Lars Andersson
 *
 */
public final class Member  {

	public enum StatusEnum {inactive,  active,  probation, banned, deleted};

	@NotNull(message = "{member.id.notnull}")
	private Integer id = null;
	@NotNull(message = "{member.username.notnull}")
	private String userName;
	@NotNull(message = "{member.email.notnull}")
	private String email = null;
	private StatusEnum status = null;
	private Boolean showEmail = null;
	private String signature = null;
	private Boolean useGravatar = null;
	private String gravatarEmail = null;
	private String gravatarEmailHash = null;
	private Boolean acceptAllMessages = null;
	private Boolean notifyEmail = null;
	private Boolean notifyMessage = null;
	private Boolean notifyText = null;
	private Boolean showRankings = null;
	private List<MemberRanking> rankings = null;

	/**
	 * User id
	 **/
	public Integer getId() {
		return id;
	}

	public void setId(Integer id) {
		this.id = id;
	}

	public String getUserName() {
		return userName;
	}

	public void setUserName(String userName) {
		this.userName = userName;
	}

	/**
	 * User email
	 **/
	public String getEmail() {
		return email;
	}

	public void setEmail(String email) {
		this.email = email;
	}

	/**
	 * The status of the user: INACTIVE, ACTIVE, PROBATION, BANNED, DELETED
	 **/
	public StatusEnum getStatus() {
		return status;
	}

	public void setStatus(StatusEnum status) {
		this.status = status;
	}

	/**
	 * Whether the email of the user should be displayed
	 **/
	public Boolean getShowEmail() {
		return showEmail;
	}

	public void setShowEmail(Boolean showEmail) {
		this.showEmail = showEmail;
	}

	/**
	 * Signature to use
	 **/
	public String getSignature() {
		return signature;
	}

	public void setSignature(String signature) {
		this.signature = signature;
	}

	/**
	 * Whether to use Gravatar
	 **/
	public Boolean getUseGravatar() {
		return useGravatar;
	}

	public void setUseGravatar(Boolean useGravatar) {
		this.useGravatar = useGravatar;
	}

	/**
	 * The Gravatar email of the user
	 **/
	public String getGravatarEmail() {
		return gravatarEmail;
	}

	public void setGravatarEmail(String gravatarEmail) {
		this.gravatarEmail = gravatarEmail;
	}

	/**
	 * The Gravatar email hash of the user
	 **/
	public String getGravatarEmailHash() {
		return gravatarEmailHash;
	}

	public void setGravatarEmailHash(String gravatarEmailHash) {
		this.gravatarEmailHash = gravatarEmailHash;
	}

	/**
	 * Whether private messages is enabled
	 **/
	public Boolean getAcceptAllMessages() {
		return acceptAllMessages;
	}

	public void setAcceptAllMessages(Boolean acceptAllMessages) {
		this.acceptAllMessages = acceptAllMessages;
	}

	/**
	 * Whether the user should be notified by email
	 **/
	public Boolean getNotifyEmail() {
		return notifyEmail;
	}

	public void setNotifyEmail(Boolean notifyEmail) {
		this.notifyEmail = notifyEmail;
	}

	/**
	 * Whether the user should be notified by internal message
	 **/
	public Boolean getNotifyMessage() {
		return notifyMessage;
	}

	public void setNotifyMessage(Boolean notifyMessage) {
		this.notifyMessage = notifyMessage;
	}

	/**
	 * Whether the text should be included in notifications
	 **/
	public Boolean getNotifyText() {
		return notifyText;
	}

	public void setNotifyText(Boolean notifyText) {
		this.notifyText = notifyText;
	}

	public Boolean getShowRankings() {
		return showRankings;
	}

	public void setShowRankings(Boolean showRankings) {
		this.showRankings = showRankings;
	}

	/**
	 * The user rankings
	 **/
	public List<MemberRanking> getRankings() {
		return rankings;
	}

	public void setRankings(List<MemberRanking> rankings) {
		this.rankings = rankings;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString()  {
		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
		sb.append("class User {\n");
		sb.append("  id: ").append(id).append("\n");
		sb.append("  userName: ").append(userName).append("\n");
		sb.append("  email: ").append(email).append("\n");
		sb.append("  status: ").append(status).append("\n");
		sb.append("  showEmail: ").append(showEmail).append("\n");
		sb.append("  signature: ").append(signature).append("\n");
		sb.append("  useGravatar: ").append(useGravatar).append("\n");
		sb.append("  gravatarEmail: ").append(gravatarEmail).append("\n");
		sb.append("  acceptAllMessages: ").append(acceptAllMessages).append("\n");
		sb.append("  notifyEmail: ").append(notifyEmail).append("\n");
		sb.append("  notifyMessage: ").append(notifyMessage).append("\n");
		sb.append("  notifyText: ").append(notifyText).append("\n");
		sb.append("  rankings: ").append(rankings).append("\n");
		sb.append("}\n");
		return sb.toString();
	}

	public static Member getDefault() {
		Member member = new Member();
		member.userName = "";
		member.email = "";
		member.status = StatusEnum.inactive;
		member.showEmail = Boolean.FALSE;
		member.signature = "";
		member.useGravatar = Boolean.FALSE;
		member.gravatarEmail = "";
		member.acceptAllMessages = Boolean.FALSE;
		member.notifyEmail = Boolean.TRUE;
		member.notifyMessage = Boolean.FALSE;
		member.notifyText = Boolean.FALSE;
		member.showRankings = Boolean.FALSE;
		return member;
	}
}

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She knows how to rock an award show.
She'll think about shaking your hand, Nick Jonas.
Even if you're the world's biggest music fan, the Grammy Awards can be tough to get through. Three hours of awards, speeches, performances and endless clapping is quite a stretch to endure.
Thankfully, this year we had Blue Ivy Carter (rocking a Prince getup, no less) in the front row, hanging out with her dad Jay Z, taking in mom Beyoncé's performance, showing off her sparkly purse and ducking into James Corden's "Sweet Caroline" moment.
Let's recap the night — which was really Blue's night, if we're being honest — with some of our favorite moving images from GIPHY.
First, she made sure to stand up and clap for her mom's performance.
Jay Z made sure she was watching when her mom won Best Urban Contemporary Album.
She also made sure to show off her cool sparkly purse to her friend.
Thanks for making us smile, Blue!


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I read with interest on Kingston Council's website the intentions of the council to introduce the powers to sack bad councillors.
This announcement is no more than political manoeuvering in the face of many residents' massive dissatisfaction with and growing distrust of the way the council is run in Kingston.
It pays only lip service to the need for councillors to act properly.
It does not give residents the right to call a petition to remove councillors because they have failed to follow the code of conduct, or because they have failed to make decisions where the rationale for such decisions is clear, including showing that information that shows how residents' and other stakeholders' concerns have been addressed.
The grounds for calling a petition thus avoid many of the reasons why residents in Kingston may currently want to call a petition for the removal of a councillor.
I also take issue with the need for 33 per cent of residents in a ward to sign a petition to remove a councillor.
In the case of whether Tim Dennen should have been removed as councillor, Kevin Davis implied in an article in the Surrey Comet (Total recall, July 11, 2014) that it was hard enough to get 10 per cent of people to become engaged with such an issue.
I believe that a 33 per cent turnout in a non-local or national election would be almost impossible to achieve.
Why not make it so that 10 per cent or even fewer of a ward's residents need to sign a recall petition to get rid of a councillor, with a much wider ability for residents to call a petition in the first place?
Otherwise, it will never happen.
This is not democracy, it is playing with power.


Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a multi-project marine seismic 3D and 4D acquisition contract by Shell International Exploration & Production.
The contract covers four separate surveys, three in the North Sea and one off the coast of Western Australia.
In the North Sea, the Polar Empress will execute a 4D survey on the Ormen Lange field of Norway and 3D surveys on the Greeves and Blue Water fields in the UK sector.
The Ormen Lange 4D project will be Shearwater's first at the field and is a large 1000 km2 survey with 16 streamers over a period of two months starting late Q2.
The Greeves and Blue Water 3D surveys will take approximately one month to complete, using FlexiSource triple source technology.
In Western Australia, the Polar Duchess will execute the Factory 3D survey over a two month period covering over 3,000 km2. The project will start in the second half of 2019.
The surveys are expected to provide a total of five vessel-months of utilization in 2019, the company noted.
Posted on April 11, 2019 with tags acquisition, seismic, Shearwater, Shell.


If a VST makes use of the GPU it will continue to do so in Reason. I'd expect Reason to make use of GPU rendering for REs. Would be a pointless waste of CPU otherwise.
No Reason does not, only VST pushes this. My GPU is being used since VST was used in Reason. The Props didn't know about this btw. Kinda weird.
In know Ableton has made the decision for Live 10 to use only the integrated card. A silly idea imo. But thankfully gfxCardStatus is a wonderful control tool for overriding this.
The Props are working on solving these performance issues. So I am waiting on that one.
Hidlide sounds a little depressed, hope I am wrong. The video was very vague imo.
Hm...if he is talking about leaving...thats weird.
Tbh, if PH did not added VST support, i had left Reason maybe 6 months later in the past. There was just too much stuff out there, that was for free or freaking cheap and could be used, that was easily more worth than the price of a new DAW. And i am eying Ableton Live since a while now too and Max aswell - i want the live feature, automation and sample editing and i remember, i worked freaking fast in Live.
My new computer works quite well, but the crackling here and there on my pretty fast new CPU is a bit weird.
... and I need 40 watts more power.
GeForce GTX 980M is the highest performance GPU for MXM graphics module designs available on the market.
There's a lot of uncertainty out there about using liquid metal. Manufacturers sells thermal paste that you can compare to the performance of dental products. We use thermal-grizzly Kryonaut thermal grease.
There's a lot of uncertainty out there about using liquid metal.
Not to digress, but I didn't know there was any uncertainty about using liquid metal for a thermal compound to improve heat transfer to your cooling solution? De-lidding Intel CPU's and replacing the cheap thermal paste with liquid metal has been a thing for some time (Intel was using cheap thermal paste between their lids and the CPU cores up until the new line that just came out). I know it's pretty popular in the mod scene, anyway.
Hey, did it improve things for you?
I think that's because pc monitors don't use anything else but RGB.
Just posted about this in another topic. Definitely worked for me, improved lag, overall stability, and most importantly stopped my fans from running like crazy (used to happen after 30-40 mins usage). Haven't pushed it to any limit yet, but it's stopped the fan noise which was really bothersome to me.
I came across this video for PC users to dedicate the GPU to Apps. I tried it and it made the tiniest little bit of an improve, I mean the tiniest little bit. Hope it helps others more so.
Reason uses the CPU to render graphics by default.. is there a way to change that?
What Version/OS Build of Windows are you running?
GPU doesn't do much performance wise but does protect your system from glitching when using low latency.
I updated my windows to 1809 and the setting appeared.
Although Reason still uses CPU to render the graphics, so I don't see any improvement.
In my eternal quest to improve Reason perfomance I found this article which explains realtime audio performance and optimization in the best way I've seen so far.
Using the tweaks mentioned here I was able to get a performance gain of around 5% in my system. Not much, but everything helps.
Graphics performance is my biggest (possibly only) problem I have with Reason. Most rack extensions that have some kind of display (ColoringEQ, Shape, Optic etc.) use more cycles to get displayed than to process the audio and often the difference is drastic. It is not uncommon a RE to eat up to 20+ percent when displayed, which get reduced to 1-5% immediately after minimizing or encapsulating the plugin in a combinator. I never had this problem in other DAWs except with very few VSTs (some of the Waves and ABL Pro comes to my mind). In Reason even displaying the spectrum analyzer or some of the players eats a lot of CPU. I don't see the VST performance optimization as important as the general GPU optimizations. For me these CPU spikes makes the application barely useable for anything more than creating a collection of cool loops because after dropping few instruments (which are lighter on the CPU) I am barely left with any resources to star working on transitions and mixing. I am forced to render early which closes too many creative doors while arranging. I really do hope to see some progress in this area.
This is currently also my main issue with Reason. You should try to excessively use the Block feature (a feature, i really like). It doesn't take much and the whole sequencer starts to get sloppy just for scrolling through... or when you move the dividers. Moving all the rendering stuff to the GPU would save us alot cpu power for actually more important stuff like audio processing. Also, a buttery smooth DAW just makes more fun to work with... I hope this will be addressed, soon.
Please don't, I am going insane here cause I can't finish song's. I just want to put music out.


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Pink Floyd stream Welcome To The Machine video
Pink Floyd are streaming video of "Welcome To The Machine", a track from their 1975 album, "Wish You Were Here."
Directed by Gerald Scarfe, the animated clip was featured as a backdrop film for when the band played the song on its 1977 In the Flesh tour in support of the follow-up record, "Animals."
The tune also appeared as the b-side to the single, "Have A Cigar", which included lead vocals by UK folk singer Roy Harper.
Pink Floyd will release the vinyl debut of their 2011 compilation "A Foot In The Door: The Very Best Of Pink Floyd" on September 28.
With songs personally selected by members of the legendary UK band, the career-spanning set features some of the group's best-known tunes, including "Money", "Wish You Were Here", "Comfortably Numb", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Learning To Fly."
Originally released in 2011 on CD only, the songs have been newly-mastered for vinyl by longstanding Pink Floyd associate James Guthrie, with assistance from Joel Plante.
The 2-LP version features the reinstated version of "Time", with the ringing alarm clocks at the start of the track restored, after they were omitted on the CD release.
Pink Floyd stream video for 1967 single See Emily Play
Pink Floyd stream video for debut 1967 single Arnold Layne
Pink Floyd stream video for rare 1983 single
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Tests find some early Arizona hemp crops contain too much THC
PHOENIX - Arizona's budding hemp-growing industry is suffering growing pains as levels of THC that are too high force some farmers to destroy crops instead of harvesting them.
About 41% of the Arizona hemp plants tested for THC, the compound that gives marijuana its high, have failed, according to the Arizona Department of Agriculture's Plant Services Division, which oversees the program.
Growers in other states around the country have had issues managing the THC content of hemp plants, with crops in Hawaii and Nebraska also testing too high, but not as much as in Arizona's early months, the Arizona Republic reported.
Arizona began issuing hemp-growing licenses to farmers in 2019 and harvesting started later that year.
When lawmakers considered legalizing hemp growing, supporters predicted that the plant use to create CBD oil, rope and other products would an economic boom.
But growers face a challenge in managing crops because the hemp must be destroyed, not harvested if the THC level is too high.
"At 40%, that's off the charts," Sully Sullivan, executive director of the Hemp Industry Trade Association of Arizona, said of the state's THC findings. "I'm taken aback by that. That's substantial."
A Plant Services Division official had a milder assessment.
"The failure rate is not unexpected based on anecdotal information from around the country regarding variable seed quality and genetic expression, for THC content, between the varieties planted," Associate Director John Caravetta said in an email.
Arizona farmers began having the agriculture department test their hemp plants for THC levels before harvesting started in late 2019.
Dustin Shill, head farmer for Arizona Hemp Supply Co. which has 40 acres (16 hectares) in Yuma, said although his plants haven't yet been tested by the department, he's paid for weekly independent testing. His last batch of 10 tests cost $12,000.
"It's a high-risk deal," Shill said. "Right now, it's just a shot in the dark really. It's crazy."
Not spending the money to test is too risky, he said, even though testing costs reduce profits.
"But if you don't spend that money and go into it blind, you're just rolling the dice. You got to know when to harvest," Shill said.
"The THC and CBD go hand-in-hand," he said. "When it's going up, THC is going up, so it's a fine line to determine when it's ready."


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Axial Base Moorings VISIONS14
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ROPOS uses rebar "staples" to secure the hydrophone cable into the seafloor at the Axial Base site. The hydrophone is mounted on the pink tripod on the right side of the frame.
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ROPOS attaching a line to the flotation sphere at the top of the deep profiler mooring at Axial Base, prior to recovery to fix a connector problem.
When working at sea, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan. Even on the most successful cruises, there are always one or two unexpected events that intervene. Weather is the most common confounding factor; if the weather doesn't cooperate, there's not much you can do except ride it out and wait for a break. But often when the weather gods smile on you and deliver idyllic weather, then you end up with a hydraulic problem on the ROV, or a broken winch, or a malfunctioning sensor, or a kraken attack (one of those might not be real). The true test of an oceangoing team is their ability to roll with the punches and improvise on the fly.
In this case, the complicated deep profiler mooring deployment went off without a hitch, the weather is gorgeous, and the ROPOS ROV is operating perfectly. Unfortunately, when it came time to plug the seafloor cable into the mooring's junction box (through which power and data pass), the sockets wouldn't cooperate. Despite several hours of fruitless attempts, no amount of force, leverage, or changes in angle would make the two connectors mate together. Eventually the effort had to be abandoned, and we moved on to the rest of the dive objectives. While ROPOS installed a seismometer, hydrophone, current meter, CTD tripod, and pressure sensor (and took water samples to be analyzed onboard), the science and engineering teams put their heads together to come up with a contingency plan.
The ultimate decision was to have ROPOS return to the Thompson and begin operations to recover the profiler mooring so that the connector problem could be diagnosed and repaired, and the mooring returned to the seafloor. This was a hard call to make, because the profiler is moving up and down on the wire, the mooring is extremely heavy and long, and recovering and redeploying will take up valuable ship days that were supposed to be devoted to more deployments. But a cost/benefit analysis showed that it was more advantageous to try to take advantage of the weather and onboard engineering expertise to try to fix this problem now before moving on to another site. Cruise objectives further down the line will be reshuffled and the schedule will be changed, but we have high hopes that this mooring will be operational soon and we can return to port with the vast majority of this leg's objectives fulfilled.
The other test of a successful team is the ability to remain positive in the face of adversity. In this case we have a highly skilled and optimistic group onboard the Thompson, who will keep working their hardest to meet the cruise objectives, finish construction of the OOI cabled array, and begin delivering new and exciting ocean data to the world.


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Chapter 228: Think Carefully
The porcelain, white as snow skin that was breakable just by simply blowing or playing with it, was a faceful of collagen covered with a layer of lovely fluff. The facial features were exquisite and beautiful to the extreme. The long hair like seaweed spread on his body, between the bed, even if they were still asleep, it also gave people a fresh and amazing feeling.
They had forgotten to close the curtains before going to bed last night and at this moment, the fine morning breeze blew in from the gap at the window, blowing up the soft hair and sweeping it on his neck, causing waves of itching.
Seeing the delicate and tender peach of immortality right in front of him and in his arms, exuding bursts of fragrance, he could only shut his mouth as he could not eat…
This feeling was simply tougher than endurance training.
Suddenly, the person in his arms moved. She, who had been quietly nestled in his arms, had now comfortably put her legs on his body, and her small head moved quickly to his chest, body also moving slightly. This whole person was leaning on him like an octopus.
Chi Yang's bit his alveolar, holding back.
He had thought this was already the limit and was working to endure it until it passed, but the cat-like person of his sleep was constantly twisting in a daze.
Chi Yang felt himself sweating.
Seeing that the little girl was about to wake up, Chi Yang quickly moved his body a little bit without leaving any signs,giving her a comfortable position where she could hug.
Seeing that she had smashed her mouth and was again steadily asleep, he felt relieved.
Chi Yang stretched his not-slept-on hand to the bedside table, an invisible force extending along the bedside table to the wall and the window.
Then, the curtain, which was originally opened, started to close slowly under the drive of this force, until the light outside was completely blocked.
The girl who was still on the verge of awakening, had now fallen asleep again.
After that, Chi Yang kept looking at the little wife who was lying on him.
Although his little wife's face was on his chest, all he could see was the long algae-like hair, but he just thought it was pretty.
The sight was so good looking that he wondered if his little wife was just that beautiful, that flowers would from her head with a "pop" when she fell asleep.
At six o'clock, Zhong Nuannuan's biological clock woke her up on time.
Before waking up completely, her brows were already furrowed.
She liked to sleep on soft beds, not hard beds. But today the bed was too hard and it made her feel pain.
Her consciousness still in chaos, Zhong Nuannuan stretched out and was about to roll around, but then fell off immediately.
Although she only fell from on top of Chi Yang to the bed, the sudden free fall still made Zhong Nuannuan recover suddenly as she hugged Chi Yang quickly.
At this moment, Zhong Nuannuan's consciousness was completely clear.
But when she saw herself being like an octopus, hugging her brother Chi Yang with both her hands and feet, she was embarrassed.
It was clear that they had been husband and wife for six years in their previous life, but they had never been so close. At this moment, the two embraced each other, no, she woke up holding him and everything was so beautiful.
He was glancing at her who still had tightly closed eyes and was breathing evenly, but when she suddenly hugged him hard, Zhong Nuannuan's eyebrows were full of happy smiles.
It felt good to see them by their side when they woke up.
Seeing that Chi Yang had not properly woken up, Zhong Nuannuan did not want to get off him, so she laid on him comfortably. After a while, she moved her position slightly and pressed her ears to where his heart was.
Ba dump, ba dump, ba dump
Listening to the strong heartbeat in his chest, Zhong Nuannuan's lips could not help but rise into a happy smile.
Having been abducted and sold into such a dark world, she had crawled out of the bones with her abilities and established her own kingdom.
Obviously, she had missed this peerless good man, but she could in that regret filled moment to make everything restart again.
She felt that she really had an open life.
And this strong and powerful heartbeat was the bell that rang in a new chapter in her life.
Just like a cat lying on Chi Yang's heart and listening to his heartbeat for nearly 10 minutes, Zhong Nuannuan raised her head happily and looked at his sleeping face.
The black hair soaked in darkness, the nose that was as tall as a mountain, eye sockets deep as the sea, thin lips that were slightly pursed, and the firm chin…
These good-looking facial features were perfect and had no boring blemishes that even a strand of hair would be the creator's favorite.
Looking at such good-looking facial features, Zhong Nuannuan had long forgotten that this man was a special forces soldier among the special forces, even more so the chief instructor of said special forces, and that he was recognized as the "god of death."
At this moment, she just wanted to quietly get herself some small welfare while he was still asleep.
So, she could not help reaching out her hand and gently touching his long, thick eyelashes.
The black and long eyelashes swept across the fingertips, ticklish.
After touching his eyelashes, she touched his nose. After touching his nose… Seeing the slightly pursed thin lips, Zhong Nuannuan had a little thought.
This idea came into being and she did just that.
He was asleep anyway. He took two sleeping pills and gave him acupuncture. He definitely would not be waking up that early.
So, when Chi Yang's already about to lose control, he was kissed by his Nuannuan.
Finally, under Zhong Nuannuan's ruthless mischief that did not allow himself to leave in any way, Chi Yang moved.
At this moment, Zhong Nuannuan's spirit returned from her sleep.
What did she do?
F*ck!
Seeing that Chi Yang was about to wake up, Zhong Nuannuan kicked his feet warmly. She groaned, and turned over, then turned her back to Chi Yang while breathing out a long, well-proportioned breath.
Chi Yang's eyes were full of smiles.
He understood that this little girl liked him!
She could kiss him secretly, so he also wanted to do it!
So, Chi Yang gently kissed the face full of collagen.
After being kissed by Chi Yang all of a sudden, Zhong Nuannuan felt from where she was kissed on her face, an electric current instantly sweeping through her body and hitting her heart. Her breathing was a bit messy and her body became stiff.
She thought he knew what she had just done and was about to pretend to wake up again but then she felt the bed becoming lighter as he got out of bed.
Now Zhong Nuannuan woke up embarrassedly, putting herself in the quilt. Leaving only her two nostrils exposed, she closed her eyes tightly, and continued to pretend to sleep.
Chi Yang quickly finished washing up after getting up and then went into the kitchen.
Listening to the sound of oil splattering from the kitchen and the scent of eggs, Zhong Nuannuan's appetite was whetted immediately, quickly got up, and ran to the bathroom to clean herself.
After changing her clothes and coming out, there was already a large table full of rich breakfast.
Chi Yang came out with a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and when he saw Zhong Nuannuan, his eyes were full of indulging smiles.
"You're awake."
"Yeah," Zhong Nuannuan nodded, a little embarrassed. She always felt that Chi Yang's gaze was a bit strange.
"Come and eat. I have arranged for the driver to take you to school at 7:10am."
Zhong Nuannuan sat down and the knife, fork, chopsticks, and spoon were already placed in front of her.
"Time is tight so there was no time to steam the buns or make a few more dishes. Let's eat. When you come over again in a few days, I will steam buns for you in the morning."
"It's already rich enough!"
Looking at this table with milk and cereals, nuts, fried eggs, grilled sausages, a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a big bag of bread, Zhong Nuannuan's stomach was already groaning with hunger.
"Do you want the bread toasted?"
"I will toast a slice for you and you can also eat a slice of white bread to see which tastes more delicious."
"It is good."
"There is jam here."
For jams, her favorites were blueberry, strawberry and orange and Chi Yang understood her preferences very clearly.
"I did acupuncture yesterday, does your head feel better today?"
Chi Yang nodded. "It's better! Not only does my head no longer hurt, but my sleep was also much better. Last night was the best night I've slept in these recent years."
Since the accident at his house when he was the age of eight, he had not been able to fall asleep much. At first, the family hired a hypnotist for him because of his young age, but then he joined the campaign office. There was no way for the place to be like home, so his sleep quality deteriorated.


I did a layered tag as my focal point for this card. I stamped the candles (Happy Everything) in different colors on a tag, tied it to another tag, and adhered it to the card base. I stamped the sentiment (forest Friends) on vellum and adhered it across the card. Thanks for stopping by!


The Global Club is students Grade 4-8 at Ecole Dickinsfield School. We made a survey to see how people felt about the ban before it started and how they're feeling about it now. Akshaya feels it was good to make the bag ban because it helps the environment. Casey's glad that he doesn't see any more plastic bags floating around his neighbourhood.
Fort McMurray, home of 100,000 and a reputation for "Dirty Oil-sands", is now a leader in North America with its Single Use Bag By-Law. On Sept. 1, 2010 all stores (grocery, retail) except for pharmacy, restaurants and liquor stores were prohibited from giving out single use bags. The goal is to reduce garbage.


eD@HoMe: An awesome cover from Kenya!
Today, I would like to share with you a registered cover sent from Kenya to Iceland. This was purchased on the eBay. The skull stamp franked on the left of this cover belongs to the "Origins of Mankind" series, issued in 1982.
Homo erectus (1.5 million years ago), unlike Homo habilis and all of the Australopithecus species, ranged far beyond Africa. Some scientists have split Homo erectus into three separate species, based on the geographic region in which specimens have been found: Homo ergaster (Africa), Homo erectus (Asia), and Homo heidelbergensis (Europe).
Generally, Homo erectus is characterized by large molars, an unpronounced chin, heavy brow ridges, and a long, low skull, relative to modern Homo sapiens. The skeleton of Homo erectus was heavier, or "more robust," than the average modern human skeleton. Body proportions vary greatly from individual to individual. "Turkana Boy" was tall and slender, like modern humans from the same area, while the few limb bones found of "Peking Man" indicate a shorter, sturdier build.
Homo habilis (2 million years ago) has been a controversial species since it was first described in the mid-1960s. Originally, many scientists did not accept its validity, believing that all specimens should be assigned either to the genus Australopithecus or to Homo erectus. Today, Homo habilis is widely accepted as a species.
The second stamp features Daniel arap Moi, ex-President of Kenya (1978-2002). It belongs to a set of four stamps from the "Commonwealth Day" series, issued on 14th March 1983.
Commonwealth Day is the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations (An intergovernmental organisation of 53 independent member states. Most of them were formerly parts of the British Empire) held on the second Monday in March, and marked by a multi-faith service in Westminster Abbey, normally attended by Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth, with the Commonwealth Secretary-General and Commonwealth High Commissioners in London. The Queen delivers an address to the Commonwealth, broadcast throughout the world.
While it has a certain official status, Commonwealth Day is not a public holiday in most Commonwealth countries and there is little public awareness of it.
Next are 2 stamps to commemorate the "World Communications Year" and "30th Anniversary of Customs Co-operation Council" respectively. Both were issued in 1983.


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Dolmayrac est une commune du Sud-Ouest de la France, située dans le département de Lot-et-Garonne (région Nouvelle-Aquitaine).

Géographie

Localisation
Commune située dans l'aire d'attraction de Villeneuve-sur-Lot à 15 km au sud-ouest de Villeneuve-sur-Lot.

Communes limitrophes

Climat
Le climat qui caractérise la commune est qualifié, en 2010, de « climat océanique altéré », selon la typologie des climats de la France qui compte alors huit grands types de climats en métropole. En 2020, la commune ressort du même type de climat dans la classification établie par Météo-France, qui ne compte désormais, en première approche, que cinq grands types de climats en métropole. Il s'agit d'une zone de transition entre le climat océanique et les climats de montagne et le climat semi-continental. Les écarts de température entre hiver et été augmentent avec l'éloignement de la mer. La pluviométrie est plus faible qu'en bord de mer, sauf aux abords des reliefs.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir la typologie de 2010 comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent à la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré ci-après.

Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont évolué. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat complétée par des études régionales prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Ces changements peuvent être constatés sur la station météorologique de Météo-France la plus proche, « Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot », sur la commune de Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot, mise en service en 1989 et qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle est de  et la hauteur de précipitations de  pour la période 1981-2010.
Sur la station météorologique historique la plus proche, « Agen-La Garenne », sur la commune d'Estillac,  mise en service en 1941 et à , la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour la période 1971-2000, à  pour 1981-2010, puis à  pour 1991-2020.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Dolmayrac est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Villeneuve-sur-Lot, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (94,1 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (94,2 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (40,5 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (38,9 %), cultures permanentes (10,3 %), forêts (5,9 %), prairies (4,4 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Risques majeurs
Le territoire de la commune de Dolmayrac est vulnérable à différents aléas naturels : météorologiques (tempête, orage, neige, grand froid, canicule ou sécheresse), mouvements de terrains et séisme (sismicité très faible). Il est également exposé à un risque technologique, la rupture d'un barrage. Un site publié par le BRGM permet d'évaluer simplement et rapidement les risques d'un bien localisé soit par son adresse soit par le numéro de sa parcelle.

Risques naturels
Les mouvements de terrains susceptibles de se produire sur la commune sont des affaissements et effondrements liés aux cavités souterraines (hors mines) et des tassements différentiels. Afin de mieux appréhender le risque d'affaissement de terrain, un inventaire national permet de localiser les éventuelles cavités souterraines sur la commune.

Le retrait-gonflement des sols argileux est susceptible d'engendrer des dommages importants aux bâtiments en cas d'alternance de périodes de sécheresse et de pluie. La totalité de la commune est en aléa moyen ou fort (91,8 % au niveau départemental et 48,5 % au niveau national). Depuis le , en application de la loi ELAN, différentes contraintes s'imposent aux vendeurs, maîtres d'ouvrages ou constructeurs de biens situés dans une zone classée en aléa moyen ou fort.

La commune a été reconnue en état de catastrophe naturelle au titre des dommages causés par les inondations et coulées de boue survenues en 1982, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2003, 2009 et 2016, par la sécheresse en 1989, 2002, 2011 et 2017 et par des mouvements de terrain en 1999.

Risque technologique
La commune est en outre située en aval des barrages de Grandval dans le Cantal et de Sarrans en Aveyron, des ouvrages de classe A. À ce titre elle est susceptible d'être touchée par l'onde de submersion consécutive à la rupture de cet ouvrage.

Toponymie

Histoire
Existence depuis les temps antiques d'une source dite "miraculeuse" :
 De la source d'un petit vallon, celui de Saint-Germain, sortent des eaux ferrugineuses depuis les temps les plus reculés.
 Connue dès l'antiquité, elle a alimenté villas et  thermes de bien des gallo-romains, riches propriétaires du secteur. Ses vertus curatives étaient reconnues sans toutefois lui prêter de vertus surnaturelles.

 Ce mythe de source miraculeuse date précisément du , quand l'armée de Roland, le neveu de Charlemagne, se présente sur place, décimée par une épidémie (probablement une variante de la peste).
 Les hommes arrivent à Laroque-Timbaut où ils entendent parler d'une eau qui guérirait certains maux. Pieux et superstitieux, Roland promet d'élever un édifice si des guérisons ont lieu. Hommes et bêtes s'y désaltèrent, et progressivement les malades se mettent à guérir.
 Rappelant cet fait miraculeux, Charlemagne édifiera une chapelle dédiée à saint Germain.
 Une célébration est encore faite le dernier dimanche de mai, pèlerinage et messe sont organisés à la chapelle de Saint-Germain avec, pour la circonstance, une troupe d'acteurs représentant les paladins de Charlemagne.

Politique et administration

Démographie

Lieux et monuments

 Château de Dolmayrac, château classée au titre des monuments historiques en 1927.
 Église Saint-Orens de Dolmayrac, église classée au titre des monuments historiques en 1927.
 Église Saint-Cyprien au lieu-dit Saint-Cyprien, église ruinée, classée au titre des monuments historiques en 1958.
 Église Saint-Cloud-Saint-Martin de Lamaurelle.
 Église Saint-Michel de Cap de Bausse au lieu-dit Saint-Michel. Elle est inscrite à l'Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de Lot-et-Garonne

Liens externes

 Dolmayrac le site de la commune
 Le Site Officiel de la Mairie de Dolmayrac
 Dolmayrac sur le site de l'Institut géographique national

Notes et références

Notes et cartes
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 Cartes

Références

Dolmayrac
Aire urbaine de Villeneuve-sur-Lot
Aire d'attraction de Villeneuve-sur-Lot

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Syngenta is to launch the insecticide/fungicide seed treatment, CruiserMaxx Alfalfa, in the US this spring. It is a combination of the separately registered fungicides, Apron XL (metalaxyl-M) and Maxim 4S (fludioxonil), and the insecticide, Cruiser 5FS (thiamethoxam), and is the first such product for use on alfalfa, Syngenta notes. The company sells a range of combination seed treatments under the CruiserMaxx brand for use on soybeans, cereals, potatoes, sunflowers and sugar beet ( Agrow No 613, p 21).