Both the 5506-X (rugged version and wireless), and 5508-X now come with a FirePOWER services module inside them. This can be managed from either ASDM* (with OS and ASDM upgraded to the latest version), and via the FireSIGHT management software/appliance.
*UPDATE: All ASA 'Next-Gen' firewalls can now have their Firepower Service Module managed from the ASDM.
1. The first thing to do is cable the management interface and the interface you are going to use as the 'inside' (LAN) into the same network (VLAN).
2. The next step might seem strange if you are used to working with Cisco firewalls, but you need to make sure there is no IP address configured on the management interface. Try to think of it as just the hole that the FirePOWER services module (which will get its own IP) speaks out though.
4. Lets make sure the FirePOWER service module is 'up' and healthy.
5. The SFR module is actually a Linux box that's running within the firewall, to connect to it you issue a 'session sfr' command.
As this is the first time you have entered the SFR you need to page down (press space) though the sizable EULA, then accept it.
available at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/go/warranty.
System initialization in progress. Please stand by.
7. Set up all the IP and DNS settings, then exit from the module session.
Applying 'Default Allow All Traffic' access control policy.
sensor to the Defense Center.
8. Now you need to 'send' traffic though the module, in this case I'm going to send all IP traffic though, I'm also going to set it to 'fail open', If you set it to fail closed then traffic will cease to flow though the firewall if the FirePOWER services module goes off-line. I'm making the assumption you have a default policy-map applied.
9. Add that new class-map to the default policy-map.
11. At this point the firewall should be able to ping the management IP of the SFR module.
12. Now when you connect to the ASDM you can manage the FirePOWER services module.Note: I have seen some firewalls that flatly refuse to connect to the Firepower Services Module, and give an error 'unable to connect on port 443' every time you launch ASDM. I just re-image the module and load in a fresh install (40 mins to an hour), and start again.
If you are lazy like me!
13. I suggest you update everything first, the ASA will configure an access control policy set to allow and inspect all traffic by default, which we will edit, set everything to update on a schedule, (rule updates and geolocation info).
In the box with the firewall, you will have an envelope, you don't need to open it (as below) because the PAK number you need is printed on the outside anyway. This is the firewalls CONTROL LICENCE, it allows it to be managed, we will install it into the ASDM, if you have a SourceFIRE appliance to manage the firewall you would install it there. You need two bits of information the PAK and the LICENCE KEY of the FirePOWER module, (See Below).
The Licence(s) will be emailed to you open them in a text editor and copy the text of each licence. You can see I've indicated below what you should be copying.
Paste that into the ASDM > Submit Licence.
It should say success, if it fails you've pasted to much text, or there's a problem with the licence.
Disclaimer: These settings, (and allotters below,) are to get you up and running, As with any security device, you need to tune settings accordingly. Please don't follow these instructions, then email me with complaints that you been attacked by ISIS/Scammers/Bots etc.
You get an IPS/IDS Licence with any of the subscription based licences, its less hassle to set this up before the the access control policy. Configuration > ASA FirePOWER Configuration > Policies > Intrusion Policy > Create Policy > Give it a name > I tend to use 'Balanced Security and connectivity' look at the other options and choose whichever you prefer > Create and Edit Policy.
Give the policy a name > Commit changes (I accept all the defaults).
Note: Obviously this needs you to have added an AMP Licence!
Configuration > ASA FirePOWER Configuration > Policies > Intrusion Policy > Files > New File Policy > Give it a name > Store FirePOWER Changes.
Add new file rule > I add everything > and Set it to 'Block Malware' > Store FirePOWER Changes.
Warning: Nothing will be inspected, until you add this file policy to an access control policy.
I renamed the default policy, Note: Even though I've called it 'Base-Access-Control-Policy' you can only apply one policy, you just add different rules to the policy as required. Add Rule.
In Source Networks > Add in 'Private Networks' (See Warning Below).
Inspection Tab > Add in the IPS and file policy you created above (That's why I've done it in this order).
I set it to log at the end of the connection > Add.
Private networks only cover RFC1918 addresses, if you LAN/DMZ etc subnets are different you should create a new Network object, then add the subnets for your network. If you do this, then substitute your network object every time I mention the Private Networks object.
Even if you don't have a Web Filtering licence you can block particular URL's here Im going to block access to Facebook. Configuration > ASA FirePOWER Configuration > Object Management > URL > Individual Objects > Add URL > Note Im adding http and https.
Then add a rule to your existing access control policy ABOVE the permit all rule, (they are processed like ACLS from the top down). Set the source network to your private subnets.
On the URLs tab add in your URL objects and set the action to block with reset, or Interactive block with reset if you want to let the users proceed to Facebook after a warning.
Note: If you have a Web filtering Licence you can select 'Social Networking' from the Categories tab, and that would also block Facebook, and Twitter etc.
FirePOWER services behaves the same on-box as it does when you use the SourceFIRE Appliance, you can make changes but nothing gets deployed until you commit the changes. If you have made a change then there will be a 'Store ASA FirePOWER services button active. Then you need to select File > Deploy FirePOWER Changes.
Note: You will only see the Deploy option on SFR modules running 6.0.0 or newer.
Even now its not deployed, it takes a while, to see progress navigate to Monitoring > ASA FirePOWER Monitoring > Task Status > It will probably have a 'running' task.
Wait until the policy deployment says completed before testing.


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Q: What is the best way to write a loop with no body I have a function func which returns true  or false. Until func returns false, I want to keep calling it. What is the least awkward way to do this?
do {
  // do nothing
} while (func());

or..
while (func());

or..
while (func())
  if (!func())
    break;

All of them look really awkward and unintuitive to me. Is there another solution to this altogether?

A: I used to write
while (func()) continue;

when I needed a full busy-wait loop (which was not very often). The keyword made it hard to miss the intent, and it gets compiled away. :)

A: I think option B is most commonly used, but you should make it more obvious that you have an empty loop body:
while (func())
  ; // do nothing

or
while (func())  { /* do nothing */ }

As a side note, this looks like some kind of busy waiting. If this is the case, it can and should usually be avoided by using OS-provided synchronization primitives.

A: A variation on Option B:
while (func())
{
    // no-op
}

A: Well the third does something different - it will call func twice per iteration.
I'm guessing you want the second one, and it's not at all confusing to other people.

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Sports Capital Programme
Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 February 2019
Questions (541, 548)
Bríd Smith
541. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports available for clubs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5117/19]
548. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports available for clubs (details supplied) in view of the development of a location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5038/19]
Written answers (Question to Transport)
Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
I propose to take Questions Nos. 541 and 548 together.
In relation to capital works, the Sports Capital Programme (SCP) is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and physical recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country. The most recent round of the SCP closed for applications on 19 October 2019.
It will be open to any organisation with a suitable project to apply for funding under future rounds of the SCP. While the programme does not fund the purchase of land, a club without its own land can apply for non-personal sports equipment or for small scale capital works, with a maximum grant of €50,000, provided they have they permission of their landlord to make such an application. The most recent guide to the programme explains this process in detail and is available on my Department's website at www.sportscapitalprogramme.ie.
With regard to current funding for sports clubs, Sport Ireland is the statutory body with responsibility for the development of sport, increasing participation at all levels and raising standards, including the allocation of funding to sports bodies. While it does not provide direct funding for clubs or individuals, the agency does channel funding through the relevant National Governing Body of Sport, in this case the GAA. There is no mechanism by which Sport Ireland can allocate funding outside of this process. Accordingly, the clubs in question may wish to contact the GAA to see if they can assist in any way.

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David Bergman: EcoOptimism
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EcoOptimistic News for the End of an Environmentally Crappy Year
We can all use some positive news these days, especially on the environmental front in which science is considered political opinion, denial is an alternative fact and the word "protection" in the Environmental Protection Agency's name is a cynical leftover from its original mission. And while I don't want to gloss over the issues – there isn't enough paint in the world to do that – I offer here The Distillery, a weekly (or thereabouts) selection of posts to help offset the PTSD of our current nightmare.
The posts I pick will be "real" in the sense that they aren't pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking, as fun as those can be, but are evidence of EcoOptimism.
Yeah, we've all heard about the UN IPCC report that gives us 12 years to get our shit together. And then we got that surprisingly frank White House "National Climate Assessment" that, despite the Trump regime's best efforts to bury it, made headlines. Plus, of course, there was devastating evidence of climate change already rearing its head in the form of a sometimes record-breaking series of hurricanes and typhoons.
But fortunately for the holidays – and perhaps for our sanity and our therapy sessions – we can snag some happier news. So I started compiling EcoOptimistic articles a few months ago, though some of it is from earlier in the year, when I realized that, now more than ever, we need to counterbalance the daily litany of the-end-is-nigh headlines.
It's not that I don't believe those headlines. Rather, it's that I won't give in to the fatalism of them. Many of us, sometimes – OK, often – including me, feel the despair coupled with the frustration and anger at those who avert their eyes, who won't listen to fact or reason, who pursue blind self-interest, or who rationalize it in desperate ways. (No, it won't cost jobs.) But letting them rule the news is infuriating and letting them determine our future is unacceptable.
FIRST, A SUMMARY…
From Earther
"The Rare Environmental Victories of 2018"
EcoOptimism's take: The headline, I think, is self-explanatory.
source: https://ocasio2018.com/
Perhaps one of the most (eco)optimistic events of the year was the surprise election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the House of Representatives. Her "Green New Deal," which combines environmental issues with job issues, is creating a politically appealing scenario that's garnering more and more support with both local officials and voters.
And combined with this poll, perhaps the political "climate" may have turned a corner.
From Yale Environment 360:
"Americans Who Accept Climate Change Outnumber Those Who Don't 5 to 1"
EcoOptimism's take: Chew on that, Fox News.
"The Energy 202: Why 2020 candidates will be talking a lot more about climate change"
And then there's this:
From the Guardian:
"Environment, Jaffa Cakes and Kylie Jenner star in statistics of the year"
EcoOptimism's take: Um, OK. No entirely sure what to make of this, but nevermind.
While it's a bit cliché to refer to the younger generation taking the reins, there has been some notable news on that front, too. The suit by a group of teenagers against the federal government is continues to move forward despite the administration's efforts to get it thrown out of court. A Swedish 15-year-old made headlines at the recent UN climate change conference, lecturing the officials, "You are not mature enough to tell it like it is."
I've mentioned before that Teen Vogue has been consistently taking up environmental topics, most recently taking up the issue of ocean plastics here and here. (See more on that topic below.)
RENEWABLE ENERGY IS COMPETITIVE WITH – AND SOMETIMES CHEAPER THAN – FOSSIL FUELS…
One of the first items in that Earther post above notes the falling prices of renewable energy. "Beautiful, clean coal" is not cutting it financially despite the administration's best efforts. And there are some significant milestones accompanying it. It's been happening all year, not just in the last few months.
"One simple chart shows why an energy revolution is coming — and who is likely to come out on top"
From Earther:
"Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price In the U.S."
A Same-Day Twofer from Forbes:
"Plunging Prices Mean Building New Renewable Energy Is Cheaper Than Running Existing Coal"
"Coal Power Plants Lose Their Cost Advantage Over Clean Energy"
EcoOptimism's take: So much for "The sun don't always shine and wind don't always blow."
By David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0
We're seeing some of the results
"Britain Achieves the 'Unthinkable' as Renewables Leapfrog Fossil Fuel Capacity"
"10 States Now Get At Least 20 Percent of Their Electricity from Solar and Wind"
From Think Progress:
"Wind, solar deliver stunning 98 percent of new U.S. power capacity in January, February"
AND RENEWABLE ENERGY GOALS ARE BEING MET AHEAD OF SCHEDULE…
From Gizmodo:
"California Is Way Ahead of Schedule for Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions"
From Treehugger:
"Sweden to reach its 2030 renewables target 12 years early!"
EcoOptimism's take: Yes, we may need our rose-colored glasses here, but it's evidence of – don't get too choked up here – "yes, we can."
SINGLE-USE PLASTICS ARE IN THE CROSSHAIRS…
In some previous years, I've nominated a word of the year. (2012, 2013, 2014) This year, Collins Dictionary did it for me, choosing "single-use."
Spurred by a graphic and very disturbing video of a turtle having a plastic straw removed from its nose, the nascent movement to regulate or ban SUPs got a jump start. EcoOptimism has been charting the international movement.
Along with bans have come alternatives. We're not talking about bioplastics, which while interesting have their own issues, but about reducing or replacing demand.
"Corona Becomes First Big Beer Brand to Trial Plastic-Free Rings"
And from The Guardian:
"Carlsberg to replace plastic ring can holders with recyclable glue"
Images: Beverage Daily
EcoOptimism's take: We know Brett Kavanaugh "likes beer," though probably not for this reason.
The subtitle of this blog is "Finding the Future We Want." A great example of that is "turning lemons into lemonade."
"Where does your recycled plastic go? Perhaps into future highways."
EcoOptimism's take: There isn't a much bigger lemon than all that plastic waste and, while we may have mixed feelings about roads (unless they're for non-fossil-fueled vehicles and don't encourage more sprawl), here's some lemonade.
"A Former UK Coal Plant is Being Redeveloped Into an Eco-Village"
EcoOptimism's take: Re-use of decommissioned power plants may be emblematic of the possibilities, making this a good story to end on.
This entry was posted in climate change, Economics, Energy, Policy, Politics, Recycling, Resilience, Technology, The Distillery and tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, climate change, Earther, ecowatch, fossil fuels, Guardian, plastics, renewable energy, thinkprogress, Treehugger, Yale Environment 360 on December 26, 2018 by David Bergman.
We Need to Dispose of the Word Disposable
I've often written here [1, 2, 3, 4] about how word choices can affect how we see things. Problematic connotations can sometimes arise by stigma and sometimes by subtle associations. A classic environmental example is how we refer to global warming. In the 90s, the Republican strategist Frank Luntz encouraged rebranding it as climate change because it seemed less frightening and would therefore make it less of an issue. (The irony is that it's actually a more accurate term. But because it minimizes perception of the problem, as Luntz desired, many of us prefer to call it something more emphatic like climate disruption.)
In a similar vein, years ago, before the advent of LED lights, when improved fluorescent lights were the most energy-efficient technology, I wrote in a guest column in a lighting industry magazine that the word "fluorescent" had too many negative associations with its older, uglier versions. So, to get people to come around to the newer, more pleasing fluorescent bulbs, I wrote that they needed to be renamed.
The impetus for this current thought about words that can have misleading connotations occurred as I was sitting in a waiting room that had a coffee station. In need of caffeine – I had forgotten my coffee travel mug – I grabbed a cup. As I finished making my fix, I looked at the counter and saw the disposable Styrofoam cup, the disposable "K-cup" coffee pod and the tiny – you guessed it, disposable – milk container. My "garbage guilt" set in.
Those little ketchup squeeze tubes are another pet peeve. My order of fries inevitable needs a half dozen or more of them. They make a messy pile of garbage that can be neither recycled or composted. Plus they get all over your hands. They're a rare example of something both disposable and inconvenient.
The litter atop that coffee station caused me to ponder the word "disposable." For many people, disposability connotes convenience (finger-coating Ketchup pouches aside). You don't have to bring stuff – containers, utensils, plastic bags – with you and you don't have to worry about cleaning or taking care of them. Just toss it. No problem. Disposability is seen as a positive thing, reinforced by the "able" suffix.
The word makes the use of disposable things and the resulting garbage seem OK. They're meant to be guiltlessly thrown away because that's how they're designed and perceived.
When I advocated for renaming fluorescent bulbs, I couldn't come up with a replacement term. I'd like to do better here, especially as single-use plastics are being increasingly recognized as a major problem. (The issue is being addressed in part by bans and fees – see my "Status of Plastic Bans" list – but even then, there's pushback by both users and producers.)
So, how can we retitle disposability? My first thought was an obvious one. Just call it what it is: "landfill." But that doesn't work as an adjective in front of "cups" or "bags" (or with the current fixation on straws).
Next, I attempted to channel Stephen Colbert's coining of "truthiness" with "disposiness." But I'm not as clever as Colbert and it didn't feel like it solved the problem. There was, though, some, er, truth to it as the garbage never really gets disposed of. It's still here, just relocated. When we throw things away, there is, as Bill McDonough is fond of saying, no "away."
I've concluded that our new term needs to have that suffix "able" in it, but with a prefix that drives the point home. Garbagable? Trashable? Wastable? They still imply, though, that because something has the ability to be thrown out – e.g. it's trashable – it's OK. The word needs to communicate that single-use stuff that doesn't decompose or effectively recycle is NOT okay. It's wasteful and it's a problem so it needs to be discouraged. But I don't usually advocate for guilting people into environmental action. That's been repeatedly shown to not work. Better to play upon self-interest and desire. "Wasteful" (I rejected "wastable" even though I like creating new words) heads in the right direction – who wants to be wasteful? – but still doesn't quite get us there.
We need to somehow say you really don't want to do this. Not an admonishment that you shouldn't do it. And it needs to be "sticky," meaning the word will attach itself to the item the way disposable does.
I'm reluctantly left for the moment with "garbagy." But it still doesn't fully meet my criteria. Plus, the English language being what it is, you wouldn't be sure how to spell or pronounce it.
Maybe I should ask Colbert.
This entry was posted in Messaging, Natural Resources, Recycling, Uncategorized, Waste and tagged consumption, disposable, Frank Luntz, garbage, garbage guilt, landfill, trash, true cost, truthiness, William McDonough on August 22, 2018 by David Bergman.
Plastics: A Combined Distillery and EcoOptimism Post, Part 2
Beyond the Ban:
Plastics Alternatives and Mitigation
We can all use some positive news these days, especially on the environmental front in which science is considered evil, denial is an alternative fact and the EPA is now what I'm calling the Environmental Destruction Agency. And while I don't want to gloss over the issues – there isn't enough paint in the world to do that – I offer here The Distillery, a weekly (or thereabouts) selection of posts to help offset the PTSD of our current nightmare.
In just the short span since our recent post on the scourge of plastics, there have been more announcements of new or proposed bans on plastic straws and other types of plastics. (This week, Starbucks announced it will stop using plastic straws.) Rather than keep enumerating these individually, I've created a page, "Keeping Tabs on Plastics Bans," with a list organized by type of entity – country, locality, company – and type of plastics – bags, straws, packaging, microbeads. The list provides an easily graspable view of the extent of the movement, and will be updated as additional bans are set.
As promised in that previous post, we're going to focus here a bit on some alternative proposals and materials. Dealing with plastics – as with most environmental issues – can be broken down into two approaches: what to do once the problem is happening versus how to prevent the problem in the first place. These are commonly referred to respectively as adaptation versus mitigation. Years ago, I also heard this described as "front of tailpipe" and "back of tailpipe," the metaphor being pollution from cars, which can be dealt with either by filtering it in the exhaust pipe (that would be the "end of tailpipe") by, for example, a catalytic converter, or by modifying the engine so that the pollution is prevented or at least diminished before it occurs. As you can imagine, heading off the problem is preferable to fixing it afterward.
In the case of plastics, we have a combination of damage already done along with a continuing stream of new plastics adding to the damage. Where plastic refuse has accumulated, such as in ocean gyres, the only remedy is to somehow, laboriously, retrieve it. Another adaptive after-the-fact approach is recycling. That at least keeps it out of the waste stream. (In theory, anyway. Less than 10% of plastic in the US is actually recycled. And, as others have noted, recycling shifts the responsibility – environmental and economic – from the actual producers of the plastic onto us, the consumers)
Image: Ocean Cleanup Project via EcoWatch
EcoOptimism's take: Whether this type of ocean plastic reclamation would actually have a significant impact, given the scale of the problem and size of the oceans, is a topic of debate. But in any case, upstream prevention would be a much better solution, at least in terms of addressing a continuing problem.
The better solution would have been to not produce the plastic in the first place. We're well beyond that option, obviously. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't attempt to avoid further exacerbating the problem through mitigation, meaning let's not make more plastic if we can avoid it.
Plastic is so ubiquitous at this point that it's hard to imagine a world without it. But there are indeed alternatives, both mitigative and adaptative.
Some of those solutions exist right in front of us, or at least in other places we can adapt from. A well-known one in some environmental circles is the Indian tiffin box. The tiffin involves a system in which lunches for workers and school children are packed at home in the morning and then distributed through a remarkable system by dabbawalas. The relevant idea here is that the home prepared meals arrive in tiffin boxes made of stacked metal dishes rather than disposable take out containers and, after the meal, are picked up and returned to each family's kitchen for reuse.
Two dabbawalas in Mumbai delivering meals packed in tiffin carriers. Image credit: Wikipedia
This system has found a modern interpretation in Brussels where the city has introduced the Tiffin Project. People sign up for the project, purchase tiffin containers and bring them when they purchase take out foods. They even get a 5% discount on their orders.
"Brussels has an ingenious solution to wasteful takeout containers"
Image: Tiffin Belgium
EcoOptimism's take: as optimistic as we like to be, it's hard to imagine such a system succeeding here. As the Treehugger post notes, the system works best with small, local restaurants and "helps people discover new places to eat." Takeout food in much of this country tends to come from large chains with familiar menus.
Tiffin boxes, if not the delivery system, have found their way west. You can even buy them on Amazon and elsewhere, with a Western interpretation:
A better-known example of a plastic substitute is, of course, the reusable cloth bag. They've become so ubiquitous that you'll find them for sale (branded, of course) in all kinds of stores – not just the eco-oriented ones like Whole Foods, but conventional stores, too. And they're an almost inevitable part of events. We have a (reusable) bag full of reusable bags that we've accumulated from fundraisers, trade shows and promotions. Too many, in fact.
Image credit: David Bergman
But there are times when a cloth bag just won't cut it. For those, there are forms of plastic that are not made from oil and that can decompose after use.
The first plastics invented were made from plants. (The word cellophane refers to the fact that it was made of cellulose: plant fiber.) A famous photo shows Henry Ford swinging an axe against the bioplastic trunk of a Model T to show the material's strength. (The axe was actually covered with fabric but made for an impressive display nonetheless.) As the story goes, he wanted to make his cars with bioplastic, but the steel industry had other ideas about that.
Image from HemmingsDaily
Bioplastics are getting renewed interest for applications such as plastic utensils made from potato starch. The main caveats here are how well they decompose or recycle and that the plant starches not be taken from foods. The solution to the latter is to use crop byproducts such as wheat chaff as opposed to the grain.
Image credit: www.ecoproducts.com
EcoOptimism's take: In addition to the points above, bioplastics, for now, are not quite as versatile as synthetic plastics, but applications are broadening and have wide potential.
But there's now a renewed interest in bioplastics. A case in point:
From Engadget:
"Lego will soon make bricks out of sugarcane bioplastics"
EcoOptimism's take: While it's exciting to think that all those future Lego creations might not end up buried forever in landfills, this announcement is a bit misleading because, for now, it's only Lego's landscape elements, comprising about 1% – 2% of their production, not the iconic bricks.
But it's not likely that all synthetic plastics can be substituted with bioplastics. And that leads us to a back-of-tailpipe types of mitigation. Among them are technologies that break down plastics.
"Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles"
Credit: Still image from video in The Guardian
From Grist:
"Mealworms munch on Styrofoam without dying, shock scientists"
Image credit: Geek.com
EcoOptimism's take: In our Parsons School of Design Sustainable Systems course, we have the students try this out. Though they tend to be grossed out by the mealworms (see photo above!), they get to see that it actually works.
Still, these last two are after-the-fact approaches and, not to belabor the point, we'd be much better off not incurring the problem of more plastics on the first place.
This entry was posted in Recycling, Technology, The Distillery, Waste and tagged Bioplastic, consumption, Engadget, externalities, Grist, Plastic straws, plastics, thinkprogress, Treehugger on July 13, 2018 by David Bergman.
Plastics: A Combined Distillery and EcoOptimism post
I've been meaning to do a Distillery post on plastics for a while but, like plastics, the news has been accumulating faster than I can keep up with….
They barely existed until Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1907. In the 60s, they were the future, at least according to the advice Dustin Hoffman was given in The Graduate. Now, of course they're everywhere. Literally. This thoroughly unnatural human-made detritus has been found in the deepest trench in the ocean.
Plastics are no longer the future. But they're definitely the past in the sense that all the petroleum-based plastic ever made is still here. And will be for a very long time since they break down excruciatingly slowly.
What's so insidious about plastic is that it's in virtually everything. So much so that we don't even notice it anymore. And it's perhaps the egregious example of take, make and waste, especially since we tend to use plastic – which essentially lasts forever – for things have only a fleeting life of usage. Consider take out containers. The food goes in and gets consumed, often in a matter of minutes, but then the plastic container may end up in a landfill for hundreds of years or more. Or it may end up in ocean garbage patches of unfathomable size, killing fish and animals that mistake it for food.
The newest topic in plastics is straws. They weren't on anyone's radar until now. Among all the other things around us made of plastic, they seem insignificant. But it turns out they aren't and it just takes some simple visualization to get it.
We could say something like "if you put every straw end on end it would circle the Earth a million times." Never mind the actual number; it's too abstract. Like the national debt, it's so big that we can't grasp it. It's unrelatable. But make it something we can see, and everything changes.
But the Distillery and this blog are about positive "EcoOptimistic" news and topics. And on the topic of plastics, amidst all the bad news – indeed because of it, which qualifies it as "good news disguised as bad news" – there's been a strong, almost startling, movement by governments and companies to address this scourge. In Facebook terms, it's trending. So let's look at the extent of this overdue but amazing trend.
As evidenced by these posts, the UK seems to be a leader in the movement to eliminate plastics. The "Together We Can" pact involves governments, businesses, local authorities, NGOs and citizens and is described as "is the only way to truly transform the UK's plastics system."
source: http://www.wrap.org.uk
From EcoWatch
"More Than 40 Companies Sign Onto Historic UK Plastics Pact"
From Treehugger.com
"UK could ban single-use plastics as early as next year"
"The Queen Declares War on Plastic"
That last one also touches on one of the topics "du jour" in plastics, straws, as do the following posts. The first is, again, from England, but the second is from Taiwan and the third lists a number of American cities.
Source: https://www.facebook.com
"Is the UK about to ban plastic straws?"
"Taiwan Sets Aggressive Timeline to Ban Straws and Other Single-Use Plastics"
"Bans on Plastic Straws in Restaurants Expand to More Cities"
Grocery store packaging is also one of the biggest culprits:
Source: EcoWatch
"World's First Plastic-Free Supermarket Aisle Debuts in the Netherlands"
From CNN
"World's first plastic-free supermarket aisle debuts as momentum builds to reduce waste"
From The Guardian
"Theresa May proposes plastic-free supermarket aisles in green strategy"
Amidst this, companies other than supermarkets are getting the message, too. McDonalds is trialing eliminating plastic straws in the UK. There have been many reports about this, but as perhaps a sign of its wide support, here's one from – get this – Fox News.
From Fox News
"McDonald's working to remove plastic straws from UK restaurants"
McDonalds in the UK, however, is more enlightened than the mother ship here in the US, where the board of directors is fighting a stockholder initiative to get rid of plastic straws.
And then there's the issue of plastic bags. They, too, have a fleeting useful life, usually less than an hour (unless you reuse them – and the dog-poop excuse doesn't count). One stat says "Worldwide, a trillion single-use plastic bags are used each year, nearly 2 million each minute."
Source: Wikimedia
Plastic bag bans have been instituted in various locations around the world, but of course the US is lagging behind. And also, of course, California led the charge last year by becoming the first state to ban them. An effort to curtail usage in NYC by charging five-cents per bag failed last year, but almost exactly a year later, Governor Cuomo is proposing an outright ban rather than a fee. Washington, DC's five-cent charge imposed in 2010, it should be noted, is credited with reducing usage by 87%.
"Cuomo Announces Bill to Ban Plastic Bags in New York State"
And the most comprehensive approach yet is from a tiny island it the South Pacific, known for its beaches and coral reefs – now being marred by plastic debris.
"Vanuatu Soon to Outlaw Plastic Bags, Drinking Straws, Foam Containers"
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The Distillery: February 2, 2018
The theme here: good news disguised as bad news
From ThinkProgress:
2017's costly climate change-fueled disasters are the 'new normal,' warns major reinsurer
and from The New York Times:
2017 Set a Record for Losses from Natural Disasters. It Could Get Worse
And the "Bomb Cyclone" wasn't even in 2017, so we're off to an inauspicious start. But there's optimism here ….
Photo: U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker
EcoOptimism's take: On the face of it, this doesn't sound like an EcoOptimistic post, but it in fact emphasizes the economic incentive to mitigating and adapting to climate change. Insurance companies – especially reinsurers, the ones who insure the insurance companies – have been concerned with this for a while. The Times article references Munich Re, but Swiss Re has also studied the potential costs of covering insurance losses due to climate change and has been ringing alarm bells.
Arguably, since politicians (American, that is) aren't onboard, it may be the business world that spurs, finally, US action. Ironically, politicians cling to the belief that environmental action is bad for business.
And if the business case for climate action doesn't work, maybe the military case can…
Climate Impacts Nearly Half of U.S. Military Bases
Photo: Michael Lavender / U.S. Navy / Flickr
EcoOptimism's take: The US military is a surprisingly staunch advocate for adaptation to climate change. Though Trump ridiculed Obama for saying so, climate change is a national security threat that could both create or exacerbate geopolitical and affect military readiness. This post, though, emphasizes the potential direct cost of climate change. As a military policy, it might even have Trump's ear and bring him to his senses. But maybe that's my EcoOptimism speaking.
China is going to stop accepting plastic for recycling, so…
America Needs a Plastics Intervention. Now's the Time.
photo source: Scrap Monster
EcoOptimism's take: So China's going to stop taking the world's plastic waste for recycling. That problem, though, creates the impetus for better recycling, plastics that are more recyclable, and/or plastics bans here and elsewhere. And, of course, to stop shipping our problems elsewhere.
A new twist to "Read My Lips" and taxes…
From Evolution News:
Would a Beef Tax Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Photo source: Evolution News
EcoOptimism's take: : Taxes are bad, right? Not if they discourage consumption of things that aren't good for us or the environment – and meat is both. Think about, for instance, taxes on cigarettes or alcohol. Or sugary drinks, as is catching on in some places. (Though NYC's proposed tax didn't survive a lawsuit. On the other hand, the city's proposal for congestion pricing which, arguably, is a tax, is getting some traction after a false start.)
Now if we can only institute carbon taxes. Or if not that, maybe at least an increase in the decades old gasoline tax, which has been 18.4 cents since 1993. That means it's actually decreased significantly due to inflation.
But taxes are bad, right?
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The Distillery: August 14, 2017
Costa Rica Wants to Become World's First Country to Eliminate Single-Use Plastics
EcoOptimism's take: Only a fraction of plastics gets recycled. The rest of this persistent scourge ends up in the oceans and distant beaches or, at best, in landfills to live on virtually forever.
They've even been found in the deepest place on Earth: the Marianas Trench.
And in case that's not nasty enough, bear in mind this doesn't take into account the resources (oil!) and energy required to make them.
Marine debris on Kamilo Beach, Hawaii. Credit: Algalita.org
America's Wind Energy Industry Passed a Major Milestone
EcoOptimism's take: in 2016, wind energy passed the generating capacity of hydroelectric power became the nation's top renewable generating source.
For all the talk naysaying renewable energy – it's too expensive or too unreliable because "the sun don't always shine, the wind don't always blow" – it's now the most rapidly growing and inexpensive form of energy. More efficient solar cells and new types of batteries will only further the trend, and the renewable energy industry is already creating more jobs than fossil fuels are.
Credit: Department of Energy via ThinkProgress.org
This entry was posted in Energy, Natural Resources, Nature, Recycling, Resources, The Distillery and tagged fossil fuels, recycling, renewable energy, waste on August 14, 2017 by David Bergman.
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Today's flavor is old school cheddar with a little curry flavored bread & butter pickle crunks tossed in to get things going.
We like a little sharp & salty to go with our big, spicy & sweet!
Start with a nice chunk of rosemary foccacia, split. Slather dijon mustard on one side; squirt a little Kewpie Japanese mayo on the other.
Add nice chunks of cheddar (at least 2 ounces, for you portion control freaks) on the left, and a pile of bread & butter pickles on the right. I use homemade, but you can use your favorite store-bought.
Slap the two sides together and place on your grill pan - at the ready with a tablespoon of olive oil heated to medium.
You'll need to weight this bad boy. I use the top of my Tuscan mattone, but you can use a cast-iron skillet or a bacon press, really anything heavy enough to hold your sandwich down. Of course, if you have a panini maker with inserts, you're set.
Grill until cheese is melted & gooey, about 6-8 minutes.
All that and a bag o' chips makes lunch.


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British prosecutors say 37-year-old Mark Colborne wrote in his diary of plans to assassinate the heir to the British throne with a high-powered rifle, and compared himself to Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik.
He also wrote of carrying out a cyanide attack on "non-Aryans" and collected chemicals and books on poisons.
Prosecutors say Colborne felt alienated and marginalized as a white, red-haired man. He claimed in his defense that his writings were "angry rants" made when he stopped taking medication for depression.
Colborne was arrested in June 2014, but a trial jury failed to reach a verdict. After a retrial, jurors in London convicted Colborne Tuesday of preparing terrorist acts.


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Life with fibromyalgia can be stressful due to the constant pain. What won't be difficult is securing a low cost burial insurance plan when you have this affliction.
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Fibromyalgia is a health issue we have encountered many times. There was never once a situation where we couldn't help them get an affordable plan with no waiting period.
Today we are going to thoroughly explain what it's like to buy burial insurance with fibromyalgia. You will learn how insurance companies underwrite this condition, what choices you will have, and how to find your best policy.
In all honestly, there are very few final expense life insurance companies that ask about this condition.
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You won't need to provide medical records, undergo any exams or lab tests. All you will do is answer some health questions.
Burial insurance plans are always simplified issue so there are always just health questions. In most cases, the insurance company will let you know you have been approved in less than 15 minutes.
If you have fibromyalgia and are looking for burial insurance, contact us immediately. Virtually every insurance company will accept you. We will shop the market for you to find you the best deal.
Burial insurance companies will evaluate an applicant's level of risk by doing two things.
Your answers to the health questions and your past medications will give the insurance company all the data they need to determine your eligibility.
You will have to search for a very long time to find any burial insurance company that even mentions the word fibromyalgia.
We aren't aware of a single company that asks about this condition. Because they don't ask about it, it means they are okay with it!
Burial insurance companies will accept any health condition they don't specifically ask about in their health questionnaire. The insurance companies will only ask about the health issues they view as high risk.
Final expense life insurance companies will always review your medication history. They do this to identify which health issues have based on what medications you have been taking.
According to MayoClinic.org, there are no drugs that are meant only for fibromyalgia. Years ago, lyrica (pregabalin) was the first drug approved to treat fibromyalgia. However, today that drug is used to treat other conditions like neuropathy and seizure disorders in addition to fibromyalgia.
You might be wondering, where are we going with this?
Any medications you are taking for depression or seizures will be a problem with some burial insurance companies.
We have multiple burial insurance companies that will welcome with open arms applicants with depression. The same is true for any medications you might be taking for a seizure condition such as epilepsy.
Our job is to assess your entire health history. We do this so we can look at every variable and determine which final expense companies will be most accepting of all your health issues and medications. In the end, we would recommend whichever company would be the best fit for you, and offer you the best deal.
First, having diabetes and fibromyalgia is perfectly fine. The combination of these conditions won't cause any issues whatsoever. However, there are certain medication combinations that could drastically impact your options when buying burial insurance.
All of those prescriptions are also used to treat a health condition called neuropathy. Neuropathy is a very serious case of diabetes where the nerves get damaged. It usually starts in a person's legs and feet. Most companies will charge you a lot more money because of it (and impose a waiting period).
There are a few final expense life insurance companies (and we do represent all of them) that will not charge neuropathy patients more money or make you endure a waiting period. If your medications lead the insurance companies to assume you have neuropathy, have no fear because we have carriers that won't penalize you for it.
If all you deal with is fibromyalgia, we will easily get you qualified for what's called a level death benefit. That simply means that your coverage will be effective in full immediately. In addition, it also means that you will pay the lowest price offered by the insurance company.
Run some quotes using the quote tool on this page. The prices you see are what you will pay.
If you deal with some other health issues, that could impact the outcome. In general, we can almost always find an insurer that will accept all of someone's health issues. The best thing to do is to call us. We will quickly evaluate your health history and let you know what options you truly have.
If you go searching online for "how to find the best burial insurance", you will find a ton of misinformation. Unfortunately, most articles are written by authors with little to no experience in this market.
First and foremost, lets clearly define what are the attributes of the best burial insurance.
The best burial insurance is any plan from any financially stable company that costs the least, and protects you the soonest.
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China Export-Import Bank, in connection with holding and processing its security over the long term loan that it provided to the Ethiopian Airlines.
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Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited (IDC), in connection with a loan facility to an Ethiopian entity and on reviewing transaction and security documents entered between the lender and borrower.
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Experienced and fully qualified counsellor/psychotherapist accredited by BACP and/or COSCA, working within these professional body's ethical practice, confidential framework and recognised standards.
Excellent standard of verbal and written English communication skills.
Experience of working with private clients and/or EAP's.
Ability to carry out all work with a friendly, professional and ethical approach.
Provide evidence of a suitable frequency of supervision and continuous professional development.
Provide counselling/psychotherapy services for private clients and EAP organisation clients.
Be available to see clients on at least one evening and one morning/afternoon per week.
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Interviews for this position will commence from 28th January 2019.
To apply for this position, please email a copy of your CV and covering letter detailing the days and times that you would be available to work to hazel.bell@direction.org.uk.


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Taylor Swift's battle with her former record label just blew up again
Updated Apr 24, 2020 @ 2:42 pm
Just when we thought the war between Big Machine and Taylor Swift had concluded in a truce, the battle commenced yet again. Yesterday, April 23rd, Taylor Swift responded to fans who made her aware that her former record label would be dropping one of her live radio albums from 2008—a drop that Swift did not approve of. Reminder: Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings bought Big Machine last summer.
To briefly sum up the chaos until this point, Big Machine Label Group owns all of Swift's prior work up to Lover, which she debuted under a new label in 2019. Swift has spoken out about the unfair treatment she received while with Big Machine as well as the bullying she saw firsthand from Braun. Braun now owns all of her masters, and Swift has said he uses this ownership as an attempt to indirectly control her career.
So, when Swift caught wind that Big Machine was set to release Live From Clear Channel Stripped 2008 via Spotify at midnight on April 24th, she wasn't shocked.
"Hey guys—I want to thank my fans for making me aware that my former record label is putting out an "album" of live performances of mine tonight," she wrote in a text post on her Instagram Story. "This recording is from a 2008 radio show performance I did when I was 18. Big Machine has listed the date as a 2017 release but they're actually releasing it tonight at midnight."
She continued, "I'm always honest with you guys about this stuff, so I just wanted to tell you that this release is not approved by me. It looks to me like Scooter Braun and his financial backers—23 Capital, Alex Soros, and the Soros family and the Carlyle Group—have seen the latest balance sheets and realized that paying $330 MILLION for my music wasn't exactly a wise choice and they need money 😂."
"In my opinion…just another case of shameless greed in the time of coronavirus. So tasteless, but very transparent."
Credit: @TaylorSwift, Instagram
Despite Swift speaking out against the album release, Big Machine went through with the drop.
Live From Clear Channel Stripped 2008 is currently live on Spotify, dated 2008 with a 2020 Big Machine Label Group, LLC copyright. Fans are now spreading the word on Twitter to refrain from streaming the "new" album, reiterating that it was dropped without the artist's approval. The hashtags #ScooterBraunIsOverParty and #BigMachineIsOverParty are currently trending.
Neither Big Machine nor Scooter Braun has responded to Swift's statement, and something tells us that they probably won't. Needless to say, it's clear the war still rages on.


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Blue Plaque unveiled for city war hero VC Rivers
Representatives from Derby City Council and Derby Civic Society today unveiled the latest Blue Plaque in the city at a special ceremony to honour the bravery of Derby war hero, Jacob Rivers.
Former Railwayman, Pte Rivers signed up to join the Sherwood Foresters and, on March 12 1915, he took part in the First World War battle of Neuve Chappelle. During the battle he twice advanced on his own and drove back the enemy by throwing bombs at them, but sadly lost his life. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery.
Private Jacob Rivers
The blue plaque scheme forms part of Derby City Council's and Derby Civic Society's partnership to celebrate eminent people with strong links to the city. This blue plaque was erected at Flint Bishop Solicitors, on St Michael's lane, close to the home of Jacob Rivers.
Commenting on the award of the blue plaque, Councillor Ranjit Banwait, Leader of Derby City Council said:
We are delighted to welcome members of the Derby Civic Society for the unveiling of the latest Blue Plaque. I very much support this project which recognises and celebrates our rich heritage and the people behind making Derby what it is today, including Jacob Rivers who worked on the railways at Derby, before sacrificing his life in a heroic act of bravery during the First World War.
The public were asked to suggest who could be honoured with a blue plaque in the city. Possible recipients must have been deceased for at least 20 years, had a long lasting effect on the city and have a clear link to a building or site in Derby.
Alan Grimadell, Chairman of the Derby Civic Society, said:
I'm delighted that our 18th Blue Plaque is being launched to recognise the work of Jacob Rivers, a true son of Derby. The working partnership between Derby City Council and the Derby Civic Society in promoting the Blue Plaques throughout the City is something that we are all very proud of.


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Last night I saw a documentary on BBC2 (London) "Super Slim Me." The writer and TV presenter Dawn Porter was on mission to shrink from her UK size 12 to the much touted super-skinny Hollywood size Zero (which is UK size 4). Surviving on just 500 calories per day and participating in a gruelling fitness regimen.
Watching that documentary I was gutted, because from last few weeks I was thinking I am on diet (preparing me for summer). I had stopped taking my breakfast (no aloo ka paratha or andaa bread), cut down my lunch to just pasta (that to loads of pasta) and in dinner 3 chapati and lots of sabzi. Yeah! Basically I was just skipping my breakfast and thinking I am on a very strict diet.
Dawn Porter was fighting to help the girls walking ramp on Fashion shows. She is right when we look at those girls on FTV wearing "Kata-fata" dresses which no normal human being will wear in their daily normal life. Of-course the lingerie on FTV do really attract me, but still the girls wearing them looks like they are just going to break into pieces in no time like "Bikhara hua Motichur ka Ladoo. Na aage kuch Na piche kuch." During the documentary I realise it so so hard to be a size Zero, poor girls who have to be just on salad for their whole life just to look good on ramp or just to walk the ramp. Dawn Porter was just on green salad and cabbage soup or just boiled cabbage for weeks, and just quitting your eating doesn't give you that size zero, you have to be on strict exercise to burn off those calories and extra fat in your body. When you are not eating properly, you tend to have mood swings and go through depressions. You don't have social life, b'cox you can't go to places where you can even smell the food (stop thinking about eating) any pub, club or restaurant.
I just can't imagine myself going through all that even for a week. I am a size 10 UK and I am very happy with it, but I was just trying to put myself in my nice denim skirt from last summer (which was little hard), but I will not go on for such stupid regime of diet. My quitting of breakfast is ok, may be I will quit pasta as well in lunch. Then may be I'll be able to fit into my skirt (don't want to spend on new skirt).
Look at these "Mareal" girls, they all want to look good by showing off their bones. They are on competition "whose bones are more visible." On the cover of "People Magazine" showing Keira Knightley, Nicole Richie & Kate Bosworth are the breathing example of Anorexia taking over Hollywood. I really feel for girls who die of eating disorder disease called "Anorexia." Dawn Porter was trying to make a point, that how hard it is to be like one of those girls and how wrong it is to be like them. Fashion industry should be responsible for all of this, b'cox they are the one who want super slim models for their fashion shows. I think girls on the ramp should look like a normal girl walking down the street. So that any girl or women can relate to them.
1.	"Madrid Fashion Week, one of Spain's most prestigious shows, is banning underweight models on the basis of their body mass index (BMI).
2.	Spain is to standardise its clothing sizes for women as part of a government drive to ease pressure on young girls over their body size.
3.	Actress Kate Winslet has spoken out against the proliferation of "size zero" female stars and models.
4.	Italy's fashion industry and the government have pledged to abide by a voluntary code of conduct which aims to keep unhealthy models from the catwalk.
I am still on diet and have decided that I will cut down on my eating forever & ever. Eating too much is also not good. It's a big confusion, well don't worry and be happy with what you are. I have a friend "Sudha" she is not slim, but I have never seen her bothered with her weight. Infact the way she carries herself, she is confident and she is glamorous. So it's all about your personality and the way you present yourself and carry yourself.


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Nancy Pelosi knows that her impeachment isn't going anywhere.
But she was hoping that a Republican betrayal would give her what she wants.
Nancy Pelosi hit the roof when this shocking letter ruined all her plans.
The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time on Wednesday.
While this historically makes Trump the only president to be impeached twice it does little else.
The House voted to impeach Trump for allegedly "encourag[ing]…imminent lawless action at the Capitol."
The Senate does not reconvene until Jan. 19 and Trump's term expires on Jan. 20,so the impeachment trial will not even take place until after Trump has left office.
It's legally doubtful whether the Constitution even allows former government officials to be impeached since it has never been successfully attempted before.
What the Democrats really wanted was for Vice President Mike Pence to remove Trump from office by invoking the 25thAmendment to remove the President.
However, all the Democrats' hopes were dashed when Pence sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi which stated that he wasn't going to attempt to remove Trump since it would be neither legal nor beneficial.
"But now, with just eight days left in the President's term, you and the Democratic Caucus are demanding that the Cabinet and I invoke the 25th Amendment," Pence told Pelosi. "I do not believe that such course of action is in the best interest of our nation or consistent with our Constitution.
"Last week I did not yield to pressure to exert power beyond my constitutional authority to determine the outcome of the election, and I will not now yield to efforts in the House of Representatives to play political games at a time so serious in the life of our Nation," Pence added.
Pence noted that the 25thAmendment was designed to remove a president who is physically incapacitated and threw Pelosi's own words back at her, reminding her when she said the "president's fitness for office must be determined by science and facts."
"Madam Speaker, you were right," Pence wrote. "Under our Constitution, the 25th Amendment is not a means of punishment or usurpation," adding that using it in such a manner "would set a terrible precedent."
Pence urged her and every member of Congress "to avoid actions that would further divide and inflame the passions of the moment," and also to "work with us to lower the temperature and unite our country."
Pelosi did not listen to Pence's warning and chose to go ahead with a pointless impeachment which is only making Americans' political problems even worse.
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Internet phenomenon The Guild comes to comics, courtesy of series creator, writer, and star Felicia Day (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)! Chronicling the hilarious on- and offline lives of a group of Internet role-playing gamers, the Knights of Good, The Guild has become a cult hit, and is the winner of numerous awards from SXSW, YouTube, Yahoo, and the Streamys. Now, Day brings the wit and heart of the show to this graphic-novel prequel.


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Italian synth Goddess, Doris Norton, is nowhere near hyped enough these days. While others get all the praise, the cult producer has pretty much remained on the radars of B-side fanatics and basement-dwelling diggers. However, what she di in the 1980s helped to shape much of the eventual electro and house movement, she was an icon for the italo scene, and it's thanks to her that producers like Legowelt even exist. Bold but true. Norton Computer For Peace is her 1983 LP, and Mannequin has reissued it in spectacular fashion, with the synths sounding as lush and full as on the original, and the ideas being more relevant than ever given the recent resurrection of industrial and electro. There isn't much here which you won't enjoy, and if you're a synth junkie then this must surely be your RSD 2018 stand-out. Recommended!


New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) is unique to New Zealand and is one of our official languages.
NZSL is a combination of hand shapes, facial expressions and body movements.
NZSL is the natural language of the Deaf community in New Zealand; it reflects New Zealand culture by including signs for Maori terminology and concepts, which can not be found in other sign languages or countries.
As one of the country's official languages, more than 24,000 New Zealanders use NZSL daily. It is also the 12th most frequently used language out of approximately 190 languages currently used in New Zealand (Census 2006).
So why aren't other languages recognised in the same way? Other languages - Samoan, Tongan, Mandarin, Cantonese etc - have recognition in their own country of origin. Like Maori, NZSL is strictly "home-grown" in New Zealand.
There are hundreds of sign-based languages in use around the world, and even within a given language there can be regional dialects. For example people in Christchurch may use slightly different signs than people in Wellington.
As spoken languages can be different from one region or country to another (for example English), so too can sign languages. American Sign Language for instance, is quite different from British Sign Language.
NZSL is a true and natural language that conveys information via a wide array of movements and expressions.
NZSL does not interfere with or reflect a signer's knowledge and use of English.
NZSL is not based on English or other spoken languages - it is not just finger spelling.
NZSL is not a universal "Deaf" language.
NZSL is not mime or gesture, as is used by professional artists.
Sumner School for Deaf opened in the 1880s in Sumner, Christchurch. At Sumner School for Deaf students were educated only in spoken language skills (oralism).
In the 1970s, Signed English was introduced in Deaf education. Signed English uses signs in an English language structure.
In 1995, NZSL was introduced at Kelston Deaf Education Centre (Auckland) and soon after at van Asch Deaf Education Centre (Christchurch).
The Concise Dictionary of NZSL was launched. It was a landmark publication with over 4000 illustrated signs.
The New Zealand Sign Language Act came into effect on 6 April 2006. This saw NZSL become an official language in New Zealand alongside English and Te Reo Maori. Visit the Office of Disability Issue's website for more information about the history of the New Zealand Sign Langauge Act.
NZSL Interpreters are used for televised media briefings following the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch.
The 5th anniversary of New Zealand Sign Language Week – 2nd-8th May 2011.


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Having tackled various ceanup projects over the winter, and with the successful Clane Spring Clean event on April 2nd, Clane Tidy Towns are now looking forward to launching their 2011 activities in earnest on April 16th.
All are welcome to join in. Plans include preparing the street flower tubs and the approach signage for summer planting. The group will gather by the Stream park across from the Abbey on Saturday April 16th at 10AM – all equipment will be provided – we hope to see you there!
This entry was posted in Clane Community Council, Event, Tidy Towns and tagged Clane, Spring Clean, Tidy Towns on April 7, 2011 by jkennedy.


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Q: Declaring Dependencies from External File in Gradle I'm looking for a way to enforce all dependency versions of subprojects in an external file in Gradle 5.2 or within the main build file. This would be similar to the new constraint functionality in the Java-Platform plugin, but, as far as I can tell, that requires declaration in not just a separate file but a separate project (which then would only house the build file for that project).
Is there a way to do this? So far I'm succesful in making a PoC with the java-platform plugin as such:
File Structure:

*

*Root
a. Platform
b. Subproject 1
c. Subproject 2

Root Build File:
project.ext {
    javaProjectList = subprojects.findAll{
        it.name != 'platform'
    }
}

configure(project.javaProjectList) {
    apply plugin: 'java'
}

subprojects{
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
}

Platform Build File:
plugins {
    id 'java-platform'
}

dependencies {
    constraints {
        api 'commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:3.1'
        runtime 'org.postgresql:postgresql:42.2.5'
    }
}

Subproject 1 (and 2):
dependencies {
    compile platform(project(':platform'))
    compile 'commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient'
}

What I'd like is something along the lines of...
root/dependencies.versions:
dependency1.version1
dependency2.version3
{etc.}

root/build.gradle:
dependencies {
    constraints {
        for { line in dependencies.versions ->
            api 'line'
        }
    }
}

Please excuse the syntax.

A: I didn't find a way to remove the requirement of a separate Platform project, but it was simple enough to read in the constraints via a properties file.


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US headline inflation for August was 2.7% (vs 2.9 in July, and the 2.8 forecast), while core inflation excluding energy and food was 2.2% (vs. 2.4 in July, and the 2.4% forecast). In both cases, this is a little weaker than we and the consensus forecast had expected. Lower energy prices are not all that surprising, given that base effects are starting to turn negative from August (the steady increase in oil prices in the second half of last year means that unless oil prices start rising again, the energy price component will pull down on inflation over coming months).
While today's data suggests that we are less likely to see core inflation hit 2.5% this autumn, we would not rule it out and still see upward risks to core inflation. Continued increases in wage costs and the effect of the Trump administration's tariffs are likely to put upward pressure on prices.


Knit By God's Hand: Gotta love Comedy!
I'm so excited! The new season of "Last Comic Standing" has started. I dont know why I'm excited because every year, my favorite doesn't win - but at least I get laughs throughout the season. I liked that the judges kicked out alot of the people that had the raunchy, tasteless jokes! Why do people feel like they have to make jokes dirty or curse in them to make them funny? One of the funnest nights I ever had was a Christian Comedy Concert with Mark Lowry and Chonda Pierce with a bunch of other comedians. Me & Ricky took my parents & we had front row, center seats. There is just nothing like laughter! There's nothing like watching your parents laugh so hard too! We left with stomachs literally aching! All clean, good, FUNNY jokes! I was raised in a Baptist church so to hear jokes about different demoniations and have a room full of God-loving people laughing ALONG with it - Too much fun!
I'm an easy "laugh-er" & its funny because it takes ALOT to get Ricky to really get a gut-laugh. But its amazing when something strikes him & he gets those Gut-aching/tear-stained-cheek laughs. Isn't it funny how God gives us all different senses of humor? I can laugh till I'm screaming & look at Ricky & hear him say, "Is wasn't that funny" - ahhh, opposite attract!.
I truly love to laugh more than anything! So I'll be watching this season & trying to find the funniest again this year - & then jinx them by liking them - that means they wont win!


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Q: Validate string against allowed values / array of strings In Yup, is there any built-in check to validate a string against an array of allowed values? Or do I have to write my own test function for that?
const fruit = 'apple';
const allowedFruits = ['orange', 'cherry'];
// I want to check if fruit is one of the allowedFruits. Fruit is coming from a text field / user input.

Update:
I want to stress that the question is about the Yup validation library, not how to do it in plain JavaScript.

A: const selectedFruit = "apple";
const allowedFruits = ['orange', 'cherry'];
const isInAllowedFruits = allowedFruits.some(fruit => fruit === selectedFruit)

Just use the boolean isInAllowedFruits.

A: Try Using:

const fruit = 'apple';
const fruit1 = 'orange';
const allowedFruits = ['orange', 'cherry'];
console.log(allowedFruits.includes(fruit));
console.log(allowedFruits.includes(fruit1));


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By: New York Medical College and Hospital for Women.
By: New York Medical College.
Surgery of the thyroid gland: a symposium conducted by the class of 1916 of the New York Homoeopathic medical college & Flower hospital.
Tenth annual announcement of the New York Medical College for Women, 187 Second Avenue, Cor. of 12th Street, 1872-73.
Annual report of the hospital and dispensary of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women.
Constitution & by-laws, list of members with addresses, list of officers, together with a list of graduates from 1861-1888.
By: New York Medical College. Alumni association.
By: Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri.
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 Sivry-Courtry, municipi al departament de Sena i Marne (Illa de França)
 Sivry-la-Perche, municipi al departament del Mosa (Gran Est, França)
 Sivry-Rance, municipi belga a la província d'Hainaut a la regió valona
 Sivry-sur-Meuse, municipi al departament del Mosa (Gran Est, França)

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