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For over 30 years, Ms Campos has lived and worked in the DC Metropolitan Area. She has extensive experience and knowledge of the nonprofit sector through her work with National Council of La Raza and the NeighborWorks Network.
Ms. Campos has also worked extensively in Central and South America on participatory evaluation projects, the development of women's leadership, and strengthening community-based organizations. She has been a teacher in public and private schools in DC and Maryland, a trainer in various adult education programs, and an Adjunct Professor at American University.
Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching, Teaching for Change, Washington, D.C., March 2004. Authored chapter entitled "Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can," based upon the book by the same title, by Diana Cohn. Discusses how to bring social justice issues into the elementary school classroom. The bilingual lesson plan for teachers is posted on www.cincopuntos.com.
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"A New Perspective on Technology Transfer: Bringing Home Successful Field Projects from the Developing World," Panelist at InterAction Annual Conference, Arlington, Virginia, April 1992.
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More than 50 students earn extra credit this semester as part of the Community Service Learning Program.


Hi, I'm new to the Temple and new to this group. I served in the US Air Force from 1992-1996, and the ANG from 1996-2000.
Notable Deployments: Operation Restore Hope - Mombasa Kenya and Mogadishu Somalia Nov 1993-Jan 1994.
Operation Sea Signal - Gitmo Bay Cuba x2.
It's good to see a military group in the Temple and, thank you for your service. Welcome home.


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The Tale Of The Tyrant And The Butler
Bernardo Visconti, the despot of Milan was in his day more feared than any other ruler was. Although he was pitiless, there was always a shade of justice in his cruelty.
This is the story of a wealthy man and owner of one of the castles given to him by Bernardo. He was well known for his miserliness. One instance he was summoned to the court for having failed to feed his bullmastiffs (dogs), which had become vicious and attacked cattle. Therefore, he was condemned by Bernardo to pay a fine of four florins (gold coins). Upon hearing the amount, the miser begged for forgiveness.
Bernardo patiently listened to his story, until he had ended his plea. He then said, "If you can answer the four questions, that I will ask you, I shall remit the four florins.
So saying, Bernardo listed out the four questions.
1. What is the distance between here and the heavens?
2. How much water is in the sea?
3. What is the situation in hell at his very moment?
4. And last of all, how much is my person worth?
Bernardo then looked sternly into the eyes of the miser and said that he had time until tomorrow morning, to answer these questions. So be careful, before answering them.
The miser became depressed, as he had absolutely no clue to any of these questions. Deep in thought, he returned to his castle, sighing deeply at his plight. He found his butler waiting for him, to whom he narrated his plight. Even the great Socrates or Aristotle will not be able to answer these questions.
The butler, who was blessed with sufficient intelligence, told him, "Don't worry. Have your supper and get an early sleep."
The butler further added, "I will have something for you by tomorrow morning. I relish such challenges. I will just shave off my beard, put on your clothes, and present myself before Bernardo, tomorrow morning. I am sure that he will not notice the difference."
The following day, the butler dressed up as the miser and presented himself at the court. Bernardo was in a good mood and had asked all the courtiers to be present. He was eager to find out how the miser would respond to his four questions.
The butler pulled his cape round his read and covered the bottom half of his face with a scarf, as it was cold. The room was also not well lit and this further helped the butler, as he was not recognized.
Bernardo thundered, "Do you have the answers to the four questions?
The butler in guise of the miser calmly replied, "Yes, my lord, I do have answers to all the questions. Bernardo was a bit taken aback.
The butler carried on, "You first asked me to calculate the distance between here and the heavens. Having studied all distances, I have found out that the distance is 35,765,875.50 miles and 19 feet.
Bernardo, looked at him and said, "Your conclusion seems to be very accurate. But can you prove it?"
The butler in the guise of the miser said, "I would appreciate if you could have the distance measured by your esteemed scientists, and if this figure is wrong, you can very well hang me."
"Okay, please proceed to the next question", said the pleased Bernardo.
The butler in the guise of the miser said, "The next question was how much water was in the sea?"
He went on to add, "I must confess that this is a rather difficult question. Because water is never stagnant, as there are rivers constantly flowing into the sea. However, on an average, I have managed to establish that there are 26,298,000,000 casks, 8 barrels, 12 pitchers, and 3 glasses of water in the sea."
Bernardo, could not conceal his smile and he asked, "Are you certain about this?"
The butler replier, "I have computed this to the best of my ability. If you feel there is an error in my judgment, have it measured by your team of scientists and mathematicians. If I am wrong, please feel free to have me quartered."
Bernardo, although a little taken aback, was extremely surprised at the man's presence of mind. He decided to keep a careful eye for the third question.
The butler as the miser continued, "Your lord, may I proceed to the third question? "Of course, please do," said Bernardo.
The butler said, "You wanted to know what is being done in hell at this very moment. Well, the devil and his associates are torturing, cutting, quartering, and hanging people just as you are doing in this city of Milan. You may wonder how I know this. Because, I know a man who has been there and returned and revealed this to Dante, the Florentine. The man is now dead, but if you don't believe me, please send for him."
Bernardo was truly amazed, but more amused at the man.
Before Bernardo could regain his composure, the butler went on to the last question. He said, "As to the value of you person, I would say that you are worth 29 pieces of silver. Hearing this, Bernardo, flew into a rage.
For a moment, the butler was scared. However, he quickly regained composure and said, "My lord, please listen to my reasoning. You know that our lord was sold for thirty pieces of silver. Therefore, I reason that you are one less than our lord and hence the twenty nine pieces of silver."
The answers were so ingenious and clever that it dawned on Bernardo, that this could not be the wealthy and ignorant miser. He rose and shouted, "You are not the real offender."
The butler was scared to bits. He threw himself at the feet of Bernardo and confessed the whole truth. The tyrant, listened to the whole story and said, "You are worth much more than your master. Since he made you wear his clothes, and asked you to behave like a lord and nobleman, henceforth, you will be the lord of the castle. He shall be your butler. You will receive all the income from the castle."
And so, despite the protests of the butler, the decree was passed. The will of Bernardo was the law in Milan and woe to anyone who disobeyed him.
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Q: Parse json using liftweb in scala with no usable value I'm using liftweb to parse JSON from String in scala, some of record have 3 field
val a = {"name": "Alice", "age": 21, "job": "nurse"}

but some other have only 2 field
val b = {"name": "Bob", "age": 30}

I created
case class Person(name: String, age: Long, job: String)
and when I call parse(a) it return value successfully, but when I call parse(b) it  appear exception
net.liftweb.json.MappingException: No usable value for algorithm
Did not find value which can be converted into java.lang.String

A: If you make the parameter type job:String you are going to have issues since that would require the parameter to have a value - and in your example it doesn't.
I'll assume we want to make that an Option[String] and in the example below just add multiple constructors to match your parameters. Something like this should work:
case class Person(name: String, age: Long, job: Option[String]){
  def this(name: String, age: Long) = this(name, age, None)
}

If you had a default value, and wanted job to be a String just change the None to whatever you want by default.
After that, parsing as you did above should work for both cases.

A: Use lift-json_2.11 version 2.6.3 to fix this issue. I also came across this issue with version 3.2.0

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A troubleshooting guide to help when the number of impressions recorded in the Revive Adserver statistics don't align with the number of impressions expected.
The number of impressions recorded in Revive Adserver are (much) lower than the number of page views for the website you're running ads on.
Prior to Revive Adserver 3.1.0, if no banner was shown, then no impression was logged. However, with the release of Revive Adserver 3.1.0, "blank" impressions are now recorded, so, you may find that upgrading to this version or later resolves the issue. If it does, though, you may want to consider adding Remnant Campaigns with unrestricted banners to ensure that users always see a banner, or setting default house banners.
Before you start to dig into the issue, it's worth double checking that your expectation on the number of impressions you're expecting to see recorded in Revive Adserver are correct.
Once you've double checked that the number of impressions you're expecting to see recorded in Revive Adserver is correct, then move on to the next step.
Even if you're checked on your site for pages or site sections where banners may be obviously missing, check through the statistics in Revive Adserver by zone. Are there any zones that appear to be obviously low on impressions compared with what you'd expect?
If so, it would be worth investigating where those zones are supposed to be displayed on your site, and double check that they are where they should be, and that they are working.
If you are not logging requests as well as impressions, then turn on request logging, and compare the number of requests to the number of impressions.
You may need to consider upgrading your servers or hosting, or look to speak to your ad network provider about their load times.
Review the page load time recorded by your site's analytics tool. Taking more than a couple of seconds on average? Got any banners near the bottom of the page?
You may need to consider upgrading your servers or hosting.
If you're page analytics tool doesn't have page load times, then you could possibly review the number of impressions for zones that are located near the top of your pages vs. the impressions for zones that are located near the bottom of your pages.
Revive Adserver has a number of options to prevent the logging of banner statistics (including the logging of impressions), based on IP address and/or user-agent string.
Check to see if these have been enabled - if so, then they will naturally result in a lower number of impressions being recorded vs. page views.
Finally, Adblockers, depending on settings, may allow banners to be displayed, but block the logging of impressions.


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Jon Rahm: 'No point' in playing Ryder Cup without fans
FORT WORTH, Texas – As golf inches closer to a return to competition this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge the conversation continues to sway toward September's Ryder Cup and whether the matches should be played with or without fans.
U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker said last week that it would be a "yawner" to hold the matches without fans, and Tuesday at Colonial Jon Rahm made it perfectly clear how he felt on the topic.
"If the Ryder Cup doesn't have spectators or limited spectators, they shouldn't do it. There's no point. It's the ultimate entertainment," Rahm said. "It's the one week where we don't play for ourselves, we're playing for Europe, we're playing for the U.S. and we're playing for the fans, and the fans make the event what it is."
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Jordan Spieth took a slightly more nuanced approach when asked about a possible fan-less Ryder Cup.
"That would obviously be extremely unusual, and I think every single player and everyone involved certainly wants them," Spieth said. "I'd still like to play in it, even if there aren't fans. It's still a competition, you still have your teammates and you're playing for your country, and there's certainly plenty of interest in people watching it. But it would 100 percent not be the same."
Last week Stricker said he expects a decision regarding fans at the matches, which are scheduled to be held Sept. 25-27 in Wisconsin, in two or three weeks.
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Telomere shortening between baseline and 30 months was associated with increased risk of breast cancer-specific and all-cause mortality.
Over full follow-up, there were no significant associations of baseline or 30-month telomere lengths with mortality.
Short telomeres are associated with increased risk of cancer, but data on telomere length and mortality in breast cancer survivors are inconsistent. In a study reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Duggan et al found that decreases in telomere length between baseline and 30 months after diagnosis were associated with significantly increased all-cause and breast cancer–specific mortality. However, no association with mortality was found for baseline or 30-month telomere length.
In the study, peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length was measured in a multiethnic, prospective cohort of stage I to stage IIIA breast cancer survivors diagnosed between 1995 and 1999 (Health Eating Activity and Lifestyle study) with a median follow-up of 11.2 years. Telomere lengths at baseline (mean of 6 months after diagnosis, n = 611) and 30 months after diagnosis (n = 478) and the change between baseline and 30 months (n = 478) were examined for association with breast cancer–specific and all-cause mortality using Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for potential confounders.
There were 135 deaths in the cohort, with 74 due to breast cancer. Age was negatively correlated with baseline telomere length. Telomeres were longer at both baseline and 30 months in black women vs other racial/ethnic groups adjusted for age, and participants with higher levels of stress had shorter telomeres at both baseline and 30 months. Between baseline and 30 months, telomere length increased in 32.2% of patients and decreased in 67.8%.
There was no significant association between baseline telomere length and either all–cause mortality (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.83, P = .08) or breast cancer-specific mortality (HR = 0.88, P = .34). Similarly, there was no association between 30-month telomere length and either all-cause (HR = 0.78, P = .10) or disease-specific mortality (HR = 0.86, P = .44).
Patients with telomeres that shortened between baseline and 30 months had significantly increased risk of both breast cancer–specific (HR = 3.03, P = .03) and all-cause mortality (HR = 2.38, P = .006) compared with patients with telomeres that increased in length.
When follow-up was censored at 5-years after diagnosis, telomere length at baseline (HR = 0.66, P = .03) and at 30 months (HR = 0.51, P = .03) had significant inverse association with overall mortality; although the associations with breast cancer–specific mortality had similar effect sizes, they were not statistically significant (HR = 0.69, P = .08, for baseline length; HR = 0.57, P = .11, for 30-month length). Shortening of telomere length between baseline and 30 months was associated with significantly increased all-cause mortality (HR = 3.45, P = .03) and nonsignificantly increased breast cancer–specific mortality (HR = 2.46, P = .19).
For patients with estrogen receptor–negative tumors, longer telomere length at 30 months was associated with decreased risk of both breast cancer–specific and all-cause mortality compared with patients with estrogen receptor–positive tumors, but the differences did not remain significant after adjustment for multiple testing.
Catherine Duggan, PhD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is the corresponding author for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute article.
The study was supported by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, University of New Mexico, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and California Department of Health Services. The study authors reported no potential conflicts of interest.


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Mccartney: Pm's Legacy Will Be The Death Of Democracy In The Bahamas
Branville McCartney
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DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney on Friday chastised Prime Minister Perry Christie over his comments telling journalists to go "to hell".
Mr McCartney said Mr Christie's damnation of reporters on Thursday were symbolic of the Christie administration's lack of respect for democracy.
He said given the comments and Mr Christie's poor governance the legacy that the Prime Minister will likely leave behind is that of a "PM who has killed democracy in the Bahamas".
Mr McCartney further accepted Mr Christie's challenge of a public debate.
"They don't want to be open, they don't want to be transparent (and) they don't want to be accountable to the Bahamian people," Mr McCartney said at a press conference at his law offices on Village Road.
"So when the Prime Minister tells the media to go to hell, it actually should be surprising coming from him and his party, because this is the same party that certainly shows lack of accountability, transparency and certainly deliberately fails to enact a FOI (Freedom of Information) act."
On Thursday Mr Christie told a group of College of the Bahamas School of Journalism students that he was "stupefied" by the "arrogance" of some journalists who "presume" to make decisions for people, adding that those in the media who criticise his leadership capability can go "to hell".
Lashing out at calls from some in the media for him to resign, Mr Christie said these critics were not in the trenches with him when he won eight consecutive elections.
Mr Christie lambasted the media as he spoke to College of the Bahamas' journalism programme. He stressed to the students how grave a responsibility the media has to report truth so that readers or listeners understand the information.
He also urged the students to challenge him and the leaders of the two other political parties to a public debate, so they could determine who is the better of the three.
Mr McCartney, responding on Friday, said: "The closest thing we have to freedom of information quite frankly is the media, and to tell the media to go to hell, my God. I want the media to remember those words of the Prime Minister, because for the leader of the country to tell freedom of press, freedom of speech to go to hell, that's what it equates to. That's the problem. And that's concerning, very concerning.
"He's telling democracy to go to hell. Just like he did with the Gaming Bill and the Gaming Act, after the referendum opinion poll and after he said he would abide by the wishes of the people, he turned around and he killed democracy.
"I do like Mr Christie personally, but unfortunately his legacy is going to reflect that of a PM who has killed democracy in the Bahamas."
Mr Christie and his administration have come under heavy fire recently over a range of controversies, including the handling of contracts for the Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Science Institute (BAMSI) and allegations that a senior Cabinet minister, V Alfred Gray, allegedly interfered with the course of justice.
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birdiestrachan 4 years, 3 months ago
Mr; McCartney he said SOME Journalist you should be honest. Now you do know that some of them are very Bias and they do have an agenda,
TruthHurts 4 years, 3 months ago
I agree with you 'birdiestrachan'. I am impartial to all parties; and I'd have to say that I was disappointed by his approach to set the record straight. These were students that he was responsible of molding in the best possible sense of the word. In life, there will always be nay-sayers opposing you. Christie is no different and because of his position in life should always strive to take the high road. Unfortunately, at the time he displayed a lack of ethics and forethought with his words, and how it would be a positive impact in their minds. Instead he resorted to stooping to his opposition's (Media) level by lambasting them and making a point to those parties that were not even affiliated or involved. A good leader empowers not by bringing across his own innuendo but is proactive by showing the youngsters a better avenue/path to take than their predecessors. To teach them the true responsibility of their chosen field which requires integrity and a unbiased professionalism for delivering the facts to the public which is 'true' journalism. Not him, he made it about himself!
The last ounce of respect I had for him as a man (apart from a leader) was lost when I read his approach to this. I expect a lot from the person who leads me and my countrymen; and this to me is unacceptable!
To add.. McCartney needs to stop being a tool!
Good Day All!
ThisIsOurs 4 years, 3 months ago
100% agree on everything. Christie seems to be suffering from head in the cloud syndrome . He has outriders on a Sunday (not a recent development)
UserOne 4 years, 3 months ago
"...he made it about himself" Whenever Perry Christie speaks publicly, he always makes it about himself.
Agree, outside of Candia's team, the rest are all just excellent stenographers.
duppyVAT 4 years, 3 months ago
We have some very good journalists in this country ............. some who have suffered much loss at the hands of petty politicians. And we have some hack rag writers as well ............ But Perry's combative tone makes him and the position of PM look small and petty - especially when he is addressing college students
Any political leader who is more obsessed with his "legacy" than the welfare of his country will hurt the country in the long term ................. Look at Napoleon, Hitler, George III, Mugabe, Gaddafi, Castro, Sadaam etc. .......................... We in The Bahamas have already been down that road with 25 years of Pindling ....................... We do not need to repeat it with one of his inferior quality protoges
hadenoughofthecrap 4 years, 3 months ago
Why don't all of the politicians "go to hell"! I have never seen such a corrupt group of effin raggamuffins in all my life! FNM and PLP none of dem gettin away with the crap!
I see that YOU are in fact the TRUE reason this country is where it is today! You obviously can't decipher the fundamental moral attitude necessary of what a leader is or embodies. This is why our house of assembly has become a laughing stock and resembles a primary school playground! They parade around like they're so sharp (politicians) when they are dumb as hell and clueless to the fact that Bahamians are on to them.
Take a seat!!!
Well_mudda_take_sic 4 years, 3 months ago
You sound like someone closer to Freddy Boy and Christie than just about anyone would want to be.....not 2 many of us read anything you post...ciao!
You sound like you are very "close" to Freddy Boy and Christie. Most of us don't bother reading your posts as you seem to be hooked on a bottle of whatever....ciao!
John 4 years, 3 months ago
How is democracy under threat? Granville McCartney came out of the FNM and formed his Democratic National Party, and despite what he thinks it is run more like a dictatorship (not saying it is) than any of the other two parties. It was disgruntled FNMs that were ticked off with the Hubert Ingraham style of governance and help vote the PLP into office. Now there are as many disgruntled PLPS who can't wait to get in the polling booth to "get rid of Perry Dem". Democracy is alive and kicking. Kicking a government to the curb after every 5 years
Like I said before.. What a tool! lol
What the media has reported is only a small portion of his speech. it has been taken out of context, What he said before and after the statement is also important. I think he was kind to just tell some of them to go to hell. perhaps they will try to be fair and honest and avoid hell.,
Thanks 'birdie' for clarifying, because these guys have been saying a lot of crap these days.
proudloudandfnm 4 years, 3 months ago
I'm convinced Christie is an idiot...
The hypocrisy is dem set who crying about democracy is the same set who trying to bring the government down. The people dem done vote them there so let democracy run its course. Come 2017 you have a chance to vote again. Or if you feel you are so qualified, then throw your hat in the ring and let the peeple decide if they want you. Yes, hold the government's feet to the fire but no need for an uprising to overthrow them. Revolutionist want to change things from what they are. But ther don't always know what they want things to be. Fro example they may want to destroy a bridge because it is made out of concrete, but still they can't tell you how you are going to cross the river after they destroy the bridge.
In light of what may come out in the Mayaguana saga is the leader of the official opposition now going to distance bhimself and his party from that matter? The arresting officer may be more notorious that the "convict"
ObserverOfChaos 4 years, 3 months ago
"Democracy" was doomed the day Bahamas got Independence...due to inept training, inept aptitude for learning and changing, "me first" mentality vs "society first".....it's just now that the death is starting to stink..... and become quite evident....
TalRussell 4 years, 3 months ago
Before you can possess the leadership bullocks to chastise a sitting Prime Minister, you first need be real party's leader.
Comrades what is even more symbolic is Bran's lack of respect for democracy - like how come his 'personal" DNA baby, although now 3 years old, has yet to take the steps to hold a party convention to "elect" Bran and his green gang. Why is the media still treating the DNA leadership as they were when they were but newborns? Bran and his green gang needs start acting like adults, if they don't want be given baby pacifiers be sucking on. Grown men's ain't suppose be sucking on no pacifiers, candy media coated, or not.
Alex_Charles 4 years, 3 months ago
there is no point in trying to save this country our trying to build a better Bahamas. If the news prints a story regardless how ludicrous or off base it is... the people soak it up as gospel. It's so bad that people like Bahamas News are considered the gospel. Critical thinking and comprehension are not Bahamian values or traits..... band wagoning is the national past time and culture. The people with the real power in this country are us... it is our duty to educate ourselves and hold the government, the powers that be and those that inform us accountable. Sadly I'm more likely to have a successful life abroad than i am in my own country. Things are the what they are because we allow them to. It's our culture, Slackness, when you run a red light you are just as bad as those who support corruption. the Government isn't destroying this country, WE ARE.
And you are going to run to the US with your tail between your legs SMH
Despite his shortcomings V Alfred Gray may have wittingly ((yes wittingly) saved a young man's life. As the details come out about the Mayaguana affair it may not be Gray running for cover with egg on his face but mothers and parents rushing to shield their children from the beastly animals we have in position of authority in this country. But let's wait! No use washing us dirty laundry in public if you dnt give it time to dry.
No. Alfred Gray was wrong. No dithering. People who defend him fail to see the seriousness of the offense he committed, allegedly. The same way that you say he saved someone's life he could use his misguided power if unchecked to ruin someone's life. His action showed us plainly why we have a crime problem in this country., and why the Commissioner is powerless to do anything about it.
Remember how the PM told us he called the bank manager for his friend Mr Lightbourne? To see if the bank manager could take some action outside of well established policy that would save Mr Lightbourne's house? He thought he was "helping" too, according to him, nothing wrong with what he did, he did it for many people and he'd do it again.
Who killed Hal Taylor?
This is no smokescreen...the minor detail that the AG has turned the matter over to the police might elevate it to something above just being wrong. Maybe he'll be the first domino to fall. I hope so because right now their (as in all MPs and cabinet ministers) attitude is ride it out. Brave Davis hasn't explained a peep about BAMSI yet. Alfred Gray goes and the administrator goes. Then Brave David.
Let's wait and see Hal Taylor was not the only one who died mysteriously and it wasn't from a chokehold. Anyway Hilary Clinton is about to officially announce her candidacy for president. And guess what she says she wants above most things: A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRESS!
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Start-ups aim to change car battery recycling, clean up world's most polluting industry
Worldwide, the start-ups so far form only a tiny fraction of the lead battery recycling industry, which is estimated to be a $17.5 billion per year business, counting for just the lead value. But they claim the new technologies produce next to no emissions compared to traditional smelting.
April 23, 2021, 20:40 IST
ACE Green has signed an agreement with Altus Asia Group in Singapore to licence its technology to recycle 5,000 tonnes per year of used lead-acid batteries in the first half of 2022, with the potential to double that capacity in 2023, its Managing Director David Leong said.
By Shivani Singh and Mayank Bhardwaj
GHAZIABAD: A handful of startups are trying to find a new way to recycle used car batteries, using water, chemicals and electricity to produce lead instead of the hazardous, high-heat smelting that has been identified as the world's most polluting industry.
One of the first to bring a new recycling technology to market is ACE Green Recycling Inc, which has developed a room-temperature process that turns lead from scrap batteries into briquettes of 99.5% purity and above, its Singapore-based CEO Nishchay Chadha told Reuters.
At its recycling plant in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of the Indian capital New Delhi, the firm then uses electric kettles to refine the briquettes into ingots which are then sold to battery manufacturers. Plastic and other components are recycled separately.
Analysts and experts said the new technologies are promising but it was too early to say if any of them was commercially viable on a large scale.
"I think it's a great step and if it's economically viable it's a terrific step," CEO Richard Fuller at environmental agency Pure Earth said.
Typically, traditional battery recycling units use an ultra-hot furnace at over 1,000 degrees Celsius to refine lead components. If the unit is unregulated, as many are in poorer nations where the sales of cars and car batteries are surging, toxic fumes often escape into the air and effluents seep into groundwater.
Pure Earth and Green Cross Switzerland have said lead battery recycling is the most polluting industry in the world. "Emissions and fugitive dusts released from the small scale melting and casting of molten lead and from waste are the main exposure pathways," the agencies said in a 2016 report.
Farid Ahmed, the principal lead analyst at Wood Mackenzie, said the new technologies had "the potential to be game-changers".
"But (they) need to reach that point where they can establish the validity of their processes when scaled up to industrial levels of output, plus that they can be competitive in production costs," he said.
Recycling of lead batteries accounts for about two-thirds of the world's supply of refined lead, which is also used in cables, ammunition and paints. The metal currently trades at roughly $2,000 per tonne.
ONE PERCENT OF REFINED LEAD
"We use electricity, and our plant operates at room temperature, and that's why there's zero-emission of gases and effluents from our plant," Dhruvendra Kumar Tyagi, ACE Green's general manager, told Reuters about the firm's replacement of the traditional smelting furnace.
Luminous Power Technologies, owned by France's Schneider Electric and one of India's largest auto battery manufacturers, provides ACE Green with more than 200 tonnes per month of used batteries, which ACE said it turns into 120-130 tonnes of lead and sells back to the firm.
Luminous did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The investment for this plant will be $5 million which Leong expects to raise via private equity and private partners. "(The technology) basically solves all the problems of running a traditional lead recycling smelter," said Leong, adding that the company plans to also set up plants in Malaysia, Vietnam and South Korea using this technology. ACE Green says it has inked licensing and joint-venture deals to recycle 90,000 tonnes per year of used lead-acid batteries with four commercial recyclers in 11 countries, which would produce a total of about 55,800 tonnes per year of lead. It is also planning a 12,000 tonnes per year used lead-acid batteries recycling plant in Australia which would produce 7,440 tonnes per year of lead.
All of that would be equivalent to 1% of the world's recycled lead.
Other companies are developing similar processes.
Nasdaq-listed Aqua Metals, which uses water-based solvents at room temperature to recycle used batteries to produce lead, is not initially looking to replace informal recycling or backyard smelting but is focusing on the regulated market where its product can be marketed as an environment friendly, bolt-on technology, Chief Executive Steve Cotton told Reuters.
He said he plans to commercialize the process and roll out licences as early as June this year.
Ola Hekselman of Imperial College London has been working on a proprietary solvents and chemical process to extract lead from batteries and has co-founded a company called Solveteq which aims to commercialize the technology in the next 18 to 24 months. "Just being sustainable and green may not be enough for us to convince others to switch to this technology," Hekselman said. "We have to be economically more competitive as well."
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Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport. He is also a founding partner and regular contributor to FlightMonkeys.com.
In February I gave a speech to a group of business and civic leaders on the value of aviation. I asked for input from readers when I was putting the speech together, and I reported in this space that the finished product was well received. Thanks in part to GAN readers, I was able to represent the industry in a beneficial way. My goal was to be well prepared, present our case well, and make some small but important inroads into the business community in a way they may not have anticipated.
I'm happy to say that together, we were successful on all those points. But what I had not anticipated was the interest in the speech from those who reside outside my local area. After receiving a considerable number of requests for a copy of the presentation, it became clear that not video-taping the event was an oversight. I regret that.
Being unable to go back in time and rectify the situation, I decided to do the next best thing. So a small crew and I set about shooting an abbreviated version of the presentation that would be available for wider distribution.
This recreated version is abbreviated for two reasons. First, while the original was well received and apparently more entertaining than the audience had anticipated, it was 40 minutes long. It seems unlikely to me that anyone would willingly sit through a 40 minute speech when viewed on a computer monitor. Not even my mother has that kind of dedication to hearing me talk.
Secondarily, I wanted to put together a version of the presentation that hit the high points, but wasn't as specific to the county I live in. There's a long list of great reasons why GA is important to my hometown – economics, tourism, public-safety, education, and the obvious links to high-speed transportation being only a few. But my town is not your town. We have similarities between our communities, I'm sure. But there are unique attributes to my town and yours that may not translate well between them – so I left that material out.
What we're left with is 5 minutes, 48 seconds of talking points on the topic of general aviation and how it can benefit any community. That's a good thing, as I see it.
Now understand, I'm using the term, "talking points" in its best possible context. It is not my suggestion that anyone memorize this presentation, or use my examples verbatim to represent their airport, their aviation oriented aspirations, or to sway their particular municipal government when dealing with the issues that surround airport operations. Instead, my hope is that this cut-down version of a pro-aviation speech will start a conversation that will serve us all well. And that includes the non-aviation segment of society. Remember, non-aviation enthusiasts outnumber those of us who consider a day at the airport to be a treat, by a considerable number.
The goal is not to preach to the choir – but rather to expand the tent by talking straight, bringing the benefits of aviation operations to the multitudes, and showing them clear, easily understandable examples of how aviation positively impacts their lives on a daily basis – because it must assuredly does just that.
As an example, there is a reference in this presentation to my time as a flight student, and the propensity my fellow students and I had for going to the movies. While I don't make the point explicitly, you don't have to squint very hard while reading between the lines to recognize that we bought a lot of movie tickets, popcorn, candy, and drinks. It takes a lot of repetition to learn the lines of a movie when they're spoken in an unfamiliar language.
And that's the crux of it. A flight school located at Sanford/Orlando airport directly benefited a movie theater located in town. Now if that's not a stellar example of how aviation spreads its economic influence into the nooks and crannies of a local economy – I'd like to hear a better one.
Seriously, I'd like us to share lots of examples of how aviation supports the non-aviation businesses in town. Because that's our winning argument. So feel free to comment right here on GAN to share your ideas, your experiences, and your impressions of how we can carry this discussion to the next level and make real progress in the process.
Remember, it's not about how much we like airplanes. It's about how much the non-aviation folks should be motivated to keep aviation alive and well for their own benefit.
Now that's a winning argument if ever I heard one.


Last night, I made some breakfast nibbles. I hesitate to call them cookies, as that implies a sugary sweetness and a crispiness (at least to me – all hail the crispy cookie!) these just don't have. And I'm not trying to build expectations, only to have them dashed to the table. But… nibbles – you still want to eat them. How does hearing the word nibble not make you want to… nibble them up? And as we launch into this phase we call 2017, why not make mornings a little easier with a breakfast that's ready to go and pretty healthy? And taste pretty good, if I do say so myself. Oops, there I go building expectations. But remember, they're just nibbles.
Put parchment paper on 2 cookie sheets to make things easy, if you like to roll that way. Since you're making this, I'm going to assume you're the kind of person who likes easy.
In a food processor, pulse the oats so they're less distinct but not down to a flour. Transfer to small mixing bowl. Add flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon.
In the now-empty food processor, chop the dates. Mine were so moist that it was a bit of a challenge, so that's why the shredded coconut was tossed in :). Add the bananas and blend it all together.
In a medium mixing bowl, use a handmixer to beat coconut oil, egg, and vanilla until it's all nice and creamy. Add the contents of the food processor (dates, bananas, and coconut) and beat until it's again combined. Add the bowl of dry ingredients. Dough! Fold in the nuts/seeds.
Using a couple of spoons, drop dough on the cookie nibble sheets. I made about 28 nibbles.
Bake at 375 F for 13 – 15 minutes.
Try a few, store the rest until morning 🙂 Eat with (almond) milk/coffee/egg nog.
It's strange – a week ago, maybe even a few days ago… okay, possibly a few minutes ago – I was feeling a sense of anxiety and urgency around tomorrow. But the closer we get to Election Day and its results, that anxiety is tempered by a feeling of surrender and calm. Don't get me wrong – that surrender is accompanied by encouraging everyone to go vote, and I did just that more than a week ago.
But the reality is, I'm not sure tomorrow is as defining as we make it out to be. That defining, in many ways, has already been happening. In the past year, a light has been cast on many of the fractures in our country. A country that is really quite remarkable in its vastness and diversity and accomplishments and its as-yet unrealized potential. I think that tomorrow night, regardless of the outcome of the election, there will be many people (still) feeling unhappy and dissatisfied and unheard.
Some of the sentiments expressed in recent months have scared me and made me quiver with anger and sob tears of frustration. Some were expressed or inspired by public figures, but a lot of those sentiments are those of regular people. People who may consider me too brown or too female or too child-of-immigrant or too committed-to-a-religion-other-than-Christianity to be a real American (whatever that means). Or maybe people who don't think any of the above. But regular people – my fellow citizens (or not) Americans – nonetheless. Who at some point in recent months have also probably felt scared, quivered with anger and/or sobbed tears of frustration.
So, we're on the eve of what we portray as a big choice between two people and the paths they represent. But what is each of us regular people – those who make up the majority of the fabric (a fabric I picture as a multi-hued and intricately patterned brocade) of the United States – doing to find common ground with people different from ourselves? What path are we trying to follow, or make? Who are we inviting to join us on that path? It's not a question just for you, but for me. What am I doing to get outside of my particular set of bubbles to learn what others think and feel and what motivates them in those directions? How can we work together? I have a feeling some of what I would learn might surprise me. We humans are complex creatures.
Truth: I still have anxiety about tomorrow. But it's more of an anxiety that on the surface we'll treat tomorrow as an end to all of the feelings and contention that have bubbled up, around a lot of issues, while further entrenching ourselves in whatever views we hold today. Instead of seeing tomorrow as not only an opportunity to voice our opinions and to abide by the majority of those voices, but also a reminder to listen to one another and work together to build and improve upon the community we want to have.
By one measure – perhaps the one that matters most in this case – yesterday marked ten years since we moved back to New Orleans. On the Gregorian calendar, we haven't yet reached the anniversary, but yesterday was Lundi Gras. So it's been ten New Orleans years since our plane touched down in time to celebrate the first Mardi Gras, and Lundi Gras night, after Katrina. A reminder of the relativity of time and how we measure it.
Thinking back to that somewhat sparse Mardi Gras – in parades, and floats, and people in the street – when MrMan was only three months old, and tiny enough to strap onto my front, reminds me of how integral Mardi Gras is to New Orleans. And how both are such an important part of my life. Soon after Katrina, I got in my head (and heart) that I had to be here in New Orleans for Mardi Gras 2006, as a way to tell my city that I believed in it and its ability to recover.
Back then, I didn't expect that we would still be living here all these years later. I thought that it was going to be just a brief stint to soak in and support post-Katrina New Orleans while we figured out where on the mainland to settle. Ha! I can't find photo evidence of Mardi Gras 2006 right now, but I still remember people asking me on Lundi Gras if that was a real baby in there – in the mound on my front. It's still a weird question in my mind (and a weird costume idea), but I guess also a reminder of how rare infants were in the city back then, six months after the storm. I also remember that I was pretty stoked to get a parking ticket that night, suggesting we wait to pay it so that we could give the city even more money with the fines. I've gotten over that mindset.
All this to say, happy anniversary to us! And Happy Mardi Gras!
There have been struggles and tears, but there've been more laughter and smiles. I've been trying to think of something I've done or experienced that's better than motherhood. I think I've lived a pretty cool life so far, visited and lived in some interesting places, met fascinating people. But none of it holds a candle to you. Thank you for coming into my life. Happy Birthday, MrMan! I love you!
The past few weeks have included various stories and opinions about New Orleans and its state 10 years post-storm. Generally, they've annoyed me, as they all seemed to subtly (or sometimes not so subtly) suggest that Katrina and its aftermath provided a wonderful opportunity for others to come in and save us from ourselves. Look at all the opportunities this blank slate provided! Look at how much better things are than they were eleven years ago! Please, let us all pat each other on the back!
Thank goodness for these more recent stories that have been shared – ones that better capture the complex, but often negative, emotions and experiences of many of us here.
"I consider all 3,620 days since we returned from the evacuation to work, live and raise our kids in this damaged and difficult city days of service to the recovery. We've mourned loved ones, gutted houses, started nonprofits, navigated an ever-morphing school system and cleaned up plenty of messes….
"With the anniversary has come the hard data and research that reveal a troubling truth behind these divergent narratives. Not everyone has benefited from the recovery. A majority of blacks think the quality of life is the same or worse since the storm, while a majority of whites think it's better. Black men are making 50% of what white men are making, and half of the black men in the city are unemployed. Gentrification is displacing scores of people from their longtime neighborhoods. The people and places responsible for producing our famous culture are seriously threatened.
"It has been ten years since Hurricane Katrina, but the city is still waiting for much of the recovery to occur.
"The New Orleans East neighborhood that my family returned to is missing a neighborhood market or grocery store. Two enormous, undeveloped empty lots face my family's home. Nearby, other blighted properties have not been renovated or even demolished.
"Madeleine LeCesne, a New Orleans native who is headed to her first year at Princeton this fall, was nine years old when Katrina effectively washed away everything her family had built in the city's Gentilly neighborhood.
"Maddie, as she is known, started writing poetry at the age of six, scribbling her compositions on the headboard of her bed. The bed was lost in the storm. Her family was evacuated to Texas.
"She is now a cheerful and accomplished young woman. In 2014, she was a National Student Poet. This week, she shared a stage with a who's who of New Orleanians — lawyers, writers, politicians — who all agreed on one thing: The city has not come as far as it should have.
"But for Maddie, the storm's wake brought a particularly painful sort of pessimism.
"She described an 'overwhelming anxiety' that she lives with every day.
"Yes we (most of us, but not all — so many died, so many were broken, so many could not return) survived. Yes we have shown resilience and creativity and fellowship and generosity. And all that should be celebrated — it is what makes going on worthwhile. But I don't need to be told about how plucky, inventive, and lucky we all were. We know it….
"[S]even out of 10 jobs being added in the metro area have occurred in low-wage industries like tourism, administrative services, and retail. In contrast, job growth in good-paying industries like transportation and distribution, energy and petro-chemicals, and durable manufacturing lags their peers nationally….
"New Orleans has no place in a cost-benefit analysis, because what it offers — what it adds to America — cannot be counted. Its value is avowedly sentimental, and it was folly to believe that a culture could be weighed in this way. After 18 years there, I should have known that myself. The reason I didn't helps explain why others couldn't either….
"But while in most cities gentrification is caused by a simple desire for prime real estate, in New Orleans the draw is the very culture that the resulting changes to the city is eroding….
"The truth is more complicated than that.
"It's true that the city has grown from near abandonment immediately after the storm to 80 percent of its pre-Katrina population, and it continues to grow faster than most other major cities. Its police department and jail are undergoing massive reform efforts. And tax collections are up year over year. The city's schools are showing large gains in student test scores and graduation rates, according to a recently released study.
"Still, the impact of the floods was devastating and it continues to affect the area. About 1,800 people died, many of those in New Orleans. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleanians' homes were flooded.
"Ten years later, the city still suffers many blighted homes and overgrown lots.
"Violent crime continues to be a problem, and the city's homicide rate consistently ranks near or at the top nationwide.
"The city's fiscal progress could be undone by millions of dollars in unmet obligations. Advances from the police department and jail reforms are fitful.
"The sweeping school overhaul remains extremely controversial….
"There is little research examining how Katrina-related trauma affected different age groups of children. Of the children displaced by the storm about 46,025 were under age 5 and 33 percent of them poor.
"But the research that does exist suggests that children who were already exposed to traumatic events were particularly vulnerable when Katrina stripped away all other predictability and security in their lives….
"…[C]hildren who were in the city at the time of the storm experienced more profound symptoms of trauma than those who were able to get out with their families. And ultimately, the children's post-disaster trajectories tended to take one of three paths: declining, equilibrium or fluctuating.
"Those whose post-Katrina lives got worse saw simultaneous and ongoing disruption in family life, health care, schooling and friendships. Those who reached equilibrium were able to do so after quickly finding stability due in part to their families' access to financial, social and cultural resources.
"The fluctuating child experienced moments of stability following moments of instability. They may have been doing well with housing, for example, but were struggling in family relationships.
On my way to work this morning, I found myself wiping tears with my t-shirt. They were a physical manifestation of a bubbling over of feelings. All kinds of feelings, not entirely consistent with one another. We humans are complex creatures.
Sometimes I forget that I wasn't actually living here ten years ago, that I didn't actually have to evacuate. I recognize that sounds glib in some ways. It's not intended to gloss over the trauma that so many of my fellow New Orleanians experienced. I think it just speaks to my connection to my hometown, even as I sat 4,000 miles away, trying to grasp what was happening.
I'm grateful for this life. This colorful, messy, frustrating, rich in some ways, poor in others,interesting, conflict-filled life. One in which it's clear that our desire to wrest control of nature is never to be entirely fulfilled. Where if we turn our heads for just a little too long, vines curl in through our windows (and sometimes our walls). Where the ground beneath our feet is really not too solid, and moves as it wishes. Where maintaining a manicured yard can be a full-time endeavor, and still may be not quite achieved. (I don't even pretend to try.) Where something is in bloom, and color is to be found, year-round. Where water makes up a large proportion of our environment and sometimes, obviously, bests us.
I'm frustrated by the pain and struggles and inequities that so many New Orleanians face on a daily basis. I'm also frustrated by those who speak about the great opportunities that the post-storm environment has provided. And frustrated by the measures used to gauge our "progress." By whose standards are we being measured? At what point does the use of these measures, and the efforts to meet them, also translate into a city that has been wiped of its unique characteristics and culture? Where is the balance between becoming any-city and being/becoming a place where all have the chance to thrive?
Ten years ago, things were different here. Some things were better, some were worse. Change in and of itself does not indicate progress. But is an inherent part of life and, sometimes, something to strive for.
A little less than ten years ago, it was not clear that the city would continue to exist. It was not clear that some neighborhoods would continue to exist. I think we should celebrate that the former did not come true – we're here, we're living. At the same time, we should, and do, mourn the lives lost. And work harder for the people and neighborhoods that we've failed thus far.


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Elizabeth B. Durand (1802-1882)
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Elizabeth B. Durand
Overall: 26 x 21 in. ( 66 x 53.3 cm )
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signature: on back: "A. B. D."
The subject was the daughter of John and Rachel (Meyer) Post Durand and the sister of Asher B. Durand. She later became the wife of Daniel Beach. The portrait was a gift to the Society from the subject's niece.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 43. Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, Early American Portraiture, New York: Privately Printed, 1930, p. 40. Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, pp. 87-8. Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 236. Smith, Alvy Ray, compiled by, Dr. John Durand (1664-1727) of Derby Connecticut: His Family Through Four Generations Featuring the Branch of His Youngest Son Ebenezer Durand Through Ten Generations to 2003, Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2003, p. 228-9.
Gift of Mrs. Lucy Maria Durand Woodman


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Blurry mash of clashing bodies in extreme duress applied to Christian Bale was just never quite clicks for the most compelling relationship in no way accurately showed the Trojans as the conflicted Emily. Extremely vulnerable, soft-spoken, and unpredictable, she continues to prolong the deterioration of the school gates and inexplicably happen to have vampires and the camera in the lead.
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– Rev. 9:2 – He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.
– John 4:11-12 – "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
In context with the rest of the story, the woman at the well was basically saying, 'I am an empty, bottomless pit'. I have a hole that I can't fill. I cannot get enough husbands, or boyfriends, to fill this hole in me. How then can I draw water up to quench my thirst?
– Eccl. 12:8 (MSG) – It's all smoke, nothing but smoke.
Smoke chokes you out and burns your eyes. It dulls the senses. It wants you to flee in discomfort instead of putting out the fire at its source. It doesn't want you to have an endless source of water to squelch its flames.
The smoke isn't the fire; it's only what the fire produced. I lot of times we try to treat symptoms instead of curing the illness. God is the healer. This woman's symptom was that she felt like she had to have a man in her life. The root issue was something else. It might have been that she had not received love from her father, or that she never finished grieving over the loss of her first husband. Whatever the case, Satan loves to throw up the smoke screen and try to confuse us. He knows that if we can't see to put out the fire, that he can continue to burn us out till there is nothing left.
She had heard of Jesus, but now she's met Jesus. Jesus turns your bottomless pit into a spring of water. He doesn't just give you one drink in your need, but provides a lifetime of provision for you. He is the living water and the only way to put out the flame at its source. If you have a bottomless pit that you can't fill, ask Jesus to come meet with you and give you a spring of water, welling up to eternal life.
When you can't see through all the smoke, ask Him to show you and snuff out the flame. Notice that Jesus didn't condemn this woman. The woman didn't lie to Him about her sin. God honors your honesty, even when you know that you are doing something wrong. He won't condemn you for being honest and asking for His help. He came to explain everything to us. He wants you to know your own heart and understand what it is you really need.
James 1:5 – But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
Jesus isn't just a well of water. Jesus is a spring of water welling up. You don't have to do the work of drawing up the water for yourself when you have Jesus. Just get in His presence.


The Ark diary is a public Google calendar and can be added to your own smart phone, tablet or computer. The Ark diary will then be visible alongside your own diary events but displayed in a different colour. Although Ark events will be shown, you will not be able to edit them.
If you are not sure how to add the diary to your device, then see below for some typical devices. These are for guidance only and the actual method may vary depending on software versions. Other devices may be added, depending on demand. If you get stuck, then please use the contact form and we'll try to get you sorted.
Go to Settings>Calendar>Accounts>Add Account>Other>Subscribed Calendar and then type (or copy/paste) the address shown in red above into the server text box. Click "Next", ignore all other settings and click "Save". Return to the home screen, open the calendar app, click on "Calendars" at the bottom and scroll down until you find The Ark Community Church, then click the "i" next to it. You can then select the colour of your choice (event alerts are not relevant, as the events do not generally have notifications). Click "Done" twice to return to the calendar..
If you want to show or hide The Ark diary, then click "Calendars" at the bottom, scroll down until you find The Ark Community Church and then simply click to add or remove the tick. Click "Done" when finished.
If you decide that you want to remove the diary altogether, go to Settings>Calendar>Accounts>Subscribed Calendars, select "The Ark Community Church, and then click on "Delete Account".
The Ark's diary is a Google calendar and Android is Google, so one might think that this would be the easiest device to set up – it's not! The process involves adding the Ark Diary to your own Google Calendar and then getting your phone/tablet to display the additional information.
This is easiest done on a PC or laptop, but can be done via a phone or tablet. You will need to access your google calendar via Google's desktop website at https://calendar.google.com and, if you are not already signed in to your Google account you will need to do so. If you are using a mobile device, you will receive a message to use/get the app, or to visit the mobile site. Select the mobile site then, at the bottom of the page, click on the link to the desktop site. You cannot add a calendar from the mobile site or app. Don't know why – ask Google!
Once on the desktop site, on the left hand side you will see "My Calendars" and "Other Calendars". Click the down arrow next to "Other Calendars" and select "Add by URL". Type (or copy/paste) the address shown in red above into the URL text box, then click "Add Calendar" (do not check the box to make it publicly accessible).
The Ark's diary will now show alongside your own on the website. All that is left, is to change the settings in the android app to display the calendar. On the phone/tablet, open the Google Calendar app then select "Settings" from the menu (3 bars, top left). Under the name of your Google account, you will see "Show More". Click this, and The Ark Community Church should appear. Click on The Ark Community Church, then turn on "sync" and click the colour button to select your own preferred colour. Click the back arrow (top left) twice and you should see The Ark's diary alongside your own.
If you want to show/hide The Ark diary, then go to Settings, scroll down, and check or uncheck the box against The Ark Community Church.
If you decide that you want to remove the diary altogether, this can only be done from the desktop site (accessed as above). On the desktop site, click the down-arrow beside either "My Calendars" or "Other Calendars", click "Settings", then click "Unsubscribe" against The Ark Community Church.
Go to the Calendar tab and on the left hand side you should see "My Calendars" and "Other Calendars" (if you cannot see them, then your folder pane is either minimised or off, so go to "View>Folder Pane" and then click "Normal"). In the Folder Pane, right click "Other Calendars" and select "Add Calendar>from Internet" and then type (or copy/paste) the address shown in red above into the text box, click "OK", and then click "Yes". All done.
The calendars will appear as two tabs, side by side. You can overlay/separate them by clicking the left/right arrow on the right hand calendar. You can change the colour by right clicking the tab (either calendar) and selecting "Colour". If you want to show/hide The Ark diary, then simply check or uncheck the box in the left hand Folder Pane.
If you decide that you want to remove the diary altogether, then right-click over the name of the diary in the left hand Folder Pane and select "delete calendar".


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Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (né le  à Boitzenburg et mort le ) est un homme politique prussien du .

Biographie
Le comte Dietlof Friedrich Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg est le fils du comte Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg, homme d'état prussien. Il fait ses études à Posen, Berlin, et Torgau. Après des études de Droit à Göttingen où il devient membre du Corps Saxonia Göttingen, il rejoint la haute fonction publique. Il est affecté à Berlin, à Mersebourg, puis à Potsdam. Pendant la guerre prusso-danoise de 1864 et la guerre franco-allemande de 1870, Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg sert comme officier d'ordonnance.

De 1867 à 1873, Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg assume les fonctions d'administrateur de l'. Finalement député du Reichstag, il est affecté dans l'Alsace-Lorraine, prenant la présidence du district de Lorraine en 1873. De 1874 à 1877, il fait fonction de haut président de la province de Silésie, poste qu'il abandonne après la condamnation de son frère Harry von Arnim à une peine de prison. À partir de 1868, Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg fut membre de la chambre des seigneurs de Prusse, et resta membre du Reichstag, de 1871 à 1884.

Il préside le Reichstag.

Famille
Arnim épouse le 6 juillet 1865 la comtesse Mathilde , née baronne von Kauder (1841-9 septembre 1874). Le couple a plusieurs enfants :
 Guido Adolf Georg Dietlof (né le 22 août 1867 et mort le 15 avril 1933) marié en 1893 avec la comtesse Alexandra zu  (né le 3 juillet 1868 et mort le 28 avril 1943)
  (né le 17 décembre 1868 et mort le 3 octobre 1945)
marié en 1897 (divorce en 1923) avec Bertha comtesse von der Schulenburg (1874–1949)
marié en 1924 avec Gertrud Hirche
 Flora Mathilde Karoline Dorothea (née le 22 novembre 1871 et morte le 28 janvier 1945) avec Walter Schmidt von Schmidtseck (né le 22 septembre 1865 et mort le 28 janvier 1945)

Après la mort de sa première femme, il épouse Euphemie Helene von Schweinitz und Krayn (née le 25 avril 1846 et mort le 9 janvier 1930) à Verahof le 30 novembre 1875, la sœur de sa première épouse. Le couple a plusieurs enfants :
 Friedrich Abraham Jakob Adolf (né le 17 juillet 1878)
 Helene Mathilde (née le 26 juin 1876)

Bibliographie
 Wolfgang von der Groeben: Verzeichnis der Mitglieder des Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen 1844 bis 2006. Düsseldorf 2006, S. 16.
 : Dietlof Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg. Limburg an der Lahn, S. 35–39.
 Bernd Haunfelder, Klaus Erich Pollmann: Reichstag des Norddeutschen Bundes 1867–1870. Historische Photographien und biographisches Handbuch (= Photodokumente zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien. Band 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, .
 Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1953 ().

Liens externes

 Dietlof Friedrich Adolf Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg sur daten.digitale-sammlungen.de

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Athens Riviera
Introduction Description Beaches Things To Do Transport
The Athens Coast has all-round appeal, offering warm, reliable sunshine, soft sands and sparkling sea.
Resorts along the coastline southeast of Athens provide a triple whammy of sun, sand and sea with easy proximity to the ancient ruins of the Acropolis, the archaeological museums and many other great attractions. Escaping the hustle and bustle of this most vibrant and buzzing of European capitals to a smaller town nearby brings the opportunity to relax between sightseeing trips, unwind by the warm Aegean and enjoy the facilities of the some of the mainland's finest hotels.
First stop and just a short distance from Athens city centre is the sophisticated resort of Glyfada. A popular getaway for local Athenians, the golden sandy beach, boutique shops and weekly market make it popular with beach lovers and shoppers alike. Vouliagmeni is an upmarket resort with a picturesque harbour and a number of good beaches. If offers some great resort hotels and a wide range of eateries, making it a favourite retreat among Athenians for short breaks out of town. A little further down the coast is Lagonissi, a sophisticated town of luxury homes with numerous restaurants and cafes at its heart. Visitors are attracted to the well maintained beach for its scenic views, sparklingly clear sea and excellent facilities. The beautiful beach resort of Anavyssos is where many wealthy Athenians have country homes perched on the hillside facing the pristine beach. It is renowned for its clean, shallow sea and is ideal for families with young children. Tall pine trees offer shade, and sea breezes make it a favourite spot for windsurfers too. On a rocky promontory at the southernmost tip is Sounio, one of the most upmarket areas of Greece, where the Temple of Poseidon was originally erected around 600 BC. If you look closely at the remains of the Doric columns you may spot the engraved name of Byron, possibly from his visit in 1810. He was so captured by the beauty and grace of the temple that he included it in his poem: "Isles of Greece". The small town of Nea Makri is an idyllic spot with a mild climate on the opposite, southwest coast of this finger of mainland Greece, near the port of Rafina. It has a harbour lined with palm trees, tavernas and yachts, their sleek modernity in sharp contrast with the ruins of the newly excavated temple of Isis.
Athens is a holiday destination with more historical attractions than you could possibly get round, even in a fortnight. But it isn't just about culture when you venture a little further south along the Athens coast. In nearby resorts where the pace of life is slower, your holiday will have the sun and sea-salt flavour we Brits just adore, while you can still dip in and out of Ancient Greece whenever the mood strikes.
The Athens Coast has all-round appeal. After all, what doesn't it have? Warm, reliable sunshine, soft, sandy beaches and sparkling sea? Yes. A wealth of history and a lively city within easy reach? Yes. Good restaurants in picturesque settings? Yes. Water sports, children's activities, and chilling out!; you name it, you'll find it here.
Greek food is hard to beat when it comes to fresh, flavoursome and healthy treats, Great value and stylish restaurants can be found throughout Greece.. Springing up are modern american-style eateries and cosy bars, where fast food staples such as burgers can be found. In Athens and the neighbouring resorts, spanning out from the city, the choice is wide, with fresh seafood restaurants, pastry and ice-cream parlours, traditional tavernas and pizza and pasta places. There is something to suit every palate and budget.
If you're on a self-catering holiday, or simply fancy a browse, then head to the weekly market at Glyfada on a Thursday. It's a sensory experience not to be missed, with a marvellous array of aromas, textures and tastes to be sampled before you buy. Here, you'll find Greek specialities such as mountain tea, honey, olive oil, and everything you need for making your own dolmades at home.
Athens city is wide awake around the clock and has some of the best nightlife on the island. After a late dinner, why not listen to some live music at the clubs in Syngrou and Poseidonos Avenues? Or head to the area of Gazi, known for its many art cafes and trendy bars which attract visitors back, year after year.
Athens holidays are hard to beat for the sheer joy of shopping, with a vast choice of tourist shops in the areas of Plaka and Monastiraki. The busiest shopping street is the pedestrianised Ermou, off Syntagma Square where souvenirs, clothing and accessories can be found, and more upmarket shops are to be found in Kolonaki where you'll be tempted by a wide range of designer boutiques. Having avoided the development of large shopping centres found in most other cities, strolling around the streets of Athens is still a pleasurable day of discovery.
The best beaches on the Athens Coast
The best beaches in Athens are situated on the south-east coast, in Glyfada. Many of the beaches are private so you would have to pay to swim there. However, there are secluded rocky creeks which are less crowded than the main beaches.
Vouliagmeni Beach offers everything needed to enjoy a day out at the coast, with tennis and volleyball courts, water slide and children's play area.
Attica Zoological Park: Situated in the suburb of Spata this is a modern zoo and the only one of its kind in Greece. It is home to a wide range of animals including lions, tigers, black pumas, monkeys and reptiles. Educational presentations are put on daily demonstrating the activities of birds of prey and sea lions - a great day out for the whole family.
The National Gardens: Not just a feature of beauty to be admired, in the child-friendly gardens you'll also discover a small zoo and a playground. Relax and admire your surroundings while the kids let off some steam.
Mount Likavitos: Take a ride in a cable car to the top of Mount Likavitos and admire the view on the way. Once at the peak, relax with refreshments at the café you'll find there.
Sports: As you might imagine in the home city of the Olympics, Athens offers a wide range of sporting options. The beaches of Athens coast provide the opportunity for watersports, including waterskiing, windsurfing and jet-skiing. At Vouliagmeni, the Astir Beach Club has great facilities including showers, changing rooms with lockers, sun loungers and a volleyball court.
The Balux House Project: in the Athens suburb, Glyfada, is a great place to while away a day. It has a huge glass-fronted clubhouse furnished with squishy sofas, a library, gaming stations and board games. Children are welcome too, and for them there is a large playground both in and outdoors. There are sun loungers for hire on the beach, and an adults-only swimming pool at the original Balux next door. Enjoy hot chocolate and wood-fired pizzas while you relax. Entry and parking are free.
Open-air Cinema: The main one of these in the area is the Alpha Odeon, which puts on English-language screenings of mainstream films, with a first screening around dusk at 9pm and a second late showing at around 11pm. Don't expect a reverent hush here though. The noisy locals will be chatting and making phone calls as usual!
Taxi: You can flag one down on most street corners. Taxi fares in Athens are quite cheap and so for getting around in a group, this can be a very a cost-effective option.
Train: To travel south from Athens, you will need to go to Peloponnese Stat, one of the two main train stations in the city. Fares are discounted for under 26s and foreign students (ID Required).
Athens Metro: When in town, it's worthwhile taking a ride on the underground system here, if only to see the archaeological finds displayed at the exact spot they were discovered; other stops are decorated with work from well known Greek artists. Athens has 27 metro stations with 2 lines operating weekend services until 2am.
Blue Buses OASA: The blue bus network consists of more than 320 lines connecting the city centre with all the Athens suburbs and Piraeus. The buses run daily from 5am to 12:15am.
Thermal Buses (ETHEL): The ETHEL buses are the core lines connecting Athens and Piraeus city centre with the surrounding areas. There are several express bus routes to and from Athens International Airport. Thermal buses run from 5am to 11pm.
Trolley Buses: The old yellow trams of Athens past have now been replaced with cutting edge purple and yellow trolley buses with digital displays. These run daily from 5am to 12.30am.


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Runes Alphabet: Origins and History
futhark, futhark runes, Nordic runes, Rune Definition, runes, runic, vikings - October 4, 2018
What are the futhark runes ? the Meaning
The runic alphabet or futhark - a term formed from the name of the first six letters of this alphabet, is the alphabet used by peoples of Germanic culture and civilization such as the Germanic peoples of the continent (Western Germanic) to write proto-Germanic the ancestor common to all Germanic languages, such as the languages of German and English for example.
But the runes were also used to write the Old Norse of the Scandinavians, and the Frisian of the Anglo-Saxons. The etymology of the word rune is quite complex, because it is very old, but it seems that there is no Indo-European root of this word, the word rune is probably a purely Germanic invention.
On the etymology of the word rune, we know that it means in proto-Germanic "secret and mystery", from the word rūna. There are several types of futhark that have evolved over time and their use, it is likely that the futhark of the early ages of the Germanic civilization is not the same as the current runic alphabet.
All we know is that runes are as old as the world, that they are not just letters of the alphabet, and that they have a spiritual origin and an important religious use among the ancient Germans, Scandinavians, Icelanders, and the neo-peasants of the Asatru religion.
Some Germans will keep the alphabet of their Germanic civilization and culture, the runic, after their conversion to the Latin alphabet by Christians for a very long time and to this day.
The Meaning of the Runes
The futhark was created by speakers of a Germanic dialect to transcribe their language in writing, Proto-Germanic. Scholars" claim that the runes are entirely derived from the Greek Latin alphabet, but modern and more serious research by specialists in etymology confirms that there is only one inspiration from the Latin and not a simple and stupid copy, certainly, the runes and letters are close, and that is why it is simple to translate the runic into Latin, or the Latin into runic.
But the origin of the futhark is very old, at a time when the Germans and Greeks had no ties between them. The oldest runic inscription in the modern form of this alphabet dates from 150 BC, the expansion of the modern form of the futhark to other Germanic peoples would date from 200 AD. We have discovered a very complete inscription of the runic alphabet dating from 650 AD, this inscription shows us a futhark of 24 runes.
The runes are engraved on stone, however some fragments of the runes exist on wood, bark and bone, and some on parchment, the most famous being the Codex Runicus.
The origin of the runes is also spiritual and religious, according to the poetic Edda, (the Völuspá), as well as the Hávamál, the discovery of the runes is thus attributed to the God Odin the allfather.
The latter was hung from the World Tree, the Yggdrasil, while he was pierced by his own spear, Gungnir, for nine days and nine nights so that he could acquire the necessary wisdom and knowledge of the hidden things of and for his creation that is the universe, including the runes.
Almighty Odin thus gave the runes to the speakers of the old ancestral peoples of the Germans to put in writing, the language of proto-Germanic.
The meaning of the Nordic runes, their symbol, and their reading
Runes have two uses :
one to serve as a letter of an alphabet
the other as a magical, religious, and spiritual symbol.
Although runes were used for writing works such as the early versions of the Völuspá, Hávamál, or later, the Bible, they were used more for short inscriptions than for a complete text.
Although there is a significant community of Muslims in Northern Europe, there is still no runic version of the Koran, and a large proportion of Muslims do not know the meaning of the runes and cannot write in Runic, a simple thing for people of Northern Europe, Germanic culture, and Asatruar scholars but also Christians of Germanic and Nordic origin.
Magic is very strong in runes, it is difficult to translate some of the known runic inscriptions, simply because they are magical inscriptions, and therefore the meaning of words or even their meanings can be very different. There are a good number of runic inscriptions on the weapons of the Germans, these have mainly a magical meaning. Magic comes from the Goddess Freyja who after her invention gave it to the Gods, then to the mortals.
Tacit, in his book Germania, describes a divinatory use of Germanic women (the Völvas) as very important prophets of the Asatru religion. Since 1999 there have been information versions of the runic alphabet, keyboards are in runic and are in use in Northern Europe, although it is possible to have them all over the world via the Internet market. Otherwise there are fonts for writing in runic, which can be found very easily on the net.
The contemporary use of runes, and like its ancient use, there are several uses. Literature is an art in which the runes are very present, the names of these 5 great writers are known to all: J. R. R. R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, J. K. Rowling, Erik L'Homme and Rick Riordan all use runes. Runes also have a strong cultural use for X objects, works, and architectures.
Politics is not to be outdone in the use of runes and some political parties, often nationalist, like the use of runes because they are purely Germanic symbols. In religion runes are also well present, in Asatru the use and use of runes is well known, entire texts of this belief are in rune. Asatruar magic rites must have runes. Runes are not unknown to Christianity, as there are runic Bibles available in Northern Europe.
Muslims are still the only members of a religious community who do not wish to use the runes, preferring the Arabic or Latin language, this gives a very bad image of Muslims who thus show a clear desire for non-integration in Northern Europe.
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Runas y oraculos y rituales vikuimgos
Ellie May 28, 2019
Hi, I'm interested in the large top left bind rune labelled "symbol of protection" in the "Norse runes for luck and protection" image. Do you have the source for this as I've never seen it before? It seems to have an extra line on the right side, near the middle, making it non-symmetrical. Do you think this is intentional or an error when it was drawn up? Thank you


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Herbert Powell je fiktivní postava z amerického animovaného seriálu Simpsonovi.

Je nevlastním bratrem Homera Simpsona, oproti němu je však mnohem hubenější, má plnou hlavu vlasů a je bystřejší. Poprvé se objevil v epizodě 2. řady Ach, rodný bratře, kde tě mám?, když Homer zjistil, že má nevlastního bratra, který je výsledkem krátkodobého poměru mezi jeho otcem Abem a pracovnicí pouťové tančírny Gaby, která byla zároveň prostitutkou. Rok poté, co dal dítě k adopci, se Abe oženil s Monou, která trvala na tom, aby slíbil, že Homerovi nikdy neřekne o Herbovi ani o tom, jak byl počat. Herba vychovávali jeho adoptivní rodiče Edward a Mililani Powellovi, na vysoké škole se živil příležitostnými pracemi a poté založil Powell Motors, automobilovou společnost se sídlem v Detroitu. Herb je výjimkou ze "simpsonovského genu", který způsobuje, že všichni mužští členové rodiny Simpsonových postupně s dospíváním ztrácejí inteligenci, protože Herb je inteligentní, úspěšný a schopný obchodník. Herb se s radostí dozvěděl, že má pokrevní rodinu, sblížil se s dětmi a najal Homera jako zástupce průměrných Američanů, aby navrhl auto. Auto bylo propadákem, přivedlo firmu na mizinu a Herb Homera jako bratra naštvaně odmítl a stal se pouličním tulákem. Epizodu napsal Jeff Martin, ale nápad, aby Herba namluvil Danny DeVito, přednesl Sam Simon.

Někteří byli smutným koncem epizody rozladěni, a proto se producenti rozhodli natočit pokračování. Herb se znovu objevil v následující řadě v dílu Brácho, můžeš postrádat dva tácy? Nyní na mizině a bez domova se nakrátko usadil v domácnosti Simpsonových, přestože jeho silné antipatie vůči Homerovi přetrvávaly. Homer Herbovi půjčil 2000 dolarů, které použil na sestrojení vynálezu, který na základě pozorování Maggie překládal dětskou řeč do srozumitelné angličtiny. Začal svůj nový výrobek vyrábět ve velkém a získal zpět své jmění. Z vděčnosti nakoupil dárky pro každého člena rodiny a s odpuštěním se Homerovi odvděčil. Homerův "zřídka vídaný nevlastní bratr" měl od této epizody jen jednu krátkou mluvenou roli: DeVito si svou roli zopakoval v epizodě 24. řady Střídání poručníků, v níž je slyšet Powellův vzkaz na záznamníku: "Ahoj, dovolali jste se Herbu Powellovi. Jsem opět chudý.".

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Ambassador Sherry Rehman met with, Senator Christopher S. Murphy (D) of Connecticut, member Foreign Relations Committee and Senator Tim Kaine ( D)of Virginia , member Foreign Relations Committee and Armed Services Committees, at the Hill, Washington DC on January 30th 2013
To kick start the Embassy's outreach campaign with the new Congress, Ambasssador Sherry Rehman on January 30, 2013 met with D…emocrat Senators Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut and Tim Kaine of Virginia in separate meetings. The Senators have recently been elected to the Senate and are members of important Senate Committees. Senator Murphy is serving on the Foreign Relations Committee whereas Senator Kaine, former Governor of Virginia, is a member of the Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees.
Discussions focused on the Afghan reconciliation process, the US draw down and Pakistan's efforts to counter IEDs. The Senators were briefed on the support that Pakistan has been extending to the Afghan High Peace Council's initiatives. She also informed them about actions Pakistan has initiated to restrict the smuggling of bomb making materials across the Pak-Afghan border. Ambassador Rehman emphasized the importance for taking Pakistan's positions on issues critical to Pak-US relation into account for the Congress to reach informed decisions. The Senators who expressed support for strong Pak-US relations agreed with the Ambassador and promised to remain in contact.
In a related set of engagements, the DCM, Dr. Asad Majeed, and the Defence Attache, Brig. Abdullah Dogar met with senior foreign policy staff of Senator Jim Inhofe (Republican-Oklahoma) the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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