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Joseph & Tharexa
Joseph and Tharexa were introduced through mutual friends over 7 years ago. Slowly, this relationship blossomed from being acquaintances into one of love, trust and support. Joseph (finally) proposed on a trip to Italy, in the picturesque town of Riomaggiore, in Cinque Terre, Italy on May 11, 2016.
The initial plan was to do a very small wedding of fewer than 40 people. With both sides of the family accustomed to 400-600 guest weddings this would prove to be quite the challenge (and expensive!). Plans of a destination wedding or even eloping to Las Vegas became very real possibilities. After much deliberation and to ensure close family and friends could attend, a local venue was chosen. This would also make it easy for Tharexa and Joseph's grandmothers, the matriarchs and oldest living members of the family, to attend. Their presence at the wedding was important.
They planned the wedding over the course of 6 months after selecting an auspicious wedding date (based on the Hindu calendar). They agreed on keeping the wedding simple, traditional and intimate. The wedding took place at the Richmond Hill Hindu Temple on May 22, 2017, followed by a traditional vegetarian luncheon. The wedding was planned, coordinated and executed with the help of family and friends. They incorporated a live "Nadaswaram" (traditional musical instruments played at Hindu weddings) to capture the divinity of the sacred vows of a Hindu marriage.
Their wedding was a testament to how a life of partnership should begin, with the incorporation of the 7 vows of a traditional Hindu marriage: (i) to be helpful to each other in every way, (ii) protect each other and provide courage and strength, (iii) grow wealthy and prosperous together, (iv) be faithful to each other, increase love and respect for each other and our families, (v) pray to be blessed with healthy children, (vi) pray for a life of joy, prosperity and peace, (vii) pray and ask for patience and maturity to make a lasting bond.
In the end 40 guests did indeed prove to be a challenge – there were approximately 125 people in attendance. The intimate ceremony, along with their closest friends and family, highlighted the love and togetherness of their community and union of marriage.
Wedding photographer: Cloud9 Fotos
Wedding Cake: Cakes by DJ
Hair & Makeup: Modern Belle by Sobia Raj
Ceremony: Richmond Hill Hindu Temple
Food: Nantha Caters
Music, entertainment services: DJ Nish
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Did you know that making newspaper from used paper instead of from trees takes about 50% less energy while reducing related air pollution by about 95%. Millions upon millions of trees could be saved if we recycled our papers.
In one day the U.S. disposes of more than 90 million bottles and jars, 46 million cans, and 25 million TV sets. Recycling has become a must in order to preserve the delicate balance of the natural systems which are vital to life on this planet. Ed Begley, Jr. demonstrates a wealth of innovative tips that cost us nothing, but help us reduce waste through recycling, reuse and precycling.


For 125 years, YWCA has worked towards creating an inclusive and thriving community transformed by racial and gender equity, with peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people. This Black History Month, we're shining a light on YWCA's racial equity legacy, as well as our upcoming Luncheon keynote speakers.
Read what YWCA accomplished in 2018, as well as the impact YWCA plans to make in the coming year. Celebrate YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish's 125th anniversary in 2019 by joining us in our mission of eliminating racism and empowering women.
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Q: Image Processing (OpenCV with PHP) - Issue with the exec command I have setup OpenCV 3.0 with python3.4 binding on ubuntu 14.04. I run OpenCV using virtualenv. So, everytime I have to run the workon cv command.

Now I want to run a python script that uses OpenCV library from PHP using the exec command.
exec("workon cv");
exec("python3 hough_circles.py")

This is the error :
sh: 1: workon: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "hough_circles.py", line 1, in <module>
    import cv2
ImportError: No module named 'cv2'

A: Two issues...
1. PATH to workon
The error message is telling you it doesn't know where workon is, so you better tell it the full path to where it is so exec() can find it, e.g.:
exec("/usr/local/bin/workon cv");

The /usr/local/bin above is just an example, if you want to know where it is on your system, run:
which workon

and use the output.
2. Subprocesses are independent
Even when you have got that set correctly, the process that executes workon then exits and you start a fresh, shiny new one - in which you have not run workon. So, you better do both things in the same process like this:
exec("/usr/local/bin/workon cv && /path/to/python3 hough_circles.py");

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Lumaro Horsetravel was set up by Bert and Rob Claessens in 2011. An authentic father and son company that originally just rented out horseboxes, but that changed very quickly. The demand for horse transport grew steadily, just like Rob Claessens' passion for transporting horses. Lumaro thus decided to also start transporting horses themselves.
After Rob was once sent on a mission to pick up the, at the time, most well-known dressage pony of the Netherlands, it really started to appeal. Rob Claessens and his father Bert expanded Lumaro Horsetravel step by step. The company eventually built up an extensive fleet and a large number of new and returning customers who make use of the services offered.
When you call us, Rob Claessens will answer your call. He is the co-founder and owner. He is happy to help you further with your question.
On 1st April 2016, Bert Claessens, co-founder of Lumaro Horsetravel, passed away. We continue his drive to this day.
Lumaro Horsetravel is a 100% top professional transport company.
I would without a doubt call them any time I need transport across Europe.
"We have been working together with Lumaro Horsetravel since several years.
"For my trading yard I regularly need transport, including from and to abroad.


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Lnicznik siewny (Camelina sativa  (L.) Crantz) – gatunek rośliny z rodziny kapustowatych. Rośnie dziko w Azji i Europie. Zwyczajowe nazwy to także: lnianka, rydz (może powodować nieporozumienia wynikające ze skojarzenia tej rośliny z mleczajem rydzem), lennica, judra, rydzyk, ryżyk. Nazwa "rydz" pochodzi od brunatno-rdzawego zabarwienia nasion. Niegdyś uprawiany jako roślina oleista. We florze Polski jest archeofitem, niezbyt pospolicie występuje na całym niżu.

Rozmieszczenie geograficzne
Lnicznik siewny wywodzi się najprawdopodobniej z Europy lub regionu eurosyberyjskiego. Obecnie dzięki działalności człowieka jest szeroko rozprzestrzeniony w całej Europie oraz na znacznych obszarach Azji aż po Japonię. Zawleczony został również do Afryki Północnej (Tunezja), Australii, Ameryki Północnej (USA, Kanada) i Ameryki Południowej (Argentyna, Urugwaj).

Morfologia
 Pokrój Roślina naga lub owłosiona gwiazdkowatymi włoskami (co najwyżej z niewielką domieszką włosków prostych).

 Łodyga Wzniesiona, prosta, cienka, o wysokości przeważnie 30-70 (100) cm, nierozgałęziająca się.

 Liście Ulistnienie skrętoległe. Liście siedzące, zazwyczaj całobrzegie, czasami z rzadka i płytko ząbkowane.

 Kwiaty Mają 4-działkowy kielich, 4-płatkową żółtawobiałą koronę, 6 pręcików i 1 słupek. Tworzą grono na szczycie pędu.

 Owoc Wielonasienna spłaszczona łuszczynka szerokości 3,5-5,5 mm, o silnie wydętych klapach.

Biologia i ekologia
Roślina jednoroczna, przeważnie jara. Siedliska ruderalne i pola uprawne (chwast).

Zastosowanie

 Roślina uprawna. Badania archeologiczne wskazują, że była uprawiana w Europie już co najmniej 3 000 lat temu. Ma wysoką zawartość wielonienasyconych kwasów tłuszczowych (35-45% to kwas α-linolenowy, a 15-20% – kwas linolowy).
 Z jej nasion otrzymuje się olej zwany olejem rydzowym lub niemieckim olejem sezamowym. Używa się go do wytwarzania mydła, do opału, czasami do celów spożywczych. Zaawansowane są badania nad wykorzystaniem oleju z lnicznika jako paliwa do silników spalinowych.
 Nasiona są dobrą paszą dla drobiu.
 Roślina lecznicza – przypisywane jest jej takie działanie jak: obniżanie poziomu cholesterolu LDL, przyspieszanie gojenia ran, odleżyn, oparzeń i owrzodzeń, niwelowanie objawów atopowego zapalenia skóry oraz łagodzenie wyprysków i dermatoz, zmniejszanie utraty wody przez naskórek oraz zwiększanie elastyczności skóry, przypisuje mu  się działanie ochronnie na wątrobę, serce, naczynia krwionośne, trzustkę, jelita i nerki, normalizowanie poziomu cukru we krwi, łagodzenie objawów artretyzmu i reumatyzmu oraz alergii. Także ze względu na wysoką zawartość tokoferoli skutecznie ma wymiatać wolne rodniki, opóźniając procesy starzenia tkanek.
 W przeszłości z nasion tłoczono olej rydzowy, wykorzystywany także do celów spożywczych. Ponieważ roślina ta ma bardzo małe wymagania glebowe, można było ją siać na glebach, na których nie udawała się inna uprawa. Zostało to utrwalone w powiedzeniu "lepszy rydz niż nic". W ubogim gospodarstwie, w którym brakować mogło tłuszczu zwierzęcego ("omasty"), zastąpić go można było stosunkowo łatwo dostępnym i tanim olejem roślinnym, np. właśnie rydzowym. Olej z nasion lnicznika zawiera wyjątkowo dużo kwasów tłuszczowych omega-3. Jest także bogaty w antyoksydanty, co przekłada się na długi okres ważności i odporność na jełczenie. Te względy powodują, że może on znaleźć szersze zastosowanie do celów spożywczych w przyszłości.

Zagrożenia i ochrona
Gatunek umieszczony na polskiej czerwonej liście w kategorii VU (narażony).

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Danuta Kurasiak-Popowska. 2019. Lnianka siewna – roślina historyczna czy perspektywiczna? Fragmenta Agronomica 36(2): 42-54

Kapustowate
Rośliny lecznicze

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A lifting services provider has gained SAFEcontractor accreditation for its work in improving health & safety protection.
Intended to reward UK contractors with high standards of health & safety practice, Morris Material Handling was accredited for its work in improving services relating to the servicing and repair of lifting equipment.
However, previous winners typically secure the award for improving health & safety training, personal protective equipment, first aid and accident reporting and risk assessments.
Manufacturing Talk quoted Pat Campbell, Morris Material Handling's operations director, Maintenance Services saying: "We have always held an excellent health and safety record within our field and this latest award is testimony to this fact.
"We are obviously delighted to have secured SAFEcontractor accreditation as it is a widely recognised industry standard and one that many blue chip organisations use as a primary means of selecting suitable contractors with whom to work."
Morris won the award following an extensive assessment of its health & safety documentation and its comparison with the required SAFEcontractor Charter Standards before accreditation can be granted.


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Q: How do I unit test code that creates a new Process? How can I test the following method?
It is a method on a concrete class implementation of an interface.
I have wrapped the Process class with an interface that only exposes the methods and properties I need. The ProcessWrapper class is the concrete implementation of this interface.
    public void Initiate(IEnumerable<Cow> cows)
    {
        foreach (Cow c in cows)
        {
            c.Process = new ProcessWrapper(c);
            c.Process.Start();
            count++;
        }
    }

A: There are two ways to get around this. The first is to use dependency injection. You could inject a factory and have Initiate call the create method to get the kind of ProcessWrapper you need for your test.
The other solution is to use a mocking framework such as TypeMock, that will let you work around this. TypeMock basically allows you to mock anything, so you could use it to provide a mock object instead of the actual ProcessWrapper instances.

A: I'm not familiar with C# (I prefer mine without the hash), but you need some sort of interface to the process (IPC or whatever is the most convenient method) so you can send it test requests and get results back. At the simplest level, you would just send a message to the process and receive the result. Or you could have more granularity and send more specific commands from your test harness. It depends on how you have set up your unit testing environment, more precisely how you send the test commands, how you receive them and how you report the results.
I would personally have a test object inside the process that simply receives, runs & reports the unit test results and have the test code inside that object.

A: What does your process do?  Is there any way you could check that it is doing what it's supposed to do?  For example, it might write to a file or a database table.  Or it might expose an API (IPC, web-service, etc.) that you could try calling with test data.
From a TDD perspective, it might make make sense to plug in a "mock/test process" that performs some action that you can easily check.  (This may require code changes to allow your test code to inject something.)  This way, you're only testing your invocation code, and not-necessarily testing an actual business process.  You could then have different unit tests to test your business process.


Lightweight and compact: It has minimal impact on the weight of your backpack.
Environmentally friendly: No fuel canisters, no chemical emissions, no batteries, less carbon.
Unlimited fuel sources: Cook a meal using the twigs you collect on your hike or solidified alcohol.
After filled with wood, can burn continuously about 20 minutes at a time, the greater the density of fuel, the longer for burning.


Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PSF) has been entertaining audiences for more than 25 years with world-class professional theatre productions. Each summer 40,000+ visitors enjoy more than 200 blockbuster musicals, comedies, Shakespeare, children's theatre, and other classic performances.
Award-winning actors, directors, and designers from around the country, come to PSF each summer to produce Broadway caliber performances close to home. Before the show, enjoy live music "on the green" with a selection of artisan sandwiches, salads, fresh fruit parfaits, and delectable sweets at the Shakespeare Café. Or pack your own picnic, complete with a bottle of cheer, and relax in the ambiance of the beautiful renaissance style music.
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is the professional theatre at DeSales University. All performances are held on the Center Valley campus at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts.
Two air-conditioned theatres with easy drop off and pick up.
Free and ample parking, including for buses and motorcoach.
A variety of dining options available on campus in private rooms in the beautiful University Center, within walking distance of the theatre.
Close to great restaurants and activities in nearby historic downtown Bethlehem, Allentown, and Easton.
Easy access to major roadways – I-78 and the PA Turnpike – just 50 miles north of Philadelphia and 90 miles west of New York City.
Red carpet service for groups.


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Andrés Orozco-Estrada (* 14. Dezember 1977 in Medellín, Antioquia) ist ein in Wien lebender kolumbianischer Dirigent.

Leben und Wirken

Studium
Andrés Orozco-Estrada erhielt als Kind Geigenunterricht und im Alter von 15 Jahren ersten Dirigierunterricht. Nach einem Studium in Bogotá an der Universität Xaveriana wurde er 1997 an der Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien in die Dirigierklasse von Uroš Lajovic aufgenommen und schloss 2003 sein Studium mit einem Dirigat des Radio-Symphonieorchesters Wien im Wiener Musikverein "mit Auszeichnung" ab.

Wirken als Orchesterdirigent
2004 sprang Orozco-Estrada kurzfristig bei einem Konzert der Wiener Festwochen des Tonkünstler-Orchesters Niederösterreich im Wiener Musikverein ein. Dieses Konzert, nach dem Orozco-Estrada von der Wiener Presse als "das Wunder von Wien" gefeiert wurde, führte zu einer intensiven Zusammenarbeit zwischen ihm und dem Orchester, sowie zu Einladungen zahlreicher internationaler Orchester. Von 2009 bis 2015 leitete er dieses Orchester als Chefdirigent.

Orozco-Estrada war zudem von 2005 bis 2009 Chefdirigent des Großen Orchesters Graz "recreation", mit dem er neben Abonnementreihen auch regelmäßige Auftritte beim Festival "Styriarte" in Graz bestritt. 2007 debütierte er mit einem ausschließlich baskischer Musik gewidmeten Konzert beim Sinfonieorchester des Baskenlandes Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi. Von 2009 bis 2013 leitete er dieses Orchester als Chefdirigent.

In der Saison 2011/2012 gab Orozco-Estrada sein US-Debüt mit der amerikanischen Orchesterakademie New World Symphony. Seit 2013 war er designierter Musikdirektor und ab 2014 für fünf Jahre Musikdirektor des Houston Symphony Orchestra in Texas. Zudem übernahm er von 2014 bis 2021 die Position des Chefdirigenten beim hr-Sinfonieorchester als Nachfolger von Paavo Järvi. Seit der Spielzeit 2020/2021 war er Chefdirigent der Wiener Symphoniker, bis er im April 2022 wegen Differenzen mit dem Orchester mit sofortiger Wirkung zurücktrat.

Gastdirigate führten zu einer Zusammenarbeit mit Orchestern wie unter anderem den Berliner Philharmonikern, den Wiener Philharmonikern, den Münchner Philharmonikern, dem Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, dem Deutschen Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, den Philharmonikern Hamburg, der NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, den Düsseldorfer Symphonikern, dem Staatsorchester Stuttgart, den Bamberger Symphonikern, dem Sinfonieorchester Basel, dem Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, dem Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, dem Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, dem Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, der Sinfonia Varsovia, der Houston Symphony, dem hr-Sinfonieorchester sowie der Slowakischen und der Slowenischen Philharmonie. Weiterhin arbeitet Orozco-Estrada mit dem Kolumbianischen Nationalorchester und den Philharmonikern von Bogotá sowie mit dem Mahler Chamber Orchestra, dem New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra und dem Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart zusammen.

Orozco-Estrada engagiert sich neben seinem schwerpunktmäßigen klassischen und romantischen Repertoire für die zeitgenössischer Musik, insbesondere für die Werke österreichischer, spanischer und südamerikanischer Komponisten der Gegenwart. Unter anderem brachte er Werke von Christian Muthspiel, Johannes Maria Staud und Gerald Resch zur Uraufführung.

Wirken als Operndirigent
Im Bereich Oper leitete er Produktionen von unter anderem Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Die Zauberflöte, Fidelio, L'italiana in Algeri, Don Carlos, Rigoletto, La Bohème, Tosca, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Hoffmanns Erzählungen, La traviata, La Cenerentola, La Wally und Elektra an der Staatsoper Stuttgart, der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, an der Wiener Staatsoper, am Theater an der Wien und an der Boston Lyric Opera.

Diskografie (Auswahl)

 Mahler: 1. Symphonie. Mit dem Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, Live-Einspielung, die Einspielung wurde vom Klassik-Magazin "Crescendo" in die Rubrik "die besten Mahler-Alben" aufgenommen  (Preiser Records; 2010)
 Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Lobgesang. Mit Christiane Oelze, Simona Saturová, Ian Bostridge, Chorus sine nomine, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich (Preiser Records; 2011)

Ehrungen
 2015: Großes Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Bundesland Niederösterreich

Weblinks

 Website von Andrés Orozco-Estrada
 Andrés Orozco-Estrada bei der Künstleragentur Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm
 Interview mit KlassikInfo

Einzelnachweise

Dirigent
Träger des Großen Goldenen Ehrenzeichens für Verdienste um das Bundesland Niederösterreich
Musiker (Wien)
Kolumbianer
Österreicher
Geboren 1977
Mann


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Poolhall Junkies är en amerikansk långfilm från 2002 i regi av Mars Callahan, med Chazz Palminteri, Ricky Schroder, Rod Steiger och Michael Rosenbaum i rollerna.

Handling
En ung biljardspelare som inte trodde han kan förlora. Några år senare måste han vinna för att rädda sin brors skinn. Hans f.d. tränare (Chazz Palminteri) gör allt för att han inte ska vinna. Till sin hjälp har han som tur är Mike (Christopher Walken).

Rollista

Källor

Externa länkar

Filmer 2002
Amerikanska dramafilmer


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Q: Paint method in java I want to ask about the Paint method in java when i execute my code the Paint method gets called.
So how to stop the paint method?
note: I made a button to do the paint method.
Usually when i execute the code the Paint method gets called by default .. so i need to stop it and make my button when i click on it , calls the Paint method.
here the code
import javax.swing.JApplet;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Color;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.Random;

public class RandDraw extends JApplet  implements ActionListener {

JButton Draw1 = new JButton ("Draw");

public void init() {
  this.setLayout (new FlowLayout());
  this.add(Draw1);
  Draw1.addActionListener(this);
}

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
  if(e.getSource()==Draw1)
    repaint();
  }
}

public void paint(Graphics g){
  for(int i=0;i<50;i++){
    g.setColor
      (new Color(i*655%256,i*355%256,i*958%256));
    Random r = new Random ();
    int rr= r.nextInt(40)+10;
    Random r1 = new Random ();
    int rr1= r1.nextInt(70)+10;
    Random r2 = new Random ();
    int rr2= r2.nextInt(10)+10;
    g.fillOval(2*rr1,rr*rr2,O+O1*2,O+O1*2);
  }
}
}

A: *

*Add a boolean member variable doDraw to your class. Mark it as volatile.

*In the ActionListener for the button, toggle the value of doDraw. If it's true, make it false; if it's false, make it true.

*Finally, enclose the body of your paint() method with
if (doDraw) {
    // Rest of the code here
}
And there you go!

A: Normally you should override paintComponent(), which eventually gets called by paint().  Do any of your fancy stuff in paintComponent().
Not sure I understand the rest of your question - see Ernest's response.


Check out this fast-paced, information-packed overview of "teaching at a distance" and educational technology from the makers of the wildly popular Crash Course educational series.
This might be a great video to share with students before beginning an online unit or course.
Finally, it is an interesting example of instructional video! If you are interested in creating your own instructional videos, watch this and consider what you can learn from it in terms of creating your own videos. Pace? Length? Visual cuts and examples? Colors?
And what do we need to do to meet the requirements of universal design?
As a follow-up to my last post about creating interactive images using Google Drawings, I thought I'd share this video about doing something similar with Google Slides.
Again, my source is Richard Byrne and his wonderful blog Free Technology for Teachers.
When creating such interactivity with Google Slides, you can design a first slide that has interactive links to the other slides in the presentation! (I did NOT know this!) This allows a slide presentation to function more like a website, keeping students interacting in more ways than just clicking to the next slide.
This is an easy example of how we can design digital learning modules that engage students by allowing them some choice in how they approach the subject matter. Students can easily repeat slides. They can choose the order in which they access material.
I have my students work in groups fairly frequently.
Some of the most critical skills in my courses involve seeking and giving feedback on works in progress, and functioning in collaborative community. Sometimes students work in pairs, sometimes in groups as big as five. They might trade short portions of work for quick review, or spend hours discussing longer works.
In hybrid and online classes, I want this work to continue, so I need ways to assess it that don't rely on my circling among working groups in a classroom. After all, my online students are working in places and times of their own choosing, often long after I (a professor of middle age and a fairly boring life), have gone to bed!
How can I know that the groups met? How can I find out what they did, what difficulties they encountered with the course concepts, what questions they need answered so that we can go forward?
My initial thoughts involved having students fill out a group report sheet, something that would ask the questions I had about their work and required the signatures of all present at the meeting.
That was okay, but they hated filling out the sheets and frankly, I didn't much enjoy reading them. They felt lifeless and led me to think the group work was failing.
But when I talked to them about their group work, they were excited and articulate.
Hmmm. Maybe the group work isn't the problem. Maybe the reporting is the problem.
When I design pedagogical experiences, I consider students my "audience." So I asked myself, as I always do with anything I create to be read or experience by others, what does my audience value and how can I use that to achieve my purpose?
Eventually, I landed on the notion that students love selfies and video and to watch their peers' productions of the same.
So I revised my group report assignment, which took very little effort.
Now, instead of writing group reports, my students film their reports on a phone or laptop webcam, at the end of their group meeting.
They have a specific list of questions from me which each person must answer in the course of the video. They simply set the camera running, and pass the camera around as they answer them. A group of four might create a video of six minutes or so (I have a maximum limit of 8). They simply upload the video to one of their Google Drives and share it with me for viewing.
What a hit! Students tell me they enjoy making the quick video reports, but as important, I love them–for several reasons.
First, students do a more complete job of articulating answers to my questions than they ever did using written forms–even though the questions are the same!
Second, I get to enjoy their personalities, which really come out when they create a video.
Third, because they are talking into a camera and I can observe non-verbal behaviors, I have found that I get a better sense of what they really do and don't understand as they articulate their answers to my questions.
Fourth, I learn their names much faster if I do these early in the term.
Finally, reviewing the videos is actually fun for me. The students are more relaxed and often very funny as they talk to me from a coffee shop or a dorm basement. It takes me less than a half an hour to review an entire class's worth of reports and it is a delight.
Next time you need groups of students to turn a report about their activities, consider having them create an informal video report, guided by a set of questions you devise. See what you think of the results.
This terrific episode of the CoolCat Teacher podcast features educator, professor, YouTuber Keith Hughes with tips on flipping your classroom and keeping students engaged and motivated.
Cool, huh? Hughes has spent his career and succeeded at engaging learners of all kinds.
The webpage also has a transcript if you prefer to read the interview rather than listen to it.
Check out other wonderful resources on The CoolCat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis.
True. Sort of. It depends.
Video projects can be advanced and require all that work. But using video in a class doesn't have to require a big production!
Or they can be more simple, a whole lot easier to manage, and still bring a liveliness to the classroom as students explore the difference between how words and images work together and how written words work on a page.
Here's an example most of us with students of high school age and older can try: ask students to film a one-take response, under sixty seconds, to something they have learned recently in class. No polishing or editing. Just respond to the question or prompt and post the video to share with the teacher or with the entire class.
Most students can do this quickly and easily on their smart phones. These can be uploaded to Dropbox or YouTube or a variety of other places. Trust me, they know how to do this.
I prefer having students upload them to their ".edu" Google Drives and then sharing the link with just me or the class, either via email or on our LMS. This allows for easier privacy and keeps my LMS from becoming bloated with video files.
If you use response papers in your course, why not switch a few of them out with these simple videos? And then, add a cognitive twist by having students talk about their experiences filming versus writing. Which do they like better and why? Talk to them about their performance in each area–which assignment produces stronger content? Higher student satisfaction? And why?
Together you can learn a lot that will help you think about teaching in your future and will help them think about effective communication in their futures.
Interested in making some short "explainer" videos to introduce concepts to your students?
What about asking your students to make such videos to demonstrate to you what they have learned in a unit? What a great alternative to a quiz!
And while all of this can be a ton of creative fun, if you just want to dabble in the idea of explainer videos, perhaps make a few and see how you like it, you can learn a lot by starting out with My Simple Show.
My Simple Show is a free (though there are paid versions with more bells and whistles) online engine for making explainer videos.
Its most unique feature: internal scaffolding! In other words, you tell it what type of thing you want to explain, and it suggests a structure.
Even better: you type in a script and it suggests images. And yes, you can provide your own images, or even a slide set if you wanted to.
At their website you'll find many examples, as well as a blog with tips and tricks.
It's a fun and simple tool for quick videos. Why not answer students' questions by sending a video to the class? If your course only meets once a week, why not send mid-week reminders of assignments using this easy tool?
I'm sure there are many other uses! Give it a try.
If you're like me, you don't like to store your instructional videos on YouTube for a variety of privacy reasons.
And space runs out on Vimeo pretty fast–suddenly you have to start paying if you make more than a few minutes of video a week.
But if you have an educational Google Drive, you have virtually limitless storage. And you can control much more carefully who can see your videos through Google's privacy settings. So why not store them there?
I never preferred to store videos on Google Drive because I couldn't figure out how to embed them. And the instructions I found by, well, Googling the problem, didn't seem to work. I did find a lot of complaints about that, starting in late 2016. I don't mind telling people to simply follow a link, but I'd rather embed the video, so it plays right from a particular site without my user having to click away.
I don't mind telling people to simply follow a link, but I'd rather embed the video, so it plays right from a particular site without my user having to click away.
So I decided to see if I could figure it out. And guess what? You can do it. Only it's definitely kind of an odd process.
It may seem like a lot of steps, but it really isn't. Just suspend your demand for it to make any sense, and you'll be fine.
Below you'll find a video illustrating the steps. Afer that, you'll find the steps typed out for you.
First order of business, save your video to your Google Drive.
Use the "get shareable link button" to set permissions as you wish them.
Double click on the video file. A player will pop up.
Look in the upper right hand corner for three dots stacked vertically. This is the "more actions" button. Click it.
Your video will open in a new window. Looks basically the same as the last window, right? Ah, but now, click on the new "more actions" button.
You'll see a new option: "embed item." Click on that and you'll receive the HTML code you need to embed the item pretty much wherever you want.
Click your way back out of all these video windows, then go to your web resources and add the code.
I hope this is helpful to you as you seek the best ways to store and share your instructional (and other!) videos.
I just finished spending several hours converting some old, word-laden slide presentations which I use in my flipped and hybrid classes almost every semester into fun, creative, videos using Adobe Spark's video creator.
Several hours may sound like a long time, but trust me, it's not. I made a total of almost 30 minutes of videos in under five hours. As someone who has made videos from my own animation, still photography, head shots, drawings and more, this is practically light speed.
Adobe Spark does more than help you make videos: you can use it to make static graphics and attractive webpages. I haven't tried those tools out yet.
Interested in trying Adobe Spark for video? Go to spark.adobe.com and sign in with your Google account or Facebook, or with an independent log-in.
For a great overview, check out this MacWorld article on creating powerful videos using Adobe Spark. Don't let the MacWorld publication worry you–Adobe Spark is web-based and works across platforms.
There are mobile versions as well.
It's so easy to use, containing thousands of icons, creative commons photos, loads of music, the ability to record narration, automatic attributions, and the ability to upload your own resources–there's no reason for professors (like me!) to continue using out-moded, word-heavy slide presentations instead of videos in flipped and online teaching situations.
He mentions things featured on this blog in the past, like EdPuzzle, but he also showcases a few things not covered here in depth (at least, not yet).
These different resources allow you to build questions, comments, annotations and other teaching tools into existing videos of your own creation, or which have been created by others and are publicly available on YouTube.
Check out the article, where Byrne has provided tutorials and links to each tool.
One of the most frequent questions I receive from faculty looking to use technology in on the ground, hybrid, or online classes is this: how can I, or my students, make screencasts–for free? And without getting stuck in a quagmire of technology?
It's a lot easier for folks who have Macs, because they can use Quicktime for most basic screencasting purposes.
And while Screencast-o-matic works well for Windows, it won't record sound unless you get the paid version.
Sure, you can record the screen capture, then put it into a video editor and add recorded narration. And frankly, that is what I do most of the time. It allows me to focus on one aspect of the creation at a time! I don't know about you, but demoing something on the screen and narrating it at the same time causes my brain to freeze up. Sort of like talking about one thing while trying to write something else on the board at the same time in class….
Anyhow, I stumbled across this article about an easy and free way to make screencasts in Windows 10, including sound, and I thought I'd share it. I don't have a Windows computer, so I'd be most interested in hearing if anyone tries it and what you think.
Or if you have other suggestions for free and easy ways to record screencasts with narration on Windows computers.
This article on Lifewire details the steps for using the "XBox Game DVR app" that comes with Windows 10 to create screencasts of anything, not just games.


This week I was in Vienna for just over 24 hours; a flying visit. With Gab in Hong Kong, i was doing Solo Travel. Normally when we travel together we rarely see art; we are more interested in going to the beach or eating good food. But that day in Vienna i felt like some art to keep me company. This week's review, i wana talk about The Share of Opulence; Doubled; Fractional, a group show at Sophie Tappeiner; and Paul Maheke's Letter to a Barn Owl at KevinSpace.
Walking in to KevinSpace, the front room was soaked yellow from the window tint; I remember last year, in Taiwan with Evan Ifekoya. They were wearing yellow tinted clip on frames over their glasses and they said, 'it just makes the world look so much happier'. I haven't managed to shake that from my head, and it rose up within me as I was going round. A navy blue carpet, with mirror circles on the floor. One mirror in the front room, yellow-happy; a plate painted with a barn owl on top of the mirror, slightly off-centre (another in the space beyond too). Then sheer dark brown curtains separating from a space beyond, with yellow strip-lights and daylight streaming in through the window. There were two more mirrors on the floor beyond the brown curtains; one with text that read: 'And what if I was not a vacant body, a mess inhabited only by anguish, but a strange light that traveled through time, borrowing various vehicles of flesh'. In the middle of the text was an earthy bundle, like those flowering teas that start as a dry herby ball and unfurl in the hot water, leaking colour and earthy hums. The press release said it was Rose of Jericho; a plant that can revive from a dormant state when watered, survive and thrive. Throughout the exhibition, the plant would be watered n go from withered-bundle-flowering-tea to In Bloom. I sat on the bench by the yellow window and listened to the sound piece: a recording of a psychic reading, a voice flips between analysis of bodies and states (the kind of psychic reading that used the same language as the text on the mirror), and guitar riffs like smooth jazz and easy listening. As I was sat on the bench, through a parting in the brown curtains I saw a painting of a barn owl on the wall, and a crescent of yellow light reflected off one of the mirrors onto the ceiling. This show was in bloom. A steady, slow unfurling, like flowering tea, colour seeping out, earthy hum. Paul is good at making atmosphere i think. Good at creating a suspense that doesn't have to land in a hard thump or climax to be felt. What a skill! What a talent! An aesthetic balance that feels sparse, but full; how does he do that!? deliver without overloading you, hand you morsels without making it feel like you're chewing??? I sat and stared at the cresent of yellow light, drifted in and out of listening to the sound piece. I left too soon. This show didn't make a coherent kind of sense; the sense of 'this is about that', bc it didn't have to. I was glad to have felt the components at work, bear witness to affect only.
The show at Sophie Tappeiner was a completely different colour; off-white, not as saturated, slightly tinged pale pale yellow (but a greeny yellow) and more opaque. As I walked in, the space filled with smoke from one of those soft foil scrunchy tubes; thick and opaque, it was Candace Lin and Patrick Staff's Hormonal Fog (study #6), a smoke machine that pumped out fog spiked with hops, liquorice, and dong quai (all herbs and roots that have natural anti-androgen properties). I breathed it in, I started my period the next day, unexpected. This show was full of work, but the works were small or slight enough to make it not feel overpopulated. Do u know, it felt like the level I think Gab curates at! She has this ability to match up works that have the same feeling or the same vibrational energy and put them in a room together, n they all sing in harmony;; that was this show. I read through the press release carefully, and i understood the idea or the premise; that this show was works gathered around the life of Percy Julian, an American scientist that lived & studied in Austria in that sliver of time between the World Wars, he (i think) is quite well known for using soybean oil to extract progesterone and testosterone. This intersection and overlap; the life of a black american scientist in Europe, his trans-atlantic journey, the magic n alchemy of extracting hormones from a plant, the fact of his race in the world of science. The press release said this show uses his Life and scientific accomplishments as 'backbone', but I am not sure. To me they felt like vehicle or nucleus. Maybe that's a type of backbone? but it didn't feel like it was holding it upright, it was a softer kind of gravitation. The smoke machine exhaled again n fog poured out over Dominique White's Landlocked Prisoner, a hanging sculpture made of woven rope, a destroyed sail, with the clay cast of a buoy jammed in to the tangled mix. It trails onto the floor, ratty ends like hair hanging or wisps. Beyond it, the fog tumbles over Kobby Adi's large clear jars of Atlantic sea water & fermented palm wine. This show is bursting but it has a binding logic, a undercurrent of feeling and tone that hums in harmony. I am less interested in the academic backbone and more into remembering or trying to describe how i felt in the gallery. The press release is a text written by the curator, Cédric Fauq. The last paragraph of the text begins: 'Ultimately, <<The Share of Opulence; Doubled; Fractional>> sees to render palpable – and not visible – what is often too instrumentalised in the visual realm, under the guise of representational strategies.' I underlined it in pencil and drew a circle round the paragraph; i feel like my job as critic, review writer has been done, the show has been digested already. Isn't that exactly it!? something was rendered palpable rather than visible!! My hands were sweaty as I left.
Gab tweeted a few weeks ago that all she's looking for is an exhibition with atmosphere. I cannot believe I found two in one day in Vienna. I sometimes think I only tie shows together in my mind bc I've seen them on the same day, so they slip and bleed into each other. But i'm convinced these two shows sat happily alongside each other, there was a heavy air, affect, these works were meant to be processed by the body, not the head only. Felt, experienced, remembered through their smell or their light. I hope the pictures do them justice, i feel like there is something heavy within me that I haven't begun to explain in this text. I hope you feel a segment of it too. Crescent moon, fog, rose of jericho unfurles in a shower of steam and Dominique White's clay cast of a buoy dissolves in water like a bath bomb, palm wine;;; i would like to watch these shows be deinstalled, i think it would either break the magic or help me understand how they worked.
The Share of Opulence; Doubled; Fractional is on @ Sophie Tappeiner until 3rd November; Paul Maheke's Letter to a Barn Owl is on @ Kevin Space until 4th November.


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Разпространение и местообитание
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Източници

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While homelessness may not be viewed as a looming issue on the horizon for those who are financially stable, or otherwise have secure and stable housing—it's not as distant as some might think. With rents rising faster than wages, the burden of affording rent is looming larger and larger for many Americans, and in some cases becoming insurmountable.
According to the Zillow Group Consumer Housing Trends Report 2017, 79 percent of renters who moved in the last 12 months experienced an increase in their monthly rent before moving to a new place. And over half (57 percent) said that hike was a factor in pushing them out the door and into another rental. Only 21 percent of renter households didn't report experiencing an increase in rent.
Nearly a third (30 percent) of households nationwide, representing roughly 73 million adults, report they're struggling or just getting by financially. And it's no wonder; Americans spend on average a median of 29.1 percent of their income on rent, including many who spend a higher percentage but have lower incomes. Increasingly, major metro areas are becoming out of reach for those who aren't earning more than minimum wage, and this is becoming increasingly true even in markets that have historically been more affordable.
Take Houston, for instance, where the median low-income earner spends 65.1 percent of her income on the median bottom-tier rent. Then there's notoriously expensive New York, where—along with San Francisco and Los Angeles markets—the median low-income wage will not even cover a low-end apartment. In New York alone, to afford apartments with median bottom-tier rents, renters need to shell out 111.8 percent of the median low-income wage.
With such large percentages of household incomes going towards rent, saving for the future is less of a priority—and possibility. More than half (51 percent) of Americans say they don't have enough money saved to support themselves for 3 months, according to a Zillow analysis of the Federal Reserve Board's 2016 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking.
Millions Struggle Just to Afford Stable Housing
According to the Zillow Group Report on Consumer Housing Trends 2017, today's median household income for renters is $37,500, which equates to about $18 per hour—or 2.5 times the federal minimum wage of $7.25. Nationwide, in 2016, 2.2 million people lived off wages at or below the federal minimum wage, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
When it comes to renting, there is no state where a 40-hour minimum wage is enough to afford a two-bedroom apartment, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
While renting is becoming increasingly more difficult, buying a home becomes a distant dream. "Honestly, if you're making $37,500 per year and have no savings, it's probably not feasible for you to buy in most markets," Zillow Chief Economist Dr. Svenja Gudell says.
Across all states, the median renter can expect to pay $1,430 per month on rent. It's no wonder many Americans are struggling financially— particularly in New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Seattle, where there's also a stronger relationship between rising rents and an increase in the homeless population.
Homelessness by the Numbers
Coast to coast, there are an estimated 550,000 homeless people, according to the U.S. Department of Urban and Housing Development. But Zillow Research used statistical modeling to estimate the uncounted homeless population, unsheltered homeless people often missed during the One Night Counts, to estimate the true number of homeless people, a number much higher than the official estimates. And as rents climb, the numbers will only grow, especially in large, tight metros, where the rent burden can become life-altering.
Take New York City, for example. The metro has the largest population of homeless people than anywhere else in the nation. Last year, there were an estimated 76,411 people experiencing homelessness, according to Zillow's estimates. If rents were to rise 5 percent, an additional 2,982 people would be forced to the streets.
And Los Angeles doesn't fare much better. Given the same rent hike, an additional 1,993 people would fall into homelessness. And a rent hike of 5 percent isn't implausible, especially given that in L.A., rents rose 4.4 percent over the past year.
The Geography of Social Mobility
Right now, in L.A., renters dish out $2,707 per month for the median rent, which is almost twice the national median rent and amounts to nearly half of the median household income in the metro. With such a substantial chunk of money spent every month on rent, it's no surprise the metro has an estimated 59,508 people without a home.
But rents haven't always been so unaffordable. Just 17 years ago, three of the top 20 metros were rent-burdened, meaning renters paid more than 30 percent of their income on living expenses. Today, however, the number of cities that have become unaffordable have grown exponentially.
Currently, renters in 9 of the same top 20 metros can expect to spend 30 percent or more of their income on rent. The biggest share spent on rent comes from Los Angeles, where renters dish out nearly half (49 percent) of income on rent.
"The places where social mobility—the ability to climb the income ladder—is the greatest are now in places that are unaffordable for most people," said Gudell. "San Jose or the Bay Area in general, parts of Boston, for example—these places have gotten to be so expensive that a lot of people who have an income of $37,500 a year will not be able to buy a home or even afford a family-sized rental."
The Costs of Housing Instability Go Beyond Financial
Unfortunately, for too many, lack of affordable housing can complicate other critical aspects of life, including health and future livelihoods.
Individuals living in shelters are more than twice as likely to have a disability compared to the general population. This includes serious mental illnesses, conditions related to chronic substance abuse, diabetes, heart disease and HIV/AIDS, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Gudell says people have better outcomes when they aren't constantly moving from place to place. "It's been shown that you have better outcomes if you live in a stable environment with less frequent moves, which is easier to attain when you own versus renting," Gudell said. "So, if you take stable environments away from people, their outcomes will most likely be worse than they are today, and that has an impact on education, on health and on income growth in the future."
This article was originally published via Zillow on September 27, 2017. To read original article, click here.
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This red wine is 100% Shiraz from our 8 year old Taung Che and 5 years old Myaye Phyu vineyards. The grapes were harvested in second week of March 2011. The yield was very low, around 4 tons per hectare.Both fermentations took place in tanks then the wine was aged 10 months in new Hungarian oak barrels in the underground cellar.
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For many years, there were different certifying agencies, but no federal program. This changed in December 2000 when the National Organic Program (NOP) was established. The NOP recognizes numerous organizations that certify materials as organic. The company NOW Foods uses is Quality Assurance International (QAI). You may have noticed this on our organic labels.
When a new organic material or an existing organic material from a new supplier is being evaluated, we require the supplier's organic certificate. The organic certificate demonstrates that the material meets all the organic regulation requirements. Also, it lists all the items for which the supplier is certified. If our supplier cannot supply us with this information, we cannot purchase organic materials from them. In order for NOW Foods to label something as certified organic, the material we buy must also be certified organic.
Walk through the facility to check for general cleanliness.
Check all pest control types and procedures to ensure that only approved methods are being used.
Procedure Review: Review of internal procedures to make sure that materials will not be exposed to any unapproved substances.
Documentation Review: Review of organic certification documentation from the suppliers of the organic materials. The inspector reviews the documentation on every material under consideration for certification.
Review of Organic Product Labeling – There are rules on how products are labeled.
ORGANIC: Must contain at least 95% organically produced raw or processed agricultural products. The other 5% must be on a list of approved ingredients.
MADE WITH ORGANIC: Must contain at least 70% of organically produced ingredients.
There are many requirements, but some of the main issues are that "100% organic" and "organic" materials must not be produced using sewage sludge, ionizing radiation, or unapproved processing aids.


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Spring arrives
By The Oakland Press |
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2007 at 9:38 a.m. | UPDATED: June 17, 2021 at 11:31 a.m.
-BOB GROSS/The Oakland Press
While winter was going out like a lion, spring at Kensington Metropark was coming in ike a lamb – or lambs.
A low pressure system dumped an inch of snow on Oakland County just before spring's arrival at 8:07 p.m. today. And with the approach of warmer weather, spring babies have been arriving at Kensington Metropark.
At least two ewes have given birth to the cuddly creatures recently, including Candy – who had a little trouble Friday night with Almond and her larger baby, Joy. According to staff at the Kensington Farm Learning Center, Joy – the larger of the fraternal twins – was wedged in the birth canal and needed a hand to make his entrance.
That cleared the path for Almond, who is noticeably smaller than her brother. Madge, a ewe of the Jacob's sheep breed known for their twisted horns, also gave birth recently to Venus and Marsey. While the spring babies are one indication winter is nearly over, so is the calendar, said Mike Narlock, head astronomer at the Cranbrook Institute of Science.
During the March equinox, the sun is directly above the equator in the sky and is heading north, he said. Daylight and darkness are approximately of equal duration – about 12 hours each. The Latin word equinox means "equal night." It's also one of two days when the sun, which is 93 million miles from Earth, rises due East and sets due West.
The other day is at the fall equinox, said Alan MacRobert, senior editor of the Sky & Telescope magazine published in Cambridge, Mass.
During winter, the Earth is closer to the sun than in spring and summer, but the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from sunlight and doesn't get as much warmth, Narlock said.
The earth's axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees, causing the seasons in both hemispheres to vary.
During March through September, the Earth is farther from the sun but its axis is tilted toward the sun, allowing sunlight to more directly strike the earth in the Northern Hemisphere. In addition, daylight is longer.
"Indirect sunlight of winter is less efficient in heating," Narlock said. "Direct sunlight is more efficient in warming."
The sun also seems to creep higher toward the zenith in the sky – the point directly overhead at the equator – each day from late December to late June, and then slide back down again from late June to late December, Narlock said.
William Deedler, National Weather Service historian, said the office at White Lake Township recorded .9 of an inch of snow on Monday. He said the low pressure system came from the plains and moved through the southern Great Lakes region.
For the winter, Oakland County received 39.5 inches of snow, or at least 12 inches below normal, Deedler said.
It should be sunny today with a high of 36 and a low of 23, said Deedler, adding temperatures begin an upward trek on Wednesday when the high hits 48 with a low of 47 .
On Thursday, the high is expected to be 59 with a low of 42 and a 40 percent chance of rain. On Friday, the high is forecast to be 52 with a low of 42 and a 40 percent chance of rain. Skies will turn cloudy for the weekend with highs of 53 Saturday and 51 on Sunday.
Contact Jerry Wolffe at (248) 745-4612 or jerry.wolffe@oakpress.com.
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Jehoiakim
For other people with the same name, see Joachim (given name).
Jehoiakim,[a] also sometimes spelled Jehoikim[b] was the eighteenth and antepenultimate king of Judah from 609 to 598 BC. He was the second son of king Josiah (1 Chronicles 3:15) and Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.[1] His birth name was Eliakim.[c]
Jehoiakim from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum, 1553
King of Judah
609–598 BC
Jehoahaz, his younger brother
Jehoiachin, his son
Nehushta
Jehoiachin
Zedekiah[2]
Zebudah
2 Reign
3 In rabbinic literature
4 In popular culture
BackgroundEdit
After Josiah's death, Jehoiakim's younger brother Jehoahaz (also known as Shallum) was proclaimed king, but after three months Pharaoh Necho II deposed him, making Eliakim king in his place. When placed on the throne, his name was changed to "Jehoiakim".[1]
Jehoiakim reigned for eleven years, until 598 BC[3] and was succeeded by his son Jeconiah (also known as Jehoiachin), who reigned for only three months.[4]
ReignEdit
Jehoiakim was appointed king by Necho II, king of Egypt, in 609 BC, after Necho's return from the battle in Harran, three months after he had killed King Josiah at Megiddo.[5] Necho deposed Jehoiakim's younger brother Jehoahaz after a reign of only three months and took him to Egypt, where he died. Jehoiakim ruled originally as a vassal of the Egyptians, paying a heavy tribute. To raise the money he "taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments."[6]
However, after the Egyptians were defeated by the Babylonians at the battle of Carchemish in 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II besieged Jerusalem, and Jehoiakim changed allegiances to avoid the destruction of Jerusalem. He paid tribute from the treasury in Jerusalem, some temple artifacts, and handed over some of the royal family and nobility as hostages.[5] In the Book of Daniel, Daniel is described as being one of these.
Rabbinical literature describes Jehoiakim as a godless tyrant who committed atrocious sins and crimes. He is portrayed as living in incestuous relations with his mother, daughter-in-law, and stepmother, and was in the habit of murdering men, whose wives he then violated and whose property he seized. He also had tattooed his body.[1]
The prophet Jeremiah criticised the king's policies, insisting on repentance and strict adherence to the law.[7] Another prophet, Uriah ben Shemaiah, proclaimed a similar message and Jehoiakim ordered his execution (Jeremiah 26:20–23).[8]
Jehoiakim continued for three years as a vassal to the Babylonians, until the failure of an invasion of Egypt in 601 BC undermined their control of the area. Jehoiakim switched allegiance back to the Egyptians.[5] In late 598 BC, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II invaded Judah and again laid siege to Jerusalem, which lasted three months. Jehoiakim died before the siege ended.[3] The Book of Chronicles records that "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ... bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon."[9] Jeremiah prophesied that he died without proper funeral, describing the people of Judah "shall not lament for him, saying, 'Alas, master!' or 'Alas, his glory!' He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem" (Jeremiah 22:18–19) "and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night" (Jeremiah 36:30).[10] Josephus writes that Nebuchadnezzar slew Jehoiakim along with high-ranking officers and then commanded Jehoiakim's body "to be thrown before the walls, without any burial."[11]
He was succeeded by his son Jeconiah (also known as Jehoiachin).[4] After three months, Nebuchadnezzar deposed Jeconiah (fearing that he would avenge his father's death by revolting, according to Josephus[12]) and installed Zedekiah, Jehoiakim's younger brother, as king in his place. Jeconiah, his household, and much of Judah's population were exiled to Babylon.[13]
According to the Babylonian Chronicles,[14] Jerusalem fell on 2 Adar (16 March) 597 BC. The Chronicles state:
The cuneiform inscription on this clay tablet highlights the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II and the surrender of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, in 597 BC. From Babylon, Iraq
The seventh year (of Nebuchadnezzar – 598 BC.) in the month Chislev (Nov/Dec) the king of Babylon assembled his army, and after he had invaded the land of Hatti (Turkey/Syria) he laid siege to the city of Judah. On the second day of the month of Adar (16 March) he conquered the city and took the king (Jeconiah) prisoner. He installed in his place a king (Zedekiah) of his own choice, and after he had received rich tribute, he sent (them) forth to Babylon.[15]
In rabbinic literatureEdit
Although Jehoiakim was Josiah's eldest son, he was passed over at the latter's death as being unworthy to be his father's successor, and his brother Jehoahaz mounted the throne in his place. Jehoahaz was publicly anointed king to offset his brother's claims to the throne (Seder 'Olam R. xxiv.; Hor. 11b; Ratner's objection ad loc. to Seder 'Olam was anticipated and answered by the Gemara). When, subsequently, Jehoiakim took the government, after Jehoahaz had been led captive to Egypt, he showed how little he resembled his pious father: he was a godless tyrant, committing the most atrocious sins and crimes. He lived in incestuous relations with his mother, daughter-in-law, and stepmother, and was in the habit of murdering men, whose wives he then violated and whose property he seized. His garments were of "sha'aṭneẓ," and in order to hide the fact that he was a Jew, he had made himself an epispasm by means of an operation, and had tattooed his body (Lev. R. xix. 6; Tan., Lek Leka, end; Midr. Aggadat Bereshit xlviii.; see also Sanh. 103b). He even boasted of his godlessness, saying, "My predecessors, Manasseh and Amon, did not know how they could make God most angry. But I speak openly; all that God gives us is light, and this we no longer need, since we have a kind of gold that shines just like the light; furthermore, God has given this gold to mankind [Ps. cxv. 16] and is not able to take it back again" (Sanh. l.c.).
Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah's scroll; as in the Book of Jeremiah 36:21–32 (illustration from a Bible card published in 1904 by the Providence Lithograph Company)
When Jehoiakim was informed that Jeremiah was writing his Lamentations, he sent for the roll, and calmly read the first four verses, remarking sarcastically, "I still am king." When he came to the fifth verse and saw the words, "For the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions" (Lam. i. 5), he took the roll, scratched out the names of God occurring therein, and threw it into the fire (M. Ḳ. 26a). No wonder then that God thought of "changing the world again into chaos," and refrained from doing so only because the Jewish people under this king were pious (Sanh. 103a). Yet punishment was not withheld. Nebuchadnezzar came with his army to Daphne, near Antiochia, and demanded from the Great Sanhedrin, whose members came to pay him their respects, that Jehoiakim be delivered to him, in which case he would not disturb the city and its inhabitants. The Sanhedrin went to Jehoiakim to inform him of Nebuchadnezzar's demand, and when he asked them whether it would be right to sacrifice him for their benefit, they reminded him of what David did in a similar case with the rebel Sheba (Lev. R. xix. 6).
Various opinions have been handed down concerning the circumstances of Jehoiakim's death, due to the difficulty of harmonizing the conflicting Biblical statements on this point (II Kings xxiv. 6; Jer. xxii. 18, 19; II Chron. xxxvi. 6). According to some, he died in Jerusalem before the Sanhedrin could comply with the demand made by Nebuchadnezzar, who therefore had to be content with the king's body, which was cast to him over the walls. Another version says that he died while being let down over the wall. Others, again, maintain that after leading him through the whole land of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar killed him, and then threw his corpse piecemeal to the dogs, or, as one version has it, put it into the skin of a dead ass (Lev. R. xix. 6; Seder'Olam R. xxv., agreeing in part with Josephus, "Ant." x. 6, § 3; see also Jerome to Jer. xxii. 18, and Nebuchadnezzar in Rabbinical Literature).
Even this shameful death, however, was not to be the end of the dead king, upon whose skull were scratched the words, "This and one more." After many centuries the skull was found by a scholar before the gates of Jerusalem; he piously buried it, but as often as he tried to cover it the earth refused to hold it. He then concluded that it was the skull of Jehoiakim, for whom Jeremiah had prophesied such an end (Jer. xxii. 18); and as he did not know what to do with it, he wrapped it in a cloth and hid it in a closet. After a time his wife found it and showed it to a neighbor, who said: "Your husband had another wife before you whom he can not forget, and therefore he keeps her skull." Thereupon the wife threw it into the fire, and when her husband returned he knew what the enigmatical words "this and one more" meant (Sanh. 82a, 104a). In the Aggadah, Jehoiakim is still undergoing punishment for his sins. Although the Babylonian Talmud does not include him among those who have no place in the world to come (cf. Sanh. 103b),[16] the Jerusalem Talmud cites him as an example of one who has forfeited his place in heaven by publicly transgressing the law.[17]
In popular cultureEdit
Jehoiakim is portrayed by Andrea Occhipinti in the film Jeremiah (1998).
^ pronounced /dʒɪˈhɔɪ.əkɪm/; Hebrew: יְהוֹיָקִים Yəhōyāqīm "he whom Yahweh has set up"
^ Greek: Ιωακείμ; Latin: Joakim
^ Hebrew: אֶלְיָקִים 'Elyāqīm; Greek: Ελιακείμ; Latin: Eliakim
^ a b c "Jehoiakim", Jewish Encyclopedia
^ 1 Chronicles 3:16
^ a b Dan Cohn-Sherbok, The Hebrew Bible, Continuum International, 1996, page x. ISBN 0-304-33703-X
^ a b King 1993, p. 23.
^ a b c Oded Lipschits (2002). ""Jehoiakim Slept with his Fathers…" (II Kings 24:6) – Did He?" (PDF). fontes.lstc.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-02. Retrieved 2018-12-08.
^ 2 Kings 23:35
^ Jeremiah 36:1–32
^ James Maxwell Miller, John Haralson Hayes, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah (Westminster John Knox Press, 1986) page 404–405.
^ 2 Chronicles 36:6
^ The Nelson Study Bible 1997, p. 1263–1265.
^ Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book X, chapter 6, part 3.
^ King 1993, p. 21.
^ Geoffrey Wigoder, The Illustrated Dictionary & Concordance of the Bible, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. (2006)
^ No 24 WA21946, The Babylonian Chronicles, The British Museum
^ Jewish encyclopedia Jehoiakim
^ Encyclopedia.com
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "JEHOIAKIM". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
King, Philip J (1993). Jeremiah: An Archaeological Companion. Westminster John Knox Press.
The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997. ISBN 9780840715999.
Regnal titles
Jehoahaz
609–598 BC Succeeded by
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Insufficient information. Bring back a photo showing the brand name. Be prepared to spend hundreds of dollars for what you ask.
I bought a couple 1 1/4 about three years ago. Both Ewing and Hydroscape could order it for me. I think I paid about 120 dollars each? The 1 1/2 will for sure cost more. Prices keep going up as well. Especially on brass.
If you buy one make sure they're new. The two they got for me were old stock and I had to rebuild them. I wasn't happy but it saved tons of work.
It says 522 dollars list price but that's probaby double the actual price.
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No doubt a rebuilt kit would get it working again. I do it all the time on 3/4 and 1 inch.
How about wrapping the treads on the stem with teflon tape in case the o-ring freezes. They never mentioned they live where it freezes.
I think the Superior 800 market is so outside of freezing climates that O-ring damage from freezing water was never looked for by the mfr.
Of course, a photo of this particular valve install might show that it would be simpler and cheaper to just add a new valve on the outlet side.


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Iddon to treat Giugliano as friend and foe
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Read the full Q&A interview with Christian Iddon here
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Ignatius Theodorus Maria Snellen (Hilversum, 16 januari 1933 − Bavel, 17 februari 2018) was een Nederlands bestuurskundige en hoogleraar.

Biografie
Snellen studeerde af in 1954 in de rechten en in 1960 in de politieke en sociale wetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.Hij trad na zijn studies in 1962 in dienst bij Philips. Hij promoveerde in 1975 aan zijn alma mater op Benaderingen in strategieformulering. Hij werd per 1 juli 1978 directeur van het Instituut voor sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek (IVA) aan de Katholieke Universiteit Brabant. Per 1 januari 1983 werd hij aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen benoemd tot hoogleraar met als leeropdracht de sociaal-wetenschappelijke theorie van de beleidsplanning. In 1985 werd hij benoemd tot hoogleraar bestuurskunde te Tilburg. Ook in 1985 redigeerde hij Limits of government. Dutch experiences. In 1989 werd hij benoemd tot gewoon hoogleraar met dezelfde leeropdracht aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; in 1989 ging hij daar met emeritaat waarbij hem een liber amicorum en een opstellenbundel werden aangeboden.

In zijn carrière bracht hij veel adviezen uit, onder andere aan de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid en andere overheidsorganen, onder andere over automatisering en ICT-projecten bij de overheid. Via de media en opiniërende artikelen mengde hij zich ook in het publieke debat. Bovendien was hij mederedacteur van verscheidene publicaties over de institutionele aspecten van overheidsautomatisering en het effect daarvan op politiek en burgers.

In 2013 kende de Vereniging voor Bestuurskunde de L.P. van de Spiegelprijs aan hem toe.

Prof. mr. dr. I.Th.M. Snellen overleed in 2018 op 85-jarige leeftijd. Hij was getrouwd en kreeg verscheidene kinderen, onder wie prof. dr. Ignas Snellen, hoogleraar astronomie te Leiden.

Bibliografie
De politieke vooruitzichten in Zuid Amerika. [Z.p.], 1968.
Benaderingen in strategieformulering. Een bijdrage tot de beleidswetenschappen. Alphen aan den Rijn [etc.], 1975 (proefschrift) en 1979².
Organisatie en participatie in wisselwerking met sturing van de Nederlandse samenleving [nota ten behoeve van de Commissie algemene toekomstverkenning van de wetenschappelijke Raad voor het regeringsbeleid]. [Z.p.], 1977.
Gezondheidszorg en management. Beleidsvragen in de gezondheidszorg. Alphen aan den Rijn [etc.], 1981.
[co-auteur] Planning over meer lagen. Een eerste inventarisatie en enkele bevindingen. Nijmegen, 1983.
[co-auteur] Ambtenaren en onderzoekers. Een vergelijkende studie naar de samenwerking tussen onderzoek en beleid bij 45 onderzoeksprojecten in opdracht van 10 departementen. Leiden, 1984.
Plan matig, planmatig. Nijmegen, 1983 (inaugurele rede, Nijmegen).
Planning over meer lagen. Ontwikkeling van een conceptueel kader. Nijmegen, 1986.
Boeiend en geboeid. Ambivalenties en ambities in de bestuurskunde. Alphen aan den Rijn, 1987 (inaugurele rede, Tilburg).
Domeinconflicten tussen recht en beleid. Alphen aan den Rijn, 1989 (inaugurele rede, Rotterdam).
[co-auteur] Van woorden naar daden. Eindrapport van een onderzoek naar de kansen op institutionalisering van het persoonsinformatiebeleid voor de publieke sector. Tilburg, 1990.
[co-auteur] Wetgeving en systeemontwikkeling. [Den Haag, 1993].
[co-auteur] Informatization as a revolutionizing force: new institutional arrangements in the Netherlands. Enschede, 1995.
[co-auteur] Heroriëntering informatie-strategie. Rapport in opdracht van het bureau informatiebeleid gemeente Rotterdam. Rotterdam, 1996.
Bestuurskunde en modernisering. Alphen aan den Rijn, 1998 (afscheidsrede), Rotterdam).
Grundlagen der Verwaltungswissenschaft. Ein Essay über ihre Paradigmen. 2006.
Grondslagen van de bestuurskunde. Een essay over haar paradigma's. Den Haag, 2007.
Foundations of public administration; an essay in its paradigms. The Hague, 2014.

Literatuur
Bestuurskunde en praktijk. Liber amicorum voor prof. mr dr I.Th.M. Snellen, ter gelegenheid van zijn afscheid als hoogleraar bestuurskunde aan de Erasmus Universiteit te Rotterdam. Alphen aan den Rijn, 1998.
Over bestuur, recht en informatisering. Opstellen aangeboden aan prof. mr dr I.Th.M. Snellen. Lelystad, 1998.

Nederlands bestuurskundige
Hoogleraar aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Hoogleraar aan de Universiteit van Tilburg
Hoogleraar aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam


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Tirathaba rufivena (Walker, 1864)
Greater Coconut Spike Moth
(one synonym : Mucialla fuscolimbalis Snellen, 1901)
GALLERIINAE, PYRALIDAE, PYRALOIDEA Don Herbison-Evans
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
These caterpillars are a pest, feeding on
Coconut Palm ( Cocos nucifera ), and
flowers of Mangrove Palm ( Nypa fruticans ),
both of ARECACEAE.
Early instars feed on male flowers, and later instars attack female flowers and developing nuts.
The adult moths have pale green or brown forewings, each with a scattering of black dots, and sometimes a number of thin red stripes from base to margin, and sometimes a dark band along the margin. The hindwings are plain pale yellow. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
drawing by Pieter C. T. Snellen, listed as Mucialla fuscolimbalis,
Aanteekeningen over Pyraliden, Tijdschrift voor Entomologie,
Volume XLIII (1901), p. 308, Plate 17, fig. 10,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.
The species is found from south-east Asia to the pacific islands, including :
Cook Islands,
Philippines,
Vietnam,
Northern Territory,
Queensland, and
New South Wales.
There is confusion about whether the moths from Oceania are this species or the related Tirathaba complexa.
Attempts have been made to control the pest using:
the Ichneumonid wasp Nemeritis palmaris,
the entomoparasitic Nematode Steinernema feltiae, and
the Tachinid fly Argyrophylax basifulva.
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig/ 31.8, p. 348.
C.E. Gallego and R.G. Abad,
Incidence, biology and control of the greater coconut spike moth, Tirathaba rufivena Walker (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae),
Philippine Journal of Coconut Studies,
Volume 10, Number 2, 1985 [Publ. date 1987], pp. 9-13,
Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen,
Aanteekeningen over Pyraliden,
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie,
Volume 43 (1901), pp. 308-309, and also Plate 17, figs. 10-11.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 188.
Francis Walker,
Tineites,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 30 (1864), p. 960.
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 134.
(updated 6 November 2010, 22 March 2015, 30 August 2019, 11 July 2020)


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The 49ers parted with 15 players on Friday to bring their roster to 71, per a team announcement.
The 49ers announced on Thursday that they have re-signed Shayne Skov. It's a one-year deal for the linebacker.
Skov spent the last three seasons with the Niners, but he was dropped from the roster in May as the team made way for a host of undrafted free agents. The 6'3″, 247-pound 'backer has appeared in 24 games for SF with two tackles on defense and 12 tackles on special teams.
Skov has ties to the area as a San Francisco native and Stanford University product. At Stanford, he had 355 tackles, 40.5 tackles for loss, 17 sacks, five forced fumbles, and 13 passes defensed.
Skov will give the Niners another linebacker to evaluate in camp after they dropped injured LBs Donavin Newsom and Jayson DiManche.
The Seahawks have released fullback Will Tukuafu, according to Field Yates of ESPN (Twitter link). The 32-year-old has bounced in and out of the Seattle organization since signing there as an undrafted free agent from Oregon in 2010. He played the 2011-13 seasons with San Francisco.
The 49ers have promoted linebacker Shayne Skov to the active roster from their practice squad, tweets Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com. Skov suited up for 15 of the 49ers' 16 regular-season games last year.
The Buccaneers have promoted wide receiver Freddie Martino from the practice squad and waived linebacker Josh Keyes, per Greg Auman of the Tampa Bay Times (Twitter link). Martino has only appeared in one NFL game, which came as a member of the Falcons in 2014. Buccaneers head coach Dirk Koetter was Atlanta's offensive coordinator then.