Anethole (anise camphor) is an organic compound that is widely used as a flavoring substance. It is a derivative of phenylpropene, a type of aromatic compound that occurs widely in nature, in essential oils. It contributes a large component of the odor and flavor of anise and fennel (both in the botanical family Apiaceae), anise myrtle (Myrtaceae), liquorice (Fabaceae), camphor, magnolia blossoms, and star anise (Illiciaceae). Closely related to anethole is its isomer estragole, abundant in tarragon (Asteraceae) and basil (Lamiaceae), that has a flavor reminiscent of anise. It is a colorless, fragrant, mildly volatile liquid. Anethole is only slightly soluble in water but exhibits high solubility in ethanol. This difference causes certain anise-flavored liqueurs to become opaque when diluted with water, the ouzo effect.
Anethole is an aromatic, unsaturated ether related to lignols. It exists as both cis-trans isomers (see also E-Z notation), involving the double bond outside the ring. The more abundant isomer, and the one preferred for use, is the trans or E isomer.
Like related compounds, anethole is poorly soluble in water. Historically, this property was used to detect adulteration in samples.
Most anethole is obtained from terpentine-like extracts from trees. Also of only minor commercial significance, anethole can be isolated from essential oils.
It is also readily prepared from anisole and propionic acid via the intermediacy of 4-methoxypropiophenone.
It is distinctly sweet, measuring 13 times sweeter than sugar. It is perceived as being pleasant to the taste even at higher concentrations. It is used in alcoholic drinks ouzo and Pernod. It is also used in seasoning and confectionery applications, oral hygiene products, and in small quantities in natural berry flavors.
Because they metabolize anethole into several aromatic chemical compounds, some bacteria are candidates for use in commercial bioconversion of anethole to more valuable materials. Bacterial strains capable of using trans-anethole as the sole carbon source include JYR-1 (Pseudomonas putida) and TA13 (Arthrobacter aurescens).
Anethole has potent antimicrobial properties, against bacteria, yeast, and fungi. Reported antibacterial properties include both bacteriostatic and bactericidal action against Salmonella enterica but not when used against Salmonella via a fumigation method. Antifungal activity includes increasing the effectiveness of some other phytochemicals (e.g. polygodial) against Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans; In vitro, anethole has antihelmintic action on eggs and larvae of the sheep gastrointestinal nematode Haemonchus contortus. Anethole also has nematicidal activity against the plant nematode Meloidogyne javanica in vitro and in pots of cucumber seedlings.
Anethole also is a promising insecticide. Several essential oils consisting mostly of anethole have insecticidal action against larvae of the mosquitos Ochlerotatus caspius and Aedes aegypti. In similar manner, anethole itself is effective against the fungus gnat Lycoriella ingenua (Sciaridae) and the mold mite Tyrophagus putrescentiae. Against the mite, anethole is a slightly more effective pesticide than DEET but anisaldehyde, a related natural compound that occurs with anethole in many essential oils, is 14 times more effective. The insecticidal action of anethole is greater as a fumigant than as a contact agent. (E)-anethole is highly effective as a fumigant against the cockroach Blattella germanica and against adults of the weevils Sitophilus oryzae, Callosobruchus chinensis and beetle Lasioderma serricorne.
As well as an insect pesticide, anethole is an effective insect repellent against mosquitos.
Anethole is responsible for the "ouzo effect", the spontaneous formation of a microemulsion that gives many alcoholic beverages containing anethole and water their cloudy appearance. Such a spontaneous microemulsion has many potential commercial applications in the food and pharmaceutical industries.
Anethole is an inexpensive chemical precursor for paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA), and is used in its clandestine manufacture. Anethole is present in the essential oil from guarana, which is alleged to have a psychoactive effect. The absence of PMA or any other known psychoactive derivative of anethole in human urine after ingestion of guarana leads to the conclusion that any purported psychoactive effect of guarana is not due to aminated anethole metabolites. Anethole is also present in absinthe, a liquor with a reputation for psychoactive effects; these effects however are attributed to ethanol. (See also thujone, anethole dithione (ADT), and anethole trithione (ATT)).
Formerly generally recognized as safe (GRAS), after a hiatus anethole was reaffirmed by Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) as GRAS. The hiatus was due to concerns about liver toxicity and possible carcinogenic activity, reported in rats. Anethole is associated with a slight increase in liver cancer in rats, although the evidence is scant and generally regarded as evidence that anethole is not a carcinogen. An evaluation of anethole by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) found its notable pharmacologic properties to be reduction in motor activity, lowering of body temperature, and hypnotic, analgesic, and anticonvulsant effects. A subsequent evaluation by JECFA found some reason for concern regarding carcinogenicity, but there is currently insufficient data to support this. At this time, the JECFA summary of these evaluations is that anethole has no safety concern at current levels of intake when used as a flavoring agent.
In large quantities, anethole is slightly toxic and may act as an irritant.
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This entry was posted on November 30, 2013, in Captain's Log and tagged captain, game, hints, Kid friendly, kid safe, locations, log, online, Pirate101, Pirates, portal, quests, role play, ship, vessel.
What a journey this has been! Kobe and I left our island home of Hamamitsu Garden and traveled aboard a cargo ship bound for Skull Island. We arrived during an uprising and the town was in the midst of being shelled. But we managed to attain an audience with the local Governor, a man named Captain Avery.
This entry was posted on November 27, 2013, in Captain's Log and tagged captain, game, hints, Kid friendly, kid safe, locations, log, online, Pirate101, Pirates, portal, quests, role play, ship, vessel.
The weather is a cold 27° F with partly cloudy skies. The wind is from the north to north-west, at 13.6 knots, and gusts around 20 knots. Our highest gust was 23.5 knots around 13:30. Humidity 32%, Pressure 30.3 and holding steady. Our temperature tonight is looking like it will be down around 15° F.
It's terribly cold for sky sailing! Thank goodness it's dry for now. We had to check in with Lady Bug over on her Isle of Weather. From her tower she indicated that skies are clouding up and heading our way. Snow is possible in a few days.
This entry was posted on November 24, 2013, in Captain's Log and tagged captain, game, hints, Kid friendly, kid safe, locations, log, online, Pirate101, Pirates, portal, quests, role play, ship, vessel.
The crew and I continued our questing through Cool Ranch and specifically the Big Sky Skyway. We headed off to the Dusty Cave to meet with Bat Masterson and pick up some silver to take down the Duck of Death.
Of course that means doing a favor for a favor. Bat asked us to take care of some Bloodbats who have infested his mine. But we discovered a bit more was going on down there. There seems to be deeper dangers than what ole Bat thought.
This entry was posted on November 18, 2013, in Captain's Log and tagged captain, game, hints, Kid friendly, kid safe, locations, log, online, Pirate101, Pirates, portal, quests, role play, ship, vessel.
Ahoy Log Book. It's been a little while since I have recorded the travels of me crew and I along the sparkling lanes of the wind. So here we be with pen in hand and a few scribbles of our adventures, argh!
This entry was posted on November 16, 2013, in Captain's Log and tagged captain, game, hints, Kid friendly, kid safe, locations, log, online, Pirate101, Pirates, portal, quests, role play, ship, vessel.
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BestChampagne had the pleasure of interviewing Fabrice ROSSET, President of Deutz. The House has its roots in Aÿ, one of Champagne's most renowned terroirs and with 1,4 million bottles per year it ranks among the top Champagne Houses in terms of quality.
The House has been rewarded with silver, bronze and regional medals at Decanter's annual World Wine Awards, while both its Brut and Rose styles of Champagne have received gold and silver awards at London's prestigious International Wine Challenge.
Under the leadership of Fabrice Rosset, DEUTZ continues the quest for excellence while always maintaining the highest integrity in quality.
BestChampagne: Monsieur Rosset, you have been the CEO at Deutz since 1996, what was the condition of the House at the time? What were your goals and have you achieved them?
Fabrice Rosset: The assessment was simple and what guided the decision of the shareholders. The main shareholder is the Roederer group; who needed a white knight to express the dormant potential of this beautiful Champagne House.
The House had acquired its letters of nobility in 1938, and since then, experienced a history that has proved extremely glorious.
Vicissitudes of life have created some ups and downs in the history of the House but still with an active and image content that made it a little gem.
Therefore, with careful evaluation from our group [Roederer], we reinforced the feeling of having something available that promised a bright future to the intrinsic qualities of all vintages in the cellar.
There were also strengths and weaknesses in the structure. It took quite a lot of investment to restore the technical equipment in order to ensure excellent productivity.
To be precise, more than 20 million euros have been invested. We have invested in gyropallets [automated riddling machines], new bottling chains, and storage enhancements.
This may sound industrial, but I think the use of gyropallets is an advantage because we have advanced regularity and consistency in the quality of the work.
The word consistency comes almost as a leitmotif in Deutz. Consistency does not mean having your head in the sand with respect to technological advancements of any kind.
Consistency in the philosophy of vine growing, oenology, can be obtained as long as you are still obsessively producing high quality, sustainably.
When I arrived, the wines were already good but we were in the crisis of the early 90's with the Gulf War.
We returned to Western Europe in a time of crisis that lasted roughly five years and manhandled many beautiful Houses, including Deutz.
There was also a scarcity of distribution channels and therefore some parts of our activity suffered so greatly that it needed to be reorganized.
BC: In making the leap of 16 years, what is Deutz today and what can we find in your wines?
FR: You find the same passion; certainly the thread that had existed for decades. Forgive me if that may sound a bit pretentious but I think you can find a quality that has been steadily increasing.
We are ranked consistently among the top six producers of champagne in terms of quality and consistent quality.
The style of Deutz is based on an idea of vinousity, which is not dominating, together with undoubtable elegance, without giving too much of a light wine.
There is a complexity, which is already noticeable and can be found in our Deutz Brut Classic, which is a collection of 35-40 different wines from different terroirs and all three types of grapes [chardonnay, pinot noir, pinot meunieur], up to our cuvées William Deutz, which is rich and complex, not without elegance.
The cuvée, Amour de Deutz is the newest of the prestige cuvées, which has the subliminal aspect of chardonnay as some idea of power, but retaining the elegance. This elegance is delicately appropriate enough to the varietal designation of Blanc de Blancs.
BC: Speaking of Blanc de Blancs, why add the wine Amour de Deutz, when you already had the commercial success of the vintage William Deutz?
FR: The genesis of the cuvée Amour de Deutz was because of my personal admiration for the Blanc de Blancs of the Deutz House.
I was really a big fan of this vintage, Blanc de Blancs, with the extremely rich and extremely qualitative availability to the Deutz House's natural resources, why not seek the ultimate expression of this beautiful varietal?
The truth is that this was a decision based on quality rather then a marketing consideration. Some marketing principles also seem to have this idea that a House should have only one prestige cuvée.
This is dictated by the intrinsic quality, that is to say, the natural resources we have available are phenomenal.
Around 80% of our contributions, whether the 42 acres of property and some 200 acres of outside suppliers, are located within a radius of 30 km around Aÿ [Grand Crus].
This is the nobility of natural resources, with 60 grape suppliers passionate about their work, just as we are. As a consequence, 80% of our grape supplies come from Grands Crus and Premiers Crus.
So this raw material and Deutz know-how in Blanc de Blancs register actually led me to isolate a part of this Blanc de Blancs for the cuvée Amour de Deutz.
BC: Since your arrival, Deutz House has experienced tripled sales volumes: 600,000 bottles to almost 2 million. What was the secret of this success?
FR: We focused on quality and in effect, the volumetric success followed. There are few Houses that have accomplished this in such a relatively short amount of time and we attribute this to our strive up the ladder in quality without accepting complacency.
BC: Today Deutz is recognized as one of the finest Champagne Houses, what do you envision for the future?
FR: As long as quality or style is never affected, why not increase volume. To connoisseurs of champagne, this connotation of frivolity, only attached to champagne, has given way to a certain reverence from all backgrounds and all wine lovers.
There are also emerging countries where the interest in the culture of wine is rising in a fairly strong way. These are seen as the markets of the future, talking about the BRIC markets: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
The only limiting factor would be in the supply of grapes. For the rest, I have the talent of my team and I think that there are channels of distribution that will be very happy to have a brand like Deutz.
BC: Would you then also be looking to increase the price of your champagnes?
FR: The sale price is an element that I consider positions the brand in the world of competition. Of course, we must cover our costs, but the price element is not our driving factor.
We must cultivate the financial resources to continue to make quality; therefore investing. I love the expression of value for money even though I know this is quite vague and highly subjective.
I think value for money is also one of the strengths of Deutz; one of the elements that has earned us a respect with savvy consumers. In other words, we are not the most expensive, in spite of what I mentioned about the great Crus we use.
I would add that our wines are extracted with great precision and delicacy out of the grape's first pressing, the so-called cuvée, which is the most noble juice.
We pose emphasis on aging and in the use of reserve wines, such as in our Deutz Brut Classic Multimillésime. These elements of production costs are relatively high but also within the reasonability of the consumer price level.
There is no desire to exaggerate the level of prices and I do not think that the reference price is the main element to describe a quality brand.
BC: Monsieur Rosset, to conclude, what is champagne to you?
FR: It is a reflection of emotion, passion, know-how and then finally, it's a lifestyle.
BC: What would the world be without champagne?
FR: It would be a day without sunshine (laughs).
Follow the link to discover Deutz House and champagnes.


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Platt Park church on 1 acre sells for $3M
The church and office space at 1700-1710 S. Grant St. sold for $3.15 million. (Thomas Gounley)
The new owner of a Platt Park church hopes to repurpose the structure for residential use.
Denver-based Revesco Properties, in partnership with Sprocket president Bill Moore, purchased 1700-1710 S. Grant St. in Denver earlier this month for $3.15 million.
The 25,937-square-foot building on 1 acre was once known as South Presbyterian Church.
The seller was The Presbytery of Denver, a religious organization which oversees 50 congregations around the region, according to its website. Todd Snyder and Evan Makovsky of NAI Shames Makovsky represented the seller.
Revesco Properties President and CEO Rhys Duggan said partner Moore brought the building to his attention.
"The opportunities to do something unique, they don't come along often, especially not now," he said.
Olivia Hudson Smith, stated clerk of The Presbytery of Denver, said the congregation that used to worship at South Presbyterian has been "dissolved for many years." Since then, she said, the worship space has been used by some small "fellowships," or groups of worshippers that haven't taken the steps to become a congregation.
The building's main function recently has been housing the Presbytery's main offices. Hudson Smith said only four employees work there, and the organization chose to sell because it just doesn't need all the space.
"Good stewardship says we can use our proceeds from the sale for different and better uses for our ministry," she said.
Duggan said the property needs to be rezoned in order to be developed.
Duggan said the ownership's current inclination is to convert the church into condos, and then build single-family homes or townhouses on the south end of the lot, which currently is a parking lot. He wants to preserve a small community garden on the property.
On Friday, a notice posted outside the church indicated that the city had received a demolition application for the property. Duggan said Moore may have applied for a demolition permit in case one was needed, but that the hope is to preserve the church.
"I try not to tear old buildings down in Denver," Duggan said. "I just think it brings bad karma."
The Presbytery is leasing back the building until it moves its offices to a new space.
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Barb Kilzer
As a neighbor in the schoolhouse building next door and leader of the current community garden on the property, I am very grateful to see the church building being renovated (keeping the character of our block) and of course the idea of keeping a garden. Thanks to Bill for doing due diligence in meeting with many neighbors (including our building), gathering feedback and showing the plans openly. They are very well thought out, not nearly as dense as all of the other projects going up in Denver. I believe there will be a public showing of the plans in November… Read more »
Reply to Barb Kilzer
Has the church been renovate? Or is still for sale?

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Command su sets a new user id to use. If no user id is given, root is used.
su makes many quite subtle environment changes as well.
There is a group of commands that make use of super user commands safer. They allow better logging, user-based restrictions and usage of individual passwords. Most widely used is sudo.
executes command env as super user (if it is configured to allow it).
sudo command has again a different approach to path handling. It modifies the search path so that the current directory is always the last one. However, it does not modify PATH environment variable. 'sudo env' and 'env' give the same value for PATH variable. Sudo adds just couple of environment variables like SUDO_USER.


Sydney Tree Removals has helped many residential and commercial properties in Narrabeen recover from storms. The devastated trees on their properties were quickly removed to ensure the safety of the families and employees that reside on them. We have continued our relationship with many of our customers, returning to the Narrabeen to provide property maintenance, tree pruning, and commercial tree services. Our customers have learnt that prevention is always better than repair. Do you have any branches or trees that pose a risk to your building and safety? Once a tree has reached their useful life, been poorly maintained, lopped in the past, or damaged by storms - they can become a liability and threaten your property or family safety. We are able to travel anywhere in the Northern Beaches to give you an unbiased assessment of your tree needs and quickly and efficiently provide practical solutions in removing them.
We offer more than tree removal in Narrabeen, we also offer a variety of palm and tree pruning. Some common tree pruning works include crown thinning, selective pruning, dead wooding, crown lifting, remedial pruning, formative pruning, palm pruning and clearance from transmission and power lines. Once a tree has been lopped or removed in Narrabeen, there is still the issue with removing the tree stump. Our efficient stump grinding service is the easy way to remove the rest of the felled tree to allow you to plant, concrete, pave, or tile over the removed tree site. There is no better way to make your garden or property in Narrabeen drought tolerant and resistant to weeds than laying a layer of mulch on it. The mulch also provides nutrients to the plants as it breaks down while acting a blanket to prevent water evaporation. Our mulch is suitable for almost any garden or property. We can deliver mulch to Narrabeen or anywhere in the Northern Beaches for a fraction of the cost of buying it from a nursery.


in the howl of the wolf and the pulse of the rivers.
in the faint grey light from the chapel.
all trembling hands and stammering speech.
after a second in the nearly impossible sun.
with a religious young man coming from a funeral.
Last year, after relocating to Northern Ireland from England and whilst working towards my MA in Poetry: Creativity and Criticism at Queen's University Belfast, I began working at Kinghan Church for the Deaf. Not only was there a generational gap between myself and the congregation but also regional differences in our sign vocabulary. I first began learning BSL in Bedfordshire at an after-school night-class with paramedics, teachers, and grandparents. I'm still learning BSL, now at Kinghan Church, so whilst I still speak with an English accent, my sign dialect is an amalgamation of regional differences. 'FIRST MISTAKE' is a poem created from becoming flustered at these differences and was just one of many mistakes we laughed about. In my defence, the signs for ENGLAND and BUTTER aren't too dissimilar, and it represents how quickly language can shiftmeaning. 'Into the Weeds' is a celebration of the sense of wonder in the lyricism of language. The poem, and its original signs, are both intimate and expressive of the wider world around. Two other poems from this project have been selected for publication. 'What the Congregation of Kinghan Church for the Deaf Told Me' can be found in Issue 6 of The Tangerine, and 'rapture!' is forthcoming with Fallow Media.


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Table of Contents » Title 56. Public Service Companies » Chapter 15. Telegraph and Telephone Companies » Article 1. Erection of Lines; Rights-of-Way; Eminent Domain, Etc. » § 56-468.1. (Contingent expiration -- see Editor's note) Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee
Title 56. Public Service Companies
Chapter 15. Telegraph and Telephone Companies
§ 56-468.1. (Contingent expiration -- see Editor's note) Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee.
A. As used in this article:
"Access lines" are defined to include residence and business telephone lines and other switched (packet or circuit) lines connecting the customer premises to the public switched telephone network for the transmission of outgoing voice-grade telecommunications services. Centrex, PBX, or other multistation telecommunications services will incur a Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee on every line or trunk (Network Access Registrar or PBX trunk) that allows simultaneous unrestricted outward dialing to the public switched network. ISDN Primary Rate Interface services will be charged five Public Rights-of-Way Use Fees for every ISDN Primary Rate Interface network facility established by the customer. Other channelized services in which each voice-grade channel is controlled by the telecommunications service provider shall be charged one fee for each line that allows simultaneous unrestricted outward dialing to the public switched telephone network. Access lines do not include local, state, and federal government lines; access lines used to provide service to users as part of the Virginia Universal Service Plan; interstate and intrastate dedicated WATS lines; special access lines; off-premises extensions; official lines internally provided and used by providers of telecommunications service for administrative, testing, intercept, and verification purposes; and commercial mobile radio service.
"Cable operator" and "cable system" have the same meanings as contained in subsection A of § 15.2-2108.1:1.
"Centrex" means a business telephone service offered by a local exchange company from a local central office; a normal single line telephone service with added custom calling features including but not limited to intercom, call forwarding, and call transfer.
"ISDN Primary Rate Interface" means digital communications service containing 24 bearer channels, each of which is a full 64,000 bits-per-second.
"Locality" has the same meaning as contained in § 15.2-102.
"Network Access Register" means a central office register associated with Centrex service that is required in order to complete a call involving access to the public switched telephone network outside the confines of that Centrex company. Network Access Register may be incoming, outgoing, or two-way.
"New installation of telecommunications facilities" or "new installation" includes the construction of new pole lines and new conduit systems, and the burying of new cables in existing public rights-of-way. New installation does not include adding new cables to existing pole lines and conduit systems.
"PBX" means public branch exchange and is telephone switching equipment owned by the customer and located on the customer's premises.
"PBX trunk" means a connection of the customer's PBX switch to the central office.
"Provider of local telecommunications service" means a public service corporation or locality holding a certificate issued by the State Corporation Commission to provide local exchange telephone service and any other person who provides local telephone services to the public for a fee, other than a CMRS provider as that term is defined in § 56-484.12.
"Provider of telecommunications service" means a public service corporation or locality holding a certificate issued by the State Corporation Commission to provide local exchange or interexchange telephone service to the public for a fee and any other person who provides local or long distance telephone services to the public for a fee, other than a CMRS provider as that term is defined in § 56-484.12.
"Public highway" means, for purposes of computing the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee, the centerline mileage of highways and streets which are part of the primary state highway system as defined in § 33.2-100, the secondary state highway system as defined in §§ 33.2-100 and 33.2-324, the highways of those cities and certain towns defined in § 33.2-319 and the highways and streets maintained and operated by counties which have withdrawn or elect to withdraw from the secondary system of state highways under the provisions of § 11 of Chapter 415 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932 and which have not elected to return.
"Subscriber" means a person who receives video programming, as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 522(20), distributed by a cable operator, as defined in subsection A of § 15.2-2108.1:1, and does not further distribute it.
B. 1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, there is hereby established a Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee to replace any and all fees of general application (except for zoning, subdivision, site plan and comprehensive plan fees of general application) otherwise chargeable to a provider of telecommunications service by the Commonwealth Transportation Board or a locality in connection with a permit for such occupation and use granted in accordance with § 56-458 or § 56-462. Cities and towns whose public streets and roads are not maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation, and any county that has withdrawn or elects to withdraw from the secondary system of state highways under the provisions of § 11 of Chapter 415 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, may impose the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee on the ultimate end-users of local telecommunications service only by local ordinance. Localities, their authorities or commissions, and the Commonwealth Transportation Board may allow providers of telecommunications services and cable operators to use their electric poles or electric conduits in exchange for payment of a fee.
2. The Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee established by this section is hereby imposed on all cable operators that use the public rights-of-way.
C. The amount of the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee shall be calculated annually by the Department of Transportation (VDOT), based on the calculations described in subsection D of this section. In no year shall the amount of the fee be less than $0.50 per access line per month.
D. The annual rate of the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee shall be calculated by multiplying the number of public highway miles in the Commonwealth by a highway mileage rate (as defined in subsection E of this section), and by adding the number of feet of new installations in the Commonwealth (multiplied by $1 per foot), and dividing this sum by the total number of access lines in the Commonwealth. The monthly rate shall be this annual rate divided by 12.
E. The annual multiplier per mile is $425 per mile beginning July 1, 2001 and thereafter.
F. The data used for the calculation in subsection D shall be based on the following information and schedule: (i) all providers of telecommunications services shall remit to VDOT by December 1 of each year data indicating the number of feet of new installations made during the one-year period ending September 30 of that year, which shall be auditable by affected localities, and the number of access lines as of September 30 of that year, which shall be auditable by affected localities; and (ii) the public highway mileage from the most recently published VDOT report. By the following January 15, VDOT shall calculate the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee to be used in the fiscal year beginning the next ensuing July 1 and report it to all affected localities and providers of local telecommunications services.
G. A provider of local telecommunications service shall collect the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee on a per access line basis and the cable operator shall collect the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee on a per subscriber basis by adding the fee to each ultimate end user's monthly bill for local telecommunications service or cable service. A company providing both local telecommunications service and cable service to the same ultimate end user may collect only one Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee from that ultimate end user based on (i) the local telecommunications service if the locality in which the ultimate end user resides has imposed a Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee on local telecommunications service or (ii) cable service if the locality in which the subscriber resides has not imposed a Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee on local telecommunications service. The Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee shall, when billed, be stated as a distinct item separate and apart from the monthly charge for local telecommunications service and cable service. Until the ultimate end user pays the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee to the local telecommunications service provider or cable operator, the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee shall constitute a debt of the consumer to the locality, VDOT, or the Department of Taxation, as may be applicable. If any ultimate end user or subscriber refuses to pay the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee, the local telecommunications service provider or cable operator shall notify the locality, VDOT, or the Department of Taxation, as appropriate. All fees collected in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be held in trust by the local telecommunications service provider and the cable operator until remitted to the locality, VDOT, or the Department of Taxation, as applicable.
H. Within two months after the end of each calendar quarter, each provider of local telecommunications service shall remit the amount of Public Rights-of-Way Use Fees it has billed to ultimate end users during such preceding quarter, as follows:
1. The provider of local telecommunications service shall remit directly to the applicable locality all Public Rights-of-Way Use Fees billed in (i) cities; (ii) towns whose public streets and roads are not maintained by VDOT; and (iii) any county that has withdrawn or elects to withdraw from the secondary system of state highways under the provisions of § 11 of Chapter 415 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932 and that has elected not to return, provided, however, that such counties shall use a minimum of 10% of the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fees they receive for transportation construction or maintenance purposes. Any city currently subject to § 15.2-3530 shall use a minimum of 90% of the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fees it receives for transportation construction or maintenance purposes.
2. The Public Rights-of-Way Use Fees billed in all other counties shall be remitted by each provider of local telecommunications service to VDOT. VDOT shall allocate the total amount received from providers to the construction improvement program of the secondary system of state highways. Within such allocation to the secondary system, VDOT shall apportion the amounts so received among the several counties, other than those described in clause (iii) of subdivision 1, on the basis of population, with each county being credited a share of the total equal to the proportion that its population bears to the total population of all such counties. For purposes of this section the term "population" shall mean either population according to the latest United States census or the latest population estimate of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia, whichever is more recent. Such allocation and apportionment of Public Rights-of-Way Use Fees shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other allocation of funds to such secondary system and apportionment to counties thereof provided by law.
I. The Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee billed by a cable operator shall be remitted to the Department of Taxation for deposit into the Communication Sales and Use Tax Trust Fund by the twentieth day of the month following the billing of the fee.
J. Any locality with a franchise agreement, ordinance implementing a franchise agreement or other form of consent allowing the use of the public rights-of-way by a provider of local telecommunications service, existing prior to July 1, 1998, or any city or town with an ordinance or code section imposing a franchise fee or charge on a provider of local telecommunications service in effect as of February 1, 1997, may elect to continue enforcing such existing franchise, ordinance or code section or other form of consent in lieu of receiving the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee; provided, however, that such city or town does not (i) discriminate among telecommunications service providers and (ii) adopt any additional rights-of-way management practices that do not comply with §§ 56-458 C and 56-462 C. The Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee shall not be imposed in any such locality.
Any locality electing to adopt the Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee by ordinance shall notify all affected providers of local telecommunications service no later than March 15 preceding the fiscal year. Such notice shall be in writing and sent by certified mail from such locality to the registered agent of the affected provider or providers of local telecommunications service.
1998, cc. 742, 758; 2002, cc. 479, 489; 2006, c. 780.


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Q: How to change a string captured using RegEx I am currently working on a text and I am struggling to do edit what have been captured using RegEx.
My text is split into sentences and there is one line per sentence. On each line, I locate using RegEx; emails, URLs, dates, etc. I would like the spaces found in what has been recognized by the different regexes to be replaced with "~".
Here is how I proceed to capture using regexes in the first place:
url = re.compile(ur"((\s|\A)((ht|f)tp(s)?://)?(www\.)?([\w\-\.]+)\.\w+([\w\-\./\?#]+)?\b)", re.I)
if url.search(line):
        line = url.sub(ur"{\1}__URL", line)

For now, I could not find a way to replace the spaces with "~" in what has been captured by the regexes. I tried things such as replace, a concatenation of re.subs, etc.
PS: There might be several things to be recognized within one sentence.

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Have you heard about Ricochet Mag?
It's a new literary journal, which publishes emerging writers. Their first issue went live today, and it contains my poem, "The Tick-Tock Polka". Go check it out, there's some great work in there. And keep an eye on their blog, they post all sorts of helpful things about getting published and deadline reminders and whatnot.
Gah! I loved the "My mother said …" stanza. Somehow I always find myself enamoured with nonsensical, almost-magical-realist parental advice. I can't think of one right now but I'm sure I've read lots of them in the past.
Also, congratulations on having 'Dancing on Architecture' published in Hunger! I fell in love with that poem, too. See you at the launch?
Hey there – I'm so glad you liked it! A friend did actually claim to get that advice from his mother – the more real the nonsense, the better, no?
Please get back to me if you think of any you've recieved. I love to save them up.
So chuffed about "Dancing on Architecture", and yes you most certainly will be seeing me at the launch! When is it?


Rich in detail ballet fans will adore, Hallberg presents an "unsparing...inside look" (The New York Times) and also reflects on universal and relatable themes like inspiration, self-doubt, and perfectionism as he takes readers into daily class, rigorous rehearsals, and triumphant performances, searching for new interpretations of ballet's greatest roles. He reveals the loneliness he felt as a teenager leaving America to join the Paris Opera Ballet School, the ambition he had to tame as a new member of American Ballet Theatre, and the reasons behind his headline-grabbing decision to be the first American to join the top rank of Bolshoi Ballet, tendered by the Artistic Director who would later be the victim of a vicious acid attack. Then, as Hallberg performed throughout the world at the peak of his abilities, he suffered a crippling ankle injury and botched surgery leading to an agonizing retreat from ballet and an honest reexamination of his entire life.


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New Legislation Marks S. Capitol St. Shootings Anniversary
Published March 30, 2011 • Updated on March 31, 2011 at 7:54 am
Friends and family of the victims of last year's South Capitol Street multiple shooting gathered at the John A. Wilson Building on the anniversary of the shooting for the announcement of a youth mental health and juvenile justice initiative.
D.C. Councilman David Catania introduced the South Capital Street Tragedy Memorial Act, which would try to identify mental health problems in young people and tighten truancy laws, NBC Washington's Pat Collins reported.
The legislation would mandate behavioral health screening for students from Head Start through high school and provide mediators to help parents find mental health care for juveniles who need it. The legislation also would implement earlier truancy intervention and penalties for parents of truants.
Catania said the legislation is about collecting data and using it correctly.
"We have to make a decision whether or not we do nothing or we do something, and we know the consequences of doing nothing," Catania said.
On March 30, 2010, a group of mourners was gathered in the 4000 block of South Capitol Street SE after a friend's funeral when there was a barrage of gunfire from another group of young people driving by. Nine people were struck, and four teenagers were killed. A shooting earlier that evening was linked to the mass shooting.
"It was nothing like I've ever seen in my life," said Ra'Shanna Brown, who was hit twice and whose sister was killed. "It was just a massacre. It happened so fast I didn't know what was going on or what to think."
It was the culmination of a series of violence acts that began over a stolen bracelet, authorities said.
One of the men charged in the shooting, Nathaniel Simms, has pleaded guilty to his role in the shooting. Several other people charged in the shooting and a previous incident are scheduled to appear in court for a hearing in the case April 22.


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Steinway & Sons Welcomes Tania León to Artist Roster
ASTORIA, NY (December 5, 2017) – Steinway & Sons is proud to announce the addition of Tania León to the roster of Steinway Artists, a select and prestigious group of pianists who have chosen to perform exclusively on Steinway pianos. León is now in the company of immortal legends Sergei Rachmaninoff, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Nina Simone and contemporary icons Thomas Adès, John Corigliano, and Ahmad Jamal, among others.
Havana-born, Grammy-nominated Tania León is world-renowned as a composer and conductor and recognized for her accomplishments as an educator and advisor to arts organizations. Her commissions include works for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Library of Congress, The Los Angeles Master Chorale, and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, among others. Her works have been performed by orchestras around the world, and she has collaborated with such authors and directors as John Ashbury, Margaret Atwood, Rita Dove, Jamaica Kincaid, Mark Lamos, Julie Taymor, and Derek Walcott.
"Tania's energy and passion are unsurpassed, and her artistry is the absolute gold standard."
Ron Losby
CEO, Steinway Musical Instruments
León has lectured at Harvard University and at the prestigious Mosse Lecture series at the University of Humboldt in Berlin. León was also Visiting Professor at Yale University and Guest Composer/Conductor at the Hamburg Musikschule, Germany and the Beijing Central Conservatory, China.
León is both a founding member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the founder of the Composers Now festival in New York City. Her work with Composers Now was honored by a proclamation by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio naming February 1st as "Composers Now Festival Day." The proclamation recognizes Composers Now as an ally in empowering living composers from many different global traditions and heritages.
A professor at Brooklyn College since 1985 and at the Graduate Center of CUNY, León was named Distinguished Professor of the City University of New York in 2006. In 2010 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her honors include the New York Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and Guggenheim Fellowships. In 2012 she received both a Grammy nomination (for "Best Contemporary Classical Composition") and a Latin Grammy nomination (for "Best Classical Contemporary Composition") and in 2013 she was the recipient of the prestigious 2013 ASCAP Victor Herbert Award.
"Steinway inspires me as a player, and as a composer."
Tania León
"Tania León is one of the most renowned and sought-after composers and conductors of our time," said Ron Losby, Chief Executive Officer of Steinway Musical Instruments. "She is a visionary artist and a tireless advocate for music, dance, artistry, and education. We are thrilled to have her join the roster of Steinway Artists. Her energy and passion are unsurpassed, and her artistry is the absolute gold standard. Her values are very much aligned with those of Steinway & Sons; this is a partnership of which we are very proud."
"Steinway inspires me as a player, and as a composer," León said.
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Billings Farm & Museum
Woodstock, VT
Billings Farm & Museum is just a scenic stroll from the village center of Woodstock, Vermont, and is regarded as one of the finest outdoor history museums in the country. Combining a fully-operating Jersey dairy farm with educational exhibits and interactive programs and events, Billings Farm & Museum is committed to providing education and enjoyment to visitors of all ages. (This excerpt taken from the Billings Farm & Museum website)
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Park
Experience wintry conditions and bracing temperatures along both groomed cross-country ski trails and natural snowshoe trails in the folded hilly landscape of the park. Reflect on the story of stewardship, of people taking care of places – sharing an enduring connection to the land - as you observe the tall trees, wildlife and experience the peacefulness of the woods. (This excerpt taken from the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Park website)
Suicide Six Ski Area
With all the uncertainty in this world, for the last 85 years you have been able to count on Suicide Six and the strength of this small mountain community. We are committed to ensure that every guest's pursuit in rewarding and wholesome fun is inclusive of all who wish to participate. (This excerpt taken from the Suicide Six Ski Area website)
Sugarbush Farm
The 500 acre farm is located on a scenic road in central Vermont outside Woodstock. You'll find free samples of 15 kinds of cheese, 4 grades of maple syrup and the farm store is full of samples of jams, mustard's, spreads and meats made locally. Maple syrup is made in the Spring but folks can enjoy the self tour to see where it is actually made. Watch a video on the syrup making process and walk in the maple woods to see how Jeff and Ralph tap our trees. Make friends with our farm animals during the warmer months. (This excerpt taken from the Sugarbush Farm website)
Gifford Woods State Park
Killington, VT
With its location at the base of Killington and Pico peaks and its close proximity to the Appalachian and Long trails, Gifford Woods State Park is a favorite of hikers. Many through-hikers pass the park on their Appalachian Trail journey from Georgia to Maine. The park is also a popular destination during the fall foliage season for its dramatic autumn colors. (This excerpt taken from the Gifford Woods State Park website)
Our 7 distinct mountain areas include Killington Peak, the second highest point in the state at 4,241 feet. Still not impressed? Ski all 212 trails and then come talk to us...if your legs ever stop burning. (This excerpt taken from the Killington website)
Pico Mountain
With 468 acres of skiable terrain and close to 20 miles of trails to choose from, exploration awaits. (This excerpt taken from the Pico Mountain website)
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
Quechee, VT
VINS Nature Center features the Forest Canopy Walk, Education & Outreach, Wild Bird Rehabilitation, Live Raptor Programs, Exhibits, Nature Trails & Store (This excerpt taken from the Vermont Institute of Natural Science website)
Quechee Gorge Village
Quechee Gorge, known as "Vermont's Little Grand Canyon", is one of New England's most popular natural wonders. Over 200,000 yearly visitors enjoy the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, fishing and canoeing the river, hiking trails, cross country skiing, and snowshoeing. Established in 1985, and located in the heart of the Quechee Gorge, Quechee Gorge village has evolved into one of the best shopping attractions in the state of Vermont. (This excerpt taken from the Quechee Gorge Village website)
Quechee State Park
The focal point of the park is Vermont's deepest gorge, formed by glacial activity approximately 13,000 years ago. Visitors can look down at the Ottauquechee River, flowing 165 feet below viewing points along Route 4. (This excerpt taken from the Quechee State Park website)


Imagine this scenario with me if you will. After a long day at work, a young woman whom we'll call Molly remembers that she needs a few items from the grocery store—bread, milk, eggs. She stops at the local grocery store close to her apartment so she can prepare dinner when she gets home to her husband Luke and their five-year-old daughter. She doesn't want to come back out later either. In the store she runs into friends, stops to chat a minute, and then hurries on her way to the checkout. The cashier rings up the gallon of milk, the loaf of bread and the dozen eggs.
"That'll be $12.45," she says, smiling and popping her bubble gum.
Molly pulls her debit card from her purse, swipes it through the machine, and is shocked to see the card refused.
Molly swipes it three more times to no avail. Finally the cashier tries, but it still doesn't work. Molly then leaves her groceries on the counter and runs out of the store, checking her watch as she goes. The bank's already closed so she'll have to check on it tomorrow. They'll just have to make do with the food in the house for the night. As she walks home, she worries. She can't even remember the last time she carried cash in her wallet. Maybe she'd better get some for future problems.
This scene comes from Margaret Atwood's book, The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian novel in which society falls apart one day when no one suspects a problem until it's too late. Science fiction in one generation too often becomes reality in the next. Consider another situation with me for a moment. This one is not fiction.
When her rent and student loan payment checks unexpectedly bounced, a young Virginia woman named Laura Brooks discovered shocking news. She went to her bank to inquire and the representative said her account had been closed because she was dead. Brooks was on permanent disability because of severe depression. Imagine what the situation did to her emotions. Furthermore, Brooks couldn't reopen her account until she could prove she was alive. It seems the Social Security office had declared her dead a month before and she had to submit pay stubs to prove herself alive. It then took 2 months for Social Security to revive her legally. By then she had incurred myriad fees and fines for non-payment.
The Brooks story sounds stranger than the fictional one, but people are inadvertently buried in the Social Security graveyard much more often than I realized. In a recent investigation, the Social Security Office of the Inspector General, which oversees the Social Security Administration, discovered that the Death Master File contained 36,657 death entries between May 2007 and April 2010 for people who were very much alive.
"Erroneous death entries can lead to benefit termination and cause severe financial hardship and distress to affected individuals," the Inspector General said in its most recent evaluation of the database.
David A. Fahrenthold reported in November of 2013 that our government has another kind of problem with dead people. For one thing, it pays them way too much money. In the past few years, Social Security paid $133 million to beneficiaries who were deceased. The federal employee retirement system paid more than $400 million to retirees who had passed away. And an aid program spent $3.9 million in federal money to pay heating and air-conditioning bills for more than 11,000 of the dead.
Imagine having no access to your money. How long could we last without our debit cards or checks working? Government wheels turn very slowly and in this case, they run right over us. It might be easier to accommodate the government and die rather than trying to prove yourself alive. Most people would agree that when someone stands up and quite articulately declares himself alive, he's telling the truth. Not our government though. Be ready to prove it.
But the bad thing is the fees that are associated without having a checking account. We do not have one right now, and we are paying a lot of money trying to get checks cashed. Plus since my husband works out of town, he has to Western Union, or some other program that is the cheapest, me the money. There are too many fees facing people that are not tied into the network.


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It has been an absolutely hectic few weeks here at Oldfarm …. not that we are complaining! As you will have noticed the blog has been completely neglected – I just did not have the time!
I have never had a 'guest' blogger before so I thought as I didn't have the time, I'd have a guest blogger. Great idea you'd think? In reality I didn't even have time to publish the post!!!
I'd ask Margaret Griffin from at FoodBornandBred, to explain the whole 'freezing' thing. As we don't use ANY preservatives in our pork or bacon the only way we have of 'preserving' our meat is by freezing it once it is butchered.
I felt as Margaret has a professional qualification in Food Science she could explain the technicalities way, way better than I can.
And I was so right! Did you know you could freeze eggs? I freeze egg whites, but never thought of freezing the whole egg.
I was asked by Margaret from Oldfarm to write an information piece on freezing. I have put together a few pointers which I hope may be of help. Everything to do with food I find, is trial and error. What is acceptable to me may not be to you. The primary aim is to preserve and thaw food so that it does not have any impact on food safety and a minimal impact on quality.
The first thing to remember about freezing is there is almost nothing you cannot freeze. The quality on thawing may not be great but for the most part will still be useable in some shape or form. Primary examples of this are cream and coconut milk. Both tend to separate on thawing but are still perfectly fine cooked in a sauce.
Freezing preserves fresh food. Food which is old has a higher bacterial count. Freezing does not kill bacteria or toxins produced by bacteria. Freezing just inhibits bacterial growth. However, once the water in the food becomes available (to the bacteria) on defrosting, they quickly resume their growth curve. This is known as "available water". Bacteria like all life need water.
For this reason it is important to freeze food in prime condition. If you purchase food that is very close to its use by date it is advisable to freeze it but consume it within a few weeks.
Fruit and vegetables with a very high water content do not freeze well. This is because the ice crystals that form are large and upon thawing disrupt the cell wall structure of the fruit causing leakage. So strawberries will become soft and flaccid on thawing. Lettuce limp and brown.
Freezing eggs in their shell is about as advisable as freezing a glass bottle of anything liquid. Liquids expand on freezing so unless the glass bottle is half full it is probably best avoided. To freeze whole eggs break and whisk them together noting on the label how many eggs you have used. Then remove from freezer and place overnight in the fridge to thaw. When I managed a bakery we used to buy 20 litre boxes of fresh whole eggs and freeze them all the time. The key is to defrost slowly.
Pork and bacon both freeze really well. Years ago I always heard that it was not advisable to freeze bacon. This was due in part to a lot of it being cured by injection. The meat is injected with brine using lots of injector needles rather than immersing it. This method was used as it was quicker and got the brine distributed throughout the joint more evenly. However, the needles disrupted the meat cells and when defrosting there was considerably more leakage.
Oldfarm pork and bacon is frozen immediately after butchering and curing. This means that both the bacteria count is very low and as the bacon is immersion cured it will freeze and thaw without any noticeable loss of quality.
Thawing frozen food is best done slowly so as not to impinge on the quality. Rapid thawing causes more cell wall damage leading to more water loss. A large joint of meat for example is best defrosted in the fridge for between 24-48 hours, depending on the size. In winter I often defrost meat overnight in a room that is not heated and find this works equally well. Never defrost meat by immersing in warm water. The defrosting bacteria can initiate a huge growth spurt as the water not only becomes available but warm. The bacterial equivalent of a rave ensues. Cue the human equivalent of the Black Death.
Defrosting in a microwave is useful if you are in a hurry or have forgotten to take something out of the freezer on time. The most important thing to remember is that defrosting in this manner is patchy and uneven. A roast joint can almost cook on the outside and still be rock solid in the centre. I find the best way is to set the microwave on defrost for a minute at a time and continually turn the item. Then cook immediately. It is really advisable to probe a joint cooked after rapid defrosting to ensure the core has reached temperature. A guideline I go by is that most food poisoning bacteria are killed at 63 degrees centigrade. However, food safety guidelines tend to advise 72 degrees to allow for a margin of error. If your core temperature is 72 degrees you can be fairly certain you will be fine.
The main thing to remember is that you get out of the freezer what you put in. If you freeze good quality, well hung and butchered meat (like that from a reputable meat supplier such as Oldfarm) you take out the same.
Excellent article Margaret and Margaret. Never knew you could freeze eggs how wonderful to know that. As there are only 2 of us in our house, eggs tend to hang around or omelettes are the order of the day on occasion to use 'em up. Now I can freeze ~ woohoo!!.
Ena…. Margaret does a great job on her blog… you'll love following ehr.
Thanks Ena…. and to you too!


Bottarga from Sardegna is considered the best in the world, while the origins of this preparation go back to the Phoenicians of the Mediterranean 3500 years ago.
Serving suggestions: slice thinly and dress with extra-virgin olive oil, or serve with a few sprigs of rocket and sliced artichokes.
Grated and sprinkled over a piping hot dish of bite-hard spaghetti, dressed with extra-virgin olive oil, flamed in the pan with a clove of garlic.
Ingredients: dried mullet roe, salt. Vacuum packed without colorings or preservatives.


Lead (element #82, symbol Pb) is a very soft, blue-gray, metallic element. It is primarily produced from the mineral galena. It has been used since antiquity.
A profile of Zinc and Lead Mining in India with directories of companies, people, industry sectors, projects, facilities, news and events.
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The International Federation of Strength Athletes (IFSA) – Międzynarodowa Federacja Siłaczy. Jedna z trzech światowych (obok WSF i WSMC) federacji siłaczy zrzeszająca najsilniejszych ludzi świata.

Historia
Federacja została założona w 1995 r. przez Douglasa Edmundsa. Celem federacji jest popularyzacja i organizacja zawodów strongmanów w różnych krajach świata oraz zapewnienie transmisji telewizyjnych z tych zawodów.

Siedziba federacji mieści się w Glasgow, w Szkocji.

Pierwsze w historii federacji zawody Grand Prix odbyły się w marcu 1998 r., w Helsinkach.

Federacja zorganizowała trzykrotnie indywidualne Mistrzostwa Świata IFSA Strongman w latach 2005, 2006 i 2007.

Od 2008 r. IFSA organizuje zawody z cyklu Liga Mistrzów Strongman.

Zawodnicy
IFSA prowadzi dwa zespoły siłaczy: Pro Team (złożony z dwunastu najlepszych, zawodowych strongmanów) i Elite Athletes (złożony z zawodników amatorów).

Pro Team
 Žydrūnas Savickas
 Michaił Koklajew
 Wasyl Wirastiuk
 Vidas Blekaitis
 Andrus Murumets
 Robert Szczepański
 Benedikt Magnússon
 Oli Thompson
 Nick Best
 Travis Ortmayer
 Saulius Brusokas
 Ervin Katona

Elite Athletes
 Igor Pedan
 Geoff Dolan
 Raimonds Bergmanis
 Tomi Lotta
 Jarno Hams
 Jon Andersen
 Vilius Petrauskas
 Jani Illikainen
 Ettiene Smit
 Anders Johansson
 Juha-Matti Räsänen
 Stojan Todorczew
 Steve MacDonald
 Edwin Hakvoort
 Heinz Ollesch
 Bernd Kerschbaumer
 Rene Minkwitz
 Juha-Pekka Aitala
 Ádám Darázs
 Boris Miloševič
 Agris Kazelniks
 Franz Muellner
 Jón Valgeir Williams
 Jasmin Haidaric
 Gabriel Ardelan
 Ołeksandr Pekanow
 Georg Ögmundsson
 Tibor Mészáros
 Levi Vaoga
 Eddy Ellwood
 Peter Rundberg
 Björn Anderson
 Stefán Sölvi Pétursson
 Dave Mossing
 Aleksiej Serebrjakov
 Oliver Gratzer
 Denis Udovič
 Jimmy Laureys
 Yannick Olivier
 Jan Krehacek
 Clint Darden
 Amir Gharei
 Saad Hamad Alhmoud
 Eduardo Vissiglia
 Silvio Vitorio
 Van Hatfield
 Steve Kirit

IFSA prowadzi system rankingowy zawodników:
aktualny ranking zawodników

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona federacji

Organizacje strongman

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PORTLAND, Ore. — One person has eclipsed even Ammon Bundy and the other defendants in the courtroom theatrics playing out over the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
It's Bundy's attorney, Marcus Mumford.
Mumford has unsuccessfully demanded a mistrial. He has claimed that federal prosecutors coached their witnesses to squeeze in prejudicial statements about his client that are irrelevant to the case. And his cross-examinations have sparked dozens of objections from prosecutors, nearly all of which have been sustained by federal District Court Judge Anna Brown.
The drama culminated last week in Brown threatening to hold Mumford in criminal contempt and fine him $1,000 if he did not follow her orders about what topics are off-limits during his questioning of witnesses.
To those who know or have gone up against Mumford in court, though, nothing about his handling of the trial is surprising.
E&E provides on-the-ground coverage of the armed occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and analysis of the public lands controversies that sparked it.
The Salt Lake City-based lawyer is known for pushing a judge's limits in dogged defense of his client, an unusual tactic in the typically staid Utah legal community. On multiple occasions, Mumford has received contempt warnings from judges.
Those who know him described him as "combative" and "tenacious," and they emphasized that onlookers shouldn't be fooled by his unorthodox style. Mumford is short and stocky, with thinning gray hair. He frequently wears cowboy boots and somewhat ill-fitting suits to the courtroom. He looks a little like a bulldog, as another Utah lawyer described him.
He is fidgety — crossing and uncrossing his arms; gesturing rapidly; learning back in his chair, then abruptly sitting up — and he speaks with a severe stutter, a trait that would likely discourage most lawyers from pursuing courtroom litigation.
But he also delivers results. Mumford has been involved in some of the most high-profile lawsuits in Utah, and he has frequently come out on top.
"He should never be underestimated," said Brett Tolman, a former U.S. attorney for Utah and a law school classmate of Mumford.
Tolman said the Oregon standoff, which protested federal lands management, may have resonated with Mumford, whom he recalled as having a healthy mistrust of the government.
That, Tolman said, may make Mumford even more effective in the case.
"Ideologically," Tolman said, "he probably is an even more fearsome advocate when it's involving the government."
Marcus Mumford. Photo courtesy of Mumford Law.
Mumford, 43, who like Bundy and several of the other Malheur occupiers is Mormon, did not respond to requests for comment.
He grew up on a farm in southeast Idaho. His father was a country lawyer. He attended Utah State University and Brigham Young University's law school, and later clerked for federal Judge Monroe McKay on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mumford spent more than eight years at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City, one of the country's largest and most prestigious law firms.
He then struck out on his own, representing defendants in high-stakes and complicated white-collar litigation.
Attorneys said he is remarkably hardworking, as well as eccentric. He is fluent in Italian and enjoys singing along to classic rock hits, such as Van Halen and Journey, according to a former partner.
Karra Porter, a prominent Salt Lake City attorney who knows Mumford, said it was gutsy to go into trial work with his speech impediment.
"It tells you a lot about his personality that he said, 'Forget that, I'm going to court,'" Porter said. Mumford, she said, has given presentations at conferences titled, "The Stuttering Lawyer."
His intellect, Porter said, is "off the chart."
In the Oregon standoff case, Brown threatened Mumford with contempt after he repeatedly raised circumstances surrounding the police shooting and death of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum on Jan. 26, which precipitated the eventual end of the 41-day armed occupation on Feb. 11.
Brown has ordered that those questions are not relevant to the charges facing Bundy and the six other defendants — conspiracy to impede federal officials through threats, intimidation or force — and thus may not be raised in front of the jury.
"You are not to do that," Brown said, according to media reports.
Mumford's willingness to push the limits of a judge's order — and patience — is common practice for him.
Earlier this year, a federal district court judge in Utah also threatened Mumford with contempt and a $500 fine in a high-profile case involving whether an online marketing company had defrauded a bank and committed credit card fraud. Mumford represented one of three defendants in that case and pressed one of the prosecution's witnesses in a line of questioning that the judge had already deemed confusing to the jury and inadmissible.
And last year, he was sharply criticized by the same judge, David Nuffer, for missing 16 filing deadlines in a case where Mumford represented the Utah Republican Party.
Nevertheless, Mumford has proved effective.
And last year, Mumford secured the release of Marc Sessions Jenson, a former businessman who was implicated in a public corruption scandal involving influence peddling in the state attorney general's office.
"No one that I am aware of has gotten more acquittals in large cases in Utah," said Nathan Crane, another Salt Lake City attorney.
Lawyers who have worked with and against Mumford said he has cultivated a way of using his appearance and stutter to his advantage.
Bret Rawson, a former partner of Mumford, said it's his "secret weapon."
"Here is an attorney who has an immediate built-in mechanism for not only underdogging himself but endearing himself to juries in a way like no other attorney I've ever met," Rawson said.
Further, by pushing judges to chastise him in court — and baiting prosecutors to object to his questions — he makes himself the victim in the eyes of the jury.
It also distracts the jurors.
That could be an important tactic in a case like the Oregon standoff trial, where the government has reams of evidence against the defendants and there seems to be little question of facts in the case. The defense began presenting its case this week.
"He is one of these guys where if he can get you in knife fighting range, that favors him," said an attorney familiar with Mumford's handling of other cases who would only speak anonymously due to the sensitive nature of ongoing litigation.
"He's not afraid to mix it up."
Matthew Schindler, a Lake Oswego, Ore., attorney who represents another defendant in the case, Kenneth Medenbach, said, "What Marcus does, Marcus does intentionally."
He noted that Mumford's unconventional cross-examination style — scattered, at times borderline incoherent and frequently eliciting objections — creates the opportunity for the jury to lose sight of what the prosecution established during its direct examination of the witness.
"It creates this kind of blizzard," Schindler said. "By the time you're done, you are left saying, 'What did the government say? What even happened?'"
The earlier attorney, speaking anonymously, said Mumford's relentlessness in court is in some ways similar to what was displayed by the occupiers during the standoff.
"He won't stop until he's in handcuffs," the attorney said.


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Registration of trademark in Ecuador
Registering a brand name in Ecuador
The South American state of Ecuador (the Republic of Ecuador) does not participate in the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks. Therefore, registration of trademark in this country is possible only in accordance with the Patent Cooperation Treaty, which is the basis of the PCT system, in which Ecuador is directly involved.
The possibilities of the foregoing system ensure cost-efficiency and simplicity of the procedure for submitting application to one Office.
The documents are verified for their completeness and compliance with the requirements for registration. Such verification is considered as formal examination, which certifies the availability of the application containing the following:
Information about the applicant and his address;
Description and qualitative image of the designation;
List of classes according to the ICGS.
One copy of the application is mandatorily sent to the WIPO, and the other one is submitted to the International Search Authority. The applicant, who wishes to ascertain the trademark's protectability, also has the right to apply for the provision of International Preliminary Examination Services.
At the beginning of the national registration, the application is submitted, followed by examination concerning similarity with trademarks contained in the database of the Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property (EIIP). The foregoing will contribute to the successful registration of the trademark in Ecuador.
If the comprehensive examination produced positive results, the trademark in Ecuador is published in the EIIP magazine. After the publication, third parties can file their objections or complaints within 30 days. If no objection has been received or rejected, a final decision on the registration of the trademark is made.
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Home/Trending/ISLAMABAD: Aiwan-e-Sadr to open its doors to general public on Saturday January 2022
President house open for general for 4 hours
providing them a rare opportunity to show the magnificent building as well as its beautiful green lawns.
The presidency will remain open for the masses from 1pm to 4pm on January 1, said a statement issued by the office of the president on Friday.The building was also opened to the public a few times in the past, in pursuance of the government's commitment to open all state buildings to the general public which otherwise used to be considered a "no-go area".
People, desiring to visit the Aiwan-e-Sadr, have been asked to ensure carrying their Covid-19 vaccination certificates and wear a face mask as a pre-requisite for entry.
#ZNN #ZNNGroup #HappyNewYear2022 Presidency Open For Genral public of Pakistan
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that with improved road connectivity thanks to 164-km Jaglot-Skardu strategic road and the Skardu International Airport, Gilgit-Baltistan will turn into a top tourist destination, ensuring economic prosperity for the region.
Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri's special message on Quaid-i-Azam's birth anniversary
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Romesh David
International Vice President
As IVP I look forward to working actively with the IMC, the Sri Lanka Council and the wider CILT community towards growing the reach and relevance of CILT in Sri Lanka and the South Asia region, particularly with respect to Membership, Education, WILAT and the YPF.
Email Romesh David
I am delighted to have been appointed as IVP. I have been privileged to serve on the CILT Sri Lanka Council as Treasurer in 2004 and thereafter as Vice Chairman and Chairman between 2010 and 2014.
In my long career with John Keells Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka, I have been fortunate to have had in depth exposure to and practice in almost all major modes of international and domestic transportation over the past three and a half decades. As an island nation and a major regional transhipment hub for global container shipping, the expansion and development of the transportation and logistics industry is a cornerstone of Sri Lanka's growth strategy and in which context, I am currently privileged to work with a team of professionals in the Ports and Terminals, Shipping, Bunkering, Aviation, Air Express, International Freight Forwarding, 3PL, Warehousing and Trucking businesses.
I see a growing need and opportunity for CILT to serve as a bridge linking professionals and practitioners in the public sector, private sector and academia within transport and logistics, with a particular emphasis on attracting young professional talent and greater female participation into the sector. I believe CILT globally and Sri Lanka as a Territory within the South Asia region, are well poised to achieve this and I look forward to contributing actively towards this in my role as IVP and a member of the International Management Committee.
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Cyborg City 3000
Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.
Welcome to Cyborg City 3000!
"Project: Metalbeast"
Posted on July 7, 2016 by splintchesthair
Perhaps the biggest problem with "Project: Metalbeast" is that there is no earthly way any movie could live up to that title. If the filmmakers could have titled the movie with an airbrushed Boris Vallejo painting of a metallic werewolf, I feel like they would have. The title is a screaming electric guitar solo with full pyrotechnic accompaniment, and it ranks among the all-time-great, one-of-a-kind B-movie titles like "Hell Comes to Frogtown" or "Surf Nazis Must Die." If the majority of movie titles serve as a polite introduction to the audience, "Project: Metalbeast" is a high-five from a complete stranger doing a backflip on an ATV over your head.
The movie opens in 1974, where a crack team of special-ops commandoes are storming a castle straight out of a Universal monster movie. Before long, the team's photographer is jumped by a massive werewolf, who tears him to shreds before a soldier named Butler plugs it with silver bullets. The mission, it turns out, was to collect samples of werewolf blood for a shadowy government project headed by the unctuous bureaucrat Miller, played by Barry Bostwick in his down time between "Rocky Horror" and "Spin City." Butler is a man of action, and he's frustrated that the blood he collected has been mostly used up on experiments with no results. He's been dying to become a werewolf for 20 years and man, I hear ya, buddy. Rather than wait for those clowns in Congress to approve another line-item for more werewolf blood, Butler goes right to the source and mainlines what's left of the sample in the bathroom like he's in "Trainspotting."
Miller confronts Butler about the missing blood, and Butler boasts about how being a werewolf will make him a better breed of soldier, with all the instincts of a beast and all the cunning of a man. That sounds like a good deal, but werewolves are also known for turning anyone they attack into another werewolf, which would defeat the purpose of creating your own werewolf army. Mr. President, we cannot allow a werewolf gap!
Butler transforms and goes on a spree through the military base, but Miller stops him with a few silver bullets of his own. Miller decides to put Butler's corpse on ice in the basement, and now we flash forward 20 years. The facility is now home to a project devoted to creating replacement skin, which is headed by a scientist named Anne. You can tell she's a free-thinker because she has a "Monica" haircut at a time when everyone else got the "Rachel." Dr. Anne and her colleagues have hit a wall in their research because they can make synthetic skin, but can't stop it from becoming as hard as steel. I'm not a scientist, but it could be because the secret ingredient in their fake skin is metal. Again, not a scientist, but skin has a lot of qualities that metal is not known for having.
The new director of the skin project is Miller, who shows up having washed all the dye out of his hair. He offers the researchers something they desperately need – human test subjects in the form of frozen cadavers. Faced with the choice of using anonymous dead bodies provided by a smirking government stooge or losing their funding, the team reluctantly agrees to Miller's proposal.
The experiments continue with Butler as the guinea pig, but Dr. Anna is troubled by the ethical implications of what they're doing and starts digging into who exactly they have on that slab. Things take a turn for the worse when they find and remove the silver bullets lodged in Butler's chest and Butler returns to life. Dr. Anne's ethical concerns become much stronger after that, and she refuses to continue on the project even though Butler's skin has been almost entirely replaced by what is essentially armor plating. Like it or not, Dr. Anne's project has produced its metalbeast.
Faced with a mutiny and a congressional investigation for misappropriating dead werewolves, Miller decides to cut his losses and have the entire project team killed by unleashing Butler. Fully a werewolf again after 20 years on ice and now with steel-hard skin, Butler runs rampant through the facility. Dr. Anne and her surviving friends swipe a bazooka and try to escape, but Miller and Butler converge on them in the cryogenics lab. Somehow, Miller believes he can talk Butler out of killing him, but reminding the man you killed and tortured for 20 years "It's me!" isn't the way to do that. Butler chucks Miller into a rolling steel door upside down, Miller lands on his head, and then Butler just punches straight through Miller's gut with his gnarled metal werewolf claw.
Eventually, Dr. Anne and the survivors are chased into a corner, where they manage to fire their last bazooka shell directly into the Metalbeast's chest, blasting him to ooey-gooey werewolf chunks. Everyone can finally relax, tend to the rebar that pierced their ankles, and enjoy the full moon. But wait, is that werewolf chunk BREATHING?
About 90 percent of "Project: Metalbeast" takes place in the same building, so we know this is a very cheap movie. The Metalbeast itself (played by Kane Hodder, the Sean Connery of the "Friday the 13th" series) looks like a Three Stooges-grade gorilla suit coated in rubber cement and garnished with porcupine quills. At one point Butler is trapped between man and werewolf and there's some okay makeup effects to that effect. Kane Hodder is a good name to get horror fans interested in the movie, but the puffy nature of the costume blunts Hodder's physicality, and he's limited to jumping or swiping at his victims.
The MVP of "Project: Metalbeast," surprisingly, turns out to be Bostwick, who dives into his role as a smarmy, amoral, and arrogant prick with gusto. He's not always giving it 100 percent – there's probably no good way to deliver a line as bad as, "Why are you all so glum? You're scientists!" but Bostwick doesn't even try to give it a natural-sounding read – but his complete confidence throughout the movie makes for some memorable moments. Not only does Bostwick spend most of the movie talking shit to a man he knows hates him and is also a werewolf, but he takes a moment to smooth back his hair just before the Metalbeast delivers the killing blow.
I've always believed that remakes shouldn't be wasted on rehashing good movies – they should be saved for movies that failed to live up to their promise. "Project: Metalbeast" is one of those movies that is crying out for a competent team of filmmakers to dig into it. At the very least, "armor-plated werewolf" is a sub-genre that deserves more than one entry.
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M. Moto dans les bas-fonds (Mysterious Mr. Moto) est un film américain réalisé par Norman Foster, sorti en 1938. Il s'agit du cinquième film (sur 8) des aventures de Monsieur Moto.

Synopsis
Après une audacieuse évasion de la colonie pénitentiaire française de l'île du Diable, M. Moto, se fait passer pour Ito Matsuka, un assassin japonais, est en compagnie de Paul Brissac, qui appartient à un groupe d'assassins. Ce dernier change son nom en Romero lorsqu'ils arrivent à Londres et Moto devient son domestique et va découvrir un complot visant à assassiner l'industriel pacifiste Anton Darvak.

Fiche technique
 Titre original : Mysterious Mr. Moto
 Titre français : M. Moto dans les bas-fonds
 Réalisation : Norman Foster
 Scénario : Norman Foster et Philip MacDonald d'après le personnage de John P. Marquand
 Photographie : Virgil Miller
 Montage : Norman Colbert
 Société de production : 20th Century Fox
 Pays d'origine : États-Unis
 Format : Noir et blanc - 1,37:1 - Mono
 Genre : policier
 Date de sortie : 1938

Distribution
 Peter Lorre : Monsieur Moto
 Mary Maguire : Ann Richman
 Henry Wilcoxon : Anton Darvak
 Erik Rhodes : David Scott-Frensham
 Harold Huber : Ernst Litmar
 Leon Ames : Paul Brissac
 Forrester Harvey : George Higgins
 Frederik Vogeding : Gottfried Brujo
 Lester Matthews : Sir Charles Murchison
 John Rogers : Sniffy
 Lotus Long : Lotus Liu
 Mitchell Lewis : Nola

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Film américain sorti en 1938
Film policier américain
Film américain en noir et blanc
Film réalisé par Norman Foster
Film de la 20th Century Fox
Film se déroulant à Londres


Category: Neil Keenan - Hygeia Healing for Body, Mind and Soul.
This showed up today. I've watched all four videos (first two are longer, the last two very short). Some of this is a validation of what Ben Fulford wrote in his latest report. Neil then adds his own information.
For myself, this information "resonates", and I do feel the pieces are falling into place for the unveiling of a new paradigm for the New Earth.
See what your Higher Discernment has to say.
Neil Keenan and Group K have been working for the last 72 hours on formatting the release of some incredibly important information relating to recent developments of historical importance.
In the coming day we will provide a full preface to this post, along with edited video. In the interim, we have uploaded unedited video regarding this breaking news. This interim measure is not in any way ideal – but these developments are too important and must be publicized ASAP.
We are intending that the edited video and preface including facts and figures will be uploaded and online by 7pm Eastern Standard Time on May the 5th.


This little sweetie pie just turned 9 months. And her big brother is just about to turn 3 years old so we were able to do their photos together along with a few of the three of them. They are all so well behaved and adorable and always have the cutest outfits and props. Big brother loves Legos.
Little sister was not interested in sitting with her brothers, she wanted to stand or just not sit with them LOL.
This one was just too funny not to share. This is how most of the photos of the 3 of them turned out, luckily we were able to catch a few with all of them looking and smiling.


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Die Liste der denkmalgeschützten Objekte in Waldbach-Mönichwald enthält die  denkmalgeschützten, unbeweglichen Objekte der Gemeinde Waldbach-Mönichwald im steirischen Bezirk Hartberg-Fürstenfeld.

Denkmäler

Literatur
 Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn: Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Dehio-Handbuch Steiermark: (ohne Graz). Anton Schroll & Co, Wien, 1982, herausgegeben vom Bundesdenkmalamt, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1

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