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Study: Mercury In Coastal Fog Linked To Upwelling Of Deep Ocean Water; 'Parts-Per-Trillion Levels'
Study: Sea Levels Rising In Parts Of Indian Ocean; 'Human-Caused Changes Of Atmospheric And Oceanic Circulation'
'Artificial Upwelling' Used To Study Complex Ocean Behavior; 'The Ocean Destroyed Our Pump In One Day'
Study: Coastal Wetlands Likely To Disappear This Century As Sea Levels Rise
Study: Fish Near Coal-Fired Power Plants Have Lower Levels Of Mercury
Industry: Mercury Study Misleads Americans About Seafood And Health; 'Levels In Actual Fish Aren't Increasing'
SANTA CRUZ, California -- An ongoing investigation of elevated mercury levels in coastal fog in California suggests that upwelling of deep ocean water along the coast brings mercury to the surface, where it enters the atmosphere and is absorbed by fog.
Peter Weiss-Penzias, an environmental toxicologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who leads the investigation, emphasized that the amount of mercury in fog is not a health concern. "These are parts-per-trillion levels, so when we say elevated, that's relative to what was expected in atmospheric water," he said. "The levels measured in rain have always been fairly low, so the results from our first measurements in fog were surprising."
Weiss-Penzias and his team collected their first fog samples in the summer of 2011 and published their findings in a paper in Geophysical Research Letters in February 2012. The team, including researchers at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and CSU Monterey Bay, collected additional fog samples in the summer of 2012 and also analyzed water samples collected at different depths in Monterey Bay. Weiss-Penzias will present the latest findings in a talk at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 4.
Mercury is a highly toxic element that is released into the environment through a variety of human activities, including the burning of coal. In California, mercury mines in the coast ranges produced large amounts of elemental mercury for use in gold mining operations, leading to contamination of watersheds throughout the state. Bacteria in soil and sediments transform elemental mercury into methylmercury compounds that are especially toxic and readily absorbed by organisms.
Weiss-Penzias said the new results provide some clues to how methylmercury gets into coastal fog, although more research is needed to understand the processes involved. He is particularly interested in a highly volatile compound called dimethylmercury. "Dimethylmercury is more stable in the deep ocean, but we're not quite sure how it forms or where it's coming from," he said. "We found elevated levels in the surface water during upwelling, and it readily evaporates from the surface into the atmosphere, where it decomposes into monomethylmercury and gets into fog droplets."
When the fog moves onto the land, it collects on the leaves of redwood trees and other vegetation and drips onto the ground, depositing significant amounts of mercury onto the land. "We calculated that more methylmercury is deposited by fog than by rain, but the error bars are large," Weiss-Penzias said. He is hoping to get grant funding to conduct a more comprehensive research project.
The preliminary results obtained so far have relied heavily on the efforts of undergraduate researchers working with Weiss-Penzias and Russell Flegal, professor of microbiology and environmental toxicology at UC Santa Cruz. Two of those undergraduates will be presenting posters on their work at the AGU meeting. Cruz Ortiz, who has continued working in the lab since his graduation earlier this year, has been looking at mercury concentrations in insects in coastal areas subject to fog deposition. His preliminary data indicate higher concentrations of mercury in some insects in the summer, when coastal fog is common, than in February and March. The other poster looks at mercury in sediments from Monterey Bay and is presented by Rene Paul Acosta, now a graduate student at Purdue University.
"There is so little data on this now, we're just trying to fill in the map to improve our understanding of the cycling of mercury in the environment," Weiss-Penzias said. "We want to know its sources and sinks and transformations."
Methylmercury becomes increasingly concentrated in organisms higher up the food chain, and mercury levels in some predatory fish are high enough to raise health concerns. This contamination of ocean fish is the result of biological sequestering of mercury that has been accumulating in the oceans since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the 19th century. Similarly, the mercury that moves from ocean waters into fog is probably not fresh pollution, but the result of the historical legacy of mercury pollution from coal burning and other sources, Weiss-Penzias said.
"It is a bit of a mystery where it's coming from, but I think what we're seeing is a large-scale phenomenon that has to do with upwelling of deep ocean water along the coast," he said.


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Ex-Wanderers captain Antoni Sarcevic 'can't wait' to face former club
Antoni Sarcevic 'can't wait' to face former club Bolton Wanderers
By Dan Barnes. @DanBarnesJourno Digital Sports Reporter
EX-WANDERERS captain Antoni Sarcevic says he "can't wait" to come up against his former team-mates on Wednesday night.
Sarcevic could be involved when the Whites take on Stockport County at Edgeley Park in an FA Cup first round replay.
The midfielder left Bolton to join the Hatters last month but didn't feature when the sides met at the UniBol just over a week ago.
Sarcevic is still in contact with several members of the Wanderers squad but insists he is just focusing on the job at hand.
"I stay in contact with a few of them who I'm close with," he told the club's YouTube channel. "I can't wait, as simple as that - I can't wait.
"Even when you look at (how many fans) we took to Bolton last week, I was watching with my mum and dad and I just said, 'look at that'.
"That's what spurs the lads on now to make sure this season's a successful one."
Stockport sacked Simon Rusk – who was replaced by Dave Challinor - just days after Sarcevic's arrival at Edgeley Park.
The midfielder described the past few weeks as a "whirlwind" but says he is just focusing on how he can affect results on the pitch.
He added: "It's the craziest two weeks I've had in football, but I just want to get my head down now and forget about everything and focus on Stockport County and helping this club get promoted this year.
"Stockport showed an interest before I signed for Bolton and honestly, it was interest that I was keen on and they've always been in the back of my mind.
"I know a few lads and when the opportunity came, it was an opportunity I didn't want to turn down and I'm made up to be a Stockport County player."
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Mysore (Karnataka), 15 April 2015: The second day of the 5th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship 2015 (A Division), Mysore, Karnataka was an exciting day where the teams showcased their brilliant hockey skills.
Hockey Punjab registered their second consecutive win in the tournament by defeating Hockey Maharashtra with a huge goal margin of 15-0. The second match went in favour of Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy where they beat Services Sports Control Board 7-4. In Pool B, Hockey Odisha beat Hockey Karnataka by 3-0 in where as Manipur Hockey edged past Hockey Bhopal by 5-2.
Hockey Punjab, with a win in their kitty, notched up their second successive win as they overcame Hockey Maharashtra by a huge margin 15-0 in a one-sided match. The entire match rained goals for Hockey Punjab all of which came through field effort. Initial lead was taken by Hockey Punjab in the early five minutes of the game through Ajmer Singh. Baljinder Singh contributed three goals to his team in the 13th, 30th and 57th minute. Ajit Pandit was the star performer as he pounded the goal post in the 24th, 40th, 55th, 61st and 64th minute and scored a total of five goals in favour of Hockey Punjab. Harjeet Singh and Shamsher Singh netted a brace in the 27th, 51st minute and 37th and 38th minute respectively going on to strengthen the team's position further. Confidently taking the lead ahead, Ajmer Singh and Sukhjeet Singh shared a goal between them in the 46th and 60th minute correspondingly. As Hockey Maharashtra did not get any chance to score in the entire match, Hockey Punjab bagged its second consecutive win by thrashing Hockey Maharashtra 15-0.
In another Pool A match, Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy defeated Services Sports Control Board 7-4 to mark its first win on the second day of the tournament. Within a span of two minutes Abhay Yadav scored the opening goal of the match which was immediately followed by an equalizer from Services Sports Control Board's Harpreet Singh who levelled the scores at 1-1. It was Ravi Panche who successfully converted a penalty corner in the 25th minute taking the scores to 2-1. But their lead was short-lived as Services Sports Control Board again scored a leveller in the 27th minute through a field effort from Mohd Alishan. Madhya Pradesh Hockey added one more to the tally before the end of first half and taking the lead with 3-2 on board. Second half Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy scored two more goals in the 42nd and 63rdminute coming from the stick of Ameen Khan and Mohd Nizamuddin respectively taking the team to a very strong position. Services Sports Control Board managed to reduce the margin to 3-5 as Laxman Lakra stroke a brilliant field goal in the 66th minute. Just three minutes into the game to end, Mohd Nizamuddin continued to push forward the score line and scored two goals in the 67th and 69th minute, respectively and sealing the fate of the opponents. Services Sports Control Board hit back and got one more goal in the 68th minute through Harpreet Singh but Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy stood strong enough and carved out a convincing 7-4 win against Services Sports Control Board.
In the Pool B match, Hockey Odisha secured the win over Hockey Karnataka by 3-0 and registered a victory. Odisha dominated in the most of the match and outplayed their opponents in every aspect of the game. After playing an attacking game, Odisha's earned a penalty shoot-out in the 12th minute, which was perfectly converted by Sanjit Toppo to open the account for his team. After conceding the goal, Hockey Karnataka came back strongly and counter attacked many times, but Odisha defenders thwarted their every chance. In the 43rd minute, Odisha's Sumit Toppo dribbled-past opponent's defenders and sent the ball into the net to increase the lead by 2-0. In the 66th minute, Nitin Mukesh Tigga scored the third goal of the match and sealed a 3-0 victory over Karnataka.
In another Pool B match, Manipur Hockey carved out an excellent win as they beat Hockey Bhopal 5-2. Manipur struck first in the 8th minute when Dayananda Chanamthabam scored through a penalty corner. This was followed by the team adding two more consecutive goals in the 15th and 18th minute leaving the opponents wounded. Wit 3-0 on board Manipur Hockey started the second session with great speed but Hockey Bhopal finally opened their account in the 37th minute as Amit Rathee ensured to convert the penalty corner opportunity. In their bid to reduce the margin further Hockey Bhopal struck again in the 41st minute when Abhay Kumar's field goal took the score to 2-3. Realising that they might lose the hold on the game Hockey Manipur bounced back and scored two consecutive goals in the 62nd and 70th minute and registering their win against the opponents.


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All of our drivers have authority to refuse on board or transport any passenger that he/she feels could be a danger/nuisance to other passengers, or him/herself.
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Airports Only - If the clients are delayed longer than 1 hour of the stated return time, passengers may have to wait for transport. A vehicle will be arranged to pick up passengers as soon as possible (if not on time). If the landing date on the invoice is incorrect, the Hirer will be liable for additional costs for the vehicle to be re-sent on the correct date.
No monies will be refunded if the passengers choose not wait for the return pick up vehicle, or, wait for the vehicle if it is delayed due to circumstances beyond our control. The lead hirer is to ensure they know where the vehicle will be picking them up from. If in any doubt ask the driver.
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There is no guarantee that the vehicle will perform the journey in any given time and the company shall not be accountable for any loss, inconvenience or damage, which may arise from any delay, detention or breakdown. However Chariots of Essex Travel LTD will endeavour to procure a replacement vehicle for the carriage of the passengers but cannot be held accountable for the type of vehicle used or any additional charges, which are levied by the owner of the replacement vehicle(s).
Passengers may not move about on the coach whilst it is in motion.
Smoking is not permitted on the coach/minibus. It is also illegal to Smoke on the Vehicle.
The company reserve the right to substitute vehicles loaned to them by other operators for the company's vehicles without any preliminary notice.
Once a booking has been confirmed (verbally/written/email), the customer has seven days in which to cancel. If the customer cancels a booking after the seven-day limit, the deposit paid (if applicable) will be non-refundable.
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Chariots of Essex Travel LTD only collect information about you for the purpose of processing your quote or booking requests.
The type of personal information we may collect from you includes: your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and credit/debit card details.
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	@file
	@author		Albert Semenov
	@date		04/2009
*/
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Copyright (c) 2011-2013,WebJet Business Division,CYOU

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
****************************************************************************/
#include "stdneb.h"
#include "MyGUI_GenesisDataManager.h"
#include "MyGUI_GenesisDiagnostic.h"
#include "MyGUI_GenesisDataStream.h"
#include "foundation/io/memorystream.h"
#include "foundation/io/iointerface.h"
#include "foundation/io/iointerfaceprotocol.h"
//#include <Ogre.h>

//#include "MyGUI_LastHeader.h"

#include "foundation/io/ioserver.h"

namespace MyGUI
{
	GenesisDataManager::GenesisDataManager() :
mAllGroups(false),
	mIsInitialise(false)
{
}
void GenesisDataManager::SetResourcePath(const Util::String& path)
{
	m_srcPath = path;
}
void GenesisDataManager::initialise(const std::string& _group)
{
	MYGUI_PLATFORM_ASSERT(!mIsInitialise, getClassTypeName() << " initialised twice");
	MYGUI_PLATFORM_LOG(Info, "* Initialise: " << getClassTypeName());

	mGroup = _group;
	//if (mGroup == Ogre::ResourceGroupManager::AUTODETECT_RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME)
	//	mAllGroups = true;
	//else
	mAllGroups = false;

	MYGUI_PLATFORM_LOG(Info, getClassTypeName() << " successfully initialized");
	mIsInitialise = true;
}

void GenesisDataManager::shutdown()
{
	MYGUI_PLATFORM_ASSERT(mIsInitialise, getClassTypeName() << " is not initialised");
	MYGUI_PLATFORM_LOG(Info, "* Shutdown: " << getClassTypeName());

	MYGUI_PLATFORM_LOG(Info, getClassTypeName() << " successfully shutdown");
	mIsInitialise = false;
}

IDataStream* GenesisDataManager::getData(const std::string& _name)
{
	Util::String filename = _name.c_str();
	Util::String url = m_srcPath + filename;
	try
	{
		//Ogre::DataStreamPtr stream = Ogre::ResourceGroupManager::getSingleton().openResource(_name, mGroup, true);
		//OgreDataStream* data = new OgreDataStream(stream);
		//return data;
		GPtr<IO::Stream> pStream = IO::MemoryStream::Create();
		n_assert( pStream );
		GPtr<IO::ReadStream> readStreamMsg = IO::ReadStream::Create();
		n_assert( readStreamMsg );
		readStreamMsg->SetFileName( url);
		readStreamMsg->SetStream( pStream );
		IO::IoInterface::Instance()->SendWait( readStreamMsg.upcast<Messaging::Message>() );

		if ( !readStreamMsg->GetResult() )
		{
			n_warning( "GenesisDataManager::getData: can not open %s", _name.c_str() );
			return nullptr;
		}
		pStream->SetAccessMode(IO::Stream::ReadAccess);
		if (pStream->Open())
		{
			GPtr<IO::TextReader> tr = IO::TextReader::Create();

			tr->SetStream(pStream);
			GenesisDataStream* data = new GenesisDataStream(tr);
			return (IDataStream*)data;
		}

		//GPtr<IO::Stream> stream = IO::IoServer::Instance()->CreateStream(IO::URI(url));
		//if (stream && stream->Open())
		//{
		//	GPtr<IO::TextReader> tr = IO::TextReader::Create();
		//	tr->SetStream(stream);
		//	GenesisDataStream* data = new GenesisDataStream(tr);
		//	return (IDataStream*)data;
		//}

	}
	catch(...) //(const Ogre::FileNotFoundException& _e)
	{
		//MYGUI_PLATFORM_LOG(Warning, _e.getDescription());
		MYGUI_PLATFORM_LOG(Warning, std::string(std::string("file error:") + _name));
		return nullptr;
	}
	MYGUI_PLATFORM_LOG(Warning, std::string(std::string("file error:") + _name));
	return nullptr;
}

bool GenesisDataManager::isDataExist(const std::string& _name)
{
	const VectorString& files = getDataListNames(_name);
	return (files.size() == 1);
}

const VectorString& GenesisDataManager::getDataListNames(const std::string& _pattern)
{
	return getDataListNames(_pattern, false);
}

const VectorString& GenesisDataManager::getDataListNames(const std::string& _pattern, bool _fullpath)
{
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	result.clear();
	result.push_back(_pattern);
	return result;
}

const std::string& GenesisDataManager::getDataPath(const std::string& _name)
{
	static std::string result;

	const VectorString& files = getDataListNames(_name, true);
	result = files.size() == 1 ? files[0] : "";

	return result;
}

} // namespace MyGUI

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Sophisticated and offbeat, 26-year-old Juliette Jourdain and Corum are pairing up in a completely Bubble spirit and adding a new Bubblesque creation to the watch brand's iconic collection.
Between the eccentricity and captivating creativity of the young photographer and the legendary, effervescent Bubble, this is an obvious partnership. Once again, Juliette enthrals us with her unbridled inventive spirit, her boundless imagination and her ability to come up with equally wonderful and attractive characters and skilfully immortalise them on paper. Whether staging herself or calling on models, her portraits are fascinating and leave us in awe of her creative world.
The new Bubble, covered by its traditional, timeless sapphire dome, charms us with its pure colours.
The dial depicts a self portrait of the talented photographer, showcasing her keen artistic flair. The portrait is breathtaking – it exudes purity with her intense eyes and delicately defined features. On the dial, raised crystalline diamond drops run down the young woman's face. Devoid of numerals and markers and featuring only very discreet hands, this highly refined Bubble is nonetheless captivating.
The pure white vulcanised rubber strap forms a delicate contrast with the metallic grey of the stainless steel.
Launched in 2000, Corum's Bubble – now a Swiss watchmaking icon – has injected a wave of fun and youthfulness into the La Chaux-de-Fonds watch brand for almost 20 years, while proudly preserving its innovative spirit.
26-year-old Juliette Jourdain is a young Paris-based photographer who holds a degree from the EFET school of photography. She first ventured into the vast and abstract world of art at a very young age through drawing and painting. She then went on to specialise in photography, which brought together her various passions.
Drawing her inspiration from her own imagination, she takes photographs like she would paint a canvas to depict her dream world. Expressing a primarily illustrative eccentric vision, her portraits – for the most part self portraits – deal with creating characters in the fashion world.


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Ivy League and frontline service put to very good use
by Tom Burke
What a combo, top shelf education and experience. Abi Basch has been an educator for a dozen years, the last four at San Francisco's Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. The social studies teacher earned her history degree at Brown University.
"My first teaching experience was as a volunteer teaching theater workshops in a women's prison while still an undergraduate," Abi, who also holds a graduate degree as a playwright, told me via email. "During that time I also studied abroad in South Africa where I did similar work in prisons and townships. These experiences were incredibly forming for me."
And so, she explains, began her path to an education career though her own experience as a student planted the seed.
"My interest started long before this - my own teachers had had such a powerful influence on my life. That invaluable give-and-take of the teacher-student relationship has infused so much of what I do, and provides endless rewards in the dialogue I have today with my own students."
Abi said "teaching at Sacred Heart Cathedral has been fantastic" and the "service and social justice aspects of the school's mission provide an exciting opportunity to create curricula and programs to infuse the students with not only a will to make the world a better place, but the agency to do so."
Abi says technology has put a new fire under the feet of students. "Learning how to engage devices in the classroom as a tool for growth and means toward meaningful live learning has been exciting. It's also a fantastic opportunity for dialogue with the students - as the technology is changing so fast, they often have innovative solutions that engage social media and other technology."
It is not without its price though, she said. "Library research is more of a challenge for students now, as is attention span. I find myself breaking up lessons into smaller parts and shifting between activities more often to keep students engaged."
The Catholic school "emphasis on social justice and service has been particularly meaningful to me as a government and economics teacher," Abi said. "In a city like San Francisco, the church's teaching on tolerance and acceptance of the marginalized has been especially powerful in creating a safe space for a diverse student body."
Abi remembers her roots and the school's. "Making sure to incorporate the philosophies of the specific orders that founded our school into my lesson plans has been a rewarding challenge. I grew up around Christian Brothers, as my mother worked at Manhattan College for much of my childhood, so I was familiar with and fond of the ideology. I also have enjoyed learning about and being inspired by the incredible work of the Daughters of Charity, and incorporating their ideas into my curricula."
"Do it!" is Abi's advice to those considering the teaching profession. "It's one of the most rewarding jobs there is," she said. Would she do it again? "In a heartbeat."
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Medical reimbursement trends have changed for 2018, and if you want to go into the medical billing and coding industry, it is crucial to identify and understand these trends. We have compiled a quick list of the top items that you will need to pay attention to as you learn medical procedure codes along with all the other important aspects of the job. Some of these will be obvious, while some others may come as a complete surprise.
The changes in the health coverage landscape have caused upheaval, especially as we progress through 2018. Patients and their families have recently begun to see an increased share of healthcare costs, and they are also being asked to pick up the slack due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), cutbacks. That being the case, more customers are beginning to care about what they are being charged up front.
They are asking for more transparency as they want to know where their money is going. Patients are currently being offered comparison-shopping tools by companies like Anthem, which serve to provide the transparency that they are looking for. The problem, however, is that many patients will simply forego treatment due to financial hardship and a lack of available help.
This will also help with a wide range of other risk-adjustment solutions. These upgrades ultimately aim to boost the revenue of the practice whether it be private, a doctor's office, or something entirely different. The goal is to create payment options that the patient can understand and allow for mobile-friendly menu options. The future of medical billing is electronic, and we are steadily moving toward that future.
Recently, the industry is experiencing an increasing number of large mergers and acquisitions. For example, CVS health recently acquired Aetna, and Aurora Healthcare recently merged with Advocate Health Care System. This consolidation of healthcare service is causing many to ask questions, particularly regarding how it will affect revenue system technologies.
For example, one company might be using Cerner software while another is using Epic software. It can be extremely difficult and expensive to migrate all the data and practices from one system to another. There are many who believe that a true consolidation could never be possible due to the differences in systems, leaving room for quite a bit of controversy.
If you are thinking of entering the field of medical billing and coding, then you have a lot of work ahead of you. You will need to learn the basics of the profession, but you will also need to make sure that you are keeping up with all the changes that we mentioned in this blog post. The medical billing and coding industries are always roughly the same no matter how you present it, but there are numerous changes on a wider scale that will completely change the way the job is done.
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Finally I was dumped, when people had enough of me and here I am in a cage for almost a year now, never walked, as everyone is afraid of me. Yesterday for the first time in months a brave woman took an interest and walked me outside!
I don't want to eat and drink anymore....they will put me down soon anyway.


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Q: Run time tracing method execution - spring-cloud-sleuth provides spring-cloud-sleuth provides way to trace method execution with @NewSpan
As it is annotation it is not feasible to add annotation on all methods of project.
Also, in production environment we only need to trace the method execution time once we find latency in execution.
Is there any way to enable tracing for Method calls at run time without restarting  application?

A: Nothing comes out of the box for such an approach. What you can do though, is to register your own implementation of the SpanReporter. In that implementation, you could retrieve the duration for a Span and then, depending on its value, either send it to Zipkin or not (or do something else about it).

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The practice of using colours to determine the temperature of a piece of (usually) ferrous metal comes from blacksmithing. Long before thermometers were widely available it was necessary to know what state the metal was in for heat treating it and the only way to do this was to heat it up to a colour which was known to be best for the work.

Chapman
According to Chapman's Workshop Technology, the colours which can be observed in steel are:

Stirling
In 1905, Stirling Consolidated Boiler Company published a slightly different set of values:

See also
Black-body radiation
Color temperature
Incandescence

References

Metallurgy
Temperature

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JACKSON, EDWIN
FC Barcelona 25 Guard
Height: 1.90 Born: 18 September, 1989 Nationality: France
@edjacks @edwinjackson11/
Totals 11 6 140:30 33 7/18 3/15 10/12 2 13 15 14 4 8 0 4 16 17 30
Averages 11 6 12:46 3 38.9% 20% 83.3% 0.2 1.2 1.4 1.3 0.4 0.7 0 0.4 1.5 1.5 2.7
26 vs Olympiacos Piraeus 4:18 3 1/1 1 1 3
1 Totals 4:18 3 0/0 1/1 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
Average 4:18 3 0% 100% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
11 * at ALBA Berlin 27:19 6 2/2 0/3 2/2 1 2 3 1 2 2 3 5 9
12 * vs Panathinaikos Athens 7:46 0/3 0/1 1 1 1 1 -6
13 * at Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 21:40 4 1/2 0/3 2/2 3 3 3 2 3 3 4
14 vs Crvena Zvezda Telekom Belgrade 8:36 0/2 1 1 1 -3
15 * vs Zalgiris Kaunas 23:09 6 1/2 1/3 1/1 1 1 2 5 1 1 1 3 1 7
16 * at Real Madrid 20:46 8 2/4 1/3 1/2 3 3 2 1 1 2 2 8
17 vs Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul 0:14
18 vs ALBA Berlin 5:22 1 1/2 1 1 2 3
22 at Zalgiris Kaunas 3:47 1 -1
24 * at Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul 17:33 5 1/3 0/1 3/3 3 3 2 1 2 2 6
10 Totals 136:12 30 7/18 2/14 10/12 2 13 15 14 4 8 0 4 15 16 27
Average 13:37 3 38.9% 14.3% 83.3% 0.2 1.3 1.5 1.4 0.4 0.8 0 0.4 1.5 1.6 2.7
Index rating 31 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 11/15/2018
Points 24 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 11/15/2018
Offensive rebounds 3 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. Zalgiris Kaunas 11/9/2018
Defensive rebounds 5 Unicaja Malaga vs. Crvena Zvezda Belgrade 3/18/2016
Total rebounds 6 FC Barcelona vs. Crvena Zvezda Belgrade 3/9/2018
Assists 7 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. Olympiacos Piraeus 3/8/2019
Steals 4 FC Barcelona vs. Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 3/23/2018
Blocks 2 Crvena Zvezda Belgrade vs. ASVEL Villeurbanne 11/15/2019
Minutes 33 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. CSKA Moscow 11/23/2018
Played with Centre Federal (2004-07).
Signed for the 2007-08 season by ASVEL Villeurbanne.
Signed for the 2008-09 season by JSF Nanterre, Pro-B.
Signed for the 2009-10 season by Rouen Basket.
Played there till December'14.
In December'14 moved to Spain, signed by FC Barcelona.
Signed for the 2015-16 season by Malaga CB.
Signed for the 2016-17 season by Estudiantes Madrid.
Moved to China for the 2017-18 season, signed by Guangdong Southern Tigers.
In January'18 back to Spain, signed by FC Barcelona.
Moved to Montenegro for the 2018-19 season, signed by BC Buducnost Podgorica.
Moved to France for the 2019-20 season, signed by ASVEL Villeurbanne.
Won the 2018-19 Montenegrin National Championship with BC Buducnost Podgorica.
Won the 2019 Montenegrin National Cup with BC Buducnost Podgorica.
Played the 2010, 2013 and 2014 French All Star Game.
Has been member of the French U-16, U-18, U-19 and U-20 National Team.
Won the gold medal at the 2006 European U-18 Championship.
Won the silver medal at the 2009 European U-20 Championship.
Won the bronze medal at the 2007 World U-19 Championship.
Member of the French National Team.
Won the bronze medal at the 2014 World Championship.
Played at the 2017 European Championship.
2014-15 FC Barcelona 11 33 3 7/18 38.9 3/15 20 10/12 83.3 15 4 14 0
2015-16 Unicaja Malaga 24 214 8.9 29/54 53.7 40/122 32.8 36/42 85.7 34 4 59 0
2017-18 FC Barcelona Lassa 9 41 4.6 11/24 45.8 5/11 45.5 4/4 100 17 7 11 0
2018-19 Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 30 293 9.8 53/118 44.9 51/119 42.9 34/40 85 76 20 56 2
2019-20 LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 17 98 5.8 28/70 40 5/51 9.8 27/34 79.4 25 6 27 2
Totals 91 679 7.5 128/284 45.1 104/318 32.7 111/132 84.1 167 41 167 4
Averages 91 679 7.5 128/284 45.1 104/318 32.7 111/132 84.1 1.8 0.5 1.8 0
2007-08 ASVEL Villeurbanne 10 13 1.3 4/8 50 1/11 9.1 2/2 100 4 1 4 0
2010-11 Asvel Basket 2 3 1.5 0/2 0 1/3 33.3 0/2 0 0 0 1 0
2011-12 Asvel Basket 12 132 11 30/52 57.7 13/40 32.5 33/38 86.8 30 11 25 0
2013-14 Asvel Villeurbanne Lyon 10 142 14.2 23/51 45.1 23/57 40.4 27/33 81.8 29 9 33 0
2014-15 ASVEL Lyon Villeurbanne 9 127 14.1 23/46 50 18/47 38.3 27/34 79.4 28 11 29 1
Totals 43 417 9.7 80/159 50.3 56/158 35.4 89/109 81.7 91 32 92 1
Averages 43 417 9.7 80/159 50.3 56/158 35.4 89/109 81.7 2.1 0.7 2.1 0
2005/06 Centre Federal 34 367 10.8 71/116 61.2 58/177 32.8 51/64 79.7 82 20 47 3
2006/07 Centre Federal 19 407 21.4 91/156 58.3 47/125 37.6 84/108 77.8 76 11 47 7
2007/08 ASVEL Villeurbanne 30 64 2.1 13/23 56.5 11/51 21.6 5/8 62.5 19 7 19 2
2008/09 Nanterre 31 404 13 103/161 64 50/150 33.3 48/67 71.6 79 22 60 4
2009/10 Rouen 29 310 10.7 70/140 50 38/114 33.3 56/73 76.7 89 28 37 2
2010/11 ASVEL Villeurbanne 30 168 5.6 46/82 56.1 16/57 28.1 28/30 93.3 39 14 25 1
2011/12 ASVEL Villeurbanne 30 340 11.3 68/136 50.0 47/136 34.6 63/74 85.1 75 19 71 3
2012/13 ASVEL Villeurbanne 35 562 16.1 116/215 54.0 71/184 38.6 117/184 83.0 118 33 98 3
2014/15 ASVEL Villeurbanne 10 184 18.4 36/64 56.3 26/73 35.6 34/38 89.5 42 12 34 3
FC Barcelona 19 111 5.8 22/57 38.6 13/29 44.8 28/30 93.3 19 5 22 0
2015/16 Unicaja Malaga 34 221 6.5 30/70 42.9 35/101 34.7 56/75 74.7 40 13 61 1
2016/17 Estudiantes Madrid 32 684 21.4 161/282 57.1 66/177 37.3 164/189 86.8 112 32 108 1
2017/18 Guangdong Southern Tigers 24 380 15.8 120/233 51.5 35/92 38.0 35/48 72.9 108 21 101 6
FC Barcelona 21 115 5.5 23/50 46.0 14/35 40.0 27/32 84.4 40 10 19 1
2018/19 Buducnost-ABA 29 308 10.6 53/107 49.5 46/127 36.2 64/76 84.2 79 22 65 3
Buducnost-EL 16 279 17.4 65/119 54.6 35/87 40.2 44/58 75.9 49 14 79 3


Let me clarify this a bit more. When I have my period, I want to dip the raspberries in the Nutella and shove them in my mouth. I want to stick my fingers in a tub of Cool Whip before I plop some on my angel food cake. I want to take that whole thing of sprinkles and just shake it into my mouth. I also don't give a damn if there's Nutella or Cool Whip on my face or on my t-shirt while I eat it because I am woman hear my period roar.
I know you saw me at the gym drinking carrot ginger juice after I ran four miles on the treadmill. Little did you know that night my period arrived. I ended up baking two dozen Snickerdoodle cookies and I ate half of them while binge-watching The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
You probably think I'm such a great mom because after school I asked my kids, "Who wants to go get ice cream?" It was a selfish suggestion because I'm the one who wanted ice cream. I was just trying to snag some "cool mom" points with my kids while satisfying the strawberry milkshake craving I had.
It's admirable that some women are able to cut out all the junk food they crave during their period. I, however, welcome these cravings during that time of the month. I'm not afraid to admit that my period is more powerful than me. The period wants what it wants.
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I'm 39 and totally not feeling fine.


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by Brian Thornton
Growing up I was a fan of the BBC television show Connections.
Hosted by noted British science historian James Burke, it traced the historical connections between two events/inventions/technological innovations that seemed at first blush to have no connection whatsoever.
I'm going to attempt to do something similar, although not technological, and on a much smaller scale.
We begin near the dawn of the 19th century, at sea, with a naval barrage. We will conclude near the
end of that same century, also at sea, also with a naval barrage.
Luckily they set the abridged version to music!
Let's begin with the "rockets' red glare" and see how that leads us eventually to the Spanish American War.
The quote above is, of course, from America's national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner." Originally a long poem written after the all-night pounding that Fort McHenry, which guarded Baltimore Harbor, taken at the hands of the British fleet during the War of 1812, "The Star-Spangled Banner"'s author Francis Scott Key is famous for that piece of writing, and for little else.
Never mind that he was an accomplished lawyer who came from a wealthy, accomplished, and deeply religious, Maryland family. Key was, for decades, the United States Attorney for Washington, D.C.
THIS was Washington's handsomest man???
By the 1840s, the upstanding Francis Scott Key had retired, making way for his widowed (and, as it
turns out, far less upstanding) son, Phillip Barton Key. Dubbed "the Handsomest Man in Washington," the younger Key was a notorious flirt, and widely suspected of committing adultery with any number of willing, lonely married women in the nation's capital.
One of these lonely women was a dark eyed beauty of Italian extraction named Teresa Sickles.
The daughter of expatriate Italian parents (her father was a noted musician and music teacher in New York City), Teresa initially met her future husband Dan Sickles when he rented a room in her family home while studying law at N.Y.U.
Dan was twenty years old.
Teresa was three.
The tragic Teresa Sickles
Thirteen years later Dan, now thirty-three, got the sixteen year-old Teresa pregnant and they eloped.
Some who study 19th century American history would describe Dan Sickles as a product of his age: a machine politician of the first order who never saw a bribe he wouldn't take or a skirt he wouldn't chase.
Put simply, he was a skunk.
No less an authority than New York lawyer and diarist George Templeton Strong, a contemporary of Sickles, once said of him: "One might as well try to spoil a rotten egg as to damage Dan's character."
Sickles got himself elected to Congress, moving his young family to Washington, D.C., where he continued his philandering, his drinking, and his dabbling in wholesale graft. It was at this time that Teresa, bored, lonely, in a strange city, where she knew few people, embarked on an illicit affair with none other than "the Most Handsome Man in Washington," Phillip Barton Key.
The Sickles family lived on Lafayette Square, within sight of the White House (at the time still known as "the Executive Mansion"), and Key was wont to take up station on a park bench across the street from his paramour's house, signaling her discreetly with a handkerchief, when he wished to "get together."
Sickles got wind of the affair when he received a poison pen letter from an anonymous source (likely a jilted lover of Key's, or perhaps a jealous husband?). Enraged, he confronted Teresa, who tearfully confessed all.
And then Dan Sickles made history.
After forcing his wife to write down her confession, Sickles hid in his house, lying in wait for Key to take up his customary spot on his customary bench. When the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia showed up, sat down and waved his handkerchief, Sickles took up a pistol, rushed out of his house, into the street, and shot Key multiple times.
Key did not die immediately, but suffered in great pain for several hours before expiring.
"Crazy"? Not so crazy as to leave the house in order to murder his wife's lover without his top hat!
Sickles immediately turned himself in and made history with his affirmative defense: he claimed "temporary insanity."
And he got off!
Sickles actually got more heat in the court of public opinion for publicly "forgiving" his wife for her affair than for cold-bloodedly murdering a man a stone's throw from the White House!
This all took place in 1859, on the eve of the Civil War. And while Sickles "forgave" his wife, he never again lived with her or allowed her to see her children. She died a broken woman in 1867.
For his part, Sickles quickly got himself appointed a brigadier general in the army once war broke out. He was the worst kind of "political general": insubordinate, arrogant, thieving, and not above lining his own pockets at the expense of the welfare of his men.
Sickles' military career ended in July of 1863 when he disobeyed orders at the Battle of Gettysburg
General Sickles, hat still on.
and led his troops into a trap that led to heavy casualties under murderous fire. Sickles was one of those casualties, losing his right leg to a cannon ball during the battle. He later received a Congressional Medal of Honor for his act of willful disobedience.
Now how many palms do you suppose he had to grease to pull of that coup?
(Sickles eventually donated both the leg and the ball that severed it to the Smithsonian Institution.)
After the war Sickles returned to politics and used his influence both to defend his actions (usually by libeling such superiors as George G. Meade, who commanded all federal troops in the battle) and to ensure that a river of federal dollars flowed toward the establishment and maintenance of a national battlefield site at Gettysburg. During one of his frequent visits to the battlefield, Sickles was asked why, with all of the statues to various heroes of the battle dotting the landscape, was there no memorial to Dan Sickles?
Sickles' reply? "This entire battlefield is a memorial to Dan Sickles."
Slick, huh? A politician's answer, right?
Absolutely. And a whole lot sweeter sounding than the truth: a memorial for Sickles had been planned, with money both appropriated by the government and donated by third parties.
And then Sickles, who was tasked with overseeing the project, stole the money.
After his wife's death in 1867, Sickles was appointed U.S. Minister to Spain, where he spent six years flirting with the dowager Queen Isabella II (rumor had it he slept with her), married for a second time, and, through bellicose dispatches back home over incidents such as the Virginius Affair, did his level best to get the United States embroiled in a war with Spain over that old sore spot, the island of Cuba.
The problem for the United States was that her navy was nowhere near the equal of Spain's then state-of-the-art, steel navy.
Cooler heads (in the person of U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish) prevailed, and war was avoided. At the same time the United States government, realizing its current navy was unable to adequately defend its coasts, embarked on a race to update its navy which culminated in the Battle of Manila Bay over two decades later, during the long-delayed Spanish-American War, where the by-now decrepit Spanish fleet was destroyed in a single afternoon by a single American naval squadron. Had that battle place in 1874, instead of 1898, the outcome would have likely been the absolute reverse of what history has recorded as a resounding American victory.
Manila in 1898: the direct opposite outcome of what likely would have happened in 1874!
And Dan Sickles? He survived it all, filling a succession of government plum posts, from several of which he was dismissed for looting the coffers he had been set to oversee. And he went on visiting his leg at the Smithsonian until his death in 1914 at age 94.
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Enough material for several novels!
Jenni Legate 26 June, 2014 09:59
Brilliant! I loved this post so much, I shared it with my husband, Duncan, and he said to tell you, "Great writing, great story." He said that he remembers reading years ago about Sickles at the Battle of Gettysburg, and he now has a much better understanding of the man.
To me, after a career in law, I was fascinated that Sickles could have been the first to claim temporary insanity and get away with it.
A great article! I love the part where he stole the money for his own memorial. Priceless!
What a tremendously interesting post! Thank you so much!!!
One of the most marvelous things about history is the juxtaposition of things that are so entirely different from now -- with those that haven't changed a bit! It's so delicious. You've done a marvelous job of evoking it.
Jeff Baker 27 June, 2014 00:00
Sickles apparently didn't rest easy--he was supposedly seen visiting his leg after he died. According to museum guards, who usually quit, his was a most unpleasant haunting.
I'm with Eve. What venality, stealing the monies for one's own memorial.


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Budapest, September 4 (MTI) – Police in southern Hungary apprehended 2,617 people who illegally crossed the Hungary-Serbia border — 546 children among them — on Thursday.
The Csongrad County police department said in a statement that once again most were picked up from areas around the Roszke border station. The majority declared themselves to be Syrian, Afghan or Pakistani.
Police have initiated immigration procedures against the illegal entrants, the statement said.
Across the country, police apprehended 3,313 people, among them 12 suspected of people smuggling and 3 are suspected of forging documents, the national police headquarters (OFFK) said.
What about the "migrant villages"?


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Q: GORM adding rows in an order that is the reverse of the order they were added class Dog {
    String name
    String type

    static hasMany = [snacks:Snack]
}

class Snack {
    String name;
    String protein;
    Boolean vegetarian;
}

dogInstance.addToSnacks(new Snack(name: "Dog Yums", protein: "Pork", vegetarian: false);
dogInstance.addToSnacks(new Snack(name: "Super Tasty Snack", protein: "Beef", vegetarian: false);
dogInstance.addToSnacks(new Snack(name: "Woofles", protein: null, vegetarian: true);
dogInstance.save(flush: true)

I expect the database table for snacks to have the snack entries in the order they were added. Instead, they end up reversed in the database. Any idea why this is happening? I am using an MSSQL database to store the data.
What I Except
id: 1, name: Dog Yums, protein: Pork, vegetarian: False
id: 2, name: Super Tasty Snack, protein: Beef, vegetarian: False
id: 3, name: Dog Yums, protein: null, vegetarian: True
What I Get
id: 1, name: Dog Yums, protein: null, vegetarian: True
id: 2, name: Super Tasty Snack, protein: Beef, vegetarian: False
id: 3, name: Dog Yums, protein: Pork, vegetarian: False

A: By default GORM (Hibernate actually) does not guarantee the order of the collection. If you need the collection to be in a specific order you will need to specify this collection as a List<T> such as:
class Dog {
    String name
    String type
    List<Snack> snacks

    static hasMany = [snacks:Snack]
}


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Get to Know Us – Meet our Shlicha (Israeli Emissary), Or Cohen
The work done by the Jewish Alliance touches lives locally and across the globe. Our new blog series, Get to Know Us, is intended to highlight that work and give you a glimpse into the people behind it…we hope you enjoy learning a bit more about who we are and what we do!
The writer, with members of her patrol boat's crew.
When I was a kid, I had a lot of fears: snakes, needles, making mistakes speaking English. Those fears are why I connected with the Batman story. Why Batman? Because he chose to be a bat, even though he was afraid of bats. He wanted to deal with his fear, and that's kind of become the motto for my life, to deal with fear.
Whether you're afraid or excited, your body has the same symptoms. It's your brain that explains, "now you're afraid," or "now you're excited." I find it funny, and so I like things like snowboarding and surfing, because it's a challenge, it's exciting. It helps me take care of my fears. The most important, for me, is that I challenge myself.
That's why I joined the Israeli Navy. I wanted to be part of an elite combat unit, like the U.S. Navy SEALs, but in the IDF, those units are closed to females. I thought about how I loved to swim, and how much I love water, and I joined the Israeli Naval Academy. After the academy I became an officer on a missile ship, and later I was the first female commander of a patrol boat.
Today, I'm shaliach, here in Providence to make connections with Israel. My challenge in the navy was similar, to make connections with my crewmates. In Israel, people in the military get very close, because it's not like the United States. People have to serve; they don't join for their own reasons. So, to get people to do what you want them to do, you have to make personal connections. You have to make connections with the sailors, with the soldiers, so it's the same like with the shaliach.
In my patrol boat, I had lots of kinds of people. Sephardic, Ashkenazi, American, the spectrum of Israeli society. We had to work on our connections, and there were a lot of conflicts, but by the end, I really enjoyed returning to my boat every Sunday. My crew became my family, like my brothers. We're still in touch, and some of us have even traveled together.
I left the navy because I wanted to work with, influence, and educate people. I wanted to teach, and travel. I was looking for something to connect between education and some challenge, and I found this position. I came to Providence because I heard that it has all kinds of people, and it made me think of my boat – different people, different opinions, but one goal. Now that I've been here for a few months, I already feel like I'm making good connections. I feel like part of a family.
I was surprised to come to Providence and see all the people who want to meet me, and see how the shaliach program is important. I think the thing that most surprised me is how fast the kids recognized me in the synagogues and temples. They only saw me once, maybe twice, but they remember me, and they always say hi, and ask how I'm doing, and that's very humbling.
Like on my boat, the biggest challenge here is to make a connection with everyone. Everyone is different, and making that connection is like a quiz, like Sudoku. You look for where you have some connection, a hobby, or interest. That connection, on one side I share my story and teach, and on the other side I get more back. The benefit I get from the kids, the people that I educate, helps me to grow. I give something, and I get more back.
After I make the connection, the next challenge is to find the way to educate, to find how people connect with my topic. At JCDS [Jewish Community Day School], we have a twinning program with Israel. I want this to succeed, because the children will become friends with kids in Israel, and it symbolizes all the shaliach programs. People love me, and they love every shaliach that comes, but the association remains with me, or the other shaliach. I want the program and its influence to be bigger, with Israel, so the twinning program is a way to get out from that. It's not only Or, it's Israel. It's the kids in Israel, and the kids here have a friend there.
With adults, I try to show a different Israel. With adults, finding the points of connection is a bit more difficult, because you're looking for a community interest, and it's bigger. People are really interested in Israeli movies, and books, and food. Especially food, so that's kind of the base, but I don't want to just say, "This is hummus, and this is falafel…"
So I want to put a light on other things in Israel – a project, a person…I want to bring something other. There are a lot of problems in Israel, and adults know what the media shows, but I want to show and present all the good things that we have, and we have a lot of good things to present outside.
I have found a lot of differences between Rhode Island and Israel. I noticed it right away, with the traffic, and the lights. And everything here is huge – the coffee that I buy in the morning, the meals…I always have leftovers. And, only in Rhode Island, everything is "used to be." You don't talk about what is, but what was. "I live near the wine store; it used to be the pharmacy." If I say only "wine store," no one knows where I live!
But most surprising, the main thing, is the connection to the temples. In Israel, most people, if you talk about Judaism, take a step back. When you mention the bet–knesset (the synagogue), most people say, "That is not part of my life." But here, the synagogue is the center of the community. In Israel, the center of the community is a civilian place, not a religious one.
But I feel more comfortable here in some ways than in Israel, because in Israel, Jewish life is black and white. If you keep kosher, or observe Shabbat, you're religious. If you don't, you're secular. And here, I was really surprised, and I really connected that you ask questions, and what you connect to, you keep doing. And what you don't connect, or you don't think is connected to the Jewish life, you don't keep it, and it's up to you. It's not the society and the community judging you, "Oh, you're doing this, you're religious. If you don't, you're secular."
American Jews are more of a spectrum, more grey than black-and-white. If you take Israel as a secular people and compare them to the Reform movement, they're kind of the same, but in Israel they don't know a lot about the spectrum, and all the movements, and all the kinds of Jews.
As shaliach, I've been thinking how to make my presentations bigger, to connect with more people in the community. I don't just want to tell my story. I'm working on the once-a-month Israeli Culture Series, and we're trying to bring Israeli films from the Boston Film Festival. And in March, the big presentation I'm planning to do is around Women's International Day, and Purim.
I hope to connect to the experience of being here, to know as many people as I can, because I came here to know a lot of different people, a lot of different families. That's what I want – I don't want to just meet a few people and then stop. I want to take every opportunity that I have to feel something, to know something. Every event in the temple, every event in every group, just to feel and to connect, and to know how it is to live as a Jew in the U.S. Here, I feel like part of a very big family. I'm very happy to come to work, and to meet the people, and I always walk into the building with a big smile. I feel like I'm at home, and everyone is really interesting.
Or Cohen is the Jewish Alliance's shlicha (Israeli emissary). She can be reached by email at ocohen@jewishallianceri.org, or by phone at 401.421.4111 ext. 121.
The Israeli Shlichim program is made possible between a partnership with the Jewish Alliance, The Jewish Agency for Israel, and Jewish Federations of North America.


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Case Study: Way of Life Boot Camp
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Positivity and encouragement through body and mind transformation are some of the values that Way of Life Boot Camp implements into their fitness facility and weight loss regimen.
On an average day, you can find Forrest Folen, part owner of WOLBC on the training floor yelling out positive messages to his trainees. You can see team members encouraging each other with smiles and high-fives.
Forrest calls the lobby of WOLBC facility the "Lobby of Dreams" where clients come, bringing their dreams and goal. The training floor, or the "Reality Room" is where "reality happens and where people take action".
He and and his team take physical fitness a step further by aiming to inspire and impact lives through optimism and incorporating physical changes of weight loss with mental and spiritual ones.
"It's literally a different world," Forrest said. "If you walk in from the outside and you first come into where we train, you might say, 'people don't act like this in the normal world.' In our training center, everyone just knows that we are there to uplift everyone else."
Forrest reported that WOFBC's profits were averaging $5,000-7,000 a month before using our services.
"Today, on a consistent basis we gross $30,000 or more a month", Forrest said.
That change occurred in just a little over two years.
In addition to being featured on Oprah's newsletter, WOLBC has been awarded Best Weight service in Oceanside, California for the last two years. As of now their clients have lost more 10,000 pounds of weight.
Before reaching out to us to help with marketing and web design, Forrest said he tried to do all the marketing, fitness website design, and personal training by himself.
"That just led to more headache, loss of money, loss of confidence in myself," he said.
When talking about his old business website, which he created himself, Forrest chuckled ironically saying it "looked like it was from the days of AOL", that it was "wasn't professional" and "did not flow".
"Outsourcing to Shingo and his team was a key component in building my business." -Forrest Folen
Forrest has used our marketing and website services since May 2013. After hearing about our services, recommended by Bedros Keuilian at the Fitness Business Summit, Forrest decided to sign up with us.
In conjunction with getting a "clean" and "graphically beautiful" website from us, he also got one that was highly effective and functional. He said leads and clients can now easily navigate his site, unlike before. Forrest went from getting 2-3 occasional emails from prospects at random times to receiving between 5 and 20 opt-ins a day, since using our services.
Last December, Forrest challenged us to create a new website for his online product, 21 Day Detox Challenge. He wanted it to be "Oprah ready" and have a cool look for leads being referred to his website from Oprah's newsletter.
The site was launched in early October. He says the new site has "a new level of sleekness". He said we not only met WOFBC's expectations for the new site, but far exceeded them.
Forrest says he has been "thrilled" and "ecstatic" with the service he has received from us.
"In any type of a project there's a 1001 things and I'm just so impressed that Shingo and his team are able to not let anything fall through the cracks to address everything. At the end of the day it gets done. I highly recommend them," Forrest said.
His advice to other fitness industry professionals is a lesson he learned with his own business:
"Invest in someone who knows what they are doing. That way you can be working on your business and not trying to be a jack of all trades where things start to look sloppy, which is what I tried to do."
We like to know that our services are making a difference in our clients lives. We are proud that we were able to help be part of WOFBC's business growth, creating what Forrest calls a "ripple effect", a spreading of optimism, hope and change throughout the Oceanside community.
WOLBC had inconsistent lead conversions before FWF, now Forrest says he gets between 5 and 20 opt-ins a day
After our services WOLBC reports their revenue is $30,000+ a month – a 500% increase!
Forrest says WOLBC's site flows and is graphically beautiful
His new website is "Oprah ready" and has exceeded his expectations
Forrest says he has been grateful for the service he has received from the FWF team
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GAYLORD — A new program at the Otsego County Animal Shelter, 256 Fairview Road, assists military veterans in obtaining pets suitable to their lifestyles and preferences.
Paws for Patriots was established to place the shelter's dogs and cats in permanent homes while expressing gratitude to veterans who served their country.
The program involves veterans working with shelter adoption coordinators to ensure the veterans receive a pet suited to their needs.
Lynn and Andrew Fabbo, both veterans, are volunteer coordinators for canine adoptions. They have 30 years of dog handling and training experience.
The feline adoption coordinator is Kris Foguth, an animal control officer and clerk. She is a 13-year employee of the shelter.
The first step for veterans is to fill out a four-page application for the program, available at the shelter. The application is reviewed by Melissa FitzGerald, shelter director, and passed on to the appropriate coordinator. FitzGerald also makes the final decisions on all adoptions.
Andrew said it may take a long time to make an appropriate match. Veterans are free to turn down any pets offered once they meet them, if they don't feel a connection. The staff and volunteers are equally concerned it be a good placement for the pet.
"We take the same care in placing the pet as we would if placing a young child," Andrew said.
The shelter will waive the usual adoption fee for veterans in the program. The pets will have received all their shots and be neutered or spayed when they're turned over to the veterans.
Hall Veterinary Clinic, 314 N. Center Ave., is offering veterans who adopt a dog through the clinic a 25 percent discount on the first wellness check, heart worm test and microchip with a one-year activation. Dog Trax Grooming, 220 Michigan Ave., is offering 50 percent off on an adopted dogs' second grooming visit.
The pets placed by the program are not trained to be service or assistance pets. See the accompanying story for the benefits that untrained pets may provide their owners.
or drop by the shelter.
Trained service and therapy pets can provide obvious benefits to people, but research indicates the average domestic pet such as a dog or cat can also provide emotional and physical health benefits.
Studies indicate people with pets tend to be happier, more independent and healthier than those without pets, but it is important for people to select the type of pet whose needs are compatible with their lifestyle and physical capabilities.


When you know what is true, turn your mind to the sea and see the vision you've envisioned inside your dream.
For your mind is the key that will unfold the treasures and the gold that pirates search to unfold.
When you look to the sea, remember to always see what you will be, for that is the gold the truth will unfold, use your mind to unlock the treasures beyond time.


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10 Dishes You Have to Try in Washington, D.C.
Adele O'Donnell
Adele has written about Washington D.C. for TripSavvy since 2018. She is a lifelong resident of the area.
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Washington, D.C. is becoming a world-class food city, thanks to its thriving restaurant scene. In particular, there are some dishes that are not only loved by locals, they tell a bit of D.C. history as well. Here are 10 food items that you should gravitate towards when visiting the nation's capital.
A Half-Smoke
Sometimes known as D.C.'s signature dish, this meaty entrée is kind of like a sausage or kielbasa; it's seared on the griddle and often covered in chili, onions, and cheese. The half-smoke's lineage is murky, but the most famous place to get it is Ben's Chili Bowl, a restaurant that opened on U Street in 1958. The restaurant itself has a storied history, staying open through the D.C. riots and hosting President Barack Obama during his term. Lines of tourists head to the original location to try a half-smoke with a side of fries.
Ben's Chili Bowl now has multiple locations, with outposts in Arlington, on H Street NE, and at Ronald Reagan National Airport. Other local restaurants that sell half-smokes include Meat and Foods in Shaw and the aptly-named Halfsmoke on U Street.
Mumbo Sauce
A perfect match for wings, this sauce (also called mambo sauce) is a favorite of Washingtonians. It's similar to sweet and sour sauce, but with more heat.
Mumbo sauce is often found in take-out shops around the city, like Wingo's and Yum's Carryout locations. For a sit-down option, the Hamilton in downtown D.C. sells wings covered in the tangy goodness. If you love mumbo sauce so much you want it in your own kitchen, check out Capital City's version.
As the Chesapeake Bay area is famous for its crabbing industry and Maryland blue crabs, D.C. is the perfect place to order a crab cake on a summer day.
Head down to the Anacostia River and order a crispy crab cake—paired with kimchi mayo, baby lettuce, and pickled ramps—at Whaley's. Or, head downtown to the historic Occidental.
Chesapeake Oysters
Like crabs, this area is renowned for its oysters—and Chesapeake oysters in particular are having a strong resurgence in the bay. You can try them at places all over town.
Boasting its own oyster farm, Rappahannock Oyster Bar has been recognized by the Michelin Guide and has locations at Union Market and the Wharf. The historic Old Ebbitt Grill—known for its oyster selection and oyster happy hour—has become a huge tourist stop as well. Other great bets include Pearl Dive Oyster Palace and Hank's Oyster Bar.
Blueberry Buckwheat Pancakes
225 7th St SE, Washington, DC 20003-4323, USA
Start a day of sightseeing with a hearty breakfast of pancakes. Head to Eastern Market and check out The Market Lunch stall, famous for its unique blueberry buckwheat pancakes (served with a side of maple syrup, of course). Just be sure to arrive early to beat the breakfast line.
Georgetown Cupcake became famous nationwide thanks to the owners' popular TLC show—but because the cupcakes are too adorable to resist, the D.C. flagship continues to draw crowds to this day.
Join the line at Georgetown Cupcake on M Street for a signature red velvet cupcake or one of many other inventive flavors. Or, check out nearby Baked & Wired, a local favorite that serves up cupcakes in flavors like carrot cake and cherry.
Palak Chaat (Crispy Spinach)
This addictive veggie dish is the most popular menu item at Rasika, which also happens to be one of D.C.'s most famous eateries. The Indian restaurant fries its spinach at exactly 400 degrees F, and dresses up the light and crispy greens with sweet yogurt, tamarind, and date chutney.
You can find palak chaat at both of Rasika's two downtown locations.
501 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
If you're visiting D.C. and you love food, you will likely find yourself at one of José Andrés's restaurants. Whether you're into Spanish, Mexican, Peruvian, or American cuisine, the famed chef's got you covered. Make your way to barmini (attached to gastronomy destination Minibar) and order one or two of the inventive cocktails. Feeling hungry? Do yourself a favor and try the truffle butter grilled cheese.
1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
The Mint Julep may make you think of Kentucky, but it has roots in D.C. as well. Senator Henry Clay, a 19th century U.S. politician from Kentucky, once shipped a barrel of Kentucky bourbon to Washington to help with his diplomatic efforts. He even went so far as to introduce the Mint Julep to the city via Round Robin Bar at The Willard. Made with mint leaves, Maker's Mark, sugar, and San Pellegrino sparkling water, the Mint Julep is the signature drink of this wood-paneled, leather-covered historic hotel bar.
Tibs and Doro Wat
Washington, D.C. is home to a thriving Ethiopian community, making the city a wonderful place to try Ethiopian cuisine. Awaze tibs, cubed beef sautéed in Berbere sauce, are a great option for meat lovers, while non-meat eaters can order the vegetarian samplers piled high with curried potatoes and spicy chickpeas.
In Adams Morgan, Zenebech is very popular for its doro wat (chicken stew with awaze sauce, a boiled egg, and drumstick) and homemade injera bread. Dukem on U Street is a long-running staple, and Ethiopic on H Street is another favorite.
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