iPhone : Bring back Mourinho.
You are playing for one of the best clubs in the world.
I have played against some the best Man UTD- players EVER.
You are not worthy even to polish their shoes.
iPhone : Under LVG and Mourinho, the players had an excuse. They were being stifled by tactics and man management.
Under Solskjaer they have no such excuse. He's given them what they asked for.
Out of excuses. Out of order. Soon to be out of the club.
Android : Mourinho got 81 points last season, beat all 19 teams. Conceded 28 goals, 1 less than City. Scored 81 goals, more than 18 teams. 4 points from Liverpool, won at City, beat Spurs and Chelsea at OT, double over Arsenal. Negativity was unjustified. If only they backed him.
Android : Ha dicho Maldini en la retransmisión del Everton-United que "este equipo (el United) no da para más". Vamos, que la plantilla es un mierdón. Cuando estaba Mourinho no dijo eso, eh. Hay que tenerlos bien cuadraditos.
iPhone : Red Devils Daily We are playing worse now than under mourinho. Unfortunately utd are full of bottlers no heart no desire. In any other profession they'd be sacked.
Android : Carlos Heredia 🇺🇦🦅🇲🇽 Para mi es de amarilla.
Android : Man United News We've had enough of Mourinho, he must just shut up now.
iPhone : Mourinho got 81 points last season, beat all 19 teams. Conceded 28 goals, 1 less than City. Scored 81 goals, more than 18 teams. 4 points from Liverpool, won at City, beat Spurs and Chelsea at OT, double over Arsenal. Negativity was unjustified. If only they backed him.


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Q: Facebook og:image Showing in Debugger but not on Facebook When checking in the debugger, my image shows up fine and I even get the preview of 'When shared, this is what will be included'... but when I try to share the link on Facebook, the bit where the image should go is blank.
I see no kind of errors or warnings in the debugger though so I have no idea what could be wrong?
I've done this countless times in the past without issues, I don't recall this happening before. Could it be due to how this server / hosting is set up perhaps?

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Painting "Peachtree in Bloom" (1888) in a frame
Vincent van Gogh:
https://www.arsmundi.com/en/artwork/peachtree-bloom-van-gogh-703763.html
Limited, 990 exemplars | Serially numbered | Original Dietz giclée on canvas | Wedge frame | Solid wood strip | Format 78.5 x 65.6 cm (H/W)
Looking for more light and freedom, van Gogh moved in 1888 to Provence and painted in the springtime the bright pink blooming peach trees. During his last three years of life in Arles were painted the most famous van Gogh's paintings. Fields, trees and clouds speak in an impressive language about the force of nature.
Original: Oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo.
The well-known Dietz print shop is famous for the authentic reproduction of master paintings on high-quality real art canvas. This modern giclée edition was made in especially bright colors, with a multitude of shades, high contrast and saturation degree. We deployed the same care and passion for detail, known to collectors and admirers of Dietz print shop.
Original Dietz giclée on canvas. Stretched on a wedge frame. Limited edition to only 990 exemplars, serially numbered on the backside. Framed in high-quality solid wood strip. Format 78.5 x 65.6 cm (H/W).
Link to article: https://www.arsmundi.com/en/artwork/peachtree-bloom-van-gogh-703763.html
Vincent van Gogh: Painting "Peachtree in Bloom" (1888) in a frame
More works from Vincent van Gogh
Pioneer of Expressionism (1853-1890)
"This man is either mad or he lets us all far behind ", already prophesied Camille Pissarro born in 1853- son of Vincent van Gogh a clergyman. And in fact, the Dutch became a pioneer of modern, with its curved lines and bright colours, which ushered in the Expressionism. While van Gogh got hardly any money for paint and canvas in his lifetime for his paintings,and with the support of his brother Theo, he achieve his works today regularly usually tens of millions on spectacular auctions.
Van Gogh (1853-1890) comes from a family of Protestant pastor in Groot-Zundert in Brabant. With art, he first came into contact through an uncle, the art dealer was. Initially, van Gogh worked in stores of Galerie Goupil in the Hague, London and Paris, but also as a tutor in England and as a Methodist preacher. He began as a preacher in the mining area of Boringe for the first time to draw. Just a few months he attended the Brussels Academy, formed further but as an autodidact.
His first oil paintings represent poor farmers and workers. These pictures are very dark and painted with simple, broad lines. Antwerp, where he remained for three months and met the lightness and elegance of Japanese woodblock prints, he moved to Paris. Here he discovered the Sun and bright colours. He studied the early Symbolists, Impressionist and pointillist artists, and painted urban images, landscapes and portraits. More light and freedom-seeking, he went to Arles in southern France, where he followed his friend Paul Gauguin in 1888. Van Gogh was planning to set up a community of artists and to invite all of his painter friends, to live with him and to work, but the plan failed. After a dramatic confrontation with Gauguin in van Gogh injured himself on the ear he had to move several times longer with overwrought nerves in the hospital. These crises should worsen later and later led to his suicide.
In the time in Arles, van Gogh's most famous paintings emerged. All of the Sun's luminosity is in them; Fields, trees and clouds speak of the force of nature in impressive language. It is hard to imagine to us today's viewers, what force may have been necessary, to repudiate such Burgundian masterpieces of personal mental distress. It is van Gogh's secret - and it remains until today the secret of his late work.
The style of Impressionism that emerged in French painting in 1870 owes its name to the Claude Monet's landscape 'Impression, Soleil Levant'. After initial refusal it began a true triumphant advance.
Such painters as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir and others created motifs from everyday life, urban and landscape scenes in a bright, natural light.
Impressionism can be seen as a reaction to the academic painting. The emphasis was not on content with its strict rules of painting structure, but on the object as it appears at any given moment, in an often random cut out. The reality was seen in its whole color variety in natural lighting. The studio painting was replaced by the open-air painting.
The brightening of the palette and the dissolution of firm contours was accompanied by a new way of handling with color. Often, the colors were no longer mixed on the palette but side by side on the canvas so that the final impression lies in the eye of the beholder with a certain distance. In "Pointillism", (with such painters as Georges Seurat or Paul Signac) this principle was carried to the extreme.
Outside France, Impressionism was taken up by such painters as Max Slevogt, Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth in Germany, and by James A. M. Whistler in the United States.
In sculpture, the impressionism expressed itself only conditionally. In the works of Auguste Rodin, who is considered one of the main representatives, you can see a resolution of the surfaces in which the play of light and shadow is included in the artistic expression. Degas and Renoir created sculptures as well.
Graphic or sculpture edition that was initiated by ars mundi and is available only at ars mundi or at distribution partner licensed by ars mundi.
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler meaning "to squirt, spray".
Giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format printout on an inkjet printer with special different coloured or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The colours are light-fast, that is, resistant to harmful UV light. They have a high richness of nuance, contrast and saturation.
The Giclée process is suitable for real art canvas, handmade and watercolor paper and for silk.
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Steuben (also Adaria, Greenfield, Greenfield Center, Lafayette, or Stuben) is an unincorporated community in central Greenfield Township, Huron County, Ohio, United States, located a few miles northeast of the village of Willard.  It lies along State Route 162 approximately three miles (five kilometers) west of North Fairfield.

Steuben has two churches and an elementary school, Greenfield Elementary, which is part of the Willard City School District.  It has no commercial buildings.

References

Unincorporated communities in Huron County, Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Ohio

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Lakeside Foods is a full service grocery store with that hometown appeal.
We offer all of the brands you may see at the large national chains, but with the utmost in customer service for the ultimate shopping experience. Our departments include Grocery, Meat/Seafood, Market Fresh Deli, Dairy, Produce and Liquor. All of our departments stock a wide variety of top brands and private label specialty items.
Grocery – Our grocery department is stocked with a wide variety of high quality products from household goods to frozen foods. We offer cleaning products from A-Z and an endless supply of perishable and non-perishable foods. You will find our shelves packed with the best brands at the most competitive prices.
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Blogs > Tag > ozone device
PMRA Issues Interim Order to Regulate Certain UV Radiation-emitting and Ozone-generating Devices under the Pest Control Products Act
By Lisa M. Campbell and Lisa R. Burchi
On June 7, 2021, Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) announced the issuance of its Interim Order Respecting Ultraviolet Radiation-emitting Devices and Ozone-generating Devices under the Pest Control Products Act (Interim Order), setting forth new requirements for certain devices claiming to control, destroy, make inactive, or reduce the level of bacteria, viruses, and other micro-organisms that are human pathogens. PMRA also issued an "Explanatory Note" and a Questions and Answers document regarding the Interim Order.
PMRA states that it issued the Interim Order following the increased sale of ultraviolet (UV) radiation-emitting and ozone-generating devices such as lights and wands in Canada since the COVID-19 pandemic. These devices are marketed to kill bacteria and viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. According to PMRA, it has not received enough evidence to confirm that UV radiation-emitting and ozone-generating devices are safe for users and the public, or that they are effective.
Thus, PMRA is now requiring that companies register certain UV radiation-emitting devices and ozone-generating devices before they may be sold or used in Canada. In its Explanatory Note, PMRA states:
By bringing certain UV and ozone-generating devices under the [Pest Control Products Act (PCPA)], they need to be registered or otherwise authorized in order to be on the Canadian market. An application to register a pest control product must be submitted to Health Canada in the form and manner directed by the Minister and must include any information and other material that is required by the Pest Control Products Regulations to accompany the application. Applications to register devices consist of a number of information and data requirements, including a cover letter stating the purpose of the application, an application and fee estimate forms, the proposed English and French product labels, as well as data to support the safety and efficacy of the device. A registration will be granted under the PCPA if the Minister considers that the health and environmental risks and the value of the device are acceptable after any required assessments.
The Interim Order clarifies that certain UV radiation-emitting devices and ozone-generating devices claiming to kill bacteria and viruses are not subject to the regulatory requirements of the PCPA and its Regulations. These include:
Devices that are manufactured, represented, distributed, or used to control, destroy, or inactivate viruses, bacteria, or other micro-organisms that are human pathogens for use in swimming pools, spas, or wastewater treatment systems;
Devices that meet the definition of "device" in Section 2 of the Food and Drugs Act and are classified as a Class II, III, or IV medical device under the Medical Devices Regulations; and
UV radiation-emitting devices that satisfy the following conditions:
The device is certified by a standards development organization accredited by the Standards Council of Canada as meeting the applicable Canadian electrical safety requirements;
The certification mark of the standards development organization appears on the label of the device;
Any efficacy claim that is made in respect of the device is only a claim of supplemental sanitization;
No express or implied reference to prevention, treatment, or mitigation of disease is made in respect of the device;
The device has at least one of the following mechanisms:
A mechanism that locks the device during operation, or
A mechanism that automatically shuts off the device if it is opened during operation; and
The UV lamp is fully shielded or enclosed in the device in a manner that prevents access to it by users of the device and prevents exposure to UV radiation.
For UV radiation-emitting devices that satisfy these conditions, there are additional labeling requirements for the display panels and operating manual.
This Interim Order changes significantly the requirements applicable to these types of devices that did not previously require registration. PMRA is providing a 30-day transition period after the Interim Order is issued before companies must comply with these requirements. PMRA also is advising Canadians to "stop using UV lights and wands that claim to disinfect against the virus that causes COVID-19 especially if the product is for use on the skin."
Companies that produce devices that may be subject to this Interim Order should review the new requirements and exemptions carefully. PMRA states that unregistered or unauthorized devices are prohibited and may be subject to compliance and enforcement action.
Tags: Canada, PMRA, interim order, pesticidal devices, UV light, ozone device, registration, enforcement, coronavirus


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Mar 1, 2014 11:19am PT
Viacom, Discovery, Scripps, Saban Bid for U.K.'s Channel 5: Report
Channel 5 owner Richard Desmond is seeking bids of about $1.17 billion
By Leo Barraclough
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International Features Editor
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Asa Butterfield, Natalia Dyer Set to Star in Horror Thriller 'All Fun and Games' 4 days ago
Sundance-Bound Horror Film 'Speak No Evil' Debuts International Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) 4 days ago
'First Oscar,' Story of Russian Soldiers' Heroism in Defense of Moscow, Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) 3 weeks ago
LONDON — Viacom, Discovery Communications, Saban Capital and Scripps Networks are among the bidders to buy U.K. free-TV network Channel 5, according to the Financial Times, which cited a source familiar with the process.
Discovery had been in discussions with BSkyB to table a joint bid, with BSkyB taking over Channel 5's advertising sales operation, the Financial Times reported last week.
None of the companies would comment on the sale, which has also attracted bids from European buyers. The sale is being managed by Barclays.
U.K. commercial broadcaster ITV, one of Channel 5's main rivals, ruled itself out of the auction earlier this week.
Channel 5 owner Richard Desmond is seeking a price of about £700 million ($1.17 billion). He bought the net for £104 million ($174 million) in 2010, and has since slashed costs, and revamped its skeds.
It is a major buyer of Hollywood movies and series. This week's sked include movies "Legally Blonde," "The Covenant" and "The Last of The Mohicans," and series "NCIS," "The Mentalist" and "American Idol."
Its biggest success has been "Big Brother."
Channel 5,
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Q: I'm trying to get the names of the tracks that are being stored in a JSONData using a loop Here's the code.
func callFire(url:String) {
    Alamofire.request(url).responseJSON(completionHandler: {response in
        self.parseData(JSONData: response.data!)
    })
}

func parseData(JSONData: Data) {
    do {
        var readableJSON = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: JSONData, options: .mutableContainers) as! JSONStandard
        if let tracks = readableJSON["tracks"] as? JSONStandard {
            if let items = tracks["items"]{
                for i in 0..<items.count {
                    let item = items[i] as! JSONStandard
                    let name = item["name"] as! String
                    trackNames.append(name)
                    self.tableView.reloadData()
                }
            }
        }
    }
    catch {
        print(error)
    }
}

This is where I'm getting an error "Ambiguous use of 'subscript'"
let item = items[i] as! JSONStandard

A: Why are you using JSONStandard? Just turn that node into a Map or Array. If it's a map, you would do:
if let tracks = readableJSON["tracks"] as? [String: Any]

then you can pull things out by name, e.g.:
let name = tracks["name"] as? String

BTW, this is from this guide Apple recently published about handling JSON.

A: Here is how your parseData(JSONData: Data) should probably look like
var trackNames = [String]()

func parseData(JSONData: Data) {
    do {
        if let readableJSON = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: JSONData, options: .allowFragments) as? [String: Any],
             let tracks = readableJSON["tracks"] as? [String: Any],
                 let items = tracks["items"] as? [[String: Any]] {
                    trackNames.append(contentsOf: items.map{$0["name"] as! String})
                    self.tableView.reloadData()
            }
    } catch {
        print(error)
    }
}

Valid JSON always contains fields of [String:Any] where Any can be again [String:Any] representing a nested dictionary.
Here is the test:
let json = "{\"tracks\":{\"items\":[{\"name\":\"a\"},{\"name\":\"b\"},{\"name\":\"c\"}]}}";

var trackNames = [String]()

func parseData(JSONData: Data) {
    do {
        if let readableJSON = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: JSONData, options: .allowFragments) as? [String: Any],
             let tracks = readableJSON["tracks"] as? [String: Any],
                 let items = tracks["items"] as? [[String: Any]] {
                    trackNames.append(contentsOf: items.map{$0["name"] as! String})
                    print(trackNames) // prints ["a", "b", "c"]
                    //self.tableView.reloadData()
            }
    } catch {
        print(error)
    }
}

parseData(JSONData: json.data(using: .utf8)!)


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Assandira er en novelle, skrevet af Giulio Angioni, publiceret i 2004 af forlaget Sellerio.

Oversigt
Den gamle sardiske (Sardinien) hyrde Costantino Saru er blevet overtalt af sin søn og hans danske svigerdatter, til at etablere en restaurant med hotel (kaldet Assandira) i hans forladte lade. Det karakteristiske for Hotellet skal være at tilbyde de europæiske kunder, især fra nord, en oplevelse af livet i den traditionelle pastorale verden af Sardinien, hvor den gamle hyrde Costantino selv, skal være en slags eksempel for autenticitet. Virksomheden går godt og Costantino føler sig endda godt tilpas i hans rolle som gammel meditteransk hyrde. Men en dag, ødelægger en brand Assandira, som dræber hans søn og forårsager at hans svigerdatter aborterer. Costantino føler sig ansvarlig, og indrømmer det overfor efterforskerne.Årsagen til at han føler sig ansvarlig, er ikke til at gennemskue for dommeren, som ikke tror på denne slags selvinkriminering for alt der er sket, helt tilbage fra idéen med at genoplive en verden af fortiden for at underholde turisterne.

Editions
 2004
 2012 eBook,

Bemærkninger

Kilder
 E. Hall, Greek tragedy and the politics of subjectivity in recent fiction, "Classical Receptions Journal", 1 (1), 23-42, Oxford University Press, 2009.
 G. Pias, La casa della palma e Assandira: due "gialli" sulla memoria e l'identità, in Sabina Gola e Laura Rorato (cura), La forma del passato. Questioni di identità in opere letterarie e cinematografiche italiane a partire dagli ultimi anni Ottanta, Bruxelles-Bern-Berlin-Frankfurt am Main-New York-Oxford-Wien, Peter Lang, 2007, 261-274. .
 H. Klüver, Gebrauchsanweisungen für Sardinien, München, Piper Verlag, 2012, 194-212.
 F. Manai, Cosa succede a Fraus? Sardegna e mondo nel racconto di Giulio Angioni, Cagliari, CUEC, 2006.
 B. Wagner, Sardinien, Insel im Dialog. Texte, Diskurse, Filme, Tübingen, Francke Verlag, 2008.

Se også
Giulio Angioni

Eksterne henvisninger
 Podcast 'Assandira'FahrenheitRadio3
 Italialibri
 Massimo Cappitti, L'indice
 Sardegna Digital Library

Litteratur fra Italien
Sardinien


 .: The eBroselow System by Dr. James Broselow, inventor of the Broselow Tape :.
During serious emergencies, medical staff must act quickly but not make critical mistakes that could kill. But especially with children, mistakes are easy to make James Broselow MD and Robert Luten MD have dedicated their lives to helping doctors and nurses make the correct decisions quickly. eBroselow is their latest innovation to improve care, increase treatment efficiency, and save lives.
In the early 1980s, James Broselow was an emergency room doctor who saw how difficult it was to treat children in the ER. He decided there had to be a better way, and the Broselow Tape was born. This simple but effective color-coded tool determines body weight from body length and provides proper dosing and airway information for children.
Medical personnel everywhere now use the Broselow Tape to provide essential critical care to children, assuring the correct sized airway equipment for each child is utilized, and providing life-saving medications safely and without costly errors or delays. The Broselow Tape even made a cameo appearance on ER (see video below).
Robert Luten has performed pioneering work in the field of emergency medicine, helping to create the specialty of pediatric emergency medicine in 1993. A professor at the University of Florida, Luten has spearheaded the development of curriculum and training materials for emergency care. His particular expertise is in emergency drug dosing and emergency airway management.
Broselow and Luten joined forces, using Broselow Tape concepts paired with Lutens extensive knowledge of acute care. They spent many years working on the underlying standard and content - incorporating feedback from a spectrum of doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Partnered with the nonprofit Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group (PPAG), they created the eBroselow Initiative, the underlying standard for eBroselow and the suite of software systems from eBroselow. The goal of the initiative is to develop a simple, safe and effective international standard for acute administration of drugs.
Now Drs. Broselow and Luten have founded eBroselow to bring these solutions to every emergency practitioners computer, iPad, or mobile device. With the eBroselow software, providers of acute care can access comprehensive treatment information faster and more accurately than ever. Learn more about the eBroselow products.
Broselow and Luten have a clear mission: to provide needed critical information to those administering acute care. To achieve that, they aim to get eBroselow into as many hospitals as possible. Their ultimate goal: to improve care, save lives and make it easier for emergency medical staff to do their job. So far, the results are promising (see top video above for one success story).


In 2004, Delves Broughton headed to HBS to join his 900 classmates, most of whom were fresh out of analyst programs at Wall Street's most prestigious investment banks and consulting firms, and were hoping that a Harvard MBA would be their golden ticket into the elite worlds of hedge funds and private equity. Once there, he learned the core business values of HBS—leadership, decisiveness, ethical behavior, and work/life balance—and studied over 500 assigned case studies. In Ahead of the Curve, Delves Broughton shares the most revelatory, real-life lessons from these cases, gleaned from some of the world's foremost institutions, and also notes some of the unpleasant aspects of business school life, from the booze luges and the obsession with PowerPoint to the high rate of depression among the student body. He ultimately learns that "the languages, practices, and leadership styles taught by HBS affect us all—MBAs determine the lives many of us will lead, the hours we work, the vacations we get, the culture we consume, the health care we receive and the education provided to our children." With cutting insight and uproarious candor, Delves Broughton exposes the methods HBS uses to mold its students into the future leaders of our business world and how they impact our culture at large. Delves Broughton's Ahead of the Curve offers a richly detailed portrait of Harvard Business School—an institution that has for better or worse made American business what it is today.


Eastern Oregon Film Festival is jumping around the calendar. They are developing their operational base and strengthening their partnership with The Liberty Theatre Foundation. Outside of the festival, EOFF will work to create more opportunities and educational programming throughout the year. Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming events!
EOFF is grateful for the ongoing support of its members and sponsors and encourages you to spread the word among your friends, family, and colleagues. They'd love for you to become a vital part to the development and sustainability of EOFF. To join as a member, visit the festival website. Your support of EOFF is key to the vitality and growth of the festival. Your membership helps bring the best independent filmmakers to the valley to showcase and discuss their work firsthand; it brings exciting performances by new and emerging musicians; it fires the expansion of our audiences locally and regionally; and it makes sure every after-party rocks. In short, EOFF is fueling a rural cultural renaissance… and you can help. As a bonus, if you act now you'll lock in the 2015 rate!
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Spread of Buddhism
With about 400 million followers, Buddhism is one of the largest religions in the world. Unlike Christianity and other monotheistic and polytheistic religions, Buddhism does not worship a deity. Nevertheless, Buddhism is a religion according to today's understanding.
Buddhism originated in northern India, where the Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan Buddhism, is also based. In India itself, Buddhism is now barely widespread. Today, Thailand and the neighboring countries, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia as well as other Asian countries have the greatest spread.
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Religious directions and forms
Essentially, there are three main directions of Buddhism with different forms: The Hinayana is known today almost exclusively as Theravada and goes back to the original teachings of Buddha and his contemporaries. The Mahayana is known as a much more active faith in which the Buddhist is supposed to end their suffering and that of their environment through their own actions. Vajrayana is the name given to Tibetan Buddhism, to which the Dalai Lama also belongs. Here, Buddhist schools take on great importance in teaching students new techniques and mantras step by step. All three directions have further subdivisions, each with slightly different structures and teaching methods.
China 6.2 % 87,566,000
Japan 66.8 % 83,955,000
Thailand 92.0 % 65,873,000
Myanmar 89.0 % 47,880,000
Cambodia 95.9 % 15,909,000
Sri Lanka 70.2 % 15,554,000
South Korea 24.2 % 12,522,000
Vietnam 12.2 % 11,891,000
Taiwan 49.0 % 11,555,000
India 0.7 % 9,853,000
Malaysia 19.8 % 6,648,000
Laos 66.8 % 4,960,000
Nepal 9.0 % 2,703,000
Singapore 33.9 % 1,849,000
Mongolia 53.0 % 1,774,000
Hong Kong 21.3 % 1,579,000
North Korea 4.5 % 1,169,000
Australia 2.5 % 642,000
Bhutan 75.3 % 585,000
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Similar to Chinese Daoism, Buddhists refer to teachings and philosophical beliefs, not to an almighty God. The supreme teacher is considered to be "Buddha," who through right action and meditation became an "awakened" person and thus serves as a role model. The Buddha statues have become a widespread symbol of Buddhism today.
The goal of the religion is "awakening", i.e., to find the knowledge of one's own being. Central element are the Four Noble Truths, which all revolve around human suffering, its cause and remedy, to finally find true happiness. On the path to happiness, the fundamental sufferings and their causes must first be recognized and then eliminated. The path can only begin with the recognition. The happiness to be attained, which can also only be attained in a later life, is the final state of enlightenment, which ends the cycle of rebirth and the resulting renewed suffering.
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Why Would I Need a Hearing Test?
Every now and then, your doctor may ask you to get a hearing test. Don't assume that something is wrong. Hearing tests are how doctors use to make sure that your ears work well.
With age, hearing loss becomes more likely. About 14% of people ages 45 to 64 have some degree of hearing loss, but that rises to more than 30% among people who are 65 or older. This is why your doctor will want to test your hearing every few years, rather than just once as an adult.
Experts recommend that adults get their hearing tested every 10 years until age 50, and then every 3 years after that.
Some people may suspect that they have hearing loss. They have trouble hearing people talk to them when they're in a crowded room, or they've been told they raise the volume on the TV way too high.
But not all people know that they have a problem. You may not realize that you have hearing loss, because it's often a gradual process. That's why it's important to have your ears checked when your doctor says you should, even if you think you're fine.
Older adults who don't do anything to address their hearing loss are more likely to feel left out of social events that they'd normally enjoy, because they can't hear what's happening. They might even stop seeing their friends or family as often because they're embarrassed that they can't hear well. Isolation makes people more likely to become depressed, unless they get help for their hearing loss.
The whole process should take about 30 minutes, and it's painless.
Most adults who get hearing tests are asked to wear earphones and listen to short tones that are played at different volumes and pitches into one ear at a time. Whether or not you can hear each sound shows whether or not you can hear high-pitched or low-pitched sounds, quiet or loud sounds, and whether your left or right ear has hearing loss.
During some hearing tests, you may also be asked to listen to speech at different volumes, which will be played into one ear at a time. The voices will be played quietly through your earphones, and you'll be asked to repeat what words were just said. This test may be done in a quiet or noisy room, since some people have trouble hearing voices when there's background noise.
A hearing test isn't a pass-fail exam. But the results can show whether you have hearing loss in one or both ears and how much hearing is gone.
The intensity of sound is measured in units called decibels. When someone whispers in your ear, that's 30 decibels. Normal speech is 60 decibels. Shouting in your ear starts at 80 decibels.
You may be surprised if your hearing test results show that you have mild, moderate, or even greater hearing loss -- especially if your hearing loss has crept up on you gradually. Your doctor may send you to see an ear-nose-throat doctor, perhaps to an audiologist – a doctor whose specialty is hearing.
Even though you can't restore hearing loss, there are ways to make up for it and protect the hearing that you still have.
If you find out that you need to wear hearing aids, there are many different styles to choose from. And they're much smaller than hearings aids that your grandpa wore years ago. Some models sit behind the ear, others go in it. Still others are hidden all the way in the ear canal.
You may need devices that can make sounds louder for you to hear. For example, some products help to make phone calls louder. Others are used in theaters or places of worship to help you hear better.
Learning to read lips may help you understand what people are saying better. With training, you can learn to learn how to do this.
Your doctor may suggest that you wear earplugs to protect your ears when you mow the lawn, go to concerts or go places where the noise is too loud. This can help to prevent even more hearing loss.
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AFCS is committed to providing quality, dependable and inclusive child care, support and information services to meet the diverse child care and early years needs of families and children. In order to meet these goals, AFCS collects, uses and discloses personal information for the following purposes:
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This year´s Malzwiese takes place on 6 June 2015 on the Malzfabrik, as the banner already announces on our fence.
Although the year is still young and we have just started the second week, the first preparations for the anniversary Malzwiese are in full swing.
5 years of Malzwiese - this year we can look forward to a very special summer festival with many surprises and lots of confetti.
So mark your calendar on June 6th and come and celebrate our 5th anniversary with us. We look forward to the next few weeks, and especially on a great Malzwiese with you.
Stay tuned, it´s gonna be fabulous!


I have been living in New Zealand for nearly a couple of years now and have had the great pleasure of residing just outside an historic village called Upper Moutere. Home to pioneering German and English families, the village and surrounding valleys have become synonymous with redoubt, dry humoured folk; and over the last few decades, artisanal producers of the highest quality foods, drink, arts and crafts.
It is wish no small degree of sadness that I will be departing this wonderful place for good in little over a week, heading for pastures new in Wellington. To ease the pain of this transition I will be squeezing in a few weeks travelling in South America before heading back to the UK for a cider top up in July.
The following article delves a little deeper in the the world of The Moutere, exploring why it should be that some of NZ's finest drinks producers live within the same area.
New Zealand has many regions synonymous with a particular style of drink; think Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir from Central Otago or craft beer in Wellington. But there's one small village just outside Nelson which is home to a triumvirate of leading drinks producers including New Zealand's champion brewer, the producer of arguably the country's finest Chardonnay, and the pioneering makers of true, classic, heritage cider. Quite an achievement for a village with a population of just a couple of hundred people.
The village in question is Upper Moutere, some 20 kilometres west as the crow flies from Nelson. Situated 8 kilometres inland from the sea, it is at the head of a valley that provides a slower paced alternative to the Coastal Highway. An early pioneer settlement, with a quaint Lutheran Church and a pub purported to be New Zealand's oldest, Upper Moutere exudes heritage charm and a positive sense of being in touch with its forebears. It is home to many artists and artisans, creating the finest hand crafted products, from olives to pottery and from mushrooms to knives.
This creativity is also accompanied by a stellar climate for growing, with over 2300 hours of sunshine per annum, making it one of the sunniest regions in New Zealand. Allied with this sunshine is the renown of the soil. The Moutere clay gravels, well structured and free draining, provide a perfect substrate for promoting healthy and prodigious growth. Initially planted with kiwifruit and tobacco, the land is now awash with apples, pears, hops, blackcurrants, boysenberries and vines.
Even with such favourable terroir, however, it is still quite remarkable that the creators of some of New Zealand's most celebrated drinks, across three entirely different categories, should be located so closely together in this innocuous corner of the South Island. Is it just pure coincidence or does Upper Moutere have a secret X factor? I went to visit these three producers in a bid to solve the riddle.
Martin Townshend's victory at the Brewer's Guild of New Zealand Awards last year, when he was crowned Champion Brewer, has capped an astoundingly quick rise up the ranks of New Zealand craft breweries. To be bestowed this title is an incredible achievement for the Upper Moutere based one man band operation. A couple of kilometres away from Townshend's Rosedale Road brewery is Neudorf Road, home to the eponymous artisan winery which has garnered so much acclaim for its wines over the years. Across the road from Neudorf is Peckham's Cider, who are gaining a reputation for producing complex and classy ciders from apples which have been historically grown specifically for making cider.
Caroline Peckham, co-founder and owner of Peckham's cider, and situated literally over the road from Neudorf, agrees with Judy: "We've had old folk visit us who used to pick apples on our property when they were kids, and they said that this patch of land has always produced the best apples." Caroline, and her husband Alex, have run their own businesses for over 20 years. Originally from England, they moved out to New Zealand a decade ago. After living in Christchurch for a while, there was no better location to move to than Upper Moutere when they decided to make the transition from office to land.
Looking out across acres of orchards, Caroline explains, "Although we didn't choose this site with the specific intention of making traditional cider, the block had a proven track record of growing quality fruit and showed real potential for development and somewhere to establish a business." It was a love of English style cider, and the foresight to see a niche within New Zealand for this style of drink, that led them to establishing the country's largest cider apple orchard, right on Neudorf Road.
Cider is undergoing a remarkable renaissance and is one of the fastest growing global drinks categories. In NZ, growth is primarily driven by the big brewers offering fruit ciders aimed at the 18-24 demographic. The Peckhams are on a quest to make cider in the traditional English way: a dryish, rich, complex drink with powerful mouthfeel and structure. To do this, they need old fashioned cider apple varieties, high in tannin, and grown solely for the purpose of making the alcoholic drink. Generally smaller, and certainly more bitter, than your average Pink Lady or Jazz, they have a wonderful array of names such as Knotted Kernel, Tremlett's Bitter and Chisel Jersey.
After spending months, indeed years, scouring the country in search of these unassuming varieties located in small blocks and hobby orchards, they now have amassed some 20 different cider apple varieties, which they have grafted onto rootstock and begun to produce delicious cider. But all of the hard work was worth it. "We're firm believers that only the best raw materials can give the best product." And having regularly featured in the NZ media as one of the country's finest producers and staunch advocates of the craft cider movement, it would appear that this dedicated approach is justified.
The Nelson region is also famous as the centre of New Zealand's hop production. Just a handful of years ago the indigenous hop industry was in poor shape with the recession hitting hard. However, a new wave of craft brewers from the USA, Europe and Australasia are producing beers that require pungent, bitter hops. NZ varieties, such as Nelson Sauvin, Motueka and Pacific Jade, as a result of this resurgence have suddenly become hot property on the global market.
Having had a stint running the local takeaway and briefly having a hand in the village pub, Martin first put in a small brewery at his Rosedale Road property in 2004 with beer out in the market in 2005. What started as a way to generate a bit of extra income whilst waiting for his cider apple trees to mature, has turned into a full time business, culminating in his stunning success at the 2014 Brewer's Guild of New Zealand Awards.
On the surface, it appears that Martin's words have scuppered the notion that a geographical anomaly exists in Upper Moutere which provides the perfect conditions for quality drinks production of all kinds. However, by digging a little deeper, it is apparent that these three drinks pioneers are linked in ways other than merely sharing the same soil and climate.
Neudorf, Peckham's and Townshend's are all relatively small drops in their respective oceans. They have never had the intention of being the biggest, but all harbour the desire to be the best they can be. Upper Moutere provides a perfect location to establish a boutique drinks business thanks to its early history. The Europeans, predominantly Germans, who were settled in this region by the New Zealand Corporation from the 1840s, divided the land around the village into small blocks to be shared amongst the new community. These small blocks still define Upper Moutere's landscape and act as an in situ restriction on how big an enterprise can be in this area.
It makes sense then, that only artisanal producers, with a quest for quality, have the ability to maintain long term, sustainable businesses here. Peckham's, Neudorf and Townshend's are all perfectly suited to this scale of operation and find themselves capitalising on the creative and geographical bounty that the village provides.
It's this constant demand for improvement, attention to detail and singe-mindedness that has enabled these producers to stand out amongst their peers. Martin confesses he can become a 'little obsessed' when it comes to producing his beers. "Stylistically, I want to be as accurate as possible, but also want to add my own interpretation." Reassuringly, Martin is not assuaged by other's opinions which enables him keep focus on what he does best: making great beers in his own inimitable fashion. "Running a business like this always has an element of risk," Caroline asserts. But being the individualistic entrepreneurs that Caroline and Alex are, risk is all part of the package, and the Peckham's are now reaping the success from all their investment and dedication.
There's no denying that the Upper Moutere terroir is world class. I believe, however, it is the people we have to thank for creating these wonderful beers, wines and ciders. For different reasons and at different times, they have all been lured to Upper Moutere by the promise of a better way of life and the opportunity to create something truly magical. These are people who had a new idea and a vision, but also had the gumption to turn the vision into reality. It is through sheer bloody hard work and tenacity that they have achieved their goals to be at the top of their respective trades. In the end, whether it's the land, an entrepreneurial spirit or just serendipity that ultimately links this triumvirate of extraordinary drinks producers together, one thing is certain: Upper Moutere has an X factor that makes it stand out from the crowd.
I wholeheartedly agree with Tony's comment. I had just said the same to Liz while I was reading your article. Enjoy your time back in England and I hope we will get a chance to catch up again when you return downunder. Safe travels.
Thanks Alan – will be sure to catch you. Stay warm this winter!


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Gianforte – Daines Press Conference at Missoula DNRC Helibase
Peter Christian Published: August 25, 2021
Governor Greg Gianforte and Senator Steve Daines were in Missoula on Wednesday to honor wildland firefighters from the DNRC, U.S. Forest Service and the Montana National Guard as they provided an update on the long, hot fire season.
"As we meet today, our heroic firefighters are confronting at 50 active fires throughout the state of Montana," said Gianforte. "This year alone, Montana has seen nearly 2100 fires burn more than 825,000 acres. That's the largest area burns since 2017."
Gianforte related his recent experience with a major wildfire in eastern Montana near Lame Deer.
"I was in the Lame Deer last week on the Richard Springs and Lame Deer fires," he said. "And to hear the tribal council tell the story, this fire burned 100,000 acres in a single day. In total, it burned over 170,000 acres. The power poles were down and power was lost in Lame Deer. The cell tower was gone. There was no communication with the outside world. All of the residents had been evacuated. The only people left were the tribal council and the emergency response folks there in Lame Deer. As they watched the orange glow come up over the hill they had a bus in the parking lot with the engine running waiting to evacuate and abandon the town. Thankfully the wind shifted and the town was saved."
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Senator Daines explained how he has attempted to work with the Biden Administration to increase forest management to reduce the risk of wildfires, but has met opposition from the Biden Administration.
"The Forest Service has been clear and they stated we need to increase the treatment acreage by two to five times versus where we're at today," said Daines. "The Biden Administration actually moved to decrease our timber harvest targets in Region One. Montana is expected to fall short of our timber harvest goal, largely due to one or two extreme environmental groups that are blocking agreed to timber projects."
Daines said he is working with California Senator Diane Feinstein on ways to reduce frivolous lawsuits that block forest management efforts.
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DNRC Forestry Division Administrator Sonya Germann said the long 2021 fire season is far from over.
"There's a lot of wildlife wildfire season left," said Germann. "The National Interagency Fire Center is forecasting above normal fire potential for much of Montana throughout October. So given this forecast, it's more important than ever to recognize that while we can't control the weather, we can control our actions, and thank you, governor for your consistent fire prevention messaging. We really appreciate your leadership in so many areas, including that one."
Gianforte, Daines and Germann all agreed that the majority of wildfires in Montana are human caused, and public education efforts must be increased to reduce that number.
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"We have a quite disappointing Ohio employment report this morning from ODJFS and BLS," reported an expert who follows job creation numbers religiously. According to Cleveland-based research analyst George Zeller, Ohio gained only 1,500 jobs in March based on new figures released this morning. At the same time, Zeller notes that the February Ohio job figure released last month was revised downward by 2,100 this morning.
March 2015 was the 29th consecutive month when Ohio's job growth rate was below the USA national average, a fact few media outlets will even mention. And when Gov. Kasich appears on Meet The Press this Sunday to talk about "how Ohio's story is setting an example for other states and the country to follow and how by working together, we can find real solutions to our challenges," he won't talk about this most recent disappointing fact. And it's unlikely Chuck Todd, ringleader at MTP, will bring it up either. For obvious reasons, Kasich's Ohio story, which presumes he's a master job creator, leaves out facts that rub his glossy story raw.
In his regular review of job numbers, Mr. Zeller notes that the year-over-year not seasonally adjusted Ohio job growth rate for March 2015 is 1.45 percent, which pales in comparison to the USA job growth rate for March 2015 (released two weeks ago) is 2.27 percent. "Thus, Ohio's job growth rate was below the USA national average once again in March 2015," he said.
The estimated Ohio unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.1 percent in March. The USA unemployment rate was also unchanged in March at 5.5 percent. The large decline in the USA labor force in March of 96,000 was not replicated in Ohio, where it increased by a small 2,000.
Zeller offers a note of sunshine. He says the unemployment rate estimate in Ohio for March was actually better than the normally more reliable employment estimate from the Current Employment Statistics survey. Ohio lost 2,000 employed workers and gained 5,000 unemployed workers, for an estimated net change of -7,000 at the same time when Ohio gained 1,500 jobs. "Thus, the March Ohio unemployment rate is very slightly overestimated, an unusual situation," he said Friday.
Other experts who watch these numbers also commented on them. Hannah Halbert, researcher with Policy Matters Ohio says full recovery is still far away because job growth has been so slow. Sectors she suggests focusing on include infrastructure, transit systems, and restoration of state aid to local governments.
Gov. Kasich boasts he has produced a $2 billion surplus, and he's right as far as that goes. The surplus he prides himself on creating, what created by withholding billions in transfer payments to local governments and schools, among others. Also not noted, are the public sector jobs that are part of any good, broadbased recovery that are not on the rebound, in part due to Kasich's big cuts to local governments.
Halbert says focusing on longer-term trends rather than month-to-month changes is best. Disappointing to her is Ohio's track record over the last year. Ohio jobs grew by 1.5 percent; the national average over that time was 2.3 percent. "Since the recession began, jobs in the nation as a whole have grown by 2 percent. Ohio has yet to break even," she said.


Health officials have released help advice on picking mushrooms after a forager mistakenly ate a potentially deadly death cap. The woman, who has asked not to be named, was described by Essex Environmental Health officials as an "experienced picker".
She was hospitalised for several days from inadvertently eating the mushroom from Hockley Woods. Death caps typical have white gills and a bulbous stalk bottom (see images above and below). They can be mixed up when growing together with edible mushrooms.
Essex is one of the best counties in the country for fungi and mushroom picking during autumn months. There are more species in Epping Forest than anywhere else in the UK. Although by-laws restrict foraging in certain protected places, it's almost always OK for personal use under rights enshrined in Magna Carta.
Health officials released a list of websites offering advice on foraging, but in the main they stated the obvious: "Don't pick unless you know what you're doing." This is not a bad advice / info sheet from the Woodland Trust.