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Federal, state and territory government net debt to hit $1.4 trillion in four years
By business reporter Gareth Hutchens
Posted WedWednesday 2 DecDecember 2020 at 7:49pmWedWednesday 2 DecDecember 2020 at 7:49pm , updated WedWednesday 2 DecDecember 2020 at 8:17pmWedWednesday 2 DecDecember 2020 at 8:17pm
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. (Four Corners/AAP)
This week, the Queensland Government became the last state government to release its 2020-21 budget.
Net debt for Commonwealth, state and territory governments is forecast to hit $1.4 trillion by 2023-24
Almost every government is using the larger debt levels to finance deficit spending, including infrastructure investment
Western Australia is the only state government forecasting budget surpluses for the next four years
It means the Commonwealth Government, all six state governments, and the Northern Territory Government have published their 2020-21 budgets.
It provides an up-to-date picture of the level of debt our governments will be accumulating over the next four years as they do what the Reserve Bank suggested — to borrow as much as necessary, while interest rates are at record lows, to rebuild their economies after the recession this year.
The Australian Capital Territory Government, which was re-elected in October, won't release its 2020-21 budget until early next year but it published a pre-election budget update in September, with its latest forecasts.
Net debt to hit $1.4 trillion
Collectively, their budgets show state and territory net debt is forecast to grow from a combined $235.1 billion this year to $401.5 billion by 2023-24, with 38 per cent of that debt belonging to Victoria.
That comes on top of the Federal Government's forecast net debt of $966.2 billion in 2023-24, which will bring net debt across all levels of government to $1.4 trillion in four years' time, up from $938.4 billion today.
That explosion in debt will be used to finance years of deficit spending — with governments using that spending to support the wealth of households and businesses to resuscitate economic activity.
Western Australia the only state forecasting consistent budget surpluses
Western Australia is the only state government not forecasting budget deficits in coming years.
It has forecast combined surpluses of $4.2 billion, between 2020-21 and 2023-24, thanks to high iron ore prices and a larger share of the GST.
However, WA's level of net debt will still increase from $39.3 billion to $42.8 billion by 2023-24, at which point it is forecast to start shrinking in size.
More than 77 per cent of net debt at the state government level will be accumulated by the governments of Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland by 2023-24.
But those three states also account for 73.5 per cent of Australia's economic activity.
New South Wales accounts for roughly 31.7 per cent of economic activity, followed by Victoria (23.6 per cent), Queensland (18.2 per cent), Western Australia (15.9 per cent), South Australia (5.6 per cent), the ACT (2.1 per cent), Tasmania (1.7 per cent), and the Northern Territory (1.3 per cent).
Reserve Bank governor says debt levels not a concern
In July, RBA governor Philip Lowe said it was "entirely manageable and affordable" for federal and state governments to increase their borrowing significantly in coming years, saying "it is the right thing to do in the national interest".
In August, he then called on state governments to use their balance sheets to support job creation, rather than worrying about their credit ratings.
Recovery is a long way off for wages and jobs
The recession may technically be ending but it will take much longer for Australia's economy to get back to where it was before the pandemic, as wages stagnate, unemployment remains high and cuts to Government subsidies loom, Stephen Long writes.
He said financing was not a constraint on government spending at the moment because interest rates were the lowest they had been since Federation in 1901.
He said state governments should be doing more of the heavy lifting, because the Federal Government was carrying too much of the burden of stimulus spending.
"The Federal Government, I understand, has announced [spending] measures so far equivalent to roughly 7 per cent of gross domestic product, it's been very important in getting the country through this, and we're going to see a budget deficit next year probably close to 10 per cent of GDP," Dr Lowe said in August.
"The measures to date from state governments add up to almost close to 2 per cent of GDP.
"Going forward, the challenge we face is to create jobs, and the state governments do control many of the levers here."
State Governments announce record spending
Fast forward three months, and state governments are now being criticised by their political opponents for planning to raise too much debt in coming years.
The Andrews Labor Government in Victoria is forecasting net debt of $86.7 billion in 2020-21, lifting to $154.8 billion by 2023-24 — the highest debt level of any state.
Victoria's Treasurer, Tim Pallas, said it was what Dr Lowe called for.
"The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia has been clear about the economic prescription for these unprecedented times: increase your borrowings," Mr Pallas said.
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The Berejiklian Coalition Government in New South Wales is forecasting net debt of $53.2 billion in 2020-21, lifting to $104.3 billion by 2023-24.
"Despite the increase in borrowing the cost of debt has never been lower," NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said.
"In fact, this Budget includes borrowings around five times the 2010 amount, yet as a proportion of revenue, the cost of servicing that debt is almost the same.
"Record low interest rates are a golden opportunity to get our economy moving."
The Palaszczuk Labor Government in Queensland is forecasting net debt of $25.5 billion in 2020-21, lifting to $50.8 billion by 2023-24.
Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick said it was the opportune time to borrow.
"To do anything other than borrow to rebuild would condemn our economy to years of austerity and a far slower and more painful recovery."
Australia's economy grew in the September quarter
On Wednesday, figures from the Bureau of Statistics showed Australia's economy grew by 3.3 per cent in the September quarter, following a record decline of 7 per cent in the June quarter, which has left the economy 3.8 per cent smaller over the year to September.
Speaking in Canberra ahead of the data release, Dr Lowe said he was now expecting GDP growth to be solidly positive in the September and December quarters.
"And then, next year, our central scenario is for the economy to grow by 5 per cent and then 4 per cent over 2022," he said.
"These positive figures, though, cannot hide the reality that the recovery will be uneven and it will be bumpy and it will be drawn out.
"Australia is likely to experience a run of years of relatively high unemployment, unemployment being too high and wage increases and inflation being too low, leaving us short of the Reserve Bank's goals."
Posted 2 DecDecember 2020WedWednesday 2 DecDecember 2020 at 7:49pm , updated 2 DecDecember 2020WedWednesday 2 DecDecember 2020 at 8:17pm
RBA governor says it is a 'good time' for first home buyers
In the real world, the recession is far from over
House prices rise nationally in November, with further gains expected for 2021
Treasurer says 'the recession is over, but the recovery is not'

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December 28, 2010 changed my life. After the extended prelude of my delayed application, lack of test seats after applying, then the written test, the Personal Narrative Questions, the Oral Assessment, the medical exams for me and the family, the security investigation, the final suitability review and then the waiting on the register, I'd finally gotten invited to join the Foreign Service.
Skip ahead to March 28, 2011. I've quit my job and moved to DC alone, leaving my family behind. I meet an amazing group of people who prove true to first impressions and have become a very tight and valuable group of friends and colleagues. Then the bidding process, where I discovered that I really did want to go to Abuja, Nigeria, if possible. Somehow I forgot to learn what the national flag of Nigeria looked like and ended up surprised on Flag Day to be the first person assigned there. Diplomatic passport and visas, consultations and distance learning.
My family has visited twice and we've decided that they'll stay in Japan for the next two years. I've purchased hundreds of pounds of food and "consumables" in addition to some toys (ipad; new bass and amp!) and appliances (tv, stereo, dvd player). I've got a whole slew of electricity converters and UPS to preserve my electronics and permit me to use them in spite of the consistent power outages in Nigeria.
And I've acquired a new family member, the coolest cat I've ever know, Sugar. Yesterday I was worried I might have to abandon her at the airport. Today I hold a rabies titer result (she's clean!) as well as recent veterinary certificates. I'm pretty sure I'll have no trouble tomorrow, which leads me to…tomorrow.
It has all come down to this. After all the preparation and testing and waiting and wondering and training and orientation and packing and flying and buying, it ends. Tomorrow I depart these United States in order to represent the President and nation and protect and promote the Constitution and the values our great nation is founded on. It is a great honor to be able to serve this country.
It's been a great two days here in New York City. I can sense its greatness even from the tiny bit I've seen over the last 36 hours. Now its off to Africa, to Nigeria, to Abuja for 2 years. How awesome is that?
Is Sugar one of Schroedinger's cats?
Sugar is the beautimous cat stuffed with awesomesauce whom we've grown to love and adore over the past few months. I thought I'd done everything right with respect to getting her import clearance into Nigeria but I fear that a last minute snag may cause huge problems for me on Wednesday.
All of the documentation I got for Nigeria directed me to begin the pet processing during the last month prior to departure. A checkup is needed 10 days before flying but I also needed to file for import papers from Nigeria. I went to the vet 3 weeks prior to departure only to learn that the rabies titer (test) takes 6 weeks to process. For whatever reason, there is only one lab in the US that does it and they are severely backlogged. I pay for the test (~$250) but submit the paperwork to the NIgeria government with the test results listed as pending. Apparently this is sufficient as I receive my import papers for my cat. I take her back for a second examination within the 10 day window (yes, two physicals within about a week due to the processing requirements) and we submit the forms to the USDA. I'm expecting to get an international certificate from them that will release Sugar to travel on Friday or Saturday.
Monday morning departure comes and I haven't heard from the vet.
Nothing to do but head to New York and pay the extra fees to get the certificate overnighted to my hotel. I wasn't expecting to need the certificate to travel between DC and NYC. I was able to get by with the full stack of paperwork I'd kept with me indicating Sugar's medical history and exam results.
I get to NY and find out that the USDA will not sign off on the international form without the rabies titer results. This is a bit frustrating since I've got full documentation of Sugar's immunization record and health status: this cat doesn't have rabies. The vet agrees to send me the uncertified certificate with the rabies test results pending and we'll see what happens.
I'm hoping that this paperwork and the forms I used to get to NYC are sufficient to get on the plan in spite of the lack of a USDA form but I really really don't know if this possible. There is a very strong (better than 50%) chance that I'm going to get to the airport and they flat out won't let my cat on the plane. If this happens, I just don't know what I'm going to do, as I most definitely will be getting on the plane. Hopefully the rumors I've heard about a certified form not being required will prove true. I don't want to have to choose between leaving my pet at the airport and missing my flight.
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I'm in Times Square at the moment, hanging out on the 27th floor with Sugar, my beloved cat. We've packed out of DC and made it to New York; Sugar's ability to move onwards to Nigeria is in question though. But before I delve into that, I want to celebrate meeting my good friend H-bomb here in New York.
H-bomb and I met in the introductory anthropology class that hooked me into anthro for 15 years and set the foundations for this gig I'm on now. We hung out a couple times while I was in Duluth and then mostly just kept in touch via email during the remainder of college. I didn't hear from her for a long time but then reconnected thanks to the magic of facebook. We played some online scrabble for a while and got caught up on each other's life and family but I'm such an atrocious scrabble player that experiment eventually withered and died (my ongoing chess games with J have thrived in spite of my .25 winning percentage over the last 10+ years). But we still kept in peripheral touch and I was happy to learn that she'd be available during my brief passage through NYC on my way to Nigeria.
H-bomb was one of those people that just clicked as a friend. Looking back, I don't really think we spent all that much time actually hanging out together yet I've always felt like she was one of my closest friends. I missed her during the time we'd lost touch and was happy to find that we still got a long great in spite of all the time that has passed. I just wish I was a better scrabble player.
In life, there just are those people that you know are good for you. I'm not one to believe in reincarnation or that type of thing but I can see where people would think that relationships in previous lives could be responsible for the ease with which we find ourselves with certain people.
All I know is that I was lucky to meet H-Bomb in college and we've kept in touch over the years and now, we got to meet again. I like having good friends, especially those that just feel like natural affines. Knowing that you've got good people out there for you makes not only makes life a little easier, it makes it more fun.
It's important to remember this as I depart from my beloved A-100 classmates, many (most?) of whom I possibly will never meet again. Even if we don't meet, I know they are still good friends. I can't imagine ever needing to call on them for anything but the knowledge that they are there just feels good. And while it may seem like we'd never get to meet, you never know when paths will cross.


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Nadal wins 89th career title on return to action in Melbourne
What a return to competitive action for the 20-time Grand Slam champion
Spain's Rafael Nadal during a practice session (Panoramic)
Rafael Nadal – who missed the last third of the 2021 season due to a foot injury – has won the title at the Melbourne Summer Series, beating the USA's Maxime Cressy 7-6(6), 6-3.
It was the Spaniard's return to competitive action following his appearance at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in December, after which he contracted Covid-19.
And he admitted it was something of a relief to win a trophy so soon after his comeback.
"Tto win a title is always special, and at the same time, after all the things that we went through, I had tremendous support from my team without a doubt, from my family, and yeah, of course there have been still doubts but even more doubts during a lot of months if I will be able to be back," he said in his press conference.
"Yeah, I think they have been there always. I think I tried hard, honestly. There have been some very challenging moments, and I have been working very hard even in the very tough moments. I never say, and I will never say I deserve this, because I think a lot of people deserve, but I really worked hard, so I am quite satisfied the way that I approached all these very challenging months in terms of attitude, in terms of positive spirit and in terms of passion to try to be back.
"This title helps [me] to keep going, and it's of course just the beginning. I have a lot of things to keep improving, but I really want to do it, and I'm going to try hard."
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The new FIFA rules are hard: Complexity aspects of sports competitions
Walter Kern, Daniël Paulusma
Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Programming
Consider a soccer competition among various teams playing against each other in pairs (matches) according to a previously determined schedule. At some stage of the competition one may ask whether a particular team still has a (theoretical) chance to win the competition. The complexity of this question depends on the way scores are allocated according to the outcome of a match. For example, the problem is polynomially solvable for the ancient FIFA rules (2:0 resp. 1:1) but becomes NP-hard if the new rules (3:0 resp. 1:1) are applied. We determine the complexity of the above problem for all possible score allocation rules.
Memorandum / Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
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From today, the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is taking part in the third annual social media campaign to promote the importance of reporting suspected side effects from medicines.
Taking place from 19-23 November, the campaign forms part of an awareness week involving 32 medicines regulators in the EU, Latin America, Australasia and the Middle East. Regulators will jointly focus on raising reporting numbers for suspected side effects with an additional emphasis this year on the safe use of medicines in infants and children, and during pregnancy, including when breastfeeding.
The United Nations' Universal Children's Day falls within the awareness week and both campaigns seek to promote international togetherness and improve children's welfare.
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Home / Disciplines and Products / Urology / Lithotripsy Database / Blog / Database / Benes J et al, 2012: Biological effects of tandem shock waves demonstrated on magnetic resonance
Benes J et al, 2012: Biological effects of tandem shock waves demonstrated on magnetic resonance
Peter Alken
Benes J, Zeman J, Pouckova P, Zadinova M, Sunka P, Lukes P
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
OBJECTIVES: The shock wave is used for the treatment of kidney stones, eventually of gall stones, for more than 20 years. It is a pressure wave, which breaks through soft tissues easily and it is possible to focus it into a small volume. The excellent results of the treatment of concrements led to considerations about another usage of the shock wave. The research is now concentrated on the possibility of the damage to tumour tissues.
METHODS: In contrast to concrements tumour tissues are not different from healthy tissues as for their acoustic attributes. That is why a new source of shock waves was used in this work. The source allows generating two successive shock waves focused into a common focus, so-called tandem shock waves. The biological effects of the tandem shock waves generated by the new source on rats hepatic tissue and rabbit femoral muscle in vivo were studied in this work. The damage is demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging.
RESULTS: MR images showed tissue damage in focus. There was damage of the liver tissue, muscle and also stomach wall.
CONCLUSIONS: We found that the tandem shock waves are able to damage the acoustically homogeneous soft tissue in the focus, i.e. in the depth. In tissues in front of the focus, there is, however, no damage (Fig. 10, Ref. 15).
Bratisl Lek Listy. 2012;113(6):335-8
PMID: 22693967 [PubMed - in process]
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Small businesses feel pain of prolonged partial government shutdown
By Lorraine Mirabella
Maryland senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Delali Dzirasa, founder and president of Baltimore technology firm Fearless, took part in a discussion Thursday with area business owners about difficulties they're facing during the partial federal government shutdown. (Lorraine Mirabella/The Baltimore Sun)
Local small-business owners are feeling the pain of the federal government's partial shutdown, as some face delayed payments on government contracts and others wonder how they'll pay subcontractors or when or if approvals will come through on much-needed government-backed business loans.
Those were some of the scenarios laid out Thursday by a group of area businesses, including federal contractors, who met with Maryland senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen in Baltimore to talk about difficulties they're facing as the shutdown dragged into its 27th day.
The shutdown was caused by a dispute between President Donald Trump and Congress over funding for a wall on the Mexican border, one of Trump's campaign promises.
One of the more unusual stories came from Paul Reed Smith, founder and owner of Stevensville-based PRS Guitars, considered a top maker of guitars and amplifiers.
In Maryland, government shutdown affects a college basketball player, farmers awaiting relief, tax filers and many more
Now in its 18th day, the partial government shutdown affects one-quarter of the government and about 800,000 employees who are furloughed or working without pay. But the longer the shutdown drags on, the greater the impact not only on federal workers, but on people relying on services they provide.
By Jeff Barker
Smith, one of several dozen people gathered at the offices of Baltimore technology company Fearless at the Inner Harbor, told the senators that people might not realize the wide-ranging impact of the shutdown, and how it even extends to makers of musical instruments. About half of the electric guitars made in the United States are exported, he said, and before they can be shipped out they require permits approved by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, part of the Department of the Interior.
During the shutdown, no permits are being approved.
"I have an unusual story," Smith said. "Half my business is exports, and I can't get my permits from Fish and Wildlife because they're shut down. … In about 20 days, half of our businesses are going to shut down."
Smith, who employs 330 people at the Stevensville factory, said his company's situation shows how missing something as simple or routine as those permits can pose serious threats to a business. Permits have been required for the export and import of musical instrument made with certain species of wood, including rosewood, commonly used in guitars, as part of regulations that took effect about two years ago.
"It's not just us," he said. "It's the whole industry. This is affecting the export trade. … It's an odd story, but you're collecting stories."
Maryland could soon miss tax payments due to federal government shutdown
As a partial shutdown of the federal government continues, the state of Maryland could soon miss out on collecting federal employees' state payroll taxes. State Comptroller Peter Franchot's office estimates that 172,000 Marylanders are affected by the shutdown, including federal workers.
By Pamela Wood
Cardin and Van Hollen, both Democrats, met with business owners after getting a letter last week from a partner at Fearless detailing its difficulties amid the shutdown.
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Delali Dzirasa, Fearless' founder and president, said if the software development firm can't get paid on its government contracts, it can't hire subcontractors and vendors, who in turn divert workers to other jobs. That could cause long delays on projects, he said. The firm does work for the Department of Health and Human Services, the General Services Administration, the Small Business Administration and other agencies.
"This is day 27 of this extremely dangerous, outrageous and unnecessary partial government shutdown," Cardin told the group, adding that having 800,000 government workers furloughed or working without pay has compromised food and airline safety and the ability for people to get a mortgage. "Senator Van Hollen and I every day have been taking steps to re-open government."
Small businesses have been hurt on two fronts, he said, lacking access to services at agencies such as Small Business Administration and losing business as federal workers cut their personal spending.
"The only way we will put an end to this shameful episode is when our colleagues in the United States Senate understand the damage that's being done to people throughout the country and the economy," Van Hollen said.
Maryland Gov. Hogan 'disgusted' by federal government shutdown
Leaders of the National Governors Association are urging President Donald Trump and congressional leaders to end the partial government shutdown, telling them,
By By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Keith Deaven, CEO of Mediabarn, an Arlington, Va., web designer, consultancy and placement service, has a contract with the Internal Revenue Service.
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"The person pressing the 'pay' button is on furlough, and we're not able to get paid," and some of those workers have been forced to take out personal loans, he said.
Lisa A. Wolff, president of Next Phase Solutions and Services in Columbia, said she is counting the shutdown in hours not days. The women-owned federal contractor does work for agencies such as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which awarded the firm a contract to analyze radio frequency interference and assess the impact of data loss.
"Between all of our contracts, we are $3.5 million in the hole, waiting to be paid," she said. "They can't process payments."
The delayed payments are affecting about 1,000 people, including her own employees and employees of eight subcontractors who work for them, she said.
Baltimore City Council approves fee cap on Grubhub, Door Dash, other restaurant delivery apps
"It's a ripple affect in the community," she said. "There are people who are not even paying tuition payments for college because they know we're going to have to make hard decisions."


Massages for state employees, tai chi classes, and comic books are just three items state government spends your paycheck on. Not all government spending wastes money so visibly, but there is credence to the saying that for every rat you see, there are 50 more you don't.
The Arizona budget clearly needs a good scrubbing, but how much of the deficit really rests in lawmakers' hands? Revenues have plunged nationwide. Maybe our deficit is a casualty of the recession. As Tina Turner might say, "What's spending got to do with it?"
As it turns out, everything. If Arizona simply had sustained state services since 2002, we would be debating what to do with a $3.2 billion balance today. There would be no deficit this year or next.
Instead, Arizona has the largest deficit of any state in the country as a percentage of our budget, including states like California, Florida, and Nevada that are equally dependent on the real estate industry for revenue.
What happened? Arizona's historic revenue growth averages about 6.5 percent annually, and we saw a few thin years from 2001 through 2003. When revenues roared back with 7 percent growth in 2004 and 14 percent growth for the next three years, lawmakers fell into a spending bonanza.
Legislators doubled the size of agencies like AHCCCS, DHS, and Commerce. As revenue inevitably slowed, there wasn't enough money left to pay the bills.
Arizona must engineer a solution that won't lead straight into another financial disaster the next time the economy hits a rough patch. Smarter budgeting rules are vital.
Lawmakers currently spend every dollar they collect, leaving the state in a bind the minute revenue contracts. A spending limit would force government to live within a budget, leaving sufficient funds to ride out the peaks and valleys of natural business cycles.
Today Arizona faces many of the same challenges as Washington D.C. Just as Medicare and Social Security threaten to absorb the federal budget absent reform, local entitlements to health care and education consume an increasingly large bite of our budget.
Creatively rethinking the provision of public services can put Arizona on a sustainable path.
Consider education, our largest expenditure. It costs taxpayers 25 percent more to educate students in traditional public schools than it does in charter schools. Statewide test scores show charter school students learn more on average during the school year than their public school peers.
We could also use private school seats, where tuition averages 50 percent less than the public school tab. Working with the private sector gives families more choices in schooling and eases pressure on state funds.
Likewise governments worldwide save billions by letting private firms design and operate highways. Laws allowing private partnerships can pave the way for quality transportation at a lower cost to taxpayers.
Like our Utah neighbors, Arizonans would also benefit from a flatter tax code. Tax reform could position Arizona as the region's most competitive state, attracting capital and investments. Economist Art Laffer estimates that reform could usher in 100,000 new jobs, providing badly needed work as Arizona's unemployment climbs over 7 percent.
Getting a handle on spending requires government to think creatively about more efficient ways to provide services and to exit some businesses entirely. Who knows? We might even find a couple of services we can live without, like massages, tai chi and comic books.
Darcy Olsen is president and CEO of the Goldwater Institute.


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Manu National Park is a globally renowned haven of terrestrial biodiversity at the meeting point of the Tropical Andes and the Amazon Basin in Southwestern Peru. As a vast, geographically and economically isolated watershed, the still roadless property has been spared from most human impacts and is difficult to access to this day. The originally inscribed area was extended to 1,716,295 hectares in 2009, spanning the complete altitudinal gradient of the Eastern slope of the Andes from around 350 to above 4,000 m.a.s.l. The in some places precipitous transition includes high Andean Puna grasslands, mountain cloud forests, Yunga forests and lowland rainforest. Fed from numerous whitewater creeks in the mountains, the Manu River meanders through the lowland forests, before it joins the mighty Madre de Dios River at the Southern edge of the property. As evidenced by Incan and Pre-Incan ruins and petroglyphs, there is a long history of indigenous occupation. The local legend of Paititi, according to which the "Lost City of the Incas" is located within what is today the property, has lured researchers and adventurers alike. Today, various indigenous peoples are the only permanent inhabitants. Some of them are sedentary and in regular contact with the "modern world", while others maintain a semi-nomadic lifestyle as hunter-gatherers in so-called "voluntary isolation" or "initial contact", respectively.
The immense variety of Manu National Park in terms of altitude, microclimate, soils and other ecological conditions results in a complex mosaic of habitats and niches. There is a broad spectrum of plant communities, ranging from the seemingly homogenous but highly diverse Andean grasslands to a range of mostly pristine forest types. Estimates of plant diversity range between 2,000 and 5,000, with some scientists even assuming considerably higher numbers. Records of fauna are similarly impressive with well over 1000 vertebrate species, including at least 200 species of mammals and more than 800 species of birds. Among the mammals are the Giant Otter, 13 different species of primates and eight felids, including Jaguar, Puma and the elusive and endangered Andean Mountain Cat. The wide range of estimates in various taxonomic groups of fauna and flora illustrates how little is known, let alone understood about the diversity of life in the property. In the medium and longer term developments in the surroundings of Manu National Park such as gas extraction and road construction may affect the still mostly pristine property in various ways. Careful planning and management is needed to balance development needs with the integrity of a global conservation gem.
Criterion (ix): Manu National Park has a remarkable location at the meeting point of the Tropical Andes and the Amazonian lowland forests. The massive altitudinal gradient has favoured an extremely broad range of ecological conditions and the evolution of highly diverse species and ecological communities. The landscape diversity ranges from high Andean grasslands to various forests types, including pristine montane cloud forests and lush lowland rainforest. The combination of topography, ecological conditions and isolation have permitted the almost undisturbed and ongoing evolution of an extraordinary diversity of life at all levels and a high degree of endemism. In addition to the diversity of life, Manu National Park is also known for an unusually high abundance of fauna across many taxonomic groups.
Criterion (x): The extraordinary biodiversity combined with the large size and excellent conservation state makes Manu National Park a protected area of major and global biodiversity conservation importance. More than 200 species of mammals, 800 species of birds, 68 species of reptiles, 77 species of amphibians and impressive numbers of freshwater fish imply a diversity of vertebrates matched only in very few places of the World. Numbers in other taxonomic groups are at least as impressive, for example the more than 1,300 recorded species of butterflies out of probably several hundreds of thousands of arthropods. Thousands of higher plant species are distributed across the diverse ecosystems, habitats and niches. Hundreds of tree species have been identified, often jointly growing within very small areas. For decades, the property has been among the foremost references for scientific research in tropical ecology. As such the property has significantly helped our understanding of tropical forest ecosystems. Even seasoned researchers are overwhelmed not only by the diversity of life but also by the impressive abundance of vertebrates, including mammals. Despite the major record of research, even today taxonomic studies invariably reveal species unknown to science, including vertebrates, clear evidence that Manu continues to hold many of its biodiversity secrets.
The property benefits from a natural protection at a relatively large scale due to its remote location and is considered to be one of the most pristine areas of the Peruvian Amazon. The presence of large top predators in natural population densities, such as Jaguar, Puma, Giant Otter and Harpy Eagle, provides evidence of the near-pristine overall state of Manu National Park. Unlike other parts of the Amazon Manu National Park is believed to be still largely free of alien invasive species. The property is today embedded in a much broader conservation complex comprised of different categories of protected areas and indigenous communal areas, including the contiguous including Alto Purus National Park, Megantoni National Sanctuary, adding another layer of protection. There are functional corridors extending all the way to the Brazilian and Bolivian Amazon. Since the extension of the property, the watershed of the Manu River, a major tributary to the Madre de Dios, is protected in its entirety. Direct human use and interference is minimal and mostly restricted to small numbers of indigenous residents. Provided that they maintain a lifestyle compatible with conservation objectives, their presence is not believed to negatively affect the conservation values of Manu National Park. The integrity of the property could be compromised by inappropriate developments in its vicinity, implying a need to strongly consider the surrounding buffer zone in protection and management efforts.
The geographic isolation and longstanding protection have saved Manu National Park from changes that have been occurring elsewhere in the Peruvian Amazon. The formal conservation history started in 1968, when Manu Nature Reserve was declared. Owing to the dedication of a group of Peruvian conservationists and international supporters the national park was formalized by Supreme Decree in 1973. In 1977, Manu National Park was recognized by UNESCO as the core zone of an even larger biosphere reserve. Both the national park and the biosphere reserve are today under the authority of Peru's national protected areas agency SERNANP under the Ministry of the Environment. The zonation of the government-owned park distinguishes various zones. The by far largest is the Restricted Zone, consisting mostly of undisturbed forests and dedicated exclusively to conservation with controlled access for researchers and de facto accepted indigenous subsistence resource use. Other, smaller zones are a Special Use Zone, two distinct Recreational Zones, a Cultural Zone and a Recuperation Zone covering relatively small Andean areas impacted by livestock and related use of fire. The smallest zone is a so-called Service Zone around Cocha Cashu Biological Station and the various control posts manned by rangers. The management of the property is guided by a Master Plan with a committee comprised of various stakeholders set up to ensure local participation in and contributions to management.
Needs identified in Master Plans in terms of staff numbers, resources and programme activities reveal implementation and funding gaps. The population near the property is scattered into small communities engaged in subsistence and small-scale commercial agriculture and animal husbandry. Both the farming communities and the indigenous residents have a localized but manageable impact on the property. Despite the lack of acute pressures a number of concerns stemming from broader developments in the region are well-documented. New roads across the Andes and smaller roads in the vicinity of the property are likely to induce change by opening access. Indirect impacts from the Camisea Gas Field and exploration near the property require careful monitoring. The development in the buffer zone, while formally not part of the inscribed property, may well be decisive for the future of the property. One particularity of the property is that it protects indigenous residents from external pressures and undesired attempts to contact them. There is a need to define a clear policy for their future.


"Understanding of the heart" is intuition, to be distinguished from subjectivity and bias. To study Torah without putting aside one's biases yields eisegesis, reading into the text — it is I who's talking, not the text. The way to acquire the Torah is exegesis, reading out of the text, that is, it itself speaks. Intuition aids in exegesis.
The biblical Joseph egged on his brothers. Was this right? Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac. Did this make sense? Jewish law requires tzedakah, the gift of a portion of one's hard-earned money. Might this undermine one's livelihood? The shofar is not sounded when Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbos. Is this the right priority? One has an intuitive approach to these and countless other lenses the Torah places before us.
Intuition is to put aside one's biases and to go deeper. It is to bring one's essential humanity to the Torah. Intuition is necessary for the acquisition of the Torah because the Torah is addressed to human beings.
Intuition is not reflexive, not a first reaction. A point of Torah must be studied. The twists and turns of a Torah narrative, and the subtleties of a point of Jewish law, must be known before one's intuition can come into play.
Intuition expresses Pirkei Avot's faith in every student of the Torah.
The fourth way to acquire the Torah: Intuition.
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short_description = 'A command-line python utility for applying watermarks to one or more photos'

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    import pypandoc
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except:
    long_description = short_description

setup(name='watermarker-cli',
      packages=['watermarker-cli'],
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      description=short_description,
      long_description = long_description,
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      author_email='svvitale@gmail.com',
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Thanks To Social Media 'Selfie' Becomes Word Of The Year
Posted: November 19, 2013 by Emily Brown
The word that fired up the likes of Instagram this year, aka 'selfie', has been named the international word of 2013 by Oxford Dictionaries.
According to Oxford Dictionaries, 'selfie's' first occurrence dates back to 2002, when it was used in an Australian online forum to describe a self-taken portrait. Ever since, the coinage has been popularized, initially by image-sharing sites like Flickr, where it was used as hashtag in 2004; and then it became fully exploited around 2012, when it started to be commonly used in mainstream media, including Twitter and Facebook.
As Oxford editors explained they opted for 'selfie' among other terms because the word has steadily evolved from a niche social media tag into a mainstream term for a self-portrait. To determine the winner, they had to choose from some serious competition, including 'bitcoin' – a digital currency; 'twerk' – a kind of dance to popular music; and 'showrooming' – the act of examining a product in a shop before buying it online at a lower price.
Oxford Dictionaries has been presenting this prestigious title to contemporary coinages that attracted a lot of interest during a particular year since 2004. Some of the words that had won the honor include 'omnishambles' – a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged; (2012), 'squeezed middle' (2011) – a section of society deemed to be most affected by inflation and tax rises; 'refudiate' (2010) – that suggests a general sense of 'reject'; and 'unfriend' (2009) – that means to remove a person from a list of friends on a social networking website.
What's common about all of these terms is that most, if not, all of them were created or popularized through social media that slowly rise to become a main generator of fresh vocabulary. Well, English is a living language and we'd better get used to welcoming new additions to its family.
Emily Brown
Emily Brown is a social webmaster and passionate blogger who loves to share the latest news from technology with the world. Spending most of her time researching and writing, she is always equipped with the most up-to-date info circling around the net. To keep up with what she has to say, follow her on Google+.


The Geauga Faith Rescue Mission will host a fundraising dinner of lemon pepper chicken, sponsored by the Parkman Congregational Church.
The dinner will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday at the church, 18265 Madison Road. Cost is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors over 65, $6 for children 5 to 10 and free for children 5 and younger.
The dinner is open to the public. For more information, call Chris at 440-862-3593 or email clanstrum@bentronix.com.


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National Programme Daventry, 28 January 1934 17.45
TATIANA MAKUSHINA
(soprano)
VICTOR HELY-HUTCHINSON
(pianoforte)
THE INTERNATIONAL STRING
QUARTET:
ANDRÉ MANGEOT (violin) ; WALTER PRICE (violin); ERIC BRAY (viola); JACK SHINEBOURNE (violoncello)
DR. CYRIL ROOTHAM was given the post of organist and musical director of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1901, when he was no older than twenty-six ; he has held that post ever since. His influence has in that time been enormous, for a number of distinguished musicians of today graduated at Cambridge and came under Dr. Rootham's tuition. He has also composed himself in the time he has been able to spare from his duties. His compositions include an opera, The Two Sisters, a choral work, ' The Brown Earth ', which received the Carnegie Award, and some chamber music, of which this Quartet is the only one, of three, so far published. It was produced by the Philharmonic String Quartet in 1915. Rootham's style is restrained, his harmonics diatonic, and his music tends towards a polyphonic texture. Most of his work has a marked modal feeling and it is clear that folk-songs and the classical schools have influenced him to the exclusion of practically all later tendencies.
'THE ' chansons DE BILITIS ' are settings bv Debussy of poems by Pierre Louys. Bilitis, to whom the poet ascribed them, is a purely imaginary poetess of ancient days, and Louys wrote them as though to recount her own experiences, pretending that he had transcribed them from some old Egyptian papyrus. In Debussy's hands they acquire a new expressiveness and beauty, although one that seems to grow very naturally from them. That was one direction in which he was signally successful; even those who are not quite in sympathy with his instrumental music have always felt that in the poems he chose for his vocal pieces, he found exactly the right music to illuminate and emphasise their moods and meanings. What we have come to call the musical atmosphere is unmistakably right in all of his songs. And, despite their pretended Egyptian origin, these are rich in all the qualities which mark Debussy as typically French.
Soprano: Tatiana Makushina
Unknown: Victor Hely-Hutchinson
Violin: André Mangeot
Violin: Walter Price
Violin: Eric Bray
Viola: Jack Shinebourne
Unknown: Cyril Rootham
Unknown: Pierre Louys.
National Programme is a radio service which began broadcasting on 9 March 1930 and ended on 9 September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service Basic.
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Polerowanie – obróbka wykańczająca, która ma na celu uzyskanie żądanej gładkości/chropowatości i połysku powierzchni przedmiotu polerowanego (z zachowaniem cech geometrii), wykonanego najczęściej z metalu, szkła, tworzyw sztucznych.

Polerowanie dokonywane jest zwykle za pomocą miękkich (filcowych) tarcz i materiałów ściernych (np. past polerskich) lub metodami elektrochemicznymi. Wyróżnia się:
 polerowanie chemiczne
 polerowanie elektrolityczne (elektrochemiczne), elektropolerowanie
 polerowanie hydrodynamiczne (strumieniowe)
 polerowanie ścierne (ręczne lub mechaniczne)
 polerowanie ogniowe (palnikami gazowymi)

Polerowanie szkła
Wyróżnia się polerowanie przy pomocy:
 Filcu (najszybsze, ale najmniej dokładne)
 Gąbki poliuretanowej, szybkie i bardzo dokładne, ale wymaga precyzyjnych narzędzi.
 Smoły polerskiej (mieszanina kalafonii, wosku pszczelego oraz gipsu), bardzo wolne, bardzo dokładne.
 Tarczy bawełnianej (szybkie i dokładne).
 Palników gazowych.
Środkiem ściernym przy polerowaniu szkła najczęściej jest tlenek ceru zmieszany z wodą.

Polerowanie drewna
Polerowanie drewna pozwala usunąć wszelkie niedoskonałości z powierzchni materiału oraz nadać mu odpowiednią fakturę i grubość. Wyróżnia się dwie metody polerowania:

 ręczne (z użyciem papieru ściernego),
 maszynowe (z pomocą specjalistycznych urządzeń).

Ręczne polerowanie drewna wymaga doboru papieru o odpowiedniej gradacji (uziarnieniu). Im większy stopień gradacji papieru, tym większy stopień tarcia, co z jednej strony może skutkować dokładniejszym szlifem, lecz z drugiej zwiększa ryzyko uszkodzenia powierzchni. W rzemiośle o wiele częściej korzysta się z techniki maszynowej, gdyż jest ona o wiele wydajniejsza.

Zobacz też
 docieranie
 obróbka wygładzająca

Przypisy

Obróbka ścierna

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Another worker dies of COVID-19 in Montreal
Tailor Stone | June 11, 2020 | Health | No Comments
The pandemic of COVID-19 tore away the life of at least one-fifth beneficiaries attendant at Quebec, carried away in a few days with the virus and almost without symptoms, according to his relatives.
"We don't know what happened […] It is hard, because we really didn't expect this," says with great sorrow of the daughter of Marie-Caona Friendship, passed away on may 22.
Her mother, 65-year-old was a patient care attendant since 2012 to the intermediary resource (IR) Place Lacordaire Montreal. She worked with residents on the second floor.
The daughter of Mrs. Friendship, who prefers to conceal his name, explains that his mother learned of his diagnosis when a screening test on may 18. This is only the next day that she began to experience some symptoms, such as fever.
But since she had no respiratory difficulty, the Info-line-Health would not have recommended to go to the hospital, according to her daughter. A doctor has consulted with his mother, but three days later it is off.
The sexagenarian had, however, no known health problems, which adds to the misunderstandings experienced by the family.
"These are questions that will remain unanswered," said his daughter.
No other member of his family has been infected, to the great relief of all, because Mary-Caona Friendship lived with his mother, 106 years old, has been spared.
If it keeps a memory of his mother, and it is the one of a kind woman, lover of life and of her four children and seven grandchildren.
"It was the mother of all the world ", blows his daughter. Of haitian descent, Ms. Friendship came to Quebec in the 70's.
"My mother loved her job, she loved the residents there […] If she had not retired at 65 years of age, it is because she loved it," says his daughter with pride.
His death was remained unknown, up until the publication of a web article in the journal of internal CIUSSS of the Is-de-l'île-de-Montréal, which was removed yesterday.
"It was not up to us to make it public," says a spokesman about the error. The CIUSSS of the East-of-the-Island-of-Montreal, however, shows his sadness and solidarity ahead of the loss of a health worker on its territory.
The owner of the Place Lacordaire, Anthony Falvo, refused our interview request, directing us instead to the director, Isabelle St-Hilaire. It does, however, not recalled.
Last Saturday, The Newspaper reported that the Place Lacordaire observed 14 deaths and 24 cases of infection.
The other health workers who died
Huy Hao Dao, 44 years
Died April 15,
A doctor at the public health Directorate of the Montérégie
Victoria Salvan, 64 years of age.
Patient care attendant at Centre Grace Dart extended care Montreal
Stéphanie Tessier 31 years old
Patient care attendant at CHSLD Lucien G. Rolland, Saint-Jérôme
Marina Thenor-Louis is 45 years old
Patient care attendant at CHSLD Cartierville, Montreal
Laurence Menard, 33 years old
Died may 4,
Social worker CIUSSS of the Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec
Employee non-disclosed
Died may 21,
A care attendant in the quarantine working in a CHSLD de Montréal
The conservatives have criticised the awards for the volunteer student
Managers of private seniors' residences affected by the pandemic
Several CEGEPs are postponing the start of the school year
Coronavirus: in North Korea, the schools re-opened their doors


The original museum was constructed by DOAM with the contribution of the Wali Swat and the Italian Mission in 1958, when a twin Museum was inaugurated in Rome (Museo Naziolae d'Arte Orientale). The present building of the museum was constructed in various phases. The structure was severely damaged both by the 2005 earthquake and by a huge tragic bomb blast that occurred in February 2009. The museum is currently closed for repair and restoration.


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Woodpecker Damage Prevention and Inspection
by Nick Gromicko
While little is known or documented about the extent of woodpecker damage to homes nationwide, the states of Michigan, Louisiana and Wisconsin have estimated the cost of repair to their residences to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. One survey of woodpecker damage to homes reported an average loss of $300 per incident. Such destruction is rare in urban areas, but it can be extensive in suburban and wooded areas, even where woodpeckers seem to have plenty of natural alternatives to houses. InterNACHI inspectors can assist their clients with some tips to locate and address damage, as well as discourage these sometimes troublesome birds.
Distinctive Species
Woodpeckers are a subfamily of Picidae birds, known for their long, sticky tongues, which they use for extracting food, and their strong bills, which they use for drilling and drumming on trees. Twenty-one species are found in the United States and many others are found worldwide, with the exception of Australasia and Oceania. Woodpeckers are generally 7 to 15 inches (17 to 40 cm) long, have short legs, sharp-clawed toes and stiff tails. Most woodpeckers feed on wood-boring insects, insects on trees and the ground, vegetable matter, wild berries and tree sap.
Beyond Cosmetic Damage
Much of the damage inflicted to structures is caused specifically by the Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), which can be identified in flight by a yellow or salmon tint under the wings and tail feathers, and a black or red mustache extending from the gape of the beak to below the eyes. The hairy woodpecker (Picoides villosus) and the downy woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) can also be destructive.
Woodpecker damage, in addition to being problematic in itself, also encourages infestation of insects and other wildlife by providing an entry point into the structure. These same avenues allow rainwater to invade the structure, which can lead to mold growth and other damaging and hazardous conditions.
Wood is not the only building material at risk of attack by woodpeckers. The birds may even pierce plumbing and electrical lines behind a house's siding. In addition to homes, inspectors and homeowners should be on the lookout for serious woodpecker damage to barns and other outbuildings that are not consistently inhabited or monitored, as well as summer and vacation homes that are vacant for part of the year.
Telltale Signs of Woodpecker Damage
Woodpecker attacks can be categorized into the following general types:
foraging holes, which may appear as small, deep holes in a nearly straight horizontal or vertical line, or in long trenches of 10 cm or more in length. The woodpecker drills these configurations in search of insects. New construction is typically more prone to insect infestation than well-seasoned wood at least two years old;
drumming holes, appearing as many small, shallow holes in a cluster, or in wider, cone-shaped depressions along the corners or fascia and trim boards of a house. Woodpeckers also drum on metallic surfaces, such as aluminum siding, metal downspouts, gutters, chimneys, vents and antennae poles. A male drums to signal a potential mate by loudly and rapidly tapping on a resonating material during the spring breeding season, although he may drum at other times of the year to announce his claim to a territory. While drumming damage is typically minimal, the noise can be bothersome for building occupants, especially in the early morning when they're trying to sleep; and
excavation (nesting or roosting) holes, appearing as deep, round holes 3 to 5cm in diameter. Warm insulation and easily chiseled siding make houses attractive to woodpeckers in search of a place to create a nest for their young. To create its characteristic upside-down L-shaped den, the bird must first get through the siding, sheathing and plywood, creating large, deep holes that account for the most troublesome type of woodpecker damage. Woodpeckers often make several nesting attempts, beginning an excavation only to abandon it and renew the process in a more suitable location. In this fashion, a house may suffer a number of deep holes from the efforts of one determined bird. Nesting holes are excavated at the start of the breeding season, usually from late April into May. Roosting holes are usually built in the late summer and fall in preparation for winter.
Preventing Woodpecker Damage
Fortunately, woodpecker damage can be mitigated through exclusion methods. These methods should be implemented as soon as the bird becomes a pest, as woodpecker behavior patterns are difficult to break once they've been allowed to establish.
Inspectors can pass along the following exclusion tips to their clients:
Place cavity-type nest boxes on buildings in the vicinity of damage. Not on ly will this measure encourage woodpeckers to abandon houses for nest boxes, but once there, they will defend their territory and discourage other woodpeckers from approaching. Nest boxes should be shaped and sized for the species of woodpecker that is drilling holes, incorporating a front-sloping, hinged roof to shed rain. Fill the box with sawdust to encourage the bird to excavate it to the desired level. Note that while this measure will discourage woodpecker roosting and nesting, it will not prevent the birds from foraging or drumming on the house.
Install some netting. To control bird pests, the University of California's Agriculture and Natural Resources Integrated Pest Management Program recommends placing lightweight, 3/4-inch (1.9 cm) plastic mesh or screen material over the area that woodpeckers may be damaging. Hang the netting from the outside edge of the eave down the side of the house to prevent woodpeckers from reaching the siding. Leave a gap of space of at least 3 inches (7.6 cm) between the mesh and the building's surface so that the birds cannot cause damage through the mesh (see diagrams above right).
Build with construction materials that do not attract woodpeckers, especially in wooded areas. Clapboard and non-wood siding are best. According to a study conducted by Cornell University, the building material that is most prone to damage is grooved plywood siding, followed by shakes, tongue-and-groove, and board-and-batten.
Paint wood siding, rather than stain it. The Cornell University study found that stained-wood houses were significantly more prone to woodpecker attack (79% incidence) than painted wood (29%). In the wooded areas surveyed, 97% of the stained houses showed woodpecker damage. Researchers believe that paint is more effective because it fills in the small gaps in wooden siding that can harbor insects upon which woodpeckers feed, and paint is available in light colors, which woodpeckers tend to avoid.
If it doesn't pose a safety hazard to people, structures or utility lines, allow dead branches to remain on trees. Branches provide woodpeckers with a place to build nests and forage, limiting their need to use a nearby house for such purposes.
Apply insecticides or wood preservatives to kill the insects that attract woodpeckers. They will not expend energy searching for insects in an uninfested building.
If it doesn't cause structural damage, remove or fill in ledges, cracks and crevices near the site of the woodpecker holes, as these can be used as toeholds for woodpeckers to grasp the structure.
Deaden or dull the drumming sound caused by woodpeckers by placing insulation or other batting material behind the siding where they peck.
Cover holes with shiny aluminum flashing. Woodpeckers in search of food or a nesting location will not peck at metal, although they may use it to drum. Holes will also attract other woodpeckers. Do not cover an existing nest, as you will entrap and kill birds already inside.
Without physically harming them, try to harass or scare the woodpecker using one or more of the following methods:
a garden hose. You can set the hose at an angle so it can be quickly activated when you hear the drumming sound. The bird will leave immediately and might not return;
install one or two shaving mirrors attached flat on the wood with the enlarging lens pointing outward to frighten the woodpeckers. Mylar® tape, pie tins and other reflective devices may also be hung around the damage site so that they blow with the wind;
hang hawk mobiles from the eaves near the damaged area. Construct them from dark cardboard, Styrofoam™ or plywood so that they have a wingspan of about 22 inches (55 cm) and a length of 11 inches (27 cm); and
make loud noises by banging pots and pans, yelling, or shooting cap guns.
Homeowners should avoid the following common yet ineffective or even illegal woodpecker exclusion practices:
applying chemicals with objectionable tastes or smells. Woodpeckers do not ingest or taste the wood they chisel away with their bills, and they have bristle-like feathers over their nostrils to prevent wood particles from being inhaled. Various chemicals, such a s odorous and toxic creosote and pentachlorophenol, have been tested on utility poles to discourage woodpeckers with either no effect or no cost-effectiveness. Naphthalene (mothballs) is also ineffective in outdoor, unconfined settings;
installing owl effigies or rubber snakes, which provides only temporary relief, according to research conducted by Colorado State University. Note in the photo at right the ineffective owl decoy pictured to the left of a cluster of large woodpecker holes; and
shooting, poisoning, trapping or killing woodpeckers. Woodpeckers are a federally protected bird under the North American Migratory Bird Act, and lethal action against them requires state and/or federal permits issued by the Law Enforcement Division of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service upon the recommendation of USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services personnel. The unlawful killing of woodpeckers is punishable by fines and incarceration, especially for killing red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) or ivory-billed woodpeckers (Campephilus principalis), which are on the Endangered Species List.
In summary, woodpecker damage to houses in certain areas is common and inconvenient, but InterNACHI inspectors whose clients complain of problems from these birds can advise them of the benefits of using appropriate building materials, as well as effective (and legal) techniques to discourage pesky woodpeckers from causing future damage.
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After returning to school earlier this week as a 15-year-old pupil, the notion that the government is seeing schools as a petri dish where herd immunity can be studied, sampled and scrutinised is becoming increasingly evident (Editorial, 4 January). The government has a long litany of failures when it comes to protecting our schools and colleges: a scandalous shortage of testing equipment, inadequate provision of ventilation and now a vaccine rollout lagging behind in the 12-15 age group. This is a time for real leadership, yet this government seems to be unable to implement the basic public health measures to keep our schools, colleges and pupils safe.
Harry Aldridge
Plymouth, Devon
I've had to self-isolate after contracting Omicron, and was therefore signed off sick by my college (Heads warn of weeks of Omicron disruption in English schools, 3 January). As one of the many teachers in this situation, and with a specialism in English, I'd like to raise a concern about the education secretary's use of language. The problem of staff being off sick or in self-isolation has been described by Nadhim Zahawi (and consequently elsewhere) as one of "absenteeism".
I'm happy to accept that I've been absent from work, but a quick Google search will remind one that absenteeism describes "the practice of regularly staying away from work or school without good reason". Could this be another example of the trickle-down of Britannia Unchained thinking from the government?
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If the government's decision to direct secondary school pupils to wear masks in classrooms is to help mitigate the infectiousness of Omicron, I am confused by Nadhim Zahawi's decision to ask schools to double up classes to cope with staff shortages. While Mr Zahawi's own experience was in the independent sector with small class sizes, perhaps it has escaped his notice that doubling up in a state school classroom is likely to result in 60 pupils sitting in very close proximity. I wonder whether he has been paying sufficient attention in lessons given by scientific advisers.
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package org.apache.camel.processor;

import java.util.concurrent.Exchanger;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.apache.camel.ContextTestSupport;
import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
import org.apache.camel.spi.Registry;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import static org.awaitility.Awaitility.await;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.fail;

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 * Wire tap unit test
 */
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    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(WireTapShutdownBeanTest.class);

    private static final Exchanger<Void> EXCHANGER = new Exchanger<>();

    @Test
    public void testWireTapShutdown() throws Exception {
        final MyTapBean tapBean = (MyTapBean) context.getRegistry().lookupByName("tap");

        getMockEndpoint("mock:result").expectedBodiesReceived("Hello World");

        template.sendBody("direct:start", "Hello World");

        assertMockEndpointsSatisfied();

        EXCHANGER.exchange(null);

        // shutdown Camel which should let the inflight wire-tap message route
        // to completion
        context.stop();

        // should allow to shutdown nicely
        await().atMost(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS).untilAsserted(() -> {
            assertEquals("Hello World", tapBean.getTapped());
        });
    }

    @Override
    protected Registry createRegistry() throws Exception {
        Registry jndi = super.createRegistry();
        jndi.bind("tap", new MyTapBean());
        return jndi;
    }

    @Override
    protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() {
        return new RouteBuilder() {
            public void configure() {
                from("direct:start").wireTap("bean:tap").dynamicUri(false).to("mock:result");
            }
        };
    }

    public static class MyTapBean {

        private String tapped;

        public void tapSomething(String body) throws Exception {
            try {
                EXCHANGER.exchange(null);
                Thread.sleep(100);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                fail("Should not be interrupted");
            }
            LOG.info("Wire tapping: {}", body);
            tapped = body;
        }

        public String getTapped() {
            return tapped;
        }
    }
}


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Q: How can I intuitively insert a string for a shader uniform in C? This code would have worked in C++, but it's giving me an error in C:
setvVec3("objs[" + oo + "].color", obj.color);

and the error:
"invalid operands to binary + (have 'char *' and 'char *')"

A: As @kol pointed out, you cannot concatenate strings in C with the + operator: You can however use the function strcat. If you want to use strcat to concatenate the three strings, your code will need to look more like this:
/* assuming oo is a char* */
char str[100] = "objs[";

setvVec3(strcat(strcat(str, oo), "].color"), obj.color);

Please note that I chose the array size at random, but keep in mind that the size of the destination character array will need to be large enough to hold the concatenated string, otherwise you will likely spill into unwanted memory.
To find more information about the C function strcat, check out this link:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strcat.3.html
EDIT: Since you say that oo is an integer, you will need to additionally convert it to a character array using the function snprintf, like so:
/* assuming oo is a not char*, but rather an int */
char str[100] = "objs[";

char ootochar[10];
snprintf(ootochar, 10, "%d", oo);

setvVec3(strcat(strcat(str, ootochar), "].color"), obj.color);

A: The conventional way is to use sprintf to use formatted buffers, like this:
int bsize = 100;
char buffer[bsize];

snprintf(buffer, bsize "objs[%s].color", obj.color);

So long as obj.color isn't egregiously long this will work. Technically you should pay attention to the return code to ensure it was successful.
Note the use of snprintf here, which is the safe version of sprintf. The old sprintf function will overflow your buffer without warning and can cause serious bugs in programs. snprintf is the same but with that limit argument.

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Breaking: 2 New Coronavirus Deaths Recorded in Lebanon, Total of 10
Lebanon now has a total of 10 coronavirus-related deaths, the Ministry of Public Health confirmed in its daily COVID-19 report on Sunday, March 29th.
The Health Ministry's report said that 2 coronavirus patients have passed away in the past 24 hours. According to the ministry, both patients were suffering from chronic illnesses and both were in their 70s when they passed away.
The report also said that one of the two patients passed away at Saint Georges University Hospital and the other at Hotel Dieu University Hospital.
Currently, there are 4 coronavirus cases in Lebanon considered in critical condition, out of the total active cases.
The active cases, considering that 10 deaths and 30 recoveries have been recorded in total, are 398 as of Sunday, March 29th.
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Lebanon has been recording new deaths daily for the past 3 days, with 2 deaths recorded on March 26th, 1 on March 27th, and an additional one yesterday, March 28th.
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Arctic Monkeys to play Singapore as part of Asia tour in 2023
Arctic Monkeys have announced a concert in Singapore as part of an Asia tour in 2023.
READ MORE: Arctic Monkeys: "We know more tricks now, but we're still rolling on that same instinct"
The band will perform in the Southeast Asian city-state for the first time at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on February 28. Tickets priced from S$108 will go on sale Monday, 12 December at 10am local time from Ticketmaster.
The announcement from promoter Lushington Entertainments indicates that this show is part of a wider Asia tour in 2023.
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Get ready to rock with the ARCTIC MONKEYS who will perform on 28 February 2023 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Tickets from $108 go on sale from this Monday, 12 December, 10am via https://t.co/0WqtwBMrdm, Hotline +65 3158-8588 and all Singpost outlets. pic.twitter.com/zDE4WvuN4m
— Lushington Ent (@Lushington_Ent) December 9, 2022
A potential Manila, Philippines show may be in the works as well, with local promoter Karpos Multimedia teasing an announcement for 5pm local time today. Though the promoter did not name the artist in question, its social media post contains possible allusions to two songs from Arctic Monkeys' new album 'The Car': 'There'd Better Be A Mirrorball' (with the mirrorball in the image) and 'Sculptures Of Anything Goes' (which features the lyric "Now that's my idea of a good time").
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Tomorrow, 5PM. pic.twitter.com/unjHI5QPPm
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This Asia tour adds to a heavy slate of touring for Arctic Monkeys next year. The band will fly into Australia and New Zealand at the end of this month and tour there until January, then head to Europe, the UK and Ireland from April through to July. They will then tour North America in September and October. They will headline several festivals along the way, including NOS Alive in Lisbon, Open'er in Poland, and Rock Werchter in Belgium.
Arctic Monkeys released their seventh studio album 'The Car' in October. The record received a 5-star review from NME, and two cuts from it – 'Body Paint' and 'There'd Better Be A Mirrorball' – landed on NME's 50 best songs of 2022 list.
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