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Volunteers, businesses honored at Chamber celebration
Volunteers, businesses honored at Chamber celebration Volunteers, businesses honored at Chamber celebration Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2019/03/15/volunteers-businesses-honored-chamber-celebration/3172781002/
Brandon Shields, Jackson Sun Published 10:06 a.m. CT March 15, 2019
About 500 people were at Union University's Carl Grant Event Center for The Chamber's Annual Celebration on Thursday. (Photo: BRANDON SHIELDS/The Jackson Sun)
The Jackson Chamber held its Annual Celebration on Thursday, honoring local business and volunteers who'd gone above and beyond in either achieving success in 2018 or making contributions in the community.
Two volunteers who were honored were Bill Kipp and Danny Wheeler.
Kipp received the Honorary Lifetime Membership because of his involvement in the community and Leadership Jackson since the early 1990s.
"We first moved here in 1981 and then moved away for a few years and were transferred back here in 1991 and have been here ever since," said Kipp, who retired last fall after working 40 years in human resources for Gerdau. "Gerdau was obviously a great company to work for because I stayed with them so long, and Jackson has been a great place to live and raise a family.
"I'm so appreciative to be honored like this, but I'm glad to help out when and where I can."
Wheeler retired seven years ago after serving as the CEO of Jackson Energy Authority. He's still involved in the community and has continued to play a role in helping recruit new businesses and industries to Jackson, said Chamber President Kyle Spurgeon.
"They actually got me here by telling me I would be presenting an award to someone else," Wheeler said. "So I was very surprised when I figured out I was the one they were honoring.
"I appreciate the honor and love helping this community move forward any way I can."
Native musical artist Lauren Pritchard was also in attendance and surprised with an honor as The Chamber honored her for her success and the fact a song she wrote, "High Hopes" recorded by Panic! At The Disco, reached No. 1 on multiple charts internationally in recent months.
Representatives from LyondellBasell Industries take a photo with their Industry of the Year award after The Chamber's Annual Celebration on Thursday. (Photo: BRANDON SHIELDS/The Jackson Sun)
Here's the list of the winning businesses at Thursday's presentation:
Emerging Business of the Year: Complete Dental Care
Business of the Year (1-49 employees): Express Employment Professionals
Business of the Year (50+ employees): Leaders Credit Union
Industry of the Year: LyondellBasell Industries
Non-Profit of the Year: West Tennessee Hearing & Speech Center
West Tennessee Healthcare Health & Wellness Award: Jackson Energy Authority
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Psychology stubs, Alphabetic writing systems, Documents,
Written language
An alphabet can be thought of as one of two types. The world's most popular type arbitarily assigns symbols to phonemes or group of phonemes. The second type, also called ezuthu (e.g. Tamil), assigns symbols to each physical place of articulation and scales these symbols into related groups of phonemes. An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. There are other systems of writing such as logosyllabic writing, in which each symbol represents a morpheme, or word or syllable or places the word within a category, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable.
The etymology of the word "alphabet" itself came to Middle English from the Late Latin Alphabetum which in turn originates from the Ancient Greek Alphabetos, from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.[1] There are dozens of alphabets in use today. Most of them are 'linear', which means that they are made up of lines. Notable exceptions are Braille, manual alphabets, and Morse code.
1 Linguistic definition and context
2.1 Middle Eastern Scripts
2.2 European alphabets
2.3 Asian alphabets
4 Spelling
10 Key texts
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Linguistic definition and context[edit | edit source]
List of writing systems
Syllabary
Logogram-based
The term alphabet refers to a writing system that has graphemes for representing both consonant and vowel sounds, even though there may not be a complete one-to-one correspondence between symbol and sound.
A grapheme is an abstract entity which may be physically represented by different styles of glyphs. There are many written entities which do not form part of the alphabet, including numerals, mathematical symbols, and punctuation. Some human languages are commonly written by using a combination of logograms (which represent morphemes or words) and syllabograms instead of an alphabet. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters are two of the best-known writing systems with predominantly non-alphabetic representations.
Non-written languages may also be represented alphabetically. For example, linguists researching a non-written language (such as some of the indigenous Amerindian languages) will use the International Phonetic Alphabet to enable them to write down the sounds they hear.
Most, if not all, linguistic writing systems have some means for phonetic approximation of foreign words, usually using the native character set.[2]
Main article: History of the alphabet
Middle Eastern Scripts[edit | edit source]
A specimen of Proto-Sinaitic script, one of the earliest (if not the very first) phonemic scripts
The history of the alphabet starts in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the native speaker. These glyphs were used as pronunciation guides for logograms, to write grammatical inflections, and, later, to transcribe loan words and foreign names.[3]
However, although seemingly alphabetic in nature, the original Egyptian uniliterals were not a system and were never used by themselves to encode Egyptian speech.[4] In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently "alphabetic" system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in central Egypt around 1700 BCE for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.[5] Based on letter appearances and names, it is believed to be based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.[5]
This script eventually developed into the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, which in turn was refined into the Phoenician alphabet.[6] Note that the scripts mentioned above are not considered proper alphabets, as they all lack characters representing vowels. These early vowelless alphabets are called abjads, and still exist in scripts such as the Arabic and Hebrew scripts.
Phoenician was the first major phonemic script.[7][8] In contrast to two other widely used writing systems at the time, Cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs, each of which contained thousands of different characters, it contained only about two dozen distinct letters, making it a script simple enough for common traders to learn. Another advantage to Phoenician was that it could be used to write down many different languages, since it recorded words phonemically.
The script was spread by the Phoenicians, whose Thalassocracy allowed the script to be spread across the Mediterranean.[7] In Greece, the script was modified to add the vowels, giving rise to the first true alphabet. The Greeks took letters which did not represent sounds that existed in Greek, and changed them to represent the vowels. This marks the creation of a "true" alphabet, with the presence of both vowels and consonants as explicit symbols in a single script. In its early years, there were many variants of the Greek alphabet, a situation which caused so many different alphabets to evolve from it.
European alphabets[edit | edit source]
Codex Zographensis in the Glagolitic alphabet from Medieval Bulgaria.
The Cumae form was carried over to the Italian peninsula, where it gave way to a variety of alphabets used to inscribe the Italic languages. One of these became the Latin alphabet, which was spread across Europe as the Romans expanded their empire. Even after the fall of the Roman state, the alphabet survived in intellectual and religious works. It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin (the Romance languages), and then for the other languages of Europe.
Another notable script is Elder Futhark, and is believed to have evolved out of one of the Old Italic alphabets. Elder Futhark gave rise to a variety of alphabets known collectively as the Runic alphabets. The Runic alphabets were used for Germanic languages from 100 AD to the late middle ages. Its usage was mostly restricted to engravings on stone and jewelry, although inscriptions have also been found on bone and wood. These alphabets have since been replaced with the Latin alphabet, except for decorative usage for which the runes remained in use until the 20th century.
The Glagolitic alphabet was the script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic, and became the basis of the Cyrillic alphabet. The Cyrillic alphabet is one of the most widely used modern alphabets, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and languages formerly part of the Soviet Union, such as the Bulgarian and Russian alphabets. The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple. They feature many letters that appear to have been borrowed from or influenced by the Greek alphabet and the Hebrew alphabet.
Asian alphabets[edit | edit source]
Beyond the logographic Chinese writing, many phonetic scripts are in existence in Asia. The Arabic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet, and other abjads of the Middle East are developments of the Aramaic alphabet, but because these writing systems are largely consonant-based they are often not considered true alphabets.
Most alphabetic scripts of India and Eastern Asia are descended from the Brahmi script, which is often believed to be a descendent of Aramaic, but this link is controversial. These scripts are abugidas, that is, they write syllables instead of individual sounds, so their status as alphabets is disputed.
Zhuyin on a cell phone
In Korea, the Hangeul alphabet was created, although it may also have been derived from the Mongolian Phagspa script, which in turn was derived from the Brahmi script. Hangeul is a unique alphabet in a variety of ways: many of the letters are designed off of a sound's place of articulation, it was consciously designed by the government at the time, and it situates individual letters into syllable clusters with equal dimensions as Chinese characters to allow for mixed script writing.
Zhuyin (sometimes called Bopomofo) is an alphabet used to phonetically transcribe Mandarin Chinese in Mainland China and Taiwan, though its use in Mainland China today is limited. It developed out of a form of Chinese shorthand based on Chinese characters in the early 1900s. While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system—that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cell phones.
European alphabets, especially Latin and Cyrillic, have been adapted for many languages of Asia. Arabic is also widely used, sometimes as an abjad (as with Urdu and Persian) and sometimes as a complete alphabet (as with Kurdish and Uyghur).
Types[edit | edit source]
Alphabets: Latin , Cyrillic , Latin and Cyrillic , Greek , Georgian or Armenian
Abjads: Arabic , Arabic and Latin , Hebrew and Arabic
Abugidas: North Indic , South Indic , Ethiopic , Thaana Canadian Syllabic ,
Logographic+syllabic: Pure logographic , Mixed logographic and syllabaries , Featural-alphabetic syllabary + limited logographic Featural-alphabetic syllabary
Middle Bronze Age 19th c. BC
Ugaritic 15th c. BC
Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC
Phoenician 11th c. BC
Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BC
Aramaic 8th c. BC
Brāhmī & Indic 6th c. BC
Tibetan 7th c.
Khmer/Javanese 9th c.
Hebrew 3rd c. BC
Syriac 2nd c. BC
Nabatean 2nd c. BC
Arabic 4th c.
Pahlavi 3nd c. BC
Avestan 4th c.
Greek 9th c. BC
Etruscan 8th c. BC
Latin 7th c. BC
Runes 2nd c.
Ogham 4th c.
Gothic 3th c.
Glagolitic 862
Cyrillic 10th c.
Samaritan 6th c. BC
Iberian 4th c. BC
Epigraphic South Arabian 9th c. BC
Ge'ez 5–6th c. BC
Meroitic 3rd c. BC
Hangul 1443
Canadian Syllabics 1840
Zhuyin 1913
complete genealogy
The term "alphabet" is used by linguists and paleographers in both a wide and narrow sense. In the wider sense, an alphabet is a script that is segmental on the phoneme level, that is, that has separate glyphs for individual sounds and not for larger units such as syllables or words. In the narrower sense, some scholars distinguish "true" alphabets from two other types of segmental script, abjads and abugidas. These three differ from each other in the way they treat vowels: Abjads have letters for consonants and leave most vowels unexpressed; abugidas are also consonant-based, but indicate vowels with diacritics to or a systematic graphic modification of the consonants. In alphabets in the narrow sense, on the other hand, consonants and vowels are written as independent letters. The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin (via the Old Italic alphabet), Cyrillic (via the Greek alphabet) and Hebrew (via Aramaic).
Examples of present-day abjads are the Arabic and Hebrew scripts; true alphabets include Latin, Cyrillic, and Korean Hangul; and abugidas are used to write Tigrinya Amharic, Hindi, and Thai. The Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel. (In a true syllabary, each consonant-vowel combination would be represented by a separate glyph.)
The boundaries between the three types of segmental scripts are not always clear-cut. For example, Iraqi Kurdish is written in the Arabic script, which is normally an abjad. However, in Kurdish, writing the vowels is mandatory, and full letters are used, so the script is a true alphabet. Other languages may use a Semitic abjad with mandatory vowel diacritics, effectively making them abugidas. On the other hand, the Phagspa script of the Mongol Empire was based closely on the Tibetan abugida, but all vowel marks were written after the preceding consonant rather than as diacritic marks. Although short a was not written, as in the Indic abugidas, one could argue that the linear arrangement made this a true alphabet. Conversely, the vowel marks of the Tigrinya abugida and the Amharic abugida (ironically, the original source of the term "abugida") have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script. Even more extreme, the Pahlavi abjad eventually became logographic. (See below.)
Thus the primary classification of alphabets reflects how they treat vowels. For tonal languages, further classification can be based on their treatment of tone, though names do not yet exist to distinguish the various types. Some alphabets disregard tone entirely, especially when it does not carry a heavy functional load, as in Somali and many other languages of Africa and the Americas. Such scripts are to tone what abjads are to vowels. Most commonly, tones are indicated with diacritics, the way vowels are treated in abugidas. This is the case for Vietnamese (a true alphabet) and Thai (an abugida). In Thai, tone is determined primarily by the choice of consonant, with diacritics for disambiguation. In the Pollard script, an abugida, vowels are indicated by diacritics, but the placement of the diacritic relative to the consonant is modified to indicate the tone. More rarely, a script may have separate letters for tones, as is the case for Hmong and Zhuang. For most of these scripts, regardless of whether letters or diacritics are used, the most common tone is not marked, just as the most common vowel is not marked in Indic abugidas.
The number of different letters in an alphabet can be quite small. The Book Pahlavi script, an abjad, had only twelve letters at one point, and may have had even fewer later on. Today the Rotokas alphabet has only twelve letters. (The Hawaiian alphabet is sometimes claimed to be as small, but it actually consists of 18 letters, including the ʻokina and five long vowels.) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent (just eleven), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated, that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes. For example, a comma-shaped letter represented g, d, y, k, or j. However, such apparent simplifications can perversely make a script more complicated. In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole – that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.
The largest segmental script is probably an abugida, Devanagari. When written in Devanagari, Vedic Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the letters is theoretical and not actually used. The Hindi alphabet must represent both Sanskrit and modern vocabulary, and so has been expanded to 58 with the khutma letters (letters with a dot added) to represent sounds from Persian and English.
The largest known abjad is Sindhi, with 51 letters. The largest alphabets in the narrow sense include Kabardian and Abkhaz (for Cyrillic), with 58 and 56 letters, respectively, and Slovak (for the Latin alphabet), with 46. However, these scripts either count di- and tri-graphs as separate letters, as Spanish did with ch and ll up to a recent time, or uses diacritics like Slovak č. The largest true alphabet where each letter is graphically independent is probably Georgian, with 41 letters.
Syllabaries typically contain 50 to 400 glyphs (though the Múra-Pirahã language of Brazil would require only 24 if it did not denote tone, and Rotokas would require only 30), and the glyphs of logographic systems typically number from the many hundreds into the thousands. Thus a simple count of the number of distinct symbols is an important clue to the nature of an unknown script.
It is not always clear what constitutes a distinct alphabet. French uses the same basic alphabet as English, but many of the letters can carry additional marks, such as é, à, and ô. In French, these combinations are not considered to be additional letters. However, in Icelandic, the accented letters such as á, í, and ö are considered to be distinct letters of the alphabet. In Spanish, ñ is considered a separate letter, but accented vowels such as á and é are not. Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Ȣ in Algonquian; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, or Italian, which only uses the letters j, k, x, y and w in foreign words.
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Each language may establish certain general rules that govern the association between letters and phonemes, but, depending on the language, these rules may or may not be consistently followed. In a perfectly phonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling. However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language.
Languages may fail to achieve a one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds in any of several ways:
A language may represent a given phoneme with a combination of letters rather than just a single letter. Two-letter combinations are called digraphs and three-letter groups are called trigraphs. German uses the tetragraphs (four letters) "tsch" for the phoneme [tʃ] and "dsch" for [dʒ], although the latter is rare (IPA). Kabardian also uses a tetragraph for one of its phonemes.
A language may represent the same phoneme with two different letters or combinations of letters.
A language may spell some words with unpronounced letters that exist for historical or other reasons.
Pronunciation of individual words may change according to the presence of surrounding words in a sentence (sandhi).
Different dialects of a language may use different phonemes for the same word.
A language may use different sets of symbols or different rules for distinct sets of vocabulary items, such as the Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries, or the various rules in English for spelling words from Latin and Greek, or the original Germanic vocabulary.
National languages generally address the problem of dialects by simply associating the alphabet with the national standard. However, with an international language with wide variations in its dialects, such as English, it would be impossible to represent the language in all its variations with a single phonetic alphabet.
Some national languages like Finnish have a very regular spelling system with a nearly one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes. The Italian verb corresponding to 'spell', compitare, is unknown to many Italians because the act of spelling itself is almost never needed: almost all the phonemes of Standard Italian are represented in only one way. However, pronunciation cannot always be predicted from spelling because certain letters are pronounced in more than one way. In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced. French, with its silent letters and its heavy use of nasal vowels and elision, may seem to lack much correspondence between spelling and pronunciation, but its rules on pronunciation are actually consistent and predictable with a fair degree of accuracy.
At the other extreme are languages such as English, where the spelling of many words simply has to be memorized as they do not correspond to sounds in a consistent way. Reasons for this include the Great Vowel Shift, which occurred after the orthography was established, and the number of loanwords English has acquired at different times, most of which have retained their original spelling. However, even English has general rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time.
Sometimes, countries have the written language undergo a spelling reform in order to realign the writing with the contemporary spoken language. These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to the Roman alphabet.
The sounds of speech of all languages of the world can be written by a rather small universal phonetic alphabet. The standard for this is the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Alphabet Effect
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Letters (alphabet)
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List of alphabets
↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Online - Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary
↑ Ohso, Mieko (April 1973). A Phonological Study of Some English Loan Words in Japanese. Working Papers in Linguistics, No. 14, Studies in Phonology and Methodology. Studies in Phonology and Methodology (14): 27 pages. ERIC # ED122593.
↑ Daniels and Bright (1996), pp. 74-75.
↑ Daniels and Bright (1996), pp. 74.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Coulmas (1989), p. 140.
↑ 7.0 7.1 Daniels and Bright (1996), pp. 94-96.
↑ Coulmas (1989), p. 141.
Footnotes[edit | edit source]
Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0. — (Overview of modern and some ancient writing systems).
Driver, G.R. (1976). Semitic Writing (Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology S.) 3Rev Ed, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-725917-0.
Hoffman, Joel M. (2004). In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language, NYU Press. ISBN 0-8147-3654-8. — (Chapter 3 traces and summarizes the invention of alphabetic writing).
Logan, Robert K. (2004). The Alphabet Effect: A Media Ecology Understanding of the Making of Western Civilization, Hampton Press. ISBN 1-57-273523-6.
McLuhan, Marshall; Logan, Robert K. (1977). Alphabet, Mother of Invention. Etcetera. Vol. 34, pp. 373-383.
Ouaknin, Marc-Alain; Bacon, Josephine (1999). Mysteries of the Alphabet: The Origins of Writing, Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-7892-0521-1.
Sacks, David (2004). Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet from A to Z, Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-1173-3.
Saggs, H.W.F (1991). Civilization Before Greece and Rome, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05031-3. — (Chapter 4 traces the invention of writing).
Coulmas, Florian (1989). The Writing Systems of the World, Blackwell Publishers Ltd.. ISBN 0-631-18028-1.
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Hong Kong's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd, backed by Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man, has bought Britain's Eversholt Rail for an enterprise value of 2.5 billion pounds ($3.8 billion), the latest in a string of Asian buyers targeting European assets.
UK private equity fund 3i Infrastructure Plc said on Tuesday that it and Eversholt's other investors had sold their entire holding to the Hong Kong billionaire' s CKI group.
Eversholt owns around 28 percent of the UK's passenger trains, with 19 fleets. It is one of the UK's three leading rail rolling stock companies.
3i, Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, and STAR Capital Partners with its co-investor PGGM, acquired the business for 2.1 billion pounds from HSBC in 2010.
Unlike most private equity funds, which usually hold investments for between four and six years, infrastructure funds generally hold their assets for longer periods of time as they are seen as steady, low-risk investments.
"While 3i Infrastructure generally aims to hold its Core investments over the long term, it will sell investments from time to time where this generates significant additional value for shareholders," said Peter Sedgwick, Chairman at 3i Infrastructure.
"It is in this context that we have taken the decision to sell our shareholding in Eversholt Rail."
The sale of 3i's stake will generate around 358 million pounds, it said, as well as a 15.5 million pound sum received in December. A source close to the deal said that STAR, a London investment fund manager, would make a return of 3.4 times its investment.
Another source familiar with the matter said that CKI pre-empted an auction process for Eversholt after losing out on the sale last year of Porterbrook, another UK rail rolling stock company.
Eversholt, Angel Trains and Porterbrook have dominated the market since 1994 when the UK government privatized the country's railways. The companies have proved attractive to investors for their steady income, longer-term leases and the country's growing numbers of rail passengers.
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It's very tough to survive on a salary that comes from a regular 9AM – 5PM job because your money will eventually run out. You also can't rely on your savings often because these are supposed to be stashed for an emergency. The best way to increase income is to have both active and passive source of revenue. In today's article, I'll be sharing some tips on how to let your money work for you so that you can live financially free for the rest of your life.
The first step is to create a budget. The cardinal rule is to have three funds, namely for your expenses, emergency funds, and investments. A big chunk will go to your expenses while the rest are split between your investment fund and emergency fund.
Now, let's talk about your investment fund because this is the fund that can help increase income in a breeze. Your investment fund is the money that you will use to invest in various mediums for the long term. This will allow your money to grow over a period. Let's take a closer look of the mediums where you can invest your money efficiently.
When people think of the stock market, they immediately believe that it's too risky. Yes, it is risky to put your money in stocks since they change constantly. However, if you know how to play the odds, then you need not worry. The key here is only to invest in blue chip companies and wait for their prices to reach a target price that you want.
You may also want to try out some ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds). ETFs are ideal for long term investments because they only focus on the best blue chip companies in the stock market. For example, Singapore has STI (Straight Times Index) ETFs made of 30 of the biggest companies in the country. Investing via STI-ETF is very safe because you'll be putting your money in these big companies that have a low to zero chance of being bankrupt.
If you have a condominium unit or HDB flat, you may rent it out to people. You may be asking yourself at this point, where you're going to live if you rent it out. Well, a lot of people buy flats to rent out for a year or so and live in their parents' or relatives' house meanwhile. After they get a substantial amount, they move in. This strategy is an excellent way to earn a lot of income in a short amount of time. Furthermore, this tip may actually work since Singaporean people are known to have strong ties with their families.
The last method to increase income would be through annuities. Annuities are fixed amounts that insurance companies offer to their subscribers for availing one of their policies. This is the safest way to get passive income because it ensures that you can get something every month. You also can't pull out your money until after a few years. This will prompt you to save and not just spend anyhow.
To escape the rat race of having to live on your salary, you must have passive income as a means of boosting your revenue without compromising too much of your time. Through these mediums mentioned above, you can make your money earn for you and watch them grow through the years.
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On Thursday, September 26th the CKUT Circuit Workshop brought its array of homemade and home-modded electronics to the stage of Brasserie Beaubien for a performance as part of this year's Pop Montreal. For those of you who caught the show, you'll know how magical the sounds were; for everyone else, we encourage you to check out the recording below and soak in the noise. Keep an eye out for future performances as well, as the workshop is often out & about conjuring sounds in Montreal's underground. Open ears will be rewarded.
In this piece, the CKUT Circuit Workshop is Elena, James, Lawrence, Marc, Pietro, Sima, Yen-Chao.
This entry was posted in Events and tagged CKUT Circuit Workshop, Pop Montreal on October 1, 2013 by admin.


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'The sun shines lovely over this place of death' … Tryggve Gran, pictured in Antarctica in 1911. Photograph: Christie's
Antarctic diary records horror at finding Captain Scott's body
Norwegian Tryggve Gran's 1912 journal – sold for £150,000 – reveals 'horrible nightmare' of finding the bodies of the polar explorer and his companions
Alison Flood
Wed 12 Dec 2018 08.11 EST
The haunting sledging journals of Tryggve Gran, in which the young Norwegian explorer details his discovery of the frozen body of Captain Scott in the Antarctic, have sold for £150,000.
Gran was part of the 11-man search party that set off from Cape Evans to find the missing Scott and his team on 29 October 1912. Scott had begun a second Antarctic expedition in June 1910, starting for the South Pole in October 1911 and making it on 17 January 1912, only to find they had been beaten to their goal by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, who arrived a month earlier.
Running out of food and fuel on their return journey, which was plagued by terrible weather, Edgar Evans died on 17 February. A month later, Lawrence Oates, suffering from frostbite, left the tent with the immortal line: "I am just going outside and may be some time." This left EA Wilson, HR Bowers and Scott, confined to their tent by a blizzard, 11 miles from their destination. Scott wrote his last diary entry on 29 March 1912: "We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more."
Gran's journal records how he and his team found the bodies of Scott – who he refers to as "The Owner" – and his companions on 12 November 1912. "It has happened – we have found what we sought – horrible, ugly fate – Only 11 miles from One Ton Depot – The Owner, Wilson & Birdie. All gastsly [sic]. I will never forget it so long I live – a horrible nightmare could not have shown more horror than this," he writes in English. The tent, writes Gran, is "snowcovered til up above the door", with Scott "in the middle, half out of his bagg [sic]".
"The frost had made the skin yellow & transparent & I've never seen anything worse in my life. The Owner seems to have struggled hard in the moment of death, while the two others seem to have gone off in a kind of sleep," he recorded, adding that Scott had written in his diary: "There is no more hope and so God look after our people."
'A horrible nightmare could not have shown more horror than this' … Tryggve Gran's diary. Photograph: Christie's
Gran would use his own skis to build a cross above the cairn he and his fellows built for the Terra Nova party, and took Scott's skis for the return journey, writing: "I am using the Owner's ski[s] – they must finish the journey – and they will."
Sophie Hopkins, a specialist in manuscripts and archives at Christie's, described the diary entry as "extraordinarily immediate and terribly moving".
"He's describing one of the most famous scenes in British history, and it really does bring you there, right into the tent … Clearly it affected all of the men who found them very greatly," she said.
"We buried them this morning – a solemn undertaking. Strange to sea [sic] 11 men bareheaded whilst the wind blew," wrote Gran, in material that was not included in his memoir, The Norwegian With Scott. "I must say our Expedition is not given much luck […] some sleep will do good after such a day as this. The sun shines lovely over this place of death."
A few days later, he would write: "When I saw those three poor souls the other day … I envied them. They died having done something great. How hard must not death be [sic] having done nothing."
Gran won the Polar medal for his explorations in Antarctica, going on to become the first man to pilot a heavier-than-air plane across the North Sea in 1914. He'd later join the Royal Flying Corps under the assumed name Teddy Grant, disguised as a Canadian, in order to get around Norway's neutrality and fight in the first world war. Gran died in 1980, aged 91.
Tryggve Gran, the man who remembered Scott's last journey
The journals were put up for sale by his son, Herman. Hopkins said: "His father was such an extraordinary man, who had achieved more before the age of 30 than most of us could hope for in a lifetime."
The two diaries – the first covers 7 November 1911 to 25 February 1912 – contain material that has never been published. "Very often these are his more intimate personal thoughts, and the reason for keeping them unpublished seems a little sweet," said Hopkins. "Often it's when he's worrying about the welfare of the ponies or is sad because they've had to kill two of the dogs. Very often we have the image of these polar explorers as grizzled, hardened men who felt no pain or emotions, but Tryggve Gran was only in his early 20s when he was chosen to be the ski expert on the Terra Nova expedition."
But one crucial detail never revealed outside the diary was Gran's sorrow over Amundsen beating Scott to the Pole. "There's the conflict he feels as a Norwegian," said Hopkins. "Clearly Scott is a man he admires greatly and did have this very strong bond with, so some of the material which wasn't included [in The Norwegian With Scott] deals with these rather difficult feelings thrown up by Amundsen beating Scott."
Scott of the Antarctic


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Tolenas Elementary School in Fairfield is one of a growing number of schools to adopt new health care technology. The idea: When a student sees a nurse, the nurse can get additional assistance by calling Hazel.
It's almost like pulling teeth to get Dr. James Sanderson to talk about himself.
Then again, he was overseeing an event that offered extractions, fillings and dentures, to name a few.
The 1978 Armijo High graduate spent many long hours Thursday through Saturday at the California Dental Association's free clinic that served a few thousand people at the Solano County Fairgrounds.
This is the second time he's organized the Solano County event. Taking care of his hometown and county is important, he said. He currently practices in Dixon.
The Solano County Office of Education, in partnership with the Dixon School District, has received a $509,378 grant to develop wellness centers at four education sites.
The centers will be located at Solano County Office of Education's Golden Hills Education Center in Fairfield, and at Anderson Elementary, Gretchen Higgins Elementary and Dixon High in Dixon. The goal is to have them up and running with the 2019-20 school year.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson marked Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month today by reminding students, teachers, and staff at C.K. McClatchy High School to recognize the risk factors of suicide so they can help identify students who might be in crisis and need assistance.
Last year, Senate Bill 328 by Democratic Sen. Anthony Portantino failed to pass the Assembly by 15 votes. Since then, the bill was amended to exempt rural school districts in order to accommodate farming needs.
Select a link to display the Whole Child resources for that subject or select the Expand All link to display all the resources. To effectively address the needs of the whole child, schools should collaborate with families, caretakers, and community agencies to deliver integrated services that promote improved access to health and learning supports, high expectations, and a positive school climate – all of which are necessary for students to thrive in the twenty-first century.
Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District schools follow specific guidelines when air quality changes. These guidelines were established in cooperation with the Solano County Public Health Department.
Staff members at each school check the "Current Conditions" section of the Air Now website (https://goo.gl/cDPN8J) and then use the following guide to determine activities. The website is checked multiple times per day if there is reason to believe that air quality is changing rapidly.
– School is in Green/Yellow zone – Outdoor activities are conducted normally.
– School is in Orange zone – Outdoor activities can happen, but should be limited. Staff keep a close eye on students who have air quality sensitivities and provide them with alternative, inside activities. School may have lunch outside, but PE should be conducted inside.
Solano County Tobacco Education Coalition (TEC) is looking for community volunteers to advocate for smoke-free environments, promote activities that prevent underage vaping/smoking and help reduce tobacco use.
Community members interested in a healthy Solano are always welcome at quarterly TEC meetings. This Tuesday, there will be updates on several new projects including preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
The meeting is from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Conference Room 1 at the Solano County Health and Social Services Department, 275 Beck Ave. in Fairfield.
The Fairfield-Suisun School District is going to help make its students a little safer over the summer by installing automated electronic defibrillators at 18 schools.
AED devices are key to curtailing deaths caused by sudden cardiac arrest.
The school district and Medic Ambulance Service Inc. held a brief press conference Monday at Armijo High School to announce the installation of the units.
The Fairfield-Suisun School District and Medic Ambulance Service Inc. are collaborating on a plan to install 18 Automated Electronic Defibrillators in 18 local schools, according to a press release.
AED devices are key to curtailing deaths caused by sudden cardiac arrest. The release states as many as 460,000 people die in the United States each year due to sudden cardiac arrest and that employing an AED within 8 to 10 minutes of such a heart attack can triple the likelihood the patient survives the experience.
The installation of these additional AEDs throughout the Fairfield‐Suisun School District is another step in the district's continuing effort to be prepared when an emergency situation arises, said Jennifer Taylor, assistant of human resources and risk management for the school district, in a press release.
ECH20 Academy students from Benicia High School pulled out the last sample of creek water being studied by students throughout Solano County for the Solano Resource Conservation District's 10th annual Solano County Biomonitoring Program on Tuesday.
Funded by Solano County, Vallejo Flood and Wastewater District, and the city of Benicia, the program engages ninth- through 12th-graders as community scientists. They measure and analyze the biological, chemical and physical elements of a local creek to determine its overall health.
The results can then be used by local officials to define the necessary actions, if any are needed, to improve pollution prevention and water quality programs.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today that the public comment period is now open for the Health Education Framework for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve. It presents an approach to health education that focuses on students learning skills and practicing behaviors that will lead to a lifetime of good health.
The framework provides guidance on a wide range of health education topics, including nutrition, physical activity, community health, drug use, depression, obesity, relationships, and the impact of the environment on health. It also gives students the tools to reduce risky behaviors. The new health education framework is the first based on the groundbreaking Health Education Content Standards for California Public School, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (PDF), which addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and social aspects of health.
The Leadership Today Class of 2018 is hosting a fundraiser for the Public Safety Academy.
Leadership Today is attended by select city employees and community business leaders. Attendees are selected by both the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce and the Vacaville Chamber of Commerce.
The course focuses on group activities to develop leadership skills.
CPR training is planned from 10 a.m. to noon April 28 at NorthBay Healthcare's HealthSpring Fitness, 1020 Nut Tree Road in Vacaville and from 6 to 8 p.m. April 30 at Brandman University, 2450 Martin Road in Fairfield.
Two new water filling stations have been installed in Vallejo and will be unveiled next week to promote better health, Solano County Public Health spokeswoman Robin Cox said.
The stations were funded through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PICH (Partnerships to Improve Community Health) with installations paid for by different means, she said.
St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School, where one of the new stations was installed, passed a Healthy Beverage Standard for students where more healthy beverage options like water, unsweetened sparkling water, unsweetened tea and unflavored/plain milk will be offered, Cox said.
Solano County Supervisor Erin Hannigan aided the efforts. A ribbon cutting is planned for Monday.
Results from a student health survey, an update to the district's Local Control Accountability Plan, and an update on the funding process for the Dixon High School Farm are among the topics Dixon Unified leaders will hear about and discuss when they meet tonight in Dixon.
Julie Kehoe, executive director for special education and pupil services, will offer a presentation of results from the California Healthy Kids Survey taken last spring.
She will tell the five-member governing board that students in grades seven, nine and 11 annually take the survey that measures the students' connection to their respective schools as well as their views on drugs and alcohol.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today that the California Department of Education (CDE) is offering resources aimed at preventing those under 21 from using marijuana, something even more important now that Proposition 64 has taken effect.
Proposition 64, besides legalizing the recreational use of cannabis for adults 21 and older, creates a tax on cannabis for wholesalers, retailers, and purchasers of cannabis and cannabis products. Eventually, some of these tax funds will be directed by the CDE to promote health, education, and drug prevention.


The meeting was brought to order at 6:00 pm by Jerry Owens. He made several announcements one being the upcoming Pheasants Forever Banquet and the other showing Bryon Eberly's honey which won several ribbons in completion in Edgemont. He also thanked Dale Freeman for participating in the Youth and Family Services' Fall Harvest by bringing in his "bee jar".
Kia Smith, treasurer, reported the club has a balance of $2,447.63 in checking and $600.49 in savings. Dan Mulally has not yet investigated CD rates but it is on his to-do list.
Under old business Tom Allen reported that there was little to no notice of the club having a space at the fair and therefore it went unstaffed some of the time. Next year we will be better prepared and will have advanced sign up for volunteers.
Under new business Dan Mulally demonstrated and discussed the Hogghead Comb system for gathering honeycomb. There was a lengthy discussion on honeycomb and also some discussion as to pricing for honeycomb and a more standardized pricing for honey in general.
There was also a discussion on harvesting honey: when and how to do so. This included discussion on water content, bottling, and crystallized honey.
We once again discussed mite treatment in conjunction with the discussion on winterizing. Also discussed were various methods of winterizing the hive which ranged from basically doing nothing, to using straw bales, insulation covering and other means of protecting the hive from winter elements.
There was a general discussion on how to keep honey not yet spun out. This included putting frames in a sealed container until it can be spun out, and keeping it cool so it won't crystallize.
The next club meeting is October 10, 2018 at 6:00 at the Out Door Campus.


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DPK bristles at prosecution probes targeting top officials of previous administration
Rep. Park Hong-geun, center, floor leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, speaks during a news conference protesting against the Yoon Suk-yeol government in front of the presidential office in Seoul, Oct. 17. Yonhap
The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) bristled Wednesday at prosecution investigations that led to requests for arrest warrants for former top officials of the previous Moon Jae-in government and the detention of a close aide to current party chief Lee Jae-myung.
Prosecutors sought arrest warrants Tuesday for former Defense Minister Suh Wook and former Coast Guard Commissioner General Kim Hong-hee on charges related to the Moon administration's conclusion without sufficient evidence that a South Korean fisheries official was killed while attempting to defect to North Korea in 2020.
On Wednesday, prosecutors also apprehended Kim Yong, one of DPK leader Lee's close confidants, on bribery charges, while questioning Noh Young-min, a former chief of staff to Moon, over the 2019 repatriation of two North Korean fishermen against their will.
The DPK claims the probes are politically motivated.
Ex-presidential chief of staff questioned over deportation of North Korean fishermen
2022-10-19 16:44 | Law & Crime
Rep. Park Hong-keun, the party's floor leader, accused the office of President Yoon Suk-yeol of masterminding the investigation into the Moon administration's handling of the fisheries official's death at the hands of North Korea.
"It is obvious that the presidential office is the mastermind," he said.
Park also called for making public the minutes of parliamentary defense committee meetings from the time of the incident, saying committee members from both the ruling and opposition parties acknowledged circumstances that led to the government's conclusion that the official attempted to defect.
Park also vowed to reform the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) after the state auditor attempted to question Moon over the fisheries official's death. The BAI asked Moon to answer questions in writing, but Moon refused, denouncing the request as "disrespectful."
"It seems that the BAI has pledged to the Yoon Suk-yeol administration to become the hands and feet of its political oppression," Park said, adding the main opposition is preparing to table a bill on reducing the state auditor's role and banning inspections based on political reprisal.
DPK Rep. Cho Eung-chon claimed that the prosecution's questioning of Noh signals that a probe of Moon is imminent, while fellow lawmaker Sul Hoon slammed the prosecution for "going overboard" and called on Yoon to behave cautiously.
The DPK, which has branded the flurry of probes as political reprisal, has filed a complaint against top BAI officials on charges of abusing power and violating the BAI Act. (Yonhap)


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We are teaming up with Traeger Grills again this year for our third annual fundraiser in support of eleven local non-profit animal help organizations or shelters near each of our Paris Farmers Union locations! Our "Paws for a Cause" Animal Benefit Fundraiser will begin on March 16th, 2018 and end on June 24th, 2018. During this time, when you visit any Paris Farmers Union retail location, we will ask you if you would like to purchase a "Paper Paw" to help us support this great cause. In 2016 and 2017 we were able to raise over $10,000 each year with your help. We hope to surpass that total this year!
100% of the funds from these paper paw purchases will go to the 11 animal help organizations listed below. At the end of our fundraiser, we will pool together all funds received, and donate the total equally among all 11 organizations.
For each paper paw purchased your name will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a Traeger Select Pro Wood Pellet Grill prize package worth over $1500! This amazing prize package includes the Traeger Select Pro Wood Pellet Fired Grill, Traeger flavored wood pellets, grilling sauces & rubs, and more!
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.They provide temporary care and shelter for stray, abandoned, confiscated and relinquished animals, and place as many pets as possible into responsible and caring homes; they create awareness and support for the humane treatment of all animals and strive to end animal overpopulation through education and the promotion of spaying and neutering. The ARLGP makes end-of-life decisions based on safety and animal welfare considerations.
The mission of Community Cat Advocates is to help Maine to become a no-kill state through Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR), taking feral cats from shelters, trapping and relocating feral cats with no caretaker, and occasionally taking in friendly cats who due to severe fear or anxiety issues would not do well in typical shelter settings.
Community Cat Advocates are a small and devoted group of individuals who are passionate about TNR, keeping pets in loving homes, finding homes for stray cats, networking between rescues and shelters, and community knowledge sharing in order to better the lives of animals. They are a registered 501(c)3 (non-profit) and all donations are tax deductible.
Homeward Bound, Addison County's Humane Society's mission statement is to educate the community and improve the lives of animals, alleviate their suffering, and elevate their status in society. They safeguard, rescue, shelter, heal, adopt, and advocate for animals in need, while inspiring community action and compassion on their behalf.
P.A.L.S (Protectors of Animal Life Society) in Winthrop, Maine is a no-kill cat shelter that began in 1980 as a non-profit, charitable organization. P.A.L.S is supported by memberships, fundraising, memorial gifts, donations, and bequests. P.A.L.S staff and volunteers are committed to finding a solution to stray and homeless felines, and providing them with the home and health services that they require.
Tommy's Feral Feline Friends is named after "Tommy", a feral cat whose love, loyalty, and devotion inspired the rescue of thousands of feral cats. Tommy's is strictly a volunteer organization, providing feeding and living accommodations, as well as spay and neutering services, to feral felines. Tommy's Feral Feline Friends holds true to their moral convictions of tender love, kindness, loyalty, and devotion, and no animal under their care is killed or declawed.
Tommy's Mission is to make the state of Maine a no-kill state and continue to rescue and save the lives of abandoned, abused, and neglected animals.
Harvest Hills Animal Shelter is a non-profit organization which contracts with 19 towns in Western Maine to accept stray, neglected, and abandoned cats and dogs. Since opening it's doors in 1992, Harvest Hills has found homes for approximately 17,000 dogs and cats. Harvest Hills strives to serve more animals in need, reduce stress and suffering for every animal passing through their doors, and to educate the community about the responsibilities of pet ownership.
The Conway Area Humane Society's Dog Adoption Center was completed in 2004 and since then has helped nearly 10,000 animals, taking in homeless dogs, cats, and small mammals. They take in animals from both near and far, accepting stray animals from 13 neighboring towns. The Conway Area Humane Society is a private, non-profit organization that relies on donations, fund raising, and funds from grant foundations.
FoFF is committed to helping feral cats in southern Maine.
Their mission is to humanely reduce the number of feral cats in their communities through trapping, neutering, and then releasing them back to their colony sites (a method called Trap-Neuter-Return or TNR). In time, the colonies' populations shrink due to lack of reproduction.
Friends of Feral Felines provides the colonies with food and water regularly and monitor them for new, sick, or injured members who need medical attention. They also find barn homes for some of the cats, and foster and socialize kittens to prepare them for adoption. Their efforts include public education and fundraising to support the ongoing need for food and medical care.
Responsible Pet Care is a no-kill, non-profit shelter and adoption center for cats and dogs. The shelter is equipped to care for more than 150 cats and kittens and up to 12 dogs at any one time. All adopted animals leave the shelter healthy, spayed/neutered, FeLV/FIV tested-cats, heartworm tested-dogs, vaccinated for rabies and distemper, and treated for internal and external parasites.
Somerset Humane Society is a non-profit organization committed to providing temporary housing and care to stray and abandoned animals. Somerset Humane Society currently serves 24 towns and 82 unorganized townships in the surrounding counties. They return lost animals to their owners and find suitable homes for animals that are not reclaimed, as well as taking in owner surrendered animals.
The Franklin County Animal Shelter is a non-profit organization committed to providing temporary care and shelter to stray, homeless, and abandoned animals. The shelter provides medical treatment and vaccinations and sterilization to all animals prior to adoption.
Franklin County Animal Shelter strives to educate the public in the proper care of pets, including increasing public awareness of the companion animal overpopulation issue.
Stray, abandoned, and mistreated animals need our help, so please join us in raising funds to support this great cause! Please leave any questions in the comments below, or you can email us at customerservice@parisfarmersunion.net for more information!
A New Product For Chick Days!
Chick Days are here! It's always a thrilling occasion when the first shipments enter the store, with their fluffy bodies and adorable noises.
Doting on chicks, and our chickens, is quite the job, albeit enjoyable, and we are always looking for ways to make that easier on our customers. We are thrilled to announce that Koop Clean chicken bedding is now available through Paris Farmers Union!
This innovative chicken bedding is an all-natural, quality chicken bedding consisting of a chopped blend of hay and straw, combined with the unique superior odor-neutralizing ingredient, Sweet PDZ.
The specialized blend of hay and straw is chopped which allows for easy handling as well as increase absorption. As an added bonus, the short cut makes cleaning it a breeze!
The bedding is insulating, which is perfect for chicks. Helping the coop to maintain a healthy temperature year round. The addition of Sweet PDZ effectively neutralizes the ammonia and other harmful odors; this helps your chicks and chickens (and you!) maintain their respiratory health.
And have we mentioned convenient? The bedding is packaged in plastic, makes it so easy to throw in the trunk of your car, with literally no mess. It also makes any leftovers that you have easy to store in the coop.
Specially formulated using only ingredients from the earth, Koop Clean chicken bedding will make your flock happy, while keeping your coop fresh, dry and insulated. From chicks to chickens, Koop Clean will be a welcome addition to your coop!
Be sure to pick up a bag the next time you visit your local Paris Farmer's Union Store!


Your real name is Sal?
Does anyone call you Saul?
"My best friend's dad is a really cool actor named Seymour Cassel. Whenever I used to go over there, he used to just call me Slash. And it was just one of those things because we all hung out there. So my friends started to call me Slash and it just became a thing.
But what's that got to do with not talking to someone?


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Bärbel Jungmeier (Villach, 8 juli 1975) is een wielrenner uit Oostenrijk.

Op de Olympische Spelen van 2004 in Athene nam Jungmeier deel aan het onderdeel Cross-Country bij het mountainbiken. Ze eindigde op de veertiende plaats.

Bij de Oostenrijks kampioenschap wielrennen op de weg werd Jungmeier tweede bij de wegwedstrijd in 2007, en derde op de tijdrit in 2004. Bij de Oostenrijkse kampioenschappen mountainbike won ze de cross-country in 2004 en de marathon in 2007.

Oostenrijks olympisch deelnemer

Oostenrijks wielrenner
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of life. The kitchen is the one of the most common areas of the house in which a fire may start. Unfortunately, it is impossible to remove every potential source of a fire from your kitchen, but you can take steps to minimize the risk.
The filter of your exhaust hood is intended to collect grease. It's easy to forget this filter since it's usually tucked into the exhaust hood and out of sight, but grease buildup could contribute to fire. Exhaust hoods are one of several pieces of kitchen equipment that can be steam cleaned. See atlanticsteampressurecleaning.com for more details.
It is easy to lose track of a trailing sleeve and allow it to catch on fire while cooking. Avoid wearing billowy articles of clothing like a bathrobe when preparing food. Long hair should also be tied back, not only for fire prevention but for sanitary purposes.
This include pot holders and dish towels. Excess heat from burners could cause objects like these to ignite. Be careful of paper towels as well. As a wood product, these may be even more likely to go up quickly.
This means keeping them clean and in good repair. For appliances that include a heating element, it may be a good idea to unplug them when not in use. Don't put metal in a microwave, as this can cause a spark.
Don't leave cooking food unattended. If you do need to leave, turn off the oven or the burner first, as applicable. This is especially important when the oven is set to very high heat or you're cooking something with grease.
A fire may start despite your best efforts. A small fire can be put out with baking soda or by covering the pan with a lid. Never put water on a grease fire, and when in doubt, evacuate the home and call 911.
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6 February 2019 - - US-based contract research organisation Pharm-Olam is enrolling patients in the US and Europe into a pivotal Phase III study within the treatment of short bowel syndrome, the company said.
Initiated in early October 2018, the study is a placebo-controlled, randomized, parallel-group, double-blind clinical trial with fixed-dose injections.
The trial is being conducted at approximately 40 investigational sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe and will ultimately enroll 129 patients with SBS.
Because people with SBS often cannot absorb enough nutrients, the trial will help determine if parenteral support volume can be reduced.
Zealand Pharma is developing a long-acting GLP-2 analog in an auto-injector with potential for convenient weekly administration, which has been granted orphan status by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Pharm-Olam is a global, midsized CRO that offers personalised clinical solutions to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life science companies.
Zealand Pharma A/S (NASDAQ: ZEAL) is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative peptide-based medicines.
More than 10 drug candidates invented by Zealand have advanced into clinical development, of which two have reached the market. Zealand's current pipeline of internal product candidates focus on specialty gastrointestinal and metabolic diseases.
Zealand's portfolio also includes two clinical license collaborations with Boehringer Ingelheim. Zealand Pharma is based in Copenhagen (Glostrup), Denmark.


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package org.apache.karaf.features;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import org.apache.felix.utils.version.VersionCleaner;
import org.apache.felix.utils.version.VersionRange;
import org.apache.karaf.util.maven.Parser;
import org.osgi.framework.Version;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 *
Helper class to compare Maven URIs (and falling back to other URIs) that may use globs and version ranges.

 *
 *
Each Maven URI may contain these components: groupId, artifactId, optional version, optional type and optional
 * classifier. Concrete URIs do not use globs and use precise versions (we do not consider LATEST
 * and RELEASE Maven versions here).

 *
 *
When comparing two Maven URIs, we split them to components and may use RegExps and
 * {@link org.apache.felix.utils.version.VersionRange}s

 *
 *
When pattern URI doesn't use mvn: scheme, plain {@link String#equals(Object)} is used or
 * {@link Matcher#matches()} when pattern uses * glob.

 */
public class LocationPattern {

    public static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LocationPattern.class);

    private String originalUri;
    private Pattern originalPattern;
    private String groupId;
    private Pattern groupIdPattern;
    private String artifactId;
    private Pattern artifactIdPattern;
    private String versionString;
    private Version version;
    private VersionRange versionRange;
    private String type;
    private Pattern typePattern;
    private String classifier;
    private Pattern classifierPattern;

    public LocationPattern(String uri) throws IllegalArgumentException {
        if (uri == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("URI to match should not be null");
        }
        originalUri = uri;
        if (!originalUri.startsWith("mvn:")) {
            originalPattern = toRegExp(originalUri);
        } else {
            uri = uri.substring(4);
            Parser parser = null;
            try {
                parser = new Parser(uri);
            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException(e.getMessage(), e);
            }
            if (Parser.VERSION_LATEST.equals(parser.getVersion())) {
                parser.setVersion(null);
            }
            groupId = parser.getGroup();
            if (groupId.contains("*")) {
                groupIdPattern = toRegExp(groupId);
            }
            artifactId = parser.getArtifact();
            if (artifactId.contains("*")) {
                artifactIdPattern = toRegExp(artifactId);
            }
            versionString = parser.getVersion();
            if (versionString != null && versionString.length() >= 1) {
                try {
                    char first = versionString.charAt(0);
                    if (first == '[' || first == '(') {
                        // range
                        versionRange = new VersionRange(versionString, true, false);
                    } else {
                        version = new Version(VersionCleaner.clean(versionString));
                    }
                } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
                    IllegalArgumentException mue = new IllegalArgumentException("Can't parse version \"" + versionString + "\" as OSGi version object.", e);
                    throw mue;
                }
            }
            type = parser.getType();
            if (type != null && type.contains("*")) {
                typePattern = toRegExp(type);
            }
            classifier = parser.getClassifier();
            if (classifier != null && classifier.contains("*")) {
                classifierPattern = toRegExp(classifier);
            }
        }
    }

    public String getOriginalUri() {
        return originalUri;
    }

    public String getGroupId() {
        return groupId;
    }

    public String getArtifactId() {
        return artifactId;
    }

    public String getVersionString() {
        return versionString;
    }

    /**
     * Converts a String with one special character (*) into working {@link Pattern}
     * @param value
     * @return
     */
    public static Pattern toRegExp(String value) {
        // TODO: escape all RegExp special chars that are valid path characters, only convert '*' into '.*'
        return Pattern.compile(value
                .replaceAll("\\.", "\\\\\\.")
                .replaceAll("\\$", "\\\\\\$")
                .replaceAll("\\^", "\\\\\\^")
                .replaceAll("\\*", ".*")
        );
    }

    /**
     * Returns true if this location pattern matches other pattern.
     * @param otherUri
     * @return
     */
    public boolean matches(String otherUri) {
        if (otherUri == null) {
            return false;
        }
        if (originalPattern != null) {
            // this pattern is not mvn:
            return originalPattern.matcher(otherUri).matches();
        }

        LocationPattern other;
        try {
            other = new LocationPattern(otherUri);
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            LOG.debug("Can't parse \"" + otherUri + "\" as Maven URI. Ignoring.");
            return false;
        }

        if (other.originalPattern != null) {
            // other pattern is not mvn:
            return false;
        }

        if (other.versionRange != null) {
            LOG.warn("Matched URI can't use version ranges: " + otherUri);
            return false;
        }

        boolean match;

        if (groupIdPattern == null) {
            match = groupId.equals(other.groupId);
        } else {
            match = groupIdPattern.matcher(other.groupId).matches();
        }
        if (!match) {
            return false;
        }
        if (artifactIdPattern == null) {
            match = artifactId.equals(other.artifactId);
        } else {
            match = artifactIdPattern.matcher(other.artifactId).matches();
        }
        if (!match) {
            return false;
        }
        if (versionRange != null && other.version != null) {
            match = versionRange.contains(other.version);
        } else {
            match = version == null || version.equals(other.version);
        }
        if (!match) {
            return false;
        }
        if (typePattern != null) {
            match = typePattern.matcher(other.type == null ? "jar" : other.type).matches();
        } else {
            match = versionString == null || type.equals(other.type);
        }
        if (!match) {
            return false;
        }
        if (classifierPattern != null) {
            match = classifierPattern.matcher(other.classifier == null ? "" : other.classifier).matches();
        } else if (classifier != null) {
            match = classifier.equals(other.classifier);
        } else {
            match = other.classifierPattern == null;
        }

        return match;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return originalUri;
    }

}


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Ogun Governor Commends FUNAAB
The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has given the University a pass mark in its efforts at contributing towards the development of education and agriculture in the country. The governor gave this commendation during a visit by the University Managememt, led by the Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ololade Enikuomehin, to sensitise the state government on the forthcoming 23rd, 24th and 25th combined convocation ceremonies.
Having outlined the various programmes mapped out for the convocation ceremonies, the Acting Vice-Chancellor informed the governor that the University's supervision had been moved from the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMA&RD), saying that there was a lot to gain from Ogun State, as a trailblazer in agricultural development in Nigeria. He, therefore, recalled that the University had resumed normal academic life while pleading with the governor to assist in effective repairs on the Camp – Alabata Road, leading to the University, to facilitate vehicular movements to and fro the University during the convocation ceremonies.Responding, Senator Amosun appreciated the University Management for the visit, assuring that the state government would try its best to participate in the convocation ceremonies and also assist in fixing the bad road. The governor equally commended the University for having a stable academic calendar. On the Acting Vice-Chancellor's team were the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Oluyemisi Eromosele; representative of the Registrar and the immediate past Acting Registrar, Dr. (Mrs.) Linda Onwuka; Acting Bursar, Mrs. Oluremi Oyewunmi and the University Librarian, Dr. Mulikat Salaam. Others were the Chairman, Ceremonials Committee, Professor Biodun Badmus and the Deputy Registrar II, Office of the Vice-Chancellor, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Dawodu. The Acting Vice-Chancellor presented packs of FUNAAB food hampers to the governor, to showcase some of the research products of the University.
tags: Acting Vice-Chancellor, Dr. (Mrs.) Linda Onwuka, Dr. Mulikat Salaam, Mrs. Oluremi Oyewunmi, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Dawodu, Ogun, Professor Ololade Enikuomehin, Senator Amosun, University Librarian
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Sana Jyo
Today's Startup Tomorrow's MNC – Prime Minister Narendra Modi
India has seen a pool of Multinational companies coming to India after Neo Liberal Policies. In the last few decades international corporations have come to India for business and even prospered here. But this decade will belong to Indian MNCs according to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said that today's startups are the multinational corporations of tomorrow. He also said that these startup's can go a long way in achieving the goal of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' and IIMs will pave the way for this.
After five years of working in a makeshift campus, PM has laid the foundation stone for the permanent campus of IIM-Sambalpur in Odisha through video conferencing . He said that today's startups can become tomorrow's MNCs as India seeks to make its startup ecosystem inclusive to ensure speedy development.
It is worth noting that most of the startups are coming up in Tier-II and Tier-III cities in the country. The PM observes that they need professional managers and for this the youth needs to be ready for the various opportunities that are coming their way. He further said that In this new decade we all are accountable to give a new image to brand India globally and youth should align their career goals to the aspirations of India.
The PM also urged students of IIM Sambalpur to help the local community of Odisha grow by utilising the knowledge they gain at the institute and hence " turn local into global". He further said that innovations, integrity, and inclusion have emerged as the key mantras in the field of management which are important for the 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' mission. The goal of a self-reliant India will also be achieved with the help of collaborative, innovative, and transformative concepts in management.
"Management experts graduating in new areas of knowledge will help the startups in taking India to new heights," he added. "They will also help in giving global recognition to India. Despite the COVID-19 crisis the country has given the maximum unicorns this year."
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91C Utilities Equipment Repairer
Company: Army National Guard
91C Utilities Equipment RepairerJob ID: Job Views: 202Location: GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska, United StatesZIP Code: 68801Job Category: Mechanic and MaintenancePosted: 05.29.2019Age Requirements: Must be between the ages of 17 and 35Job DescriptionIf you're interested in a maintenance career, join the Army National Guard as a Utilities Equipment Repairer and help keep operations running smoothly on and off the battlefield.Your primary responsibility will be to maintain and repair utilities equipment and special-purpose support systems. Some of your duties may include maintaining, testing, and repairing electric motors; inspecting and repairing electrical equipment; inspecting and repairing electric instruments, replacing worn gaskets and sealing in watertight electrical equipment; and maintaining and repairing gasoline engine systems, air conditioner electrical systems, and portable heater fuel/electrical systems.Job Duties* Inspect and repair air conditioner electrical systems, air conditioner vapor systems, refrigeration unit electrical systems, portable heater fuel/electrical systems, fire extinguisher recharging systems and fire extinguishers/valvesThrough your training, you will develop the skills and experience to enjoy a civilian career in any industry that uses equipment powered with electrical motors, including hospitals, manufacturing firms, and governmental agencies. With some additional certification, this occupational specialty could prepare you for self-employment as an electrical tool, motor, and equipment repairer.Earn While You LearnInstead of paying to learn these skills, get paid to train. In the Army National Guard, you will learn these valuable job skills while earning a regular paycheck and qualifying for tuition assistance.Job training for a Utilities Equipment Repairer consists of 10 weeks of Basic Training, where you'll learn basic Soldiering skills, and 13 weeks of Advanced Individual Training, including practice in repairing electrical products. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field.Benefits/RequirementsBenefits* Paid training* A monthly paycheck* Montgomery GI Bill* Federal and State tuition assistance* Retirement benefits for part-time service* Low-cost life insurance (up to $400,000 in coverage)* 401(k)-type savings plan* Student Loan Repayment Program (up to $50,000, for existing loans)* Health care benefits available* VA home loans* Bonuses, if applicable* Most non-prior service candidates will earn between $200 and $250 per drill weekend, subject to changeRequirements* Military enlistment in the Army National Guard* Must be at least a junior in high school, or have a high school diploma or a GED certificate* Must be between the ages of 17 and 35* Must be able to pass a physical exam and meet legal and moral standards* Must meet citizenship requirements (see NATIONALGUARD.com for details)Requires military enlistment. Programs and benefits are subject to change. Ask your Army National Guard recruiter for the most up-to-date information. Actual MOS assignment may depend on MOS availability.This position may qualify for a bonus, ask your National Guard recruiter for the most up-to-date information.
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