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Queen Elizabeth II and her devotion to God
Published on 15th Sep, 2022
Kia tau te rangimārie ki a koutou,
We have heard so much in recent days and will hear even more about the life of Queen Elizabeth II. From the time her death was announced a great deal has been said about her life of service and devotion to duty; and the fact that as a 21-year-old she said that her whole life, long or short, would be devoted to serving her people.
People have spoken about her fortitude and her courage. We have heard about her grueling travel and work schedule and that she never refused to carry out a duty expected of her. Of all that has been said, two things stand out for me, her constant sense of duty and her devotion to God.
In 2016 the New Zealand Bible Society published a wonderful book entitled "The Servant Queen and the King she serves." I was given a copy of that book at the time and remember thinking, "one day the Queen will die, I will probably have to say something about her, this book will be very helpful." It has indeed been very helpful in understanding this extraordinary woman.
Queen Elizabeth knew well that Jesus Christ was the Ruler of the Kings and Queens of the earth. She was Queen of Great Britain, of New Zealand and other countries, but she also knew that she was the Servant Queen and that she served Christ the King.
I'm sure that over all those decades of her reign the question has been asked about what the secret was for her remarkable consistency of character and her extraordinary contribution to Britain, the Commonwealth, and the global community. She answered the question herself when she once said:
"I know just how much I rely on my faith to guide me through the good times and the bad. Each day is a new beginning. I know that the only way to live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best in all that the day brings, and to put my trust in God…I draw strength from the message of hope in the Christian gospel."
We can draw inspiration from those words…to see each day as a new beginning, to know that the only way to live is to try to do what is right, to give our best in all that the day brings and to put our trust in God.
Her Majesty's life was not about herself. There is no doubt that her trust in Jesus shaped her life and work, and her often quoted words from Scripture give us an insight to a life lived for others. She often spoke of the parable of the Good Samaritan, and once said: "The story of the Good Samaritan reminds us of our duty to our neighbor. We should try to follow Christ's clear instruction at the end of that story – go and do the same yourself".
I am sure Queen Elizabeth renewed her commitment to a life of service and dedication to duty over and over again, in many different circumstances, always anchoring it in Christ. It is the same for all of us; we all have commitments, many lifelong to marriage, priesthood, family, religious life, that require that daily conversion of heart which is part of our lives as followers of Jesus.
In another of her Christmas Messages, Queen Elizabeth said:
"Many will have been inspired by Jesus' simple but powerful teaching: love God and love your neighbour as yourself- in other words, treat others as you would like them to treat you. His great emphasis was to give spirituality a practical purpose. His simple message of love has been turning the world upside down ever since. He showed that what people are and what they do, does matter and does make a difference."
Our anointing in Baptism and Confirmation filled us with the power of the Spirit of Jesus. The Spirit gives spirituality a practical purpose in our lives, enabling us through our love and service to turn the world upside down, knowing that our gospel-centered lives do make a difference whatever our age or state of life.
Nāku noa. Nā
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Energy is meant to flow — that is it's very nature. Anything that blocks that flow creates physical, emotional, and psychological sickness. In fact, you'll notice that you feel the most vibrant and grounded when you are actively allowing yourself to experience the present moment. This is our natural state of being! And yet so many of us struggle to experience it.
Here are my top seven chakra cleansing and grounding herbs that I recommend for all people struggling with imbalanced chakras, and most especially empaths, healers, and highly sensitive people. If you want an extensive list of healing herbs for empathic people, check out my Empath book.
Damiana is a plant native to the United States, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean, having potent sacral chakra cleansing properties.
Damiana is known most popularly for its aphrodisiac effects that increase sexual desire and performance. However, Damiana also has many other benefits such as calming the nervous system, reducing anxiety and depression and regulating blood sugar levels.
Lemongrass is a common herb often used in various dishes, yet it has significant Solar Plexus chakra cleansing benefits.
With a taste similar to lemon (except milder), Lemongrass helps to reduce depression, support the immune system, refresh the mind, cleanse and detoxify the body, improve digestion, and stabilize cholesterol. Almost anyone can grow this herb and harvest it to make tea!
Hawthorn is a perfect choice for healing heart-centered problems. By itself, Hawthorn Berry has a sweet and slightly tart taste, almost like sour apple sauce.
Hawthorn Berry has been long used to treat heart problems related to Heart Chakra blockages such as angina, arrhythmia, and unstable blood pressure. Hawthorn Berry also helps remove bad cholesterol from the blood stream, reduces anxiety, and has powerful antioxidant properties that remove free radicals from the body.
Slippery Elm tastes best when combined with other herbs as it is rather chalky by itself (check out Buddha tea's mix). However, this shrub has important throat chakra cleansing benefits.
Slippery Elm is essentially tree bark from the Slippery Elm tree that is grounded into a fine powder. Traditionally, Slippery Elm has been used to heal throat conditions as it turns to gel once in contact with water, but it also has a wide range of other benefits. Slippery Elm helps to lubricate the stomach and intestines which help heal issues such as indigestion and stomach ulcers. This bark also supports the adrenal glands and reduces overall inflammation in the body.
Passionflower is the ideal herb for the Third Eye Chakra. Passionflower helps treat insomnia, anxiety disorders, depression, headache pain, and even drug withdrawal symptoms.
One of the most uplifting and delightfully common chakra cleansing herbs out there for the Crown Chakra is Lavender.
Lavender is so easy to grow and harvest and has a wide range of benefits that help to open up the Crown Chakra. Lavender helps to soothe headaches, enhance psychological clarity, reduce anxiety and stress, calm the nervous system, improve sleep, and treat skin conditions such as psoriasis. Most notably, Lavender is full of antioxidants which help our bodies to lower damage caused by toxins and free radicals. In fact, Lavender actually helps the body to produce antioxidants!
Herbs are mother earth's way of helping us to cleanse, balance, and strengthen our bodies. As a big tea drinker, I love nothing more than to sit down in nature with a nice herbal tea brewing in my hands. As an empath, I find that tea is a quick and potent way to wind down and check in with the present moment.
Let me know what herbs and teas are your favorites in the comments!
Thank you for these great tips. I will try to find this teas in the Netherlands.


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Boeing Global Services Optimizes Immense Service Parts Network with Innovative Technology
State-Of-The-Art Solution Helps an Industry Leader Meet Demanding Inventory Needs and Keep Customer Satisfaction a Top Priority
In an exceedingly complex aerospace supply chain hampered with massive and intricate parts volumes with long lead times, coupled with an extremely high service bar for defense contracts, Boeing needed a flexible enterprise service parts management solution with a firm foundation in advanced data science.
Boeing has a long tradition of aerospace leadership and innovation
In the aerospace and defense industry, taking a mission critical approach means expecting the unexpected. But with aircraft comprised of hundreds of thousands of parts, being prepared with the right parts, at the right place, at the right time—with speed and accuracy, no less—is no small feat. Learn how one A&D leader re-imagined their service parts supply chain with help from a longstanding partnership and state-of-the-art technology.
If you've ever flown on a plane, studied military aircraft, or even just stared at the stars, you've probably seen Boeing's work in action. Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space, and security systems, as well as a leading provider of aftermarket support.
One of the key tenets of Boeing's long-held industry success is service. Boeing Global Services (BGS), a dedicated service business, focuses on the aftermarket needs of global defense, space, and commercial customers. Headquartered near Dallas, Texas, BGS employs 23,500 people at more than 300 facilities across 70 countries.
From engineering and supply chain management to training services and customer support, BGS leverages innovation and state-of-the-art technologies to keep its customers' aircrafts operating at high efficiency and provide mission assurance for nations around the world.
The defense industry requires rapid service and parts replacement
It goes without saying that in defense, aircraft availability and operational excellence is crucial— but achieving the highest marks here doesn't come without challenges. BGS fully supports programs like the United States Air Force C-17 and F-22 and the Army APACHE. These programs require equipment availability and operational excellence with zero compromise. "Our aftermarket service contracts are customer specific and tuned to their spare part availability needs," says Debbie Belmer, Senior Manager, Supply Chain Enablement at BGS. "It's crucial that we have the right parts in the right warehouse at the right time to support our customers' mission critical operations."
Meeting this high service bar for each and every customer is challenging—and made even more difficult by the exceeding complexity of the aerospace supply chain. First, defense customers need aircraft in top condition in order to respond to highly variable situations such as natural disasters and escalation conflicts, which can come with little to no warning. What's more, there is a massive volume of unique parts with unique sources of supply. This creates additional challenges for managing numerous aircraft models, each comprised of hundreds of thousands of parts.
Also common are long lead times for parts replacement, especially for rare parts—some of which take more than a year to procure, potentially grounding aircraft and causing huge financial loss. Aging aircraft also present unique challenges for parts management. The age of some aircraft being serviced is 30 to 50 years, and the more an aircraft ages, the more service parts are required to keep up with replacement. This adds to the already significant volume and complexity of data for any given model. The B-52 Stratofortress, for example, was last built in 1962. As individual parts have changed and progressed with technology, a part from one aircraft may no longer match the same part for a different aircraft—adding a layer of complexity in the ability to replace the part with the precise fit and function needed to ensure prompt return to flight.
Complicating matters, not all of Boeing's internal business units used the same software for service parts management, creating siloed solutions to service problems without an enterprise-wide perspective. Given this, BGS recognized a clear opportunity to improve operational excellence by standardizing one service parts management technology calibrated to maximize equipment availability for all of BGS's customers. To do so, they would need to find a flexible enterprise service parts management solution—one that could set the pace of innovation with a firm foundation in advanced data science, helping to ensure that all business units move forward together with a consistent enterprise standard.
With precision focus, Servigistics becomes a frontrunner for service parts optimization
Managing an inventory as diverse and sizeable as BGS's was no small task, nor was the process of creating a roadmap for implementing a new, enterprise-wide solution. "Business units have different challenges, so getting to a standard offering is quite difficult," says Scott McKelvey, Program Manager at BGS. Calling on longtime consulting partner Capgemini for additional guidance, Boeing set out to conduct a deep analysis to determine the optimal solution for managing their complex aftermarket service supply chain logistics.
One option they considered was Servigistics, a sophisticated, purpose-built enterprise service parts optimization and decision support tool. It offered the potential to deliver the highest service levels with the lowest inventory cost, which would allow BGS to meet their customer commitments without overspending on unnecessary inventory—a solution that looked promising.
When we conducted the POC to select Servigistics, we found that it was more accurate and produced higher service levels with less inventory than other software.
~ Debbie Belmer, Senior Manager, Supply Chain Enablement, Boeing Global Services
Knowing they needed to determine whether a single technology could be flexible enough to support both commercial air and defense needs, BGS and Capgemini set up a proof of concept (POC) to test the capabilities of available technologies.
During the rigorous testing, they examined several service planning and inventory optimization software offerings. Servigistics delivered the most persuasive test results with accurate demand forecasts and highly sophisticated inventory optimization. "When we conducted the POC to select Servigistics, we found that it was more accurate and produced higher service levels with less inventory than other software," says Belmer.
"Better yet, it was the only solution flexible enough to satisfy the needs of defense and commercial sides of the business." With confidence in the POC results, the team moved forward with Servigistics as the chosen solution—and with operational improvements immediately evident, there's no doubt it was the right choice. "Each service contract in which we implemented Servigistics immediately showed the inventory planning improvements possible," adds McKelvey.
BGS and Capgemini have deep collaborative roots
When BGS teamed up with Capgemini on the service parts management project, it was a natural fit, with nearly a decade of collaborative projects under their belts. One of their first projects, an initiative they dubbed the "12 Week SCM Assessment," laid the groundwork for success by establishing the change management and strategic planning best practices needed to eventually choose Servigistics as their preferred inventory planning solution.
Every day for 12 weeks, supply chain experts from each of BGS's five major cross-country government sites came together with the goal of setting benchmarks and creating a blueprint for the government portion of aftermarket services. Through a detailed examination of people, processes, and tools—and how to instill more efficiencies in each— the team showed that a detailed, strategic approach to supply chain and aftermarket services can create significant value gains enterprise-wide. Taking a "two-in-a-box" approach with leads from BGS and Capgemini, they've consistently used this framework moving forward to assess organization structure, core team duties, operations planning, and new and legacy tools.
For BGS, the results have been well worth the investment. "Capgemini offers something different than other consultants I have worked with, something better as far as the people and how they interact with us," says McKelvey. "It's about how they do the job they're tasked with," he continues. "Having that two-in-a-box concept and pulling together those leads to share the burden—that's why this project has sustained."
A longstanding partnership with Capgemini creates new opportunity for added value
Now that Servigistics is in place, BGS can make better decisions for inventory investments based on confidence in forecasts. They're also poised to increase their available service level with the same or reduced inventory, a result that could benefit both their customers and BGS's bottom line.
However, a supply chain challenge that remained was that BGS handled contract fulfillment differently from site to site. With contract terms catering to each customer, there was a lack of consistency in data sets among different contracts and across each service site, adding complexity in an already challenging data environment.
To address this, they called upon their demand and supply planning work group formed from the "12 Week SCM Assessment" project with Capgemini. This team would help begin implementing a Planning Data Layer (PDL) to better leverage Servigistics. PDL is a critical component of an enterprise data strategy, enabling a centralized source to collect and standardize different customer, partner, and business unit data. "One of our goals with the planning data layer is to make it robust to the variety of data inputs upstream so that supply chain planning decisions can be supported with less customization downstream," explains McKelvey. As high-quality data is paramount to improving value across the supply chain, implementing PDL will help Servigistics leverage data and forecast more accurately. What's more, it will help the team consolidate legacy tools and systems, ultimately reducing costs and accelerating overall maintenance times, not to mention improving customer satisfaction.
"One of our goals with the planning data layer is to make it robust to the variety of data inputs upstream so that supply chain planning decisions can be supported with less customization downstream."
~ Scott McKelvey, Program Manager, Boeing Global Services
BGS and its partners are building the digital thread
Adding PDL is just one example of how BGS is building a digital thread with an integrated flow of data that delivers the right information to the right place, at the right time—enabling improved communication and collaboration among sites and across the enterprise. Moving forward, they hope to have their sales, inventory, and operations planning (SI&OP) processes documented and running through PDL and utilizing data from Servigistics—and now even more business units within Boeing are showing interest in implementing this tool suite to support their business goals.
As they progress, BGS is exploring other resources and tools to realize even more long-term potential from their digital thread. One example is Servigistics' Performance Analytics and Intelligence (PAI), a powerful blend of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analysis. "There are so many ways to capitalize on these advanced technology trends," says Belmer. "But we're eager to expand our data analytics and explore how we can work with partners like PTC and Capgemini to achieve even greater value across all aspects of the business."
One of the most significant takeaways from the Servigistics implementation is how the power of partnership elevated BGS's ability to solve problems and achieve value. With the support of both PTC and Capgemini, the project is still paving the way for future success. "Servigistics is mission-critical to our global operations, and our partnership with Capgemini is irreplaceable," says Belmer. "Together, Boeing takes full advantage of innovative capabilities and unmatched expertise that maximizes our operational excellence." With a partnership this deep in the making, there are truly countless opportunities on the horizon.
"Servigistics is mission-critical to our global operations, and our partnership with Capgemini is irreplaceable. Together, Boeing takes full advantage of innovative capabilities and unmatched expertise that maximizes our operational excellence."
~ Debbie Belmer, Senior Manager
Supply Chain Enablement
"We found that Servigistics was more accurate and produced higher service levels with less inventory than other software … Better yet, it was the only solution flexible enough to satisfy the needs of defense and commercial sides of the business"
Debbie Belmer, Senior Manager, Supply Chain Enablement at BGS
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Putting together a Jigsaw puzzle can be delightfully frustrating and Vancouver based artist Tim Klein wants to add in some extra pieces. Yes, Klein practices the obscure art of 'puzzle montage,' taking pieces from various jigsaw puzzle sets and re-arranging them to form a new stunning image.
This puzzle montage practitioner said he was inspired by a 1988 magazine article he read on, whom he credits as, the 'pioneer' of the art form, Mel Andringa.
"Jigsaw puzzle companies tend to use the same cut patterns for multiple puzzles. This makes the pieces interchangeable. As a result, I sometimes find that I can combine portions from two or more puzzles to make a surreal picture that the publisher never imagined," explained Klein.
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Resident decries municipal tax increase
Council kept its 2011 tax increase to the lowest level it possibly could without cutting key services.
That was the message from city hall after councillors voted in favour of the 2011 financial plan bylaw, which includes a 3.45 per cent tax hike.
Jennifer Feinberg
Resident Gary Raddysh beseeched council to instead consider a zero per cent increase.
"I believe that all Canadians are taxed enough already, and there could be plenty of tax money available to improve our growing communities," he said.
He spoke up during the public information hearing held to allow residents to offer opinions on the budget. Although he acknowledged that the discussion was strictly about municipal taxes, and not about federal and provincial spending, he nonetheless underlined the importance other levels of government have when it comes to "influencing the funding of our municipal programs."
He called for an end to carbon tax, HST and Canada's participation in the war in Afghanistan.
"Prices for home heating, vehicle fuel, electricity, food, insurance, and loan interest rates are creeping continuously higher," Raddysh stated. "Our economy is in a fragile recovery phase. Taxpayers cannot afford any increase in taxes."
In the end council voted unanimously to approve the 2011 budget.
Coun. Ken Huttema called it "a prudent use of our resources."
The state of Chilliwack's roads and the transit system are areas they'll continue to work on, he said.
Coun. Chuck Stam said a zero per cent increase is just not an option, even though his approval of this "small" increase came only after some "kicking and screaming" and discussions about inflationary pressures on contracts and materials.
Coun. Sue Attrill said she was confident the budget "had no frills."
Mayor Sharon Gaetz praised staff for creating a budget plan "that is something affordable and forward-thinking which doesn't put us behind."
Despite the inclusion on one new conventional transit bus and one HandyDart bus in the budget, improvements in bus frequency are not on the horizon.
"I would love to see us go further with our transit," she added, but other considerations took priority.
The city received mostly positive feedback, as well as several letters of concern about the budget plans and documents, which can be seen online at www.chilliwack.com.
The biggest share of the Chilliwack budget goes to policing costs from RCMP which accounts for 29 per cent of taxation.
By comparison a typical Abbotsford homeowner will pay 34% more in taxes than Chilliwack owners, as they're facing a hike of 4.3 per cent.
Surrey is the only community with a lower rate due mostly to its larger commercial and industrial base.
"I very much support this budget," Gaetz said. "And I wish we could do more. I'm looking forward to seeing the new library come online."
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Ford and Toyota Utes now Australia's best selling cars!
Ford and Toyota Utes now Australia's best selling cars! Have you had key trouble?
Have you heard? The Toyota Hilux and Ford Ranger are Australia's top-selling cars, as of 2017. These utes are often used as work vehicles, and make up a vast majority of business fleets throughout the country. What makes them so great? They're reliable, sturdy and suit a wide range of uses. Unfortunately, regardless of how many specs they have, these high-performance cars cannot make up for human error. Specifically, when we lose our keys, lock ourselves out or break our remotes. But there is a solution to these frustrating problems; a locksmith!
Here at Rechenberg, our highly trained locksmiths and security professionals can help you to retrieve or fix the keys for all types of vehicles, including common work utes such as the Toyota Hilux and Ford Ranger.
Losing your car keys is frustrating, especially when you have places to be and desperately need your car, particularly if you need your vehicle for work. Replacing your keys with a new set of factory supplied ones can be expensive, and will take days, if not weeks, for them to arrive. Rechenberg can replace car keys for a variety of vehicles, in record time! Meaning that you can be back on the road quickly, and experience minimum downtime at work due to an inability to operate your ute or car.
Rechenberg also specialises in re-programming and replacing vehicle remotes or electronic fobs. This includes your central locking system and vehicles that use remote access rather than key systems. Remember that we're trained security professionals, so we know our way around technology! If your remote or fob is broken or faulty, we'll be able to diagnose the problem and fix it ASAP.
If you've ever experienced that sinking feeling of locking yourself out of your car outside of business hours, don't beat yourself up. Plenty of people do it. And that's why at Rechenberg, we offer 24/7 emergency lockout services. We have a fleet of service vehicles that can get to you in no time, whether you're in Bundaberg, Deep Water, Gin Gin, Woodgate, Childers, Hervey Bay or surrounds.
If your business has a fleet of expensive new car brands such as Toyota Hilux, Ford Ranger, Mitsubishi Triton, Holden Colorado and Isuzu D-Max you want to ensure their security. Rechenberg offers fleet tracking technology installation for work vehicles allowing you to know where your vehicles are at all times via GPS tracking, providing your business with better peace of mind. It also improves efficiency by giving your staff on the ground access to the quickest routes, so no time is wasted on a job.
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Q: JavaScript - Wired behavior of Array_Push() I have a weird behavior of Array_Push(). I am adding array to predefined array. Problem is that for some reason length of array increase for two when I am pushing array to predefined array.
Here is code:
example array:
Object {id: 2, firstName: "First name", lastName: "Last name", phones: Array[0], emails: Array[0]…}$$hashKey: "00A"address: "Street 3"city: "Washington "emails: Array[0]firstName: "First name"id: 2lastName: "Last name"notes: "No notes"phones: Array[0]__proto__: Object

JavaScript:
var contacts = [
        {
            id: 0,
            firstName: 'John',
            lastName: 'Doe',
            phones: [{'phone1': '222222222'}],
            emails: [{'email1': 'example@mail.com'}],
            address: 'Some Streetz 2.',
            city: 'Las Vegas',
            notes: 'Napomena',
        },
        {
            id: 1,
            firstName: 'Mike',
            lastName: 'Smith',
            phones: [{'phone1':'111111'}],
            emails: [{'email1': 'example@mail.com'}],
            address: '459 5th Av.',
            city: 'New York',
            notes: 'Napomena',
        }
    ];

adding array to contacts array
this.addContact = function (contact) {

        alert (contacts.length);//output is 2
        contact.id = contacts.length ++;//getting ID od new array
        console.log(contact);//
        contacts.push(contact);
                        alert ("++"+contacts.length);//output is 4

                console.log(contacts);

    };

A: contacts.length++ increases the length of the array, essentially being equivalent to contacts.push(undefined). Then you add another element.
contact.id = contacts.length is the correct choice. And if you needed to have "one larger than length" (which you don't), contact.id = contacts.length + 1 would be the correct way to write it.

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Registration for 2019 Vacation Bible School and Day Camp is now open. The 2019 program will ROAR into our lives July 15-19 and we will be a TRANSFORMED COMMUNITY. While registration is open, we are working to create an on-line pay option for the $25 VBS only fee or the $85 VBS and Day Camp fee (Day Camp only is also $85 and only available by consulting with Pastor Katie). Scholarships for VBS/Day Camp are available by talking to Pastor Katie (katie@holytrinitynl.org). The March newsletter has a two-page spread (pages 9 and 10) about Vacation Bible School and Day Camp.
If anyone other than the parent/guardians or emergency contacts will be picking up your child, list their names.
Providing information for your insurance is optional, but encouraged.
List any illness, chronic condition, or physical consideration your child has that may affect participation or safety.
Tell of any other suggestions that may help us to make your child's week more enjoyable.
♣	Use child's picture on the church's website/PR materials. ♣	Take child off-church campus and transport them for the purpose to further the ministry of HTLC. ♣	HTLC requires each parent/guardian of the minor to take responsibility that if the child does not comply with HTLC's guidelines on behavior including; bullying, lack of participation or disrespectful behavior. Parent's will then be contacted to pick up their child. ♣ Transport child to a hospital for emergency medical treatment or surgery. ♣ I authorize all medical and surgical treatment, X-ray, laboratory, anesthesia, and other medical and/or hospital procedures as may be performed or prescribed by the attending physician and/or paramedics for my child and waive my right to informed consent of treatment. ♣ I release Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and individuals from liability in case of accident during activities related to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, as long as normal safety procedures have been taken.
Thank you; this completes registration for this child! If you have questions about registration, please contact registration@holytrinitynl.org. Questions about the program or logistics associated with VBS/Day Camp, please contact Pastor Katie at katie@holytrinitynl.org.
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Due to its pioneering character, the Dominio de Valdepusa has become a place of pilgrimage for many wine experts and critics from around the world.
The Dominio de Valdepusa estate, part of the historical XIII century Señorío de Valdepusa near Toledo, has belonged to the Falco Fernández de Córdoba family since early medieval times (1292). It is there that Carlos Falcó, Marqués de Griñón, started a viticultural venture in 1974 and later in 2002 an olive oil revolution that positioned Marqués de Griñón as a leading ultrapremium Spanish wine and extra virgin olive oil brand in the leading world markets. The terroirs of the ancient Señorío de Valdepusa are ideal for the production of both wine and olive oil of great finesse and intense flavours. Our Marqués de Griñón wines and olive oils are consistently rated among the very best Spain and, often, the world.
First Spanish "Vino de Pago"
In 2002, Dominio de Valdepusa was recognised by the Spanish Government as the first official "Vino de Pago" (Estate Apellation) of Spain.
Valdepusa is located near Malpica de Tajo, province of Toledo, 109 km southwest from Madrid and 50 km from Toledo, the historical capital of Spain. Close to the main house and chapel, 50 hectares (125 acres) are currently planted with vines, including the original vineyard of Cabernet Sauvignon (1974), Syrah (1991), Petit Verdot (1992) both pioneers in Spain - and Graciano (2000), using Lyre, Smart Dyson and double guyot canopies.
Over the years, we have been advised by some of the best consultants in the world, such as renowned oenologist Michel Rolland, Dr. Richard Smart, the famous Australian viticulturist, or the burgundian agronomist Claude Bourguignon, inspiring us with his biodynamic approach. Our aim is to produce fine elegant wines that reflect our extraordinary terroirs preserved for over seven centuries by our ancestors.
The main house and the winery at Dominio de Valdepusa are historical 18th century buildings. The underground areas, renovated in 1989, are fitted with air conditionning systems, including both temperature and humidity controls, allowing barrel ageing and extensive bottle ageing in Nevers and Allier oak barrels of varied sizes and shapes. The old farmhouse used as reception area holds four dining and tasting rooms with a combined capacity for over 100 guests and the domains' administrative offices. The central patio, which, like the rest of the winery, shows classic architecture from Toledo, holds a lagar for treading grapes inaugurated in 1995 by the current King of Spain, D. Felipe de Borbón. At times, the lagar is used by visitors who want to experience such an ancient tradition.
The olive groves include a 125 year-old "Cornicabra" (a local variety) surrounding the 1000 year-old templarian Villalba Castle and several modern (10 to 25 year old) "Picual" and "Arbequina", drip-irrigated gobelet-trained olive tree parcels totalling over 110 hectares (275 acres).
Two consecutive and state-of-the art revolutionary olive oil "frantoios" designed for "antioxidative" extraction by Italian scientist Marco mugelli in 2002 and 2013 resulted in a major breaktroughs in the 5000-6000 year-old history of extravirgin olive oil: a 12-fold increase in essential antioxidants such as polyphenols, vitamin E or squalene.
As a result, Flos olei, the leading international extravirgin olive oil guide yearly published in Rome by Italian expert marco Oreggia awarded Marqués de Griñón its highest rating (98/100 points) for the five last consecutive years (2013-2017). Must leading international tastings - Los Angeles, New York, Tel-Aviv or Tokyo have also recognised the extraordinary quality of MG extravirgin oils.
Dominio de Valdepusa is one of the preferred wineries on the Michel Rolland Selection.


Back in September last year I attended a Design Thinking class which was really interesting. One of the recommended books was Little Bets by Peter Simms. This book gives a great overview of how taking small risks can pay off with big dividends. It gives many practical examples of how Design Thinking can improve a business. I think this book is a better introduction to Design Thinking than Change By Design which I read back in September. Both cover the material well but I found that Little Bets is a more direct and succinct.
Each of these topics (chapters) use many examples from various businesses from Apple, HP, Pixar and even comedian Chris Rock. The stories used throughout the book are quite interesting as well as a good examples of the topics being discussed.
The chapter on failing quickly really resonated with me since I seem to learn well from trial and error. For example developing quick, inexpensive prototypes is a good way to discover what works and doesn't work. I go through many iterations when I am developing a new form or webpage. Modern tools make it very simple to move controls around to get just the right flow. This ability to rapidly prototype visual interfaces has been invaluable to me.
The concepts of "problems are the new solutions" and "questions are the new answers" are also very interesting concepts. Problems don't have to be obstacles they can serve as guidelines or limitations. Problems can be broken down into more manageable pieces so that one big problem can be broken into many smaller ones. This is a principal applied in the Agile development process.
We all have seen how the right questions lead to gaining new insight into a problem. By finding the right questions we often find the answers we seek. This is brilliantly illustrated by Douglas Adams when Deep Thought determined the answer to the "ultimate question of life, the universe and everything" to be 42. For the answer to make sense you have to ask the right question.
The bottom line: Each of the chapters have good tidbits of information about new ways to approach and solve problems. Using these ideas and principals can help you to find unique solutions or products to meet a need that you may have never though of before. Little Bets is a very good introduction to Design Thinking and an easy read. There is an extensive reference guide as well as a great list of recommended reading in the appendices.
Now that Advantage supports Windows 8 I thought it was time I got a test system configured. I have been an avid fan of virtualization for many years and I find it to be an invaluable tool in keeping multiple versions available for testing. It is also a great way to keep my machine relatively clean for my day-to-day work.
I have been using VMWare Workstation for several years beginning with a 6.x version. I had upgraded to the 7.x version but I quickly found out that I needed a newer version to install Windows 8. There were several posts on the web that discussed successfully creating a Windows 8 image with version 8.x of workstation but the VMWare tools do not work. So I decided to take the safe route and get version 9, which officially supports Windows 8.
Unfortunately that did not end my troubles when I tried installing I kept getting the following message when the VM started.
I did what any reasonable person would do and went straight to Google. My search was instantly rewarded with hundreds of hits from people with the same problem almost all of which were completely useless. Most recommended upgrading to Workstation version 9, which I had already done. Others discussed enabling virtualization in the BIOS, which I had already done since this is required to run any 64-bit OS. The whole process reminded me of an XKCD comic.
At long last I found a post that had the answer. You need to enable the No-Execute Memory Protection option in the BIOS. This option is disabled by default.
I know a long story for a simple answer. Hopefully this post will help others get their own Windows 8 Virtual Machines up and running.
On March 12th at 1:00 PM EDT I will be doing a webcast on using Advantage Database Server in the Cloud. All the details are below.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn what SAP Sybase Advantage Database Server has to offer. We hope you'll join us.
Another year has past and it is time for me to once again make a bunch of resolutions that I will not keep. Last year I put together a book list with the goal of reading one technology book every month. I managed to get through four of them. Of course one of the books on the list did not end up getting published, so I got that going for me.
So with my past performance in mind I am once again setting a goal to read one technology book every month. To help I will be adding a simple reminder to the sidebar so I will see which book I should be reading. Perhaps with the extra accountability I will get through half of the list.
Good luck with your resolutions and have a great New Year!
Peter Funk from our Advantage engineering team has been using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host a project he has been working on. He was looking for a tool to monitor the activity on his site. Peter found a tool that met his needs so he asked me to share his thoughts about it. I was all to happy to post this information for him.
Now that I have an application (website) up and running with the Advantage Web Platform I wanted to monitor the traffic. Primarily I want to be on the lookout for any hacking attempts but also I am curious how my users are accessing the site. Searching around for website monitoring tools quickly led me into the world of log analyzers.
To have a complete picture of your site's traffic you must log all activity to some sort of log file or database. With Apache this functionality exists in the log_config_module which is enabled by default. This module will log all activity to the access.log file (by default in the apache\logs directory). Although all the information I needed was in the access.log it wasn't in a useable form. That's where the log analyzer comes in.
There are quite a few log analyzers available on the web these days. I wanted one that works with Apache, provides real-time statistics, has a wealth of information including graphs, and is free. Eventually I found the AWStats project hosted on sourceforge.net.
AWStats met all my requirements and has been working well for me so far. It is written in Perl and is accessible from any browser. It is pretty simple in that it processes the access.log, creates a report with a summary of all the log information, and then displays the information in an informative and useful way. You can see a demonstration of AWStats in action using this link.
For up-to-date statistics AWStats must process the access.log to refresh the summary report. This can be done on demand or on a schedule (Windows task manager or Linux cron job). So far I've been using the on-demand approach (see AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser in the AWStats documentation) but creating a scheduled task may work better for you. When I want to view the current statistics I simply bring up the awstats page and click the Update Now link. A few seconds later I can view the report with current information.
Make sure you have a Perl interpreter installed on your server before installing AWStats. I recommend the Activestate interpreter for Windows.
By default the AWStats page is visible to anyone by your web server. You can limit that access to an IP address or domain. In your httpd.conf file look for the directory entry that points to your AWStats/wwwroot folder. It should be at the bottom of the file. There you can limit the access via the "Allow from" option.
In conclusion I am very happy using AWStats to keep an eye on my website. It gives me a good view into how people are using my website. I can already see which URLs are used the most and look for ways to optimize them. I can also see which browsers are used the most which helps me test and tailor my website to provide the best experience for the most people.
SAP has been developing software the helps businesses run better for over 40 years. Recently SAP has begun providing solutions to OEM partners as well. In the article below Kevin Ichipurani from SAP discusses the many new opportunities solutions from SAP can bring to software developers.


Completed in 2013, the Willson Center for Arts and Humanities moved their department from UGA's campus to a former spec house built around 1920. The project consisted of many structural repairs and bringing the house up to code. An exciting find was discovering an original pocket door still operable that had been covered up long ago. This, along with the fireplace were restored and left in place. New restrooms were built in, along with a breakroom, offices, and conference room. The existing windows were tagged and removed, sent to a restoration company in North Carolina, and reinstalled. This project was awarded Best Restoration by the Athens Historical Society in 2014.


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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker, 2020
MM Staff
BIG CITIES (continued)
17. Kansas City, Missouri
The film-friendly city that brought you Robert Altman, Don Cheadle, Ellie Kemper, Janelle Monae, Dianne Wiest, and Mickey Mouse is also home to eight equipment rental houses, nearly three dozen production facilities, and 15 film festivals.
"KC has a passionate and active film community as well as a thriving professional industry and growing infrastructure," says Steph Scupham, KC Film Office director/certified film commissioner. "Currently, there are 750 KC area crew (union and non-union professionals) and service companies listed in our KC Production Guide and 689 locations showcased in the KC Locations Database. In addition, there are nine talent agencies in Kansas City representing both union (SAG-Aftra) and non-union talent and an acclaimed casting director with credits including Winter's Bone, Up in the Air, American Honey and many more."
Since reopening the sanctioned film office in 2014, KC Film has worked to recruit more production business and assisted with projects ranging from feature films to web series for an estimated $41 million in local economic impact. It offers a local 10% rebate, discounts with Enterprise and Hertz rentals, and assistance with hotel bookings. No film permits are required.
State film incentives are on hold for the time being, but the Missouri Motion Media Association is lobbying for the reinstatement of a statewide film initiative. The city is affordable and comfortable, ranking 49th on U.S. News and World Report's 2019 ranking of the best places to live in the country.
The region also breeds funny people with solid Midwestern values: Rob Riggle, Paul Rudd, Jason Sudeikis, David Koechner and Eric Stonestreet's Big Slick is an annual fundraising event that raises millions for Children's Mercy Hospital.
"Kansas City has great crews, wonderful locations both country and urban and some of the best food in the country. Everything that makes a film engine run!" says Oscar winner Kevin Willmott, a University of Kansas film professor and filmmaker who co-wrote the BlacKkKlansman screenplay. "I have found everything I have ever needed in Kansas City!"
16. Cleveland
It's been over 15 years since The Drew Carey Show went off the air, but the theme song still rings true: "Cleveland Rocks!" This city on Lake Erie, famously depicted in area native Jim Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise, remains a natural fit for film productions of all sizes. In early 2019 there were some rumblings that Ohio could end it's 10-year film tax incentive program (originally signed into office in 2009 with a $20 million cap which was doubled to $40 million in 2016), but those concerns were alleviated when the state Senate voted to reinstate the tax credit in June of last year.
Cleveland natives and moviemaking brother duo Joe and Anthony Russo have taken a break from crafting box-office smashing Marvel hits to return home to film something slightly smaller and more personal: an adaptation of fellow Clevelander Nico Walker's novel about his life as an Iraq war veteran, bank robber, and opioid addict. Walker wrote Cherry from an Ashland, Kentucky prison, where he snatched an enviable book deal from Knopf Doubleday. The Liam Neeson action vehicle The Minuteman also set up shop in Cleveland, as did Warner Bros.' forthcoming Fred Hampton project, which stars a who's who of great actors: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, and Jesse Plemons.
15. Miami
Miami and heat are synonymous, and it's that vibrancy that keeps bringing moviemakers back to the city that's "very passionate," according to Sandy Lighterman, the Miami-Dade County film and entertainment commissioner. "The industry is alive and well and growing in Miami!"
Passionate local moviemakers include Michael Bay, Barry Jenkins, and Harmony Korine. Their diverse work captures what makes Miami so appealing for moviemakers. Miami has the third-tallest skyline in the United States, while Southern Miami-Dade County includes the sparsely populated Redland agricultural area. The western portion of the county extends into the Everglades National Park, and east of the mainland is Biscayne Bay. Rising moviemakers eager to make their mark in the cultural center of South Florida can choose from dozens of film festivals, including the Miami Film festival, American Black Film Festival, OUTshine Film Festival, Miami Jewish Film Festival, Miami Independent Film Festival and the Miami Short Film Festival. And in May 2020, Slamdance Miami Film Festival will debut.
With so many festivals, it makes sense that Miami moviemakers are so inspired. Bad Boys 4 Life, The Laundromat, Loved, Reefa, Los Plantados, Ghost Draft, and Manifest are just some of the movies shot in the city in 2019. Talk about heat.
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Danielson Famile, Kimya Dawson / Northsix / Dec. 3, 2004
Kimya Dawson is quite possibly the only person in the whole world who can get on stage in a big furry skunk costume, accompanied by a percussionist dude in a dress and bunny ears, as well as a doll also in a furry animal costume, and make me want to cry. It's not just that her songs are sad. It's that there's so much hope and love and goodness in her lyrics despite all the sadness. That just kills me, because I wish I felt that way. I wish I believed that a few chords on a beat-up acoustic guitar could change the world. That hugs and kisses will conquer shock and awe. But I just can't.
Kimya's performance hit me particularly hard because I'd forgotten how much I like her. I hadn't listened to any of her records since I wrote this, which was nearly two years ago. But that fragile little voice is like a cup of warm hot chocolate.
Daniel Smith's voice, on the other hand, is like a bucket of ice water in the face. Near the end of his set with the Danielson Famile, he asked the audience to join him in a sing-along, and everybody just laughed, because no mere mortal can sing that fucking high.
Bon Scott, Justin Hawkins—you guys are Barry White compared to this dude. Even Mariah Carey kneels before him.
Now, if you were blessed with a wail that could make rabid pitbulls cower in fear, what would you do with it? Why, you'd get your siblings and some friends together, dress everybody up in matching white medical scrubs with their names sewn on them, and you'd be a Christian folk-pop band. As All Music says, "They sound like Captain Beefheart's Magic Band joined by the Partridge Family at some roadside revival along the Jersey Turnpike," and, well, I can't really come up with anything to top that.
The Danielson experience can't quite be conveyed with mere words. There are synchronized hand gestures involved, as well as two drummers, a violinist and a banjo player (The latter being none other than Sufjan Stevens, who lurked in the background and was referred to by Daniel as "Steve." Due to shoddy mixing, I couldn't hear him sing or play at all. But I could drown in his dreamy blue eyes.)
All that doesn't even cover half of the craziness going on that night. Before the Famile's set, Daniel came out to talk about the handcrafted art objects he makes, "Great Comfort Stuff." On sale at the merch table: Greeting cards saying you're sorry. Gift wrap. Soap. Heart-shaped blinders. A wooden heart containing miniature body parts. That last one will set you back $400. But hey, this is ART. This guy was in the Whitney Biennial!
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Krempel, John Paul, Architect (Practice)
Exterior view of the Los Angeles Times Building #2, Los Angeles, c. 1885; from vickielester.com
Exterior view of the Los Angeles Times Building after bombing in 1910; from Wikimedia Commons
John Paul Krempel, Paul J. Van Trees
Active 1894-1911
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Agricultural Chemical Works, Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 1908 Los Angeles CA
Times-Mirror Company, Los Angeles Times Building #2, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
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Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 355, 1970.


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What were they thinking? 12 terrible vintage product names
1950s, 1960s, 1980s, Featured stories, Vintage advertisements, Vintage food & drink
Some product names are so perfect and catchy that they end up becoming part of the language, like Kleenex, Xerox, and Band-Aid. Well, the following 12 products fall squarely on the other end of the spectrum.
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Don't say we didn't warn you.
1. Crax Crackers
Step on a Crax? Crax kills? Nah — not the name of something you want to eat… and asking for them by name might even get you arrested nowadays. (Print ad from 1950)
2. Ayds helps you turn down a turnover
It's just bad luck when your brand name for a diet aid becomes synonymous with a dreaded disease. (Ad from 1978)
3. Stereo breakthrough: Bone Fone
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4. Skat insect repellent
Do you really want to say that you rubbed some Skat on yourself? (From 1952)
5. Meds tampons
Gives statements like, "She really needs her meds" and "I forgot to take my meds" a totally different meaning. (Feminine products on the market in 1951.)
6. Force cereal
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7. Sea Molds
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8. Macho, macho man
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MORE Bush elected President: Headlines from George H W Bush's presidential election win in 1988
9. Pro-phy-lac-tic
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10. Quest feminine deodorant
Do you really smell so bad that you need to embark upon "a long and difficult effort to… do something"? (That's the definition from Merriam-Webster for the word "quest.") But hey — it's so neat to use! (Ad from 1959)
11. Pream "cream"
"New, easy thrifty way to 'cream' your coffee" for the folks in 1955.
12. Hamies
Marketing Department: "What should we call these ham-flavored crackers?" Marketing department lackey channeling his 4-year-old daughter: "What about Hammies?" Marketing department secretary: "We can take out one M to make the name really groovy." Or so we imagine the conversation might have gone before these crackers hit grocery store shelves in the late sixties. (Ad from 1967)
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Q: Non-split extension of the rationals by the integers  Can someone describe explicitly an abelian group $A$ such that the extension $$0 \to \mathbb{Z} \to A \to \mathbb{Q} \to 0$$ doesn't split ?
Background: The Stein-Serre theorem (Hilton, Stammbach: A course in homol. algebra, Theorem 6.1) states that if $A$ is abelian of countable rank (=maximal number of linear independent elements), then $Ext(A,\mathbb{Z})=0$ implies $A$ free. When applied to $A= \mathbb{Q}$, I  conclude $Ext(\mathbb{Q},\mathbb{Z})\neq 0$. Moreover, by interpreting $A \in Ext(\mathbb{Q},\mathbb{Z})$ as extension $0 \to \mathbb{Z} \to A \to \mathbb{Q} \to 0$ of abelian groups, there must be an $A$ such that the extension doesn't split. The problem is that the proof of the theorem isn't constructive and doesn't show how to construct such an $A$.

A: Nice question. For a prime $p$ let $\mathbb{Z}_{(p)} = \lbrace \frac{a}{b}\in \mathbb{Q}\mid p \nmid b\rbrace$ and $\mathbb{Z}[p^{-1}] = \lbrace \frac{a}{p^n}\in \mathbb{Q}\mid n \ge 0 \rbrace$. Then
$$A := \lbrace (x,y) \in \mathbb{Q} \times \mathbb{Z}[p^{-1}] \mid x-y \in \mathbb{Z}_{(p)} \rbrace$$
has the desired non-split extension. Informal $A$ consists of all pairs $(x,y) \in \mathbb{Q} \times \mathbb{Q}$ where $y$ is the $p$-part in the partial fraction decomposition of $x$ (up to an integer summand).
Proof: Let $\rho: A \to \mathbb{Q}$ be projection onto the first factor and $i: \mathbb{Z} \hookrightarrow A$ inclusion into the second factor. By partial fraction decomposition of the rationals, $\rho$ is surjective and $$\ker(\rho)=0 \times \big(\mathbb{Z}[p^{-1}] \cap \mathbb{Z}_{(p)}\big) = 0 \times \mathbb{Z} = \operatorname{im}(i).$$
Next, let $j: \mathbb{Q} \to A$ be a splitting hom. of $\rho$. Composing $j$ with the projection onto the second factor yields a hom. $f: \mathbb{Q} \to \mathbb{Z}[p^{-1}] \le \mathbb{Q}$. Since each endomorphism of $\mathbb{Q}$ is multiplication with some $q \in \mathbb{Q}$ we have $f(x)=qx \in \mathbb{Z}[p^{-1}]$ for all $x \in \mathbb{Q}$ which is only possible for $q=0$. Hence $j(x)=(x,0) \in A$ for all $x \in \mathbb{Q}$. Setting $x=1/p$ we obtain $1/p \in \mathbb{Z}_{(p)}$ which is the desired contradiction. QED

A: Building on Ralph's answer a bit we can get uncountably many inequivalent examples as Mark Grant's comment on the original post suggested there should be.
Let $S,T$ be a partition of the primes into two nonempty sets (or if you prefer, the multiplicative sets generated by these).  Localize at these sets and form the sequence $0\to\mathbb{Z}\to S^{-1}\mathbb{Z}\oplus T^{-1}\mathbb{Z}\to\mathbb{Q}\to 0$, where the first map is $n\mapsto (n,-n)$ and the second is $(a,b)\mapsto a+b$.  (My comment on Ralph's answer was the case $T = \{p\}$.)  Then the same partial fractions argument as in Ralph's answer shows that this is an exact sequence which does not split.
Now let $U,V$ be another such partition of the primes.  Suppose there is an isomorphism $f: S^{-1}\mathbb{Z}\oplus T^{-1}\mathbb{Z}\to U^{-1}\mathbb{Z}\oplus V^{-1}\mathbb{Z}$ making the corresponding exact sequences equivalent.  Assume WLOG that $S$ contains at least two elements $p,r\in S$ and $p\in U$.
For any $k\geq 1$, equivalence of the exact sequences gives $f(1/p^k,0) = (a_k,b_k)$ where $a_k+b_k = 1/p^k$.  Since $p\in U$ and $U^{-1}\mathbb{Z}\cap V^{-1}\mathbb{Z} = \mathbb{Z}$, we get $(a_k,b_k) = (1/p^k + m_k,-m_k)$ for some $m_k\in\mathbb{Z}$.  The map $f$ is a homomorphism, so $f(1,0) = (1 + p^km_k, -p^km_k)$.  The value $k$ was arbitrary, so the second component of $f(1,0)$ is divisible by $p^k$ for all $k\geq 1$ and must be zero.  Therefore $m_k = 0$ and $f(1/p^k,0) = (1/p^k,0)$ for all $k\geq 0$.
The same argument shows that $f(1/r,0)$ is either $(1/r,0)$ or $(0,1/r)$ depending on whether $r\in U$ or $r\in V$.  The second case would make $f(1,0) = (0,1)$, contradicting the above, so $r\in U$.  In this way we obtain $S\subseteq U$.  The same arguments applied to the isomorphism $f^{-1}$ yield $U\subseteq S$, so $S=U$.
Thus the exact sequences are equivalent if and only if $\{S,T\} = \{U,V\}$.  There are uncountably many partitions of the primes into two nonempty sets, so there are uncountably many inequivalent non-split exact sequences $0\to\mathbb{Z}\to A\to\mathbb{Q}\to 0$.

A: Let $A$ be a subgroup of $\mathbb{Q}^2$, generated by $e:=(0,1)$ and $f_n:=(1/n!,\alpha_n)$, where $\alpha_n = \frac{1}{n} (\alpha_{n-1} + \nu_n)$, $\alpha_1 = 1$, and $\nu_n \in \mathbb{Z}$, to be specified later.
First of all, note that for each $n$ the vectors $e$ and $f_n$ generate a subgroup $A_n$ that contains $A_{n-1}$, and that $A = \bigcup_n A_n$, so it can be easily checked that $A \cap (0 \times \mathbb{Q})$ is the subgroup generated by $e$, isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}$. Furthermore, it is the kernel of the map that calculates the first coordinate, and the image is exactly $\mathbb{Q}$.
Now my aim is to choose $\nu_n$ in such a way that no element of $A$ is divisible enough. Clearly this can be done in many ways. Fix an $n$ for a moment, and notice that for $x \in A_n$ to be divisible by a large prime $p>n$ its second coordinate must equal $\frac{p!}{n!} \alpha_p$ modulo $p$. So by choosing $\nu_p$ we may ensure that a fixed $x$ is not divisible by $p$. What remains is to enumerate them carefully and choose $\nu_p$ in such a way that for every $n$ and every $x \in A_n$ there exists at least one $p$ such that $x$ is not divisible by $p$. Thus we need an injective map $(n,x) \mapsto p$ subject to $p > n$. It is easy but messy to write down... Just to elaborate the whole process: we choose $\nu_n$ in their usual order, and each time we run into a distinguished prime $p$ that is responsible for some $(n,x), n < p$, we should act accordingly using our knowledge of the previous $\alpha$'s.


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