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Hypochondria refers to a belief that physical symptoms are signs of a serious illness, even when there is no apparent medical evidence to support the presence of an illness. Recent research suggests that Hypochondria may be considered as an anxiety disorder. It is a form of abnormal health anxiety that may be mild or severe and disabling. The cause is unclear. But it is thought that personality, upbringing, life experiences and inherited traits may play a role.
Hypochondria tends to be a long-term condition that can last for years. If you have signs and symptoms of Hypochondria, please seek help from a mental health professional!


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Perfect Blessing
Viola C. Anderson
Publisher: Archway Publishing Pages: 149 Price: (paperback) $12.99 ISBN: 9781480809659 Reviewed: May, 2015 Author Website: Visit »
In her suspense novel, Perfect Blessing, Viola Anderson shows how the apparent foundations of a life can be blown away in an instant.
That instant occurs for the novel's main character, Katherine Steward, a comfortably situated housewife and mother, when she opens the door to two rain-soaked police officers late one night. The officers inform Katherine that her husband, Randall, was killed in a fiery car crash and that his body has been burned beyond recognition.
As Katherine starts to deal with her grief and make arrangements for Randall's funeral, she learns that Randall had recently arranged for his body to be cremated. She also learns that Randall has wiped out their joint bank accounts, allowed his life insurance to lapse and their mortgage payments to become seriously overdue. Of course, Katherine begins to sense a rotten underpinning to this scenario, and she presses the police to open an investigation.
It is not until her house is burglarized, however, that an investigator, Mark Lancer, takes on the case. Mark and Katherine start putting the missing pieces together, and the arc and denouement of the novel follow their discoveries and the action prompted by those discoveries.
While Perfect Blessing is carefully plotted, the author draws her characters with such minimalist strokes that readers may find it difficult to relate to them. Readers know, for instance, that Katherine found her husband controlling, but not why she chose to stay with him. Katherine's friend, Colleen, is little more than a cog to further the plot, and Mark, the detective, fails to rise above the stereotypical romantic interest.
As it stands, Perfect Blessing might appeal to those suspense fans who read solely for plot, but the novel would need a thoughtful revision focusing on enriching its character development in order to garner a larger audience.

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Q: Object cannot be converted to int I am going to delete the specific data from list view after building the gradle there's an error says "error: incompatible types: Object cannot be converted to int"
Code of DatabaseHelper
public void deletegroce(int groceId){
    String groceid[] = { String.valueOf(groceId) };
    SQLiteDatabase sqdb = this.getWritableDatabase();
    sqdb.delete(TABLE_NAME, KEY_GROCE_ID + " = ?", groceid);
    sqdb.close();
}

And here's my full code of Grocery_List and the error is located at line 65 which is  "int dave = aList.get(position); dbhelper.deletegroce(dave);"
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_grocery_list);
    lvGorc = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.lvGroc);
    dbhelper = new DatabaseHelper(Grocery_list.this);
    final List aList = dbhelper.getAllGroceries();
    final ArrayAdapter<String> La = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_expandable_list_item_1, aList);
    lvGorc.setAdapter(La);

    lvGorc.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(final AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
            AlertDialog.Builder adb = new AlertDialog.Builder(Grocery_list.this);
            adb.setTitle("Option");
            adb.setMessage("What do you want to do?");
            adb.setPositiveButton("Update", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) {

                }
            });
            adb.setNegativeButton("Delete", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) {

                }
            });
            adb.show();
        }
    });

    lvGorc.setOnItemLongClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemLongClickListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onItemLongClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, final int position, long id) {
            AlertDialog.Builder adb = new AlertDialog.Builder(Grocery_list.this);
            adb.setTitle("Delete?");
            adb.setMessage("Are you sure you want to delete the selected item?");
            adb.setPositiveButton("Delete", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                    int dave = aList.get(position);
                    dbhelper.deletegroce(dave);

                    La.notifyDataSetChanged();
                }
            });
            adb.show();
            return  true;
        }
    });
}

A: The aList you have defined is a List of objects. the ArrayAdapter<String> accepts all kind of objects lists and it will call toString() method, which all objects have it, to show it in the ListView.
When you try to get an object of aList it returns an object of that index which can not be cast to int.
I think you can simply take the id of your object and pass it into the dbhelper.deletegroce(dave). if your aList is a List of Integer objects you can simply cast it to int by calling:
int dave = (int) aList.get(position);

A: Your 5th line in OnCreate method which says
 final List aList = dbhelper.getAllGroceries();
it doesn't specify that aList is List of Integer. What does your getAllGroceries return?
You should also define your list as  final List aList = dbhelper.getAllGroceries();
and make sure dbhelper.getAllGroceries() return List of Integer data.

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I play poker with this guy on a fairly regular basis at the casino. He's got this medical alert dog he brings with him everywhere. Apparently the dog will warn him 20 minutes prior to having a medical emergency that he needs to seek help. How does the dog know something is wrong with him?
Not that I would ever doubt what somebody told me in a casino, R. But how do you know the pooch's alerts aren't more along the lines of "This guy's holding three of a kind"?
Fact is, there's no such thing as a general-purpose medical alert dog. Closest I know of is a dog that recognizes seizures, due either to epilepsy or, in diabetics, low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). The experts distinguish two types of canine assistant. The first is a seizure response dog, trained to summon help or the like if its owner has an episode. Research suggests dogs do well at this task. The second is a seizure alert dog, which provides advance notice.
Here matters get murkier, as the notion that dogs can sense a looming medical crisis is controversial. One case written up recently involved a diabetic farmer. While driving back to his house for lunch he'd often suffer hypoglycemia, which can lead to convulsions or unconsciousness. The farmer didn't see the attacks coming but his dog, who liked to sleep on the seat next to him, apparently did: on numerous occasions over a 17-year period the dog immediately awakened and barked until the farmer pulled over and ate some sugar.
Or so the farmer said. The problem with these accounts is you're taking somebody's word for it. In surveys of dog-owning epileptics, many report their pets can anticipate seizures and warn them in some way — barking, licking, etc. Perhaps so, but it's not like dogs don't do a lot of barking and licking at other times. In any case the dogs hadn't been trained to do whatever they did; they just picked it up on their own. Even if we accept claims of talented hounds at face value, how would you teach other animals to recognize signs with no clear notion of what the signs are? No one has attempted to do more than speculate on what the dog is sensing.
That is, if it's sensing anything. Again, plenty of researchers are skeptical. One 2007 report tells of four individuals whose dogs allegedly could anticipate their seizures. On examination, the four were found to suffer not from epilepsy but from psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, or PNES. They didn't have the chaotic brain activity of epileptics; to make a fine but crucial distinction, the problem was in their minds rather than their heads. One possibility raised: the dog's behavior wasn't a warning of a seizure but the trigger. Another research team reaching a similar conclusion observed: "Without objectively clarifying if patients have epilepsy or PNES, the current literature fails to support that canines can warn of impending seizures." So I won't say it never happens, but it may not happen much.
As I write, everything in my office is shaking. The culprit is the steamroller repaving a nearby road. My question: does a steamroller, which I believe shakes rather than weights the road into place, register on the Richter scale? If so, how much?
First of all, David, it's not called a steamroller, steam technology having been rare on construction sites since the days of Mike Mulligan. The diesel-powered machines you're seeing are properly called asphalt rollers or just rollers.
While some rollers flatten by sheer weight, others are designed to vibrate, bouncing their heavy steel drums minutely for superior roadway compaction. The energy thereby transmitted can indeed be measured on the Richter scale. My assistant Una, a professional engineer, has proudly submitted a page of calculations demonstrating that, certain possibly risky assumptions having been made (among them that road crews put in a full eight-hour day), the total energy released by a jumbo asphalt roller would register a bit south of 2.5 on the Richter scale. That's per day, not in one jolt, which you may say isn't in keeping with the spirit of the thing. You should also know the Richter is a special logarithmic scale where every jump of two whole numbers represents a thousandfold increase in energy. In sum, 2.5 isn't so much.
We can do better, though. We're interested less in energy output at the source, as measured by Richter, than in how intense the shock feels to us. A better gauge is the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale (MMI). Una judges the MMI rating of a roller to be 3 or 4. Using a table of equivalence prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey and waving our hands, we can then convert this back to Richter, enabling us to say the shaking you're getting approximates what you'd experience near the epicenter of a quake measuring roughly 4.0 on the Richter scale — not San Andreas level, but in there with the New Madrid fault. Hope that'll do.
Nothing new on the seizure-sniffing front, but new research suggests dogs can sniff out prostate cancer (added 6/2/2010, updated 12/29/2017).
How do they train dogs to sniff for bombs?
Why are dogs' noses always wet?


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Minister backs calls for international football to return to Wrexham's Racecourse Ground
01 Apr 2022 3 minute read
The Racecourse Ground. Photo released into the public domain by Spicke01
Wrexham MS Lesley Griffiths, Trefnydd and Rural Affairs Minister, has backed calls for football internationals to once again be staged at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground.
The Racecourse is the world's oldest international football stadium and has hosted more Welsh international games than any other venue.
In total 94 internationals have been played there dating back to the first on Welsh soil, against Scotland in March 1877.
The last game hosted was against Trinidad and Tobago in March 2019.
In second place is the now demolished Ninian Park in Cardiff with 88 games, followed by 45 at the Cardiff City Stadium's, the latest being Tuesday's friendly clash against Austria.
Responding to a question in the Senedd from Clwyd South MS Ken Skates, the minister shared her enthusiasm for the idea of bringing international football back to its original home in Wales, and saluted the Dragon's performance in a stunning 6-5 win over Dover Athletic last weekend.
Mr Skates said: "Saturday's National League football match at the Racecourse was a phenomenal event—you and I were both present at it, along with almost 9,000 spectators. Once again it demonstrated how the world's oldest international football stadium can host dramatic and sensational events. Would the Government commit to pressing for the return of international matches to the Racecourse as soon as possible?"
Responding Ms Griffith said: "The match on Saturday was certainly absolutely extraordinary. I was chatting to Llyr Huws Gruffydd about it over lunch. I'm still smiling. And in my 50 years of attending the Racecourse, I've never seen anything quite like it.
"I think you make a really important point. As a child, that's where I went to watch international matches, and, of course, with the success that the Wales football team have had over the past few years in particular, I think the players have made Cardiff City Stadium their fortress, if you like.
"I think last week—. Again, we were talking at lunchtime, saying we can't imagine football crowds singing like that 20 years ago, and singing in Welsh. And I think that says a lot about the way people have really taken this Welsh national football team to their hearts.
"But I know the new chief executive at the Football Association of Wales is very keen to see games played at the Racecourse. I think it's very important for us in north Wales that those games are played, even if they're only friendly games, in the coming years.
"So I'm sure the Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, and Chief Whip will certainly continue to press that with the Football Association of Wales."
The Dragon's remarkable come-back win over relegated Dover last weekend was secured by Jordan Davies' last gasp header late in stoppage time, after the home side had blown an early two goal lead.
The visitors responded with five unanswered goals before the hosts late surge saw them equalise through a Davies free kick at the start of the nine minutes of extra time added by referee.
There was a tweet on Tuesday remarking that flight data implied the Czech team would have got back to Prague before supporters from Wrexham etc. would have got back to North Wales.
The atmosphere is always better with fans from all over Wales in attendance and everyone in Welsh football wants to see games (probably friendlies) played in Wrexham but it is a topic which should lead into conversations about how easy or not it is to travel through Wales.
Eifion
Soccer and Wrexham in the same story
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7:00 a.m. - Arrive at the office. An early riser, I am often one of the first to arrive. I sip my coffee, complete my time entries from yesterday, review a few new e-mails that have arrived overnight and organize my task list to prioritize what I need to accomplish today.
7:30 a.m. - Review revised drafts of the main transaction documents for an equity investment. Our client, an equity fund, is investing in a start-up company. We circulated initial drafts of a stock purchase agreement and the other investment documents a few days ago. A stock purchase agreement is the main document under which an investor buys stock in a company. It generally contains the principal terms and conditions of the investment. Late yesterday, we received revised drafts reflecting some comments from opposing counsel. I review the new drafts and identify any issues. My review is interrupted by a few calls from clients. One client calls with a quick question about a confidentiality agreement that we prepared for him last week. Another client calls to set up a conference call to discuss some proposed stock options. I schedule a conference call for later today.
9:30 a.m. - Meet with Mark Witt to discuss the issues I have identified in the transaction documents. Mark is a shareholder and member of the Corporate Practice Group, and I am working with him on this deal.
10:00 a.m. - Conference call with clients. After getting Mark's thoughts on the issues I have identified, I call the client to discuss the new drafts. After my call with the client, I call opposing counsel to negotiate several points. I then revise the stock purchase agreement and other transaction documents to reflect the changes we have discussed.
12:15 p.m. - Lunch. My lunches are rarely the same from day to day. Sometimes I have a lunch meeting; sometimes I have lunch with a colleague and sometimes I have a working lunch at my desk. Today I need to run home to care for my dogs. I also have a couple of errands to do.
1:30 p.m. - Conference call to discuss a client's proposed stock option grants. I have asked Robyn Arnold, a second-year associate and member of the Corporate Practice Group, to participate in the call with the client because she will be helping to prepare the documentation for the proposed grants. Robyn and I spend about 15 minutes discussing some background information before the call. We drafted a stock option plan and helped this client grant a number of stock options under the plan last year. The client now wants to grant some additional options under the plan. During our conference call, the client defines the goals and Robyn and I ask a few questions regarding the proposed grants.
2:15 p.m. - Respond to question from client. John Gaebler, a shareholder and member of the Corporate Practice Group, has forwarded an e-mail from a client asking about the default provisions for its credit facilities. The client wants to know what types of litigation would be considered defaults under its loan agreement. We already have copies of the loan documents because we represented the client in the loan transaction I review the documents, discuss a few thoughts with John and e-mail the client an answer to the question.
4:00 p.m. - Respond to question regarding a Hart-Scott-Rodino, or an HSR, filing. I received a number of voice mails while preparing the response to our client's question about its loan agreement. One of the voice mails was from Dave Navarre, a shareholder and member of the Corporate Practice Group. Dave was calling to discuss the timing of an HSR filing for a pending transaction. HSR filings are regulatory antitrust filings that are required to be made before completing certain transactions. They are designed to give the federal government a pre-closing opportunity to consider whether certain transactions will create antitrust issues if they are consummated. I review the HSR regulations and meet with Dave to discuss the proposed filing.
4:30 p.m. - Return voice mails and e-mails. I always return calls I receive during the day before I leave the office. I also try to provide at least an initial response to all e-mails before I leave the office, even if it is just a short note to let the sender know that I received the e-mail and am working on a response. On average, it takes me about an hour to respond to voice mails and e-mails at the end of each day. Today's voice mails and e-mails include, among other things, a client request for an electronic copy of an invoice and a question about a supply agreement that we prepared for a client last week. I also have several e-mails from colleagues here at G&K. Dani Machata, another associate and member of the Corporate Practice Group, e-mailed me a quick question about a closing we worked on last year; Todd Cleary, a shareholder and member of the Employee Benefits Practice Group, e-mailed me some comments to the employee benefits provisions of an asset purchase agreement for a pending deal; and Brian Gilpin, team leader of the Intellectual Property Practice Group, sent me some information regarding trademark searches to pass along to a client.
6:00 p.m. - Leave the office. Tonight I run home, walk the dogs, grab a quick dinner and head to a meeting at church to discuss a service project that I am helping to organize.


Rack::Test::Session's methods are most often called through Rack::Test::Methods, which will automatically build a session when it's first used.
Set the username and password for HTTP Basic authorization, to be included in subsequent requests in the HTTP_AUTHORIZATION header.
Issue a DELETE request for the given URI.
Set the username and password for HTTP Digest authorization, to be included in subsequent requests in the HTTP_AUTHORIZATION header.
Set an env var to be included on all subsequent requests through the session.
Rack::Test will not follow any redirects automatically.
Issue a GET request for the given URI with the given params and Rack environment.
Issue a HEAD request for the given URI.
Set a header to be included on all subsequent requests through the session.
Creates a Rack::Test::Session for a given Rack app or Rack::MockSession.
Issue an OPTIONS request for the given URI.
Issue a PATCH request for the given URI.
Issue a POST request for the given URI.
Issue a PUT request for the given URI.
Issue a request to the Rack app for the given URI and optional Rack environment.
Set an env var to be included on all subsequent requests through the session. Use a value of nil to remove a previously configured env.
Rack::Test will not follow any redirects automatically. This method will follow the redirect returned (including setting the Referer header on the new request) in the last response. If the last response was not a redirect, an error will be raised.
Issue a GET request for the given URI with the given params and Rack environment. Stores the issues request object in #last_request and the app's response in #last_response. Yield #last_response to a block if given.
Set a header to be included on all subsequent requests through the session. Use a value of nil to remove a previously configured header.
In accordance with the Rack spec, headers will be included in the Rack environment hash in HTTP_USER_AGENT form.
post "/signup", "name" => "Bryan"
Issue a request to the Rack app for the given URI and optional Rack environment. Stores the issues request object in #last_request and the app's response in #last_response. Yield #last_response to a block if given.
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Philip Gross is Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. His collections of poetry for adults and children include The Water Table, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize, and The All-Nite Café which won the Signal Award. Philip Gross is also the author of ten teenage novels - most recently Going for Stone, The Lastling and The Storm Garden.
The judges selected If You Could See Laughter by Mandy Coe to be Highly Commended.
The shortlisted titles are Everybody Was a Baby Once by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Bruce Ingman, Walker; Cuckoo Rock by Phil Bowen, illustrated by Fred James, Salt Publishing; A Million Brilliant Poems (part one) edited by Roger Stevens, illustrated by Jessie Ford, A & C Black.
and Fiona Waters, honours excellence in poetry written for children. Previous winners include Jackie Kay, Roger McGough, Fiona Waters, Carol Ann Duffy, Grace Nichols and John Agard. The 2011 award was sponsored by Travelling Books.


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Buhén bylo staroegyptské osídlení ležící v oblasti druhého nilského kataraktu. Je především známý pro svoji pevnost, která zde byla postavena kolem roku 1860 př. n. l. za vlády faraona 12. dynastie Senusreta III. Ve zdejší lokalitě se Egypťané poprvé usadili během 4. dynastie za vlády faraona Snofrua. Podle nalezených nápisů zde Egypťané setrvali po dobu 200 let, do období 5. dynastie, kdy byli pravděpodobně vyhnání imigranty z jihu.

Faraon Senusret III. provedl během své vlády čtyři válečné výpravy do Kuše, během nichž nechal vystavět řadu pevností. Pevnosti byly stavěny s takovým rozestupem, aby byly schopné si předávat varovný signál o blížícím se nebezpečí. Nejsevernější pevností z této linie byl Buhén. Podél Nilu se pak nacházely další pevnosti – Mirgissa, Šalfak, Uronarti, Askut, Dabenarti, Semna a Kumma. Kušité dobyli Buhén během 13. dynastie a drželi nad ním kontrolu až do vlády egyptského faraona Ahmose I., který na začátku 18. dynastie získal pevnost zpět. Egypt na konci 20. dynastie o pevnost opět přišel, když byla napadena domorodými silami.

Pevnost, nacházející se na západním břehu Nilu, měřila více než 150 metrů a rozléhala se na ploše 13 000 m2. Žilo zde přibližně 3 500 obyvatel. Buhén rovněž sloužil jako administrativní centrum pro celou oblast druhého nilského kataraktu. Pevnost byla chráněna tři metry hlubokým vodním příkopem, padacím mostem, bastiony, hradbami s cimbuřím a katapulty. Zdi pevnosti byly přibližně pět metrů široké a deset metrů vysoké.

V současné době se pevnost Buhén nachází pod hladinou Násirova jezera, které vzniklo výstavbou Vysoké Asuánské přehrady v roce 1964. V pevnosti se rovněž nacházel Horův chrám postavený královnou Hatšepsut. Ten byl před zatopením oblasti přesunut do súdánského hlavního města Chartúmu.

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A 5G network for every factory
Preparations are moving at full speed. In just a few years, many companies will be able to network their plants completely wirelessly, making their production more efficient, autonomous, and flexible than ever before thanks to local 5G networks.
Over the next few years, private 5G wireless networks will be set up at industrial sites wherever companies need robust, ultrafast networks with a high bandwidth. From automated racking systems and production lines to augmented reality and robots, the new mobile communication standard will control hundreds of thousands of devices per square kilometer in real time. Industrial 5G is expected to be available for use in Germany by 2023 and in Great Britain, the U.S., and other countries.
The attraction of 5G for smartphone users is obvious: For example, it allows them to watch 4K videos wherever they want. But it's far more important for industry. It's a milestone on the path to Industrie 4.0, in which smart factories become more flexible and productive thanks to end-to-end digitalization and the Internet of Things. 5G is 10 to 20 times faster than today's LTE and consumes only one-thousandth of the amount of energy per bit transferred. "Low latencies, extremely high bandwidths, control over one's own data, having control over the network performance – private networks open up previously unimagined opportunities for industry," says Sander Rotmensen, head of Product Management for Industrial Wireless Communication at Siemens.
Collaborating with telecommunications companies
But according to the schedule, several stages have to be completed in the coming years before private networks can become a reality. Germany completed the first stage last March. As part of an auction of 5G frequencies to mobile network operators, the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency, BNetzA), reserved part of the spectrum – between 3,700 MHz and 3,800 MHz – for local networks in industry, research institutions, and agriculture.
This success was largely due to support from Siemens and other well-known industrial companies and associations. This frequency band is ideal for small-scale applications. "It makes sense that industry should have direct access to these frequencies," says Rotmensen. "We know our plants' requirements better than anyone. In the final analysis, what's important for industry is to work as efficiently as possible, which also means maximum availability of the network infrastructure."
Proof-of-concept demos
It comes as no surprise that German companies like Audi, Mercedes-Benz, BASF, and even Deutsche Messe AG are already investing in 5G. The foundations for industrial 5G networks are also being laid elsewhere. For example, the Citizen Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) initiative in the U.S. is offering the frequencies between 3,550 MHz and 3,700 MHz for local networks. Ofcom, the British office for communications, announced in a white paper published in June 2019 that it plans to make the frequency bands from 3.8 to 4.2 GHz, 1,800 MHz, 2,300 MHz, and 26 GHz available to local operators.
But before industrial companies can work with these frequencies, the 5G standard has to be further developed to accommodate industrial requirements. The first step will take place in mid-2020 with "Release 16" from the international mobile network committee 3GPP. This will make it possible to start developing hardware – infrastructure and terminals – for local production facilities. And once frequency usage fees have also been clarified – a significant detail required for investments in industrial 5G – nothing will stand in the way of initial proof-of-concept demos.
Wireless communication is being further developed
The benefits of private networks are obvious. Companies can track, store, analyze, control, and flexibly configure data traffic at their own discretion. This allows them to guarantee the speed and reliability that their processes – all their logistics and production sequences – require. "As soon as Release 16 is issued, we'll test its concrete potential," says Rotmensen. "But it's already clear that 5G is ideal for companies that want to track production in real time or process data at the "edge" of their own network (Edge applications) without first having to send everything to the cloud."
It's true that wireless communication in industry is nothing new. With RUGGEDCOM WIN, Siemens is already using a private WiMAX radio solution in various sectors, but the focus is on the smart-grid environment for monitoring and controlling power grids. In addition, there are already a few isolated private LTE networks, for example in factories and ports. Siemens has been successfully using an industrial WLAN for wireless communication in industry for over 15 years and fulfilling all the necessary requirements, up to and including wireless safety. Along with industrial 5G, IWLAN is also undergoing further development, because private industry frequencies for 5G aren't available everywhere in the world. However, none of these solutions offer anywhere near the range of services of 5G.
Private spectrum must be established worldwide
Nevertheless, on the path to industrial 5G it's also important that the private spectrum for local applications be established internationally, because only then can 5G-based technologies be successfully used in industry worldwide. "Before any local industry networks are launched," says Rotmensen, "Siemens will extensively test solutions for the industrial 5G network.
Three questions for Herbert Wegmann, General Manager Industrial Communication and Identification
at Siemens, concerning the opportunities and limits of 5G.
People have been talking about 5G for some time now, but the standards for industrial 5G won't be published until mid of 2020. Aren't you getting impatient?
Hermann Wegmann: No, because now it's only a question of time. The important thing is that the requirements of industrial companies are being standardized in Release 16 (expected M2020) and 17 (expected E2021) from 3GPP, the international mobile radio standards organization. More important Another important step promoting the system's acceptance by industrial companies was the decision of the Federal Network Agency to enable companies that want to use 5G in their factories to create their own local networks. Now it's clear that in Germany we can use the 100 MHz frequency band between 3.7 and 3.8 GHz for industrial applications with a high quality of service. We're happy about that, not only because we have advocated this policy but also because Industrial 5G will enable us to completely connect industry for the first time.
Which aspect of 5G impresses you most?
Wegmann: The numbers – one million connected units per square kilometer, a transmission rate of up to 20 gigabits per second, and a reaction time of only a few milliseconds. These numbers speak for themselves. But what impresses me most is the things that Industrial 5G will make possible. It can be used to develop completely new and flexible factory concepts. Companies will be able to dynamically adapt their production areas to current circumstances at any time, without having to make major changes to their infrastructure. Once we start to realize these possibilities, we will not be far from reaching the vision of of the self-organizing factory.
What are 5G's limits?
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Saraki To Launch Made in Nigeria Challenge in January 2017
In his continued quest to provide a platform for the promotion of Made in Nigeria products in order to boost Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in the country, Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has informed of his plan to launch 'Made in Nigeria Challenge' in January 2017.
Saraki, in a statement signed by Bamikole Omisore, his special assistant on New Media, stated that the 'Made in Nigeria Challenge' initiative will afford entrepreneurs in the country opportunity to connect manufacturers that produce alternatives to imported products.
The initiative, the Senate President stated, will not only assist upcoming entrepreneurs but open door of opportunities for established local manufacturers to compete in international markets.
"On 2nd of January 2017, my office will launch #MadeInNigeria challenge to connect investors to manufacturers that produce alternatives to imported products, since inception of the 8th Senate, we have championed and encouraged the patronage of #MadeInNigeria goods so as to jumpstart the economy and we have also amended the Public Procurement Act to support this agenda.
"In 2017, we intend to take #MadeInNigeria further by using legislation to discourage importation of goods that can be produced locally, take the advocacy directly to Nigerians, work with government agencies to create enabling environment and encourage Nigerians who have eyes for local production i.e. goods that are ready substitute to imported ones" the statement read.
"From January 2nd 2017, using hashtag #MadeinNigeria manufacturers can post 45 seconds to 3 minutes video of a product we are importing but that they can produce using at least 80 per cent local content.
"Those shortlisted will be invited to a roundtable with investors and government agencies such as Bank of Industry (BoI), Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and so on," he said.


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Home/Business/Incubator kitchen brings hope, opportunity to Grand Rapids food startups
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Inside Kzoo Station, a new incubator launching in Grand Rapids' Boston Square Business District, Jeanetta Hudnell talks enthusiastically about the business she hopes to build there.
The grandmother, who lives half a mile from the Southeast Side kitchen, started pickling vegetables during the COVID-19 pandemic and serving them to friends and family on hot dogs, sandwiches and charcuterie boards. After completing a Spring entrepreneurship program hosted by GR, he decided to take his hobby to the next level and launch Papa's Peppers.
"I take my idea and it comes to life," said Hudnell, who plans to lease space in the incubator's kitchen to get Papa's Peppers up and running.
Papa's Peppers is an example of the type of business Spring GR and community development group Amplify GR are looking to foster at Kzoo Station. The two organizations teamed up to create the kitchen, located at 1445 Kalamazoo Ave. SE and which was completed in December, with the aim of providing a place for food businesses and restaurants to launch or expand.
Rental space in the 1,400-square-foot kitchen, owned by a limited liability company affiliated with Rockford Construction, costs $20 an hour.
Inside the building, a former car dealership that has been vacant for years, users have access to a bright new kitchen with two electric convection ovens, a deep fryer, a flat-top grill, a grill, a stove-top and 12 stove as well as a freezer and cold storage. Ten or six tenants are expected to use the space by April after obtaining the necessary licenses.
John Ippel, executive director of Amplify GR, a nonprofit working to redevelop several Southeast Side neighborhoods, said the idea for the kitchen was born out of community conversations.
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"Food really became one of those things that a lot of neighbors had a passion for, were very skilled at, and in many cases were operating small businesses out of their kitchens," he said.
Kzoo Station, which cost about $600,000 to complete, is one of the first projects Amplify has completed in the Boston Square Business District.
The nonprofit was created by the Doug and Maria DeVos Foundation and the Cheri DeVos Foundation with the goal of redeveloping the Cottage Grove, Boston Square and Madison Square neighborhoods. The neighborhoods are located in the third ward of the city, which is home to a large part of the city's black population and has not shared in the same level of investment as other parts of the city.
After renovations were completed in December, Kzoo Station is slowly coming along.
On Wednesday morning, Debbie Mitchell, owner of Momma D's Kitchen, met with a Kent County Health Department worker at Kzoo Station to receive a license to begin using the space this week.
"It's a new facility, which means everything is working well, and they have programs going on here to help entrepreneurs succeed," said Mitchell, a Spring GR graduate whose business sells barbecue sauce and barbecue food.
Mitchell, 55, said he has leased space from other kitchen incubators in the area, including Downtown Market in Grand Rapids and Prep Space in Wyoming. He decided to come to Kzoo Station after Spring GR told him about the kitchen.
"I can network better here because it's probably Spring GR students who are here," said Mitchell, who operates a mobile food cart and sells his barbecue sauce at Bridge Street Market, Sobie Meats and the Fulton Street Farmer's Market.
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Spring GR, a business venture created by the DeVos family, will manage Kzoo Station.
Three program areas are planned for the space: Idea Lab, a Kitchen Incubator Program, and Maker Space.
Idea Lab is a free and open workshop, available to anyone, designed to offer advice to residents with an idea for a food business.
The Kitchen Incubator Program is a 15-week course designed to provide food entrepreneurs with the knowledge to launch and grow their businesses and obtain the necessary licenses and certifications. Ten to 12 people can participate in the program, which is held twice a year.
The last area, Maker Space, is for food businesses that are licensed, insured and certified in proper food safety procedures, and are willing to rent space in the kitchen for $20 an hour. The goal is to have five or six of these tenants by April.
Arlene Campbell, director of Spring GR, says, "Our mission is to help businesses grow and become profitable so they can grow and do what they dream about.
Sitting at a table inside the kitchen, Hudnell talks about his dream of selling his pickled peppers to restaurants, grocery stores, farmers markets and more. One mix he's excited about is jalapeno peppers and brussels sprouts.
"I know people have never heard of this before, but we're making it work," said Hudnell, who has spent her adult life serving as a mother, caregiver and "professional student."
"My father had just died, and I was his caregiver, and I needed to make a change in my life. So this is my time, and this is a great opportunity to take my idea and make it into a business."
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Other entrepreneurs who plan to use the kitchen include Shantal Ferrell, owner of Savor the Flavor, as well as Kayla Munoz, owner of Let's Taco.
Officials expect Kzoo Station to benefit from other developments Amplify has planned for the area.
In partnership with neighbors, Amplify created a plan to redevelop a nine-acre area in the Boston Square Business District bounded east and west by Fuller and Kalamazoo avenues, and north and south by Adams and Ramona streets.
The plan calls for 101 mixed-income apartments, retail space, a community center and early childhood education center, a park, green space and more. A formal groundbreaking date for the apartments has not been set. However, Amplify was granted a housing tax credit for the project, Ippel said.
Once the housing is completed, it will give a boost to the businesses in Kzoo Station, he said.
"I imagine a day where there are a hundred new families living across the street and what that will mean for their business in terms of having a hundred potential new customers," he said. "It provides more convenience and opportunities for families, but also provides more business opportunities for those who will work at Kzoo Station."
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Why Disney's Animal Kingdom Is The Best (And Not) Of All The Disney Parks
When it comes to the "Disney thing" I have defaulted to letting my parents take my kids. It was a grandparent treat when I was 5 and both of my boys have had the pleasure of visiting the Happiest Place On Earth with their grands. But when it came to planning a winter getaway to Florida, how could I overlook the Magic Kingdom?
Zacharie saved up money for his own plane ticket, he wanted to see crocodiles and panthers, and I found a good seat sale fare into Orlando. How could I land in Orlando and not do Disney?
I found a compromise: Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's Disney without being DISNEY! DISNEY refers to the intensity of the experience at the other parks. There are crowds, there are hardcore fanboys, there are lines, there's just OMG ALL THE THINGS!
Things are different at Disney's Animal Kingdom; the characters are there, the park is filled with creativity, but it's not DISNEY! It's got a slower pace, it's got more to see and experience making it the best (and worst) of all the Disney parks.
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Disney Animal Kingdom Is The Best Disney Park
There are not a lot of things to line up for a Disney's Animal Kingdom. You'll easily find your 3 things to reserve on your FastPass+, but if you've got younger kids (mine were 8 and 6 when we visited), you won't find a lot that you need to line up for.
The Kilimanjaro Safari is a must. This is where you get up close with the zebras, giraffe, cheetahs, lions, and more like you're on safari. It always has the longest line, and should be your first FastPass+ pick.
My kids had no desire to ride Expedition Everest or Dinosaur! so the only other things we lined up for was a shot at seeing Mickey and Minnie and the Finding Nemo show, but again you could use your FastPass+ for both of those.
The rest of the park is wander and do what you'd like as you'd like. There's street entertainment, places to relax, and random encounters with characters. We took a train out to Rafiki's Planet Watch,
wandered the wonderfully detailed Maharaj Jungle Trek to see the tigers
We hiked the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail to see the gorillas and birds
And saw everything there was to see at the park at our own pace without ever waiting in a line.
And then there's the Wilderness Explorer activities that kids can do. Right at the entrance to the park is a kiosk where kids can pick up guide books with 31 challenges to seek out and perform around the park. They'll visit different places and learn about drums, insects, mountains, trekking, birds, and more.
Our boys were content to run around the park and perform ALL THE TASKS in the Wilderness Explorer guidebook. (Usually kids accomplish the feat in two visits, but our boys were absolutely dialed in on becoming Wilderness Explorers on our one day visit).
What did this mean? Well, a lot of walking, but also a lot of DOING. Our sons were constantly talking to staff and performing tasks and learning. At the end of the day, they handed in their completed books and became Wilderness Explorers without ever waiting in line. We were at Disney's Animal Kingdom for more than 8 hours and spent less than 20 minutes of it in a line.
The variety of things to see and explore at our own pace without the crowds of the other parks made Disney's Animal Kingdom the best Disney park to me.
Disney Animal Kingdom Is NOT The Best Disney Park
For all the reasons that Disney's Animal Kingdom is the best Disney park, it could also follow for some that Disney's Animal Kingdom is NOT the best Disney park.
There are not a lot of things worth lining up for. You've got 2 big rides, a safari, and some shows. Outside that there's nothing to line up for and that meant disappointment for our 6 yr old.
Charlie had just been to Disneyland with his grandparents in October. So the rides were fresh in his mind and .. he was a little disappointed that there wasn't much in his wheelhouse. When it came near the end of our day and we gave the kids a chance to do "one more thing" before heading home, Charlie asked to do some rides.
We hustled over to Dinoland USA, the only place in the park with a ride where he was tall enough and he wanted to go on (Dinosaur! and Expedition Everest would be too much for him).
A few spins on a triceratops themed ride, some mole whacking and water squirting and we were done. That was it.
Yes, there's a HUGE playground and climbing and digging space in Dinoland USA where kids can explore but really, you took your kids to Disney so they could go to a playground? The lack of rides and 'things to do' was a downer for Charlie.
Disney's Animal Kingdom also has an early closing time (the animals need to get hustled in to their pens before dark) meaning the visiting hours are shorter. This is a downer for some although my wife and I were wiped after 8 hours and were just fine heading home after dinner.
This will be changing in April 2016, as the park opens some new activities and areas and exhibits in the evenings. (Our visit seemed like a work in progress, there were construction crews revamping everything).
The Tree of Life in Animal Kingdom is going to come alive at night with a new projection show, while Rivers of Light is a new water & light show inspired by lanterns & the Aurora Borealis. The Kilimanjaro Safari Ride at Animal Kingdom will go into evening with an extended sunset trip to view nocturnal animals. And still to come, the new Avatar exhibits.
The character quotient is a little lighter at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Yes, Mickey and Minnie are there in wonderful safari outfits, but the others we spotted around were Baloo and Louie (from The Jungle Book), Dug and Russell (from Up!), and Chip and Dale. Pochantas was there and Tarzan is roaming about, but that was really it. So it's not the DISNEY! experience many die hards seek.
But that's not what we were looking for. We wanted to see animals, have a day at Disney, and walk around in February wearing shorts. We wanted Disney, not DISNEY! and this place was exactly that kind of experience. For us, Disney's Animal Kingdom was perfect.
Disclosure: Our family received 2 complimentary tickets to Disney's Animal Kingdom.
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I don't really know what it was about this cover that originally caught my attention but I know for a fact that I adore it. I love how dark it is, thanks to being like 90% black, since I'm quite sure that it perfectly mirrors how dark the story itself is. Yes, I admit I've not read this one yet even though it stands on my shelf at home, shame on me, I know.
Furthermore I really like the golden eclipse like splash with the title inside of it. The font fits really well and was probably one of the reasons why the cover caught my eye. I know that this one originally had a different cover, which was awful, so I'm happy they changed it. The covers for book two and three are also really pretty so I cannot wait to get into this trilogy so that the entire thing can take it's place on my shelf.
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Shifting diets away from meat and dairy to plant-based protein will be vital in driving down greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture but does a broader concept of a "planet-based diet" hold the key to achieving reductions consistent with the Paris climate goals? Ben Cooper explores the implications for food companies.
he mammoth challenge facing the food sector in reducing agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a scale consistent with the Paris climate goals would be too daunting to contemplate were it not for the saving grace of its near-perfect alignment with positive health outcomes.
While research suggests health concerns have been the more significant driver of the plant-based boom to date, the potential for the win-win of better health and a healthier planet to sustain and accelerate the trend is undeniable.
Planetary boundaries
However, a thought-provoking report from the independent conservation organisation WWF, released in November, sets out a more detailed and nuanced analysis of the relationship between dietary requirements and environmental objectives relating to GHG emissions and other critical issues such as biodiversity loss.
Examining how balancing nutritional requirements with environmental impacts varies across the 147 countries evaluated, the report concludes that there is no "one-size-fits-all solution".
Rather, flexible and adaptable models are required that can be tailored to different cultures, while still delivering the required human health benefits and low environmental impacts.
Plant-based foods will feature prominently but the over-arching concept is the "planet-based diet", which includes meat and dairy.
"Everyone switching to a plant-based diet is not feasible in certain countries where there are serious nutrition deficiencies and, in other countries, it's not necessarily practical because of consumer preferences," says Katherine Devine, director for business case development and markets at WWF.
The organisation's report adds that dietary transitions "must be part of a holistic food system transformation designed by multiple stakeholders and be accompanied by nature-positive production practices and reductions in food loss and waste".
While the report speaks to the challenge the agri-food sector must confront in relation to over-intensified and unsustainable animal protein production, WWF's pragmatic approach and willingness to engage with industry will be welcomed by food manufacturers.
"The reality is that people are going to consume dairy and animal protein, so we need to work with producers and meet them where they are," Devine says. However, she adds that retaining a "critical eye" is also important. "We need to look at all these solutions together. That does not mean they get a free pass."
The system can only work if we have a strategy to reduce food waste. It is not possible to accept that the world is wasting 30% of the food it is producing today.
From the organisation's point of view, arguably the most important contribution is providing consumers with product choices that make the necessary shifts in diets desirable.
"Diets have to be rebalanced," says Eric Soubeiran, vice president of nature and water cycle at Danone. "We are advocating for flexitarianism [and] should make sure we offer choices to consumers so they can balance the types of protein they are using."
Soubeiran also stresses the importance of addressing the issue of food waste: "The system can only work if we have a strategy to reduce food waste. It is not possible to accept that the world is wasting 30% of the food it is producing today."
Meanwhile, Robbert de Vreede, global executive vice president for foods at Unilever, stresses the importance of making plant-based alternatives sufficiently desirable in countries, such as in China, where eating more meat protein is aspirational.
"In China, they aspire to eat meat because that's a sign of development and we need to find a way where, as they embark on getting the right kinds of proteins in their diet, it is not necessarily animal protein."
Like Danone, Unilever looks to support consumers following a flexitarian diet and this is compatible with both its commercial and environmental aims.
"It's about a balance," de Vreede says. "I think it's easier to convince the world population to become more flexitarian than to convince the population they all need to become vegan."
He points to The Vegetarian Butcher, the Dutch business Unilever acquired in 2018. "We believe that the power of [The Vegetarian Butcher] brand is that it speaks to the people who love meat and we're after the big group, which is smart from a business perspective because it's a bigger market but also it's smart from a sustainability perspective because it has a bigger impact."
Nevertheless, offering a mixed protein portfolio sustainably will only be possible for food companies if their meat and dairy suppliers raise their game on environmental impacts, as the Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index, also published in November, showed.
According to the Index, some 86% of major meat and dairy suppliers "do not declare or set" meaningful reduction targets for all greenhouse gas emissions, which the investor network said is "undermining" the climate commitments of companies such as McDonald's and Nestlé.
The lack of progress fosters the narrative that animal protein is irredeemable and inherently unsustainable. While some may hold that view, including some leading figures in the booming plant-based protein sector, it is not shared by WWF or the vast majority of food manufacturers.
"Animal husbandry is essential to circular agriculture because, through animal husbandry, you can balance the cycle of nitrogen and phosphorus within a farm. A grazing-based system of animal husbandry is absolutely compatible with planetary boundaries," Soubeiran points out.
Food companies tend to refrain from openly upbraiding their animal protein suppliers, recognising the challenges they face and the progress they are making.
There is an "understandable hesitancy" to criticise suppliers publicly, says FAIRR head of research Aarti Ramachandran because "they have these long-standing relationships with these suppliers. I expect there's a lot of behind-the-scenes engagement happening".
Driven by rising investor pressure, the protein sector is "now beginning to move rapidly", Ramachandran continues, adding nine of the 60 companies on the FAIRR Index have now set science-based emissions targets.
Livestock farming can play an important role in balancing nutrient levels in soil.
Disrupting dairy
The US dairy sector's Net Zero Initiative, meanwhile, is demonstrating what might be achieved at a sector-wide level. At WWF, Devine recently penned a positive paper on the programme, which she believes could be a compelling model of collective engagement on emissions reduction from which other animal protein sectors, such as poultry, pork, eggs, beef, and aquaculture, can learn.
According to Karen Scanlon, senior vice president for environmental stewardship at US trade body Dairy Management Inc., the programme aims "to develop the pathway for farms to reach the 2050 environmental stewardship goals", a set of voluntary targets centring on carbon emissions and on water use drawn up by the industry and wider stakeholders.
The programme sets out to "make sustainable practices and technologies more accessible and affordable to farmers", she explains.
It is an industry-wide initiative open to farms of all sizes. "We have to continue to take the learnings from the pilots and other efforts to refine some of the practices," Devine says.
"But I think the fact that the industry is both setting these targets and then putting their money where their mouth is in terms of these pilots to share learnings, so that it can be applied to a variety of producers, is really positive."
Scanlon adds: "From its inception, the strategy was to bring others to the table with farmers to provide their resources and expertise, and that is exactly what's happening." Nestlé and Starbucks are participating in the programme, which Scanlon says "speaks volumes about their belief in dairy as a leader in sustainability".
While possibly underlining the extent to which traditional animal protein sectors must change to remain within planetary boundaries, the effusive remarks of Benjamin Ware, global head of responsible sourcing at Nestlé, also reflect the company's commitment to supporting the transformation process.
"It's about completely redesigning a dairy farm and that's what we loved," Ware explains. "With this, we were not here to fix something: we were here to create a new business model."


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29 Mar 2012: UNITED STATES – Reminder of H-1B Filing Season – L-1 Visa Validity Changes
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UNITED STATES – Reminder of H-1B Filing Season – L-1 Visa Validity Changes
The filing period for new H-1B petitions to be counted against the annual H-1B quota (the "H-1B cap") for FY 2013 begins tomorrow, Friday 30 March 2012. Also, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) is now authorized to issue L-1 visas with validity periods of up to five years depending on the maximum period allowed for the foreign national's country of citizenship in the "visa reciprocity schedule".
Reminder: H-1B Fiscal Year 2013 Filing Season – Get Ready for 2 April
The filing period for "new" H-1B petitions to be counted against the annual H-1B quota (the "H-1B cap") for financial year (FY) 2013 begins on Friday 30 March 2012. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will accept cap-subject H-1B petitions for FY 2013 on Monday 2 April 2012 for employment with a start date of 1 October 2012 or later.
Employers should identify current and future employees who will need H-1B status to be legally employed. Individuals currently employed as F-1 students or J-1 trainees, individuals seeking to change to H-1B from another work status (such as L-1, TN or E-3), and individuals outside of the United States commonly require new, cap-subject H-1Bs.
More About the H-1B Cap
A total of 85,000 new H-1Bs are made available each government fiscal year: 65,000 under the "regular cap" and 20,000 under the "Master's cap" for those with advanced degrees from U.S. universities and colleges.
In previous years, the annual limit for new H-1Bs was exceeded within the first few days of filing, resulting in a random, computer-generated lottery for available visa numbers. However, since FY 2010, the cap has been reached later in the year, anywhere between the months of October and January.
Send in H-1B Applications Now!
Given that the cap hit a few months earlier in FY 2012 than in the previous two fiscal years, it is important that employers file all new H-1B petitions when the H-1B quota opens by mailing cap-subject petitions on Friday 30 March 2012 or Saturday 31 March 2012 for next-business-day delivery to USCIS on 2 April 2012. Cap-subject cases must be received by USCIS no later than Friday 6 April 2012 to be considered as having been filed within the first five business days of the filing period.
Under USCIS regulations, if a sufficient number of petitions to reach the cap is received in the first five business days of the filing season (from Monday 2 April 2012 up until Friday 6 April 2012) USCIS runs a lottery to determine the cases that are awarded quota numbers.
New Department of State Rule Delinks L-1 Visa and Petition Validity Periods
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) is now authorized to issue L-1 visas with validity periods of up to five years depending on the maximum period allowed for the foreign national's country of citizenship in the "visa reciprocity schedule". This is the case even if that period is longer than the validity dates on the underlying petition approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The visa reciprocity schedule reflects the reciprocal treatment the foreign applicant's country accords U.S. nationals.
Previously, L visa issuance was limited to the validity period of the USCIS petition, which cannot exceed three years. The new DOS rule delinks visa and petition validity periods and permits an L-1 visa to be issued for the same period as determined in the reciprocity schedule. The rule applies to both individual and "blanket" L petitions.
Immediately begin identifying persons for whom H-1B sponsorship will be needed and initiate any new H-1B petitions with your U.S. immigration attorneys as soon as possible.
Note the new validity periods for L-1 visas.
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The Darkness Comes
"If you were to enter the darkness, you would succumb to it. The only way to defeat an Oni is with another Oni. You need me."
— Garmadon, to the Ninja
"The Darkness Comes"
Air date January 19, 2019 (New Zealand)
April 6, 2019 (Canada)
April 19, 2019 (US)
Written by Bragi Schut
Directed by Per Risager
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The Darkness Comes is the first episode of the tenth season, and the 95th overall of LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu. It aired in New Zealand on January 19, 2019, April 6, 2019 in Canada, and on April 19, 2019, in the United States with the rest of Season 10 as a film.
5 Locations Featured
As Ninjago City rebuilds, Faith arrives with a dire warning that the Oni have returned and are destroying the realms, one by one; Lloyd faces the possibility that to defeat this foe, he may need the help of another enemy.
Noble shows Lloyd to Garmadon's wing, stating it was built just for him. After unlocking the entrance, he runs off, leaving Lloyd to confront Garmadon by himself. When he reminds Garmadon that he had requested to see Lloyd, Garmadon claimed that it was unusual. When Lloyd threatened to leave, Garmadon remembered and told him that the Bringers of Doom were coming and that although he didn't care, he would rather not be destroyed along with Lloyd. He said that he had decided to help the ninja defeat them and that he was the only one powerful enough to do so. Lloyd refuses his offer and angrily storms off, but Garmadon assured him that he will come back.
Meanwhile, the citizens rebuild Ninjago City while Cole, Zane, and P.I.X.A.L. wait in traffic, complaining that they're thirty minutes late. They wanted to use the Earth Driller to dig under the road, but it was new, so the trio decided to get out of the Earth Driller and run to their destination. Once they arrived, the Police Commissioner gave a speech and presented them with a rebuilt Destiny's Bounty as a reward for saving Ninjago.
At the Monastery, Jay is practicing how to ask Nya to be his Yang with Kai. Kai tells him to be confident, but Jay says it doesn't sound right. Suddenly, Dareth bursts in and asks them what's happening. Kai explains it to him and tells him to keep it a secret. Nya comes in and tells them that Wu is in the courtyard looking at the new Mural. They went outside to join him, witnessing Firstbourne crashing near the base of the mountains. They went down to check on her, but she opened her claws and let Faith fall out. Faith informed them that "Darkness was coming" and they took her inside of the Monastery to heal. The rest of the ninjas arrive. Wu said that both Faith and Firstbourne would heal and continued explaining what Faith had told him.
A cloud of darkness had overtaken her home realm, and whoever touched it had been petrified. Lloyd told the others what Garmadon had said. Wu showed them his father's book containing a picture of The Omega. He said that his father had called them the "Bringers of Doom." The ninja head out to warn the city.
Meanwhile, in Borg Tower, a watchman explains to his partner that artifacts from Hiroshi's Labyrinth had been relocated to the tower because it has better security. Unbeknownst to them, darkness escaped from the Realm Crystal and started to engulf the tower. The two escaped and wheeled Borg out while the other citizens evacuated.
The ninja arrived at the Bounty and admired it. When they tried to fly, they realized that the thrust lever was wired backward. After Zane fixed the label, they took off.
The Commissioner was working on a model ship, but an officer came in and told him that there was trouble in Ninjago. In the city, the dark clouds started petrifying everyone in its path. Zane claimed that they were too late and the ninja sped off to rescue the people. The Commissioner and cops tried to stop the darkness, but without proper weapons, they had to back away. Fortunately, the ninja arrived in time to save them and helped them up to the Bounty. The ninja's Elemental Powers had no effect on the darkness, even when they used them together, and they also had to evacuate. Cole was grabbed by one of the tentacles, but Lloyd saved him. They saved more citizens, and Cole explained what the tentacle felt like. He said that he saw something inside the cloud that looked like an Oni, so the ninja went back to Kryptarium to get Garmadon. Without another choice, they release him from prison.
Dareth - Alan Marriott
Jimmy - Daniel Doheny
Lloyd Garmadon - Sam Vincent
Noble - Paul Dobson
P.I.X.A.L. - Jennifer Hayward
Police Commissioner - Michael Donovan
Rufus MacAllister - Paul Dobson
Tourist Dad - Michael Adamthwaite
For the transcript of the episode, click here.
Locations Featured
Ninjago City
Borg Tower
Borg Tower Vaults
Ninjago Harbor
Monastery of Spinjitzu
Kryptarium Prison
Cell one
This is the first episode to air in 2019.
Kryptarium Prison has built a special cell for Garmadon, naming it cell one. It is the most heavily protected cell in the prison.
The Destiny's Bounty has been rebuilt from the blueprints that Rufus MacAllister mysteriously obtained.
It is unknown how there is a mural of the Sky Pirates and Nadakan when the events of Skybound were erased from existence.
When the ninja are observing the Skybound mural, Kai and Dareth look at each other, confused.
[Tommy Andreasen]] gave a few rhetorical questions on Twitter to imply some possible explanation for the existence of the Skybound mural:[1]
Who wrote the 'Book of Spinjitzu'?
When was it written?
What information is in it?
How could he know?
Faith and Firstbourne enter Ninjago, this being the first time for Faith.
This marks the first episode to feature the Earth Driller in Season 10.
In the book that Wu pulls out, the pictured Oni is shown having a staff that bears a notably similar design to Borg Tower.
The Realm Crystal, along with other artifacts, were transferred from the Hiroshi Labyrinth Stronghold to the basement of Borg Industries because the tower had better security.
This is the third season premiere to recount the previous episode.
The others are Season 2 and Season 9, the episodes being "Darkness Shall Rise" and "Firstbourne," respectively.
It is revealed that those touched by the darkness become frozen in place like statues.
This is the third episode with a name including the word "Darkness"; as the others are "Darkness Shall Rise" and "Island of Darkness" in Season 2.
The magazine Garmadon is reading in his cell translates to "Time," which is likely a reference to the real-life magazine of the same name.
Wu is revealed to know of the events of Skybound.
Nya wears her brand new kimono in this episode.
This is the first season premiere to have an intro sequence since "The Surge."
This is the first physical appearance of Cyrus Borg since "Lost in Time."
When March of the Oni aired in the US, Faith's explanation about the Darkness is edited in "Endings" as the Dark cloud consumes Ninjago City.
Cyrus Borg, Faith, Vinny, and the Omega appear in this episode but don't speak.
When the Commissioner tells the Ninjago Police to draw their weapons, an officer says "We only have tasers, remember?" This is a reference to a similar scene in "Dread on Arrival".
In the Sons of Garmadon intro "panel," Lloyd is dressed in his Hunted suit. Inversely, in the Hunted intro "panel," Lloyd is dressed in his Sons of Garmadon suit.
In the intro sequence, the Dark Island Trilogy is shown before Skybound, when they should be in the opposite order.
When Cole got into the car, he opened both rear doors. When he leaves, both rear doors seem to be closed.
In the last shot of the ninja on the Bounty, Zane's hair is misaligned with his head.
When Jay is trying to grab the Yin Yang medallion from Kai, their suit colors are switched so it looks like Kai is trying to grab it. It fixes itself in the next shot.
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Episodes of March of the Oni


Does one hijacking deserves another? They say in the West that the Wahabbi Jihadis have hijacked Islam. So the solution is to have the torturers and their enablers hijack America and her traditions and values. To move her closer (and lower) to the level of the terrorists……….
From the bright America of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and John Kennedy to this? To the recent American regimes of prevalent KGB-style domestic espionage and imaginative external torture? To the sorry lot of the past fourteen years of Bush, Cheney, and whoever calls the shots for Obama?
During the cold war, a favorite criticism of the Soviet Union was its all-powerful untouchable apparatus of internal espionage. The West allegedly won the Cold War, or did it? Can we say that after the disclosures of widespread spying on American citizens and their private correspondence and communications? The Allies won the war against the Nazis, but Western regimes are now using methods of torture for which they tried Nazis and others after the war. There is a difference in the extent of the torture. So it is a difference between "widespread torture" and "mass torture" as done by totalitarian regimes.
Could it be this new for-profit approach to national security of these past few years? The system that hires unaccountable "private contractors" and torturers and creates a chance of deniability? A deliberate alibi for officials at a cost of millions to the treasury paid to these private contractors? The modern legal equivalent of Mafia "hit men" pretending to be patriotic while inflicting unusual pain for a lot of money?
Would Messrs Bush, Cheney, their accommodating Counselors, and those in the Obama White House who condoned the practice accept to be "rectally fed"?
Can anyone imagine "rectal feeding" condoned under any American president that preceded Bush, Obama, and possibly one of the Clintons? Not even Reagan and Nixon, who were perceived as tough but had some honorable limits.
Normally you would consider the U.S. Senate as a sane place where grown-ups would impose some limits on such un-American behavior. But even that window will not be there anymore. It will be closed come January. The crazies look ready to control the asylum.
Navy Seal Bin Laden Tattler: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance?……….
"Many a man would face his gun and many a man would fall………..
This is the era of the whistleblowers and the tattlers and opportunists. Some do it, blow the whistle, for personal reasons, some do it for principled reasons. Everybody is now entitled to their brief television interview, perhaps their book, and maybe their movie based on the book. From former top cabinet members to former Navy Seal members. Everybody wants to be Captain America, except for the ones who are dead and those who choose not to talk.
He sure doesn't seem to live up to the image that has been publicized about the Navy Seals . But then neither do the leading politicians and others who publish selective secrets after leaving office.


Analysis of the perceived economic opportunities in the months of January, February and March 2018 indicate that the expectations in terms of job prospects of people or developing the status of their business in the ensuing 12 months has reduced compared to the month of December last year.
The same expectation showed a growing trend in the month of December 2017. The expectation showed a decrease in the month of January 2018 comparing to the month of December 2017 but increased sharply in the month of February 2018. However, the same showed a decreasing trend in the month of March 2018.
In January, the inflation in the country stood at 5.4 percent, and in view of the next 12 months, the expectation of the people to improve their employment status or business have been reduced.
Inflation declined to 3.2 percent in February 2018 and the same expectation has slightly increased.
The rupee has further depreciated compared to the US dollar in the first quarter of 2018. The rupee stood at 152.6 rupees against the US dollar in December 2017 and increased to 153.7 rupees in the end January 2018. The rupee stood at 154.8 against US dollar in February and further increased to 155.9 rupees in the month of March 2018 to buy a US dollar.
inflows to the financial account in spite of the widening of the trade deficit. Tourist earnings recorded a notable growth during January 2018 while workers 'remittances, which marked a set-back in 2017, also recorded a considerable growth on a year-on-year basis in January 2018. At the end of January 2018, gross official reserves of the country amounted to US dollars 7.7 billion, equivalent to 4.3 months of imports.
The below graph shows the change of expectations in terms of job prospects of people, or development of the status of their business, in the ensuing 12 months.
These reasons are likely to have had an impact on the expectations of job prospects and the business activities of the people in the months of January , February and March 2018.
The expectation for reduction of corruption in the country showed a significant positive trend in the first quarter 2018.


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Audressein est une commune française, située dans le département de l'Ariège en région Occitanie.

Localisée dans le nord-ouest du département, la commune  fait partie, sur le plan historique et culturel, du Couserans, pays aux racines gasconnes structuré par le cours du Salat (affluent de la Garonne). Exposée à un climat de montagne, elle est drainée par le  Lez, la  Bouigane et par divers autres petits cours d'eau. Incluse dans le parc naturel régional des Pyrénées ariégeoises, la commune possède un patrimoine naturel remarquable composé de six zones naturelles d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique.

Audressein est une commune rurale qui compte  en , après avoir connu un pic de population de  en 1851. Elle fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Saint-Girons. Ses habitants sont appelés les Audressenois ou Audressenoises.

Le patrimoine architectural de la commune comprend deux  immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques : la batteuse hydraulique d'Audressein, inscrite en 2003, et l'église Notre-Dame-de-Tramesaygues, classée en 1990.

Géographie

Localisation

La commune d'Audressein se trouve dans le département de l'Ariège, en région Occitanie.

Elle se situe à  à vol d'oiseau de Foix, préfecture du département, et à  de Saint-Girons, sous-préfecture.

Les communes les plus proches sont :
Castillon-en-Couserans (), Cescau (), Sor (), Arrout (), Salsein (), Argein (), Balaguères (), Les Bordes-sur-Lez ().

Sur le plan historique et culturel, Audressein fait partie du Couserans, pays aux racines gasconnes structuré par le cours du Salat (affluent de la Garonne), que rien ne prédisposait à rejoindre les anciennes dépendances du comté de Foix.

Commune des Pyrénées située dans le Castillonnais en Couserans au sud-ouest de Saint-Girons au confluent du Lez  et la Bouigane. La commune fait partie de la communauté de communes Couserans - Pyrénées et du parc naturel régional des Pyrénées ariégeoises.

Géologie et relief
La commune est située dans les Pyrénées, une chaîne montagneuse jeune, érigée durant l'ère tertiaire (il y a  d'années environ), en même temps que les Alpes. Les terrains affleurants sur le territoire communal sont constitués de roches sédimentaires datant du Mésozoïque, anciennement appelé Ère secondaire, qui s'étend de . La structure détaillée des couches affleurantes est décrite dans la feuille « n°1073 - Aspect » de la carte géologique harmonisée au  du département de l'Ariège et sa notice associée.

La superficie cadastrale de la commune publiée par l'Insee, qui sert de références dans toutes les statistiques, est de . La superficie géographique, issue de la BD Topo, composante du Référentiel à grande échelle produit par l'IGN, est quant à elle de . Son relief est particulièrement découpé puisque la dénivelée maximale atteint . L'altitude du territoire varie entre  et .

Hydrographie

La commune est dans le bassin versant de la Garonne, au sein du bassin hydrographique Adour-Garonne. Elle est drainée par le Lez, la Bouigane, un bras du Lez, le Long Rieu, le ruisseau de Cazalus et par divers petits cours d'eau, constituant un réseau hydrographique de  de longueur totale.

Le Lez, d'une longueur totale de , prend sa source dans la commune de Sentein et s'écoule du sud-ouest vers le nord-est. Il traverse la commune et se jette dans le Salat à Saint-Girons, après avoir traversé .

La Bouigane, d'une longueur totale de , prend sa source dans la commune de Saint-Lary et s'écoule du sud vers le nord puis d'ouest en est. Elle traverse la commune et se jette dans le Lez sur le territoire communal au nord du bourg, après avoir traversé .

Climat

Le climat qui caractérise la commune est qualifié, en 2010, de « climat océanique dégradé des plaines du Centre et du Nord », selon la typologie des climats de la France qui compte alors huit grands types de climats en métropole. En 2020, la commune ressort du type « climat de montagne » dans la classification établie par Météo-France, qui ne compte désormais, en première approche, que cinq grands types de climats en métropole. Pour ce type de climat, la température décroît rapidement en fonction de l'altitude. On observe une nébulosité minimale en hiver et maximale en été. Les vents et les précipitations varient notablement selon le lieu. À l'ouest du département, le climat océanique, avec ses entrées d'air atlantique, apporte des perturbations qui arrosent les reliefs.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir la typologie de 2010 comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent aux données mensuelles sur la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré suivant.

Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont évolué. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat complétée par des études régionales prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Ces changements peuvent être constatés sur la station météorologique de Météo-France la plus proche, « Augirein », sur la commune d'Augirein, mise en service en 1990 et qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle est de  et la hauteur de précipitations de  pour la période 1981-2010.
Sur la station météorologique historique la plus proche, « Saint-Girons », sur la commune de Lorp-Sentaraille, mise en service en 1949 et à , la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour la période 1971-2000, à  pour 1981-2010, puis à  pour 1991-2020.

Milieux naturels et biodiversité

Espaces protégés
La protection réglementaire est le mode d'intervention le plus fort pour préserver des espaces naturels remarquables et leur biodiversité associée.

La commune fait partie du parc naturel régional des Pyrénées ariégeoises, créé en 2009 et d'une superficie de , qui s'étend sur  du département. Ce territoire unit les plus hauts sommets aux frontières de l'Andorre et de l'Espagne (la Pique d'Estats, le Mont Valier, etc) et les plus hautes vallées des avants-monts, jusqu'aux plissements du Plantaurel.

Zones naturelles d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique
L'inventaire des zones naturelles d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (ZNIEFF) a pour objectif de réaliser une couverture des zones les plus intéressantes sur le plan écologique, essentiellement dans la perspective d'améliorer la connaissance du patrimoine naturel national et de fournir aux différents décideurs un outil d'aide à la prise en compte de l'environnement dans l'aménagement du territoire.
Quatre ZNIEFF de  sont recensées sur la commune :
 la « partie aval du Lez entre Les Bordes-sur-Lez et Saint-Girons » (), couvrant  du département ;
 le « réseau hydrographique de la Bouigane en aval de Saint-Lary » (), couvrant  dont 13 dans l'Ariège et 1 dans la Haute-Garonne ;
 la « soulane de Balaguères au Char de Liqué » (), couvrant  du département ;
 le « sud de la vallée de la Bellongue » (), couvrant  dont 13 dans l'Ariège et 3 dans la Haute-Garonne ;
et deux ZNIEFF de  :
 le « massif d'Arbas » (), couvrant  dont 48 dans l'Ariège et 42 dans la Haute-Garonne ;
 les « montagnes entre la haute vallée de la Garonne et la haute vallée du Lez » (), couvrant  dont 15 dans l'Ariège et 6 dans la Haute-Garonne.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Audressein est une commune rurale. Elle fait en effet partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Saint-Girons, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (54,3 % en 2018), néanmoins en diminution par rapport à 1990 (60,5 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
prairies (54,3 %), forêts (39,3 %), zones urbanisées (6,4 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Hameaux et lieux-dits
Les hameaux sont Artigues, Tutou, Oueillerot, Angoils, Coumes, Castet-Moussu, Carrérat, la Lane, Engouès.

Habitat et logement
En 2018, le nombre total de logements dans la commune était de 145, alors qu'il était de 140 en 2013 et de 129 en 2008.

Parmi ces logements, 53 % étaient des résidences principales, 41,9 % des résidences secondaires et 5,1 % des logements vacants. Ces logements étaient pour 98,7 % d'entre eux des maisons individuelles et pour 0,7 % des appartements.

Le tableau ci-dessous présente la typologie des logements à Audressein en 2018 en comparaison avec celle de l'Ariège et de la France entière. Une caractéristique marquante du parc de logements est ainsi une proportion de résidences secondaires et logements occasionnels (41,9 %) supérieure à celle du département (24,6 %) et à celle de la France entière (9,7 %). Concernant le statut d'occupation de ces logements, 80,2 % des habitants de la commune sont propriétaires de leur logement (75,7 % en 2013), contre 66,3 % pour l'Ariège et 57,5 % pour la France entière.

Risques majeurs

Le territoire de la commune d'Audressein est vulnérable à différents aléas naturels : inondations, climatiques (grand froid ou canicule), feux de forêts, mouvements de terrains et séisme (sismicité modérée).

Certaines parties du territoire communal sont susceptibles d'être affectées par le risque d'inondation par débordement, crue torrentielle d'un cours d'eau, ou ruissellement d'un versant.

Les mouvements de terrains susceptibles de se produire sur la commune sont soit des chutes de blocs, soit des glissements de terrains, soit des effondrements liés à des cavités souterraines, soit des mouvements liés au retrait-gonflement des argiles. Près de 50 % de la superficie du département est concernée par l'aléa retrait-gonflement des argiles, dont la commune d'Audressein. L'inventaire national des cavités souterraines permet par ailleurs de localiser celles situées sur la commune.

Toponymie
Origine inconnue, mais une influence basque comme dans le val d'Aran tout proche est possible.

Histoire
L'église Notre-Dame de Tramesaygues est située au confluent du Lez et de la Bouigane d'où son nom signifiant "entre les eaux". C'est un haut lieu de pèlerinage dédié à la Vierge depuis le XIIe siècle. L'ancienne chapelle fut reconstruite au XIIIe siècle puis agrandie du XVe au XVIe siècle. Le portail d'entrée est de facture gothique. Le campanile du XIVe siècle et le porche orné de fresques du XVe siècle sont classés.

Sur le chemin du piémont pyrénéen, Audressein est sur un itinéraire secondaire du pèlerinage de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle.

Politique et administration

Découpage territorial
La commune d'Audressein est membre de la communauté de communes Couserans-Pyrénées, un établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI) à fiscalité propre créé le  dont le siège est à Saint-Lizier. Ce dernier est par ailleurs membre d'autres groupements intercommunaux.

Sur le plan administratif, elle est rattachée à l'arrondissement de Saint-Girons, au département de l'Ariège, en tant que circonscription administrative de l'État, et à la région Occitanie.

Sur le plan électoral, elle dépend du canton du Couserans Ouest pour l'élection des conseillers départementaux, depuis le redécoupage cantonal de 2014 entré en vigueur en 2015, et de la première circonscription de l'Ariège  pour les élections législatives, depuis le redécoupage électoral de 1986.

Liste des maires

Démographie

Économie

Emploi

En 2018, la population âgée de  s'élève à , parmi lesquelles on compte 77,2 % d'actifs (64,6 % ayant un emploi et 12,7 % de chômeurs) et 22,8 % d'inactifs. En  2018, le taux de chômage communal (au sens du recensement) des  est supérieur à celui du département et de la France, alors qu'en 2008 la situation était inverse.

La commune fait partie de la couronne de l'aire d'attraction de Saint-Girons, du fait qu'au moins 15 % des actifs travaillent dans le pôle. Elle compte  en 2018, contre 25 en 2013 et 25 en 2008. Le nombre d'actifs ayant un emploi résidant dans la commune est de 49, soit un indicateur de concentration d'emploi de 46,7 % et un taux d'activité parmi les 15 ans ou plus de 47 %.

Sur ces 49 actifs de 15 ans ou plus ayant un emploi, 10 travaillent dans la commune, soit 21 % des habitants. Pour se rendre au travail, 90,4 % des habitants utilisent un véhicule personnel ou de fonction à quatre roues et 9,6 % n'ont pas besoin de transport (travail au domicile).

Activités hors agriculture
12 établissements sont implantés  à Audressein au .
Le secteur de l'administration publique, l'enseignement, la santé humaine et l'action sociale est prépondérant sur la commune puisqu'il représente 25 % du nombre total d'établissements de la commune (3 sur les 12 entreprises implantées  à Audressein), contre 14,4 % au niveau départemental.

Agriculture

La commune fait partie de la petite région agricole dénommée « Région pyrénéenne ». En 2010, l'orientation technico-économique de l'agriculture  sur la commune est l'élevage d'ovins et de caprins. Cinq exploitations agricoles ayant leur siège dans la commune sont dénombrées lors du recensement agricole de 2010 (douze en 1988). La superficie agricole utilisée est de .

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

 Église Notre-Dame-de-Tramesaygues, classée Monument historique (1990) et au patrimoine mondial par l'UNESCO, au titre des principaux sites des chemins de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle en France : porche original à trois entrées et campanile du .
 Le bâtiment de la batteuse hydraulique et la batteuse hydraulique d'Audressein sont inscrits à l'inventaire des Monuments historiques en 2003.
 Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Tramesaygues, dite aussi église Saint-Martin.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 François Ille (1743-1802), député de l'Ariège de 1791 à 1792, né à Audressein
 Sernin Laffont (1771-1841), colonel de la Révolution et de l'Empire, né à Audressein.
 Paul Dedieu (1933-2012), international de rugby, inhumé à Audressein.
 École de rugby de Castillon rattachée au regroupement éducatif du Couserans à St Girons

Pour approfondir

Bibliographie
 Geneviève Pic-Patrouix, Un village ariégeois de l'an mil à nos jours - Audressein et Notre-Dame de Traymesaygues - préface d'Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, 47 pages, éditions du Soleil, 1991.

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de l'Ariège
 Castillonnais
 Couserans

Liens externes

 Audressein sur le site de l'Institut géographique national

Notes et références

Notes et cartes
 Notes

 Cartes

Références

Site de l'Insee

Autres sources

Commune dans l'Ariège
Commune dans l'arrondissement de Saint-Girons
Aire d'attraction de Saint-Girons


Complete Custom Wheel (CCW); the wheel company dedicated to bringing exceptional products to market for demanding car enthusiasts whom values performance, above all else. CCW was founded with the intention of providing race and street car builders a way to get the most out of their car and not the most out of their wallet. All CCW Wheels are made from industry standard lightweight Forged 6061 Aluminum. Monoblock, two-piece and three-piece wheels for street & track use are currently offered. Modular / Multi-piece CCW wheels are assembled using the finest ARP Hardware, known for their strength and durability. Polished, Matte Black, Gold, and even Candy Apple Red are just a few of the many powder coat color options we offer. We understand that not all car builds are created equally and your wheels should be no different! Contact us and allow our team to work with you one on one to choose custom offsets, lip sizes, and options to create your own complete custom wheel.