want having the exterior of your house or organisation cleaned extensively, it is appropriate to employ a specialist that is informed in providing a Power clean. It is vital that you comprehend that not all specialists are produced similarly. It is important to understand exactly what information special interest should be positioned on to decrease the possibility that the pressure cleansing work could be not be done properly, and also to avoid the possibility that damages could occur by the pressure cleaning service technician that you employ.
One of the most vital pointers on ways to work with a specialist for the objective as well as intent of performing a Power wash on your residence or business is to make certain that the expert is licensed in conducting this activity. This will verify that the specialist has actually been enlightened on the administration of the wash as well as on various strategies associated with Power cleansing. Instances of methods consist of large spray patterns, even strokes, as well as similar approaches.
The following pointer on selecting a pressure clean expert is taking the time to make certain that they are covered by insurance coverage. Insurance coverage will certainly cover any kind of type of damage that comes as a direct result of unsuitable actions on behalf of the Power cleansing technician.
When selecting a professional to press wash your home or organisation, it is essential to examine out the references of the expert. This will certainly give you a suggestion as to just how the professional functions.
get in touch with a pressure wash firm and they refuse to set up a consultation, you need to no more proceed business keeping that business.
It is rather most likely that they are not a specialist business if the business has devices with lower stats compared to described here.
6. The pressure clean technician from the business that you are evaluating ought to be able to give you with information aside from the common tools that will certainly be made use of. These information must include a thorough summary of the pressure cleansing strategies that will certainly be used, the type of cleansing representative that will certainly be executed in order to efficiently clean your residence or service, in addition to any type of complimentary solutions provided, such as removaling things that could remain in the method when the job is being conducted.
7. When it comes time to agree to hiring a certain Power clean business, it is essential to make sure that the agreement details everything that will be done when Power cleaning, the insurance policy coverage, in addition to the prices details.
Following these ideas could help you in locating a pressure wash service technician if your residence or organisation needs Power cleaning. Remember, there are amateur and also specialist business on the marketplace today. Adhere to these tips on the best ways to choose a Power washing contractor, and also you are sure to manage a company that is absolutely specialist.
If you are interested in having the exterior of your home or company cleaned up extensively, it is appropriate to work with a professional that is informed in carrying out a pressure clean. It is important to recognize exactly what information unique focus must be put on to reduce the possibility that the pressure cleansing work may be not be done appropriately, and also to prevent the opportunity that damages may occur at the hands of the Power cleaning technician that you hire.
One of the most important pointers on exactly how to hire a service provider for the purpose and intent of carrying out a pressure wash on your house or organisation is to guarantee that the expert is accredited in performing this task. When choosing an expert to push clean your residence or service, it is vital to examine out the referrals of the expert. If your home or business demands pressure cleansing, adhering to these ideas might help you in locating a Power wash professional.
Pressure washing is a popular residence improvement and also home improvement service due to the fact that it is both economical, economical and also could make an amazing distinction to a home or homes curb allure and also value. particular vital if you are looking at marketing your residence or business premises.
Numerous DIY fanatics might decide to execute the pressure washing jobs themselves. Lots of people own their very own Power washer and Power cleaning equipment or they might know someone that they can obtain a pressure washing machine from to carry out the jobs. If nonetheless you are seeking to use or involve an expert pressure cleaning solutions company, there are a few ideas you could wish to consider beforehand in order to avoid obtaining swindled, having your house harmed or just having a disappointment as a whole.
Pressure washing needs no formal education and learning like various other professions in the construction industry such as pipes or electrical contractors. Anybody could merely get a power or acquire washing machine and also begin their own power washing company as well as primarily find out how to do the job on the job.
fundamental requirements that you must be watching out for when engaging a firm to perform outside cleaning and power cleaning solutions to your home. Right here is a checklist of those requirements.
Are they experienced? Preferably you intend to find a firm that has actually been around for a very long time. The longer the far better.
Are they insured? Make sure the company you employ is fully insured, otherwise any damages that they cause to your house, you will be responsible for and expense for.
a record for the task handy? Power cleaning can involve many different services and also treatments. From roof cleansing to concrete cleaning to graffiti elimination. It is a good idea to recognize that the company you utilize is experienced in doing specifically what you need.
Lots of Do It Yourself enthusiasts might opt to do the pressure washing works themselves. Lots of individuals own their very own pressure washer as well as pressure washing tools or they may know somebody that they could borrow a Power washing machine from to execute the jobs. If nevertheless you are looking to employ or engage a professional Power washing services business, there are a few ideas you might want to consider in advance in order to stay clear of getting ripped off, having your residential property damaged or just having a bad experience in general.
Power cleaning could entail many various solutions as well as procedures.
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Tech for Australasian Meats
Business View Oceania interviews David Wright, Director of SCL Products, for our Food and Beverage View.
Introduced to the New Zealand market nearly two decades ago, SCL Products was formed to provide the local meat industry with radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking and yield management equipment. RFID tracking systems are specifically designed for meat processing facilities, allowing for efficient asset tracing and identification. This is an important step for meat processors to ensure their products match regulations, are time and cost efficient, and remain disease-free. SCL Products are experts in yield management- their systems help clients quantify data that works to produce high-quality outcomes following the animals' end of life.
SCL Products was born out of parent company System Controls Limited, and benefits from a working relationship with directorate Calibre Limited. SCL Products states: "SCL understands that meat processing facilities vary considerably from plant to plant. SCL has the expertise to integrate systems regardless of their IT platform- RFID products allow for seamless integration with new or existing plants. As leaders in automation, SCL can take advantage of the traceability that RFID offers. Traceability is no longer a 'buzz word'. It is being driven by today's modern consumer and their demands to ensure the consumption of a quality product. It will become a regulatory requirement for meat exporting countries, especially those with recorded disease outbreaks in the past."
SCL Products have two main applications to support their RFID tracking systems. Firstly, RIVET-ID (for sheep meat skids) and SCREW-BUNG-ID (for beef meat trolleys) protect RFID tags from the harsh environments found in processing environments and can easily be attached to existing equipment. Secondly, SCL Products provides a Plastic Meat Skid & Gambrel for use in chillers, which allows for increased air flow, better use of space, reduced noise pollution and rail wear, decreased contamination risk, and ease of access, transport, and cleaning. SCL's RFID systems eliminate the need for barcodes and label equipment, reduce labour, increase accuracy, and support the development of highly automated chiller environments.
David Wright is Director of SCL Products. He begins, "SCL's main value offering is in our ability to support RFID and yield management through our system and tools. Our process starts when the animal is linked to the unique number on meat skids and trolleys. Readers are fixed at different points throughout the processing facility, including weigh stations, quality control, sorting, marshalling, chillers, etc. We also have handheld readers. So as the carcass passes by a reader, the RFID tag is read, and its information is automatically added to the clients' database. You can't improve things unless you can quantify them, and to quantify them you need to be able to track trace and line up all your data. RFID is incredibly important for meat processors; it allows complete traceability and data management from end of life through to boning room entry. We are also working with our industry leaders to continue developing a completely closed loop system designed to support a farm to plate tracking experience."
Technology is the game for SCL Products, Mr. Wright explains. "We've sunk a lot of time, money, and effort into this product offering over the years, a lot of time, and we've had some really integral help along the way in the form of collaborative industry partnerships, supportive client relationships, and government grants. Our first major client was Silverfern farms, and they were outstanding as we first developed our system. As with any new project, we had our setbacks, and they were always there to work with us towards a better result."
He continues, "We've also had help from our Australian friends in the software and technology side of things, through the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries. I learned a lot from them about technical side of the whole meat industry, rather than just the processing sector. I didn't realise how much research and technology was dedicated to increasing and maintaining the eating quality of an animal. That surprised me and I was keen to learn as much as I could. With their advice, we started developing software and database systems, and now we offer a turnkey solution which is not only tracking animals- it's interacting with different platforms and software providers within an organisation and gathering all the data to send out to stakeholders. It's quite a complex system with a lot of integration with third party suppliers through the industry, so in a way we're almost like a communications conduit. We can talk to just about anyone, we can receive data and compile it into a manageable string, and then send that data back out."
SCL Products offers a unique system that is tailored specifically to the New Zealand market. But it's not all smooth sailing, Mr. Wright says. "We work in extremely harsh environments that can easily destroy technology hardware; chemicals, water, mechanics… Trying to make something survive from one end of an abattoir to another has been extremely difficult, and we have certainly had to work hard and experiment as we go. When you experiment, you're bound to have failures. We've lost thousands of RFID tags over the years, but we now have a very tough system that can take just about anything our clients' facilities can throw at us." Company values centred around resilience, flexibility, and skill have driven the team of 26 to succeed time and time again.
Looking ahead, Mr. Wright says New Zealand's meat industry processors are set to take advantage of technology as holistically as possible. "Our sector is becoming more and more automated every day. Being an automation company, I have no doubt that our futures will be very closely intertwined with meat processors around the country, and internationally as well- we are in the process right now of branching out into different markets. We are confident in our ability to replicate our value offering for processors overseas and have already seen some great uptake in Australia." RFID tracking technology is, in its essence, an enabling technology. SCL Products are keen to continue enabling their clients to improve operational efficiencies, ensuring only the best quality meats end up on Australasian shelves for many years to come.
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Beckhoff Automation Limited – www.beckhoff.com/en-nz
Beckhoff implements open automation systems using proven PC-based control technology. The main areas that the product range covers are industrial PCs, I/O and fieldbus components, drive technology, automation software as well as control cabinet-free automation. Our New Automation Technology stands for universal and industry-independent control and automation solutions that are used worldwide in a variety of applications, ranging from CNC-controlled machine tools to intelligent building control. www.beckhoff.com
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Home > Press Release > American Association of Suicidology Urges Congress to Fund Crisis Services at Scale
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Contact: Chris Maxwell, Communications Coordinator
Washington, D.C. (August 15, 2019) – The American Association of Suicidology (AAS) applauds the FCC for its work and recommendations to proceed with the unique, 988 three-digit telephone code for mental health and suicide prevention services. It is now time to ensure these services are properly standardized and funded at the scale of the problem. Nearly 7 million people are directly affected by suicide every year, with almost 1.5 million people attempting suicide in that same timeframe. These are rates that require solid infrastructure to adequately and compassionately address the demand.
"Today we are thankful to the Federal Communications Commission for their recognition that now is the time for a nationwide three-digit phone line for mental health and suicide prevention crisis," said Becky Stoll, LCSW, AAS Crisis Center Division Chair, and Vice President, Crisis & Disaster Management at Centerstone. "Now we turn to our colleagues in Congress for further conversation on this issue including funding. Having this number in the United States will surely help in making great strides to break down the walls of stigma around mental health issues."
Over the years, we've seen the current system struggle to adequately fund crisis centers, both at a regional level, and during surges in demand (e.g. celebrity suicides). Smaller crisis centers, still answering thousands of calls a year, are quietly closing their doors.
"The life-and-death nature of these services demand that a client-centric, population-based funding model be put in place in all states to ensure high-quality crisis services have sustainable funding for 24/7/365 availability and call volume surges," said Anthony Wood, AAS Board Chair.
Likewise, it is imperative that crisis centers answering the 3-digit crisis telephone number must adhere to evidence-based policies, protocols, and staff/volunteer training like those that meet the minimum of AAS's Crisis Center accreditation.
"We wouldn't ask 911 operators or first responders to do their jobs with insufficient tools and resources," said Travis Atkinson, AAS Crisis Center Committee Chair. "Crisis Center staff are commissioned to perform a very serious task–support people who are suicidal or in severe emotional distress. We owe it to them to provide supreme support through funding and resources to encourage their ongoing sustainability."
Additionally, the public has a minimal expectation for crisis services to evolve beyond the analog system currently in place to include revolutionary digital technologies focused on security, privacy, and reliability. These features must be included in future iterations of national crisis intervention and suicide prevention infrastructure.
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What is the Africa-EU Partnership?
The Africa-EU Partnership is the formal political channel through which the European Union (EU) and the African continent work together, engage in political and policy dialogues and define their cooperative relationship. It was established in 2000 at the first Africa-EU Summit in Cairo. The partnership is guided by the Joint Africa-EU Strategy, which was adopted at the second EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon in 2007. Following the 5th AU-EU Summit, cooperation currently focuses on four priority areas.
The Africa-EU Partnership strives to bring Africa and Europe closer together through strengthening economic cooperation and promoting sustainable development, with both continents co-existing in peace, security, democracy, prosperity, solidarity and human dignity. Against this backdrop, the two partners are determined to work together on a strategic, long-term footing to develop a shared vision for EU-Africa relations in a globalised world. Their common interests include issues such as climate change, global security and the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) sets out the intention of both continents to move beyond a donor/recipient relationship towards long-term cooperation on jointly identified mutual and complementary interests. It is based on principles of ownership, partnership and solidarity and its adoption marks a new phase in Africa-EU relations.
The joint strategy is implemented through multiannual roadmaps and action plans, adopted after each Africa-EU Summit of Heads of States and Governments. Three successive roadmaps and action plans have already been adopted and implemented since 2007.
At the 5th AU-EU Summit held on 29-30 November 2017 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, under the central theme of 'Investing in Youth for a Sustainable Future', EU and African leaders defined four new joint priorities for 2018 and beyond.
At the 2017 AU-EU Summit, African and EU leaders focused on job creation, especially for young people. They also reiterated the need for greater synergy in political dialogue and improved cooperation, while also promoting contributions from the private sector and civil society. Confronted with global challenges, the EU and Africa are working closely together and are committed to an effective multilateral system that shapes multilateral agendas.
Complementarity with other cooperation frameworks
The Africa-EU Partnership focuses primarily on cooperation at a continental level and specifically the relationship between the European and African Unions. As such, it complements the EU's existing frameworks of cooperation with sub-Saharan Africa and with the EU Neighbourhood at bilateral and regional levels.
Other existing frameworks go beyond the African continent, such as the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement – also known as the Cotonou Agreement, which involves African countries, as well as the Pacific and Caribbean (ACP) Group of States. The Cotonou Agreement was concluded in 2000 and constitutes the legal basis of the European Development Fund (EDF).
In this regard, the Africa-EU Partnership, with its continental approach, is an instrument of political dialogue and cooperation, overarching and complementing existing development relationship frameworks between EU and African countries.
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Venus Viva™ - Denver | Jason Martin, M.D.
Are skin irregularities preventing you from having the smooth, clear complexion you've always desired? Do you struggle to treat surface blemishes, pigmentation, and aging with drugstore or over-the-counter treatments? The daily struggle for a bright, even complexion can become frustrating. The Venus Viva™ is a revolutionary, non-surgical laser treatment to help you achieve a more flawless, smooth complexion.
As we age, we lose collagen and elastin fibers in our facial tissues, which can cause them to become weak. As this happens, fine lines and wrinkles become etched into the face, significantly aging your appearance. Venus Viva™ uses custom laser heads to tailor your treatment to reach hard-to-treat wrinkles, such as around the mouth and near the eyes. The Venus Viva™ works in the deepest tissue layers to stimulate collagen production. The new increase in collagen fills facial wrinkles for a smoother, flawless complexion.
The Venus Viva™ is a revolutionary treatment that provides skin tightening that previously was only possible with a surgical facelift. The cause of skin laxity is the same as wrinkle development: a lack of elastin fibers and collagen. When tissue becomes weak, it is more prone to drooping and sagging. By stimulating new collagen production, a tighter, more firm skin matrix is formed. This process tightens skin and provides additional support to prevent tissue sagging. The Venus Viva™ can be used to treat skin laxity along the lower face, neck, jowls, and chest for an overall more youthful appearance.
Facial redness and rosacea (chronic, aggressive facial redness) are caused by dilated or prominent veins that lie just below the skin's surface. While many facial cleansers and drugstore products claim to treat facial redness, these effects are usually only temporary. The Venus Viva™ provides long-lasting correction of facial redness and rosacea by targeting the physical vein. The heat from the laser causes the veins close to the surface of the skin to become tacky and close. Your body will absorb the destroyed vein, eliminating its appearance from your skin and helping you achieve a clear, even skin tone.
Aggressive acne and mistreatment of acne breakouts can lead to extensive visible scarring. There aren't many over-the-counter medications that can treat visible scarring once it occurs. Venus Viva™ works deep within the tissues to stimulate collagen production, which smooths and improves the appearance of scars. In the process of correcting acne scarring, the Venus Viva™ can also treat current acne and large pores by killing surface bacteria. The overall improvement in your acne and associated scarring leaves you with a healthier complexion.
Following your Venus Viva™ treatment, you might experience some mild to moderate skin redness.
Most patients feel comfortable returning to work and going about their normal social activities immediately following their procedure. You can apply makeup the day after your treatment. Facial redness and irritation may last two to five days. After five days, your final results should become visible.
A topical anesthetic is applied prior to your treatment, numbing the face for a pain-free procedure.
When this wears off, you might experience some minor irritation that lasts only a day and can be treated with oral pain medication.
Most patients notice a visible improvement in the quality of their skin tone and texture after just one visit.
However, most patients will require multiple treatments to achieve their ideal results. Depending on the extent of correction required and your body's natural healing process, you may need between three and six treatments to achieve the smooth, flawless complexion you desire.
Since every Venus Viva™ treatment is tailored to provide the individual patient with the best results, the cost of your treatment will be determined during your consultation.
extent of correction required will affect the ultimate cost of your procedure.
What type of laser is the Venus Viva™?
The Venus Viva™ is a NanoFractional Radio Frequency™ laser that uses SmartScan™ technology. It targets very specific areas of damaged tissue, leaving the surrounding healthy skin intact. The customizable laser allows Dr. Martin to control the depth of penetration in the target area for results that are perfectly tailored to your needs.
Does the Venus Viva™ work for all skin types?
The Venus Viva™ is safe and effective for all skin types, including sensitive skin. It is also safe and effective for all skin tones, including patients with darker complexions.
How long is each Venus Viva™ treatment?
Each Venus Viva™ treatment only requires a 15 to 30-minute in-office visit followed by a 30-minute recovery period, after which you can resume your normal activities.
Who shouldn't undergo Venus Viva™ treatments?
Venus Viva™ is ideal for almost any patient. Certain illnesses, infections, or skin problems may limit your ability to use Venus Viva™. Dr. Martin will advise you if you fall into any of these categories. Patients should also consider the timing of important events when scheduling their Venus Viva™ treatments. You should complete treatment at least four to six weeks before any major event to ensure proper healing and maximum results.


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The question of How to grow Garlic is easily answered, plant in mid winter and forget it until summer. However for best results, read on. However for best results, read on. Growing you own garlic ensures that you are getting the variety you want, and that its fresh and chemical free.... Removing Garlic Scapes. In early June, the fall-planted garlic will begin to produce garlic scapes. A garlic scape is the curly flower stalk of a hardneck garlic plant, and they're not really a concern with softneck varieties.
Penny Woodward, author of the renowned book 'Garlic', knows all about growing garlic. In this article, Penny shares her tips here on why garlic can be tricky to …... Processed garlic include garlic flakes, garlic chips, garlic granules, garlic powder and garlic salt. Garlic is a good source of calcium, phosphorus and potassium. In some parts of the world, garlic leaves - said to be rich in Vitamin A and C - are eaten as vegetables.
Garlic is a long term crop, taking up to 8 months to mature, so plant it where it won't be disturbed by other crop rotation. Harvesting usually takes place in summer, late November or early December. It's important to allow the soil to dry out a few days before harvesting. The bulbs are ready to lift when the base of the neck looks papery and the tips of the foliage dry off at the top.
Garlic has to be the easiest thing to grow. You can plant it in pots, in the ground, in empty milk jugs. Really, any container will do. Regular water and fertilizer are all it needs.
In Maine, hardneck garlic is planted from cloves in the fall. The goal in the timing of planting is to allow the clove to establish a root system but not to plant so early as to have the top emerge above the soil line where it is prone to winter injury.


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American Hostages Freed
Every American celebrates the release over the weekend of five Americans held by Iran. Let's call them what they were — hostages. Predictably, President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry were trumpeting the exchange as evidence of the value of their diplomatic strategy.
Every American celebrates the release over the weekend of five Americans held by Iran. Let's call them what they were — hostages. Predictably, President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry were trumpeting the exchange as evidence of the value of their diplomatic strategy.
Kerry bragged about his negotiating skills that sealed the nuclear deal. Obama crowed that this is what hope and change looks like, demonstrating the wisdom of his "smart, patient and disciplined" diplomacy. But any gains made with Iran came at the expense of our allies, particularly Israel.
Like everything the Obama administration does, the devil is in the details. Iran didn't release the Americans as a gesture of goodwill or because it was the right thing to do. As usual, Tehran demanded more concessions from Obama and it got them.
In exchange for releasing the American hostages, Barack Obama pardoned or dismissed charges against 21 Iranians accused of violating sanctions.
It is worth noting that not one of the Americans held by Iran committed any crime. But at least three Iranians that Obama released had gone through our criminal justice system and had been found guilty. They had attempted to deliver technology to Iran that would have benefitted its missile and nuclear programs, threatening Europe, Israel, other Arab states in the region and us.
Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, blasted the Obama administration for exchanging U.S. hostages for Iranian criminals and terrorists. "Hardly a fair swap in my book," McCaul said.
Lost in the shuffle of the celebratory news is this interesting tidbit: When Iranians seized our embassy in 1979, we froze an Iranian account with $400 million. Obama not only released the $400 million, but he paid Tehran, with your money, interest on those funds totaling an additional $1.3 billion! Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested that the coincidental timing of the payout looks like ransom for the freed hostages.
In addition, many conservatives expressed concern that the way the hostages were released makes it much more likely that more Americans overseas will face greater risks and that additional Americans will be captured to be used as bargaining chips. Not surprisingly, within 24 hours of the release of the Americans from Iran, three Americans were kidnapped by Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq.
[Monday], Secretary of State Kerry was crowing on MSNBC about our rapprochement with Iran. "The world is safer today. Before we had this agreement, Iran had a completely invisible, unaccountable, unverified nuclear program," Kerry said. "Today, that is not true. That is entirely reversed."
The world is safer? As bodies continue to pile up throughout the Middle East, killed by the Iranian proxies of Hamas and Hezbollah, I suspect quite a few mourning families would beg to differ with Kerry's analysis.
Moreover, the Treasury Department announced Sunday that it had imposed new sanctions against Iran because of its ballistic missile program. As you may recall, Iran recently carried out two tests of nuclear-capable missiles in violation of U.N. resolutions.
The Iranians responded by vowing to accelerate their missile program. A statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry said, "We will respond to such propaganda stunts and disruptive measures by more robustly pursuing our lawful missile program and promoting our defense capabilities and national security."
Justices Take Up Obama's Amnesty Orders
The Supreme Court announced [Tuesday] that it would take up a lawsuit from dozens of states challenging the constitutionality of President Obama's executive orders granting a quasi-amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
The president's "deferred action" program has been suspended for nearly a year since a federal judge declared that Obama exceeded his authority. An appeals court upheld that ruling in November. Oral arguments are expected to take place in April with a decision coming this summer.
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World Environment Day was just around the corner, last June 5.
beadsPH.com has decided to join in & go green! In our efforts to help save the environment, we are offering new packaging options. If you notice, we've added a new box, "Use eco-friendly packaging (Yes/No)" on your Checkout form along with your personal info & shipping details.
By saying YES to this option, we'll be using cartons, cardboard boxes, or paper materials to wrap your order. We will be recycling cereal boxes (or similar consumer/commercial packaging) and using these to ship your orders just like some eco-friendly shops have started using magazine-paper bags for packaging. For orders to be picked-up at our partner store, Artekat, or small orders that are not fragile, we would be using brown paper bags instead. The boxes will be reserved mostly for delivery via courier to protect your order items in transit or for items that are fragile.


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The League of Nations and International law, 1919-1945
June 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles and the foundation of the League of Nations, which created new legal techniques and shaped the development of international law. When considering how international cooperation and international law increasingly are being challenged in our contemporary world, it is right about time to revisit a cornerstone of their historical foundations, namely to explore how the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nation Systems (i.e. the League of Nations, the Permanent Court of International Justice and the International Labour Organisation) influenced the development of international law from 1919-1945.
The historiography of international law of the 19th and 20th centuries has grown rapidly in the last decades around the excellent work of the legal scholar Martti Koskenniemi and the new Journal of the History of International Law. However, this new wave of scholarship focuses primarily on intellectual history based on biographical studies of leading jurists. Generally, scholars of international legal history have not followed in the footsteps of recent historiographical developments in the fields of human rights or EU law, where historians have systematically used archival resources to go beyond intellectual history and explore the actual legal practice situated in different societal contexts. As a result, historiography of international law has to some extent neglected how the rise of international organisations, and in particular the foundation of the League of Nations (LoN) system, created new legal techniques and shaped the development of international law. Turning to the new historiography of international organisations a similar pattern emerges. While historians in the last decade have fundamentally reassessed the history of the League of Nations, they have not explored its legal dimension. The same goes for recent studies of the technical international organisations that were established from the mid-19th century onwards and became part of the LoN system after 1919.
This conference wants to promote a new legal history that explores how the LoN system influenced the development of international law from 1919-1945 based on systematic research of international, state and private archives and a contextual approach to the object of study. The conference is meant to be a first meeting between researchers sharing the agenda outlined above. The aim is that methodological challenges can be identified and the contextual approach to legal history can be further refined. There will be a follow-up conference by the end of 2020 aimed to prepare the papers for a final publication with a leading international publishing house.
The conference is open for participation of the general public. Please contact: Thomas Storgaard th.storgaard@hum.ku.dk
9.30-10.15 Welcome by Morten Rasmussen
The League of Nations system and International Law
Morten Rasmussen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen), The History of the Legal Section of the League of Nations, 1919-1925
Aden Knaap (Doctoral student, Harvard University), Judging the World: International Courts and Judicial Organization, 1899-194
Discussant: Marcus Payk (Professor, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg)
The League of Nations and International Law seen from state actors
Tomoko Akami (Associate Professor, Australian National University): Making imperial polities anomaly: the Japanese Association of International Law and the League of Nations
Andrei Mamolea (PhD, Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European History, Frankfurt): The Uruguayan approach to International Law during the League of Nations Era
Thomas Storgaard (Doctoral student, University of Copenhagen): Unlocking the technology of international law within the German Foreign Office, 1914 – 1920
Discussant: Haakon Ikonomou (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen)
15.15-15.45 COFFEE
The shape of international law and legal discourse
Megan Donaldson (Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge): The Edges of Law: Boundaries of Legal Discourse in the League of Nations
Leonard Smith (Professor, Oberlin College & Conversatory), Sovereignty and mandates in legal discourse
Discussant: Jan Lemnitzer (Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark)
18.00-21.00 DINNER Restaurant Marv og Ben
8.30-9.00 Publication plans by Morten Rasmussen
Lawyers and legal networks I
Henri de Waele (Professor, Radboud University): A New League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? The Professionalisation of International Law Scholarship and Practice in the Netherlands, 1919-1940
Jens Wegener (Post.doc., Ruhr-Universität Bochum): International Lawyers of Peace: The League, Philanthropy and the Making of a Transnational Social Space
Discussant: Jean-Michel Guieu (Associate Professor, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Lawyers and legal networks II
Karin van Leeuwen (Assistant Professor, University of Maastricht): Promoting a 'common international concept' of international law: the Hague Academy and international law teaching, 1923-1940
Rasmus Søndergaard (Post.doc., Georgetown University): International Law and the League: The Life and Work of Manley O. Hudson
Discussant : Morten Rasmussen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen)
League of Nations policies and international law I
Omer Aloni (Post.doc. University of Potsdam): Early Environmentalism and Diplomacy at the Birth of Modern International Law: The League of Nations, 1919-1939
Nicholas Mulder (Doctoral student, Columbia University): League of Nations Sanctions and the Creation of Public War, 1925-1931
Discussant: Morten Rasmussen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen)
League of Nations policies and international law II
Marilena Papadaki (Scientific Associate, K. Koufa Foundation): The Protection of Individual and Minority Rights within the LoN Framework: the case of Nicolas Politis (1872-1942)
Michel Erpelding, Developing a systematic case-law on individual and minority rights: the role of Felix Calonder (1863-1952) as President of the Mixed Commission for Upper Silesia (1922-1937)
Marcus Payk (Professor, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg), Jan Lemnitzer (Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark) and Morten Rasmussen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen)
Time: 13 June - 14 June 2019
Place: University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, Committee Room 3 (Udvalgsværelse 3)
Organizer: Laying the Foundation / Morten Rasmussen and Thomas Storgaard


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Amy Klobuchar on Brett Kavanaugh: "He got a really good job out of the whole thing"
Fox News's Bret Baier tried to catch her in hypocrisy. Here's her reply.
By Dylan Matthews May 8, 2019, 8:20pm EDT
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Fox News's live town hall with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Wednesday night featured an interesting exchange where moderator Bret Baier tried to use Klobuchar's support for her former colleague Al Franken, who resigned over sexual harassment allegations in December 2017, and her opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh against her:
BRET BAIER: I want to follow up on due process. When you say for Al Franken there should've been more due process in that situation, you also say he deserves a third act in his career. Do you believe that in some aspects, the #MeToo movement has gone too far?
AMY KLOBUCHAR: I do not think it's gone too far because I think we still have harassment going on in the workplace. One case isn't exactly like the other. Add for anyone that is accused of harassment, you can edge over to criminal acts, which is a way different situation, rape, things like that.
You have to have a process in your workplace so you figure out, get the facts, managers do, people do, people have a right to bring their cases forward, and you make a decision on how they are handled. That's what I meant by that, and I think it should apply to Congress and it should apply to every workplace in Wisconsin and across our country.
Klobuchar did decline in December 2017 to call for Franken's resignation — but she also stated when he resigned that he was doing the right thing, that his sexual harassment of others was wrong, and later that his "third act" might not necessarily be in politics. Her response to Baier was in that vein.
That's when Baier tried to demonstrate hypocrisy:
BRET BAIER: What about Brett Kavanaugh? Did he have due process when he was questioned by you in that committee? Did he have due process, being innocent before proven guilty, by Democrats in that process —
AMY KLOBUCHAR: I'm only smiling because, like, he got a really good job out of the whole thing. He's, like, on the Supreme Court of the United States. Yes, I think he did. He had a process, and that process was a hearing before the Senate. And that hearing went on and evidence came out, and that was evidence from Dr. [Christine] Blasey Ford. She came forward with her story.
It's a fair point. Kavanaugh did have a formal process before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and, far from being treated as innocent before being proven guilty, he was given one of the nine most powerful positions in the US judiciary and suffered no lasting professional repercussions for his alleged actions.
Klobuchar answering Bret Baier.
Klobuchar also took the opportunity to defend her questioning of Kavanaugh, noting that she asked if he ever blacked out because she wanted to reconcile his denial of attacking Ford with Ford's recollection. She repeated her observation that Kavanaugh's behavior reminded her of her father, a recovering alcoholic:
What bothers me is after my colleague said she was credible, hearing this basic, political, I think, response. He has a right to put his story on, but basically politicizing the whole judiciary with how he acted. I disagreed with that, and I was very surprised where I was simply trying to match his story with her story. You know, people can black out and you don't remember what happened. Instead of just answering that question, he went right at me and said, you know, basically have you blacked out, do you drink beer, and all these things.
I decided I could've gone down there with him but I decided, in my head, maybe a trickle of my dad, I said, I'm taking the keys away from you, I'm not going down here with you.
Baier tried one more time, only to be shut down:
BRET BAIER: I was asking from the standpoint of [whether] you think there's a difference from how you look at the Al Franken thing and look at the Brett Kavanaugh …
AMY KLOBUCHAR: No, I don't think so. I had reasons to not vote for Brett Kavanaugh related on how he had handled the consumer cases, how he handled antitrust cases and executive power. I said he was not going to vote for him earlier before that.
This is potentially tricky ground for Klobuchar, specifically, to tackle. Many other Democrats, but especially Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), vocally spoke out against Franken for his behavior, and called on his resignation. But Klobuchar, as a fellow Minnesotan senator, held back initially, and questioned Kavanaugh rigorously on his alleged behavior a year later. She herself also faces several accusations of (nonsexual) workplace harassment. And with President Donald Trump also facing numerous sexual harassment allegations, accusations of hypocrisy are likely to be a major tool for the GOP and allied media like Fox in the coming general election.
Klobuchar resisted that attack. Kavanaugh, she noted, got due process. He also disqualified himself, in her view, in a variety of ways unrelated to his conduct toward Ford. And her consistent view is that you have to evaluate allegations in context and give them a fair hearing.
Her response arguably gave short shrift to the multiple, and serious, accusations against Franken, and too much support to the sexist narrative that he was railroaded on fake charges. But it was also a preview of an approach that multiple candidates are likely to take as this comes up in 2020.
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New Perspectives: Postgraduate Symposium for the Humanities - Reflections, Volume 2
Collins, Kira and Fogarty, Matthew and Beausang, Chris and Connolly, Thomas (2018) New Perspectives: Postgraduate Symposium for the Humanities - Reflections, Volume 2. Maynooth Academic Publishing. ISBN 2565-6031
Writing in the aftermath of the Second World War, Michel Foucault wrote that 'history has a more important task than to be a handmaiden to philosophy, to recount the necessary birth of truth and values; it should become a differential knowledge of energies and failings, heights and degenerations, poisons and antidotes' (1997, 126). Foucault's words capture two opposing conceptions of historical change that 'NPPSH 2017: Progress and Degeneration' aimed to deconstruct and critique: the 'necessary birth of truth and values' assumed by the progressive view of historical change, and the contrasting 'poisons' and 'failings' of seeming degeneration. In the face of apparent narratives of historical progress and degeneration, we must ask: 'Progress for whom, and according to whom?' When our symposium took place, these questions appeared more necessary than they have been for many years. This time was marked by the re-emergence of nationalist politics, evident in Brexit and the violence in Catalonia; the resurgence of fascistic political discourse, considered unthinkable after the collapse of the brutal regimes of the twentieth century; the growth of xenophobic politics in the wake of mass east-west migration; and the continued pillaging of the natural environment. In the time that has elapsed since the symposium, we have witnessed the return of republican tensions in Northern Ireland, the rise of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, the solidification of far-right political currents in Poland, and terrorist attacks on churches, mosques and synagogues in the US, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka: such ongoing and disturbing issues force us to engage with the legacy and nature of 'progressive' thought. The importance of the humanities in exploring such questions cannot be overstated: the impressive range of papers on show in this publication—covering everything from censorship and medical practice in the Irish Free State to French political cartoons to the political potential of William Burroughs's cut-up technique, pedagogical practice, and the digital lives of older people—demonstrates the continued importance of the humanities to the investigation of political, social and cultural issues. It is our intention that NPPSH Reflections: Volume 2 will provide a space for early career scholars to continue to reflect on these questions, while contributing to debates that are situated at the leading edge of humanities research.
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Spirits Features
Here comes the grain
By Maize whiskies are amassing a growing band of foll
| 19 October, 2007
Learning about whisky is a journey of discovery, but with hundreds of big brands and niche malts to choose from, grain whiskies are often overlooked.
Most grain whisky is made from imported maize and distilled in industrial, continuous stills, with the resulting spirit blended into big brands. As a result, many whisky buffs have traditionally favoured malts. Produced in pot stills in smaller batches, malts are thought by many to have more complexity.
With sufficient ageing and care, though, grain whisky can take on serious depth and character and provides a lighter, more elegant alternative to malt. Ignore it at your peril, says a small but growing group of fans.
One such fan is John Glaser, founder of whisky blender Compass Box, which specialises in sourcing whisky from Scottish distilleries and creating its own signature, small-batch, blends.
Glaser says he set up his company after having a moment of enlightenment while working as global marketing director for Johnnie Walker. He was tasting bourbon cask-aged grain whiskies destined for blending and telling other executives how delicious they were, but the y were sceptical about how well they would sell.
The first whisky Glaser released under the Compass Box label was Hedonism, a vatted (blended) grain whisky which is sold at specialists.
Glaser says: "The reason was that good grain whisky can taste absolutely delicious. It's as simple as that."
The whiskies used in Hedonism are between 12 and 29 years old, with most over 20, matured in first-fill American oak.
The key to blending a successful grain whisky, says Glaser, is to pick good-quality casks and mature the spirit properly. "When grain whisky gets put into good quality first-fill ex-bourbon it can taste absolutely fantastic. When it starts to get around 20 years old it becomes richer and sweeter with notes of vanilla and toffee.
"In some ways, good grain whisky is like a much more elegant, feminine and refined version of bourbon."
Well-matured grain whisky works well as a traditional digestif, Glaser says, adding that it's also good in cocktails because it's an approachable style.
Glaser has just created Hedonism Maximus - a reserve version of the original vatted grain. Just 390 bottles were produced and are currently only available in France through La Maison du Whisky (whisky.fr).
The whisky is a blend of 42-year-old Invergordon (70 per cent) and 29-year-old Carsebridge (30 per cent), aged in first-fill American oak ex-bourbon barrels. It's described as having "deep, sweet, complex flavours of caramel, burnt toffee, vanilla, coconut and baking spices" and is "tremendously long on the finish", according to the tasting notes provided by the company.
Glaser believes there's a growing interest in grain among whisky fans, and that it is under-exploited. "I'm confident there's an opportunity in the marketplace for one company to establish a grain whisky brand. I'd like to do that and we're talking at several people at the moment," he adds.
Euan Shand, managing director of independent bottler Duncan Taylor, says his company's efforts to push single grain whisky have paid off. Education is the biggest problem facing sales of single grain, he says. "The problem, as with anything that people don't understand, is they don't know the first thing about it.
"Grain whisky isn't something that's readily available. Grain whiskies can seem so different to malts and blends that people haven't acquired a taste for them. But when you educate people about them they absolutely love them. We've converted so many people to grain."
Duncan Taylor has focused on top-end aged single grains, which take on depth and complexity after 20 to 40 years in ex-bourbon casks. The resulting whisky often has sweet, vanilla flavours from the cask. "It can be like a very mild bourbon, but so much smoother," he says.
For this reason, Duncan Taylor's exports to countries where high bourbon consumption is growing as bourbon fans try aged grain whisky as an alternative. Shand also says grain whiskies seem more popular among women. "Whenever we do any shows there's always a good proportion of female drinkers, and we can't tell whether it's the grain whisky or the kilts."
Shand predicts more interest in, and activity around, grain whisky in the future. "Things are definitely picking up," he concludes.
More to offer
Specialist whisky retailers too believe grain whiskies are worth getting to know better.
Malcolm Mullin, of the Vintage House in Soho, London, says malt whiskies get all the glory because they are made to a batch method rather than a continuous process. "It's more glamorous and it tends to have more depth of flavour," he says.
Grain whisky, however, has more to offer than many people think, says Mullin. "Most people consider grain is only suitable for blending, which is a little unfair."
Mullin says customers are introduced to grain whisky in one of two ways. Either they have read or heard about grain whisky - normally from Fife's Cameron Brig which attracts a loyal band of supporters - and ask about it, or one of the shop staff will suggest that whisky newcomers try it as a gentle introduction to Scotch.
Mullin praises Compass Box's Glaser in particular for taking a handcrafted approach to whisky. "His trick has been to create whiskies that are consistently very good value with real depth of character," Mullin says.
He adds that many grain whiskies make good matches with pudding, and they are particularly suited to being heavily chilled.
Another trick they pass on to customers is to put half an inch of "decent, still mineral water" into solid, thick-based snifter glasses and put them in the freezer until frozen, before pouring whisky into the glass. "You've got to be really careful and choose the right glasses or they will break," he warns.
"You get the whisky sitting on top of a layer of ice. There's less surface area in contact with the whisky than with ice cubes, so it's less diluted," Mullin adds.
Light, elegant, approachable and very versatile, it seems that grain whisky is gathering a growing number of fans.
If you're looking for a simple way to add interest to your spirits range this autumn, why not stock a couple?
Festive plans for malts, blends and single grains
Maxxium UK is rolling out a limited edition bottle of The Famous Grouse exclusively in the off-trade. The shrinkwrapped bottle will feature alternative serving suggestions, such as Grouse & Appletiser and The Ginger Grouse - a mix of whisky and ginger ale with a wedge of lime.
Diageo is ploughing £1 million into a press ad campaign for Bell's. Johnnie Walker has been updated with a revamped carton, and Talisker will be available in a gift box.
First Drinks has invested in a revamped pack design and marketing campaign for Glenfiddich. Ads will screen on digital and terrestrial TV channels from Nov 19, and press ads will run in consumer magazines. The ads will continue the whisky brand's Every Year Counts theme. Gift packaging featuring a triangular tube and updated label will be rolled out in November. The latest in the Glenfiddich single cask Vintage Reserve series has also been unveiled. A total of 550 bottles of the 1976 sherry barrel single malt have been released. Only 33 bottles are available in the UK, each with a price tag of £299.
Compass Box has launched three limited-release whiskies for autumn/winter 2007. Flaming Heart is a "very big, rich, peaty" Scotch malt sourced from distilleries in Islay and Brora and aged in new French oak. Four hundred cases of grain whisky Hedonism, sourced from Cameron Bridge and Cambus and matured in first-fill ex-bourbon barrels, are available. The whiskies have been bottled in dark glass to differentiate them from the Compass Box core whiskies. It has also launched the Canto Cask range, 16 cask-strength Scotch malts with a range of oak types and toasts available. Call 0208 995 0899 for further details.
Teacher's Create Your Space promotion - which offered consumers the chance to win a shed this year - will carry on into 2008. The brand will continue to "drive value through price leadership", according to managing director Drew Munro.
Grant's will be working with Classic FM across its media portfolio, targeting more than 6 million listeners in the 40-plus age group in the lead up to Christmas. The activity comprises sponsorship of a Christmas CD on December's Classic FM Magazine, on-air advertising and a promotion on classicfm.com. The brand's Fresh Perspectives photography competition will also launch in the run-up to Christmas. Grant's Family Reserve will be available in gift boxes, supported with in-store activity and POS.
Whyte & Mackay will sponsor the Earls Court Boat Show, which runs from Dec 1 to 9. As part of the sponsorship, W&M will conduct a consumer drive including poster sites around London and a national press campaign with the Telegraph Media Group. "As Christmas is a key gifting time we will also be reintroducing our gift cartons and gift tins, both of which provide great on-shelf stand out. To encourage customer trial of our Jura malt we will also be introducing an on-pack miniature with purchase of Whyte & Mackay 1-litre," says off-trade sales director Simon Oldham.
Where to get your grain whisky
Active distilleries
Black Barrel, William Grant (0208 332 1188)
Cameron Brig, Diageo (0207 927 5200)
Invergordon, Whyte & Mackay (0141 248 5771)
Loch Lomond (01389 752781)
North British, Lothian Distillers
Port Dundas, Diageo
Whiskies from closed distilleries available through independent bottlers. A directory can be found at scotchwhisky.net.
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We're at the halfway point in the nominations period and we've already had over 250 nominations for the NHS Tayside STAR Awards! A huge thank you to everyone who has taken the time to nominate so far.
Anyone who has difficulty accessing the website or who needs assistance to complete the nomination form can call the nomination phone line on 01382 632087 or 01382 740063. The phone line is open Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm. Nominations close on Monday, 5 February at 5pm.
You can nominate your NHS Tayside STARs in six categories and we'd love to see more nominations in the three categories that are only open to nominations from NHS Tayside staff – Innovation in Practice, Quality/Service Improvement and Inspiring Educator.
Chairman Professor John Connell said, "Our staff are committed to delivering high-quality healthcare to the people of Tayside and the STAR Awards are a great opportunity for members of the public and colleagues to show their appreciation for their hard work and dedication.
"Last year's inaugural awards were a fantastic success with the number of nominations far exceeding our expectations. There were lots of very worthy winners and runners up and I'm sure that this year will be no different.
"We know that often it's the little things that make the biggest difference to patients, their families and colleagues, so if someone has gone that extra mile for you, why not say thank you by nominating them for a STAR Award?
An individual who mentors, supervises or trains people on the job. Someone who not only shares good practice and new skills, but is a role model for their values and attitudes. This will be an educator who has gone the extra mile to support, help and inspire learners in their work.
All finalists will be invited to the STAR Awards ceremony at the Apex Hotel in April, where the winners will be announced.


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Protherough confident Bromsgrove are getting closer to first win
Craig Gibbons 22nd Sep, 2016 Updated: 17th Oct, 2016
DAN PROTHEROUGH is confident Bromsgrove are edging closer to their first victory of the season despite falling to a 20-15 defeat to Dings Crusaders over the weekend.
The Boars have now lost all three of their opening National Three South West games following Saturday's (September 17) defeat at Finstall Park.
Jon Critchlow scored all of Brosmgrove's points with five penalties after switching position from full back to fly half after the break.
The defeat leaves Protherough's side rock bottom of the table but they're yet to break into positive numbers as an administration error regarding petrol receipts saw them docked five points by the Rugby Football Union.
Despite their setback, the Brosmgrove boss has urged his players to move on and focus on their next game at Weston-super-Mare-based Hornets on Saturday.
He said: "We've got to deal with points deduction even though it comes after we got our fingers burnt from the level transfer decision.
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"This league is about half a division stronger than the league we was in last season (National Three Midlands) but we're developing.
"We've got a new squad and it takes time for players to gel but we'll get there in the end."
Jack Pons, Nick Empson and Jake Hayden-Wright will miss Saturday's game due to injuries while Critchlow is away due to family commitments.
"We're finding our feet at the moment and we're not far away from where we need to be," Protherough added.
"If we can get a win on Saturday and then go on a bit of a winning run things will look better."
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Millons Spent on Lobbying for VEETC Reform
Joanna Schroeder June 21, 2011
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First street followed the money dedicated to lobbying for both Senate Bill S. 520 Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit Repeal Act and House Bill H.R. 1075 Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit Repeal Act. During first quarter of this year, there were 32 lobbying firms representing 36 clients to the tune of $8,895,893.00. There were 22 lobbying firms active on the House side representing 18 clients and spent $3,645,862.08. So first quarter alone, more than $12 million was spent on lobbying for VEETC reform.
Who were the players on the Hill? Most were the usual suspects. On the pro-ethanol side the biggest spenders were Growth Energy, Renewable Fuels Association, National Corn Growers Association, and POET, who spent $450,000 to just lobby against the VEETC legislation in the House. In the last three years, UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association, spent more than $500,000 to lobby for the end of the tariffs as well as various other ethanol amendments.
On the anti-ethanol side you had the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), National Retail Federation, League of Conservation Voters, Environmental Working Group, American Meat Institute, National Cattleman's Beef Association, National Turkey Federation, and more. The biggest spender was GMA who spent $900,000 lobbying for the House bill alone. On the Senate bill side, your two biggest spenders were Pepsico with $1.44 million followed by Kraft who spent $720,000 to get the bill passed.
As the debate continues around subsidies and balancing the federal budget, ethanol and other biofuel tax incentives are at the center of the chopping block and have already become an important policy point for the Republic presidential candidates. And anti-ethanol groups are stepping up their game with new advertising campaigns aimed at both policymakers and consumers, as well as an all-out assault in the realm of social media (there are now social media-focused lobbyists). It will come as no surprise then, to see millions upon millions more spent throughout the year on VEETC and other biofuel subsidy reform.
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__all__ = ('WampCase', 'WampCaseProtocol', 'WampCaseFactory',)

import json, random

from zope.interface import implementer

from twisted.internet import reactor
from twisted.internet.defer import Deferred, DeferredList, maybeDeferred

from autobahn.websocket import connectWS
from autobahn.wamp import WampClientFactory, WampCraClientProtocol

from autobahntestsuite.testrun import TestResult
from autobahntestsuite.util import AttributeBag, perf_counter
from autobahntestsuite.interfaces import ITestCase

class WampCaseProtocol(WampCraClientProtocol):

   def sendMessage(self, payload):
      self.factory.log('
TX => %s
' % payload)
      WampCraClientProtocol.sendMessage(self, payload)

   def onMessage(self, payload, binary):
      self.factory.log('
RX <= %s
' % payload)
      WampCraClientProtocol.onMessage(self, payload, binary)

   def onSessionOpen(self):
      self.factory.log("WAMP session opened to %s at %s." % (self.session_server, self.peerstr))

      self.factory.result.observed[self.session_id] = []

      if self.factory.test.testee.auth:
         d = self.authenticate(**self.factory.test.testee.auth)
         d.addCallbacks(self.onAuthSuccess, self.onAuthError)
      else:
         self.test()

   def onAuthSuccess(self, permissions):
      self.factory.log("WAMP session %s authenticated with credentials:
%s
" % (self.session_id, self.factory.test.testee.auth))
      self.test()

   def onAuthError(self, e):
      uri, desc, details = e.value.args
      self.factory.log("WAMP authentication error: %s" % details)
      self.sendClose()

   def test(self):
      raise Exception("not implemented")

   def ready(self):
      self.factory.log("Test client prepared and ready.")
      self.factory.onReady.callback(self.session_id)

   def onEvent(self, topic, event):
      self.factory.log("Received event for topic
%s
 and payload
%s
" % (topic, event))
      self.factory.result.observed[self.session_id].append((topic, event))

class WampCaseParams(AttributeBag):
   """
   """

   ATTRIBUTES = ['peerCount']

class WampCaseFactory(WampClientFactory):

   protocol = None

   def __init__(self, peerIndex, onReady, onGone, test, result):
      assert(self.protocol)
      WampClientFactory.__init__(self, test.testee.url)
      self.peerIndex = peerIndex
      self.onReady = onReady
      self.onGone = onGone
      self.test = test
      self.result = result
      self.proto = None

   def buildProtocol(self, addr):
      proto = self.protocol()
      proto.factory = self
      proto.session_id = None
      self.proto = proto
      return proto

   def log(self, msg):
      ts = perf_counter()
      sessionId = self.proto.session_id if self.proto else None
      self.result.log.append((ts, self.peerIndex, sessionId, msg.encode('utf8')))
      return ts

   def clientConnectionLost(self, connector, reason):
      reason = str(reason.value)
      self.log("Client connection lost: %s" % reason)
      self.onGone.callback(None)

   def clientConnectionFailed(self, connector, reason):
      reason = str(reason.value)
      self.log("Client connection failed: %s" % reason)
      self.onGone.callback(reason)

@implementer(ITestCase)
class WampCase:

   factory = None
   index = None
   description = None
   expectation = None
   params = None

   def __init__(self, testee, spec):
      self.testee = testee
      self.spec = spec

      self._uriSuffix = '#' + str(random.randint(0, 1000000))

      if self.testee.options.has_key('rtt'):
         self._rtt = self.testee.options['rtt']
      elif self.spec.has_key('options') and self.spec['options'].has_key('rtt'):
         self._rtt = self.spec['options']['rtt']
      else:
         self._rtt = 0.2

   def test(self, result, clients):
      raise Exception("not implemented")

   def run(self):
      assert(self.factory)
      assert(self.index)
      assert(self.params)

      result = TestResult()
      finished = Deferred()

      result.passed = None
      result.observed = {}
      result.expected = {}
      result.log = []

      def log(msg, sessionIndex = None, sessionId = None):
         ts = perf_counter()
         result.log.append((ts, sessionIndex, sessionId, msg.encode('utf8')))
         return ts

      result.started = log("Test started.")

      clients = []
      peersready = []
      peersgone = []
      i = 1
      for peerIndex in xrange(self.params.peerCount):
         ready = Deferred()
         gone = Deferred()
         client = self.factory(peerIndex, ready, gone, self, result)
         clients.append(client)
         peersready.append(ready)
         peersgone.append(gone)
         connectWS(client)
         i += 1

      def shutdown(_):
         for client in clients:
            client.proto.sendClose()
            log("Test client closing ...", client.peerIndex, client.proto.session_id)

      def launch(_):
         wait = 2.5 * self._rtt

         def afterwait():
            log("Continuing test ..")
            d = maybeDeferred(self.test, log, result, clients)
            d.addCallback(shutdown)

         def beforewait():
            log("Sleeping for  %s ms ..." % (1000. * wait))
            reactor.callLater(wait, afterwait)

         beforewait()

      def error(err):
         ## FIXME
         print "ERROR", err
         shutdown()
         finished.errback(err)

      def done(res):
         result.ended = log("Test ended.")

         for r in res:
            if not r[0]:
               log("Client error: %s" % r[1].value)

         #assert(result.passed is not None)

         finished.callback(result)

      DeferredList(peersready).addCallbacks(launch, error)
      DeferredList(peersgone).addCallbacks(done, error)

      return finished


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Judas Priest & Mastodon played 3 NYC-area shows (pics from Paramount, videos from Prudential, setlists)
BrooklynVegan Staff Published: November 10, 2015
photos by P Squared
Judas Priest / Mastodon @ The Paramount - 11/5/15
The massive Judas Priest and Mastodon tour just made its way through the NYC-area for two smaller shows at The Paramount on November 5 and 6 and then a much bigger show at the Prudential Center on November 7. BV was on hand for the first Paramount show, and there are pictures of that in this post.
The Paramount is a small place to see either Priest or Mastodon, so seeing them there together was an all-too-rare treat. Priest played the same setlist at all three shows, a nicely curated mix of classic ("Breaking the Law," "Painkiller," "Hell Bent for Leather," and the like) and songs from their still-pretty-great 2014 release Redeemer of Souls. Mastodon, on the other hand, changed it up each night. On the 5th (the show we caught) they focused pretty heavily on material from 2014's Once More 'Round The Sun, though they still hit live standards "Crystal Skull" and "Aqua Dementia," and they managed to find time for "Bladecatcher," which is always a plus.
NJ.com caught the Prudential Center show, which was obviously a way different environment than the Paramount. Here's what they wrote about the arena show:
Though Halford's vocal range has always been front-and-center in Judas Priest's songwriting, the band's studio work doesn't quite represent the sheer power he's possessed, and continues to hone into his 60s. As the frontman stomped and paced with an unwavering grimace, every growl and shriek seemed to be a furious beast battling to escape its host. The result was tremendous -- Halford's chops showed no wear, even on show No. 109 of his group's world tour. His soaring high notes and rich vibrato defined "Victim of Changes" and new track "Halls Of Valhalla."
You can check out some good fan-shot videos (by John Erigo) of Priest's set a that one, below.
In other news, Mastodon have released Once More 'Round the Sun track "Asleep In the Deep" as a gnarly-looking picture-disc single, which you can order now.
More pictures of the Paramount show, and those Prudential Center videos, below...
Judas Priest @ The Paramount - 11/5/15 Setlist (via)
Dragonaut
Desert Plains
Victim of Changes
Halls of Valhalla
The Rage
Turbo Lover
Beyond the Realms of Death
Breaking the Law
Hell Bent for Leather
You've Got Another Thing Comin'
Encore 2:
Mastodon @ The Paramount - 11/5/15 Setlist (via
Once More 'Round the Sun
Blasteroid
The Motherload
High Road
Aqua Dementia
Bladecatcher
Black Tongue
Ember City
Crystal Skull
Blood and Thunder
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Q: How efficient is this Python Code for the fibonacci sequence? I wrote this a few days ago and it seems to be working fine, but it is slow. It took 25 seconds to generate the 1 millionth number in the fibonacci sequence. Is there a way to make this more efficient?
def main():
    num1 = 0
    num2 = 1
    var = 0
    num = int(raw_input("What fibonacci number do you want to know? "))
    while 1:
        num3 = num1
        num1 = num1 + num2
        num2 = num3
        var+=1
        if var>=num:
            print num3
            return main()
        else:
            None

main()

Note that I am a beginner in python, so I won't understand advanced concepts

A: I've found that using Lucas numbers gives me results fastests:
def powLF(n):
    if n == 1:     return (1, 1)
    L, F = powLF(n//2)
    L, F = (L**2 + 5*F**2) >> 1, L*F
    if n & 1:
        return ((L + 5*F)>>1, (L + F) >>1)
    else:
        return (L, F)

def fib(n):
    if n & 1:
        return powLF(n)[1]
    else:
        L, F = powLF(n // 2)
        return L * F

Like matrix exponention, it has O(NlogN) complexity, but it's constant cost is lower, thus beating it 'on points':
>>> timeit.timeit('fib(1000)', 'from __main__ import fibM as fib', number=10000)
0.40711593627929688
>>> timeit.timeit('fib(1000)', 'from __main__ import fibL as fib', number=10000)
0.20211100578308105

Yes, that's twice as fast.
I can't take credit for the above implementation, nor of the matrix exponention algorithm I compared it with; both were listed on literateprograms.org.
To calculate the 1,000,000th Fibonacci number takes:
>>> timeit.timeit('fib(1000000)', 'from __main__ import fib', number=100)/100
0.09112384080886841

just under a 10th of a second.

A: Not strictly an answer but a very common habit of new programmers is violating Separation of Concerns.
Much better would be:
def fibonacci(n):
    ...

def main():
    num = int(raw_input("What fibonacci number do you want to know? "))
    print fibonacci(num)

which keeps fibonacci from getting cluttered with user interface code.

A: You can use matrix exponention, which is done in O(logn) integer ops, or use the closed form expression, which is done in the speed of your power function. (Beware from numerical errors of using closed form expression).

A: If you want to compute fast the fibonacci numbers you should use the closed expression or matrix exponentiation.
If you want to be able to generate arbitrarily large numbers, then use the matrix exponentiation.
An example implementation:
>>> def matrix_mul(A, B):
...     return ([A[0][0] * B[0][0] + A[0][1] * B[1][0],
...              A[0][0] * B[0][1] + A[0][1] * B[1][1]],
...             [A[1][0] * B[0][0] + A[1][1] * B[1][0],
...              A[1][0] * B[0][1] + A[1][1] * B[1][1]])
...
>>> def matrix_exp(A, e):
...     if not e:
...             return [[1,0],[0,1]]
...     elif e % 2:
...             return matrix_mul(A, matrix_exp(A, e-1))
...     else:
...             sq= matrix_exp(A, e//2)
...             return matrix_mul(sq, sq)
...
>>> def fibo(n):
...     M = [[1,1],[1,0]]
...     return matrix_exp(M, n)[0][0]
>>> fibo(1)
1
>>> fibo(2)
2
>>> fibo(3)
3
>>> fibo(4)
5
>>> fibo(5)
8
>>> fibo(115)
781774079430987230203437L
>>> fibo(123456)
#instantaneus output of a HUGE number

There is also this unreadable version which is a lot faster:
>>> fibs = {0: 0, 1: 1}
>>> def fib(n):
...     if n in fibs: return fibs[n]
...     if n % 2 == 0:
...         fibs[n] = ((2 * fib((n / 2) - 1)) + fib(n / 2)) * fib(n / 2)
...         return fibs[n]
...     else:
...         fibs[n] = (fib((n - 1) / 2) ** 2) + (fib((n+1) / 2) ** 2)
...         return fibs[n]
...
>>> timeit.timeit('fib(1000000)', 'from __main__ import fib', number=100)/100
0.0012753009796142578     # 1 millisecond for the millionth fibonacci number :O

It's the last one of literateprograms.org(linked in the other answer).

A: This is very efficient:
import numpy as np

M = np.matrix([[1, 1], [1, 0]])

def fib(n):
  if n < 2:
    return 1
  MProd = M.copy()
  for _ in xrange(n-2):
    MProd *= M
  return MProd[0,0] + MProd[0,1]

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Cape Town – The three-year-old DJ Arch Jnr made history for being the youngest contestant ever to win SA's Got Talent.
But his victory lap was cut short after a Twitter storm erupted on Tuesday over unplugged cables.
The young DJ's skills have been brought into question after pictures surfaced that showed his AC cables were not connected to the DJ mixer.
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They wrote; "Morning Family :). I was suppose to drop you a cool mix this morning but I think we must take this opportunity to educate our friends :). So I am sure you have came across picture saying "no audio out cables, so the mix was fake" :), was my mix that good that people thought it was fake?
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"The photo that has been making the rounds on social media does not show the full technical setup of DJ Arch's performance which took place at Soweto Theatre on the 8th of November 2015 in the finale of SA's Got Talent. The audio cables were connected via the laptop and not the controller.
"There were two laptops on the stage which DJ Arch Jnr. was consistently watching. The one laptop has the DJ software on it, which plays the songs and the other laptop has a countdown system which cues DJ Arch Jnr. The controller in front of him has a black USB cable connected to the laptop which is feeding into it."
DJ Arch Jnr Unplugged ??"@jasonpascoe: Hey, @SAsGotTalent, quick question. Explain. (5) pic.twitter.com/2DbRy01MRZ"
The article was updated to include SA's Got Talent's statement.