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Tag: B-95
It wasn't until I was working at B-95 that I discovered National Accordion Awareness Month. My buddy Tim and I would get together quite often and think of bits we could write and produce to play during our radio shows. We came up with some really funny stuff.
It was mid-May and we were writing stuff for June. I am pretty sure that it was Tim who told me about it. I don't recall who came up with the idea, but we produced this little sweeper to play in between songs. It was the silliest thing, but it always made me laugh. It basically went like this:
The song playing on the air ends. Then the announcer says, "B-95 reminds you that June is National Accordion Awareness Month! Here's an Accordion Awareness Month Update!" Then we'd insert 10-15 seconds of some ridiculous accordion clip which was followed again by the announcer. "Keep it here all month long for more Accordion Awareness Month Updates – on B-95!" Then the next song would play. It was so out of place and so funny to me. I used this bit for years even taking it to other stations.
According to the National Day Calendar Website:
Through a complex construction of bellows and reeds, the accordion (also known as a concertina) produces its mournful timbre when air is forced over the reeds. While the accordion accompanies traditional polka music, the instrument has found its way into many classical and modern works of music.
For generations the accordion complimented many genres in American music. From jazz and zydeco to folk and Gospel and Blues, musicians found the accordion a fit a variety of musical styles.
The instrument changed, too. Manufactured in several different sizes, the smaller squeeze boxes became popular. The accordion fit well into country music, and when Rock and Roll made the scene, the accordion followed. Today, the instrument is no stranger to the recording studio.
Musicians such as Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, and Mumford and Sons all have recorded hit songs with the accordion playing a supporting role.
In honor of the occasion, here are some of my favorite accordion players:
The other accordion playing Yankovic – Frankie
Lawrence Welk – orchestra leader and accordion player
The fantastic Linda Lee, who can be seen at the Bavarian Inn in Frankenmuth, MI!
Happy National Accordion Awareness Month! Squeeze This!!
nostalgicitalian Uncategorized 2 Comments June 1, 2022 2 Minutes
In 1994, I was working at Honey Radio. Richard D. had a box full of jokes and show prep that he had collected over some time. He recycled many lines and adapted them to make them current. One day, while prepping his Top 12 at 12, I noticed a brown "newsletter looking" booklet. The title of it was "One to One". I glanced at it and there was an article, some "this day in history" stuff, artist notes, and many one liners. That was the first time I saw it. It was 4 years later that I came to know more about the author of that publication, began to learn from him, and gained a wonderful mentor and friend.
WFBE – 1998
B-95 hadn't been on the air too long when I joined the on air staff in 1998. I was brought aboard to do mid-days. Art Opperman was the Program Director. During one of our aircheck meetings (when you sit down with a tape of your show and the boss offers suggestions and such), he heard a break that I had done and he liked it. He told me it would have been better if I had edited it. "Time matters" he said. With that, he reached into his briefcase and handed me a few photocopied articles by Jay Trachman. They were "Talent Tips" articles from "One to One" that he had been given by one of his Program Directors.
I remember he said to me, "This guy is good. He knows his stuff." I did some research and found Jay's number. I explained who I was and asked about this publication. We chatted about radio a bit and shared a few stories. I immediately signed up for "One to One" and began applying the things in it to my show. Art was right – Jay was good! Each week a new tip, a new suggestion, and, of course, funny lines for the show. I really felt that I was becoming a better on air personality because of the principles and ideas from Jay's publication.
A year or two into my stint at WFBE, Jaye Albright was brought in as a consultant. I remember telling Jay about this and he praised her for her work. They had been friends a long time and she was on board with the same thinking as Jay. Jaye was a joy to work with and we spoke often of our mutual friend Jay and the stuff from One to One. Most DJ's get a bit nervous at the thought of sitting down with the PD and consultant, but this was not the case for me. I always found our chats very positive and beneficial.
In one of his weekly publications, Jay stated that there was a "rare opening for a rater". A rater was sent all of the comedy lines that Jay had written for that week. The rater went through it all and rated each line – the best rated lines made it into the publication. I jumped at the chance. This meant that each week, after sending the rated material back to him (via fax!!!), we would then go over what he called "maverick items", which were lines that were topical and wouldn't keep another week.
I grew to look forward to those weekly chats with Jay. It wasn't like work at all. It was a weekly chat with a good friend. He often offered advice about a bit I wanted to do, helped me craft a promotional idea. The more we worked together, the more we spoke to each other about our families. I came to know his family, even though we'd never met, because of our chats. He was a good friend.
Some of the most basic radio principles he taught me, I shared with my staff when I was a program director: Talk to one person; Time Matters; Edit – Brevity is essential; Don't lie to your listener; People bond with people; Be Yourself; and Entertain. I will forever remember his definition of that -"If you make your listener feel something – whether you make them smile, make them cry, make them angry, make them think – then you have "entertained" them." THAT was one of the most powerful things I ever learned from him.
There came a point where Jay decided that he would stop publishing One to One. His "family" of readers were sad about this and much of the final year's publications had letters to "the editor" praising him and thanking him for all his hard work and advice. It was a very emotional year.
I don't recall if it was before he decided to stop publishing or shortly after, but I remember he told me that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. It must have been before he stopped publishing, as I remember a few phone calls where he told me how tired he was from the treatments.
We spoke often even after One on One ceased publication, whether it was by phone or e-mail. I am glad that I still can access the last year of One to One, as they remain in my inbox. I also have a few of his final e-mails to me. He still spoke of Will, Joy, his granddaughter Sophie and the rest of his family. He always asked about my son, Dante'. He loved hearing stories about him and shared Sophie stories with me.
Every January, I still get an e-mail reminder saying "Jay Trachman will be celebrating his birthday – send him a birthday greeting". I also get the Facebook reminder on his birthday on January 15. I realized that Jay would have been 80 this year. He passed away in November of 2009 at age 70. What amazes me is that as I read some of these articles from 15 years ago, they still hold true. Yes, the landscape of radio has changed a lot, but the "tips" are still good ones. The comedy lines, however, are a bit dated.
There have been times over the course of the past 10 years that I have wanted to reach out to him. I miss being able to bounce an idea off him. I miss being able to ask him about the business. I miss his guidance and his friendship. As I think back over the many conversations I shared with him … I am thankful to have had such a wonderful mentor and friend.


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Deal #1033
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Location #1
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Administrative region
Sumy, Sums'ka oblast, Ukraine
Chernihiv, Chernihivs'ka oblast, Ukraine
Ternopil, Ternopil's'ka oblast, Ukraine
Cherkasy, Cherkas'ka oblast, Ukraine
Kirovohrad, Kirovohrads'ka oblast, Ukraine
Size under contract (leased or purchased area, in ha)
[2017] 44000
Comment on land area
The intended size in Ukraine for a new the Secondary investor is 700 000 ha. There is the current size under contract which is cannot be splited at this momment to the Primary investor level.
Food crops, Agriculture unspecified
Nature of the deal
Comment on nature of the deal
according to official web site all lands is in lease(2005)
Concluded (Contract signed)
In operation (production)
Number of total jobs created
Jobs created (total)
Current number of employees (total)
[2012] 900
Current number of daily/seasonal workers (total)
Unknown (Kernel Holding S.A., in Ukraine, 35574) (#35574)
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There is have to be a few different primary investors, but we don`t theirs exact names yet.
Network of parent companies and tertiary investors/lenders. Please right-click the nodes to get more details.
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http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/18892-ebrd-channels-more-resources-to-support-farm-land-cultivation-in-ukraine
http://latifundist.com/kompanii/133-ukrainskie-agrarnye-investitsii
Comment on data source
According to this source сompany losted around 41000 ha in 2016
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-01/ukrfarm-in-ukraine-gets-40-million-credit-line-from-ebrd-bank.html
http://www.ukrainebusiness.com.ua/news/2778.html
Company sources
http://www.kernel.ua/en/news/
Research Paper / Policy Report
http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/Brief_CorporateTakeoverofUkraine_0.pdf
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=134315317
https://antalrussia.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/rg_presentation_apr2010_sansf.pdf
http://www.uai.kiev.ua/en/products
Data source #10
http://www.uai.kiev.ua/en/geography
Company map of land holdings
http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2014-02-07/transformation-agriculture-ukraine-collective-farms-to
http://www.uai.kiev.ua/uk/istoriya
History of company on the official web site
https://www.ebrd.com/work-with-us/projects/psd/ukraine-kernel-group.html
Project Summary Documents about loan to Kernel Group; information from the EBRD's website.
Former use
Former land owner (not by constitution)
Former land owner
Private (smallholders)
Former land use
Commercial (large-scale) agriculture
Produce info
Detailed crop, animal and mineral information
Crops area
Barley, Cereals (unspecified), Corn (Maize), Rapeseed, Soya Beans, Sugar beet, Sun Flower, Wheat
Use of produce
Has domestic use
Has export
Overall Comment
Deal is splited to the Primary investor level - #5821-30, #5835-49, #5854-58, #5870
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Lovely views. A little pricey. Nice bath rooms & showers. Staff very friendly & helpful. This is a former COE park that is privately managed. COE still makes the rules. Trees are in close & most of the sites are not level. Be prepared to manually level. Tight fit for the big rigs like our 39ft 5er There are only a few sites with full sewer. Some only have water& electric. We stay here when we visit our son. Have always had an enjoyable experience. Even when it snowed & all of the area lost power!
Called the campground late at night needing a place to pull off the highway and sleep, very friendly and got us in for the night, easy pull through site, full hookup, will definitely stay here again when im in this area.
Great views on the peninsula do not make up for a lack of sewer hookups, inadequate laundry facility, non-climate controlled restrooms and very unleveled sites. Loud trains and failure to enforce park rules make this one to avoid.
Nice campground. Train whistle occasionally in the middle of the night. A little tight for big rigs, but manageable. Be sure to come in from the north off the interstate. Railroad tracks coming from the south will cause an RV to high center on a huge crossing hump.
This was our first trip in our new 30"trailor.. So nice quiet camp Ground full of high-end travel trailers and a class coaches pool was okay .bath houses were very nice laundry facilities were okay $2 a load. Short walk to a cove on the lake .nice and quiet.. $47. Full hook up ..
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Questioning Begins in British Hacking Scandal
London – Rupert Murdoch and his son James appeared Tuesday before British lawmakers probing the phone hacking scandal that has seized public life, raising questions about the police, politicians and the media elite in the worst crisis to confront Prime Minister David Cameron. "This is the most humble day of my life," Mr. Murdoch senior said. Their testimony preceded a separate appearance before Parliament's select committee on culture, media and sport by Rebekah Brooks, the former head of the Murdoch newspaper outpost in Britain who quit as chief executive four days ago.
Alan Cowell &
Graham Bowley ,
London – Rupert Murdoch and his son James appeared Tuesday before British lawmakers probing the phone hacking scandal that has seized public life, raising questions about the police, politicians and the media elite in the worst crisis to confront Prime Minister David Cameron.
"This is the most humble day of my life," Mr. Murdoch senior said.
Their testimony preceded a separate appearance before Parliament's select committee on culture, media and sport by Rebekah Brooks, the former head of the Murdoch newspaper outpost in Britain who quit as chief executive four days ago.
Their appearances followed separate committee hearing into the involvement of the police in the scandal that exploded fully only some two weeks ago with reports that The News of the World under the editorship of Ms. Brooks ordered the hacking of voice mail of a 13-year-old girl, Milly Dowler, who had been abducted and murdered. Ms. Brooks has denied knowledge of the hacking.
The committee hearings began with testimony from Sir Paul Stephenson, who resigned on Sunday as commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, commonly known as the Met or Scotland Yard. In full uniform, Sir Paul quoted from Shakespeare to explain that once he had decided to tender his resignation, "It were best it were done quickly."
The decision to quit was "my decision and my decision only," he said at the beginning of 90 minutes of testimony.
At the same time, Prime Minister David Cameron cut short an African trade tour to return home for a showdown at an emergency session of the full Parliament on Wednesday with the opposition Labour leader, Ed Miliband.
The two days of hearings, testimony, spin and possible contrition reflect the extent of the scandal.
The hearings on Tuesday were being held in two bland committee rooms across from the House of Commons, close to the River Thames in the Westminster area of central London.
The Murdochs appeared before the House of Commons culture, media and sport committee in the Wilson Room of Portcullis House. Lines of people waiting to attend the Murdoch hearings began forming eight hours before their scheduled start.
The scrutiny began when Sir Paul appeared in the Grimond Room of the same building before the home affairs select committee.
He was followed by John Yates, the former assistant commissioner of the police force. Sir Paul and Mr. Yates, who resigned on Monday, have both denied any wrongdoing in their relationship with Neil Wallis, a former News of the World deputy editor who later worked as a media consultant for the police.
Mr. Wallis was also a public relations executive at an upmarket health spa, Champneys, located at Watford, north of London, where Sir Paul received free hospitality for five weeks earlier this year while recuperating from a leg injury.
"When I became aware that Mr. Wallis was in some way connected with Champneys, I thought that was a very difficult story," Sir Paul said, explaining his resignation. "I thought, 'This is going to be a significant story, and if I am going to be a leader and do the right thing by my organization, I better do something quickly.'"
Sir Paul said Mr. Wallis's role with the police was "very minor."
"I had no reason to connect Wallis with phone hacking," he said. But, in an indication of the close ties between Scotland Yard and the Murdoch empire, Sir Paul said 10 of the 45 people working Scotland Yard's press office had previously worked for News International.
Mr. Yates is also under investigation by police authorities probing whether he helped Mr. Wallis's daughter get a job with the police. He said he had acted "as a post-box," passing on an e-mailed resume from Mr. Wallis's daughter to Scotland Yard's human resources department. He said he "categorically denied" endorsing her job application.
Mr. Yates in particular will be quizzed on why he refused to reopen an earlier inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at The News of the World after a police review in 2009. Sir Paul said Mr. Yates "looked at" the earlier evidence "and didn't think there was anything new." Separately, Mr. Yates has indicated that he did not scrutinize closely the mass of evidence that had been collected, which contained the names of nearly 4,000 peoples whose voice mail may have been hacked.
As the scandal continued to convulse its senior ranks, Scotland Yard said on Tuesday that the police oversight agency, known as the Independent Police Complaints Commission, had been asked to investigate links between Dick Fedorcio, the London police communications director, and Mr. Wallis.
Mr. Fedorcio followed Sir Paul as a witness before the home affairs committee. He said he hired Mr. Wallis to help him as "an adviser," having known him professionally since 1997. Mr. Yates had told him there was nothing in the appointment of Mr. Wallis that would "embarrass" Scotland Yard, Mr. Fedorcio said. For his part, Mr. Yates said Mr. Wallis had given him a "categorical assurance" that his appointment would not prove an embarrassment to anyone in the police.
At the later hearing, given the time pressure of the interviews with Rupert and James Murdoch and Ms. Brooks, the 10 House of Commons lawmakers, drawn from the three main political parties in Parliament, planned to ask questions they have agreed on in advance. The proceedings could unfold at breakneck pace since there will be little time to cover so much ground relating to what the trio knew of both the hacking itself and subsequent attempts to prevent closer scrutiny by Parliament, the press, the police and the public.
A senior member of the committee said the panel would focus its questions on the culture of the newsrooms at Murdoch newspapers; when phone hacking first started; who was involved; who sought to cover up the scandal; and why James Murdoch authorized settlement payments earlier in the scandal to well-known people whose voice mail was known to have been hacked.
The Portcullis room can seat only around 50 spectators but the proceedings have generated huge public interest and will be broadcast live. In British parliamentary hearings, witnesses do not testify under oath. Instead, they are obliged to answer "on their honor." The committees do not have the power to punish those it questions, but any misbehavior unearthed would deepen the opprobrium associated with those linked to the scandal.
In political terms, the weight of the hearings lies in the opportunity they offer Parliament to assert an authority weakened in recent years by a scandal over lawmakers' expense accounts. That could nudge the balance of power toward legislators. The witnesses can choose not to answer — in American terms, plead the Fifth — if they judge their comments could be self-incriminating.
The three will most likely appear with their lawyers, to whom they can turn for whispered advice. The committee members to watch — those members of Parliament who have most aggressively denounced the hacking in the past — include Labour members Paul Farrelly and Tom Watson and the chairman, John Whittingdale, a Conservative.
The committee's clerks will have prepared many of the specific questions — they will be on green sheets of paper before the members — but the most combative questioners are likely to go off script.
"The trick for this committee is getting comments on the record," said Brian Cathcart, a former journalist who worked as an adviser to the committee in the past. "They don't expect to convict and lock up their man but to get people to say things that they will have to stand by."
The questioning of Ms. Brooks is likely to be limited by the fact that she is a subject of the police investigation into the hacking. But she is certain to face questions about a comment she made to the committee in 2003 that her newspaper had paid the police for information — a comment she later retracted. Ms. Brooks was asked to appear before the committee at its 2009 hearing but refused to do so in person and instead sent written testimony.
Alan Cowell
Graham Bowley


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Originally, this frontend has been built as part of the bachelor thesis of [@mpfeil](https://github.com/mpfeil) at the ifgi (Institute for Geoinformatics, WWU Münster) and is currently maintained by [@mpfeil](https://github.com/mpfeil).

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## Configuration
You can configure the API endpoint and/or map tiles using the following environmental variables:

| ENV | Default value |
| --------- | ----------------- |
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| OPENSENSEMAP_MAPTILES_URL | http://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |

You can set them in your `terminal` or change the default values in the [Gruntfile](https://github.com/sensebox/openSenseMap/blob/development/Gruntfile.js#L24).

## Development
- Have [Node.js] v8, [grunt]() and [bower]() installed
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See also: [CONTRIBUTING](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)

## Related projects

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- [openSenseMap translations](https://github.com/sensebox/openSenseMap-i18n)

### Deployment
- [OSeM-compose](https://github.com/sensebox/OSeM-compose)
- [openSenseMap-infrastructure](https://github.com/sensebox/openSenseMap-infrastructure)

## Technologies

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## Organization

### Branches
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  - Is used for container build tags
- development (runs on testing server)
  - Bleeding edge and possibly unstable development version

## Docker

### openSenseMap including openSenseMap-API

For installing openSenseMap and openSenseMap-API with Docker check out our [oSeM-compose](https://github.com/sensebox/OSeM-compose) repository.

### openSenseMap

To build just openSenseMap you can run:
```docker build -t osem .```

Following ```build-args``` are availble:

| Build Arg | Default value |
| --------- | ----------------- |
| OPENSENSEMAP_API_URL     | https://api.opensensemap.org |
| OPENSENSEMAP_MAPTILES_URL | http://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |

## License

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Technology and Mental Crisis: E-Mental Health at NHS South East and Cinema and Psychosis at The Barbican
25th March 2013 28th December 2015 by vanessa_b In Arts, Digital, Mental Health, Psychology, Video and film
It might feel counterintuitive that technological tools should serve as arbiters of human emotion. Plastic and aluminium may have mouldable ergonomic properties, but they can't give you a hug at the end of a miserable afternoon.
Last week I attended two consecutive conferences that illustrated the myriad ways that humans do use technology to illustrate and augment feelings of mental distress. Cinema and Psychosis at The Barbican and E-Mental Health, Harnessing the Power of Digital at NHS South East were organised with very different agendas in mind, but in my opinion, both helped to demonstrate how technological tools have become so essential in helping to change perceptions and aid treatment of mental crisis in a rapidly developing technological world.
E-Mental Health: Harnessing the Power of Digital at NHS South East
Cynical readers might suggest that offering remote therapies and monitoring patient progress via a mobile phone app is a shortcut to saving the NHS money. I don't doubt that E-Mental health can be cost effective and time saving, but there was plenty of anecdotal evidence on show at this event to suggest that it can also be a very effective method of helping individuals to counteract loneliness and express difficult emotions.
"they prefer to communicate with technology than with other people"
The first speaker Ali Mousa was a young mental health service user who develops E-mental health phone apps. He presented My Journey, an app that helps users to monitor their mood by asking a series of questions and recommending positive courses of action. He observed that when it comes to expressing difficult emotions young people in particular often "prefer to communicate with technology than with other people".
As a generation of 'digital natives' reaches maturity it seems inevitable that mobile technologies might come to the fore in mental health recovery. A growing dependence on mechanical devices to regulate human emotion might seem a little dystopian; indeed social scientists such as Sherry Turkle have asserted this dependance might decrease quality of life for most users. Yet it is important to remember that many E-Mental Health applications simply augment rather than eliminate the intimacy of human contact.
"without people, its just a pile of stuff"
Jen Hyatt's E-mental Health website Big White Wall allows users to access a digital community of people with mental health issues, as well as offering one to one live therapy sessions with a range of practitioners. It is a tool for instigating person-to-person interaction between individuals who may, for example, be too anxious to leave their home or seek other forms of social contact. As Jen suggested, although the technology is designed to support users remotely, "without people, its just a pile of stuff".
"allows young people to experience the emotions of a given situation"
Translating and understanding the experiences of others is also a crucial aspect of TryLife, a new Internet based drama series for young people. In the first episode users control the decisions made by a female protagonist, potentially leading her into crisis situations such as a failed exam and even a rape. Paul Irwin Director and creator of TryLife suggests that the game "allows young people to experience the emotions of a given situation" so that they might need to experiment less with risky circumstances in their offline lives.
Cinema and Psychosis at The Barbican
The NHS using mobile phones to give remote therapy might sound like a fairly radical use of digital innovation; yet technological devices have been employed to convey the symptoms of mental distress for a long time prior to the social media age. The kinds of techniques used particularly in TryLife to aid empathy, have their origins in much older cinematic forms.
Cinema and Psychosis at the Barbican sought to provide a theoretical overview of why and how the big screen has been used so frequently by master directors such as Hitchcock and Polanski to portray experiences of mental crisis. In the first session Dr Ian Christie established the parameters for much of the discussion with a short clip from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a 1920s silent film that tells an elaborate story of persecution and fantasy from the perspective of an asylum inmate. For the viewer, the discovery that the narrator is in a mental institution only comes at the end of the film, allowing experiences of fear and persecution to be experienced as real before they are destabilised.
"Cinema is experiential so facilitates this empathetic understanding"
Dr Vaughan Bell drew on the work of Karl Jaspers, a psychiatrist who described the experience of psychotic delusion as a "fundamental change in meaning" to build on Christie's assertions. He used examples from Rosemary's Baby to demonstrate how small pieces of evidence from everyday life might conceivably be constructed to create elaborate delusional propositions. He emphasised that "Cinema is experiential so facilitates empathetic understanding," allowing the viewer to inhabit the protagonists delusion as part of their own lived experience. It is the ability to trigger empathy and not accuracy that gives the cinema its power.
To close the Barbican conference we were treated to three newly commissioned films made by young people who have experienced psychosis. Adam Tivenan, Gregory Hilton and Dolly Sen all expressed a desire for their films to reflect challenges they had faced in their own lives and to contest popular misconceptions about so-called 'madness'.
It may take time before google invents a mobile phone that can give you a proper hug, but for now it seems evident that technology will continue to be an important platform for the expression and treatment of mental ill health. As digital innovation becomes more sophisticated it makes sense that our relationship with it will become one of greater co-dependence. After all, what else do we innovate for other than to find more diverse ways of fulfilling human need?
Featured image: From the Buddy App presentation at E-Mental Health: Harnessing the Power of Digital. Photo with thanks to @claireOT
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Germans cough up for solar subsidies
Solar subsidies cost German consumers billions of dollars a year and are widely regarded as inefficient. Even environmentalists are concerned that Berlin's focus on solar comes at the detriment of other renewables. But the solar industry has a powerful lobby, and politicians have proven powerless to resist.
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Merkel Faces 'Herculean' Task on Green Energy
The aspect of the energy policy that has drawn the greatest criticism, however, is the fact that it has been accompanied by higher electricity prices for companies and consumers alike. ...Germany's largest steelmaker, ThyssenKrupp, even blamed the policies for the sale of one of its steel mills. European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger has even warned: "High electricity prices have already initiated deindustrialization in Germany."
Merkel's green jobs ambition stalls with cuts for solar
"We're seeing a major step backward regarding clean-energy jobs because of a lack of strategic industry policy coming from the federal government," Steffen Streu, a spokesman for the economy ministry in Brandenburg, said. "It was always said that each coal job given up will re-emerge in the renewable sector. That's not the case at the moment."
Taxes & Subsidies Energy Policy USA Germany
Fuming over the Phase-Out: Energy Shift Deeply Divides German Companies
Germany's nuclear phase-out is creating a new divide within the economy. On the one side are the energy-intensive businesses in the aluminum, cement and paper industries, which will see their electricity bills go up as a result of the nuclear phase-out. And on the other side is the growing renewable energy sector, which is starting to fill its order books as Chancellor Angela Merkel's nuclear turnaround becomes a reality.
Taxes & Subsidies Germany
Bloated German solar sector costly for power market
Like solar, wind generation varies greatly depending on weather conditions. Power prices have dropped to negative values already at times of extreme wind supply and low demand. ..."If Germany adds 5 GW of solar this year, we may end up with over 50 GW of volatile wind and solar capacity that can't be controlled according to demand."
Impact on Economy Taxes & Subsidies Germany
Germany's renewable myth
There are much cheaper ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions than subsidizing renewable energies. CO2 abatement costs of PV are estimated to be as high as $1,050 per ton, while those of wind power are estimated at $80 per ton. By contrast, the current price of emissions certificates on the European emissions trading scheme is only 13.4 (Euro) per ton. ...Moreover, the prevailing coexistence of the EEG and emissions trading under the European Trading Scheme (ETS) means that the increased use of renewable energy technologies generally attains no additional emission reductions beyond those achieved by ETS alone.
Germany's $143 billion wind farms jeopardized by tight funding
As much as 100 billion euros ($143 billion) in planned investments in German offshore wind farms are at risk as developers struggle to get funding, jeopardizing the deepest emissions cuts in the European Union. Bochum's municipal utility expects its first wind park to be delayed by up to two years, Managing Director Bernd Wilmert said. HEAG Suedhessische Energie AG, a regional energy supplier known as HSE, had to go to twice as many banks as it would have needed last year to finance a 1.3 billion-euro North Sea wind farm, Chief Executive Officer Albert Filbert said.
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Germany falls behind in wind turbine installations
Germany was replaced by the United States as the world's No.1 market for newly installed wind turbines last year due to falling subsidies, the German wind energy federation BWE said on Tuesday. While new installation of wind turbines worldwide rose about 31 percent overall to 20,076 megawatt (MW), new installations in Germany slumped 25 percent to 1,667 MW last year, the association said in a statement.
Green energy booming, but experts warn of cloudy future
Renewable energy made up more than 14 percent of Germany's electricity consumption in 2007, but further progress may be hindered if government support is cut back, according to new statistics. ...Energy drawn from wind, solar, water, biomass and thermal heat accounted for 9 percent of Germany's total primary energy consumption last year ...
'Green' energy up in Germany but future clouding: producers
Federation president Johannes Lackmann said investment in renewable energy sources turbines had actually fallen in 2007 and called on the German government to do more to stimulate its growth. "The government's current provisions are insufficient to continue the successful course of recent years," he said. Tax breaks and other subsidies that renewable energy sources receive in Germany are due to be gradually phased out over the next few years, which "green" producers say will erode their already weak competitiveness compared to traditional energy sources such as coal and nuclear power.
German govt to cut subsidies for solar power, pay more for wind power
AFX News Limited
Subsidies for Germany's solar industry will be cut back more than previously announced to free up funds for offshore wind power plants, sources close to the German environment ministry said. The government plans to increase the maximum subsidy for wind power to 0.11-0.14 eur per kilowatt hour from currently 0.09 eur, the sources said. The changes will also force solar power firms to increase the profitability of their facilities if subsidies are cut. German environment minister Sigmar Gabriel is expected to make a statement on the Renewable Energies Law today.
Governments struggle to find policies that will spur renewable-energy industries — without coddling them
Since the oil shocks of the 1970s, governments around the world have paid plenty of lip service to renewable energies such as wind and solar power. But only a few governments have been able to engineer policies that have begun to bring alternative energies into wider use. Renewable fuels provided 18% of the world's total electricity supply in 2004, according to figures from the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based intergovernmental organization. Almost all of that, though, came from hydropower, a source with limited growth potential because of geographic constraints. The use of wind and solar power is growing, but they still generated only 1% of global electricity production in 2004, the latest year for which figures are available.
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Germany world leader in wind turbines market
Green Prices
World leader in terms of installed capacity is Germany (20,621 MW), followed by Spain (11,615 MW), the USA (11,603 MW), India (6,270 MW) and Denmark (3,136 MW). According to Peter Ahmels, President of the German Wind Energy Association, the secret of Germany's fast growing wind energy market lies in the feed-in system with fixed prices for 20 years: "So investors know exactly what they get. Compared to several other systems in Europe, the German feed-in law is one of the cheapest." Christian Schnibbe of Wind Project Development adds: "Due to a reliable and sustainable basis of the Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz (Renewable Energy Law in Germany, ed.) and a growing industry, wind has become mainstream. In addition, the growing international demand for renewable energy has also pushed the development in Germany."
Less For More: The Rube Goldberg Nature of Industrial Wind Development
Rube Goldberg would admire the utter purity of the pretensions of wind technology in pursuit of a safer modern world, claiming to be saving the environment while wreaking havoc upon it. But even he might be astonished by the spin of wind industry spokesmen. Consider the comments made by the American Wind Industry Association.s Christina Real de Azua in the wake of the virtual nonperformance of California.s more than 13,000 wind turbines in mitigating the electricity crisis precipitated by last July.s .heat storm.. .You really don.t count on wind energy as capacity,. she said. .It is different from other technologies because it can.t be dispatched.. (84) The press reported her comments solemnly without question, without even a risible chortle. Because they perceive time to be running out on fossil fuels, and the lure of non-polluting wind power is so seductive, otherwise sensible people are promoting it at any cost, without investigating potential negative consequences-- and with no apparent knowledge of even recent environmental history or grid operations. Eventually, the pedal of wishful thinking and political demagoguery will meet the renitent metal of reality in the form of the Second Law of Thermodynamics (85) and public resistance, as it has in Denmark and Germany. Ironically, support for industrial wind energy because of a desire for reductions in fossil-fueled power and their polluting emissions leads ineluctably to nuclear power, particularly under pressure of relentlessly increasing demand for reliable electricity. Environmentalists who demand dependable power generation at minimum environmental risk should take care about what they wish for, more aware that, with Rube Goldberg machines, the desired outcome is unlikely to be achieved. Subsidies given to industrial wind technology divert resources that could otherwise support effective measures, while uninformed rhetoric on its behalf distracts from the discourse.and political action-- necessary for achieving more enlightened policy.
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The high price of free power
If wind energy really is the energy of the future, as the developers claim, it must prove itself in the market without government subsidies. This has not yet happened anywhere; the projections are all based on artificial models with hidden costs -- costs for you and me, the taxpayers and consumers.
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Book signed: "Hillary Rodham Clinton", 10½x10½, 312 pages. An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hardcover and Dust Jacket. Hillary Rodham, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1947 and a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School, married Bill Clinton in 1975. Their daughter Chelsea was born in 1980. While actively practicing law herself, she spent 12 years as First Lady of Arkansas (1978-1980, 1982-1992). Since 1982, she has preferred to be called by her married name. As First Lady during the Presidency of Bill Clinton (1993-2001), she set several firsts, including: first with a postgraduate degree, first to have practiced law and, in 2007, the first to be elected to public office on her own. She was elected U. S. Senator from New York in 2000, and re-elected in a landslide in 2006. As First Lady, Hillary Clinton took an active role in public policy, beginning by chairing the National Task Force on Health Care Reform. While the Clinton health care proposals were defeated in Congress, and probably contributed to the Republican take-over of the Congress in 1994, she had more success on other issues, including successful advocacy of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. She was a favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, but lost it in a hard-fought primary campaign with Illinois Senator Barack Obama. Since 2009 she has served as President Obama's Secretary of State. Invitation to the White House covers the Presidential mansions history, as well everything from photos of state dinners to White House recipes. Fine condition.
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Former police chief wins gender discrimination lawsuit
On behalf of Hennig Ruiz & Singh posted in Sex and Gender Harassment & Discrimination on Thursday, April 4, 2019.
People work many different jobs in California and there are many different requirements for those jobs. These requirements are based on education levels, experience, the ability to work different hours or at different locations, the ability to drive and many other requirements.
However, people of all genders are capable of working every job. Determining whether a person is able to meet the requirements cannot be based on a person's gender.
However, there are many instances when women are treated differently than men. This is what occurred to a woman who was the former police chief at a local police department.
While she was police chief, she stated that the police department was mostly male and she felt like she was simply there so the city could say they had a female police chief. She stated that she was undermined in front of subordinates and she was harassed by comments made by a city council member who stated women could not perform the job of police chief. The member allegedly made comments of a sexual nature about her.
The former police chief won the lawsuit she filed, and a jury awarded her $7 million. Not only was she compensated for the damages, but she also felt vindicated by the fact that the police department was held accountable.
This lawsuit demonstrates the gender discrimination and harassment that women can face in the workplace. Such discrimination is illegal, and the victims of the discrimination may be entitled to compensation, which can include actual monetary damages and punitive damages.
Unfortunately, women in the workplace sometimes still find themselves in male dominated industries and experience discrimination and harassment that they should not endure. Experienced attorneys understand the difficulties in proving these cases and may be a useful resource.
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When he was only 16 years old, Vinnie completed his first restoration, on a 1932 Pontiac two-door coupe, marking the beginning of his passion for cars and his life-long journey toward Muscle Cars of Texas. Vinnie moved to Texas in 1980 from New York and opened his first shop in Houston, Universial Car and Corvette, he quickly became one of the most well-known Corvette restorers in the state. However, Vinnie aspired to something greater. He soon expanded his knowledge base to include all things muscle car and opened Muscle Cars of Texas in 2000.
With hundreds of completed builds under his belt, Vinnie can diagnose a problem by simply listening to it. Learning the inner workings of classic car restoration the old-fashioned way by touch and test, much of Vinnie's training was acquired by hands-on experience. For more than 40 years, Vinnie has served classic car enthusiast from all over the world, building custom and classic cars that have helped raise the bar for today's restoration expectations.
"Hot Rod Molly" is a huge asset to our team. From day one she has proven herself to be a very valuable asset. Molly brings with her years of business management experience.
She has also been very active in local car show circles, winning awards with her own modern muscle car, as well as being very well connected with other local businesses. She has no problems being one of "the Guys" and keeping the rest of the shop in line when necessary.
Molly handles all of the daily operations of the business. She orders and receives parts, handles all aspects of accounting and payroll, coordinates drop off and delivery of customers vehicles, and helps keep projects on schedule.
"I am originally from Houston, Tx. I basically started out by taking things apart to see how they worked. This was a good thing considering my first few vehicles started out as junk. The first real shop I worked with was an Auto & A/C shop. I walked in with a cardboard box full of tools and went to work installing A/C systems in Fieros.
"I joined the U.S. Army in 2001 as a Military Police Officer, and was stationed At Fort Lewis Washington with the 66th Military Police Company. In 2004, I was deployed to Karbala, Iraq where my unit conducted various combat missions. After my deployment, I was re-assigned as an undercover narcotics officer with the 42nd Military Police Brigade, Drug Enforcement Team, Fort Lewis Washington. I left the Army in 2006, returned to my home state of West Virginia, where I studied Graphic Design at Marshall University for two years. In 2009, I moved to Houston Texas and soon enrolled into San Jacinto College for the Auto Body Repair Management Program.
"Born and raised in Houston, Texas, and being raised around cars since I was knee high to a grasshopper. One of my first cars was a 1967 Mustang. After that I knew I was hooked. Being a self taught mechanic I have worked all over the state, building my skills building everything from street cars to giant monster trucks. As time went on I decided to go to several technical colleges to attend classes for fabrication, sheet metal, welding, and automotive technologies.
"My experience with cars started at an early age when I was allowed to ride with my older brother and his best friend in his 2006 GTO V8 Super Charged Coupe. When he would pop the clutch, I would be pinned to my seat, watching the tire smoke billow out around the rear end of the car. I knew I had to learn more about building these cars.


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Free Music Friday: Crash of Rhinos – Knots
Instead of working on this post, I spent the last two evenings reading. So instead of giving you a new band and new album to check out (sorry Groundhog Day. You'll shine next week!) I'm giving you one of my favorite bands/albums of the last 5 years.
The Derby, Uk band, along with My Heart To Joy, were my introduction to Topshelf Records and more importantly, the emo revival. In a lot of ways, Crash of Rhinos reminds me of Braid and Texas is the Reason, with the band throwing in some Mineral and American Football style twinkle on the second half of the album.
You can download Knots (and the band's 2011 record Dista) at https://crashofrhinos.bandcamp.com/
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Tagged as Bandcamp, Crash of Rhinos, Emo, Emo Revival, Free Music Friday, Music, Punk, Topshelf Records
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The Meltdown – The Meltdown 3.88
This week I'm highlighting Topshelf Records discography.
Tagged as Dream Pop, Emo, Indie, Meltdown, Mixtape, Music, New Music, Podcast, Post Hardcore, Prawn, Slingshot Dakota, The Saddest Landscape, Topshelf Records
Prawn Announces Run, Premieres North Lynx
Emo post rockers Prawn have announced their third full-length, Run. Run will hit shelves on September 22nd via Topshelf Records. You can pre-order Run at http://www.topshelfrecords.com/products/596592-prawn-run. In addition to that announcement, NPR Music is streaming North Lynx, the first single from Run. You can listen to North Lynx at http://www.npr.org/2017/08/09/542076045/prawns-north-lynx-sounds-like-an-elephant-stampede?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=20170809
Tagged as Emo, Music News, New Music, NPR Music, Post Rock, Prawn, Run, Topshelf Records
Prawn Teases New Album
Prawn has released a video teaser for their upcoming full-length record. The follow-up to 2014's Kingfisher will be out this fall via Topshelf Records. You can watch the teaser below.
Tagged as Emo, Music News, New Music, Prawn, Topshelf Records
Ratboys Streaming GN
Ratboys new record, GN (Good night), will hit stores this Friday, June 30th. But the band is offering a stream of the record on their website. You can give GN a spin at http://www.ratboysband.com/
You can still pre-order GN at http://www.topshelfrecords.com/products/590362-ratboys-gn
Tagged as GN, Music News, New Music, Ratboys, Topshelf Records
Field Mouse – Episodic
"What a way to say fuck off."
It's more than the first line of the first song on Field Mouse's stellar new record, Episodic. It's almost like a statement from the band. The Mirror might actually be quite disarming to longtime fans of the band and their shoegaze sound. The upbeat, hella catchy dance number is almost a challenge to the hipsters to try and not enjoy themselves. It's also anthemic! It's an easy line to attach yourself to and I imagine it will be shouted by audiences at the band's upcoming shows. Aside from the opening line of the record, The Mirror is a fun song. It gets me dancing every time. Rachel Browne's vocals remind me of Jenny Lewis and the Mirror sounds like what I always wished Rilo Kiley sounded like. It's the perfect album opener.
And yes, Field Mouse puts their best foot forward with The Mirror. But they follow it up with step after step of great song after great song. I've seen people comment that the album still nods at their shoegaze past, but to my ears, Field Mouse has moved past that sound. The fuzzed out guitars punctuate the bands indie pop choruses. Take the track A Widow With A Terrible Secret. The verse is a jaunty light pop track until the guitars fully kick in on the chorus and the song explodes into a power pop ballad. Sure the guitars have an almost shoegaze airy quality to them but to label it as shoegaze almost robs the track of it's power.
Half-life follows The Mirror. It's got a great synth line on the verse that helps give the verse a club vibe before the band rips into the chorus. Power pop is the name of the game! The Order of Sings is a beautifully clean indie pop song.
Browne's vocals soar through the dynamic and melodic changes on Beacon, becoming the star of the track. Beacon seamlessly transitions into Over and Out, which is all sorts of sugary pop goodness. On the surface, the song sounds simple, but put on a pair of headphones and you pick up small riffs flying in and out or a moment of feedback that highlights a moment in the song. Do You Believe Me Now is a fantastic, straight forward rock and roll song that has a chorus that reminds me of mid-90's post grunge rock. Out Of Context closes the record with some Sonic Youth esque feedback as the track slowly unwinds and brings Episodic to an end.
There are no flaws on Episodic. From upbeat pop tunes to dark indie rock songs that give the band "street cred", Field Mouse has crafted an album full of brilliant songs. Perfect start to finish and very easily jumped to the top of my Album of the Year list. 5 out of 5 Stars!
Tagged as Episodic, Field Mouse, Music Reviews, New Music, Topshelf Records
Dowsing Premieres Hold
Dowsing will release their new split 7″ with Ratboys on September 9th via Topshelf Records. Today the band has premiered the first track on that split. The song is called Hold and you can give it a spin over at DIY Magazine. http://diymag.com/2016/08/15/dowsing-track-premiere-topshelf-records
Don't forget you can pre-order that 7″ now at http://www.topshelfrecords.com/products/575718-ratboys-dowsing-split
Tagged as Dowsing, Music News, New Music, Ratboys, Topshelf Records


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Q: Android Studio INSERT button not adding I try to Insert some random values to Realtime Database in Android Studio with Firebase,
it says that Data has been inserted when it hasn't. In another class I created a Students Class that contains getters for name ,last name and telephone number.
Here's the code:
package com.example.school;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseReference;
import com.google.firebase.database.FirebaseDatabase;

public class AddPerson extends AppCompatActivity {

    EditText addName;
    EditText addLastName;
    EditText addTel;
    Button Insert;

    DatabaseReference studentDbRef;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_add_person);

        addName = findViewById(R.id.addName);
        addLastName = findViewById(R.id.addLastName);
        addTel = findViewById(R.id.addTel);
        Insert = findViewById(R.id.Insert);

        studentDbRef = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference();

        Insert.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                insertStudentData();
            }
        });
    }

    private void insertStudentData(){

        String name = addName.getText().toString();
        String lastname = addLastName.getText().toString();
        String telephone = addTel.getText().toString();

        Students students = new Students(name , lastname, telephone);
        studentDbRef.setValue(name);

        Toast.makeText(AddPerson.this, "Data Inserted", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    };
}

A: Fixed by adjusting Realtime DataBase Firebase rules , it was on test mode at first then i changed both to true.

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My advice to Californians: Get out now!
"Last week the CEOs of Europe's 10 largest utilities finally cried uncle and called for a halt to wind and solar subsidies. Short of that, they want subsidies of their own. They want to be paid, in essence, not to produce power." Thanks to mandates to use electricity from wind and solar Europe's energy costs increased 17% for consumers and 21% for industry in the last 4 years.
Those low-income communities might not agree, along with all the rest of the Californians, in the wake of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. While California strives to save the state from a warming that has not been occurring for more than 15 years, the new mandate that 33% of the state's energy come from wind and solar is estimated to cost $114 billion, all of which will come out of the pockets of energy consumers.
The first "Climate Change" refugees perhaps?
Well written. The Motto for California can read "Will The Last Person Leaving California Blow The Candle Out".
Already on my way to Missouri. Red state, affordable real housing – hasta la vista, baby!!!
Many are missing the point. Although many in the Sierra Club are sincere, many if not most politicians who endorse "Green Energy" are not. They know that the so called "Green Energy" technologies are neither environmentally friendly (how many golden eagles have been killed by wind turbines this year?) nor cost effective. Their purpose is not so much to save the planet as it is to create profit opportunities for their "Green Energy" cronies. In other words, it's cronyism at the expense of the citizens, plain and simple!
I'm sure this speaks to many of the political agendas, but there's also just the plain ugly coercion via the electorate of many environmental fanatics!
And how's this more expensive energy likely to affect the myriads of illegal aliens who have to live two to six families in a home just to get by now?
This is typical parania producing propaganda dispersed by those who stand to loose huge revenue from their investment in fossil fuel which can only increase in it's profitability as the resources dwindle. Simple law of supply & demand economics meant to scare the consumer into defeating laws that will promote clean , renewable energy in favour of their product which will only drain the consumers wallet while ruining our planet for our children & future generations. Anyone that supports this is selfdefeating & selfloathing in support of this obvious ploy.
The propaganda is coming from you, sir. None of the "fissile fuels" is dwindling, if you actually cared to look at the facts. New innovations have revolutionized the energy obtainable that has been powering the world for generations. No doubt, you believe in the wholesale line of bs that is global warming. And isn't it interesting that the "cost" of energy can only increase with your lame excuses for "saving the planet." And as they do, this is what will result in the gulf widening between poor and wealthy. Making a standard of living more difficult to acquire is not what "frees" people. Anyone who supports what you advocated is just plain caught up in scarcity and fear-mongering tactics; in other words, sir, you are a fascist!!!
Anthony James, I'm just stating a fact. Oil is a finite resource. If it wasn't dwindling , there would be no need for fracking. Coal is so obviously bad for the air & rapes the landscape to get it just as fracking does. Fracking poisons the water table. Once theire are sufficient wind farms & water & solar are used to their full potential there will be no need to continue to throw money at fossil fuels that polute the environment & the greedy wish to exploit us for fossil fuel resources that will run out. If the demand for them continues the price will rise as the supply decreases. We will NEVER run out of Wind & Solar resources. Oil will be completely removed from the Earth within my Grandchildrens' lifetime. It is indeed fossil fuel that is the cause of the widening of the gap in income. Making a standard of LIVING is what alternate energy is about. If we continue on the path of environmentally destructive fuels , only the elite will afford to survive. Scarcity is a reality that articles such as this one are making an attempt to reverse the facts for the benefit of their profiteering.
You level of naivete is staggering, to say the least. It was once thought that oil was finite, hence the term "fossil fuel." But in fact, it isn't, as demonstrated over and over by holes once emptied refilling. Your understanding of coal is equally erroneous; in the past, it has been a dirty business, but as with everything else, its acquisition and use has been vastly improved via technology. Your argument that "one day" solar and wind will have the requisite foundation for universal consumption is not the point here, though neither source currently is capable of delivering the demand necessary to power the globe. Some day it may be, but not now and not in the near future.
Your thinking that fossil fuels have created the SOL gap is just too stupid for words. It is precisely the opposite, Woody! It is the cheap and easily accessible source of energy that has allowed the middle class to proliferate, while even the lower-income classes have been able to enjoy a standard of living hardly comparable to any time in history. But where you absolutely miss it, and miss it big, is in thinking that any – ANY – system will somehow exist beyond the greed of men and women. Build all the solar systems, wind systems you want, and if you think for one second that doing so will bring prosperity and happiness to everyone without a hint of exploitation, you're just living in a fantasy world! And please provide some evidence of how the world is somehow "lessening" because of fossil fuels. The population continues to grow, the increase in food production continues to grow, and wonders of technology continue to solve problems in ways never before imagined. That's why your doctrine of "scarcity" as a viable means of arguing as you do has never, ever proved useful. But then, you probably believe in global warming as a religion; people like you are just pitiable!
Oh, it gets worse. So we have put these mandates in to reduce CO2 emissions to a level ALREADY ACHIEVED. So there was no reason for them in the first place. But, here is where it becomes almost comical it is so sad, they closed down the San Onofre nuclear power plant because the state regulator wanted to make re-certification after a repair so expensive it would eat up all future profit from the plant. So the operator simply closed it. Result? 24% increase in CO2 emissions in California last year. So to review: the introduced renewable mandates to reduce CO2 emissions to a level that had already been achieved anyway through chasing out industry then they force one of two nuclear power plants in the state to close down which results in complete negation of the renewable mandate anyway. All while forcing customers to pay through the nose for NO BENEFIT which will make zero difference in global atmospheric CO2. It is just insane. The Democrats have just gone insane. Don't flee. Stand and fight. Purge the Democrats at EVERY level of government before they destroy the whole damned country.
There is many other free energies or renewable energies that exists.. that could easily provide 100% energy use for all the world. see Nikola Tesla for starters….


So, I come from that Reddit link someone posted.
I'm a big Tetris fan. It's super cool to see people make new clients. Especially online clients. I also think that, where how fan online clients goes, we're kinda always go for SRS and a meta based a lot on speeds, reflexes and pattern recognition. Which are big virtues in Tetris.
But I have to ask. Why making a Cultris 2 clone? What's the leitmotiv, there? What SpeedBlocks have more, compared to Cultris?
I apologize if I sound rude, there. I'm not trying to fire shots, I'm really clueless. There's so much things we didn't explored on online (and offline) fan Tetris clients that I kinda have hard time getting why people would remake something we kinda already have.
I set out to make this mostly as a way to pick up c++ programming after being away from it for almost 10 years.
As far as tetris games goes Cultris is the only one that's really ever stuck with me, primarily for the combo system they use where speed is values over making tetrises and T-spins.
As to what SpeedBlocks has that Cultris lacks are so far a few things IMO.
In game supported tournaments, create one on the fly or play in the scheduled ones. This also comes with tournament points for long term ranking and stats and 4 different level of tournaments awarding different kind of points. The idea is to require points in the lower leves to be allowed to sign up for the higher level ones.
There are also still some things missing, like ingame stats, achievements and badges... but the development is ongoing.
Another thing I was hoping for when starting this project was to let the game develop according to what the community wants.
So far the player base is still quite small, and the forum is not very active... but this could change at any time I guess.


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February 17, 2018 February 13, 2018 RedCrossNW Disaster Services, Home Fire Campaign, Service to the Armed Forces, Sound the Alarm, Volunteers
Smoke alarms installed by Red Cross comfort Everett family
By Dale Steinke
Edited by Nancy Waddell
Early one evening during a family gathering of more than a dozen people in Everett, the Hoffman family started a fire in a basement wood-burning stove to heat their home.
"All of a sudden I had someone knocking at my door saying my chimney was on fire," Linda Hoffman said. The fire department quickly put out the fire and no one was injured. It was a scary experience though trying to make sure everyone was out and accounted for.
Throughout the entire episode, none of the existing smoke alarms made a peep.
"I was just lucky enough to have someone drive by and take action, which I was very thankful for," Hoffman said.
Linda points out the chimney that caught fire at her Everett home.
The fire department recommended the smoke alarms be replaced. A friend of the family who works with the Red Cross connected them with volunteers Kathy and Richard Kennard who installed eight alarms with 10-year batteries throughout the 2-story, 5-bedroom house built in the early 1900's.
The Kennards also discussed fire drills, escape routes, and fire and earthquake preparedness.
"We teach in twos," Kathy Kennard explained. "Two minutes to get out of the house. Two escape routes out of the house and two meeting locations outside of the house."
It's a procedure the couple have done many times since they started volunteering with the Red Cross more than three years ago. Kathy estimates she and her husband install 300-500 smoke alarms per year. They also serve on the Disaster Action Team whose members respond to home fires to support people during their time of crisis.
Declaring the Kennards "awesome," Hoffman said the alarms and the safety discussion "make me feel a lot better, especially when my son is around, or my grandkids."
Hoffman urged others to reach out to the Red Cross to get working alarms.
One way to do that is to take advantage of the Sound the Alarm campaign, a home fire safety and smoke alarm installation campaign. Richard Kennard and other volunteers are coordinating a Snohomish County campaign this April and May. To sign up for this free service across much of Washington state, visit GetaSmokealarm.org.
"They give you a ton of information on top of it," Hoffman said. "People don't realize that the Red Cross is not just there for disasters."
Click on these links to find out more about the Red Cross Home Fire Campaign and how we're Sounding the Alarm in communities all across the country.
Tagged Chimney Fire, Everett, family, Smoke Alarm
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Edgar Morris Wood Syers (Brighton, 18 maart 1863 - Maidenhead, 16 februari 1946) was een Brits kunstschaatser en schaatstrainer.

Syers nam zowel deel bij de mannen solo als bij het paarrijden met Madge Syers-Cave, met wie hij in 1899 in het huwelijk was getreden.

Als solo rijder werd hij op 36-jarige leeftijd derde op het WK van 1899 in het Zwitserse Davos, het was de eerste Britse medaille bij het WK Kunstrijden.

Op de Olympische Spelen van 1908 in Londen werd hij, op 45-jarige leeftijd, samen met zijn echtgenote derde bij paarrijden. Daarmee was hij de oudste kunstschaatser in de olympische geschiedenis die een medaille won.

Belangrijke resultaten

Brits kunstrijder
Brits schaatscoach
Brits olympisch deelnemer

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Q: Best practise for populating access token with external claims We have implemented IdSrv4 on top of AspNetCore Identity and we use ADFS as external IdP. From ADFS we wan´t to get the users AD-groups, upn and som other claims. The claims will be used both inside our IdSrv4 implementation, but will also be sent to our API-resources as part of the access token.
The current situation in our IdSrv4 implementation:

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*ADFS has been configured so that it emits the claims that we want and in our IdSrv4 implementation those claims are received as expected in the "ExternalLoginCallback" method of the AccountController.

*IProfileService has been implemented in order to fill the "IssuedClaims" list with claims.

BUT, I haven't managed to build the connection between those to steps. What is the preferred way to preserve the claims received in "ExternalLoginCallback" and put them into the generated access_token in the IProfileService class?
Right now I have managed to get it working by saving the token using the method "UpdateExternalAuthenticationTokensAsync", which will save the token in the database. Then in the profile service I fetch the token and read the claims into the emitted token.
But this doesn't feel right and while searching for the proper way I´ve seen examples use the class IdentityServerUser that has "AdditionalClaims" property, but I can't find a way to plug that type into the event flow.
Also, when configuring the external IdP you have these "ClaimActions" that can be mapped, but I don't understand what they are.
Finally, I assume that the database tables "IdentityClaims" and "ClientClaims" with corresponding entities should be used for this purpose but I can´t figure out how. Or should they be saved in the "AspNetUserClaims" table to save the actual claim type/values and not only claim mappings?
So basically, there must be a best practice for this scenario that seem to avoid me and I would be greatful if someone could share it.

A: The main issue in my problem was that the problems I first encountered with persisting the Claims in the AspNetIdentity-Db led me to a wild goose chase.
Returning to this after a week or so made me give this another shot. Turns out that the DI injected "_userManager" wasn't "connected" to the current DI injected "_signInManager". If someone has an explanation for this, please share!
What did work was to use the "_signInManager.UserManager" to update Claims on the user. This properly stores the Claims in the "AspNetUserClaims" table, and can then be retrieved in the profile service.
UPDATE 1:
Of course there was a logical answer to that as well. A user manager is created by default even if you don't call "AddUserManager" on your identity setup during startup. BUT, in my case I have extended the IdentityUser class and now by doing it like this it all works as excpected (where "UserIdentity" is my derived class):
.AddIdentity<TUserIdentity, TUserIdentityRole>(options =>
            {
                options.User.RequireUniqueEmail = true;
            })
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            .AddSignInManager<SignInManager<UserIdentity>>()
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Home Musicians Beyonce Hairstyles: Real Natural Hair, Real Hair, Hair Color
Beyonce Hairstyles: Real Natural Hair, Real Hair, Hair Color
Beyonce has always been a trendsetter when it comes to hair, constantly changing her look and experimenting with new styles. From long locks to short crops, she's tried them all – so many times that it can be hard to keep track! Her ability to reinvent herself time and again is remarkable, making her the perfect example of a modern-day chameleon in the hair world.
Remember when she showed up at Grammy and swung in garlands of shimmering hair? Or when she cut her hair and then posted pictures of her cut fairy on Instagram leading the whole world of fashion fanatics? Not to mention the day she decided to give a boost to the brown color of brown hair full of action. And she looked elegant.
Beyonce Hairstyles
The list is endless. But here are the 5 signature Beyonce hairstyles and the moments of beauty that attracted the largest number of imitators:
The Honey-blonde Stage Waves
This is the first style Beyonce adopted after abandoning the straightened look. Although she kept the blonde color she changed her style almost completely by mixing with the waves of the beach and the honey reflections.
For those who remember this happened around the time she started using the nickname, Queen Bey. And queen she was. She could throw the strands that flow through the scenes which gave her that wild and indelible look that her loyal fans most often associate with her.
ALSO READ: Kim Kardashian Style, Hair Color and Outfits
Kim Kimble Bey's stylist for 15 years admits that it is the most iconic and coveted style ever seen on Queen Bey's head. With her words, tousled and imperfect hair is her gaze. Or quite simply it is the image that comes to everyone's mind when the name Beyonce appears.
Beyonce Hairstyles – The Topknot
The topknot has reached the new millennium in the blink of an eye. It was a trend. Then Bey started wearing the look that made him even more explosive.
Call it Ponytail Armageddon. This style alone put an end to all ponytails. For Beyoncé, it was a casual hairstyle after hours; when she was off the stage watching basketball shopping, or walking the streets of New York with her husband Jay.
Beyonce Hairstyles – Beyonce Braids
Beyoncé has been wearing braids from time to time since she was with a child from Destiny's Child. The only thing she does is vary the haircut. From micro braids and cornrows to thigh braids and flat braids Bey's head has it all. Do you remember her trip to Cuba for her wedding anniversary? Well, that's the style most of her loyal fans would like to see her revisit one day.
The faux Pixie cut
On August 8, 2013, Beyoncé's devoted fans, critics and fashion enthusiasts were abuzz after the singer posted a picture of herself on Instagram. The photo quickly went viral as everyone had something to say about her new look. It was later revealed that Miley Cyrus' Kool-Aid-inspired hairstyle was the inspiration behind this transformation – a style choice that certainly got people talking!
The photo which showed Bey Looking in a shiny vanity killer eyebrows hard-to-notice fingernails and the haircut of fake elves. There were all kinds of comments and speculations about her hair. While some of her imitators couldn't help but scream at the sight of the new Bey.
ALSO READ: Rihanna's Tattoos; Hand And Chest Tattoos, Nose Job
Turns out Bey was just taking everyone for a ride. It didn't take the star more than a week to get out with a new haircut just to prove to the world how much she really is an experimenter. And be careful do you remember how many elves you only saw at the end of 2013? If Bey had nothing to do with this who else?
The Wavy Bob
The Wavy Bob was the next haircut for Bey after the pixie haircut. And it was a good transition.
Bey's new look, the "Mom Bob", quickly gained popularity as 2013 came to a close. In less than a week after its launch, it became one of the most talked about hairstyles of that year and gave Bey an unexpected boost in her career. The mommy bob over her shoulder was especially popular among people all around the world, making this style iconic for years to come.
Although hairdressing has quickly dropped from her name of "mom bob" to "the wob" or "Wavy Bob" as some like to call it, celebrities such as J. Law, Emma Stone, and Kerry Washington still rock.
The Wet style
The 'Check On It' clip showed Bey in nine different hairstyles all made by Kimble.
Also noticed during her performance "Drunk in Love" at Grammys 2014 wet hairstyling stood out. It was just a matter of time before the Internet was overwhelmed by all kinds of "wet hair" tutorials.
For more details on how this hairstyle suits Beyoncé, she even put the style on the cover of Vogue magazine – September 2015 issue.
Quick Facts ABout Beyonce
Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter
Mathew Knowles
Tina Knowles
Acting, Modeling
$350 Million USD
Face Color
34-25-35 (Bust-Waist-Hip)
17 Grammys
Destiny's Child
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"We, speaking in the most general possible sense, will sit and watch the most idiotic BS in the world," says Richard D. Colvin, curator of the Maitland Art Center. "But how can you miss it … all that barrage? It's like driving by a car wreck."
That an attraction to the lowbrow lurks within us all is something that Colvin, the artist, accepts. And Colvin's puzzlement over the state of art comes through in his exhibit of brand-new mixed-media works, Little Pictures, Big Ideas, which opened June 14 at Comma Gallery and continues through July 8. The artist's dark side comes through too, which will appeal to those of us who look at the world with the light switch off.
Colvin, 47, is a painter and printmaker, and both are evident in his work. Each piece in this collection is set within a shallow, unfinished pine box (as we all will be, eventually). Some of the boxes hold simple but striking paintings, rich in color and brush technique. Others are more contemporary juxtapositions of paintings and collage, such as "Idols," which features a trio of media-weary images of William Hung, George Bush and the Numa Numa dance. Similarly inspired, "You're Fired" features Donald Trump in all his TV glory; "Beauty Is in the Eyes of the Beholder" captures a patch-eyed Dale Chihuly. All of them pack a punch line.
For local resonance there's the piece titled "Peanut Butter & Jamali." (For those not in the know, Jamali is the Pakistan-reared, highly marketed Winter Park artist known to collectors and neighbors for his outdoor, in-the-nude paintings done in a meditative state.)
"No, it wasn't intended to be subtle," says Colvin, a Rollins College alumnus who worked for almost 20 years at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum before moving over to the Maitland Art Center in 1997. "I'm asking questions about how the nature of the art market affects our concepts in the aesthetic area. Is something more beautiful because it is expensive? Is it more valuable because it has that level of material success? I really do not have the answers. I do know that this is what equates to success both locally and in culture in the larger sense."
At Happytown™, we have nothing against a good sub sandwich. In fact, we've eaten enough of them that, if stacked end to end, they would stretch to Clermont.
So it was with mild interest that we checked Firehouse Subs' website at the behest of a tipster who told us that there was some hoagie-related malfeasance afoot concerning the chain and Orlando firefighters. We took a gander, and indeed we found a 60-second spot featuring a few of Orlando's bravest espousing the yummy goodness of Firehouse Subs in what looked like a real fire station.
That's all fine and dandy, but it could in fact be a violation of Orlando Fire Department regulations prohibiting firefighters from making commercial endorsements while in uniform without permission from the chief, which they didn't have, according to OFD flack Vicki Robles.
But it turns out that no rules were broken; the firefighters were wearing International Association of Firefighters uniforms, not OFD uniforms, making everything hunky-dory. The commercial wasn't shot at an OFD station, and none of the equipment shown belonged to the department.
Orlando City commissioner Vicki Vargo is what you'd call a fiscal conservative. As Orlando Weekly reported last week, Vargo hinted at some $6 million in "discretionary" funding cuts to help balance the city's budget, things like city funding for the Orlando Science Center, United Arts and the Economic Development Commission.
Given commissioner Thrifty Nickel's frugality when it comes to other people's pet projects, we had to smirk just a little when we noticed an item on the city's consent agenda (things passed through in a lump with little discussion and therefore an excellent place to hide skeletons): $61,000 for two mosaics being shipped from Italy to hang in the Rosemont Community Center, which is in her district. The justification, according to the city's fiscal impact statement, is as follows: "The two mosaics will add warmth and enrichment to visitors at the Rosemont Community Center."
In Washington this type of thing is called "pork." Did we mention Vargo's up for re-election next year, and Rosemont's in her district?
Speaking of Vargo, the commissioner will finally have to stop the annoying habit of referring to herself as mayor pro tem in every bloody piece of literature her office puts out now that the council has selected Patty Sheehan and Phil Diamond as pro tems No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, for the year. Pro tem is an honorary position, and only matters if the mayor can't work – say he gets indicted or something, which of course would never happen, but just play along.
Vargo was pro tem No. 2 from June 2004 to now – meaning she had as much chance of ascending to Dyer's throne as the secretary of agriculture has of becoming president – but she wore it like a great accomplishment. We've seen lots of pro tems, but we've never seen anyone brag about it before.
That fact wasn't lost on her fellow commissioners. Though the pro tem positions are shuffled around, Vargo spent the week lobbying her colleagues to create a rotation system that would have made her pro tem No. 1 this time.
But there was no way that was gonna happen. Last week we got word that at least one commissioner said Vargo would be nominated again "over my dead body."
We don't do dishes, but we do do dish. So forgive us for peeling ourselves away from the glare of Michael Jackson verdict coverage for a quick attempt at localized sensory overload June 13.
Billed as "Dishing on the Fringe," the Peacock Room's monthly cabaret/talk-show riot for June sought to unearth the stickier, possibly overlubricated events associated with too many theater people crammed into the otherwise sterile Loch Haven Park facilities. Surely somebody got nailed in the bathroom, right?
What we did find out was that the boys of Boy Groove ("sexiest of Fringe") were actually not gay, but deceptively virile 30-somethings with a timeshare and kissy lips. We also caught wind of a controversy involving artist Doug Rhodehamel's mischievous paper-bag mushrooms being utilized for the promotion of the show Zen, a renegade act which prompted Fringe magnate Terry Olsen to become dramatically irate. Oh, and somebody apparently gave somebody a blow job while dressed as Princess Leia … but not at the Fringe. Dishy.


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import org.apache.calcite.DataContext;
import org.apache.calcite.linq4j.Enumerable;
import org.apache.calcite.rel.RelNode;
import org.apache.calcite.rel.type.RelDataType;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class QueryEngineFactory {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(QueryEngineFactory.class);

    public static Enumerable<Object> computeSCALA(DataContext dataContext, RelNode relNode, RelDataType resultType)
            throws IllegalAccessException, ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException {
        try {
            String property = System.getProperty("kylin-query-engine", "org.apache.kylin.query.runtime.SparkEngine");
            QueryEngine o = (QueryEngine) Class.forName(property).newInstance();
            return o.computeSCALA(dataContext, relNode, resultType);
        } catch (InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | ClassNotFoundException e) {
            throw e;
        }
    }

    public static Enumerable<Object[]> compute(DataContext dataContext, RelNode relNode, RelDataType resultType)
            throws IllegalAccessException, ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException {
        try {
            String property = System.getProperty("kylin-query-engine", "org.apache.kylin.query.runtime.SparkEngine");
            QueryEngine o = (QueryEngine) Class.forName(property).newInstance();
            return o.compute(dataContext, relNode, resultType);
        } catch (InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | ClassNotFoundException e) {
            throw e;
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    public static Enumerable<Object[]> computeAsync(DataContext dataContext, RelNode relNode, RelDataType resultType) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("");
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Time for an adventure of the unexpected kind!
Hello all, I would like to introduce you to my friend Kileigh7. We have known each other since elementary school. We met thanks to our two Girl Scout troops coordinating events together. Lots of happy memories from our childhood and college years. Now as parents, we bounce ideas about raising boys off of each other. Thanks to Kileigh7 for her guest post!
When I started dating my other half, I half dragged him along to hockey games. I soon converted him into a hockey fan. I even found hockey on the west coast-dragging poor Doug to Ducks training camp. Hey-I was on break. Thank you Year round school for giving me time off during training camp season!
So, it was no shock that when we had Isaac, hockey was planned to be a huge part of his upbringing. One of his first pairs of pajamas was a "hockey bear" print. We had all of these grandiose plans to introduce him to the Ducks and take him to Ducks camp. That didn't happen. Not at all. Why?
Dang. There went the plan to turn my child into a hockey fan. Oh, well. There's always next season.
And then we moved back east. Back to the home of minor league hockey. It was then that I decided it was high time that I took my child into the winter past time that keeps me sane.
Opening night. My annual tradition. I size up the team, see if any of the players trips over a carpet during intros (Yes, that happened.) and generally get my hockey on. That fateful night, everything changed. I asked my then 5 year old if he wanted to go down on the ice and participate in the autograph session. His eyes lit up and I left my other half and my parents and signed the waiver forms for me and the small boy. He brought his mini goalie stick and we got in the lines, with the intrepid help of a few friends. Then, it happened. He went and met one of the goalies who saw his mini stick and asked if he liked hockey (yes.) and if he was going to play (huh?) and if he was going to be a GOALIE. I thought I was going to die when the resounding "YEAH!!" came from Isaac's lips.Please realize, my child has PT. He has low core strength, wears leg braces and has a turn in of his legs. I had no idea how I was going to whap this out of his head.
Curse you, Goalie!! Curse you!!
1. Age-he was 5. 2.Stature-a bit short and light. 3. The biggest problem-Not able to skate. He wandered away and came back and asked to learn how to skate.
What? Learn to skate? Oh, boy. We'd barely mastered soccer. How are we going to skate!?
So, after several phone calls and the promise of loaner gear later, Isaac was signed up for "Learn to Skate for Hockey."
Wait-Did I just… Yes, I did. I signed my child up for hockey.
Soon, we were in the throws of gearing up. I was also learning things I never, ever thought I'd need to know-like how to fit a hockey stick. I was also beating off comments from family and friends that ranged from me being completely and totally out of my gourd to inquiring about the ins and outs of my dental plan.
Sooner than I thought, Isaac was on the ice and learning how to skate in full hockey gear. On a bucket. Gripping his stick like someone would steal it if he even thought of letting it go.
Soccer parents screamed at the kids (even at the Kindergarten level!) and it was just high pressure. Here we were in hockey, chatting with everyone, drinking really bad coffee and laughing at our small bobbleheads on the ice. It was a totally different vibe. We discussed everything from work to the program itself and then onto travel mugs that worked in the icy conditions of what came to be known as "rink freezer."
It was refreshing. It was fun. It was a good way to spend a few hours out of my week.
More importantly, Isaac was loving it. He was a part of a team. He was learning to follow someone else besides us and his teacher. He realized what Mommy and Daddy loved so much about hockey and why we were desperate to bring him along with us.
When this season rolled around, it was all about getting back into hockey. He was beyond ready. He had his base skills-could sorta skate, stand on his own, and sorta hold his stick properly.
he was all about improving. It didn't hurt that he found out that his buddy from school played the level above him, and he could join him next year if he did well enough!
The parents? Still the best ever. We again, drink bad coffee, freeze in rinks, share photos and get up at the break of dawn, as ice time is beyond early. We still all laugh at our kids and cheer them all on.
But the smile under the face cage?
It reminds me why I love this game. It reminds me why I started this adventure in the first place.
To properly fit a hockey stick, it needs to be up to your nose in bare feet and to your chin in skates.
Thank you again to Laura for a look at life as a hockey mom. Please be sure to stop by her blog and say hello.


Animal Welfare – Despite the common belief that drinking milk or eating eggs does not kill animals, commercially raised dairy cows, egg-laying chickens, whether factory-farmed or 'free-range,' are slaughtered when their production rates decline, not to mention the appalling conditions to which they are kept. There is an ongoing debate on the finer points of what constitutes an animal product; The Vegan Society and most vegans include insect products such as honey in their definition as well.
The environment – Animal agriculture takes a devastating toll on the earth. It is an inefficient way of producing food since feed for farm animals requires land, water, fertilizer, and other resources that could otherwise have been used directly for producing human food.
Health – The consumption of animal fats and proteins has been linked to heart disease, colon and lung cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, kidney disease, hypertension, obesity, and a number of other debilitating conditions. Cows' milk contains ideal amounts of fat and protein for young calves, but far too much for humans. According to Gill Langley, a Ph.D. in biology and author of Vegan Nutrition, "it is clear from the example of many thousands of vegans worldwide that a varied plant-based diet not only supports health and well-being but, additionally, can have positive health benefits" (Langley 1995). A vegan diet is protective against such major killers as heart disease and cancer.
Eating fewer animal products is a good choice for the environment and your conscious. Animal agriculture produces surprisingly large amounts of air and water pollution and causes 80 percent of the world's annual deforestation. It also requires large amounts of waterFind Article, and livestock worldwide consumes half the world's total grain harvest.
How Do I Know it's Vegan? You will need to examine the packaging and labeling carefully of all non-registered products to ensure that you avoid animal by-products such as gelatin and rennet which can be found in everyday items such as children's sweets.
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