Where to begin? Knowing where I left off would be helpful. I think it had something to do with fodder (imagine that) and then it seemed everything went to hell and a handbasket and I've had little time to update my Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marmalade-Hollow-Nubians-and-Soaps/185935851450937?ref=ts&fref=ts) let alone the blog!
A brief summary of life here the past couple weeks. One Sunday (2 weeks ago??), Iris started showing symptoms of pregnancy toxemia and went down hill real quick. Injections of CMPK seemed to do little good and with several injection sites required for each treatment, I felt so bad for her I put her on oral CMPK.
Delivery of the kids is the best treatment for this but because Dawn had still not kidded, I thought for sure I had messed up January breeding dates altogether. As it turns out, Dawn was not bred before Iris at all but another dry coming 2 year old who was sold last Fall. I did not figure that out until the doe's owners emailed me to say that the doe had delievered a healthy buck and doe…a day after "Dawn's due date". OH, WHOOPS!!! I could have induced Iris to kid 5 days prior to her due date, but with due dates up in the air from my mishap with the breeding dates of does, I did not want to risk loosing the whole bunch to prematurity! So, I induced her on her due date and she delivered a healthy set of twins (1 buck & 1 doe) on Jan. 16. A lovely day it was too.
Meanwhile, I was still drenching her with CMPK (for a while there every 2 hours round the clock!), injecitons of B-complex to try and help stimulate her appitite, Nutradrench and immune supporting herbs, etc.
Fast forward to a week later and the kids are bouncing bundles of fluff. Iris is still with us, though she is pathetically thin and still does not seem to want to eat very much. She came down with a horrid snotty nose so I am now giving her LA-200 every evening and double blanketing her. She picks at her food but going on 2 weeks now, she's obviously eating enough to keep her alive and drinking rather well. She is locked up at night alone with her kids with enough hay of every kind of I have to feed a threshing crew but she's not real eager to get to it as any of it like other does would be. So, we are just taking it day by day and hoping she regains her will to eat. I know she's got it. I am supplimenting her kids with a bottle. A lot of people have mentioned taking the kids away so they are not "draining her". I know Iris and if I were to do that, she'd give up her will. So, she keeps her kids and they have lots of forms of Mom that come out to feed them several times a day and this seems to work. I've told Iris she just has to decide what she wants to do…I have stopped with the CMPK and so we'll just see what happens…if 2 summers ago is any indication (when she just adamately flat out refused to eat much of anything for 2-3 months), she'll just up and decide one day to eat again and that will be that. She's a strange one that one…but strong despite it all and bull headed…fine! Me too.
I would post photos of the new kids but if you can imagine this…both of our home computers are on the fritz. The main computer is barely limping along and will have to be replaced but I am least thankful to have it sort of working though I cannot have any more than one tab for the internet, nor any other programs open at any one given time, it will crash. So, posting photos will have wait. My laptops charger cord is fried and so I am waiting on a new one. There are photos of thekids up on the FB page (address above), if you'd like to visit and see them.
The fodder journey is going very well. I have ordered enough tubs to give me 3 tubs a day…all of the girls are more than happy to eat it every day, even though right now it's barely more than a snack when divided out between them all. I've added in sunflower seeds as well…ther germination rate is okay, but not great and some of the girls turned their noses up at the fodder with that in it so I think I may just stick to leaving it out.
I found out I can get 3 different varieties of field peas at the local co op so that's great news. They are somewhat pricey but would certinatly calm any fears I have about the girls getting enough calcium, especially the milkers.
I have comissioned Jeremiah to "build" me a fodder trough. I need nothing more than a piece of rolled stainless steel to make a trough long enough for everyone to eat at and then just attach the trough to a couple piece of 2×4's in an "X" shape at each end for legs. As it is I have to stand on one side of the fence and feed each doe a biscuit individually because there is not enough to go around for a full meal and if I left it up to them to decide, the faster eaters would get a full meal and the slower eaters would get none but that's because there's not enough for a full meal. Plus too…I have to cut the biscuits up small enough they can eat it in a mouthfull otherwise they try to flip the biscuits around to chew some off and end up throwing them all on the ground and then won't touch them, of course so that's totally wasteful. So, I find myself cutting up the biscuits really small to begin with and that seems to work very well.
With the mishap on Dawn's due date, we're now looking at the end of the month/beginning of Feb. for her. She's filling her udder nicely and so we'll see what becomes of all that.
We're supposed to be in for a nice 55 degree day and there's lots that can be done with that! Jeremiah and I removed the cattle panels that made up our back yard fence. Now that the dogs are finally staying where they belong, we no longer need a fenced area for any dog and I have several good uses in mind for more panels! A person cannever have too many of those!
One of these weekends I'd like to finally get a panel hoop greenhouse put in. I've gone through countless photos of what I want and I think I've got a pretty good plan in my head of how it will look and should not require the purchse of too much more than a piece of plywood since we have everything else.
Speaking of dogs, if Snow settled her pregnancy back in Nov. we should be expecting pups here fairly soon after the first of Feb. She started digging a new den under the stock trailer back when she was in heat and did not work on it for a long time but the past couple of days I've seen new earth being dug up so she's back at it and looking rather plump these days. We'll see what becomes of all of that. What's very odd is that she cycled twice in 2 months time…dogs don't generally do that. We were expecting pups in Jan. as of last Oct. until she cycled again which pushed it out a month more but she's doing all the thing she should be doing so here's to a healthy litter in about 2-3 weeks.
With the new baby goats coming and being expected, I think the dogs really sense this and are hanging back at the barn more and more or one will be at the barn full time (usually King) and one is the patroller (usually Snow). One of the cats came out to say hello this morning and keep me company while I fed and did barn chores and King was none too happy about her coming close to the new goat kids. It's rather comical. He had to be gently reminded that other creatures are not always out to harm "his" animals. Normally the cat is more than happy to rub herself up and down the dogs but I think she was a little put off that the dog yipped at her. She'll get over it, I'm sure, and I am sure King now knows she could care less about some goat kid, she just wanted to see what the new black things were.
That's all for now and all until I can get a computer up and running and not just limping!
The first 2 feeders we ever made were fairly simple wood construction, box style with vertical slats where the hay was dropped into the center and goats ate from all sides. They beat the heck out of it and wasted so much hay by pulling it through the slats; not to mention the fact the kids would get up there and sleep and one year I had some kids with diarrhea so you can well imagine what a lovely mess that was to clean up!
We loaded this into our custom built livestock trailer and hauled it all the way from California. It's an okay feeder but still quite heavy and needs to be kept under cover. I mean, I don't suppose it HAS to be, but it sure will last a lot longer.
I don't like it for a few reasons. For one, weight. For two, while the trough seems like it would be useful (yes there is a trough at the bottom but they pull so much hay out you can't even tell), I feed mostly alfalfa and it drops down, the leaves and dust collects and I end up raking it out. They don't pick it up out of the trough. Rarely have I had a goat eat the "trough droppings". Or maybe it's just that I feed too much. If small kids get up into it, they urinate on the hay in the trough making clean up a chore.
These cattle panel feeders are really quite ideal, cheap, portable, and light weight. Yes, hay does fall out the bottom but it's usually picked up pretty quickly by lazy goats, as you can see… And quite honestly, there's no more waste with them as opposed to the reach up and take hay out style feeders like the wooden one at the beginning of this post.
I take a 16′ cattle panel and cut it in 3-6 pieces. I use a bolt cutters to remove the vertical stays on each side leaving me with fingers. My husband then welds (carefully because it's galvanized and the vapors are poisonous) the fingers together and I hang them with clips, in this case mountaineering clips. For a $20 panel I get quite a few portable feeders.
And then there's the bucket that I use when I am out of town for the weekend clipped to the cattle panel for an extra feeder for more hay just in case.
If you're wanting to know what that white PVC thing is attached to the wooden feeder, it's my mineral feeder made from a piece of 4″ PVC (about 2 foot in length), a cap, a 45 degree section, a male adapter and a female screw. You could just glue a cap on the bottom of the 45 degree section, but the male and female part allows me to clean it out if I ever needed to. I love this mineral feeder.


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In September of 2017, the Leibniz Rechenzentrum in Garching will put a new cluster into service, based on Intel Many-Core processors. Innovations are not limited to the node architecture, but also extend to the interconnect and cooling infrastructure.
LRZ's procurement targets for the new cluster system were:
To supply a system to its users that is suited for processing highly vectorizable and thread-parallel applications,
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Upon conclusion of a European procurement process, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) has signed a contract with MEGWare (https://www.megware.com) for delivery and installation of an HPC cluster based on Intel's many-core architecture. Its baseline installation will consist of 148 computational many-core Intel "Knight's Landing" nodes (Xeon Phi 7210-F hosts), connected to each other via an Intel Omnipath high performance network in fat tree topology. A standard Intel Xeon login node will be available for development work and job submission. CooLMUC3 will be comprised of three water-cooled racks, using an inlet temperature of at least 40 °C, and one rack for the few remaining air cooled components (e.g. management servers) that use less than 3% of the systems total power budget. A very high fraction of waste heat deposition into water is achieved by deployment of liquid-cooled power supplies and thermal isolation of the racks that suppresses radiative losses. Also, the Omnipath switches will be delivered as water-cooled implementations and therefore do not require any fans.
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The processor generation installed in this system is the first from Intel to be stand-alone; previous generations were only available as accelerators, which greatly adds to the complexity and effort required to provision, program, and use such systems. The LRZ Cluster, in contrast, can be installed with a standard Operating System, and can be used with the same programming models familiar to users of Xeon-based clusters. The high speed interconnect between the compute nodes is realized by an on-chip interface and a mainboard-integrated Dual-port adapter, which is of advantage to latency-bound parallel applications, in comparison to PCI-card interconnects.
A further feature of the architecture is the closely-integrated MCDRAM, also known as "High-Bandwidth Memory" (HBM). The bandwidth of this memory area is an order of magnitude higher than that of conventional memory technology. It can either be configured as cache memory, directly-addressable memory, or a 50/50 hybrid of the two types. The vector units have also been expanded – each core contains two AVX-512 VPUs and can therefore, when multiplication and addition operations are combined, perform 32 double-precision floating-point operations per cycle. Each pair of cores are tightly coupled and share a 1MB L2 cache to form a "tile", and 32 tiles share a 2-dimensional interconnect with a bisection bandwidth of over 700GB/s over which cache coherence and traffic flow in various user-configurable modes. To what extent such configuration options are capable of optimizing specific user applications is currently under evaluation, as in general a reboot of the affect nodes is required.
Because of the low core frequency as well as the small per-core memory of its nodes, the system is not suited for serial throughput load, even though the instruction set permits execution of legacy binaries. For best performance, it is likely that a significant optimization effort for existing parallel applications must be undertaken. To make efficient use of the memory and exploit all levels of parallelism in the architecture, typically a hybrid approach (e.g. using both MPI and OpenMP) is considered a best practice. Restructuring of data layouts will often be required in order to achieve cache locality, a prerequisite for effectively using the broader vector units. For codes that require use of the distributed memory paradigm with small message sizes, the integration of the Omnipath network interface on the chip set of the computational node can bring a significant performance advantage over a PCI-attached network card.
LRZ has acquired know-how throughout the past three years in optimizing for many-core systems by collaborating with Intel. This collaboration included tuning codes for optimal execution on the previous-generation "Knight's Corner" accelerator cards used in the SuperMIC prototype system; guidance on how to do such optimization will be documented on the LRZ web server, and can be supplied on a case-by-case basis by the LRZ application support staff members. The Intel development environment ("Intel Parallel Studio XE") that includes compilers, performance libraries, an MPI implementation and additional tuning, tracing and diagnostic tools, assists programmers in establishing good performance for applications. Courses on programming many-core systems as well as using the Intel toolset are regularly scheduled within the LRZ course program[1].
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With their acquisition of network technologies in the last decade, Intel has chosen a new strategy for networks, namely the integration of the network into the processor architecture. This cluster will be the first time the Omnipath interconnect, in its already mature first generation, is put into service at the LRZ. It is identified by its markedly lower application latencies, higher achievable message rates, and high aggregate bandwidths at a better price than competing hardware technologies. The LRZ will use this system to gather experience with the management, stability, and performance of the new technology.
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LRZ was already a pioneer in the introduction of warm-water cooling in Europe. CooLMUC-1, installed in mid-2011 by MEGWare, was the first such system at the LRZ. A little more than year later, the IBM/Lenovo 3-PFlop "SuperMUC" went into service, the first system that allowed an inlet temperature of around 40°C, in turn allowing year-round chillerless cooling. Furthermore, the high water temperatures allowed this waste energy to be captured in the form of additional cooling power for the remaining air-cooled and cool-water-cooled components (e.g. storage) – in 2016, after a detailed pilot project in collaboration with the company Sortech, an Adsorption-cooling system was put into service for the first time, converting roughly half of the Lenovo Cluster's waste heat into cooling capacity.
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Q: Typescript React component not rendering I have a Cars component that will have multiple Car components inside. I have some checks to make sure the Car[] is not undefined or null. But Car is not being rendered
console log of carobj is: Object { id: 5, year: 2009, make: "honda", model: "civic", price: 18000, person_id: 1, created_at: "2022-03-12T05:56:18.526Z", updated_at: "2022-03-12T05:56:18.526Z" }
just before I pass the data into the car component
cars.tsx:
import {car, Car} from './car';
interface cars {
    cars?: car[];
}
function Cars (props: cars) {
    return (

cars container

            {props.cars && props.cars?.length > 0 && props.cars!!.map((carobj: car, idx) => {
                console.log(carobj);
                let {year, make, model, price, person_id } = carobj;
                <Car year={year} make={make} model={model} price={price} person_id={person_id} key={idx} />
                // <Car {...carobj} key={idx}/>
            })}

    )
}
export default Cars;

and my car.tsx component:

export interface car {
    year: number,
    make:string,
    model: string,
    price: number,
    person_id: number,
}

export function Car (props: car) {
    console.log(props.year);
    return (

                car:{props.year} {props.make} {props.model} {props.price}

    )
}

the consolelog of props.year inside the Car doesn't show up in the console.
I've tried spreading the props and also explicitly passing the props in.
No errors show up in the reactapp or in the console. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

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Near New Hampshire Factory Site, Sick Residents Wonder Who Is to Blame
By Emily Corwin • Sep 14, 2016
Brendan DeKemper outside his family's home in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
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In the last couple years, millions of people across the country have learned their drinking water contains high levels of the contaminants known as perfluorochemicals. These are used to make non-stick products like Teflon and pizza boxes.
For those with illnesses that are linked to the contaminant, that knowledge can be helpful — and incredibly frustrating.
Sitting on her porch, Marianne Sylvester's face looked healthy. But she said her face looked different before she got Graves Disease about 10 years ago. At the time, it all seemed like bad luck -- really, really bad luck.
"One side effect of graves is Thyroid Eye disease, and it causes your eyes to bulge out," she said. "And so I lost all self confidence. You can't look someone in the eye when your eyes are. You feel hideous."
Read more at New Hampshire Public Radio.
Drought Conditions Have Forced Water Restrictions on Dozens of N.H. Towns
By Emily Corwin • Aug 1, 2016
The region's ongoing drought has forced state officials to restrict or ban outdoor water use in 54 New Hampshire towns and cities.
The state's drought management team has classified the North Country and the White Mountains as "abnormally dry," while four counties in the southern tier are suffering severe drought conditions.
PFOA-Contaminated Drinking Water Raises Questions, Concerns Across the Northeast
By Lydia Brown • Jun 28, 2016
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Michigan is not the only state with a water crisis on its hands. Right now, communities in New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont are grappling with their own water contamination challenges. It's just that for these states, the problem does not stem from corrosive water or aging lead pipes, but from a toxic chemical known as PFOA.
Elevated Levels Of Suspected Carcinogen Found In States' Drinking Water
By editor • Mar 31, 2016
Water safety concerns aren't just in Flint, Mich., these days. Communities in three states in the Northeast have found elevated levels of a suspected carcinogen — perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA.
Used to make Teflon, the chemical has contaminated water supplies in New York, New Hampshire and Vermont.
After a four-month ban in the village of Hoosick Falls, N.Y., the New York State Department of Health declared the water safe to drink and cook with again on Wednesday. A temporary filtering system has brought PFOA levels down to nondetectable levels for weeks.
Federal Data Shows Firefighting Chemicals In U.S. Drinking Water Sources
By Christopher Joyce • Aug 9, 2016
A study of drinking water supplies throughout the U.S. shows that numerous sources are contaminated with firefighting chemicals.
A team of scientists examined government data from thousands of public drinking water supplies. The water samples had been collected by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
The scientists were looking for several types of chemicals from a class of fluorinated substances used commonly in firefighting foam.


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Global Health: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Has Improved Its Documentation of Funding Decisions but Needs Standardized Oversight Expectations and Assessments
GAO-07-627 Published: May 07, 2007. Publicly Released: May 07, 2007.
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved about $7 billion in grants to developing countries; the U.S. has contributed $1.9 billion. The State Department's Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) coordinates the U.S. government's overseas AIDS programs, with participation from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In 2003, Congress directed GAO to report on the Global Fund every 2 years. This report assesses the Global Fund's (1) documentation of information used to support performance-based funding decisions, (2) progress in implementing a risk assessment model and early warning system, and (3) oversight of the performance of "local fund agents" (LFAs), which monitor grant progress in recipient countries. GAO reviewed the documentation for funding decisions and interviewed key officials.
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Department of Health and Human Services To enhance Global Fund operations, the Secretaries of State and HHS should work with the Global Fund's Board Chair and Executive Director to establish standardized expectations for LFA performance.
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Actions that satisfy the intent of the recommendation have been taken.

The Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) at the State Department coordinates U.S. government efforts to combat HIV/AIDS overseas, including multilateral assistance to the Global Fund. The Global Fund contracts with Local Fund Agents (LFA) in the field to provide financial and programmatic oversight. OGAC, on behalf of State and HHS, provided information to support closing this recommendation. In October 2010, the U.S. government issued a Call to Action for the comprehensive reform of the Global Fund to improve its impact upon the lives of people affected by HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. In response, the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board established the Comprehensive Reform Working Group, which developed a detailed reform agenda approved by the full Board in May 2011. According to OGAC, the United States strongly supports the plan for comprehensive reform developed by the working group and endorsed by the Global Fund Board, especially as it relates to LFA performance and accountability. The comprehensive package of reforms, when implemented, is intended to significantly improve the Global Fund's operations, governance, and fiduciary controls. The Secretariat committed to the implementation of these reforms and is to report back to the Board in November 2011 on progress. Regarding standardized expectations for LFAs, the reform package specifically called for an accountability framework for fiduciary control and risk management that clearly delineates the roles, responsibilities, and accountability of the Global Fund and its structures, including LFAs. It also called for reforms in independent audits and investigation functions and in national accountability structures, such as government ministries, regulators, and civil society.
Department of State To enhance Global Fund operations, the Secretaries of State and HHS should work with the Global Fund's Board Chair and Executive Director to establish standardized expectations for LFA performance.
Department of Health and Human Services To enhance Global Fund operations, the Secretaries of State and HHS should work with the Global Fund's Board Chair and Executive Director to require systematic assessments of LFA performance and the collection and analysis of LFA performance data to improve the management and oversight of LFAs.
The Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) at the State Department coordinates U.S. government efforts to combat HIV/AIDS overseas, including multilateral assistance to the Global Fund. The Global Fund contracts with Local Fund Agents (LFA) in the field to provide financial and programmatic oversight. OGAC, on behalf of State and HHS, provided information to support closing this recommendation. In October 2010, the U.S. government issued a Call to Action for the comprehensive reform of the Global Fund to improve its impact upon the lives of people affected by HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. In response, the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board established the Comprehensive Reform Working Group, which developed a detailed reform agenda approved by the full Board in May 2011. According to OGAC, the United States strongly supports the plan for comprehensive reform developed by the working group and endorsed by the Global Fund Board, especially as it relates to LFA performance and accountability. The comprehensive package of reforms, when implemented, is intended to significantly improve the Global Fund's operations, governance, and fiduciary controls. The Secretariat committed to the implementation of these reforms and is to report back to the Board in November 2011 on progress. The reform package specifically called for an accountability framework for fiduciary control and risk management that clearly delineates the roles, responsibilities, and accountability of the Global Fund and its structures, including LFAs. In addition, according to OGAC, the Secretariat is working to implement a more rigorous and systematic LFA performance management system, including the collection of LFA performance data. The Secretariat also terminated 10 LFA contracts for poor performance.
Department of State To enhance Global Fund operations, the Secretaries of State and HHS should work with the Global Fund's Board Chair and Executive Director to require systematic assessments of LFA performance and the collection and analysis of LFA performance data to improve the management and oversight of LFAs.
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An ordination service was held at St John's Cathedral on 28 October, the Feast of St Simon and St Jude. Archbishop Paul Kwong ordained Mr Jason Leung and Ms Lorraine Choi to the order of the diaconate, and the Revd Walter Lau to the order of priesthood.
After their ordination, Jason and Lorraine would serve at St Paul's Church and St Stephen's Church respectively as curates. Walter would continue to serve as curate at St Stephen's Church.
The Ven Mark Tang, Archdeacon of Eastern Kowloon preached about obedience during the sermon that night.
He appealed to the ordinands for canonical obedience to the Church, the bishops sent by God and other ministers who may have authority over them.


The US dollar continued enjoying the optimism from the tax cuts and was not hit hard by the data. Can it continue higher? Four rate decisions await us: the SNB, ECB, BOE, and the FED, with Yellen's last post-rate decision press conference. Can the dollar continue higher? Here are the highlights for the upcoming week.
UK inflation: Tuesday, 9:30. Expectations still remain high at 3%.
US PPI: Tuesday, 13:30. Another rise of 0.4% in headline PPI is predicted. Core PPI carries expectations for 0.2%.
US Inflation: Wednesday, 13:30. A rise of 0.4% is projected for headline CPI and +0.2% for core CPI.
US rate decision: Wednesday, 19:00, press conference at 19:30. The Fed is expected to raise rates for the fifth time in the cycle and third time this year. The hike from to a range of 1.25% to 1.50% has been well-telegraphed for a long time. This time, the Fed also releases forecasts for inflation, employment, growth, and interest rates. At the moment, the central bank foresees three additional hikes in 2018. Will they stick to their guns? Markets are skeptical, but they will probably signal continuity before Powell makes his own mark. However, this is an open question as inflation remains low. Outgoing Fed Chair Janet Yellen initially shrugged off lower price rises as "transitory", then called it "a mystery" and eventually admitted that it might not necessarily be that transitory. What are her views this time? Apart from the forecasts, the tone of the statement and her press conference, her last post-rate decision statement, will be telling. We can expect incoming Chair Jerome Powell to vote with the majority as always and we can expect Neel Kashkari of the Minnesota Fed to dissent, as he previously did earlier in the year. The Fed will try not to rock the boat too much, but markets may cling to any small semantic change in the statement, a shift in the projections, or Yellen's tone to try and look into 2018.
Australian jobs report: Thursday, 00:30. A gain of 19.2K is on the cards and the unemployment rate carries expectations for remaining at 5.4%.
Swiss rate decision: Thursday, 8:30. change in policy is unlikely, and will likely lead to a stronger franc. Many traders are still reeling from the January 2015 SNBomb.
UK rate decision: Thursday, 12:00. A unanimous "no-change" vote is more likely among the 9-member Monetary Policy Committee ahead of the holidays.
Euro-zone rate decision: Thursday, 12:45, press conference at 13:30. As usual, Draghi will continue his balancing act. If he talks about ending QE after September, the euro will jump, but this is unlikely. The ECB can wait until around June to make such future announcements.
US retail sales: Thursday, 13:30. A gain of 0.3% is forecast in headline retail sales and +0.7% in core sales.
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EUR/USD failed to hold onto higher ground in a mixed week. The ECB meeting is clearly the big event of the upcoming week, but not the only topics on the agenda. Here is an outlook for the highlights of this week.
German ZEW Economic Sentiment: Tuesday, 10:00. A score of 17.9 points is on the cards now. The all euro-zone figures stood at 30.9 points and 30.2 is forecast now.
Mario Draghi talks: Tuesday, 19:00. The president of the European Central Bank will speak at an event in Frankfurt less than 48 hours ahead of ECB meeting. He could drop a hint about the tone, but in such proximity to the event, it is more likely that Draghi will be more cautious.
German CPI (final): Wednesday, 7:00. The German figure will likely be confirmed now.
German WPI: Wednesday, 7:00. Back in October, prices remained flat.
Employment Change: Wednesday, 10:00. Another gain of 0.4% is forecast now.
Industrial Production: Wednesday, 10:00. A drop of 0.2% is projected.
French CPI (final): Thursday, 7:45. This number will probably confirmed now. It all feeds into the all euro-zone number.
Flash PMIs: Thursday morning: 8:00 for France, 8:30 for Germany and 9:00 for the whole euro-zone.
Rate decision: Thursday, 12:45, press conference at 13:30. The big news was out already at the October meeting. The ECB will halve the volume of its bond-buys in January to 30 billion euros per month and the program will run through September 2018. Draghi left the door open to what happens afterward, andthat was a dovish sign that sent the euro down. Since then, weak inflation reads, especially with core CPI slipping to 0.9%, vindicated his dovishness. This time, no changes are expected, but the ECB will publish new staff forecasts for inflation and growth. A downgrade of inflation forecasts could serve to weaken the euro and Draghi could join in. However, it is hard to ignore the robust growth, especially in Germany(0.8% q/q). As usual, Draghi will continue his balancing act. If he talks about ending QE after September, the euro will jump, but this is unlikely. The ECB can wait until around June to make such future announcements.
Trade Balance: Friday, 10:00. The figure for October will likely be similar: 24.6 billion.
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If you're a frequent traveller and often use cars to commute to work, then you must be aware of the different kinds of issues that pop up with everyday driving. At many instances, you try a route and just before you're nearing your destination, you see a signboard of Work Under Progress which forces you to take an additional trip around the route which consumes a lot of your time and makes you very unpunctual, which is highly unprofessional in itself. That's the point when you realise the importance of some driving apps that can get you out of trouble within seconds.
Hence, the best driving apps are the tools which must be used by every driver in the present era when every person is out to somewhere at every time.
We have collected a listing of a few of the best driving apps that you could use in 2019 to improve your driving experience.
You must be existing under a rock if you're not familiar with this particular tool of driving which is the most preferred app of the drivers using devices running on the Android platform. Google maps is undoubtedly one of the best driving apps which have a variety of features to flaunt about. It has a two type driving mode which enables you to select different routes for driving two wheelers and four wheelers.
Many times the two-wheelers offer a shorter route which isn't identified by the car apps. Hence, it is an excellent choice for drivers. Also, it has a fantastic feature of street view which helps you to get to know how the buildings and stores and stations exactly look while you're on your way. The most beautiful feature which is admired a lot about Google Maps is its ease in finding all the types of stores, petrol pumps, stores, malls, schools, etc. real quick. Also, it provides the estimated time based on real-time traffic along with alternate routes.
Aceable is also one of the best driving apps available at present which can be great for people with minimal driving skills. It is an excellent app for driving and learning the various aspects of operating without any formal classes or training.
This is a simple smartphone app which makes you a pro in driving by providing you excellent driving features and support. It also has a function to help you get discounts on your vehicle insurance by a mechanism which is easy to follow.
The availability of this app is not extensive, and it works in selected locations only.
The Waze Live Traffic app finds its place in the list of the best driving apps of 2019 due to its great features and excellent user interface which has made this app quite popular among the drivers.
This application uses a lot of data from various sources and informs the users about the live traffic on your route including the estimated time taken to reach your destination, and also provide a way for some alternative routes. This app also includes information about road construction works, blockages, barricades, etc. and also about the potholes which can be a nuisance for the drivers and cause accidents.
This app is again one of the best choices that one can make while going through a list of the best driving apps in 2019. This is an excellent app for the ones who love to go on trips while they are not at all good at planning things. Also, when there are many things involved, some things are left out, and that includes driving.
Hence, for those people that RoadTrippers is one of the best driving apps that they can find in order to have a nice trip. This app allows the users to search for hotels, parking, service stations, petrol stations, etc. while entirely on the route. It also fetches you the data as the amount of time expected to a destination along with the amount of fuel required in the trip. Such things make this app, even more, user-friendly.
An independent system of maps also operates which enables the users to more accuracy.
This app isn't available at all the locations. Hence you need to watch out for the other options as well.
These were some of the best driving apps but developed by some of the important organizations for the benefits of the entire driving community. But they won't be of any use if you don't have the proper hardware accessories like a car jump starter, tire changing mechanisms, etc. And it is also helpful to the newer generation which is not so efficient in remembering the routes like their forefathers. These are although the best driving apps but this list is not exhaustive and there are others which might find a place in another list.


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Today is somber day in the Church. The liturgy is not chanted in joy but spoken in sorrow. Ashes are on our foreheads as a reminder that we are dust heading for dust. The alleluias and the song of the angels are gone from the Church. So if "everyday His kingdom comes" does it come today?
Sure it does. We confess, "The kingdom of God certainly comes by itself without our prayer." This is all grace. The kingdom of God comes every day no matter what sort of day it is. And it comes without our prayers let alone without our efforts, emotions, or goodness. Judaism that a righteous man could bring the kingdom, so Jews worked and prayed to be righteous, but the kingdom didn't come. In fact, they got farther away from the kingdom of God by all their efforts to bring it. Then John the Baptist and Jesus came preaching, "The kingdom of God is here."
The kingdom of God came in the person of Jesus even when no one believed Jesus was the King. The kingdom of God came even when the Pharisees and Sadducees fought against it and persecuted it. The kingdom of God came in the upper room even after Judas went out to betray the king and a petty argument erupted about whom the king considered to be the greatest disciple. Before they had uttered one word of repentance, one word of sorrow, one word of regret, one word of promise to do better, what does Jesus say, "I confer on you a kingdom."
And so the kingdom of God comes today. Though unbelief, misbelief, and sin walk boldly about the earth, the kingdom of God comes today. Though demons and the Devil himself fight against it, the kingdom of God comes today. Though men ignore it and even ridicule it, the kingdom of God comes today, and our sin is that we live as if it doesn't come and there is no point to pray for its coming.
We say in this petition that "God's kingdom comes when our heavenly Father gives us His Holy Spirit, so that by His grace we believe His holy Word and lead godly lives here in time and there in eternity." Our ungodly lives are proof positive that we are living as if God's kingdom hasn't come. And though you sit there with ashes on your forehead, though you've just been told, "Dust you are to dust you shall return," you think describing your life as "ungodly" is a bit harsh. The ungodly are those outside the church, not inside. I can't be ungodly because I come to church.
Well, do you think Judas was ungodly? Sure, he was. He betrayed his Lord for 30 pieces of silver. Haven't you betrayed Him for less -for a few moments of pleasure, for more esteem in the eyes of your sophisticated friend, for more time for yourself? Isn't it true that you have chosen your pleasure, your esteem, and time for yourself over the Lord Jesus who has done not so much but everything for you? That's ungodly!
It was ungodly for the disciples to bicker about whom Jesus thought the greatest. They bickered right in the presence of His Body that would be given and His Blood that would be poured out for their forgiveness. So our ungodliness shows up here at this altar when we dare to appear with unconfessed bits and pieces of anger and bitterness between us. Spouse mad at spouse, teen upset with parent, member offended by member. We profane the Body and Blood of Christ when we receive it in mouths that carp, complain, or criticize brothers and sisters in Christ. That's ungodly.
Our ungodly lives testify that we don't believe the kingdom of God comes among us. But not only our ungodly lives convict us, so does our unbelief of His holy Word. "God's kingdom comes when our heavenly Father gives us Holy Spirit, so that by His grace we believe His holy Word and lead godly lives here in time and there in eternity."
If we really believed His Word we would be afraid to go on living ungodly lives. I don't stick my hand in the box that says, "Danger High Voltage" because I believe those words. I'm afraid of the shock that will surely follow if I disobey them. God promises severe punishment both now and forever for betraying Him for pleasure, esteem, or time, yet we don't believe that so we continue to indulge our flesh, garner praise, and put a priority on time pursuing earthly things. If we really believed we will answer for every idle, mean, bitter word we ever said, we would be afraid to speak as we do.
The proof that we don't believe the kingdom comes everyday is that not only do we live ungodly lives, not only do we not believe His holy Word, but we deny the Holy Spirit we've been given. In the text, do you see how Jesus tries to call Judas back? He brings Judas' sin out in the open, but he hides among the disciples, "Surely Lord I couldn't betray you!" Then Jesus preaches the harshest Law saying, "It would be better for the betrayer to never have been born," but Judas keeps on going. Even when Jesus warns him that unless you do it quickly, you won't be able, Judas goes to do it quickly. Not only does Jesus call Judas back, He calls the disciples back from bickering about greatness to the glories of the kingdom they share.
The Holy Spirit the Father has given you does the same for you. Each time you're about to betray Jesus for pleasure, praise, or time, the Holy Spirit is there calling you back. Each time you're tempted to bicker, gossip, or fight with each other, the Holy Spirit empowers you to stop, repent, turn, but you don't because you deny you have the Holy Spirit because you deny the kingdom has come to you.
So we deserve ashes, not just on our foreheads, but stuffed into our ears, nose, and mouth. We deserve nothing but ashes, but what do we sinners get? We get the kingdom. Follow closely. Judas is the betrayer, yet who goes to the cross? Jesus. The disciples are the ones who bicker, yet next week Jesus lets them go and He alone goes to the judgment hall. And while we betray Him for pleasure, praise, and time, we don't go to the cross. Though we don't believe as we should and we deny as we shouldn't, who heads off to suffer, to bleed, to die for those sins? Not you, not you, not him, not her, not me, but Jesus. Jesus' Body is given over to torture, not yours. Jesus' Blood is poured out to win forgiveness, not yours.
Now who in that upper room had been given the Spirit without measure? Only Jesus, only upon the Man Jesus did the Holy Spirit ever land in the form of a dove. The Man Jesus has the Holy Spirit, yet He is treated, as if He denied having the Holy Spirit like we do. The Man Jesus is the Word made flesh, yet He was treated as if didn't believe one letter of God's Holy Word. Jesus never resisted the Holy Spirit, never betrayed His God for pleasure, praise or for more time for Himself, yet He was abandoned by God, sent to hell, and tortured as if He had done all those things.
God the Son appeared in flesh and blood to win the Holy Spirit for fallen flesh and blood, and so bring the kingdom to them. Jesus announces that the kingdom is here, but men without the Spirit can't see that. Jesus builds and maintains His kingdom in this fallen world through weak things like Water, Words, Bread and Wine. People looking for powerful, amazing things from God can't see it. The glory of King Jesus is not to defeat His enemies with bursts of power but to rule in the midst of them. Those looking for a mighty kingdom on earth miss it. King Jesus doesn't prepare a royal table for His people safe in His courts but He feeds them in the presence of their enemies. Those looking for a meal where all sickness, sorrow, and affliction are banished don't see the kingdom here at all.
The truth is without the Spirit, we all look for a kingdom of health, wealth, and power, a kingdom we can feel good about being a part of. Apart from God the Father giving us His Spirit we'll never see the true kingdom, won't be a part of it, and aren't able to pray for it to come. Thanks be to God in Christ then, that Jesus won the Holy Spirit for us by living our lives and dying our deaths, and then what did He do?
He ascended into heaven and poured out the Holy Spirit upon all mankind, so that as Joel prophesied men, women, boys, girls could and would dare to dream impossible dreams: That sins can be forgiven freely for Jesus' sake; that water can wash away sins and give birth to new creations; that Words in the mouth of a man can forgive sins; they would dare to dream that there is a place on earth where the king comes today, a place where Bread is His Body and Wine is His Blood, so Christians can eat, drink and live forever.
The same Spirit that enabled Samson to kill a lion, martyrs to die for the faith, the dead to be raised, and empowered the living to see and be in the kingdom is ours. So now we believe His Holy Word when it says our sins though they be black as ashes are white as snow. We believe His Holy Word when it promises the Waters of our Baptism save us. We believe His Holy Word when it says our Lord reigns and rules among us under the visible forms of Bread and Wine.


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PIAA continues to stand behind Act 219, passed in 1972, in public vs. private battle
JOBY FAWCETT
(Scranton) Times-Tribune (TNS)
Many are calling for separate playoffs for public and nonboundary schools in Pennsylvania.
The PIAA, however, continues to say that separate playoffs aren't permitted.
The PIAA cites a 1972 law, Act 219, as its reason for fighting separate playoff systems.
Now that the PIAA football playoffs concluded and six champions celebrated in Hershey, the state's athletic governing body is on the offensive in defending itself amid criticism over competitive equity between public and nonboundry schools.
The hot-button issue continues to cast a cloud over the quest for state titles by scholastic athletic teams in the Commonwealth. A cry for a separation of playoffs for public schools and private and charter schools gains fervor during this time of the year. But, the PIAA is standing steadfast behind its compliance with the law.
At the recent board of directors meeting, a motion on its position was unanimously voted upon. It states, in short, "at the recommendation of counsel, concludes and therefore reaffirms that the separation of playoffs with regard to public, charter and private schools is contrary to the publicly documented intent of Act 219 of 1972."
Before the legislation, the PIAA and Pennsylvania Catholic Interscholastic Athletic Association competed separately for state championships.
Act 219 at center of controversy: Act 219 is at the center of the controversy. It is an amendment to House Bill No. 2104 that unanimously passed in 1972, "authorizing private schools to participate with public schools in post-season athletic events."
The adopted motion by the PIAA is a firm indication that, despite impassioned pleas for change, it will not circumvent the legislation.
"The board knows what the legislation intent was," PIAA executive director Robert Lombardi said. "My predecessor Ted Wagner (PIAA executive director in 1972) was in the room when the bill was signed. What we learned in our research is that representative Frank (Rep. Samuel Frank, D-132 of Lehigh County) had tried since 1955 to get into the PIAA.
"Separating them back to what they had before 1972 is against the legislative intent of the bill."
A PIAA Equity Summit, a gathering of public school officials organized in State College this summer by Laurel superintendent Leonard Rich, who recently did not have his contract renewed, brought more attention and fueled a stronger desire to implement an overhaul of the playoff format.
That group also met with the PIAA Competition Committee in November.
Two private schools win state football titles: Over the weekend, among the 12 schools competing for state football titles, nine were public schools, two were preparatory schools and one was a charter school. Of the six state champions, two were private schools — St. Joseph's Prep in 6-A and Erie Cathedral Prep in 4-A.
Throughout the playoffs, and across social media platforms, the PIAA found itself, again, the target for not addressing what many believe to be an obvious solution for an even more clear competitive advantage nonboundry schools, which have the freedom to draw students from any and all areas, have over public schools in postseason play.
That solution: Hold a separate playoffs for public schools and another for boundary schools.
PIAA response: In response and abiding by the legislation, the PIAA has listened and adopted policies to tighten its transfer policy regarding students changing schools for athletic purposes. It implemented strict guidelines that ban postseason play, there is a 21-day sit-out policy after a transfer and there will be a competition formula enacted.
The PIAA has also expanded the number of classifications in most sports, including football and basketball, which seem to be the two at the heart of this dispute. Football and basketball increased from four to six classifications beginning with the 2016-17 school year.
"In May of 2017, we took a hard look at the transfer rule. There were major changes implemented in the last 15 months and I think that is quite a compliment to the board," Lombardi said. "We have a competition formula that will go into effect at the end of the year. We have an in-season ban, a 21-day mandatory sit out period, a 50 percent participation in season rule. We have listened to the membership and are working diligently to produce equal and the best competition for our schools."
Criticism continues: Those changes do not seem to be enough.
"We are always going to have people critical of a decision," Lombardi said. "I think classifying based on size and with the increased number of classes, we have been getting new schools involved, for example Lackawanna Trail, Penn Hills is back after a while, Manheim Central. Playing closer like-sized schools has helped.
"Everybody bases their criticism on which teams win. We are in the business of who enters and having proportional and equal representation, not to be divisive."


___The report, which was also presented by the Arab Joint List during a Knesset conference on Israel's home demolition policy the same day, said that 168 homes were destroyed during the first half of 2016 for lacking hard to obtain Israeli-issued building permits, leaving 740 Palestinians homeless.
___B'Tselem's report did not include punitive demolitions enacted on the home of suspected Palestinian attackers and their families. MORE . . .
With the wall, this policy [Apartheid] became obvious and clear. Before there were laws, how they dealt with you differently, even in your daily life. But when they started building the wall and these checkpoints, the analogy became more obvious. . . [the Wall] is here. You can see it on a map, you see it on the ground, and you see the checkpoints. So now, talking about apartheid became much more open, especially to the international community after 2002. It has become totally accepted to the world . . . . everybody is talking about apartheid because this is something that is so clear. What they are doing here and inside Israel, destroying Palestinian homes through thousands of house demolitions, more than 76,000 people have had their homes threatened in Jerusalem—all of this fits into this analogy [of Apartheid].
Lee, Christopher J. "Beyond Analogy: Bare Life In The West Bank." Postcolonial Studies 16.4 (2013): 374-387. SOURCE.
Since 1967, the successive Israeli Governments have actively supported Israeli settlers to build settlements and outposts in the occupied Palestinian territory . . . it has been a form of expanding Israel's control of land and natural resources with the purpose of creating irreversible facts on the ground that will become hard to change in the future.
___El Matan, a tiny but strategic Israeli outpost in the heart of Wadi Qana area, in Salfit Governorate. It is one example of the Israeli encroachment on Palestinian land. In June 2002, a group of religious Israeli settlers from the nearby settlements of the so-called Shomron local council occupied a hilltop south of Ma'ale Shomron . . .
___Recently, Israeli Authorities commenced the construction of a new bypass road that connects the outpost (El Matan) with the nearby Ma'ale Shomron settlement. Extensive construction is underway in the outpost and is being implemented based on a previously approved master plan (TPS) No. 116/5. MORE . . .
Dimova, Nicoletta. "When Ideology Leads to Destruction: Home Demolitions in East Jerusalem." Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics & Culture Sept. 2008: 92+. SOURCE.
Never let a serious crisis go to waste. This is the first thought that crossed my mind when I read Israel National News headline: 'We're taking advantage of the US elections to build' . . . .
___Israel will use every opportunity to expand the breadth of their illegal colonies on Palestinian land, and the US election season is no exception. Jerusalem Online picked up the story too reporting "Jerusalem construction accelerated due to US elections". The articles claim officials from the Jerusalem Municipality told Channel 2 News that plans to build 57 new housing units over the green line in the occupied East Jerusalem colony of Ramot had been fast-tracked because of U.S. election season and "the accelerated process is not a coincidence." MORE . . .
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to make them cry and squirm with life.
the salt spark of the tears everyone around me is crying.
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is a prize-winning author of novels, poetry, and short stories. Born in Lebanon, she has a degree in Civil Engineering from Al-Najah University in Nablus, the largest Palestinian university, and lives in Ramallah.


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Muzzy Lane, developer of the SGS&C 2012 Best Game Special Emphasis – Adaptive Force Winner for McGraw-Hill, announced on their Twitter last week that "Government in Action" had been nominated for 2013 Massachusetts Technology Leadership (MassTLC) Awards! in the "Innovative Technology of the Year-Ed Tech" category.
The MassTLC Awards are the Commonwealth's most prestigious industry awards program, dubbed the "Academy Awards" of technology. The program kicks off each April with a nomination period. Finalists are officially announced at the July 18 Finalists Reception with winners awarded at the September 12 Awards Gala which draws top executives and teams from companies throughout the state.
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HPAC offers its members a national competition program: SOP 290 Competition.
Competitions are a way for pilots to improve their technical, sporting, and decision-making skills by interacting with other pilots in a fun but competitive environment. By flying in synergy with other pilots of differing skill levels, pilots can improve their own skills by direct observation and personal experience, while at the same time, providing a benchmark for novice comp pilots to compare with and aspire to.
HPAC is committed to improving pilot skills and a safer sport by providing competition opportunities for individual learning experiences, providing the means for determining the Canadian National Champions, providing funding to our top pilots so they can represent Canada at World Cups and World Championships, and by working with pilots to problem-solve any comp issues which may arise.
Types of Competition
There are three realms of competition that are active in Canada for both hang gliders and paragliders.
Race to goal competitions: the standard way to compete, a super intense, super fast, race around a set course. There are typically a Canadian Hang Gliding Nationals and a Canadian Paragliding Nationals every year along with a number of regional and local racing competitions.
XCanada: a nation-wide cross country competition. Record your cross country flights with a GPS and upload them! See XCanada. Required to compete: HPAC membership and an awareness of airspace regulations. If you are flying in class E airspace you must have taken the HAGAR exam.
Canadian Cross Country Records: along with declared records, which must be planned in advance, there are a number of open records which can be claimed after the flight. An FAI sporting license is no longer required to claim Canadian distance records. However, anyone planning to beat a world record in Canada or abroad will require an ACC Sporting License Form. Please contact HPAC's Records Chair.
Getting into Competition for the First Time
If you are a first-time competitor, look here for some useful tips for your first race-to-goal competition.
NTSS Rankings and What They Mean
Pilots are ranked on a cumulative point system based on their performance at competitions. The point rankings determine the qualification for membership on the Canadian team, members of which can compete in international competitions for Canada.
Upcoming Competition Events
HPAC-sanctioned events in the current calendar year can be found under "Events" on HPAC's Official Facebook Page.
Canadian Competition Rule Book
Airspace Checker
Pilots should utilize the HPAC Airspace Checker, in order to familiarize themselves with the airspace adjacent to the competition location.
International Competition Funding
FAI Sporting License for International Competitions
For Meet Directors
Meet Directors should be fully familiar with the Canadian Competition Rule Book. They should also follow the Guidelines for Holding Competitions in Canada.
Safety is a core value for all HPAC-sanctioned events. Meet Directors should place strong emphasis on SAFETY and follow the Competition Safety Management Guidelines.
"Chasing Records" is another way to compete. In this case, instead of participating in organized competitions, pilots can choose to compete against an existing Canadian or world record by potentially setting a new one.
To familiarize yourself with the types of records and with the rules related to each type of record, please consult the FAI Sporting Code and the FAI Sporting Code Definitions for each class of record.
For the procedures to make a record claim in Canada, please look here. You can always contact the HPAC Records Chair for any additional information.


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When do you feel most successful? When my clients feel taken care of and supported.
What do you know today that you wish you would have known when you first got started as an entrepreneur? It will be okay. Let go. You cannot control everything, only your thoughts and actions.
How do you optimize your day? I start with a diet full of wellness, prayer, and a positive intention.
Who is the person/people who allowed you to imagine more? My parents and husband. Family over everything.
What does imagining more mean to you and your story? Imagining more means being open to new ideas and change to experience growth and evolution. We must get out of our comfort zones to actually evolve.
If you could do more of one thing every day what would it be? Give more time to those in need. Volunteer.


I found out about Team 13 last year thru one of the profiles in the paper. I wasn't working nights anymore so I no longer had an excuse to not participate. I was hoping to join with a friend, but she was not able to participate.
However, she was a member of the Y and encouraged me to join without her. I thought I'd try walking since I have a family history of bad knees and hips and high blood pressure. It also was something that, if I was able to do it, I could mark off my bucket list.
I went the first week by myself and saw all these people and thought, "No way will I be able to do it." But Team 13 volunteers and members were very encouraging.
I didn't think I would be able to walk 3 miles, much less 13.1. Each week was a steppingstone to the 13.1 miles; each one better than the week before with the help of everyone around me. Every time I would doubt myself, Scott or Desiree or any member would encourage or give me that extra push that told me I could!
If you ask me if you should try Team 13, I'd give you a resounding, "Yes!" I love the prayer before training, the real life testimonials from other members and the helpful nature from anyone when you ask for help.
Last year, I walked and completed the Evansville Half Marathon. This year I'm training to run it. It's hard, but I want to try. I tell myself to "listen to your body; listen to your heart over your head."
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Q: Email Footer Magento 2 Trying to change the footer in my transactional Emails from admin interface in Magento 2.
First I click Marketing then, Email Templates then, I add new template then, I choose footer, then I name the template and subject, then I add content and finally save.
I then go to stores configuration then sales then sales Emails and I can choose what I saved but then if I choose my footer I won't be able to choose the actual Email...it's either one or the other.
Ok, then I go back to the marketing section and say I'll just change the existing footer file.
I almost can do this but it makes me save a new file name so I can't just save...you would think I could just change the footer and press save without changing the file name...the footer "supports" the main email along with header...

A: I realize it's been months since you asked this, but in case anyone else stumbles upon this post and wonders the same thing, I figured it out.  The email templates are one thing, the transactional email config is another, and the header and footer used on those emails is a 3rd thing, and they're all stored in different places (thanks, Magento)
Email Templates
When you first visit Marketing -> Email Templates you'll be confused because there's nothing there.  This is because Magento defaults to using html files in the codebase, but it will use your configured templates from Admin if they exist.  To create one, simply click New Template at the top.  You can load the existing template to use as a starting point, edit, and save.
Email Header/Footer
These are also considered templates and can be edited/created under Marketing -> Email Templates just like the actual Transactional Email template.  However, there's no way to tell Magento you want to use it under this screen.  For that, we need to visit a different section

*

*Navigate to Content -> Design -> Configuration

*Pick the config you wish to edit

*At the bottom, expand Transactional Emails
Here you can set the template used for the Header and Footer for all emails
Transaction Email Type -> Template Config
Finally, you have to tell Magento what template to use for any given transactional email. For this, navigate to Stores -> Configuration, expand the Sales section, and choose Sales Emails.  Here you can choose the template you created for a particular email type (i.e. New Order for Guest).


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Minister for Mental Health Martin Foley made the announcement in Wangaratta on Wednesday afternoon before members of the Local Drug Action Team and North East Family Support (Drugs and Alcohol), Mayor Ken Clarke and senior council staff.
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For a couple years, I had a 30GB video iPod. Black. I bought it primarily to use while traveling, but I also hoped to use it to listen to podcasts as I went to sleep. Long story short, I rarely used it at home or around the house once the initial shine was off. I found sleeping with headphones to be cumbersome, and I never got around to buying an alarm-clock dock thing. How did I listen to podcasts in bed? The same way I have been for years — right off my laptop.
I still used the iPod while traveling, but between not working out for sleeping and some of the features not being quite as polished as I would like, I must admit that I didn't really love my iPod after the first few months. It was nice, but it didn't change my life.
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Q: Logic App- How to read Batch messages from a queue how to read a batch messages from queue then add all the json into one
here is what I have
I wan for simplicity trigger logic app to read from a queue if there are 5 messages then I need the JSON to be added into one ..for example see below (not sure if this is the right order)
The JSON I am sending to the queue is:
[ { "fname":"1", "lname":"1" } ]
[ { "fname":"2", "lname":"2" } ]
[ { "fname":"3", "lname":"3" } ]
[ { "fname":"4", "lname":"4" } ]
[ { "fname":"5", "lname":"5" } ]

then expected JSON output
[
  {
    "fname": "1",
    "lname": "1"
  },
  {
    "fname": "2",
    "lname": "2"
  },
  {
    "fname": "3",
    "lname": "3"
  },
  {
    "fname": "4",
    "lname": "4"
  },
  {
    "fname": "5",
    "lname": "5"
  }
]

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Now I Just need the email to be sent once..it is being sent multiple times..for example:
Instead of getting one email with
[ { "fname":"1", "lname":"1" },{ "fname":"2", "lname":"2" }
I get one email:
[ { "fname":"1", "lname":"1" } ]
then another email
[ { "fname":"1", "lname":"1" },{ "fname":"2", "lname":"2" } ]
Basically I need to get the end result of JSON so I can later one pass it to the Database

A: I don't know why did you use "Get message from a queue" action in your logic app. According to my understanding, you create a batch sender to send the five messages, then trigger the batch receiver. And you want to convert the five json message to the format you expected. So I provide my test steps below for your reference. (in my logic app, I set the "Message Count" as "3" for ease of testing)
1. I created a batch receiver trigger and below is all of the actions under the batch receiver.

2. Then the details of the "For each" loop shown as below:

The expression in the screenshot above is:
union(variables('result'), items('For_each')['content'])

3. You'd better modify the setting of the "For each" loop by click the "Settings" and enable "Concurrency Control" and change the "Degree of Parallelism" to "1".

4. Then I create another logic app as the batch sender.

Run this logic app(batch sender) three times, send the json messages one by one.
5. Now go back to the first logic app(the batch receiver), and check the result variable in the third loop of the "For each" loop(in logic app "runs history"). We can see the result shown as below:

Update:
Change step4(the batch sender logic app) as below:
4.1 Initialize a variable named "message" and use "Get messages from a queue (peek-lock)" action to get the messages in your queue.

4.2 Use a "For each" to loop the "Body" from the queue and use the variable "message" to store the "Content" of the queue in each loop. Then put the variable "message" into the batch sender.(please note we can't put the "Content" into the batch sender directly because the "Content" is like a binary string, we need to use a variable to store then put it into batch sender, then it will be the json [ { "fname":"1", "lname":"1" } ]).

Don't forget to change the setting of this "For each" action, otherwise the result will be incorrect.

2.1 In step2, please change the expression from
union(variables('result'), items('For_each')['content'])

to
union(variables('result'), json(items('For_each')['content']))

Update2:
In the batch receiver logic app, I initialize a variable named "result", it is used to store the latest json value of each loop in "For each". So just move your "Send an email(v2)" outside the "For each" and send the email with the variable "result" as the "Body". Please refer to my logic app below:
Move the "Send an email(v2)" action outside the "For each" loop and try to put the variable "result" into the "Body" of the email. But we can not find it in the "Dynamic content", so please type it by the expression.

After that, we will receive only one email from the logic app.


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By System Administrator June 9, 1995 12:00 am January 29, 2015 9:04 pm
It is entirely characteristic of Fred Scott that when asked about his work he chooses to enthuse about the work of another designer, Rodney Kinsman, instead. Scott's 1979 design of the Hille Supporto chair is still one of the best office chairs available, patently the work of someone with exceptional design ability, and one of several beautifully worked out and commercially successful designs he made while working for Hille. Nevertheless, Scott likes to say, without rancour or envy: "Rodney took the right direction. It is not easy, and I admire him. To start your own company and then build it
up to the point where you have control over products and marketing is the ideal."
Few would dispute that, but few have managed it. And though Scott's life and temperament have drawn him in another direction, it is one where he has designed products that have enjoyed the admiration of his peers, and he has provided inspiration and encouragement at a very personal level for many students.
Fred Scott scaled the heights of design achievement by a slow but evidently propitious route. Starting as an apprentice cabinet maker in 1956, he learnt the basic skills of tooling and production methods and went on to get his City and Guilds certificates in advanced design and construction. By this time the extent of his skill as a designer was becoming apparent. He was the winner of both the Vita Foam and Crosby Spring competitions, and of City and Guilds scholarships that allowed him to tour Europe to study developments in the furniture industry there. By 1963 he had won a furniture design scholarship to the Royal College of Art and entered that rarefied milieu where the achievers of this world are encouraged to explore their own resources in an atmosphere of support and instruction. It was at the RCA that he recognised an absolute commitment to modern furniture design: "I thought it was so necessary, and we were all very adventurous in the Sixties". He also began to consider setting up in business as a manufacturer. After an RCA travelling scholarship had taken him around Scandinavia, he embarked on the life of freelance work that will be familiar to RCA stars both then and now: work for Rest Assured, Morris, Texfoam and K-F Interior Stockholm, for whom he designed a chaise longue and a convertible settee. The settee was a model of minimum manufacturing technology, working with a pivot action rather than the cumbersome mechanical actions that were common to such settees at the time.
More interestingly, after establishing a small business with Paul Conti, he began to manufacture his own designs in cast aluminium, "a good, natural material which flows into any kind of form. We made shaped tables principally, but of course there was no capital, and it was the usual hard work selling to retailers".
It was not long before Scott had little option but to abandon the role of independent manufacturer. And though he clearly regrets not having made a more determined stance, he went on to give of his talent and ideals in other directions.
Most importantly, perhaps, Scott was a part-time tutor at Hornsey College of Art and, for 12 years, at the RCA. The furniture maker David Field, a friend and fellow tutor at the RCA, says: "He was immensely gentle and positive with the students, and because he has patience and real understanding he brought out the best in them". Peter Christian, managing director of Aktiva, which makes modern furniture and lighting, bears that out. "Fred taught me at the RCA from 1981 to 1984, and was the biggest influence on me. He advised me not to try for a job when I left, but to go it alone. And that's what I did. He was so knowledgeable, and unlike some of the other tutors he was a successful designer. We really respected him."
This was a good time for Scott. Hille, under the energetic direction of the late Leslie Julius, was a design-led company of some distinction. It had recently launched his Comforto chair range, and of all of Scott's work for Hille, this enjoyed the most spectacular success, both here and abroad. Ergonomically sound and easy to adjust, it comprises a few basic elements that can be assembled to form up to 30 different versions. It duly won a Design Council award and, along with his 1974 design for a plastic folding chair, is in the twentieth century collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Fred Scott has struggled against ill health for some years, but he continues his painstaking and expert development of new designs. His East End studio is cluttered with models: some no more than rough sketches of ideas he has had, some fully worked up designs, ready for manufacture. And he continues to work with Hille. Eric Hawes, now the group export sales director, was the factory manager during the time Supporto was being developed. "Fred's strengths," Hawes says, "are in his engineering skills as well as in his design skills. He's delightful to work with, he's got a great grasp of factory needs – though he'll never let that compromise his designs – and he's much admired in the production and research department here. A great designer."
Like several other leading furniture manufacturers, Hille has been looking at another Scott design called Solar Plexus. An extension of Comforto, it has a seat no more than 20cm in depth, based on the premise that machine operators perch on the very front of their chairs. But, as Hawes explains, the expensive tooling required for its manufacture has ruled it out for Hille in present marketing conditions. Several other designs, which were received enthusiastically when Scott showed them to manufacturers in Italy, have likewise been victims of the current widespread reluctance (or inability) to invest.
Back in this country, Allermuir – which has recently begun to spruce up its design image under the direction of a new design manager, Tim Lishman – has taken one of Scott's designs to prototype stage and intends to launch it in November at SIT 95 at London's Business Design Centre. Lishman too benefited from Fred Scott's teaching: "He was a part-time lecturer at Kingston when I was there, and his criticisms were always positive. Peter Christian took me to see some of the work he's doing now, and the chair we intend to make is a stacking chair for cafés in two versions: one in tubular steel and ply, one in polyurethane. Fred has always been in love with mass manufacture."
It's rare to hear of designers flying a banner for those who taught them, and we've all heard the old saw about those who can and those who can't. Yet I found plenty of people keen to tell me about Fred Scott's merits as both designer and teacher. They all speak of his passion for design, of an eye that's always focused on the future. As David Field says: "None of the magic has gone".
8 June 1995 Projects
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NHS spends out on promoting pensions
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Qatar Airways Made An All-Business Class Plane For Flights To London
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Qatar Airways is launching a new flight between its hub in Doha and London's Heathrow Airport, and there's no curtain dividing the haves from the have-nots.
The entire Airbus A319 jet is dedicated to business class, with just 40 seats.
Each seat, in rows of four, will fully recline and offer a big-screen entertainment system with more than 900 movies, TV shows, and video games to choose from.
The airline already operates five daily flights between the cities, this service will bring its weekly frequency from 35 to 42 flights. The A319 already in use by Qatar seats 102 economy and 8 first class passengers, according to SeatGuru.com.
Qatar Airways is young but growing fast, covering 134 destinations with 129 planes, and with nearly 300 more on order. In a press release, it said its "aggressive expansion programme" including new routes to Philadelphia, Istanbul, Edinburgh, Miami, and Dallas/Fort Worth.
All-business class planes are not unheard of. British Airways offers service between New York and London with just 32 seats onboard. Until it cancelled the service in November 2013, Singapore Airlines operated the world's longest flight, from Newark to Singapore, on an all-business Airbus A340.
Here's a look at the interior of the all-business class A319 that will run between Qatar and London:
And the airport lounge in Heathrow's Terminal 4 is pretty swanky:
SEE ALSO: The Brand-New Airbus Jetliner Has Made Its Public Debut, And It Looks Awesome
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