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What could the Chinese year of the fire monkey bring to Switzerland?
Every year in the Chinese lunar calendar is associated with one of 12 animals combined with one of five elements: metal (gold), earth, water, wood or fire. This year is the year of the fire monkey and celebrations to mark the new year take place on 8 February 2016.
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Fire monkeys have large personalities but are prone to irritability. Smart, courageous, ambitious, adventurous but unpredictable. The last such year was in 1956.
What could the fire monkey bring to Switzerland?
Recent drama in the Chinese stock market could have some wondering how a fire monkey might add to the excitement. As a share of world market capitalisation, the Chinese stock market is relatively small (see map). On the other hand China's share of global GDP is large. Second only to the US, China accounted for more than 13% of global output in 2014. So what happens to the Chinese economy matters and has an impact on global investors, including those based in Switzerland.
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Trade between Switzerland and China is significant and growing. In 2014 China was Switzerland's fifth largest trade partner (4th for imports, 6th for exports). Switzerland is the only continental European country to have a free trade agreement with China. One year after signing the deal on 1 July 2014, China-bound exports were up 3% and imports from China up 4%. In 2014, Switzerland exported CHF 8.8 billion to China, around 4.2% of total exports. The same year, imports were CHF 12.1 billion or 6.8% of total imports. Given the level of trade any significant changes in China's economy are likely to be felt in Switzerland, at least in industries that export there. The largest export categories in 2014 were pharmaceuticals, machines and watches. Big import categories were machines, clothing and precision instruments.
If approved by regulators, the US$43 billion tie-up of ChemChina and Syngenta could bring deeper business relations with China and Switzerland over the coming year. The transaction will be the largest ever purchase of a foreign company by a Chinese firm. State-owned ChemChina has pledged to keep Syngenta's headquarters in Switzerland so expect more Chinese business travellers in Swiss airports.
One Chinese astrologist advises that to get good return on your investments this year you will need to outsmart the monkey. Adding that you should think twice before diving in and making changes to your finances, career or relationships. This sort of advice however, sounds sensible in any year, monkey or no monkey.
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Update: Water main break leaves frozen pond on Detroit's west side
76ers missing Embiid, Simmons for matchup with Bucks
Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid (21) is fouled as he shoots against multiple Milwaukee Bucks' defenders during the second half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
MILWAUKEE – All-Stars Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons have been ruled out for Philadelphia's game at the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday.
After initially sending out a starting lineup that included Embiid, the 76ers announced that their star center would miss the game. Embiid had been listed as questionable with a sore right shoulder.
This will be the fourth straight game Simmons has missed due to an unspecified illness.
Philadelphia (39-20) has lost three straight games to drop below the Brooklyn Nets (40-20) in the Eastern Conference standings.
Milwaukee is third in the East, three games behind Brooklyn and 2½ behind Philadelphia.
The Bucks are looking to sweep the regular-season series with the 76ers, who haven't been at full strength for any of these matchups.
Milwaukee won 109-105 in overtime at Philadelphia on March 17 when the 76ers were missing Embiid due to a bruised left knee. The Bucks won again 124-117 at Milwaukee on Thursday with Simmons out.
Embiid scored 24 points in Thursday's game.

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-'How do I work Internet Explorer?' This is the question I got yesterday. What the what? You mean how do you open the internet browser ON YOUR COMPUTER?
-Writing memos to try and make grown men and women not steal food from the fridge.
-Waffling between kind of wanting to excerise out of some misplaced desire to be 'healthy' (I'm not really all that unhealthy to begin with) and resting in the loving embrace of my couch.
-**TMI ALERT!** Feeling an almost constant need to blow/pick your nose due to allergies. I'm now that weird girl with spiffy tissues, eye drops, AND saline spray. FML.
-Cleaning out the closet - finally. This has been on the list to do for a while but I've been hitting a wall when it comes to letting go of pieces I like but don't fit the style I want to wear now. I finally made some strides earlier this week - up next comes organizing!


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I am a sucker for Southern charm. Seriously. When a guy starts talking and has that sweet Southern twang I just swoon. It's irresistible. Gone With The Wind is one of my Top Ten Ever books, largely because Rhett Butler is the ultimate sneaky, hunky Southern gentleman with the velvet tongue and the lightning wit. When watching re-runs of the Monkees which one do you think I want to be serenaded by? That's right, Mike Nesmith the Texan. Just listen to that voice and dig those crazy sideburns! (Even my boyfriend understands this fascination: his favorite TV show is The Dukes of Hazzard.) I bring this up only to warn you that I have a predisposition towards Southern men that may someday prove fatal, and The Front Porch Prophet is written by a fellow from Georgia about a couple o' good ol' boys from a classic little town called Sequoyah.
Three years ago, A.J. Longstreet had a falling out with his best bud Eugene, but suddenly he is summoned to Eugene's hilltop home. Come to find out Eugene is dying from terminal cancer, and he has a couple of favors to ask of his old friend. Eugene is lonely, isolated after a lifetime of bad behavior, and wants A.J. to come visit him. A.J. readily agrees. Eugene would also like A.J. to please shoot him dead when the pain becomes too much. A.J.'s not too keen on that particular favor. But he fulfills the first request, and the rift between himself and Eugene heals even as Eugene slowly fades away.
I grew up listening to Garrison Keillor every Sunday morning on the radio, and I love his gentle, easygoing narratives of small-town life. Sequoyah, Georgia, Raymond L. Atkin's quirky town, is the Lake Wobegone of the South. The rural community is populated with a never-ending stream of strange characters. There's Hoghead, a cook who proudly makes the world's worst coffee and proudly posts the Daily Special in the front window every morning, as well as a cheerful Christian message. Unfortunately, he isn't too good at separating his thoughts, so you might see advertised "THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH COUNTRY-FRIED STEAK" or "CHRIST DIED FOR THE BEST FRIED CHICKEN IN THE COUNTY." A.J.'s wife Maggie is pretty normal, except that all of her family members are named after famous authors, so her full name is Margaret Mitchell Callahan Longstreet, and her children are named Emily Charlotte (named for BOTH the Bronte sisters in a break with tradition), Harper Lee and James Joyce. Police officer Slim could be the twin brother of Hazzard County's Sheriff Roscoe. But everyone in the town basks in the glow of small-town friendliness, and the community happily takes its turn irritating and taking care of each other.
Part of the way Eugene amuses himself is by writing letters to all the people he knows to be sent after he dies. There's an excerpt from each one at the beginning of every chapter. Some of them are sweet, most of them are sarcastic (Being dead is not that bad. There are a lot of people here I know. In fact, most of them were your patients.) All of them hare hilarious.
The joy of this book comes from the variety of characters and their tangled relationships. It's really a fun read; page after page made me laugh like a hyena (I even snorted within hearing distance of some clients; that was embarrassing) but at the end I may have been sniffling a little bit. It's very authentic and comfortable; if The Front Porch Prophet were an article of clothing it would definitely be a soft, worn, slightly dirty brown leather jacket that's been heated in the sun so that it's snug and warm and has that perfect old-leathery smell to it.
To buy this book or put it on your wishlist, click here.
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Review: The Front Porch Prophet by Raymond L. Atkins
The Front Porch Prophet
By Raymond L. Atkins
Tags: *****, 2008, 21st century, death, deathbed, fiction, georgia, humor, r2008, raymond l. atkins, the south


Noting that heroin is the leading cause of accidental deaths in Ohio, City Council passed a resolution supporting the "Breaking Addiction Act of 2014," a House Bill that will help fund a test program for community-based opiate addiction treatment. "We're way behind in the war on drugs," said Council President Garry Moneypenny. "Incarceration is not always the answer or the solution. This aims towards giving care." Monday evening's meeting was the last before Council's annual Summer recess. The next scheduled meeting is September 8.
July 28, 2014 from Akron City Council on Vimeo.


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Name James Watt Explanation
Launched 23 April 1853
Guns 91
Class Class (as screw) Agamemnon
23 April 1853 Launched at Pembroke Dockyard.
- 23 May 1856 Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain George Augustus Elliot, the Baltic during the Russian War
- 23 April 1857 Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Talavera Vernon Anson, Lisbon
- 21 June 1862 Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Edward Codd, Channel squadron, then (October 1859) the Mediterranean
Fr 29 April 1859 THE CHANNEL FLEET.- BEREHAVEN, April 23.-The ships of the Channel fleet that had been staying here for some months left to-day. They comprised the Royal Albert, the Renown, the Brunswick, the St. Jean d'Acre, and the Racoon. The Victor Emanuel and the Orion came in here with them, but early in March they were ordered to Tangier. It is said that these two vessels are to join the Channel fleet again, as also the Algiers and the James Watt, line-of-battle ships, and the Liffey, the Mersey, and the Doris, frigates. The Caesar and the Diadem are also returning from the West Indies to join, and the Euryalus from the Mediterranean. During their stay here the Marines and Naval Brigades were exercised on shore every week, as also in the boats. The Admiral, Sir Charles Freemantle, is most deservedly popular with all classes.- Cork Reporter.
Th 9 June 1859 The Channel fleet now assembled at Portland consists of the following screw steamships;- Exmouth, 91, Capt. J. Stopford; Hero, 91, Capt. G.H. Seymour, C.B.; James Watt, 91, Capt. E. Codd; Algiers, 91, Capt. G.W.D. O'Callaghan; Cressy, 80, Capt. the Hon. G.J.B. Elliot, C.B.; Mersey, 40. Capt. H. Caldwell, C.B.; Blenheim, 60, Capt. F. Scott. A considerable augmentation, of the fleet is shortly expected.
Sa 18 June 1859 The new line-of-battle ship Royal Albert, 121, Captain Rice, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, Commander-in-Chief of the Channel fleet, arrived at Portland harbour on Thursday afternoon at half-??? [unreadable] from Plymouth. On arriving off King's Pier, the Hero, Captain G. H. Seymour, C.B., saluted the gallant ??? with the usual number of guns, which was duly replied to. The Royal Albert came in under steam, and took an excellent position inside the other ships of war at anchor in that magnificent harbour. The fleet now comprises the following ships:- Royal Albert, 121; Hero, ???; James Watt, 91; Algiers, 91; Mersey, 40; Emerald, Blenheim, 60; and the gunboats Flying Fish, 6, and ???.
Fr 1 July 1859 The screw line-of-battle ship Agamemnon, 91, Capt. Thomas Hope, arrlved at Portland on Tuesday afternoon from Spithead. Her Majesty's vessels now at anchor in that harbour are the Royal Albert, 121; Hero, 91; James Watt, 91; Agamemnon, 91; Algiers, 91; Emerald, 51; Mersey, 40; Curacoa, 31; Blenheim, 60; Pioneer, 6; Flying Fish, 6; and the Biter, 2.
Fr 8 July 1859 The screw line-of-battle ships Royal Albert, 121, Capt. E.B. Rice, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle; the James Watt, 91, Capt. E. Codd; the Hero, 91, Capt. G.H. Seymour, C.B.; the Algiers, 91, Capt. G.W.D. O'Callaghan; the Mersey, 40, Capt. H. Caldwell, C.B.; and the screw despatch gunboat Flying Fish, 6, Commander Hope, left Portland harbour on Wednesday morning for a cruise in the Channel. The Agamemnon, 91, Capt. T. Hope; the Emerald, 31, Capt. Arthur Cumming; the Blenheim, 60, Capt. Scott; and the Pioneer, 6, Commander May, are still at anchor.
Ma 18 July 1859 The screw line-of-battle ships Royal Albert, 121, bearing the flag of Sir Charles Fremantle; James Watt, 91; Algiers, 91; Hero, 91; the screw-frigate Mersey, 40; and the despatch gunboat Flying Fish, 6, arrived at Portland under steam on Friday morning after a few days cruise in the Channel. The other ships at anchor at Portland are the Agamemnon, 91; Aboukir, 91; Emerald, 51; Blenheim, 60 ; and the gun-boats Pioneer, 6, and Biter, 2.
Tu 26 July 1859 His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince Alfred and Prince Arthur, arrived in the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert at noon yesterday on a visit of inspection to the extensive defensive and other important works in connexion with the new harbour at Portland. A portion of the Channel fleet, consisting of the Royal Albert, Agamemnon, James Watt, Algiers, and Emerald, which had shortly before left the harbour for Spithead, saluted the Royal party on passing. On the yacht rounding the extremity of the outer breakwater the ships at anchor - Aboukir, Blenheim, Topaze, Melpomene - also saluted. Their Royal Highnesses, on landing, were received by Mr. Coode, engineer-in-chief, and Mr. Leather, contractor for the breakwater, who conducted them over the works now in progress. After the inspection the Royal party returned on board the Victoria and Albert, which immediately left the harbour for Osborne.
Ma 22 August 1859 Eight out of the 11 vessels forming that portion of the Channel fleet at Spithead left that anchorage under steam on Saturday. Early in the morning indications were given of their approaching departure; royal yards were crossed, funnels raised, and fires lit. At noon Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle, K.C.B., embarked on board his barge from the sallyport stairs, and proceeded on board the Royal Albert, which, with the remainder of the squadron, had steam up, and was hove short. It was 3 p.m. before the fleet was fairly under way, the Royal Albert leading as far as the Nab Light, when the Flying Fish, 6, screw, Commander C. W. Hope, was sent ahead of the Royal Albert, and took up her position as look-out vessel to the squadron. Scarcely a ripple was on the water, and a more magnificent sight could not be imagined than the ships presented as they steamed round the east end of the Wight in the order named:- The Flying Fish, screw, 6, Commander C. W. Hope; the Royal Albert, 131, screw, Captain E. B. Rice, bearing the flag (red at the mizen) of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle, K.C.B.; the Algiers, 91, screw, Captain G.W.D. O'Callaghan; the James Watt, 91, screw, Captain E. Codd; the Agamemnon, 91, screw, Captain T. Hope; the Hero, 91, screw, Captain G.H. Seymour; the Diadem, 32, screw, Capt. W. Moorsom, C.B.; and the Emerald, 51, screw, Capt. A. Cumming. The Mersey was detained at Spithead on her experimental screw trials, her third attempt at the measured mile on Saturday again proving a failure, owing to the continued priming of her boilers. The ships at present at Spithead comprise the Trafalgar, 91, screw, Capt. E.G. Fanshawe; the Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C.B.; and the Scout, 21, screw, Capt. John Corbett, the above three vessels belonging to the Channel fleet; the Sidon, 22, paddle, Capt. R.B. Crawford, and the Pioneer, 6, screw, Commander Hugh Reilley, both ordered on foreign service, and the Gorgon, 6, paddle, Commander Bedford C. Pim
Th 8 September 1859 THE CHANNEL FLEET.- Torbay has been again honoured during the past week with a visit from the Channel fleet. On Wednesday the Melpomene, 51, Capt. Ewart; Diadem, 32, Capt. W. Moorsom, C.B.; and the screw despatch gunboat Flying Fish, 6, Commander Hope, arrived in the bay from the westward. On inquiry it was learnt that a day or two before the fleet encountered a very heavy westerly gale in the chops of the Channel, in which the Diadem sprang her mainyard, and that with the vessels above-named she was detached from the squadron and ordered to rendezvous at Torbay. Early on Friday morning they were rejoined by the remainder of the fleet. The vessels were discerned in the offing standing in for the bay in splendid order. They consisted of the Royal Albert, 121, Capt. E.B. Rice, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, K.C.B.; the James Watt, 91, Capt. E. Codd; the Algiers, 91, Capt. G.W.D. O'Callaghan; the Caesar, 90, Capt. T.H. Mason; the Agamemnon, 91, Capt. T. Hope; the Aboukir, 91, Capt. F. Schomberg; the Nile, 91, Capt. A.P.E. Wilmot; the Hero, 91, Capt. G.W. Seymour, C.B.; the Emerald, 51, Capt. A. Cumming; the Topaz, 51, Capt. the Hon. W.S. Spencer; and the Imperieuse, 50, Capt. John J.B.E. Frere. At noon the whole of the ships had come to an anchor about midbay. It was a noble sight to the spectator ashore to witness these magnificent specimens of naval architecture taking up their respective positions. Thousands of persons were, as on the last occasion, attracted to the quays, and the bay has been every day studded with boats and steamers conveying excursionists around the vessels. By the kindness of the commanders the ships were again, subject to necessary regulations, thrown open to the public, and during the whole of the specified hours an immense number of visitors have availed themselves of the privilege. The Diadem and the Flying Fish got under way on Saturday morning and proceeded to Plymouth, but the rest still remain at anchor.
Ma 12 September 1859 The Channel fleet was off Plymouth on Saturday afternoon. At half-past 3 o'clock they were under steam only 3½ miles south of the Mewstone coming from the eastward, and led by the Royal Albert; they then edged in towards the Breakwater, under jibs and spankers only; wind, N. by W. The ships afterwards paid off towards the south, and at 5 o'clock were four or five miles east of the Eddystone, under steam only, apparently going down Channel. The fleet consisted of the flagship, the Royal Albert, 121, Rear. Admiral Sir Charles Freemantle; the Algiers, 91, Capt. George W.D. O'Callaghan; the James Watt, 91, Capt. Edward Codd; Caesar, 90, Capt. Thomas H. Mason; Hero, 91, Capt George H. Seymour; Mersey, 40, Capt. Henry Caldwell, C.B.; Nile, 90, Capt. Arthur P.E. Wilmot, C.B.; Aboukir, 90, Capt. Charles F. Schomberg; Agamemnon, 91, Capt. Thomas Hope; Topaze, 51, Capt. Hon. W.S. Spencer; Emerald, 51, Capt. Arthur Cumming; Flying Fish, 6, Commander Charles W. Hope; and Melpomene, 50, Capt. Charles J.F. Ewart.
Sa 17 September 1859 The Channel fleet entered Plymouth Sound yesterday (Friday). It consists of the flagship Royal Albert, 121, Rear-Admiral Sir C. Fremantle; the Hero, 91, Captain Sir G.J. Brooke; the Algiers, 91, Captain O'Callaghan; the Agamemnon, 91, Capt. Wilson [this would seem to be an error, Thomas Hope was captain at this time]; the Caesar, 90, Capt. Mason; the Emerald, 50, Capt. Cumming; the James Watt, 91, Capt. E. Codd; the Aboukir, 90, Capt. Schomberg; and the Topazee, 50, Capt. Spencer. The ships hove in sight about 9 a.m.; the Admiral entered at 11; the last ship at 2 p.m.; the flagship parted her bower cable in the Sound; the Melpomene and the Mersey parted company from the rest of the fleet at sea.
Ma 3 October 1859 None of the ships belonging to the Channel fleet have left Plymouth during the last week, and there is no present prospect of a combined movement by Admiral Fremantle, who is Commander-in-Chief of the port daring the temporary absence of Vice-Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.B. In the meantime indications which would pass unnoticed under other circumstances, are now observed with interest both on board and on shore; the officers know, if possible, less than the townsmen. The flag ship, Royal Albert, 121, Capt. B. Rice, went from the Sound on Wednesday into Hamoaze, and, with all her armament on board, was placed in dock at Devonport. The copper was stripped off near the aperture of her shaft, and that part of the ship was caulked and recoppered; her bends were also caulked. She was undocked on Saturday. The corners of her fans will probably be reduced. Her crew of 1,000 men are considered good. Some of them are absent on leave until the 7th inst. Strong gales from the southward, accompanied by heavy rains, have recently prevailed, and have compelled the fleet in the Sound to strike top-gallant-masts and make all snug. The state of the weather has most likely prevented the departure of the screw steamship Caesar, 90, Capt. Thomas H. Mason; for some days the davits have been ready to get up her anchors, and she has been otherwise prepared. The blue Peter was flying on Saturday, and 10 or 12 officers and about 60 men, for various ships in the Mediterranean, have embarked. The officers of the Caesar are requesting to have their letters addressed in the first instance to Gibraltar. According to present information she will remain two years on the station; she was commissioned in June, 1853. The Caesar sailed yesterday (Sunday) morning, at 10 o'clock, It will be recollected that, some 10 days since, the Lords of the Admiralty issued orders to prepare for foreign service the James Watt, 91, Capt. Edward Codd, and the Agamemnon, 91, Capt. Thomas Hope. These ships continue ready. The James Watt is bound for the Mediterranean, and has received stores for the Orion and other ships there. The destination of the Agamemnon is uncertain; it is not thought now that she will follow the James Watt; some of her officers have just received leave of absence for a week. The Nile, 90, Capt. A.B. Wilmot, C.B, has a good crew of 850 men, many of whom are from Liverpool; about five months since she supplied 80 to the Doris, and shortly after, 90 to the Algiers. It is expected that the Nile will return to Queenstown, where her crew will probably be reduced to 350. The screw steam frigate Emerald, 50, Capt. Arthur Cumming has a crew of 550, which is less than her complement; it is supposed that she will winter at Sheerness. The Mersey, 40, Capt. Caldwell, C.B., has a complement of 560, chiefly "young fellows," who hope to be paid down at Portsmouth, and to pass the winter there. No preparations for sea are making on board the Diadem, 32, Capt. William Moorsom, C.B. The screw steam gun-vessel Flying Fish, 6, Commander Hope, went outside the harbour on Thursday to try her machinery, which has been recently repaired at Keyham steam yard. The Aboukir, Hero, Melpomene, Topaze, and Virago, complete the Channel fleet. Very few men have volunteerd for the expedition to China.
Ma 24 October 1859 By the last accounts received at Malta the Marlborough, 131, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Fanshawe, the Commander-in-chief, with Rear Admiral Dacres on board as Captain of the Fleet; the Conqueror, 101; the Orion, 91; the Princess Royal; 91; the Renown, 91, steam-ships of the line; the Vulture, 6, steam frigate; the Scourge, 6, the Coquette, 4, and the Lapwing, 4, steam sloops; the Growler steam gunboat; the African depot ship; the Redpole steam tug were at Gibraltar, as well as the Edgar, 91, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Erskine, and the Neptune, 91, steamships of the line belonging to the Channel fleet. The Caesar, 90, the James Watt, 91, the Agamemnon, 91, steamships of the line, and the Virago, 6, steam sloop, were on their way to Gibraltar and the Mediterranean from England; and on her way to Malta from England and Gibraltar the Supply, 2, steam storeshlp. On her way to Gibraltar and England the Firebrand, 6, steam sloop. The Doris, 32, steam frigate, was at Tetuan, and the Quail steam gunboat at Tangier.


For example search on the android api reference for volume. You'll get one hit only.
Ios doesn't have the concept unfortunately. However all the devices we carry around have volume buttons, which also appear in the platform APIs.
IMO volume itself is too generic and ambiguous. Storage finds better hits in competing platform APIs.
Btw, I do like the minimal api of this class a lot - it's just the class name that's bothering me.


Smoking rates among lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women in NSW are twice as high as the general population reference. We look at what's going on, and how a new campaign is changing attitudes.
Marrickville's Kelly Azizi began smoking at 18. When she talks about quitting two years ago; she describes it as a break-up.
"It was a big change," she says.
"It's difficult for me to talk about how I manage not smoking without considering how I quit in the first place.
"For me, my decision to quit smoking was an irreversible one—it was all or nothing.
Two years on from making that decision, Kelly says she can hardly feel the void that smoking left.
"I gradually found myself doing things that permit me the same kind of meditative effect that smoking afforded," she says.
"Gardening is a great one, because I get to use my hands, and I get time to myself to think.
Kelly's successful quit experience is shared in a new campaign, Smoke Free, Still Fierce, which aims to change the high rates of lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women currently smoking.
Led by ACON (formerly the AIDS Council of NSW), with support from the Cancer Institute NSW, the campaign is using the experiences of women from the LBQ community to help raise awareness, and shift attitudes and behaviour around smoking among these women.
Karen Price, Deputy CEO of ACON, says the longstanding disparity in smoking rates for LBQ women is proof traditional campaigns aren't working for them.
Figures from the most recent Sydney Women and Sexual Health (SWASH) Survey, conducted by ACON and the University of Sydney, highlight the extent of the problem.
"Across the last ten years of the survey, smoking rates of LBQ women have remained consistently high," Karen says.
It's a campaign that Kelly believes in, too.
"I don't think LGBQT as a whole respond positively, if at all, to mainstream anti-smoking campaigns, because ours is a history of protest and non-conformity anyway," she explains.
Launched in May, the online campaign uses empowering messages coming from influential community figures to specifically address the relationship LBQ women have with smoking.
Where does the connection with smoking come from?
With approximately 30 per cent of LBQ women currently smoking in NSW, compared to 13 per cent in the general population, it's a big issue.
Additionally, almost half (48 per cent) of young LBQ women in NSW aged 16-24 report smoking.
Kelly and Karen see common connections to the high rates through their experiences, both professionally and within the community.
"I think it is important to acknowledge that smoking is as much of a social justice and inequity issue as it is an individual health behaviour," Karen explains.
"LBQ women, like other marginalised groups in society, report higher levels of psychological distress, experiences of discrimination, violence and stigma.
For Kelly, smoking has been a signifier of being different, a product of the positive party culture, and a support.
"Smoking can be a thing people do when they party, and the party culture is strong and vibrant within the LGBQT community.
"What I do think is bad, is by decreasing services and support for the LGBQT community—or any marginalised or stigmatised community for that matter—members of that community will find other ways to cope.
"It so follows that the LGBQT community—a demographic that deals with a higher rate of mental health issues than the mainstream population due to things like stigmatisation—will turn to smoking as a crutch," she says.
The campaign strikes at all of this. It highlights where people can get support, and sends the message that smoking doesn't need to be part of anyone's personal identity.
For more information, visit the ACON website.
Smoke Free, Still Fierce is supported by the Cancer Institute NSW through an Evidence to Practice grant.


Hi, my name's Cathy, thank you for visiting my website, I'm really pleased that you are considering therapy. I just wanted to let you know a bit about myself. I studied at The Contemporary College of Therapeutic Studies at Birbeck University in London where I gained my Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy and became an NLP Practitioner. I am a member of the GHR and abide by their Code of Ethics. I regularly attend Continuing Professional Developement courses, which I view as essential to keeping me up to date with the world of therapy and to make sure I continue to give a quality service to my clients.
After leaving school I attended art college, obtaining a pre foundation degree in Art & Design and a diploma in Photography and went on to work within design and photography. In later life I decided to take a career change and this is when I trained as an Integrative therapist. I now use my creative skills through therapy to create effective lasting change for people. Having worked within the charity sector as well, I am experienced and really passionate about helping others by using my wide range of trained skills and life experiences. I am keen to help others become the best they can be, by guiding them to overcome any challenges they have in their lifes.


Since 2012 the dedicated board of the Hopeland Foundation has worked hard to prove and get recognition for the concept of planting trees in eroding and dry areas. Everywhere in the world projects were successfully done and the concept got remarkable results. Generating Jobs and food for the local people involved. Also the Project in South America were students got an awareness training about the value of trees and how to plant and maintain them was a great success.
Hopeland foundation faces a huge expansion due to the accelerating problems caused by climate change. To guide the foundation in this expansion we found a capable new chairman in Mr. John Smit. He is an international entrepreneur in renewable energy installations and has a 28 years experience as director of Berendina Foundation, a Dutch NGO focusing on the poorest of the poor in Sri Lanka and in that country the biggest NGO on Micro Finance projects.
John is convinced of the strength of the need to bundle forces of all kind of interested parties to plant large amount of trees in the most efficient way.
With 2 billion hectares changing into deserts or eroding there is no time to lose.
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Council approves contract for downtown crosswalk art
The Wichita Falls City Council approved a project Tuesday morning for crosswalk art at several downtown intersections.
Council approves contract for downtown crosswalk art The Wichita Falls City Council approved a project Tuesday morning for crosswalk art at several downtown intersections. Check out this story on timesrecordnews.com: https://wtrne.ws/2LjB9a5
Claire Kowalick, Wichita Falls Times Record News Published 4:36 p.m. CT July 17, 2018
The Wichita Falls City Council approved a project Tuesday morning for crosswalk art at several downtown intersections and 7th Stree and Indiana Avenue will be the first.(Photo: Torin Halsey/Times Record News)Buy Photo
In a rare intersection of municipal necessity and fun – Wichita Falls and Downtown Wichita Falls Development are teaming together to make downtown streets more colorful.
Jana Schmader, executive director of Downtown Wichita Falls Development, said they first discussed the idea of merging crosswalks and artistic outlets about six months ago.
Design ideas and intersections for crosswalk art that were presented to the Downtown Steering Committee by the Downtown Wichita Falls Development organization. City council approved the idea Tuesday and contracted with Downtown Wichita Falls Development to implement the idea. These designs are just possibilities and do not reflect the final artistic designs. (Photo: Contributed photo)
"Downtown Development had been looking at the intersections and we noticed there are quite a few of them that don't have crosswalks. So, as foot traffic picks up downtown, that was an idea that we wanted to try to bring forward and implement, is add some crosswalks downtown," she said.
Aside from the additional public safety, Schmader through they could go one step further and let local artists personalize the crosswalks.
The Wichita Falls City Council approved a project Tuesday morning for crosswalk art at several downtown intersections and 7th Stree and Indiana Avenue will be the first. (Photo: Torin Halsey/Times Record News)
DWFD studied similar crosswalk art on other parts of the country and at least six cities in Texas.
"After studying different models in different cities and looking at what the public would buy into, we decided to merge the ideas of a crosswalk and art. We brought it to John Burrus at the city level and he supported it so we brought it back up through steering (Downtown Steering Committee). It got buy-in from the entire steering committee and it got moved forward to take it to council today," Schmader said.
The first crosswalk to be outfitted with art will be at Seventh and Indiana, which could begin as early as next week.
Other intersections that are possibilities for crosswalk art include Ninth and Ohio, Seventh and Ohio, Ninth and Indiana, Ninth and Scott (possible public vote on design) and Seventh and Scott.
Burrus, traffic and aviation director for the city, said his crews will mark the channel lines – the two parallel lines across the intersection – and the artist can use the space inside the lines as their canvas.
The agreement between the city and DWFD states that the city will provide the special paint needed for street painting and the artist group is responsible for upkeep of their crosswalk-art pieces for a 10-year period.
Aside from the cost for paint and labor to paint the channel lines, the project will be entirely funded by DWFD, a nonprofit organization, and private donors.
While they must keep the painting between the two channel lines, DWFD did not want artists to feel fenced in when it came to their ideas.
"We gave our artists' group some general ideas of different ones (crosswalks with art) we've seen in different cities, but we really didn't want to box them into 'it must be this' because that's part of the creative process for them. Being a contracting agency for local artists, we wanted to support them and wanted them to be able to put their own flare on it," she said.
Each intersection will have one main artist who will oversee a team of assistant artists on the crosswalk.
"For some intersections it is very methodical in what we chose. It may pay homage to the history of what's going on in that particular intersection and some of it is just straight design elements. We're really working with individual artists at each intersection to really play into their strengths and what their good at," she said.
There will be a six-month trial period after the initial crosswalk art is installed to see how the project stands up to traffic wear-and-tear and also determine public reception of this new idea.
If the first crosswalk is well received, other artistic crosswalks will follow in other downtown locations.
Schmader said they plan to have at least one crosswalk art painted during one of the monthly Art Walks.
"We want have it where the public can watch the demonstration so we're getting it scheduled between Public Works - getting the pavement prepared and getting the stripping done. We want to see if we can get one of the installations done during an Art Walk so when people are down there and the foot traffic is so heavy, they can actually see it go in," she said.
For other crosswalk pieces, Schmader said they will have a traffic-control plan scheduled around installation of the street art. A section at a time will be completed, she said, to minimize traffic infringement.
For one of the crosswalk pieces, DWFD plans to allow the public to weigh in on which design will be installed.
"One of the ideas proposed through steering is have one of the intersections be a public vote. We will narrow it down to three renderings that we are all ok with. We will put that out over social media so people can learn about the process and what we are doing. Then they can actually select what they would like to see go in at that intersection," she said.
Public input is important, she said, because they do not want this to be the work of a small group of artists, but a project for the entire community.
More information about this project and other downtown Wichita Falls happenings can be found at http://downtownwf.com/.
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Flashback Friday: That way awkward dinner party at Bobby Kennedy's in May '63.
James Baldwin, left, and Bobby Kennedy. (Google Images)
By the time Robert F. Kennedy was killed in 1968, he had come to be viewed by many as a politician who cared deeply about Civil Rights, poverty, and oppression.
But it wasn't always that way. In fact, just five years earlier, at a private dinner party he hosted in NYC with some of Black America's most elite, he was decidedly unwoke.
In Lawrence O'Donnell's new book, Playing With Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics, he recounts some of the events of the ill-fated shindig:
RFK invited the young black novelist and intellectual James Baldwin to bring a group of black intellectuals and activists to a discussion at Joseph Kennedy's huge apartment on Central Park South in Manhattan. That meeting, held on May 24, 1963, didn't go as Bobby had hoped. When he told the group that federal lawyers were doing a good job in the South, the group laughed openly in his face. Then, with Bobby sputtering in bewilderment, one of the young attendees told the attorney general that as a black man, he would never fight on behalf of the United States against Cuba. This was unthinkable—just the kind of communist-inspired thinking, as far as Bobby was concerned, that the Kennedys had feared was influencing the civil rights movement.
Irish Americans, too, had faced prejudice, Bobby told the group, and now there was an Irish Catholic in the White House. Maybe in another generation, there would be a black president. That was too much for Baldwin. "You know, I have to tell you," he said, "your grandfather came over here from Ireland just a generation or so ago, and your brother is president. My ancestors came over here a couple of hundred years ago on a slave ship, and you have the right, only through race and color, to tell me when I can participate in this government." Bobby was disturbed both by Baldwin's ideas and by his apparent homosexuality. He sensed in that room a barely veiled threat. If enormous progress was not made, right away, on civil rights, there would be violence.
After the meeting, Bobby asked Hoover to start FBI files on all of the attendees.
Yikes. Larry Tye, writing at Politico highlighted this story as part of an article that showed how Bobby grew far more understanding and determined to make equality a reality for Black Americans. Politico's version fleshes out the story with more names and details on the attendees:
"He [RFK] had called the meeting in hopes of persuading us that he and his brother were doing all that could be done," remembered the singer Lena Horne, whose silken voice had earned her center stage at the Cotton Club and whose left-leaning politics had gotten her blacklisted in Hollywood. "The funny thing was that no one there disputed that. It was just that it did not seem enough. … He said something about his family and the kinds of discrimination it had had to fight. He also said he thought a Negro would be president within 40 years. He seemed to feel that this would establish some sort of identification, some sort of rapport, between us. It did not. … The emotions of Negroes are running so differently from those of white men these days that the comparison between a white man's experience and a Negro's just doesn't work."
Baldwin and Lena Horne embrace. (Image Source)
Jerome Smith, a young activist who had held back as long as he could, suddenly shattered the calm, his stammer underlining his anger. "Mr. Kennedy, I want you to understand I don't care anything about you and your brother," he began. "I don't know what I'm doing here, listening to all this cocktail party patter."
The real threat to white America wasn't the Black Muslims, Smith insisted, it was when nonviolence advocates like him lost hope. The 24-year-old's record made his words resonate. He had suffered as many savage beatings as any civil rights protester of the era, including one for which he was getting medical care in New York. But his patience and his pacifism were wearing thin, he warned his rapt audience. If the police came at him with more guns, dogs and hoses, he would answer with a weapon of his own. "When I pull a trigger," he said, "kiss it goodbye."
Civil Rights activist Jerome Smith's 1961 mugshot. He was arrested for being a Freedom Rider. (Image source)
Bobby was shocked, but Smith wasn't through. Not only would young blacks like him fight to protect their rights at home, he said, but they would refuse to fight for America in Cuba, Vietnam or any of the other places the Kennedys saw threats. "Never! Never! Never!"
This was unfathomable to Bobby. "You will not fight for your country?" asked the attorney general, who had lost one brother and nearly a second at war. "How can you say that?" Rather than backing down, Smith said just being in the room with Bobby "makes me nauseous." Others chimed in, demanding to know why the government couldn't get tougher in taking on racist laws and ghetto blight.
Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote the play A Raisin in the Sun, stood to say she was sickened as well. "You've got a great many very, very accomplished people in this room, Mr. Attorney General. But the only man who should be listened to is that man over there," she said, pointing to Smith.
Writer and playwright Lorraine Hansberry. (Image Source)
Three hours into the evening the dialogue had become a brawl, with the tone set by Smith. "He didn't sing or dance or act. Yet he became the focal point," Baldwin said. "That boy, after all, in some sense, represented to everybody in that room our hope. Our honor. Our dignity. But, above all, our hope." Bobby had heard enough. His tone let everyone know the welcome mat had been taken up. His flushed face showed how incensed he was.
Julie Belafonte with husband Harry Belafonte greet RFK. (Image Source)
As his guests were leaving he was approached by Harry Belafonte, the King of Calypso, whom he had considered a loyal friend. "I said, 'Well, why didn't you say something?'" Bobby recounted later. "He said, 'If I said something, it would affect my position with these people, and I have a chance to influence them. … If I sided with you on these matters, then I would become suspect." Before Belafonte could finish his thought, Bobby turned away, grumbling, "Enough."
Yet, it wasn't enough. Over the next five years, in the shadow of his brother's murder, Bobby Kennedy would go to apartheid-era South Africa; to the urban blight of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn; and to Watts and East L.A. A change had come.
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Ricardo has a master in Public Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon. He has since participated in several exhibitions, national and international, and won medals for his sculptures and drawings. Ricardo now collaborates with TONIC DNA in the creation of beautiful CG illustrations with his unique design style and realistic textures.


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High availability with SQL Server 2012 and 2014
By Filipe Pereira Martins ,	By Anna Kobylinska
As availability requirements continue to grow, Microsoft intends to do away with database mirroring in its SQL Server product. We show you some alternative options in SQL Server 2012 and 2014.
The need for high-availability features with Microsoft's SQL Server is growing fast, especially in the age of the cloud. However, instead of providing the much-needed high-availability features to a wide user base, Microsoft has scrapped database mirroring and restricted its successor, the AlwaysOn high-availability groups introduced with SQL Server 2012 and upgraded in SQL Server 2014, to the Enterprise Edition.
High availability (HA) maximizes the accessibility of database servers by mitigating the effect of hardware damage, compensating for the failure of virtualized IaaS services or buffering failure of the network infrastructure. Thanks to high-availability features, downtime can be minimized from the perspective of the end user, and you can largely rule out the loss of transaction data.
High availability of a database, however, is difficult to achieve because you must always ensure the integrity of transactional data. If this integrity is lost, things can quickly become expensive. In the 2012 version, MS SQL Server met these requirements with up to three high-availability features, depending on the configuration:
AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances
AlwaysOn Availability Groups (only available in the Enterprise Edition)
Additionally, features like database replication and log forwarding guarantee data backup in an emergency.
Database Mirroring Discontinued
Synchronous database mirroring in MS SQL Server is a high-availability solution, whereas asynchronous database mirroring (only available in the Enterprise Edition) is a solution for restoring data in an emergency. In any case, the database mirroring environment consists of two instances with local storage: a principal server with the principal database, and a mirror server with the mirror database. In high-security mode, automatic failover can take place. This configuration requires a third server, called the witness. The witness ensures that, in case of a failure of the principal server, the mirror server can take over its tasks seamlessly.
In synchronous database mirroring, the principal server passes the commit of each transaction directly to the mirror server and only reports the process as complete after receiving confirmation. The secondary server can take over the tasks of the primary server at any time. Information from outside of the database (e.g., jobs, joins, and transactions across multiple databases) is either lost or cannot be correctly taken over. Moreover, this solution is slow.
In contrast, asynchronous database mirroring occurs with a considerable time delay and is thus not suitable for automatic failover. It is, however, an option for data backup and disaster recovery.
Microsoft has now declared the database mirroring feature to be deprecated. Users of SQL Server are advised not to use this feature and not to develop new applications for it. As a substitute, Microsoft recommends AlwaysOn High Availability Groups. The only flaw: Each server instance in a high-availability group requires the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server. Just the license fees for minimum equipment for the smallest version of a high-availability group total more than US$ 100,000 for a period of three years.
Database Replication
Database replication can improve availability of the database and also enable disaster recovery (DR) of the data. Replication in SQL Server is based on the publish/subscribe model. In this model, a primary server (the "publisher") passes its data, or a subset of the data, to at least one secondary server (the "subscriber"). In SQL Server 2012, the publication database can belong to an AlwaysOn availability group.
The biggest advantage of database replication is its flexibility. The SQL Server can also publish a subset of a database if necessary. Additionally, different server instances can be provided with separate indexes. This approach allows you to instruct the replica instance to create detailed reports, for example and relieve the load on production servers. The main disadvantage of database replication is the considerable complexity, which also entails a serious potential for error.
What's new in SQL Server 2016
The focus in SQL Server 2016 is on mobility, cloud usage, and speed, with improvements to in-memory processing and security.
Exploring SQL Server on Linux
SQL Server runs on Linux now. We'll show you how Microsoft developers made their massive database system Linux ready, and we'll help you get started with setting up SQL Server on your own Linux system.
Caché Database Now Offers High Availibility
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 RC Comes with Full Support for Linux
High Availability without Pacemaker
Managing your cluster could be so simple if it weren't so complicated. The object of many an admin's wrath in such cases is often a single component: Pacemaker. Luckily, other open source tools offer alternative options for high availability.


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Stories from Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Electric finish propels Richland past Marquand-Zion 59-48 (High School Sports ~ 12/16/14)
Note: A photo gallery of the action is available at this link: View Photos Here ESSEX, Mo. - The Richland Rebels varsity boys basketball program found a way to take care of business without working overtime Monday night at home against the Marquand-Zion Tigers...
Benefit for St. Jude's slated for Jan. 9 (Local News ~ 12/16/14)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Team Hornets, a local cancer fundraising team, will hold a fundraiser on Jan. 9, 2015, from 5-7 p.m. in the Advance Elementary cafeteria. Proceeds will go to St. Jude Children's Research Center in Memphis and local patients. Cost is $8.00 for adults (including junior and senior high students) and $5.00 for elementary students. Preschoolers eat free. Price includes spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, dessert, and drink...
Police Reprts (Local News ~ 12/16/14)
Dexter Police Dec. 13-15, 2014 Stanley G. Murray, Jr., 34, of Dexter was arrested at 508 Vine St at 4:40 p.m. Friday on a warrant service. He was also later served a summons for animal abuse. Melissa L. Thornton, 33, of Dexter was arrested on a warrant service at 7:06 p.m. Friday on Main St...
Funding full-time prosecutor focus of commission (Local News ~ 12/16/14)
By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Stoddard County Commission will for the first time attempt to put together a budget that includes a full-time prosecutor at a salary of $133,716, and decide whether to continue with an assistant prosecutor at a salary of $41,800. The issue was addressed in an executive session with Prosecutor Russ Oliver prior to starting preparation on a 2015 county budget...
4 families remain on SOS list (Local News ~ 12/16/14)
By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor Wednesday, Dec. 10, was the final day for families to apply for help through the Daily Statesman's Operation Santa program, and several new families came forward with Christmas needs. Some of those families were quickly adopted, but others still remain. The following families will be the final ones to appear on the 2014 list for help...
SoutheastHEALTH names new CEO (Local News ~ 12/16/14)
By ERIN RAGAN Associated Press A former chief executive for a New Jersey healthcare system was named the new president and CEO of SoutheastHEALTH Monday. Kenneth W. Bateman was hired for the position with a unanimous vote of the health system's board of directors. The choice was announced by the health system's executive team at a news conference at Southeast Missouri Hospital...
Mission prepares for holiday basket distribution (Local News ~ 12/16/14)
By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Edit It's an effort that involves over 100 volunteers and the generosity of church and civic groups, schools, businesses and individuals whose goal is to ensure a happy and healthy holiday for residents in need of assistance in Stoddard County...
Record crowds at Wreaths event (Local News ~ 12/16/14)
By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The largest crowd ever turned out for the 2014 Wreaths Across America program held Saturday at the State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield. Over 2,000 wreaths were placed by the public on every grave at the cemetery...
Dexter Middle School Wrestling Winners (High School Sports ~ 12/16/14)
2014 SCAA All-State Volleyball Players (High School Sports ~ 12/16/14)
Dexter claims top prize at McCluer South-Berkeley Wrestling Invitational (High School Sports ~ 12/16/14)
Ferguson, Mo. - The success continued for the Dexter Bearcats high school wrestling program in a big way Saturday. Dexter took home the top prize at the 13-team McCluer South-Berkeley Invitational in Ferguson, Mo. Dexter calculated a first-place team score of 332.5...
Patton - Patton Junction Livestock Auction: Feeder Cattle and Cow auction for 12/15/2014 (Agriculture Report ~ 12/16/14)
Patton - Patton Junction Livestock Auction: Feeder Cattle Weighted Average Report for 12/15/2014 (Agriculture Report ~ 12/16/14)
Wilma Ping (Obituary ~ 12/16/14)
Wilma Ping of St. Louis, daughter of the late Steven and Jewell Riles Barker was born Nov. 27, 1932, and died on Dec. 14, 2014 at the age of 82. Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home of Bloomfield is in charge of all arrangements.
Wylie DeJournett (Obituary ~ 12/16/14)
Wylie DeJournett, son of the late Marshall and Mary Annis DeJournett, was born in Essex on Aug. 14, 1927, and died at the SoutheastHEALTH Center of Stoddard County in Dexter on Dec. 15, 2014, at the age of 87. Mr. DeJournett had worked for Sam Scism Motors in Park Hills, Mo., for 25 years and worked for Scism Motors in Bloomfield for seven years. He was a veteran of the U. S. Army and had served in the Army Engineers during WWII...
Joseph E. "Shorty" Kestner (Obituary ~ 12/16/14)
Joseph E. "Shorty" Kestner, son of the late Joseph Kestner and Birdie Scates Kestner, was born on Feb. 4, 1927, in Dudley and died on Dec. 8, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff at the age of 87. Mr. Kestner was a member of the Pleasant Grove Church in Dexter and was a resident of Dexter. He retired from the Missouri Pacific Railroad and was a veteran of the United States Navy...
Francis Eugene "Gene" Rhodes (Obituary ~ 12/16/14)
Francis Eugene "Gene" Rhodes, 88, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., died Dec.16, 2014, at Chateau Girardeau surrounded by his daughters. He was born on July 24, 1926, in Toga, Mo., eldest son of the late Helen (Zimmer) and Asa Rhodes. Raised in a humble upbringing, he was one of seven children. On Nov. 24, 1948, he married Edvira A. Messmer at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso, Mo...


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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that Presque Isle Bay, located on the Pennsylvania shore of Lake Erie, has been removed from the list of significantly contaminated Great Lakes areas scheduled for cleanup under the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
Presque Isle Bay had long been the recipient of contaminated industrial and domestic wastewater, which led to excessive nutrients, organic compounds, toxic metals and various other pollutants affecting the water quality.
Presque Isle Bay's condition has improved due to federal, state and local government intervention in helping to advance Erie's wastewater treatment plant and reduce pollution from shoreline industrial plants.


I have always been a goal oriented person and a list-maker by nature. Recently I was reading my old journal. It's pretty outrageous and saucy (and mostly embarrassing). It's exploding with teenage angst and drama and "My life is so hard. This boy doesn't like me." I'm sure if 13 year old Kenz knew I was exposing this, she would slap me hard. But… I give full permission to expose the nonsense of a young teenage girl's mind.
My mind was an odd place, back then. I made a list of all the things I wanted to be when I grew up. Um, no one told me I shouldn't have 8 careers… and 6 sub careers is what I think I was going for?
You thought the list stopped there… yeah right. Of course I continued the list on the next page.
Now you know that I really do love to make lists and asses my goals and dreams, which is what I'm going to do now, for 2013.
1. Don't do projects just to have something to blog about. Do projects because I want it in real life.
I feel like sometimes I get caught up in the mindset of keeping up with the Jones' Petersiks, Bowers, Smiths, Gublers, and the other 100+ bloggers I follow. I'm always thinking about "What is my next post?" And if I don't have one planned, I'm trying to figure out something I can post about. I don't want to do that anymore. That just makes my blog "cloudy." Blogging isn't my full time job. If I don't post everyday, I think it will be okay. And on the days I DO post, you'll know I have some goodies to share with you.
2. Actually FIX the house.
I love to DIY Beautiful Things. I hate to DIY things to fix. It isn't glamorous and doesn't look cute, but it needs to be done. Our house needs a new roof. Our whole fence needs to be replaced. And our two monolithic trees need to be professionally removed. I'd rather spend the money renovating our kitchen. I've been talking about it for months. But… I'm putting my stupid big girl pants on and finally admitting that we need to spend the money fixing the bigger issues first. Boo. I'm disappointed. But it's the right thing to do.
3. (This is Aaron's goal) Wrap Up The Little Things.
When we start a big project, we're really good at doing the big things. But it takes us forever to do the little finishing touches. I don't know why. That's the easy part. But we're so bad at it. We will make sure to put effort into the last details.
I think those goals are way more achievable than deciding to have 8 careers. I'm excited for 2013.
I'm ready to raise my paint brush in the air and declare this the year of accomplishing mighty goods.
Have happy and safe New Year's Eve celebrations!
At the same time, I've been reading the Petersiks for a long time, and back when they first started? They actually didn't post a lot of DIY. It was a LOT of mood boards and reader questions mixed in with a few great projects (like their ikea wardrobes) and some cute tiny things. So…its your blog. Do what you feel, kenz. Do what you feel.
Because you are kind of a big deal.
Oh please. I'm about as big of deal as Quikster. Haha, but thanks for the rhyming advise. I'm definitely gonna do whatever the hell I want. And ain't nobody gon' stop me!
I think we are sassy bloggers. And I think 2013 is gunna be a big deal. No joke.
Doing the fixing things instead of just the fun things is something we need to work on, too.
Maybe you can get the three things on your list completely accomplished by March, then spend the rest of the year working on your eight new careers? You'll need a second blog to document it all!
Haha! I definitely think I can handle becoming governor this year. lol… I love how I thought that would be such an easy step to becoming the president.
Oh, Kenz!! I am the same way with finishing touches, that's one of my goals for this year is to concentrate on one room at a time and make sure it's all finished before moving on! It was so hard to do this with the dance studio room, but I have to say, it's a relief to walk in there and not think, Ugh…I need to replace that light fixture…Oops, I just realized it's still in the box, so…never mind on that one…he he…Oh, you forgot one career…comedianne! (I think that's how you are supposed to spell it when it's a girl one?) – Love ya new friend!
I'm really going to be focusing on finishing touches this year, even though it's technically Aaron's goal. I don't know why it's so hard to just do that last step, but it is. And dammit I'm gonna do it! lol, I know i'd be the worst comedian! I'm about as funny as a basket of laundry. xoxo, happy new year Jen!


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Politics amp Law
YA Reviewers
"Something like a cult", Margaret Clark
Posted on June 1, 2003 by NZ Books
Treasury: The New Zealand Treasury 1840-2000
Malcolm McKinnon
Auckland University Press, $50,
At the launch of this book a former assistant secretary to the Treasury pointed out to me that this is an administrative history of the Treasury, "not an intellectual history". I suggested to him that he might like to fill the gap himself if he perceived it as such. But it caused me to wonder if senior officials of any other government department would dream of thinking that their institution could or should have "an intellectual history".
One might perceive this as a strength of the Treasury – it can be no bad thing that they take their internal intellectual discourse seriously. Or one might perceive it as dangerous hubris. Surely Treasury, like any other government department, exists to do the bidding of the government of the day? Of course giving "free and frank" advice is what the Westminster system requires of civil servants. But any civil servant who seeks to advance an agenda other than that of the elected government crosses a perilous constitutional divide and should seek less frustrating employment.
The Treasury is one of our more enduring institutions, but also somewhat shadowy. No other history has been written of it, and until 1989, McKinnon tells us, "in contrast to all other departments of government, the Treasury did not table an annual report to Parliament." How strange for a department that requires accountability from all others. From the beginning its twin tasks have been financial management and economic management. In the pre-war Treasury, accountants dominated; in the last several decades, economists have had the upper hand. McKinnon sets out the complex story with welcome clarity. Be reassured that it is completely accessible to non-economists.
Being a good historian, McKinnon organises his book along time-lines. Part one deals with the colonial period, 1840-1910. Part two covers the period when accountants were in the ascendant, 1910-1961. Part three, from 1961 on, has the economists coming into their own. For the earlier periods, McKinnon is necessarily dependent on the written record, and pre-war archives were patchy. Nevertheless he makes a lively read of it, and a generous sprinkling of photos, cartoons, and facsimiles of documents helps in this. For the more recent story, McKinnon has interviewed a wide range of participants and observers, and quotes from them liberally. This fleshes out the story in often engaging and humane ways. McKinnon has a real ear for the significant detail.
New Zealanders have always expected their governments to make the economy work, and have punished them electorally when they haven't. When Britain joined the EEC in 1973, New Zealand began its seemingly inexorable slide down the OECD's tables of comparative wealth and wellbeing. We didn't like it, and successive governments have struggled mightily to arrest the trend.
Muldoon's instinctive response was to try to micro-manage everything. Even though he headed a government that was supposed to be dedicated to the philosophy of the free market, more and more he intervened in it with increasingly desperate measures, such as Supplementary Minimum Prices, Think Big, and finally, the Wage and Price freeze. (The record, by the way, shows that Treasury advice to him was frequently ignored.) By the time Labour won the Treasury benches in 1984, David Lange described the economy as resembling a Polish shipyard.
The Fourth Labour Government was as innovative as the first, but in ways that none of its supporters would have expected. When the implications of Roger Douglas' economic reforms began to dawn on a startled nation, many conspiracy theorists began to develop the notion of "Treasury capture". Indeed a protestor's banner outside Parliament one day read "Cut out the Middleman. Elect Treasury Directly" – much to Douglas' amusement.
As it happens, I can give the lie to that particular conspiracy theory. In the very first week of the Fourth Labour Government's term in office, a visiting VIP was guest of honour at a state luncheon. I went to Treasury to pick up my husband and to join the hundreds of other guests. As we walked from number one the Terrace to the Beehive, he recounted the excitements of his morning. Roger Douglas and his two associate finance ministers –David Caygill and Richard Prebble – had come across Bowen Street to brief senior Treasury staff on their planned economic reform programme. "You wouldn't believe it," Bernard marvelled. "They plan to turn the place on its head." Floating the dollar, removing SMPs, abolishing import licences, lowering tariffs, downsizing the state sector, and corporatising the commercial activities of government departments were all in that first list of plans.
In the long years in opposition, Roger Douglas had had plenty of time to think and to observe what had not worked under Muldoon's system of economic management. Besides, the snap election meant that he was not as bound by reams of party policy nor even a manifesto as he otherwise would have been. The economic revolution wrought by the Fourth Labour Government is rightly dubbed "Rogernomics". He did not need Treasury to invent his vision for him, though some individuals undoubtedly helped. Also, despite the controversy caused by the reforms at the time, they remain essentially intact to this day. No one at all suggests the reimposition of import or exchange controls, and the independence of the Reserve Bank is never questioned. Roger Douglas' influence on our collective history has been incalculable.
All of this drama McKinnon deals with deftly, capturing the organisational tensions engendered within Treasury, and the ideological conflicts within the Labour Party and wider society. Treasury was not used to being the centre of so much public attention and controversy, and I imagine that many working there today are relieved that that phase has passed.
My second-hand experience of the Treasury was that it had a certain monastic quality. It seemed to me that it had a palpable culture into which people (usually men) were inducted, and to which they were abidingly committed. I worried in the run-up to the Budget each year that young Treasury officials full of zeal for the public weal seemed never to go home to their wives and children. (I wonder if anyone has ever done comparative research on the proportion of failed marriages in the various government departments.)
In a recent fascinating book mourning the decay of public language (Death Sentence, Random House, 2003), Don Watson writes: "Among Druids, Masons or economists we expect the language to be unfathomable or at least unclear or strange … When we hear this sort of language it is, therefore, commonsense to assume there is a cult, or something like a cult, in the vicinity."
On this criterion alone, during the 1980s and 90s, Treasury did indeed become "something like a cult". McKinnon has captured this, and written a fine history of the whole of its 160 years.
Margaret Clark is Professor of Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington. Her husband Bernard Galvin was Secretary to the Treasury 1980-86.
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Teens face prison life and see bodies of murder victims in Channel 4's Banged Up
Eight British teenagers will spend a week living and working in a tough Florida jail
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The teenagers will see the bodies of real-life murder victims (Image: AFP/Getty Images)
Channel 4 has announced plans to air a new TV show which follows teenage teraways experiencing life in one of America's toughest jails.
With Britain's prison population the largest in Europe and with youth knife crime up 64% in the past five years, Banged Up will see eight young people meet alleged killers and see bodies of real murder victims in a bid to divert them from a life of crime.
The experimental programme sees teens, aged 15-17, some of whom are in trouble with the law, spend a week living and working in a tough Florida jail, in a supersized version of an existing American programme called Behaviour Attitude Modification.
A spokesman for Channel 4 said: "It's a radical scheme designed to keep young tearaways on the straight and narrow and encourage them to make the life choices that will keep them out of prison. This is the first-time British teens have taken part in such a scheme.
"The six male and two female teens will experience the full harsh reality of life behind bars at Florida's Brevard County Jail under the watchful eye of Sheriff Wayne Ivey, a man with robust views on law and order. His motto 'we need to get to these kids before they get to us'.
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"Home to around 1,600 inmates, Brevard County consists of male, female and juvenile wings and houses a mixture of inmates on charged with crimes ranging from theft and prostitution to multiple murder.
"In this unique social experiment, the British teens, some of whom have been in trouble with the police, all from different backgrounds, will be shackled, handcuffed and 'booked in' at the jail like regular inmates.
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"Fingerprinted, stripped of their belongings and dressed in prison uniforms, the teens will live as prisoners throughout their stay. During their incarceration, they'll be put to work in the jail's kitchen and laundry alongside regular inmates and be part of a chain gang working on the roads.
"They'll also have to get used to prison food and the rigid daily routine, which includes military style physical drills, and just one phone call home.
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"As a final shock to the system, they will hear cautionary tales from alleged murderers and former gang-members before taking a trip to the police morgue where they'll witness real life murder victims."
Ian Dunkley, commissioning editor, factual entertainment at Channel 4 said: "The series poses an intriguing question - at a time when knife crime and youth offending in the UK is on the rise, could exposing wayward teens to the harsh reality of prison life act as a deterrent to them spending a life behind bars?"
Nick Godwin, executive producer at Britespark Films added: "It's never been more important to look at new ways of keeping at risk youngsters out of prison and out of the cemetery – we're hoping this will be a compelling and thought-provoking addition to the debate."
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Q: What causes the message "Internal Error: cannot find utcompiledcode record for this version of the uninstaller"? I have a .net application, and the installer for it has been created using inno setup version 5.4.0.
The installer works fine, but now, when I want to uninstall the application, it throws the error: "Internal Error: cannot find utcompiledcode record for this version of the uninstaller"
I would like to diagnose the cause of this issue, and fix it in the installer script (if it applies) or whatever I have to do in order to resolve this issue.

A: Typically this error occurs because of one of the following reasons:

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*You have installed an older version of the software over the top of a newer version, and the two don't want to play nicely together (rare).

*You have later installed an upgrade script with the same AppId as your original installer but without the same [Code] content (more common).

*You have used [Files] entries with wildcards to source files from a directory that already contains unins000.* files (most common).
Refrain from doing those things and the error should go away.  (In particular, for the last one: you should never use the installed location of your app as the source location for your installer.  Always distribute "clean" files from a separate build/staging area.)

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Q: node cluster fork executes code too often I have jobs (functions) that I want to execute in separate threads. I have therefore created a utility function to do so:
import {cpus} from "os"
import cluster from 'cluster'

export default function runInThread(func: Function, useAllCores = false, numThreads = useAllCores ? cpus().length : 1) {
    if(cluster.isMaster) {
        for(let i = 0; i < numThreads; i++) {
            cluster.fork()
        }
    } else {
        func()
    }
}

then I want to execute the jobs like this:
import runInThread from "../helpers/threading"
import job1 from "./job1"
import job2 from "./job2"

let jobs = [
    job1,
    job2
]

jobs.forEach(job => runInThread(job))

The example jobs are:
export default function job1() {
    console.log('job1')
}

export default function job2() {
    console.log('job2')
}

Unfortunately they seem to get executed twice, since the output is:
job1
job1
job2
job2

So it seems that every job gets forked twice...?

A: What you described it totally normal. And only two workers are spawned.
You can confirm this by printing the worker id in your jobs:
import cluster from 'cluster';

export default function job1() {
  console.log(`WORKER #${cluster.worker.id}: job1`);
};

Once you call fork, it spawns a new node.js process (not a thread by the way) and executes your code again. That means each one of your workers will effectively execute something like the following:
import {cpus} from "os"
import cluster from 'cluster'
import job1 from "./job1"
import job2 from "./job2"

function runInThread(func, useAllCores = false, numThreads = useAllCores ? cpus().length : 1) {
    func()
}

let jobs = [
    job1,
    job2
]

jobs.forEach(job => runInThread(job))

Thus each worker will log:
job1
job2

and exits. Also since they are executed in two different processes, the log messages might be interleaved.

A: Main idea - each thread (fork) like host for certain function. In example this is just function name, but in real work you can generate some id for function and pass it to worker as env variable.
import {cpus} from "os"
import cluster from 'cluster'

export default function runInThread(func: Function, useAllCores = false, numThreads = useAllCores ? cpus().length : 1) {
    if(cluster.isMaster) {
        for(let i = 0; i < numThreads; i++) {
            cluster.fork({FUNC_ID: func.name})
        }
    } else {
       if (process.env.FUNC_ID === func.name) {
         func()
       }
    }
}


For the first time in six decades Cuba has a president who is not a Castro and who was born since the 1959 Revolution. The generation that made the Revolution is being replaced with a new generation of leaders. Cuba is changing. Yet there is also continuity. The program of reforms launched in 2011 has changed much in this socialist country, yet much remains unchanged – too much to suit many Cubans who have hopes the new leadership will move things forward more rapidly. For them there is too much continuity.
Cliff DuRand has been leading educational trips to Cuba for 30 years. In that time he has observed many changes, but also much that endures, both good and bad. A founder of the Center for Global Justice and a retired professor of social philosophy, Dr. DuRand will discuss continuity and change in Cuba today. He has just returned from a two week visit that focused on the future of socialism in Cuba.


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Q: Magento 1.7.0.2 Supee 5994 error I'm having problems installing the latest security patch Supee 5994 and have been scouring to find an error like mine however I haven't found one. The error I'm getting is this:
Checking if patch can be applied/reverted successfully...
ERROR: Patch can't be applied/reverted successfully.

patching file app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Dashboard/Graph.php
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
Apply anyway? [n]
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file
app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Dashboard/Graph.php.rej
patching file
app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/DashboardController.php
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
Apply anyway? [n]
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file
app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/DashboardController.php.rej

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestion for me to resolve this?
Thanks in advance

A: Thanks for the solution. I also found another source just in case anyone needs it. The direct link to download the source files is:
https://www.milople.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/SUPEE-5994-1.7.0.2.zip
Once downloaded, you will have to unzip the folder and navigate to the "SUPEE-5994-1.7.0.2\" directory. Once there, you will have to drag and drop all contents to your magento directory via ftp. Hopefully this helps.
Thanks!


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Q: Script to find all network adapters I'm connected to in Python I have a laptop that is connected to my organization's network using one or more network adapters. I'm not sure how to start this or where I should look for native python methods or other resources.
I was wondering how can I discover all the network adapters or NICs I am connected to using python. I want to try to accomplish this without a 3rd party library but if I have to that is fine as well.
I ultimately want to be able to write a tool that will continuously monitor the connectivity status and connection quality of each network. However I first have to find out which and how many network adapters I'm connected to.

A: netifaces would be a good start. From the docs:

It's been annoying me for some time that there's no easy way to get the address(es) of the machine's network interfaces from Python. [...]
This package attempts to solve that problem.

Some relevant examples:
>>> netifaces.interfaces()
['lo0', 'gif0', 'stf0', 'en0', 'en1', 'fw0']

>>> netifaces.ifaddresses('lo0')
{18: [{'addr': ''}],
  2: [{'peer': '127.0.0.1', 'netmask': '255.0.0.0', 'addr': '127.0.0.1'}],
 30: [{'peer': '::1', 'netmask': 'ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff', 'addr': '::1'}, {'peer': '', 'netmask': 'ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::', 'addr': 'fe80::1%lo0'}]}

Get it with pip install netifaces.


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Wizcraft International Entertainment Ltd begins operations in Singapore
Widely renowned for their brand activation and events, Wizcraft International Entertainment Ltd., India's first Experiential Marketing and Event Management Company headquartered in Mumbai, has opened their international base in Singapore. With liaison offices in the UK, Canada, USA, Oman, Sri Lanka and UAE and associates across the world, Wizcraft International Entertainment Ltd have now expanded and set up an operational base in Singapore, thus widening their reach. The Singapore office will service the Asia-Pacific region and offer clientele a complete spectrum of brand activation and event management services covering ground, digital, display and brand property creation.
Wizcraft has been in the forefront of some of the largest events and entertainment spectaculars including the ICC World Cup's Opening ceremony in Dhaka, Bangladesh, cricket-activation in Sri Lanka and the closing of the ICC World Cup in India; the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, 50 Years of Indian Independence, the 30 Years of Mauritian Independence, the 10 years of the South African Freedom Struggle, the National Games Opening and Closing ceremonies, the Oman Tattoo showcase of the armed services of the Sultanate of Oman, the Handover ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and The Unforgettable Tour (Indian Cinema's biggest concert that travelled across Toronto, Trinidad, LA, San Francisco, Houston, Atlantic City, Chicago, New York and London bringing together the greatest icons of the Indian Film Industry). Over two decades, Wizcraft has etched its mark in history.
Wizcraft has focused its brand management skills, creativity and marketing acumen to create market leader event brands such as the International Indian Film Academy Awards and Weekend (IIFA), the Global Indian Music Academy Awards (GiMA), the Green Globe Awards and the Kingdom of Dreams, a destination that offers a unique experience of theatre, cuisine, arts, crafts and folk performers.
Sabbas Joseph, Director, Wizcraft International Entertainment Ltd. said, "Wizcraft has always serviced global brands across the region. We are certain that our team being closer to the centre of decision-making for the APAC region will ensure that we can influence the market trends positively and create partnerships that will deliver brand messaging across the region."
Andre Timmins, Director, Wizcraft International Entertainment Ltd. said, "Wizcraft has taken significant leaps in terms of growth in the last decade and this reflects in the scale and magnitude of the events that we have done. Asia represents significant growth opportunities for Wizcraft and a globally connected city like Singapore is the best step to further expand the Wizcraft empire. This establishment will be an important growth market for our unique offerings over the years."
Ajay Rao, Vice President, South East Asia & Pacific Region, Wizcraft International Entertainment Ltd. said, "We look forward to leveraging our worldwide experience to deliver integrated services of International quality and range to consumers in Singapore. Being a cosmopolitan city-state Singapore has highly skilled resources and offers a conducive environment to creative and knowledge-driven industries. We look forward to our associations here and also plan to add to our service offerings as demand grows"
Established in 1988, Wizcraft International Entertainment Ltd is now India's leading Communication and Entertainment Company, integrating strategy, creativity and technology to provide Interactive Entertainment & Event Solutions to a global audience. The pioneer of many extravagant and mesmerizing events, Wizcraft has been instrumental in shaping the event management industry in India.
Its aim has been to create a medium, which is flexible offering multiple options – targeting a specific consumer group, offering the opportunity for mass exposure across multiple media channels. They believe that events and entertainment are the most powerful tool of communication.
About-Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Wizcraft International Entertainment, India's leading Event and Entertainment Company is dedicated to showcasing its expertise on the world stage. The Global Indian Music Academy (GiMA) and The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) are some of its initiatives. Having begun its operations in 1988, Wizcraft has conceptualized and produced events staged in Mauritius, UK, New York, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Netherlands,South Africa, Iraq, Australia and Sri Lanka among others. Wizcraft's clientele comprise leading global corporates, governments of various countries, leading international entertainment and sports associations, and celebrities. The company is focused on providing Global Event Management Solutions at the doorstep of its global clientele.


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