Once you have been laid off, one of the first things you are likely to think about is how you are going to replace your income. Unemployment Insurance (UI) was established by the government to provide unemployment benefits to workers when become unemployed due to factors outside their control to financially assist them while they are looking for employment. UI is a joint federal-state program with money coming from the federal and state governments but the administration coming from the state, so the rules determining eligibility vary as well as the benefits received depending on the state in which you live. This article is thus intended to serve as a general guide to unemployment insurance.
To apply for unemployment insurance, you must first contact your state's unemployment agency. Career One Step has a map of all the state unemployment agencies, which will be a good place to find out more about your state's agency. With the increase in layoffs, there has also been an increased number of individuals requesting unemployment insurance. Many unemployment offices are holding longer hours but there is still a backlog. In this manner, if your state unemployment agency allows you to, applying online will likely expedite the application process.
Once you have applied for unemployment insurance, most states will verify your unemployment in some way; this may mean a short phone interview, an in person interview with an unemployment officer, or further verification via USPS mail. After your unemployment department has received your claim and all necessary verification, they will calculate your unemployment benefits on your past salary, usually using your last year and a half of salaried time. Your UI benefits will be proportional to your past salary, but will often cap out at a certain point, depending, again, on your state. In addition, it is likely it will take a few weeks for you to receive your first unemployment check after your local agency has received all the necessary materials.


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Coming together around the poppy
Whole Foods misstep a reminder of how dress codes continue to challenge employers
By Sarah Dobson
It seemed an even more solemn Remembrance Day this year, taking place amid the pandemic.
The crowds were very thin as people were asked to stay home and attend a virtual ceremony. And the armed forces, political leaders and various representatives dutifully appearing at ceremonies across the country had their faces covered with masks.
It's always an emotional tribute, remembering those have who fought for us, died for us and represented us in world conflicts. But set against the dark days of COVID-19 somehow made the day even starker.
We've also seen a greater sense of community and people coming together with the pandemic, which was evident recently when Whole Foods Market in Canada decided employees could not wear a poppy as part of their uniform: "With the exception of those items required by law, our dress code policy prohibits any additions to our standard uniform."
It did not go over well. The ill-informed decision quickly spread on social media and crept up the ranks, with the likes of the Toronto mayor, Ontario premier, minister of immigration and veteran affairs and the prime minister chiming in to call the decision "silly" "disgusting" and "disgraceful."
Within hours, the grocery chain retracted its stance.
"Our intention was never to single out the poppy or to suggest a lack of support for Remembrance Day and the heroes who have bravely served their country... Given the learnings of today, we are welcoming team members to wear the poppy pin in honour of Remembrance Day."
Dress code challenges
For all the talk about HR becoming more strategic and a key part of the C-suite, it's amazing how often issues around dress code continue to crop up. Whether it's mandatory uniforms or questionable skin reveals, human resources is often still the go-to person to resolve conflicts.
And it's always coming up in news covered by Canadian HR Reporter:
Just recently, a female salesperson in Calgary claimed she was fired for wearing a see-through top at a car dealership where she worked.
And earlier this year, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario held that an employer did not discriminate against its employee by prohibiting him from wearing a kilt while on duty.
Back in 2019, the Canadian army said that its members were no longer able to sport tattoos deemed discriminatory or sexually explicit, following a policy update.
Whole Foods might have been better advised to follow the lead of Starbucks Canada when it proudly announced that it was loosening its employee dress code to allow workers to don brightly dyed hair and coloured, patterned clothing.
"The green apron remains core and common and is our brand,'' said Sara Presutto, vice-president of partner resources at Starbucks Canada. "But what we want is for our partners to have more individuality behind the apron so we're broadening how they can express themselves."
And if employers think the issue is not really much of a problem these what with the dramatic rise in remote work, they should take heed, says one Toronto-based lawyer addressing five key questions when it comes to dress code policies.
Thankfully, there were plenty of poppies on display today as part of the Remembrance Day ceremonies. And hopefully next year we'll be able to wear them in-person at memorials across the country.
School's out… again
Convenience over quality of care?
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t had been for sale."
"Well," said Finetta, "we met Humphrey, and talked to him."
"I think, if I may be allowed to say so, Finetta, that you are too fond of talking to grooms and keepers, and people of that class," said Miss Matilda, glancing at her brother, who, however, was once more immersed in judicial dreams--J.P., custos rotulorum, commission of the peace, etcetera.
"Tennyson used to hang with grooms and porters on bridges, and he's poet laureate; so why shouldn't I?" said Finetta, rebelliously.
"I don't think it's nice, though," said mamma. "Aunt Matty is quite right; you are not a child now, my dear."
"Oh, mamma, dear, it's only Fin's nonsense," said Tiny. "Humphrey is a very respectful, worthy young fellow, and he climbed up the big rocks down by Penreife for us, and got us some of those beautiful little aspleniums we couldn't reach."


Nora Tomlinson, who has recently died after a short illness, was one of the contributors to the Ford Madox Ford special number of the distinguished poetry magazine Agenda. That volume, guest edited by Max Saunders, attempted to stimulate interest in Ford's activities as a major modernist writer, and included essays on many different aspects of his life and work. Nora's contribution was a piece entitled 'Ford's Wartime Journalism' and was devoted to the work that Ford had published in The Outlook in 1914-15. It was co-authored with Robert Green; but Nora later told me that it was largely her work.
At that time she had started work on her PhD at the Open University under the supervision of Dr. Robert Green and Professor Graham Martin – the subject of which was Ford's achievement as an editor of two of the most influential of modernist magazines, The English Review and the transatlantic review. As part of her research she and her husband (Barry) went to Paris in 1991, looking for places associated with Ford whilst he was editing the transatlantic review. She was particularly interested in the small studio flat that Ford and Stella lived in at 65, boulevard Arago during 1923. Her doctoral research led her to conclude (in a way that she had not anticipated) that Ford may not have been quite the great editor that he was often credited as having been. She later returned to the subject of Ford's editing in the introduction that she wrote on The English Review for the Modernist Journals Project's website. She also gave a paper at the Ford conference at St. John's College, Durham, in 2008 – where her subject was Ford's impractical handling of the running of the finances of The English Review. She was awarded her PhD in 1996. Her interest in Ford had begun whilst a student of modernist literature at what was then known as Hatfield Polytechnic (now the University of Hertfordshire), where she obtained a M.A. in 1986.
However, Nora had already had a long experience in education, having been a Tutor in Arts at the Open University when that institution first opened for students in 1971. She had previously been an undergraduate at Westfield College, University of London; and whilst there met her future husband, who was at Imperial College, during a youth hostelling holiday. They married in Farnborough in 1961 and began a family. In 1965 they moved to Bedford, and finding that there was no child care available, Nora established - with others - Bedford's first playgroup. Soon Nora found her real vocation as a teacher of adults and worked for the National Extension College; which led her on to working at the OU.
Nora worked at the OU for over 30 years, teaching English Literature, but also initially helping out with teaching the foundation course (known as A100). She wrote teaching material for Arts preparatory and foundation courses and for second and third level literature courses, including a unit on the Nineteenth Century Novel – George Eliot remained one of Nora's favourite novelists. It is clear from speaking to a number of people at her funeral that Nora was particularly good at communicating with her students and engaging them in lively debates – stubbornly and provocatively declaring, for instance, that Wordsworth was 'boring'; and many found her an inspiring and subversive teacher.
Nora had many interests; of which music, walking in Northumberland and gardening gave her a lot of happiness. She sang with the Bedford Choral Society and the Midland Festival Chorus; as well as playing a range of recorders from bass to descant with a recorder ensemble at the Bedford Retirement Education Centre. She will be much missed by all her friends.
1) Tomlinson, Nora and Robert Green (1990). 'Ford's Wartime Journalism', Agenda, vol. 27 no. 4/vol. 28, no. 1 (1989/1990), 139-147.
4) Tomlinson, Nora (2010). ''An old man mad about writing' but hopeless with money: Ford Madox Ford and the Finances of the English Review', in Jason Harding, ed., Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing, IFMFS 9 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi), 143-151.
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The Fifth Queen – Trilogy, first American edition.


Before school started, I sat down with my two youngest and we put together not one, but three school lunch menus, and we wanted to share them with you. Consider it our back-to-school gift to your family!
There are a lot of great lunchbox systems out there. We use Bentology because they are durable, made in the US, and more affordable than some options. However, if you want to completely avoid plastic (even BPA free, which has some controversy) you might check out LunchBots or PlanetBox.
You'll notice that there are cookbooks referenced on some of the menu items. These are favorites of ours, but feel free to substitute and tweak for your family's preferences.
These menus are meant to give you ideas, but make them your own!


Our longest running cartoon strip, 'Grim' follows the adventures and mishaps in the lives of two uber-trendy, urbane sophisticates amid the coffee shops and patisserie outlets of North London.
Published by Private Eye, a collection of Grim Up North London cartoon strips.
With characters as diverse as Al Capone and Henry the VIII, meet a host of historical figures who feature in this long running cartoon strip, now in its second guise.
Gaffe-prone news presenter Anne Finally had a knack of asking all the wrong questions of politicians and celebrities.
Highlighting the world's little known and downright obscure museums and collections, from the Tiverton Museum of the Moustache to the Utrecht Watering Can Collection.
Fortnightly single box cartoons tackled this complicated legal area with humour, wit and the occasional woodland animal.
Poking fun at those parents who will insist on organic granola and language lessons for their precious teeny ones, Perfect Parents poked (mostly) gentle fun at a certain type of parent – you know who you are!
Knife and Packer were commissioned to design and draw a series of cartoon characters for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport website.
Knife and Packer have created the artwork for several book covers for Ebury Press, including both volumes of the very popular joke book series Man Walks into a Bar.
Preposterous Properties appeared every week in the Bricks & Mortar section of The Times and featured the homes of a host of diverse characters from Dracula to James Bond and more.
A long running cartoon strip that appeared in Style magazine, Perfect Couple pointed the finger and chuckled at Marcus and Molly, a pair of fashion victims, and their goal of always being stylish.
Having both been to school we were more than capable of delivering a weekly cartoon strip that poked (gentle) fun at teachers and the school system.
Office Alien appeared in Jobs and Money and featured the life of George, an alien thrown into the modern workplace, struggling with everything from modems to mid afternoon munchies.
Following the adventures of Peter, a vigorous 70-something , Bon Viveur featured his escapades and adventures in the 21st century.


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April 24, 2018 8:33 am - Jimmy is a prolific artist. He has over 3000 historical and architectural paintings and more than 1000 calligraphic works. Jimmy also has over 1500 drawings to his name, besides the 700,000 prints in private collection in more than 60 countries.
Jimmy Engineer Artist and Social Worker was born on 13th August 1954 in Balochistan, Pakistan. His Zoroastrian family could not have known then, that he would grow up to break all barriers of caste and creed, and truly define multi- ethnicity through his art and altruism.
It was in 1976 that he turned into a professional painter, his art pieces soon became expressions of truth and his images began to speak of his compassion for the people around him. Although an artist by profession, Jimmy's life has revolved around supporting troubled individuals as well as helping institutions that deal with them.
His paintings have never failed to captivate several generations of art lovers in Pakistan and beyond its borders. His works of art are in private collections with friends, family and connoisseurs in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Italy, London, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Russia, Holland, Spain, Germany, Dubai, Jordan, India, China, Philippine, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Canada, USA, South Africa, Pakistan. In fact one might say they are in almost every part of the world.
Jimmy is a prolific artist. He has over 3000 historical and architectural paintings and more than 1000 calligraphic works. Jimmy also has over 1500 drawings to his name, besides the 700,000 prints in private collection in more than 60 countries. He has held more than 80 art exhibitions in Pakistan and abroad.
Apart from his artistic prowess, Jimmy is also an avid Social Worker. He has led more than 100 walks for several noble causes and has arranged more than 140 awareness programs for handicapped and orphan children. For this, Jimmy has received over 70 awards and medals in his long illustrious career since spanning over 4 decades, not only in his home country but also overseas. No other Pakistani Artist has been so honored.
For Jimmy, it is better to be a good human being than being a great artist.
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This week I was faced with a scenario where a TFS build/release agent was used to deploy software from TFS Release management. This agent was running in the same Windows domain as the servers where the software needed to be deployed. The TFS server itself was running in a different Windows domain. Because of security considerations (these are production servers we're talking about), these two Windows domain did not have a domain trust configured between them.
I wanted to eliminate step #5 and seriously reduce the time needed for #4.
For that purpose, I have created a PowerShell wrapper script. This script takes the same input parameters that you would configure in Release Management and executes your DSC script for you, much in the same way as Release Management would. This means you can test and debug your DSC scripts locally (without using Release Management) and when you eventually configure them in Release Management you don't have to change anything!
You can download the script from my GitHub: Deploy_RM_local.ps1. Here's how it works.
PSScriptPath: the path to your DSC script. This path is relative to the location of the component you're deploying (usually the folder from your TFS drop).
PSConfigurationPath: the path to the script that contains your configuration data. Again, this is a relative path.
Furthermore, Release Management will provide a variable $ApplicationPath that will contain the absolute path to the folder where Release Management will have copied your component. We'll need these three variables.
Download the bits that you want to deploy to the server you want to test on, e.g. to "C:\Deploy\SampleApp_20150527.3".
At one of the clients that I'm working we're doing a proof of concept on using Release Management vNext type release templates for deploying their application. We're using Powershell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for the actual deployment script.
One of the requirements is that we should also be able to deploy to the existing environments, running Windows 2008R2 and IIS7. Since the application is a simple web application, I was using the xWebAdministration module from the DSC Resource kit. When deploying to a Windows 2012R2 machine with IIS8, everything worked like a charm. However, when deploying on a Windows 2008R2 machine with IIS7, I got all sorts of weird error messages. There were already a couple of websites running on that machine, and it seemed as if the DSC script was trying to update those. Of course, it shouldn't touch already existing sites.
After a bit of searching, I ran into this bug on Connect. Apparently there is a problem with the "Get-Website" cmdlet on IIS7. It returns all websites, instead of only the one specified with the "-Name" parameter. Since the xWebAdministration module uses "Get-Website -Name xyz" to get a reference to the website it should modify, it'll try to update all the websites in the IIS server. So that explains it. Now, how to solve this?
Actually, the solution is not very complicated. The easiest is to modify your copy of the xWebAdministration module. Open the "MSFT_xWebsite.psm1" file in your favourite editor. You'll find it in the "DSCResources\MSFT_xWebsite" folder.
Where "Sample_xWebsite_FromConfigurationData" denotes the configuration as defined in the DSC script. When running this from a powershell prompt, it worked like a charm. Next step was to stick this in a vNext Release Template and run it from Release Management.
So I figured I'd provide the two files that I had prepared, one being the .ps1 file with the DSC configuration and the other being the .psd1 file with the configuration data. However, when running the deployment I got a bunch of weird errors, suggesting that my configuration data wasn't passed to the DSC configuration. After doing some debugging I found that that was indeed the case.
Eventually I got the solution. Essentially: the "PSConfigurationPath" in Release Manager expects a regular Powershell script. So: a .ps1 file. If you supply a .psd1 file, Release Management will happilly run your deployment, but your configuration data will not be passed to your DSC configuration.
Make sure you save this as a .ps1 file! Then include it in your vNext Release Template in the "PSConfigurationPath" and all will be well!
Recently I have been playing around with vNext Release Templates in Microsoft Release Management. These type of deployments use Powershell Desired State Configuration (DSC) to perform the actual deployment of your application to the target environment. While this generally works very well, I had a couple of "head-against-brick-wall" experiences which – I must admit – did cause a bit of an headache. This post is the first in a series to share some of those experiences, so that you can avoid them.


text:
\section{Introduction}
The dual Meissner effect was suggested as possible mechanism for
confinement in nonAbelian gauge theories more than a decade ago by
Mandelstam \cite{Mandel} and t' Hooft \cite{HooftFirst,Hooft}, and
has recently been the subject of intensive lattice investigations
\cite{KronNP,KronPL,Green,IvanExtend,Suzuki,Born4D,DebbioF12
Hioki,Born3D,IvanTc,DualAbrikosov,Stack,DiGiacomoTc,SuzukiTc}.
In this picture of confinement, (color) magnetic monopoles are
presumed to condense in the vacuum, forcing (color) electric fields
between two sources to be squeezed into a flux tube. Magnetic
monopoles are well understood to result in confinement in compact
Quantum Electrodynamics, as has been demonstrated both
analytically \cite{Poly,Banks} and numerically \cite{DeGrand,QED3}.
The conjecture is that such ``Abelian'' degrees of freedom
also drive confinement in nonAbelian theories. 't Hooft proposed
that this mechanism can be realized in nonAbelian theories
by imposing a gauge fixing condition that is invariant under a
Cartan subgroup U(1)${}^{N-1}$ of the original SU($N$) theory,
referred to as an Abelian projection \cite{Hooft}.
Singularities in the gauge-fixing condition are identified with
monopole world lines in four dimensions ($d=4$) and monopole points
(instantons) in three dimensions ($d=3$).

A lattice implementation of Abelian projection was
formulated in Ref. \cite{KronNP,KronPL}, in which
several gauge-fixing conditions were also developed
(following `t~Hooft \cite{Hooft}) that have been
widely studied. The so-called maximal Abelian gauge
is defined by gauge transformations $G$ which
maximize the following quantity \cite{KronPL}
(we henceforth restrict our attention to SU(2)):
\begin{equation}
   R \equiv \sum_{x,\mu} {\rm Tr} \Bigl(
   \sigma_3 G(x) U(x,\hat\mu) G^\dagger(x+\hat\mu)
   \sigma_3 G(x) U^\dagger(x,\hat\mu) G^\dagger(x+\hat\mu) \Bigr) ,
\label{MAgauge}
\end{equation}
where $U(x,\hat\mu)$ are link variables.
In the continuum limit, ${\rm max}(R)$ reduces
to the renormalizable differential gauge
$(\partial_{\mu}\pm igA_{\mu}^{3})A^{\pm,\mu}=0$,
where $A^\pm_\mu \equiv (A^1_\mu \pm i A^2_\mu) / \sqrt2$.

Local (generally nonrenormalizable) gauges can be defined by the
diagonalization of an adjoint operator $\Phi$ \cite{KronNP}:
\begin{equation}
   \Phi(x) \rightarrow G(x) \Phi(x) G^{\dagger}(x)
   = \left( \begin{array}{cc}
   e^{i\alpha(x)} & 0 \\
   0 & e^{-i\alpha(x)}
   \end{array} \right) .
\label{local}
\end{equation}
Examples of Eq. (\ref{local}) are diagonalization of
a plaquette or a Polyakov line \cite{KronNP}.
We will refer to a gauge as ``local'' when the gauge
condition can be imposed on a site-by-site basis.

Notice that Eqs. (\ref{MAgauge}) and (\ref{local}) are invariant
under a local U(1) transformation
$G\rightarrow d G$, where $d$ is a diagonal matrix
$d=\cos\theta+i{\sigma}_3\sin\theta$ \cite{Residual}.
The Abelian projection of a link $U$ is defined, after
gauge-fixing, as its component $u$ in the corresponding
subspace \cite{KronNP,KronPL}
\begin{equation}
   G(x) U(x,\hat\mu) G^\dagger(x+\hat\mu)
   \equiv w(x,\hat\mu) \, u(x,\hat\mu) ,
   \quad {\rm Tr}(\sigma_3 w) \equiv 0
\label{Project}
\end{equation}
($w^\dagger w \equiv u^\dagger u \equiv 1$).
The Abelian projection $u(x,\hat\mu)$ can be written as
$u(x,\hat\mu) = \exp[i \sigma_3 \phi(x,\hat\mu)]$.
Monopoles are defined from the phases $\phi$
(as described in Sec.~II) and are associated with
singularities in the gauge fixing which, in the context of
Eq. (\ref{local}), occur at points where
$\alpha(x) = 0$ \cite{Hooft}.

One of the main issues that has been addressed
in lattice investigations is whether the Abelian monopole
density in a particular gauge exhibits scaling
(thus having a well defined continuum limit).
SU(2) lattice simulations in maximal Abelian gauge
show scaling behavior for monopoles defined on elementary
cubes of the lattice in $d=3$ \cite{Born3D},
and there is some evidence for scaling in
$d=4$ \cite{Born4D,DebbioF12}.
On the other hand, it has been well established that the
density of elementary monopoles in a variety of local gauges
does {\it not\/} scale (this includes diagonalization of a
plaquette and the Polyakov loop) \cite{DebbioF12}.

As a result, the maximal Abelian gauge has become widely
regarded as the only known gauge which may yet establish
the role (if any) of Abelian monopoles in confinement.
However, there is as yet no compelling reason why the
degrees of freedom responsible for confinement in a
gauge-invariant theory should only be manifest in
this particular gauge. In fact, some monopole operators
have recently been constructed which show evidence
in local gauges for a spontaneous symmetry breaking
that is correlated with the deconfinement phase transition
\cite{DiGiacomoTc,SuzukiTc}.

We reconsider the lattice scale dependence of the monopole
density in local gauges by analyzing the properties of
{\it extended\/} monopoles.
We work in three-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory.
The number $N_m$ of extended monopoles in a cube of size $m^3$
(in lattice units) is defined as the number of elementary
($1^3$) monopoles minus antimonopoles in the cube ($m=1,2,\ldots$).
A physical reason for studying extended monopoles
is that confinement occurs on
some finite physical length scale. The nonscaling behavior
that has been observed in some gauges for elementary monopoles
might therefore not be a good criterion for ruling out
contact with the physics relevant to confinement.

Indeed, we find that nonscaling of the monopole density
in some local gauges is due
mainly to short-distance monopole-antimonopole fluctuations,
which diverge in number as the coupling $\beta \to \infty$.
On the other hand, such fluctuations are essentially absent
in the maximal Abelian gauge. This is reflected in our calculation
of the average minimum separation between a monopole and
the nearest neighboring antimonopole, $\langle r_{\rm min} \rangle$.
In maximal Abelian gauge $\langle r_{\rm min} \rangle$
scales with $\beta$, while it vanishes (in physical units)
with increasing $\beta$ in the local gauges that we considered.
[The dimensionless quantity $\beta = 4/(g^2a)$,
where the coupling constant $g$ has units of
$({\rm mass})^{1/2}$ in three dimensions.
We work throughout in lattice units, where
the spacing $a\equiv1$.]

Correlations between elementary monopoles and
antimonopoles as functions of their separation are also calculated.
Strong short-distance correlations are found in local gauges.
On the other hand, in maximal Abelian gauge the monopole distribution
is essentially random (the monopoles form a ``plasma'').
We speculate that large short-distance fluctuations in
the gauge fields lead to the divergence in the number of
monopoles in local gauges, while in the maximal Abelian gauge,
which is imposed in nonlocal way, these fluctuations are
effectively smoothed out.

We then consider the density of extended monopoles.
In local gauges the density is found to decrease
rapidly as the monopole ``size'' $m$ is increased, the rate
of change being maximal for $m$ near unity. This can
again be understood as due to an averaging over
short distance fluctuations (i.e., as an averaging of
the charges of elementary monopole-antimonopole pairs over
larger volumes). By contrast, the density varies
slowly with $m$ in maximal Abelian gauge.
We also consider the density of extended monopoles
of fixed physical ``size'' ($m / \beta = {\rm fixed}$),
as a function of $\beta$. For a finite value of
$m / \beta$ the density of monopoles in a typical local
gauge does not scale; however, we find that the degree of
scaling violation decreases substantially as
the physical monopole ``size'' increases.

These results support the argument that strong short-distance
fluctuations in the gauge fields can be effectively
averaged out by a nonlocal gauge condition, as in the
maximal Abelian gauge, or (to a large extent)
by considering extended monopoles on sufficiently
long length scales in local gauges.

The organization of the rest of this paper is as follows.
In Sec.~II the various gauge fixing schemes and observables
considered in this work are described.
Our results are presented in Sec.~III,
and in Sec.~IV we give our conclusions.

\section{Method}

Abelian projection was carried out in the maximal Abelian
gauge and in a number of local gauges.
The maximization of $R$, Eq. (\ref{MAgauge}),
which defines the maximal Abelian  gauge must be implemented
iteratively. Following Ref. \cite{Born4D} we repeatedly
sweep through the lattice, maximizing $R$ locally by
solving for $G(x)$ analytically at each site,
keeping $G(x+\hat\mu)$ at neighboring sites fixed.
These iterations are repeated until $G$ at all sites becomes
sufficiently close to the identity:
\begin{equation}
   {\rm max} \{ 1- {\case12} {\rm Tr}\,G(x) \} \le \delta \ll 1 ,
\label{crit}
\end{equation}
with $\delta = O(10^{-7})$ used as a stopping criterion.
Note that this iteration
procedure is not guaranteed to reach the the global maximum of
$R$ \cite{Born4D}. Moreover, the iteration procedure
is not guaranteed to increase ${\rm Tr}\,G(x)$ monotonically over
successive iterations; hence the stopping criterion Eq. (\ref{crit})
is ambiguous. As a result, in practice the monopole number
is not uniquely defined in the maximal Abelian gauge.
For example, two field configurations differing only by an SU(2)
gauge transformation will not, in practice, necessarily lead to the
same number of Abelian monopoles in an actual calculation
in maximal Abelian gauge. The implementation of the maximal
Abelian gauge fixing also dominates
the computational cost of the simulation, due to the large
number of iterations (typically 1000) required to satisfy
Eq. (\ref{crit}).

A local gauge that we consider is a simple implementation
of Eq. (\ref{local}): diagonalization of the field strength
tensor, $\Phi = F_{12}$ (cf. Ref. \cite{KronNP}).
Note that Abelian projection in this
gauge has the property that a pure-gauge configuration (a gauge
transformation of links equal to the identity) will in general
lead to a nonzero monopole density. Furthermore, the monopole
numbers extracted from gauge-equivalent configurations in
this gauge will not be equal in general.
Calculations were also carried out in
gauges defined by the diagonalization of rectangular
Wilson loops of various sizes, as well as in an
``unfixed'' gauge (defined by $\Phi=1$ in Eq. (\ref{local})).
These calculations lead to the same conclusions
as drawn from the results presented here for
$\Phi=F_{12}$.

Following Ref. \cite{KronNP} we compute phases of the
Abelian projections of the gauge-fixed links
$u(x,\mu) \equiv u_0(x,\mu) + i \vec\sigma \cdot \vec u(x,\mu)$
(cf. Eq. (\ref{Project})):
\begin{equation}\label{abel_pr}
   \phi(x,\hat\mu) = {\tan}^{-1}
   \left[u_3(x,\hat\mu) \over u_0(x,\hat\mu) \right],
   \quad \phi(x,\hat\mu) \in (-\pi,+\pi] .
\end{equation}
Reduced plaquette angles $\widetilde\phi$ are
then defined according to \cite{DeGrand}:
\begin{equation}
   \widetilde\phi \equiv
   \phi - 2 \pi N_s ,
   \quad \widetilde\phi \in (-\pi, +\pi] ,
\label{plaqangle}
\end{equation}
where $N_s$ is identified with the number of Dirac strings
passing through the plaquette
($N_s \in [-2,2]$). The number of ``elementary''
monopoles $N_{m=1}$ contained in a cube of size $1^3$ is equal to
the sum of Dirac strings $N_s$ passing through the oriented
$1\times 1$ plaquettes on the surfaces of the cube.

We define the number of extended monopoles
$N_m$ in a cube of size $m^3$ as the number of
elementary monopoles minus antimonopoles in the cube.
The density $\rho_m$ of extended monopoles of
``size'' $m$ is given by
\begin{equation}
   \rho_m = {1\over 2 L^3} \sum_{i=1}^{(L/m)^3} \vert N_m(x_i) \vert ,
\end{equation}
where $x_i$ labels the coordinates of the cubes of size $m^3$.
We take $m$ to divide the lattice length $L$ (although
this requirement can be relaxed); hence the total number of extended
monopoles on the lattice vanishes.

The definition of $N_m$ above corresponds to ``type-II'' extended
monopoles defined in Ref. \cite{IvanExtend};
a ``type-I'' extended monopole number was also defined,
which is computed from the phases of $m\times m$ plaquettes on
the surface of a cube of size $m^3$
(using a suitable generalization of Eq. (\ref{plaqangle})).
In an earlier version of this work we considered type-I extended
monopoles. However, for large $m$ the number of type-I monopoles
approaches the strong coupling limit, since the phases of the
$m\times m$ plaquettes become essentially random \cite{Cappelli,KYee}.
Since we are interested in weak coupling continuum physics
we consider only type-II monopoles in the rest of this paper.

The simulations were done mainly on a $24^3$ lattice, using a
bath algorithm at several values of $\beta$ in the scaling region.
The string tension on lattices of this size is found
to scale for $\beta \gtrsim 6$ (see, e.g.,
Ref. \cite{MawhScaling}). Some data was also taken at
smaller values of $\beta$ for comparison.
We find that finite volume effects on the $24^3$ lattice,
as measured by the expectation value of the Polyakov line,
become noticeable for $\beta \gtrsim 12$ (which is the
largest value in our data).
Measurements were made on an ensemble
of 500 configurations each separated by 100 updates,
which is significantly longer than the autocorrelation time
for any observable that we considered (the maximal Abelian gauge
exhibits the longest autocorrelation time of the various
gauges). We also used 200 configurations on a $36^3$ lattice
to obtain some results at large $m$
(these data are identified explicitly in the following).

\section{Results}

The density $\rho_1$ of elementary ($m=1$) monopoles is
shown in Fig.~1 in maximal Abelian  gauge
(cf. Eq. (\ref{MAgauge})) and $F_{12}$-gauge
($\Phi=F_{12}$ in Eq. (\ref{local})).
It is clear that only
maximal Abelian gauge exhibits scaling in $\rho_1$, and that
the difference between the two gauges becomes more
pronounced as $\beta$ is increased.

Notice that maximal Abelian
gauge has far fewer monopoles than the local gauges.
To help understand this difference it is instructive to look
at the spatial distribution of monopoles and antimonopoles.
This is done by counting the number of monopoles $N(r_{\rm min})$
for which the nearest antimonopole is a distance $r_{\rm min}$
away. The results are shown in Fig.~2 for the $F_{12}$-gauge.
As expected with a relatively
large number of monopoles and antimonopoles, there are many short
distance pairs; in fact, most monopoles have an antimonopole
in a neighboring lattice cell.
A natural question is whether the monopoles and
antimonopoles are correlated. Some insight into this question is
obtained by comparing the result of the lattice simulation with
$N(r_{\rm min})$ for a completely random distribution of monopoles
and antimonopoles. This is also shown in Fig.~2. A random distribution
leads to an $N(r_{\rm min})$ which is much broader than that observed
in $F_{12}$-gauge. This is indicative of a
strong short-range correlation between the monopoles and antimonopoles
in this gauge, with significant enhancement of nearest-neighbor pairs.

Figure 3 shows $N(r_{\rm min})$ for the maximal Abelian gauge
at $\beta = 8$. Here the number of monopoles
with nearby antimonopoles is very small
so statistical errors are large, but $N(r_{\rm min})$ is roughly
consistent with a random distribution. There certainly is no
enhancement of pairs with small separations as in $F_{12}$-gauge.

Figure 4 shows the average value of the minimum separation of a
monopole and antimonopole $\langle r_{\rm min} \rangle$ for the
two gauges as function of the number of monopoles (corresponding
to $\beta$ in the range 5 to 12).
Again, for comparison, the results expected
for a completely random distribution are plotted. For monopoles
in maximal Abelian gauge we find reasonable consistency with a
random distribution (a monopole ``plasma'') but in $F_{12}$-gauge
significantly smaller values of $\langle r_{\rm min} \rangle$
are observed.

If the monopole density scales and the distribution is random we
certainly expect $\langle r_{\rm min} \rangle$
to scale with $\beta$. This is shown in Fig.~5. For maximal
Abelian gauge, $\langle r_{\rm min} \rangle$ scales very well.
In $F_{12}$-gauge $\langle r_{\rm min} \rangle$ vanishes
in physical units as $\beta$ increases.

These results support the idea that the excess of
monopoles found in local gauges relative to maximal Abelian gauge
is due to highly-correlated short distance fluctuations.
This is further illustrated by considering the density $\rho_m$
of extended monopoles.

In Fig.~6 we compare the density $\rho_m$ in the two gauges
at $\beta=6$. The density in maximal Abelian gauge decreases
slowly with $m$; the decrease becomes more pronounced
for $m$ around the value of $\langle r_{\rm min} \rangle$
for $1^3$ monopoles in that gauge. This is consistent with
the fact that strong short-distance correlations are absent in
maximal Abelian gauge, with $1^3$ monopoles forming a plasma,
distributed on a length scale of $O(\langle r_{\rm min} \rangle$).
By contrast, the density in $F_{12}$-gauge decreases
rapidly with $m$, with the rate of change being maximal near $m=1$.

Figure~7(a) shows that the density of extended monopoles
of fixed physical ``size'' ($m / \beta = {\rm fixed}$)
scales well in maximal Abelian gauge.
In $F_{12}$-gauge the density does not scale for
any finite value of $m/\beta$, as illustrated in Fig.~7(b).
The density $\rho \beta^3$ in physical units increases roughly
linearly with $\beta$ for fixed $ m/\beta$.
However, the degree of scale violation decreases
substantially as the physical monopole ``size'' increases.
This is made evident by a plot of the
slope $\Delta(\rho\beta^3) / \Delta\beta$
as a function of $m/\beta$, given in Fig.~8.
This is again consistent with a cancellation of
short-distance monopole-antimonopole fluctuations.

\section{Conclusions}
The results presented here demonstrate that the
nonscaling of the density of elementary ($1^3$) monopoles in
a variety of local gauges, which has been previously observed, is
due in large part to strong short distance correlations in
those gauges. The distribution of $1^3$ monopoles in maximal
Abelian gauge was shown to be essentially random.
The degree of scale violation in the density of
extended monopoles in local gauges was found to decrease
substantially as the monopole ``size'' is increased.
Our results support the argument that strong short-distance
fluctuations in the gauge fields can be effectively
averaged out by a nonlocal gauge condition, as in the
maximal Abelian gauge, or (to a large extent)
by considering extended monopoles on sufficiently
long physical length scales in local gauges.
The possibility therefore
remains that long distance properties of monopoles
in local gauges may be relevant to continuum physics,
such as confinement.

\acknowledgments
We thank K. Yee for fruitful conversations. This work
was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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Total Loss: A Column About Inventorying Other People's Tragedies
Column 3:
I Think I Found Your Cat
by Stef Willen
I almost fell through the first floor of the Farley's living room. Several floorboards gave way when I was trying to upend an overstuffed armchair to look for a label, and my entire right leg dangled into the dark basement. Had I known my landing would've been soft, that I would have fallen onto three and a half feet of soggy gumballs and sheets of cute little stickers, I would've been less rattled by the prospect of falling through a house. It might've even sounded fun.
Inventorying what remains inside the home of a hoarder requires two personality traits I happen to possess: the ability to carry out excessively tedious tasks and still think you're making a difference in the world, and the ability to act as if everything is perfectly normal when someone opens their front door and you're met with towering mountains of baled newspapers, rivers of bicycle spokes, and valleys of plastic Target bags.
Several months before the Farley home caught fire, I spent three weeks in a hoarder's living room chipping away at her walls of Depends, rat turds, inhalers, framed certificates, bottles of lotion, rubber stamps, china plates, empty soda cans, boxes of Kotex from the '70s, Vaseline, plastic medical tubing, polyester slacks and wedding cake decorations. Each item that could be inventoried was, and when she hauled me off to a neighboring mountain range of junk, which she referred to as her office, pointed toward the middle of its smoked blackish brownish lumpish mass and demanded to know who had put something on top of her computer, I pretended to see a computer—or how twenty square feet of miscellaneous objects could be called a "something"—and said "You know, I don't know."
The Farley place, however, was different from other hoarder homes. The main floor looked normal. A family lived there; a family whose house caught fire right after someone left some dirty dishes in the sink. I finished the inventory in two hours. Then I opened the garage door so I could access the basement, and out fluttered a dozen #10 envelopes. Around my shoe puddled a pink viscous liquid that smelled of smoke and candy. Before me stretched a sea of gumball machines.
Bruce Farley is a pear-shaped high school basketball coach, a vendor for supermarket toy and candy machines, and a professional sweepstakeser. His garage and basement, like the homes of other hoarders, no longer had identifiable rooms, just small footpaths winding through mountains of flotsam. Bruce's flotsam was 1,300 square feet of loose envelopes and stationary (for entering sweepstakes contests), basketball jerseys, bags of 250-count plastic vending machine toys, five-pound bags of bubble gum and candy, boxes of 3,000-count vending machine sheets of stickers, bags of 250-count two-inch and one-inch plastic bubble tops and bottoms (for encasing vending machine toys), and hundreds of sweepstakes wins, like the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine or a year's supply of Soft Soap—all in their original boxes, never opened.
Everything was wet and moldy. There was a sucking sound when I stepped down on the footpath that was pooled with gumballs and ashen debris. When I reached into the middle of the mountain and tried to pull something out, it resulted in exasperation or a domestic avalanche. I requested help.
Bruce recruited a couple of his "guys" (high school basketball players), and I asked my company for some wheelbarrows and industrial-sized dumpsters. The plan was this: The high school basketball players would go into their coach's home, load up a wheelbarrow, wheel it out to me in the driveway, lift up the dripping contents so that I could record anything of monetary value, then they'd slam dunk it into the dumpster with their shovels.
The plan worked perfectly for a month, which is how long it took to inventory Bruce's basement, or to fill five industrial dumpsters (however you want to look at it). What didn't work as well was that Bruce showed up every morning and stood in his driveway, usually on a piece of cardboard, and monitored every sweet-smelling sludge-filled shovel scoop making its way toward the dumpster.
Clients have the option to keep things instead of getting the money for them, and they often save damaged, but sentimental items. Bruce, like other hoarders, couldn't distinguish between what was sentimental and what was not. Even if he hadn't at first remembered something, he found a memory of it. Everything was "worth quite a lot" or "going to be valuable someday." Items that were wet and smelled heavily of smoke "could make a nice gift for someone" or "just needed to air out." I held up sweepstakes prizes Bruce didn't even know he'd won: two margarita blenders, a panini press, a 6 piece set of Emeril cookware, an autographed I Know What You Did Last Summer movie poster.
"Oh, how 'bout that," Bruce would say, seeming proud of his winnings, shoving his hands into the pockets of his track pants and swinging his beer belly back and forth. "Better keep that," he'd add nonchalantly. Yet, I somehow knew that if I tossed the item, he'd coach one of his guys into the dumpster, tell him how to retrieve it.
I used to think a fire in a hoarder's home was one of those blessings in disguise; the hoarder's chance to have their problem taken care of without any sorting or heavy lifting. But as I watched Bruce take his newfound prizes from the wheelbarrow and put them into a growing train of irreplaceable items that were beginning to choke his driveway, it was quite clear that fire doesn't destroy a mental problem, only some of the evidence.
Bruce's wife Elizabeth tried to temper her husband's insatiable need to find value in everything, but she almost always failed. It didn't help that she was a librarian and fulfilled the stereotype. She arrived each morning with Bruce but went inside her former home, doing who knows what, and every fifth or sixth time Bruce would say, "Might as well keep that," she'd open the screen door, poke her head out and say in a hushed tone, "No, Bruce. You don't need that."
Standing on his cardboard throne, swaying his belly back and forth, Bruce would begin to argue with his wife. At first, he'd do so with the same nonchalance with which he spoke to me. "Well, this is kinda valuable."
Elizabeth would look up to the sky and then back down at her husband in his undershirt and track pants, the engineer of a long, smoke-damaged, soggy train, and she'd take it up a librarian notch and say, "No. It isn't anymore. LOOK at it. Just get the money for it, Bruce."
Then Bruce would get firm and start articulating syllables. "E-LIZ-A-BETH, don't question me on what's VAL-U-A-BLE!"
Elizabeth would let the screen door slam on her final muttered sentence, usually something like, "See, this is the problem, Bruce."
These arguments happened about twenty times a day. The only thing that Bruce and Elizabeth agreed upon was that their cat was valuable. Had I seen their cat, Sadie? Could Sadie have possibly escaped? I told them that it was possible Sadie had run off and would return. This was mostly a lie. Animals in a burning home rarely escape, especially if they have to skirt around 200 pounds of gumballs.
So, when the day came that the high school basketball players walked a wheelbarrow out to me looking smug and a little excited, like they found some porn or a gun, I prepared myself for whatever a cat that's been through a fire looks like. I've always been warned about people's cats, but I've never actually found one.
"I think I found your cat, Sir," one of the high school basketball players said, setting the wheelbarrow down gently.
"Oh. Ha! Really!?" Bruce said, then he paced around in a quick circle on his cardboard square. The other basketball player looked carefully at his coach as he began to delicately pick up soggy envelopes and vending machine bubbles out of the wheelbarrow and throw them into the dumpster. A dripping bag full of plastic vampire teeth was two-handed, a five-pound bag of Runts was underhanded, then we all saw a pink paw. It took a moment to realize the flat grey mat it was attached to was Sadie. Why was she so flat? Then again, she wasn't burned which meant she died of smoke inhalation, which doesn't sound too bad.
Bruce took a jerky step forward, "Ha, yep, that's her all right." He stepped back, moved his hands around something imaginary in his pockets and said, "Well, what should we do?"
"I don't know," I said. "Do you want to set her aside and put her on piece of cardboard or something?"
"I don't know, should I?" It shouldn't have surprised me that Bruce—who could come up with a memory about each object and justify "setting it aside for now"— didn't know what to do with his cat, but it did.
"Do you want to get Elizabeth?" I asked.
"Should I?"
"Yeah, probably."
"Elizabeth. Elizabeth! E-LIZ-A-BETH!"
"What, Bruce?" her voice sounded from some far off place.
"Come here!"
"Well, hold on Bruce, I'm in the basement," she said, sounding closer.
"Come here. It's Sadie."
Elizabeth hobbled out of the garage and began walking down the driveway. (She'd had cancer and some major thing important for walking had been taken out of her left leg).
"You're just so touchy lately, Bruce," she said, making her way toward us, grabbing onto various burnt gumball machines for support. I prepared myself for the possibility that she would cry or perhaps come undone in some shocking way. She had revealed so little of herself, anything was possible.
She peered into the wheelbarrow and said, "Oh, dear" on an exhale, like she was looking at a computer screen telling her a book someone wanted to check out had been overdue for weeks. She asked where the boys found Sadie.
"Under a chair in the basement kitchen, Miss," one of them said. Elizabeth pivoted on her good leg to look up at Bruce.
"What should we do?" she asked.
Bruce looked at me, "I don't know, what do you think we should we do?"
I said it was up to them. Five minutes later, Sadie was in the middle of the dumpster.
"Might as well," were Bruce's final memorial words about his cat. He was responding to one of the basketball players who was knee high in dumpster debris, asking if he could set Sadie down where he was. As soon as he climbed out his friend grabbed him by the hoodie, yanked it over his face and fake-kneed him in the balls.
"Guys, guys, quit…" Bruce said, already turning around so he could spend some more time with fifteen years worth of soggy National Geographic issues. Elizabeth was making her way back inside and was three burnt gumball machines away from being able to grab onto the front porch hand rail.
A day later, Bruce and I did a final walkthrough of his basement. He was looking for something he claimed he hadn't seen for ten years. I wished it had been his floor because that would have been easy. There it was: 1,300 square feet of slimy linoleum that made Bruce's sneakers squeak as he shuffled in and out of each room, ducking his head into every dark nook, searching for the Willie Nelson autographed guitar he'd won. After a couple minutes, he stood in the middle of the largest room, shook his head and said, "Well, I guess it's gone."
"But look at all this space you have!" I tried. I meant it. Bruce stuffed his hands in his track pants pockets and nodded at various corners of the room, turning almost in a complete circle. He looked smug, happy. Either he was seeing the freedom of space or the freedom to begin building his mountains again.
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Many of you have probably said this famous quote at least once, maybe twice…when suffering from a hangover. It's quite common to question the night before, "Was it really worth feeling this awful?" Hangovers can wreak havoc on your immune system, digestive tract and organ function, because what happens is that you overload your liver, and it is struggling to clear out the excessive amount of toxins and chemicals ingested. Imagine that every time we drink a little bit too much our blood sugar dips, our bodies are dehydrated and overall fatigue takes over. So, in other words your body is just letting you know that you created a toxic internal environment.
The first thing you should avoid is taking any medications, since most come with serious side-effects that are amplified by alcohol.
You are aiming for a complete detoxification, and drinking plenty of water is the way to do that, before going to bed, even though you might be seeing double, try to down two big cups of water, and as soon as you wake up, add tomato juice with cayenne pepper and lime to hydrate during the day, to replenish electrolytes and get your blood sugar back on track.
Try a multi-purpose remedy, which is known for being an analgesic and blood flow promoter, called Tiger Balm, a blend of camphor, menthol, cajuput oil and clove oil. Dab the potent tiger balm on the back of your neck and temples, massage it in, and wait a few minutes until your headache seemingly melts away.
Remember you are trying to stimulate detoxification, and since a third of toxic body waste is cleared through the skin, it makes sense to soak it into a toxin-purging substance such as wasabi, turns out that this root has the ability to increase blood circulation through the organs and promote oxygenation of the cellular tissue, helping to clear cells of metabolic waste, easing the hangover as well.
Mustard has a noted ability to increase circulation and draw toxins out from the organs, mustard has become a little-known hangover-healing health secret. Once the organs are flushed, they naturally are replenished with clean and vital blood. You don't even have to eat it, but spread it externally onto your body, there are, in fact many options such as Kalahari Detox Mustard Bath, or you can make you own, by adding 2 tbsp. of pure mustard powder into warm running bath water, and steep for 20 minutes.
These remedies may sound a little crazy, but you'll love the next one. Reflexology, which is known as a way to rub your hangover out through your feet, rub your aches and pains away (while assisting to speed up liver detoxification) stimulate the outer edge area on the right foot, about halfway between the middle of the foot and the little toe.
There are many ways you can detoxify you liver and squeeze the alcohol out of the organs using your own body, including yoga poses, such as the seated twist. Just sit on the floor with your legs extended straight in front of you, bend your left knee cross your leg over your right and rotate your torso to the left, to twist your body, and repeat on the other side. Every twist position helps to detoxify internal organs.
Finally give yourself a treat, its time for the final shot, wheatgrass, which is a natural detoxifier, known to cleanse the body's blood and water, hydrating and energizing the cells. Wheat grass is perfect to clear you inside out.


We are superexcited about the collaboration with Rijksmuseum Boerhaave! This weekend, our installation "Morphing Crystals" will be on show in the museum for a year and a half. Our architected materials are extrapolations of Overvelde's cutting-edge scientific research. At Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, visitors are invited to play with our geometries and be wowed by the way they move and fold.
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave is the Netherlands' treasure chamber of science and medicine. With a collection spanning five centuries of research and innovation and based on close collaboration with prominent modern scientists, Rijksmuseum Boerhaave offers visitors of all ages a fascinating insight into the world of science. In the new set-up, you can do experiments everywhere! Digital, but also with real instruments: just like researchers hundreds of years ago. Opening 16 December 2017. See you there?


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This submission outlines key areas of opportunity and concern for the Community Council for Australia (CCA) in relation to the proposed Australian Charities External Conduct Standards.
The content of this submission includes: a brief background to CCA; an overview of the current context for the broader charities and not-for-profit (NFP) sector; a discussion of key issues relating to the inquiry terms of reference; and a conclusion.
CCA welcomes this opportunity to provide input into this consultation and is willing to participate in further discussion as the proposed regulations are finalised.
There are thousands of charities across Australia that engage in some way with international organisations. This activity often benefits Australia in multiple ways and should be encouraged. Most of these charities should not be subject to external conduct standards.
CCA understands and accepts that charities engaged primarily in international activities should be required to provide a measure of accountability and transparency for their activities to ensure they are appropriate and directly related to their charitable purpose.
The use of the term 'incidental' as a way of excluding those charities that mostly operate within Australia seems somewhat vague. What is an incidental activity?
If an Australian orchestra conducts an annual tour of Asia, a sporting group sponsors an international tour from a school team, a drug and alcohol treatment agency offers training in Asia and sponsors international trainees to come to Australia for internships, if an on-line campaign in Australia attracts some foreign engagement, are these activities incidental? The answer is almost certainly yes, but how do we know?
CCA believes the external conduct standards should apply only when an organisation is clearly focused on working internationally as their main activity.
While this may be the intent of the proposed regulations, the reality is that within the term 'incidental' there is a high level of uncertainty leading to potential net widening beyond what CCA and most charities see as reasonable.
This is further compounded by the very broad definition of an arrangement, collaboration and third parties that operate outside of Australia.
Australia needs to facilitate rather than stifle international collaborations, particularly between charities that have common goals of delivering public benefit within their own countries.
The explanatory notes cite three examples where the activity is considered incidental. CCA thinks these examples are useful but would also like to see this section include examples where the entity would be captured by the provisions of these regulations – i.e. organisations that operate mostly in Australia that would be captured by the regulations.
Most importantly CCA believes these regulations should be framed by a very clear statement that Australia seeks to encourage and foster greater international collaboration, particularly across the charities sector, and that the purpose of these regulations is not to impede or impose onerous new reporting requirements on charities that operate primarily in Australia.
The goal of increased transparency and accountability is supported, but additional reporting is not required for the thousands of charities that operate mostly in Australia and already provide appropriate levels of public reporting and disclosure to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission.
· details of any documented claims of inappropriate behaviour by the registered entity's employees or responsible entities outside Australia, and subsequent actions taken by the registered entity as a result.
CCA understands that the exact nature of the reporting requirements is yet to be finalised and that the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission will provide more details at some point in the future.
CCA is concerned that the reporting requirements may be overly onerous and lack proportionality.
It is fundamentally important that the scale or size of activities, the scope and the relative risk be taken into account in framing the transparency or reporting requirements.
A small Australian volunteer organisation engaged in helping construct a new library in Indonesia should not be subject to the same reporting requirements as a major international development organisation spending millions of dollars working in terrorist held provinces in Libya and Afghanistan.
CCA supports the concept of having clear external conduct standards for Australian charities whose primary work is international. The charities sector generally supports transparency and accountability.
The concern outlined in this submission is that thousands of Australian charities engage in international activities, often hosting visiting international experts, offering training, master classes, mentoring, special tours and events in Australia and overseas. These charities, whose work is predominantly in Australia, should not be required to satisfy the same additional regulatory imposts and record keeping expected of charities whose work is largely international.
CCA is also concerned that the scope of administrative record keeping outlined in the proposed external conduct standards seems overly comprehensive. It is to be hoped that a reasonable and proportionate approach will be applied in relation to the records required of organisations operating internationally.


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Samsung NX1000 Optics
Camera Reviews / Samsung Cameras i Initial Test
NX1000 Overview
Kit Lens Test Results
20-50mm Zoom
Below-average zoom ratio, no image stabilization, but good optical performance.
20mm @ f/8 35mm @ f/8
50mm @ f/8
The Samsung NX1000 is available bundled with the Samsung 20-50mm f/3.5-5.6 ED NX lens, which has a 35mm equivalent focal range of about 31-77mm. Its 2.5x zoom ratio is lower than average for a kit lens, and it doesn't go as wide as most kit lenses either. Optical performance is quite good at 20mm, though, with very good sharpness and contrast across most of the frame at f/8, and just minor softness in the corners. Coma distortion in the trees is very low, and chromatic aberration very well controlled (suppressed by the camera), though some minor flare can be seen around bright highlights. Results are also very good at 35mm, with very good sharpness across the frame and negligible chromatic aberration. At full telephoto, sharpness and contrast are are quite good across most of the frame, and chromatic aberration is still very low. Overall, far-field performance is pretty good for a kit lens when stopped-down to f/8.
A larger-than-average minimum coverage area, with soft detail. Flash throttled-down well.
Macro with 20-50mm kit lens
50mm @ f/8 Macro with flash
As with zoom performance, the Samsung NX1000's macro performance will depend entirely on the lens in use. However with the 20-50mm kit lens set to 50mm, the Samsung NX1000 captured a larger-than-average minimum area measuring 3.61 x 2.40 inches (92 x 61 millimeters). The image is soft in the center, and oddly it's sharper near the edges, likely because of focus error. (Most lenses show some softening in the corners at macro distances.) The flash throttled-down well, producing a bright, well-exposed image.
Geometric Distortion
Low distortion with Distortion Correction enabled, much higher at wide angle without correction.
Distortion Correction On (default)
Almost no barrel distortion at 20mm
Slightly high pincushion distortion at 50mm, about 0.2%
Uncorrected (Raw)
High barrel distortion at 20mm, about 1.7%
With Distortion Correction enabled by default, the 20-50mm kit lens' barrel distortion at wide angle is practically non-existent (0.02%). At full telephoto, pincushion distortion is about 0.2%, but that's pretty low. This is the tendency for the lens to bend straight lines outward (like a barrel -- usually at wide angle) or inward (like a pincushion -- usually at telephoto). It's worth noting here that the default seems to have changed from the prior generation of Samsung CSCs, with distortion correction on by default instead of off. We also don't see part of the framed image cropped away by Distortion Correction like we did with the NX200, which is a nice improvement.
Without distortion correction when converting raw files, the Samsung NX1000's 20-50mm kit lens produced much higher-than-average distortion at wide angle, but about the same at telephoto. At wide angle, barrel distortion is 1.7% and at telephoto, pincushion distortion is unchanged at about 0.2%. Disabling Distortion Correction should produce similar distortion in JPEGs.
Chromatic Aberration and Corner Sharpness
JPEGs have low chromatic aberration, though uncorrected raw files have much higher. The lens produced some soft corners at telephoto.
20mm, f/3.5: Lower right
C.A.: Low
Softness: Minor blurring 20mm, f/3.5: Center
C.A.: Very low
Softness: Sharp
Softness: Quite soft 50mm, f/5.6: Center
Softness: Fairly sharp
Chromatic Aberration. Chromatic aberration in the corners with the NX1000's 20-50mm kit lens at wide angle (20mm) is quite low with just a hint of coloration, and very low in the center. At full telephoto (50mm), chromatic aberration is very low.
Corner Softness. The lens produced some soft corners in a few shots, though performance wide open is better than average for a kit lens. At maximum wide angle, all four corners exhibit very minor blurring and loss of contrast, but softness does extend fairly deep into the frame. The center of the image is however very sharp with excellent contrast. At full telephoto, the bottom right corner is quite soft with lower contrast, and softness extends fairly deep into the frame, however the other corners are sharper, so our copy of this lens is slightly de-centered. The center at telephoto is fairly sharp, just a touch softer with lower contrast than wide angle.
Vignetting. There's very little corner shading ("vignetting") at both wide angle and telephoto when wide open as indicated by the darker corner crops, so light fall-off isn't really an issue with this lens.
f/8 Aperture
20mm, f/8: Lower right
Softness: Slightly soft 20mm, f/8: Center
Softness: Soft 50mm, f/8: Center
Stopped down to f/8, corners improve at both wide-angle and telephoto, but still remain a little soft especially at telephoto. Vignetting is negligible at both wide-angle and telephoto.
20mm, f/8 In-Camera JPEG 20mm, f/8: Uncorrected Raw
50mm, f/8: In-Camera JPEG 50mm, f/8: Uncorrected Raw
C.A. Reduction in JPEGs. As you can see from the crops above comparing in-camera JPEGs (left) to Adobe Camera Raw converted SRW files (right) taken with the 20-50mm lens, the Samsung NX1000's image processor does a good job at suppressing much of the lateral chromatic aberration produced by the lens during JPEG processing.
Samsung NX1000 Viewfinder
Excellent accuracy from the LCD monitor.
60mm, LCD Monitor
The Samsung NX1000's LCD monitor proved to be quite accurate, showing just over 100% coverage with our Samsung 60mm f/2.8 macro lens. Excellent results here.
The images above were taken from our standardized test shots. For a collection of more pictorial photos, see our Samsung NX1000 Photo Gallery .
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Q: Can't access the Google Compute VM by any port except 22 I have already set the firewall rules.
firewall rules
And I also stop the firewall in VM.
stop the firewall
But I still can't access the VM by any port except 22.
try to access the VM from another Linux host
port 22 success

A: In this case you can use "network tags" for your GCP firewall rules and VM instances, this feature will allow you to assign firewall rule(s) to specific VM instance(s).
To guide you through this process, I will use the following scenario (please apply it to your scenario):
We need to create a firewall rule to allow ingress traffic by port 3306 from any part of the world (0.0.0.0/0) for an instance where mysql database service is installed, the problem is that you have 1000 VM instances and you only want to apply this rule to 1 instance.

*

*You need to be sure that port is listening in your OS, for this you can use:

1.1 netstat -tulpn | grep 3306
1.2 telnet localhost 3306 (may be you will need to install telnet package)
NOTE: If you can reach your port locally now you have to focus on firewall rules.

*You have to add a "Network tag" in the instance you want to assign the firewall rule:

2.1 Go to the VM instances page.
2.2 Select the instance.
2.3 On the VM instance details page, click Edit.
2.4 In the "Network tags section" specify a name for the tag, for example: "mysql-public"
2.5 Click Save.
NOTE: For this procedure you can follow this guide: https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/add-remove-network-tags#adding_and_removing_tags

*Go to firewall rule page.

3.1 Click Create firewall rule.
3.2  Enter a Name for the firewall rule.
3.3 Specify the Network where the firewall rule will be implemented.
3.4 Specify the Priority of the rule.
The lower the number, the higher the priority.
3.5 For the Direction of traffic, choose ingress or egress.
3.6 For the Action on match, choose allow or deny.
3.7 Specify the Targets of the rule. Choose "Specified target tags" from the drop-down menu.
In this step you also have to type the name (e.g. "mysql-public") of your "Network tag" in the Target tags field.
3.8 For an ingress rule, specify the Source filter.
3.9 For an egress rule, specify the Destination filter:
3.10 Define the Protocols and ports to which the rule will apply.
NOTE: For this procedure you can follow this guide: https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/using-firewalls
Try your connection, if you have further questions we can discuss about it.

A: *

*You have to update sshd port on your Linux server.

*Open port which you wanted to connect on VPC firewall rule.

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Josey is a more mild mannered fellow. He has a beautiful full head and correct breed type. His movement is flawless. He had three major wins all from the 6-9 month puppy class and finished by 13 months old.
Josey takes 3rd in a large 12-18 Month class at the Dallas/Ft Worth French Bulldog Regional specialty show preceeding the National!


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The club hosts a number of events throughout the year.
Primary Schools Cross Country League.
The club have organised a primary school cross country league for more than 50 years, with over 40 schools from Stockport, Manchester and further afield competing for individual and team honours. The league consists of five matches taking place on Saturday mornings from September to February with a relay event in March. Further details here.
Star Track.
During the Summer holidays, the club runs one week long fun athletics academies for 7 – 15 year olds, teaching running, throwing and jumping. Further details here.
Manchester Mile.
First staged in 1943, this event hadn't been held since 1952 until it's resurrection in June 2014, in memory of David Coleman, an ex-athlete of the Club and winner in 1949. Further details here.
The Joe Moran veterans Track and Field Event.
Held annually since 2008, athletes over 35 compete in up to four track and field events. Further details here.
Christmas Handicap.
This is a free event for the clubs's juniors and seniors, with the juniors running a 1 mile course and the seniors 3 miles. Each person is given a handicap calculated by the club's coaches, so it's unlikely the fastest runner will win. Everyone brings a prize to win a prize, and the person finishing first gets to pick first, etc. Enter here
Sports Personality of the Year.
Every December, the seniors vote for their male and female sports person of the year. It could be someone who has coached them, improved a lot, achieved something remarkable, or helped volunteering. Trophies are awarded to the winning man and woman.Further details are here.
Road Championship.
This runs from January to December, with athletes having to have run at least 5 qualifying races over the year, with distances between 5k and a marathon. Further details are here
The club competes in various events over the year, with further information below.


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Q: How can I move this search form? (CSS) right now I have a page like this

and what I want to get it is something like this:

I've been searching for tutorials and stuff like this but I'm still stuck at this. My code is:
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>

Seek & enjoy

Your movie seeker

         <form class="form-wrapper cf">
         <input type="text" placeholder="Find your movie"
          required>
         <button type="submit">Seek</button>
        </form>

CSS
#containerHeader {
    background-color: #D1D0CE;
    text-align: center;
}

/*Clearing Floats*/
.cf:before, .cf:after{
    content:"";
    display:table;
}

.cf:after{
    clear:both;
}

.cf{
    zoom:1;
}

/* Form wrapper styling */
.form-wrapper {
    width: 450px;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 150px auto 50px auto;
    border-radius: 10px;
}

I posted just CSS code I think it's necessary to work out this problem. Most of that CSS code is not mine, I'm quite new at CSS. I think that the solution is in using properly position but I don't use it properly yet. Any idea? Please, if something in my question is not correct let me know to edit it.
Thanks

A: It's the margin-top: 150px you have in the shorthand margin of your CSS: margin: 150px auto 50px auto;. Changing that to a smaller number will decrease the size of the gap.

A: In this you should decrease the margin.
.form-wrapper {
    width: 450px;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
    border-radius: 10px;
}

But with this you have to increase your container padding for your background color.
#containerHeader {
    background-color: #D1D0CE;
    text-align: center;
    padding-bottom: 28px;
}

A: You need to change margin-top value.
Its 150px in your case

A: You wrong on your margin
.form-wrapper {
    width: 450px;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 30px auto;
    border-radius: 10px;
}

A: It's because of your margin.
.form-wrapper {
    width: 450px;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 150px auto 50px auto;
    border-radius: 10px;
}

since you want to reduce the distance between the text and search form, you need to change the value of margin-top which in this case is 150px. Try changing it to 40px for example. The 4 values from left to right represent margin top, right, bottom and  left.
Here's some jsbin.


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Q: Subtracting two fields in a template I'm trying to loop through objects from my database in the template and one of the things I want to display is the difference between two of the fields in the table.  Is there a clean way to do this:
{% for game in games %}

{{ game.name }}

{{ game.campaign }}

{{ game.num_Players }}

{{ game.num_Players - game.accepted_Characters }}

{{ game.standing_Requests }}

{% endfor %}

?  Where game is a table object with all those fields.

A: Django templates are designed not to do computation.  You should adjust your games list in the view, then display it in the template:
# views.py
for game in games:
    game.chars_diff = game.num_Players - game.accepted_Characters

# template.html

{{ game.chars_diff }}


The latter part of his tale had kindled anew in me the anger that had died away while he narrated his peaceful life among the cottagers, and as he said this I could no longer suppress the rage that burned within me.
His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to console him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. I tried to stifle these sensations; I thought that as I could not sympathize with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow.
Morning dawned before I arrived at the village of Chamounix; I took no rest, but returned immediately to Geneva. Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sensations—they weighed on me with a mountain's weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them. Thus I returned home, and entering the house, presented myself to the family. My haggard and wild appearance awoke intense alarm, but I answered no question, scarcely did I speak. I felt as if I were placed under a ban—as if I had no right to claim their sympathies—as if never more might I enjoy companionship with them. Yet even thus I loved them to adoration; and to save them, I resolved to dedicate myself to my most abhorred task. The prospect of such an occupation made every other circumstance of existence pass before me like a dream, and that thought only had to me the reality of life.


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Edo Castro (born May 24, 1957) is an American jazz bassist and composer.

Biography
Born in San Francisco to mother Aida Saberi, Edo was an only child from Aida's first marriage. Later Aida remarried and had two more sons, Thomas & Ted Saberi. Edo attended Grattan Elementary, Herbert Hoover Junior High and J. Eugene McAteer High School, all in the city by the bay. Edo grew up during the tumultuous 1960s, where from an early age he was exposed to a myriad of musical styles, listening not only to rock and roll and R&B, but classical music, folk and jazz. His first Jazz albums were given to him by his late Uncle, recording engineer pioneer Reice Hamel. From these, Edo was first exposed to and smitten by the sounds of Vince Guaraldi, Hugh Masekela, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Ramsey Lewis and Paul Desmond. Edo initially studied piano and violin. But when a friend suggested that he try the electric bass, he knew he had found his instrument and did everything he could to immerse himself in it, seeking out and learning whatever he could from whoever would take the time to teach him.

Musical education
Edo attended Humboldt State University in northern California. With less than three years playing bass, he bought an acoustic bass and auditioned for the music department at San Jose State University. While studying there, he met musicians from across the country. He was so inspired by their sound, he moved to Chicago in 1982, his uncle's hometown, to pursue his music education. He studied at DePaul University for a year, then completed his studies at the American Conservatory of Music, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1987 with a focus on jazz studies and electric bass. During his time at the Conservatory in Chicago, Edo rose through the musical ranks, often recommended for gigs by his teachers. By the time Edo graduated from the Conservatory, Chicago magazine had noted him as "One of Chicago's finest." He continued to hone his craft in Chicago until 1990 when he returned to the Bay Area.

Musical career
Edo's formative years were spent developing his skills in various funk, jazz and rock bands in the Bay Area and Chicago. In the late 1970s Edo studied and performed with Lou Harrison and Gamelan Si Betty. This led to one of his first compositions for American gamelan being published by Lou Harrison.

Since his return to the Bay Area in 1990, Edo has worked on 20 CD projects and has performed/recorded with David Amram, Mark Walker, Hassan Kahn, Pete Cosey, Roy Haynes, Fareed Haque, David Onderdonk, Ed Thigpen, Johnny Griffin, Joel Harrison, Jim Trompeter, Ian Doogle, Deborah Winters, Jill Knight, Paul Van Wageningen, Caroline Aiken, Dan Zinn, Bethany Pickens, Michael LaMacchia, Armando Peraza, Caren Armstrong, Percy Howard, Mike Molenda, Stuart Hamm, Lorn Leber, Michael Manring, Mark Egan, Yves Carbonne, and David Friesen.

Edo's fan base stretches the globe (with sales in Norway, Switzerland, Germany, France, Japan, Spain, Argentina, Italy and England) where he has found praise and recognition for his unique musical talents and his joyous and transfixing compositions, and recognized internationally for his rare proficiency on several varieties of the extended-range bass. Edo is an endorser of Conklin Basses, Bee Basses and AccuGroove Cabinets,

Instruments
Conklin - 7 string Fretted bass, 7 String Fretted Midi bass, 8 String Fretless bass Bee Bass - "Stinger" 7 string Fretless, 7 String Fretted Stinger bass and 7 String Groove Bee Fretless bass Watson 7 String Chambered Fretless bass Warwick "Triumph" 4 String electric Upright

Personal philosophy
"I think the biggest lesson for me has been to appreciate where I am in my life and not focus on where I am not at in my life.

Discography

Passion Star Records
 Edo
 Phoenix
 Sacred Graffiti

As a sideman
 "Waiting For Rain" by Laura Wiley
 "Live" by Eric Doc Smith
 "K2" by Seth Elgart and Eric Doc Smith
 "A Pleasant Fiction" by Percy Howard and Meridiem
 "As Small As A World and Large As Alone" by HardBoiled Wonderland
 "Are We There Yet Momma" by Caroline Aiken
 "Everything" by Caren Armstrong
 "Imaginary Line" by Jill Knight
 "One More Day" by David Maloney
 "Bassics Compilation CD" Issue No 36 2003
 "Conklin Guitars Compilation CD"
 "Soul Threads" by Jen Spool
 "Quiet The Storm" by Ilene Adar
 "Lift" by Greg Lamboy
 "Blessing and a Curse" by Deborah Pardes
 "Bobo's Country" by Deborah Pardes on compilation CD "Songs inspired by Literature II"
 "Party of One" by Donner Party
 "The Adventure of Franz Bonaventure" by Michael Lamacchia
 "Dark Comes Light" by Crowsong
 "Times Present, Times Past" by Coale Johnson
 "Suspiciously Blue" by Eva Jay Fortune Band
 "So Far Gone" by Eva Jay Fortune Band
 "Shiver" by Shiver "Atticus Finch" by Atticus Finch
 "Rockets to the New World" by David Sobel
 "Butterfly Blue" by Butterfly Blue
 "Louisiana Grail" by Enna Deer
 "Mass of the Living God" Joseph Herbert
 "Pathways" by Viewpoint
 "Lake Effect-City House" 45 RPM by Michael Mason

References

Sources
 Chicago Magazine
 https://web.archive.org/web/20090210121255/http://extendedrangebassist.com/ERB_EC.htm

External links
 http://www.edocastro.com/
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080921124716/http://cdbaby.com/cd/edo
 http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/edocastro

Reice Hamel
 http://www.discogs.com/artist/Reice+Hamel
 http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/music/search?keywords=Reice+Hamel&pageSize=10
 https://web.archive.org/web/20110530221908/http://65.55.14.126/music/artist-credits/reice-hamel/
 http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/reice-hamel/440404

Living people
DePaul University alumni
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt alumni
San Jose State University alumni
1957 births
Jazz musicians from San Francisco
Composers from San Francisco
American jazz composers
American male jazz composers
American Conservatory of Music alumni

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Driver Training Inc. of Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee was founded to teach the latest safe and defensive driving techniques and to enhance driver awareness of risk faced while driving. DTI is dedicated to a quality educational program and making Virginia a safer place to drive. We are licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles and use DMV approved curriculum. We offer Driver Improvement Classes for both, Virginia and Tennessee. Our instructors are conscientious, trustworthy, observant, reliable and caring and have passed college level courses required by the DMV to teach. We also meet Tennessee Driver Education requirements.
It is the policy of Driver Training, Inc. to maintain a working environment free of all forms of unlawful discrimination.
Driver Training, Inc. does not discriminate on race, age, disability, creed and religion, gender or national origin, and operates pursuant with Section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VI of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, and The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Driver Training, Inc. retains the right to refuse services to anyone for just and reasonable cause..


St. John Catholic School Photo #2 - Technology is infused throughout our curriculum. Grades 5 through 8 provide in school IPads for every student and Grades Pre-K through 4 have access to Ipads, 3D printers and desktops.
St. John Catholic School Photo #3 - Our "Prayer Partners" encourage mentorship, character and faith building by example. We partner our younger children with Middle School students to mentor and teach our young children how to serve, pray and learn, all while building lasting friendships.
St. John Catholic School Photo #4 - Our Pre-School program nurtures and educates children ages 3 to 5 years old. We blend faith with a rich, engaging, technology and kinesthetic infused curriculum. Our dynamic teachers are nurturing, caring, fun and prepare your children for Kindergarten. They are dedicated to developing the entire child; mind, body and spirit.
St. John Catholic School offers a vibrant, faith-based academic environment for students in Pre-School through Grade 8.
Guided by St. John Catholic School's core principles of Christ-centered learning and Christ-modeled love, students are taught to embrace Catholic values as they develop into educated community-minded citizens.
With our technology-rich curriculum, we are proud to provide 1:1 ipads for ALL students grades 5-8 and over 190 ipads total, state of the art 3D printers and are Google and Microsoft certified.
We are adding an Innovation Lab for the Fall of 17-18 as well as a Robotics course as we continue to evolve and elevate our curriculum as we prepare our students for future success.
Our dynamic academic curriculum applies current technology and learning strategies to obtain a high level of achievement from its students.
Our exceptional faculty and staff are dedicated to making our students' academic and spiritual development their number one priority.
Our graduates are well-prepared for a bright future using the skills and principles learned at St. John Catholic School to become engaged academic, business and community leaders.
We offer numerous Athletic and Extracurricular Activities to our students including Robotics, Lego Robotics, Lego's, Art Club, Running Club, Equestrian Club, CYO co-ed Basketball and many more.
A tradition for over 150 years, St. John Catholic School is guided by the Archdiocese of Baltimore and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
St. John Catholic School's solid academic curriculum has been developed in concert with the Archdiocesan course of study and regulations of the Maryland State Department of Education.
We nuture and guide our students as we prepare them to be future leaders and disciples.
St. John Catholic School is situated on the thirty acre Carroll County campus of St. John Catholic Church, located at 45 Monroe Street in Westminster, Maryland.
Tuition Notes Financial aid available. Welcome Grants and Referral Grants offered.
Saint John School is a Catholic, co-educational elementary (Pre-K3 through 8) school of St. John Roman Catholic Church. We offer a warm and caring enviornment to each of our students. St. John School provides an education rooted in the Roman Catholic faith. This education is grounded in proven academic methodologies and balances personal development with responsibility towards others. The gospel calls us to enkindle our student's spiritual, intellectual, and physical capabilites for the greater honor and glory of God. We believe our students are the future of the church; therefore, we commit to this purpose.
People that viewed St. John Catholic School also viewed these schools: Carroll Christian Schools, Crest Lane Sda Church School, Saint Margaret School, Gerstell Academy and St. Teresa of Calcutta Catholic School.


(in lumbering) a long pole with a metal point and a fixed hook, for catching and guiding logs.
It was the strength and skill of the pike-pole lads against the fury of the river.
I stepped on the frame at the very centre, or at the most dangerous spot, and applied all my strength to a pike-pole.
The pike-pole found no grip in the soft sand of the bar, and Peter came nearer, holding up one arm to protect his head.
Old Etienne set the rake and the pike-pole against the fence.
It must have weighed between fifty and sixty pounds, for the pike-pole all but snapped when I tried to lift the monster with it.


Bottles of wine, beer and spirits could be forced to display nutritional information to give drinkers more information about ingredients and calorie content.
Labour MEP for Scotland and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Consumer Protection committee, Catherine Stihler, is leading the charge to require alcohol products to carry the same information that is now commonplace on food products.
The move could see a 'traffic-light' system adopted which explains how many calories are in bottles or cans. There are around 600 calories in a bottle of wine.
Ms Stihler is a signatory on a letter penned by MEPs from across Europe to Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, who has responsibility for health and food safety in the European Commission. The signatories argue that self-regulation has not worked, and direct EU action is required.
"Regardless of whether they are buying an orange juice or wine, shoppers deserve to have nutritional information available to them which allows them to make informed choices.
"Great steps forward have been taken regarding food products, but there has not been the same level of progress when it comes to alcohol.
"The risks of liver damage from alcohol are widely known, but many alcoholic products contain large numbers of calories, which is less well known.


Chester Cathedral works in partnership with Horseradish as a preferred supplier of catering for this unique venue. The Grade 1 listed building provides a stunning backdrop and versatile events space for group and corporate hospitality, receptions, fundraising dinners, business meetings, orchestral performances, concerts and tailored services. With a capacity of 1500, disabled access, PA system and flexible staging arrangements, the venue can also host drama productions, awards ceremonies, formal dining, conferences and television productions in the main body of the building.


Zimbabwe: Lafarge Zimbabwe is looking to expand its operations as it is set to commence exploratative drilling for lime within the next two months. It already has two mining operations where limestone is extracted at Mbubu in Mashonaland East Province and Sternblick quarry in Harare.
The company told local press that exploratative drilling was anticipated to commence in April 2018. This comes as its environmental impact assessment for limestone exploration drilling in Pfura Rural District was approved. The company has contracted Bumira Environmental Consultants to perform the environmental assessment.


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Western Toads a Welcome Sight on Whidbey
A large Western Toad rests on a Land Trust preserve near Dugualla Bay in July, 2017. The property has been restored to include more trees and shrubs, the sort of habitat toads prefer.
Habitat Loss Contributes to Species' Decline in Western States
Paula Flores looks forward to the regular visitor who arrives on the front porch of her Greenbank home at night.
Flores has observed a Western Toad resting on her porch most evenings since early September. It follows a similar routine: Sitting and just hanging out.
"They don't do much but sit and wait for a meal to come by," Flores said.
Flores is delighted by her special guest. She considers it part of the charm of living on Whidbey Island. She's seen a number of toads on her property since she began living on the island full-time eight years ago.
"I enjoy all of our wild creatures here on Whidbey and find them all interesting," she said. "The Western Toads are especially fun because for some reason, I don't remember seeing them anywhere else I've lived."
It's no longer common to see Western Toads in many places where they were once found. They are a species being closely watched because of a sharp decline in their numbers in places where they were once abundant in the western United States and British Columbia. Now considered very rare in the Puget Sound lowlands, Western Toads are labeled a Candidate Species by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, meaning they merit further assessment to determine whether they should be listed as threatened or endangered. Destruction of habitat, disease, chemicals, and other environmental factors have all contributed to the Western Toad's decline.
A large Western Toad is found on a wooded property outside of Coupeville in August, 2019. The landowners noticed several toads on their property this summer. Photo courtesy Christine Pace.
"The poor, old Western Toad," said longtime Camano Island resident Tom Eisenberg, president of Friends of Camano Island Parks. "I haven't seen them for years on the island or in my wanderings off the island. They used to be common in rural Snohomish County when I was a kid."
Populations of Western Toads can still be found in wooded parts of Whidbey that have wetlands nearby. Toads breed in ponds in the spring but spend most of their lives in upland forested areas. People like Flores who live near such areas often get a surprise in their gardens.
"I have been startled by toads as I trowel dirt for new plants, but I'm always delighted to see them," she said.
Christine Pace, who lives on a wooded property outside of Coupeville, notified us in July about large toads showing up on her patio. She was intrigued by the gentle, seemingly oblivious creatures and wanted to learn more about them.
In many places around Western Washington, such sightings used to be the norm. Habitat loss has changed that.
"I once had an elderly gardener tell me that when he was young, everyone had a resident toad in their garden," said Ruth Milner, district wildlife biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Milner, who's based in La Conner, collects data on toads and is especially interested in learning of breeding sites to better understand how the species is faring in certain areas. The WDFW confirmed a breeding site on a Land Trust preserve near Dugualla Bay in the summer of 2017 when young toads were seen in large numbers preparing to migrate from the wetland to upland forests. It was an exciting find considering the Western Toad's status and the restoration work done to benefit wildlife at the preserve in recent years.
"I once had an elderly gardener tell me that when he was young, everyone had a resident toad in their garden." – Ruth Milner, wildlife biologist
If you spot a toad in your garden, consider yourself lucky.
"Toads eat insects, and like bats, help keep the insect world in balance," Milner said. "So, think of them as a natural source for insect control wherever you encounter them."
An uptick in sightings often coincides with rain when toads are generally most active. This time of year, they're on the move to upland forests to spend the winter burrowed under soil or hidden inside or underneath woody debris. Toads, however, are nocturnal so they're usually hard to spot in the daytime.
Flores finds everything about them interesting and funny.
"They seem kind of domesticated and aren't afraid of us humans," said Flores, adding that she was able to hand feed one toad an earthworm. It kept flicking out its tongue until it nabbed the worm.
She said a neighbor, who is a glass blower, will sometimes find toads in her shop after she's fired up the furnace.
Said Flores: "She just picks them up and lets them sit on the porch."
Spot Any Tiny Toads?
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is interested in Western Toad breeding sites. If you find any tiny toads in Island County, that means a breeding site is nearby (toadlet migration generally happens in July or August). Report such findings to Ruth Milner, district wildlife biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, at Ruth.Milner@dfw.wa.gov. Or you can use the WDFW's new tool to report wildlife observations.
An adult Western Toad resting on a porch in Greenbank in September, 2019. Photo courtesy Paula Flores.
A large Western Toad photographed on a wooded property outside of Coupeville in August, 2019. The landowners noticed several toads on their property this summer. Photo courtesy Christine Pace.
A young Western Toad found at a Land Trust preserve near Dugualla Bay during the summer of 2017.
A Western Toads found on a Land Trust preserve near Dugualla Bay in July, 2017.
A breeding pond for Western Toads on Central Whidbey Island in a photo taken in August of 2018. Young toads migrate to upland forests by the thousands in July or August, but only about one in 10 make it to adults.
Western Toads tend to burrow in dirt, which can create this sort of dry look. This adult toad was found in the yard of a home in Greenbank. Photo courtesy of Paula Flores.
A large Western Toad on a Land Trust preserve near Dugualla Bay in July, 2017. This property has been restored to a more wooded setting on its perimeter, the sort of habitat toads like.
Young Western Toads at a Land Trust preserve near Dugualla Bay on North Whidbey.