text:
The Laundry Pool » Other » General » Mauritius aaaaaa
Mauritius aaaaaa
1 Mauritius aaaaaa on Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:43 am
chickengold92
Mauritius (Listeni /məˈrɪʃəs/; Mauritian Creole: Moris; French: Maurice, pronounced: [mɔˈʁis]), officially the Republic of Mauritius (Mauritian Creole: Republik Moris; French: République de Maurice) is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres (560 mi) east of Madagascar. In addition to the island of Mauritius, the Republic includes the islands of Cargados Carajos, Rodrigues and the Agalega Islands. Mauritius Island is part of the Mascarene Islands, with the French island of Réunion 200 km (120 mi) to the southwest and the island of Rodrigues 570 km (350 mi) to the northeast.
The British took control during the Napoleonic Wars and Mauritius became independent from the UK in 1968. Mauritius's area is 2040 km2 with Port Louis for capital. It is a parliamentary republic and is a member of the Southern African Development Community, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the African Union, La Francophonie and the Commonwealth of Nations. Mauritius has an upper middle income economy.
The main languages spoken in Mauritius are Mauritian Creole, French and English. English is the only official language but the lingua franca is Mauritian Creole and the newspapers and television programmes are usually in French.[8] Rodriguan Creole and Mauritian Bhojpuri are minority languages and, in the case of Rodriguan creole, spoken in certain parts of the country only. In terms of the ethnic composition of the country, the population is composed of people of Indian, African, Chinese and French ancestries. There were no indigeneous people living on the island.
The island of Mauritius is renowned for having been the only known home of the dodo. This bird was an easy prey to settlers due to its weight and inability to fly. It became extinct less than eighty years later.
MarveLash
Forum create on Forumotion | Video games | Adventure | © PunBB | Free forum support | Contact | Report an abuse | Forumotion.com


David Bernhardt (right) is currently the acting secretary for the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Democrats are likely to question acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt over his connections with industry during his senate confirmation hearing Thursday. The former oil and gas lobbyist has been criticized in recent months for appearing to help out clients he used to represent.
"Bernhardt's history as a lobbyist with ties to fossil fuel companies raises serious questions about his commitment to honoring the mission of the Department of the Interior to conserve and manage the natural resources and cultural heritage of America," wrote Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) in a statement following Bernhardt's nomination last month.
Masto is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Natural Resources and one of eight Democratic senators who will fire questions at Bernhardt during the hearing, which is scheduled for Thursday morning at 10 a.m.
Environmental protection groups, government watchdogs and Democratic lawmakers have called foul on some of Bernhardt's actions since he joined the Trump administration's interior department as deputy secretary in 2017. This includes rolling back regulatory barriers for oil and gas and weakening federal protections for an endangered fish in California.
But Bernhardt has argued that he is simply pursuing the Trump administration's pro-energy agenda.
"The president's objectives actually represent the will of the people," Bernhardt said during a speech to the conservative Washington D.C. think tank the Heritage Foundation in September 2018. "That means that at Interior, our goals are focused on the president's goals."
Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.), a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources seemed to agree.
"[Bernhardt] understands the importance of access to our public lands, responsible energy development and our trust responsibility to Tribal Nations," Daines wrote on Twitter in February.
Eric Austin, a political science professor at Montana State University, said it's tough for administrations to find candidates for the Interior Department that don't have some potential conflicts of interest.
"The difficulty is that anybody who is going to have enough expertise and experience will have worked in the field in one form or another," he said.
But Austin acknowledges that Bernhardt has more potential conflicts of interest than most. One example of that came soon after Bernhardt was nominated to become second-in-command at the agency in 2017.
During a private meeting, an official from the Independent Petroleum Association of America told oil and gas leaders "we know him very well and we have direct access to him," according to a recording obtained by Revealfrom the Center for Investigative Reporting.
The Interior Department told Reveal that Bernhardt has not communicated with that official since joining the Trump administration.
A Washington D.C. federal court decision has stopped future leasing on over 300,000 acres of Wyoming public lands. In 2016, several conservation groups raised concerns the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was not reasonably considering the impact of oil and gas lease sales on climate change.
President Trump's proposed budget includes significant cuts to the Department of Interior, including the National Park Service.
President Trump officially nominated David Bernhardt on Friday to become the nation's next interior secretary as questions swirl about the nominee's conflicts of interest.
The Interior Department's Acting Secretary David Bernhardt released his first budget request to Congress. The 2020 financial plan promotes an "all of the above" domestic energy strategy. For Interior, that would mean adding hundreds of millions of dollars into streamlining oil and gas drilling and coal mining on public lands. It would also support increased logging within national parks.


Nolan faced 7 batters in the 6th.
Pashos reached on an error by 2b.
Funk singled; Pashos advanced to second.
Kiley singled; Guido advanced to second.
Latini singled to center field.
Winer singled to center field; Latini advanced to second.
Specker singled; Porcaro advanced to second.
Schmand reached on a fielder's choice; Specker advanced to second; Porcaro out at second ss unassisted.
Grimm reached on a fielder's choice; Schmand advanced to second; Specker out at third 3b unassisted.
Guido singled; Phelps advanced to second.
Specker reached on an error by ss; Porcaro advanced to third.
Rubega to p for Brain.
Specker to dp for L McWilliams.
Guido reached on a fielder's choice, advanced to second; Phelps advanced to third.
Kiley reached on an error by 2b, RBI, advanced to second; Guido scored; Phelps scored.
Enos tripled, RBI; Kiley scored, unearned.
Funk doubled, RBI; Pashos advanced to third; Enos scored.
Davis doubled, 2 RBI; Latini advanced to third, out at home cf to 3b to c; Funk scored; Pashos scored.
Phelps doubled; Davis advanced to third.
Pilkington pinch ran for Pashos.
Pashos to c for Pilkington.
DeNubila to dp for Lavallee.


text:
Making Art from the Materials Left Behind at the US–Mexico Border
by Claire Voon July 21, 2016
Richard Misrach, "Border Patrol Target Range, Boca Chica Highway, Lower Rio Grande National Wildlife Refuge, Texas" (2013) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)
Along the 1,969-mile-long border between the United States and Mexico lie sneakers, teddy bears, toothbrushes, water jugs, tuna cans, and other miscellany — the objects left behind by migrants seeking better lives in a neighboring land. Since 2009, California-based photographer Richard Misrach has traveled along this frontier, documenting these belongings as well as the diverse landscape. Two years after he began, he started mailing some of the objects to musician Guillermo Galindo, who would sculpt them into instruments that sound out his original compositions, giving voice to the human artifacts whose owners' fates remain mysteries.
Guillermo Galindo, "Zapatello" (2014), found tire, found leather shoe, found nylon glove, and found Border Patrol targets; rawhide, bull horn, horn, and wood (courtesy the artist) (click to enlarge)
These creations born from the traces of migrant activity are currently on view in Border Cantos, an exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art (it will also travel to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art). Curated by Rory Padeken, the show fills three galleries with 36 of Misrach's large-scale photographs and 17 of Galindo's hand-crafted instruments, as well as videos and audio recordings of Galindo and other musicians playing select ones. (Galindo will perform at the museum tonight during a closing event.) An accompanying catalogue, published by Aperture and featuring side-by-side texts in English and Spanish, includes images of all of these works and many more from the project — a physical testament to the longevity, complexity, and emotional weight of the pair's collaboration.
The exhibition's title nods to both Misrach's photographic series, called Desert Cantos, and Galindo's musical assemblage project, named Sonic Border. Each artist envisioned his images or instruments as cantos — parts within a long poem — adopting the literary device as a way to frame and tell the complicated history and ongoing narrative of border crossings and conflicts. Misrach's series is divided into eight cantos, all of them focused on specific visual elements of the border that suggest its many associated communities: the wall itself; the surrounding found artifacts; civilian infrastructure beside the wall; Border Patrol shooting ranges; the objects agents use to track migrants; scarecrow-like sculptures with mysterious origins; the many water barrels placed by humanitarian groups since 2000; and views of life as seen through the other side of the fence.
His documentation of the wall is startlingly beautiful considering the subject; Misrach offers Ansel Adams–like views of the American landscape that are sweeping and incredibly crisp. He often frames the imposing barrier so that it seems like a natural part of the landscape, cutting through craggy roads or bounding across hilly surfaces beneath a perfect Arizona sunset. In one especially painterly image of a cabbage crop in Brownsville, Texas, black fencing looms in the background of a seemingly infinite sea of viridian leaves before fading into a distant, sublime fog. Despite the fact that it forces migrants to find alternative, life-threatening routes to reach the United States, the wall Misrach presents has a curious aesthetic allure and grandiosity, capturing the essence of what writer Josh Kun describes in his catalogue essay as a "new American monument" and "a statue of un-liberty"; Kun even points out that, at some points, it resembles Richard Serra's rigid steel structures or even Christo's rippling "Running Fence."
Richard Misrach, "Cabbage Crop Near Brownsville, Texas" (2015) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)
Richard Misrach, "Wall, Jacumba, California," (2009) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)
Other manmade impositions on the landscape that Misrach has photographed speak more directly to the surveillance and policing that occur along the border. Devoid of people, his series showing Border Patrol target practice setups is eerie and foreboding, revealing the cracked Texan earth littered with sun-bleached shell casings and closeups of gray silhouette shooting boards, each violently ripped with tiny holes. Other images reveal how US agents have adopted old Native American tracking techniques to look for footprints, focusing on the manufactured objects they drag across the desert to smoothen dirt in an attempt to reveal human disturbances: car tires, heavy pieces of wire mesh, bristly blue carwash brushes that appear comical against the barren terrain.
While we understand well the stories behind these objects, the tales of the items left behind by migrants will forever remain untold. The garments, cigarette packs, bibles, bottles, and toiletries Misrach has shot in-situ are covered in dirt, photographed in isolation like evidence at a crime scene. They receive new life thanks to Galindo, who bestows upon them a remarkable visibility, not just through sculpture but also through sound. His practice draws inspiration from indigenous and non-Western musical traditions — including those of pre-Colombian, Afro-Carribbean, and Chicano cultures — which repurpose and rename objects as "important strategies for cultural survival for the conquered and oppressed," he writes in a catalogue essay. "Imagining the world and recreating it in one's own terms is the first step for self-acceptance and liberation."
Richard Misrach, "Border Patrol Drag Grid, Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico" (2009–15) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles) (click to enlarge)
While in Spanish, "canto" also means "singing," Galindo's creations tend to make percussive, rather than melodic, sounds that relay traces of the environment along the border. Many suggest the movements of people walking briskly or running, the pitter-patters, rhythmic clangs, and other beats bringing to mind anxious but determined footsteps. The monumental, 12-foot-tall "Angel exterminador," for instance, features a steel slice of the border wall twisted like a fender and suspended from an angular frame. It's played as one would a gong, but sounds like a snare drum at times and like a sputtering engine at others. It's ominous in appearance, resembling a hanged man.
From an aluminum ladder likely intended to help people scale the wall, Galindo created "Sirvientes y escaleras," attaching plastic jugs, cans, and strings to the rungs. Plucking its strings as you would an upright bass produces plopping sounds that recall the motion of leaping, but also grating, chainsaw-like noises that are much more ominous. Rough, scraping sounds also emerge from "Agitanques," a water jug Galindo filled with gravel. When shaken, the soft shuffling suggests someone dragging heavy belongings through sand; you sense exhaustion from simply listening to it. Perhaps the most chilling piece to hear is "Micro Orchestra": created from the belongings of children — from a plastic toy scorpion to a broken comb to a toothbrush — it sounds out a spine-tingling cacophony of high-pitched screeches and scrapes that stand in for the cries of unaccompanied minors crossing the border. The museum exhibition also features a number of Galindo's graphic musical scores — colorful staves and notes he's shifted into freeform arrangements to reflect visual cues taken from Misrach's photographs.
This trove of secondary and tertiary creations emerging from objects found at the border not only speaks to the artists' steadfast examination of the ongoing issue of migration, but also invites us to confront the entire spectrum of political and social topics surrounding this single line. As Kun poignantly sums up in the catalogue:
To speak of the contemporary border is to speak of nineteenth-century US expansionism and twentieth-century economic imperialism, decades of labor recruitment and labor deterrence, post-WWII industrialization and post-9/11 terror wars, pro-trade policies and anti-drug policies, Mexican drug supply and U.S. drug consumption, the pursuit of human rights and the violation of human rights, U.S. golf courses with their ninth holes in Mexico and two-bedroom American homes with the Border Wall in their backyard, and the open frontier of the Old West and the carceral frontier of the New West, where campfires become klieg lights and young mothers carry their infants across live gunnery ranges because, somehow, they're safer than the open desert.
Border Cantos reminds viewers of the politics, cultures, and communities that collide along the border, but ultimately Misrach and Galindo highlight what unites us as human beings, building on the imagery of familiar objects and the experience of listening to stir emotion.
Richard Misrach, "Flowers, Brownsville, Texas" (2014) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)
Richard Misrach, "One of Seven Water Jugs, Barry M. Goldwater Gunnery Range, Ajo, Arizona" (2013) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)
Richard Misrach, "Effigy #3, Jacumba, California" (2009) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill)
Richard Misrach, "Wall, East of Nogales, Arizona" (2015) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)
Richard Misrach, "Playas de Tijuana #1, San Diego, California" (2013) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)
Richard Misrach, "Water Station at Night, Near Ocotillo, California" (2014) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacG)
Richard Misrach, "Veronica, Friendship Circle, San Diego, California" (2013) (© Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)
Guillermo Galindo, "Sarape Americano Forensico (American Forensic Sarape)" (2015) (courtesy the artist, Magnolia Editions, and a private collection)
Installation view of 'Border Cantos' at the San Jose Museum of Art (photo courtesy San Jose Museum of Art)
Border Cantos continues at the San Jose Museum of Art (110 S Market Street, San Jose, CA) through July 31.
Resisting Superficial Narratives About the US-Mexico Border
Artists Defend Human Dignity in the Face of Institutional Dehumanization
Juan Fuentes's Lexicon of Longing
Tagged: Articles, Border Art, Guillermo Galindo, Richard Misrach, US-Mexico Border
One reply on "Making Art from the Materials Left Behind at the US–Mexico Border"
Glenn Weyant says:
some background re: the history of sonic border wall transformation / migrant ephemera repurposing / borderland militarization deconstruction…. http://www.sonicanta.com/

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Matthes explains airport expenditure to CVB board
Jacob Barker
Money the city tapped to use in an incentive package for American Airlines came from appropriate accounts, and the public had plenty of time to scrutinize the deal, City Manager Mike Matthes told the Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board on Monday.
At its meeting yesterday, Matthes told the group that the $800,000 the city used as part of its $1.2 million contribution to a $3 million revenue guarantee fund for American Airlines came from an unrestricted CVB fund balance. It did not come from a restricted fund used only to promote events and attractions that will generate stays in area hotels as some board members were mistakenly led to believe.
The mix-up pushed the Columbia Hospitality Association, which represents area hotels and has board members that also sit on the CVB committee, to release a statement last week criticizing the city for inappropriately using money. Columbia's 4 percent tax on hotel rooms funds the CVB and what's commonly called the tourism development fund. The CVB gets 3 percent of the tax revenue, and what isn't spent on its operations accumulates in the unrestricted account. The other 1 percent is restricted for use as tourism development money.
It's the CVB board that gets to weigh in on events that should receive funding from the tourism development fund. CVB staff and the Columbia City Council are in charge of the other 3 percent of hotel tax revenue through the budgeting process. There was $300,000 left in the unrestricted fund balance as of Dec. 31, city Finance Director John Blattel said last week. CVB Director Amy Schneider said there was about $1.2 million in the restricted account at the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30.
However, at a CVB committee meeting two weeks ago, members were led to believe the tourism development fund was left with nothing after the $800,000 transfer. "The subcommittee was told there were no funds," said Mike Kelly, chairman of the CVB Advisory Board.
Schneider said last week she misspoke at that meeting. Matthes further clarified yesterday that the overall fund has many accounts, and some did have all their funds removed as part of the $800,000 transfer, so the confusion was understandable.
"There is an account that has a zero balance, and there are many accounts that don't have a zero balance," he said.
For some members, though, finding out the city used the CVB reserves four months after the fact was the issue. Matthes said it was approved publicly, and the council doesn't always consult every commission when it sets the year's budget.
"It's slow enough already," he said. "No one really does it that way because of that."
The episode has further strained the relationship between airport boosters and the hotel industry, which has loudly opposed proposals to increase the lodging tax to fund improvements to the airport terminal. Negotiations between the city, the hospitality association and airport backers in the Columbia Chamber of Commerce are ongoing, said Kelly, who also is a member of the association. "They're looking for our support moving forward," he said.
The city's 2013 budget expanded how CVB reserves could be used to include "economic development" in addition to "conventions" and "tourism." The rationale when the law was changed in September was to free up $50,000 to help fund Regional Economic Development Inc.
Matthes said the city could have used CVB money for the airline revenue before the language was changed. "If the airport isn't related to tourism, I don't know what is," he said.
Teri Weise, hospitality association president and a CVB board member, disagreed, saying the funds are now "at risk" if American doesn't break even on ticket sales. "I don't think guaranteeing the revenue of an airline promotes tourism," she said. "I don't see that connection."
Matthes tried to assure the board that most of the money will be returned after American's two-year guarantee expires in February 2015. The flights are "full," and market studies indicate demand for tickets should stay strong, Matthes said. "Bottom line is we expect most of the money from that fund will be returned, but probably not all of it," he said.
This article was published in the Tuesday, February 26, 2013 edition of the Columbia Daily Tribune with the headline "Matthes explains expenditure to CVB board: Money went to fund airport."


This report presents a work plan for regional agencies to partner with community groups on climate adaptation, and support local governments in doing so as well. It also provides parallel recommendations for funders and community groups.
The Deal Island Peninsula, in Maryland, is vulnerable to flooding, erosion, storm surge, and changing sea levels. Beginning in 2012, federal, state, and university funding has supported a collaborative effort to strengthen the ability of local communities to adapt to these changing conditions. Many residents in Deal Island identify strongly with the "watermen" lifestyle, relying on harvesting crab, oyster, and fish for their livelihood and supporting cultural traditions. This project aims to bring together community members, researchers, and environmental managers to learn from one another and support strategic adaptation plans.
The 2013 Linn County Comprehensive Plan, effective July 19, 2013, broadens the scope of previous comprehensive plans beyond land use planning to include a broad range of goals such as economic development, sustainability, hazard planning, and renewable energy. While climate adaptation is only briefly mentioned, the plan does describe the expected risk from climate change to the county (including increased floods, heat waves, and other severe weather events). Additionally, the plan encourages the use of green infrastructure to achieve sustainability and hazard mitigation goals.


Concrete Image Salon provides hair services, body waxing, eyelash extensions, hair color services, and more. Every staff at Concrete Image Salon strive to provide exceptional service to our guests and visitors and offer a wide rage of services. Please call us at (320) 529-0400 or visit us at 215 3rd Street NE, Waite Park, MN or fill out a contact form here with your message.
Please note: If we need to replace more than 3/4 the volume of lashes a full set charge will be recharged due to time needed for service and we might have to reschedule your appointment. Please make sure you are doing proper home care for lashes.
Extensions and specialty styles are unique to the individual. Because of the uniqueness of these designs, pricing will vary. Please make an appointment with one of our professionals for a free consultation.


Gives you the clearance in the boat of stick steering but the safety of hydraulic steering with a wheel. Replacement for stick steering and makes it much easier and much safer to steer.
Turns the engine full travel – Rhino's Hydro- Port Steering you have to try it!
Watch the videos below – they say it all!


Thanks to Amanda Smith from English Heritage and member of the Environment Group for providing this guest post.
Historic farm buildings make a fundamental contribution to the landscape character and local distinctiveness of the region, and are an important part of our cultural heritage. They also represent a significant asset in terms of their capacity to adapt to accommodate new uses.
Traditional farm buildings, however, are under great pressure for change due to the restructuring of the agricultural industry and the high demand for their adaptive re-use, especially for housing. Only a small proportion of the historic farm building stock is subject to listing and statutory protection, and national studies have demonstrated that these designated assets have already undergone significant change.
Until recently there was a lack of an evidence base on the character and condition of the whole stock of historic farm buildings (not just designated assets) on which to inform the sensitive management of change and the effective targeting of conservation resources.
English Heritage is leading a collaborative project that will develop an evidence base for historic farmsteads across the West Midlands region.


Dr Thierry Diagana leads the malaria programme at Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD), Singapore. Over the last few years he and his team have been working in close collaboration with MMV to explore new drug discovery approaches for malaria.
NITD609 is a novel, synthetic investigational molecule belonging to the spiroindolone class. Awarded MMV's Project of the Year 2009, NITD609 is one of only a handful of molecules capable of completely curing a preclinical laboratory model of blood-stage malaria. NITD609 is currently in Phase I clinical trials and, if proven to be well tolerated, will be the first antimalarial not belonging to either the artemisinin or peroxide class to enter clinical efficacy studies in recent years.
1. The project has moved forward at a record pace – 3 to 5 years ahead of time – how did you and the team achieve this?
In retrospect it's difficult to pinpoint any one particular reason. But, once we saw the promise in the molecule we quickly focused our efforts and didn't pursue other less favorable projects. We had to be pragmatic, opportunistic and focused. The malaria programme was designed to be flexible – so this really allowed us to move forward quickly.
2. What's the most exciting feature of the molecule?
It's novel. The structure is completely different from anything that has been described as an antimalarial before. This makes it exciting, while also making it difficult to assess how it will fare as we don't know much about this kind of molecule. In all the clinical models we have used it looks promising, but the true test will be out in the field when we test it in patients in our studies.
3. What is the added value you get from working with MMV as a partner?
The network of expertise is really the biggest added value. It's really a huge plus to have the ESAC1 review every year where we receive a lot of valuable expert feedback and input. This is incredibly important. The project directors also provide a lot of input to the project; they monitor progress and help to make decisions about the next steps. As we get closer to clinical trials, I believe MMV's network of clinicians and knowledge of the field is going to be invaluable.
4. In a best-case scenario when could we expect to see this molecule as a drug in the clinic?
NITD609 will need to be combined with another antimalarial partner drug, which has yet to be selected. This will lengthen the development time. However, if everything goes as we hope, typical development timelines indicate a novel antimalarial combination therapy could be available as soon as 5 to 7 years from now.
Dr Thierry Diagana is the Head of the Drug Discovery Unit at Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases.


text:
Q: Get Orders status that can be delivered with reducing quantity from stock without curson or While loop Just like any retail business we have an Orders table and an Inventory table. What I am trying to do is to check Orders for which we have enough stock available to dispatch. A few things I need to consider:

*

*If all the items in an order are available only then consider this order to be "Deliverable"

*Check Order's deliverable status in the order of OrderID (int value) .i.e OrderID = 1 then 2 and so on.

*Before checking for deliverability of next order, reduce the available of stock for the next order (not update the Inventory table but just take into account the stock quantity that has been already consumed by previous orders).

*If we do not have enough stock for 1 or more items in the order, completely ignore the order and do not reduce available stock quantity for the next order to be checked.
In the following example:

*

*Order = 100 is fully deliverable because we have enough stock for all products.

*Order = 200 is not fully deliverable because PID 2 requires Qty 5 but we only have 3 left after 2 being consumed by the Order 100

*Finally, Order = 300 is also fully deliverable because we have enough stock for all products.

Test data
INSERT INTO @Inventory (PID, Qty)
VALUES  (1  , 10)
    ,   (2  , 5)
    ,   (3  , 2)

INSERT INTO @Order (OrderID, PID, Qty)
VALUES  (100 , 1 , 2)   --\
    ,   (100 , 2 , 2)   ----> This order is fully available
    ,   (100 , 3 , 1)   --/

    ,   (200 , 1 , 2)   --\
    ,   (200 , 2 , 5)   ----> This order is not fully available
    ,   (200 , 3 , 1)   --/     because of PID 2 only 3 QTY left

    ,   (300 , 1 , 2)   --\
    ,   (300 , 2 , 2)   ----> This order is fully available
    ,   (300 , 3 , 1);  --/

Expected output:
OrderID Status
------------------------
100     Deliverable
200     NOT Deliverable
300     Deliverable

My attempt: I know that it is far from the actual solution but I still wanted to share what I have been trying :)
WITH OrderCTE AS
(
    SELECT
        DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY OrderID) AS OrderRN
        , OrderID
        , PID
        , Qty
    FROM
        @Order
)
, CTE AS
(
    SELECT
        o.OrderID
        , o.PID
        , o.Qty
        , i.Qty - o.Qty AS QtyAvailable
        , o.OrderRN  AS OrderRN
    FROM
        OrderCTE o
    INNER JOIN
        @Inventory i ON i.PID = o.PID
    WHERE
        o.OrderID IN (SELECT TOP 1 o.OrderID
                      FROM @Order o
                      WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM @Inventory i
                                        WHERE i.PID = o.PID AND i.Qty < o.Qty)
                      ORDER BY o.OrderID)

    UNION ALL

    SELECT
        o.OrderID
        , o.PID
        , o.Qty
        , o.Qty - c.QtyAvailable
        , c.OrderRN + 1
    FROM
        OrderCTE o
    INNER JOIN
        @Inventory i ON i.PID = o.PID
    INNER JOIN
        CTE c ON c.OrderRN + 1 = o.OrderRN AND c.PID = o.PID
    WHERE
        o.Qty <= c.QtyAvailable
)
SELECT *
FROM CTE

A: The method below doesn't produce correct results. When I put all pieces together I got:
+---------+--------------------+
| OrderID | OrderIsDeliverable |
+---------+--------------------+
|     100 |                  1 |
|     200 |                  0 |
|     300 |                  0 |
+---------+--------------------+

Order=300 was marked as non deliverable, because my query processes all Products independently and this is not correct. The previous Order=200 hogged the quantity for PID=3, even though this Order=200 was not deliverable overall (based on Products other than PID=3) and it should not affect the following orders. But it did affect the following orders, which is not correct.
I don't see how to write a single query without explicit loop(s) here.
Alas.

You can simulate a loop using recursive CTE.
I will show you a query that does the core thing and leave the rest to you, because overall it becomes too long.
The main idea - you need a running total that resets when it reaches a threshold. There are many questions on this topic, I used this as a basis for my answer.
In the query below I'm looking only at a slice of your data, only at one specific PID = 2.
CTE_RN gives us row numbers to iterate upon. CTE_Recursive is the main loop which checks if the running total exceeds the limit. If it does, it discards the Qty from that Order and sets the OrderIsDeliverable flag.
Query
WITH
CTE_RN
AS
(
    SELECT
        O.OrderID
        ,O.PID
        ,O.Qty
        ,I.Qty AS LimitQty
        ,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY O.OrderID) AS rn
    FROM
        @Order AS O
        INNER JOIN @Inventory AS I ON I.PID = O.PID
    WHERE O.PID = 2 -- this would become a parameter
)
,CTE_Recursive
AS
(
    SELECT
        CTE_RN.OrderID
        ,CTE_RN.PID
        ,CTE_RN.Qty
        ,CTE_RN.LimitQty
        ,CTE_RN.rn
        -- this would generate a simple running total
        --,CTE_RN.Qty AS SumQty

        -- the very first order may exceed the limit
        ,CASE WHEN CTE_RN.Qty > CTE_RN.LimitQty
        THEN 0
        ELSE CTE_RN.Qty
        END AS SumQty
        ,CASE WHEN CTE_RN.Qty > CTE_RN.LimitQty
        THEN 0
        ELSE 1
        END AS OrderIsDeliverable
    FROM
        CTE_RN
    WHERE
        CTE_RN.rn = 1

    UNION ALL

    SELECT
        CTE_RN.OrderID
        ,CTE_RN.PID
        ,CTE_RN.Qty
        ,CTE_RN.LimitQty
        ,CTE_RN.rn
        -- this would generate a simple running total
        --,CTE_RN.Qty + CTE_Recursive.SumQty AS SumQty

        -- check if running total exceeds the limit
        ,CASE WHEN CTE_RN.Qty + CTE_Recursive.SumQty > CTE_RN.LimitQty
        THEN CTE_Recursive.SumQty -- don't increase the running total
        ELSE CTE_RN.Qty + CTE_Recursive.SumQty
        END AS SumQty
        ,CASE WHEN CTE_RN.Qty + CTE_Recursive.SumQty > CTE_RN.LimitQty
        THEN 0
        ELSE 1
        END AS OrderIsDeliverable
    FROM
        CTE_RN
        INNER JOIN CTE_Recursive ON CTE_Recursive.rn + 1 = CTE_RN.rn
)
SELECT * FROM CTE_Recursive
;

Result
+---------+-----+-----+----------+----+--------+--------------------+
| OrderID | PID | Qty | LimitQty | rn | SumQty | OrderIsDeliverable |
+---------+-----+-----+----------+----+--------+--------------------+
|     100 |   2 |   2 |        5 |  1 |      2 |                  1 |
|     200 |   2 |   5 |        5 |  2 |      2 |                  0 |
|     300 |   2 |   2 |        5 |  3 |      4 |                  1 |
+---------+-----+-----+----------+----+--------+--------------------+

Now you need to run this query for each PID. I would wrap this query into a table-valued function with parameter and pass PID as parameter. Maybe you can do it without a function as well. Obviously, to create a function you can't have table variables, you need actual tables to reference in your function, so adjust the code accordingly.
Then call it something like this:
SELECT
    ...
FROM
    @Inventory AS I
    CROSS APPLY dbo.MyFunc(I.PID) AS A

This would return the same number of rows as in the @Order table. Then you need to group this by OrderID and look at the OrderIsDeliverable flag. If this flag is 0 at least once for an Order, this Order is not deliverable.
Something like this:
SELECT
    A.OrderID
    ,MIN(OrderIsDeliverable) AS OrderIsDeliverable
FROM
    @Inventory AS I
    CROSS APPLY dbo.MyFunc(I.PID) AS A
GROUP BY
    A.OrderID
;

Ideally, you should try various approaches (cursor, recursive CTE, etc.), make sure that you have appropriate indexes, measure their performance on your real data and hardware and decide which one to use.

A: EDIT:
Because I'm ambitious, I've now also found a solution with CTE. Please give my feedback if you find any bug or incorrect results. My old cursor solution is below.
New code with CTE:
DECLARE @OrderQty TABLE
   (OrderID INT NOT NULL,
    PID INT NOT NULL,
    CountOfOrder INT NOT NULL,
    StockQty INT NOT NULL,
    Qty INT NOT NULL,
    DeliverableOrderQty INT NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED(OrderID,PID))

INSERT INTO @OrderQty
     (OrderID, PID, CountOfOrder, StockQty, Qty, DeliverableOrderQty)
SELECT o.OrderID,
     o.PID,
     foo.CountOfOrder,
     foo.StockQty,
     o.Qty,
     foo.StockQty / IIF(o.Qty = 0,1,o.Qty) AS DeliverableOrderQty
FROM   @Order AS o
INNER JOIN (SELECT o.PID,
               COUNT(DISTINCT o.OrderID) AS CountOfOrder,
               i.Qty AS StockQty,
               SUM(o.Qty) AS TotalOrderOty
         FROM   @Order AS o
         INNER JOIN @Inventory AS i ON o.PID = i.PID
         GROUP BY o.PID,
                i.Qty) AS foo ON o.PID = foo.PID

DECLARE @OrdersDeliverableQty TABLE
   (OrderID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    CountOfOrder INT NOT NULL,
    DeliverableQty INT NOT NULL)

INSERT INTO @OrdersDeliverableQty
     (OrderID, CountOfOrder, DeliverableQty)
SELECT oq.OrderID,
     oq.CountOfOrder,
     MIN(oq.DeliverableOrderQty) AS DeliverableQty
FROM   @OrderQty AS oq
GROUP BY oq.OrderID,
       oq.CountOfOrder

DECLARE @AllOrders TABLE
   (OrderID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY)

INSERT INTO @AllOrders
     (OrderID)
SELECT o.OrderID
FROM   @Order AS o
GROUP BY o.OrderID

DECLARE @DeliverableOrder TABLE
   (OrderID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY);

WITH CTE_1(RankID, OrderID, PID, StockQty, Qty)
    AS (SELECT RANK() OVER(
            ORDER BY oq.PID,
                    oq.DeliverableOrderQty DESC,
                    oq.Qty,
                    oq.OrderID) AS RankID,
            oq.OrderID,
            oq.PID,
            oq.StockQty,
            oq.Qty
       FROM   @OrderQty AS oq
       INNER JOIN @OrdersDeliverableQty AS ohmttoq ON oq.OrderID = ohmttoq.OrderID
                                            AND oq.DeliverableOrderQty = ohmttoq.DeliverableQty),
    CTE_2(MinRankID, MaxRankID)
    AS (SELECT MIN(c.RankID) AS MinRankID,
            MAX(c.RankID) AS MaxRankID
       FROM   CTE_1 AS c),
    CTE_3(NextRankID, MaxRankID, RankID, OrderID, PID, StockQty, RestQty, Qty)
    AS (SELECT c2.MinRankID + 1 AS NextRankID,
            c2.MaxRankID AS MaxRankID,
            c.RankID,
            c.OrderID,
            c.PID,
            c.StockQty,
            c.StockQty - c.Qty AS RestQty,
            c.Qty
       FROM     CTE_1 AS c
       INNER JOIN CTE_2 AS c2 ON c.RankID = c2.MinRankID
       UNION ALL
       SELECT c3.NextRankID + 1 AS NextRankID,
            c3.MaxRankID,
            c3.NextRankID,
            c1.OrderID,
            c1.PID,
            c1.StockQty,
            CASE
                   WHEN c3.PID = C1.PID
                   THEN c3.RestQty
                ELSE c1.StockQty
            END - c1.Qty AS RestQty,
            c1.Qty
       FROM   CTE_3 AS c3
       INNER JOIN CTE_1 AS c1 ON c3.NextRankID = c1.RankID
       WHERE  c3.NextRankID <= c3.MaxRankID)
    INSERT INTO @DeliverableOrder
         (OrderID)
    SELECT c.OrderID
    FROM   CTE_3 AS c
    WHERE  c.RestQty >= 0

SELECT ao.OrderID,
     CASE
            WHEN oo.OrderID IS NULL
            THEN 'NOT Deliverable'
        ELSE 'Deliverable'
     END AS STATUS
FROM   @AllOrders AS ao
LEFT JOIN @DeliverableOrder AS oo ON ao.OrderID = oo.OrderID

Test Data:
DECLARE @Inventory TABLE
   (PID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
   Qty INT NOT NULL)

DECLARE @Order TABLE
   (OrderID INT NOT NULL,
   PID INT NOT NULL,
   Qty INT NOT NULL,
   PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED(OrderID,PID))

INSERT INTO @Inventory
     (PID, Qty)
VALUES (1,10),
       (2,6),
       (3,5)

INSERT INTO @Order
     (OrderID, PID, Qty)
VALUES (100,1,2), (100,2,2), (100,3,2),
       (200,1,2), (200,2,5), (200,3,1),
       (300,1,2), (300,2,2), (300,3,0),
       (400,1,2), (400,2,1), (400,3,2),
       (500,1,5), (500,2,5), (500,3,5),
       (600,1,1), (600,2,1), (600,3,1),
       (700,1,0), (700,2,1), (700,3,1)

Result:
OrderID Status
100     Deliverable
200     NOT Deliverable
300     Deliverable
400     NOT Deliverable
500     NOT Deliverable
600     Deliverable
700     Deliverable

If you need more information or explanations, leave a comment.
Old code with cursor:
DECLARE @OrderQty TABLE
   (OrderID INT NOT NULL,
    PID INT NOT NULL,
    CountOfOrder INT NOT NULL,
    StockQty INT NOT NULL,
    Qty INT NOT NULL,
    DeliverableOrderQty INT NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED(OrderID,PID))

INSERT INTO @OrderQty
   (OrderID, PID, CountOfOrder, StockQty, Qty, DeliverableOrderQty)
SELECT o.OrderID,
      o.PID,
      foo.CountOfOrder,
      foo.StockQty,
      o.Qty,
      foo.StockQty / IIF(o.Qty = 0,1,o.Qty) AS DeliverableOrderQty
FROM   @Order AS o
INNER JOIN (SELECT o.PID,
                COUNT(DISTINCT o.OrderID) AS CountOfOrder,
                i.Qty AS StockQty,
                SUM(o.Qty) AS TotalOrderOty
         FROM   @Order AS o
         INNER JOIN @Inventory AS i ON o.PID = i.PID
         GROUP BY o.PID,
                   i.Qty) AS foo ON o.PID = foo.PID

DECLARE @OrdersDeliverableQty TABLE
   (OrderID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    CountOfOrder INT NOT NULL,
    DeliverableQty INT NOT NULL)

INSERT INTO @OrdersDeliverableQty
   (OrderID, CountOfOrder, DeliverableQty)
SELECT oq.OrderID,
      oq.CountOfOrder,
      MIN(oq.DeliverableOrderQty) AS DeliverableQty
FROM   @OrderQty AS oq
GROUP BY oq.OrderID,
         oq.CountOfOrder

DECLARE @AllOrders TABLE
   (OrderID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY)

INSERT INTO @AllOrders
      (OrderID)
SELECT o.OrderID
FROM   @Order AS o
GROUP BY o.OrderID

DECLARE @DeliverableOrder TABLE
   (OrderID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY)

DECLARE @OrderID INT,
      @PID INT,
      @StockQty INT,
      @Qty INT

DECLARE @LastPIDCursor INT

DECLARE @QtyRest INT

DECLARE order_qty_cursor CURSOR
FOR SELECT oq.OrderID,
        oq.PID,
        oq.StockQty,
        oq.Qty
   FROM   @OrderQty AS oq
   INNER JOIN @OrdersDeliverableQty AS ohmttoq ON oq.OrderID = ohmttoq.OrderID
                                        AND oq.DeliverableOrderQty = ohmttoq.DeliverableQty
   ORDER BY oq.PID,
          oq.DeliverableOrderQty DESC,
          oq.Qty

OPEN order_qty_cursor

FETCH NEXT FROM order_qty_cursor INTO @OrderID,
                              @PID,
                              @StockQty,
                              @Qty

WHILE @@Fetch_Status = 0
   BEGIN
      IF @LastPIDCursor IS NULL
        OR @LastPIDCursor <> @PID
         BEGIN
            SET @QtyRest = @StockQty - @Qty
      END
         ELSE
         BEGIN
            SET @QtyRest = @QtyRest - @Qty
      END

      IF @QtyRest >= 0
        AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
                     FROM   @DeliverableOrder
                     WHERE  OrderID = @OrderID)
         BEGIN
            INSERT INTO @DeliverableOrder
                  (OrderID)
            VALUES
                  (@OrderID)
      END

      SET @LastPIDCursor = @PID

      FETCH NEXT FROM order_qty_cursor INTO @OrderID,
                                    @PID,
                                    @StockQty,
                                    @Qty
   END

CLOSE order_qty_cursor

DEALLOCATE order_qty_cursor

SELECT ao.OrderID,
     CASE
            WHEN oo.OrderID IS NULL
            THEN 'NOT Deliverable'
        ELSE 'Deliverable'
     END AS STATUS
FROM   @AllOrders AS ao
LEFT JOIN @DeliverableOrder AS oo ON ao.OrderID = oo.OrderID

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var config = require('config');
var debug = require('debug')('feschibal:index');
var request = require('request');

/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
  var url = config.url.weather.url;
  var cityCode = config.url.weather.cityCode;
  var apikey = process.env.YUMAKE_API_KEY;

  var path = url + "?code=" + cityCode + "&key=" + apikey;
  debug("weather path:" + path);

  var options = {
    url: path,
    json: true
  };

  request.get(options, function (error, response, body) {
    var weatherData;
    if(!error && body.status === 'success'){
      weatherData = body;
    }
    res.render('index', { weatherData: weatherData });
  });
});

module.exports = router;

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The Most Trusted Online Drug Supplier! Without Prescription!
Order Antabuse Online! Bargain Price Guaranteed!
Click Here to Buy Antabuse Right Now!
Antabuse It alleviates the physical symptoms that many people feel when they stop drinking. buy antabuse 250 mg uses Antabuse antabuse Someone taking Antabuse who drinks alcohol may experience sweating, where to buy antabuse online review It helps to do it in the office so that the patient isn't tempted to have one last one on his or her way home. If they're a bit hard to convince, Acamprosate or Campral is the most recent drug approved to be prescribed for the treatment of alcoholism. Disulfiram was the first drug that was FDA approved for treatment of alcohol dependence.


text:
Breaking down bedbugs
Notifying potential tenants of bedbug infestations isn't as costly as believed, study shows
Pretty much anybody who's been apartment hunting knows what they're looking for in a place to live, and bedbugs usually aren't on that list.
So it might seem like a crazy idea for landlords to tell potential tenants about past bedbug infestations, but Alison Hill believes it will pay off in the long run.
A John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow, Hill is the co-author of a study that examines a requirement - proposed in a number of cities across the country - that would mandate such notifications. The results show that while landlords would experience a modest drop in rental income in the short term, they would make that money back in just a handful of years, and that the policies could dramatically slow the spread of the insects. The study is described in a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"We find that in most cases, these policies are expected to have some costs to landlords in the first few years after they are enacted - there will be some lost rent and higher vacancies rates in apartments that have a history of infestation," Hill said. "But those costs all come back as gains later, because we find that these policies are effective at reducing the spread of infestations."
One way the bugs can spread, Hill said, is during moves - if a tenant relocates from an infested apartment, they may inadvertently bring bedbugs with them to their new apartment, as well as leaving them behind at their old home, since the bugs can live in walls and floors as well as in furniture.
The policy creates an unofficial quarantine, she said, by reducing the chances that an infested unit is rented, allowing landlords time to thoroughly treat the space for bedbugs and decreasing the chances for them to continue spreading.
"When the overall level of bedbugs decreases, landlords will spend less on costly pest control efforts. There is less chance their apartments will be infested, and vacancy rates go back to normal," Hill said. "While for the first few years we predict there is a little extra cost to them - it depends on the rental market, but it's on the order of 0.2% to 2% per unit per year - but after the five-year mark they're expected to see gains that are even higher than that."
The study's first author Sherrie Xie, a PhD candidate and veterinary medicine student at th University of Pennsylvania, also developed an online tool to demonstrate how the policy can lead to savings for landlords over time.
The study was sparked, Hill said, by the fact that the re-emergence of bedbugs in recent decades doesn't fall squarely to any particular governmental agency.
"I'm a public health researcher - I study infectious diseases like HIV and how we can control them, so to me bedbugs seem like an issue for public health agencies," she said. "But at the same time, it's a problem that's related to housing...so maybe people who deal with mice, rats and cockroaches should be the ones dealing with them.
"But the reality is that in many cities there is not really any agency responsible for bedbugs," she continued. "So it's basically a private thing that people have to deal with."
And while that uncertainty has created problems for cities struggling to deal with bedbug outbreaks, it has also created a vacuum for research.
"There's no government funding agency that's tasked with funding research on bedbugs," Hill said. "Which just means there are a lot of unknowns about dealing with bedbugs."
In an effort to fill that vacuum, the National Science Foundation funded a working group made up of experts from a host of different disciplines, including epidemiology, urban planning, economics and entomology. The group was co-chaired by Michael Levy, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, who initiated and is the senior author of the study.
Based on her experience modeling infectious diseases transmission, Hill was invited to join the panel with an eye toward developing models that could make predictions about which steps might best be able to control the spread of the insects. Another recruit to the team was Chris Rehmann, a professor of civil engineering at Iowa State University, who co-authored the study with Hill, Xie and Levy.
Going forward, Hill said, researchers are planning to expand the study to incorporate greater variety in the housing market and understand how various policies can drive rents up or down, while other studies are in the works that would examine how bedbugs spread from location to location using data on the bug's genetics or relocation patterns of a city's residents.
Other studies that would focus on the mental health and economic effects of bedbug infestations on residents are also planned, she said.
In the meantime, Hill's co-authors are planning to present their findings to city officials in Philadelphia, where notification requirements are under consideration.
"Our hope is to spread the word that disclosure policies can be a cost-effective way of slowing bedbug spread, because while there are a handful of cities that have implemented these policies, many others haven't." she said. "We hope our study provides some extra evidence to help make that decision. "
This research was supported with funding from the National Science Foundation (via the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.
Peter Reuell
preuell@fas.harvard.edu
@HarvardResearch
http://www.harvard.edu
ALGORITHMS/MODELS


Francis and Sandra successfully graduated from the Women in Construction Program and will now commence an Apprenticeship in Civil Construction as paid employment.
Sleep at the G – help put youth homelessness to bed!
Support our Team and help put Youth homelessness to bed! Ten of our staff will be fundraising for this great cause. On 16 May they will be 'sleeping at the G'. They will receive a cardboard box for the night, and basic soup-kitchen fare, no Netflix, no hot bath, no couch, fridge or stove.
Direct Recruitment Jobfind opens doors to 10 new locations!
As a 5 Star Provider we have been allocated 10 new sites and opened our doors to 10 new locations today!
Direct Recruitment Jobfind rated Number 1 provider!
Direct Recruitment Jobfind kicks off 2019 with a bang!
We are looking for great team members passionate about helping others find the job they love. We have a number of positions across Melbourne and applications are open now.
A program at Kangan Institute of TAFE is enabling job seekers to gain valuable work experience in the concept design, building and delivering of a unique bicycle trailer that is being donating to a local social enterprise.
Direct Recruitment Jobfind has been awarded 5 stars by the Department of Jobs and Small Businesses for its jobactive services in Victoria – the highest possible award rating.
More than half of Australian businesses are missing out on an untapped pool of talent by overlooking candidates with disability during the hiring process.
Disability and jobactive specialists join forces!
Disability employment service provider, Jobfind Centres Australia, is extending its employment services footprint into Victorian communities.


Vladimir Putin held a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council to discuss the situation in Syria, North Korea and the domestic agenda.
Vladimir Putin at a meeting with permanent members of Security Council.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu updated the meeting participants on the results of recent contacts with the top leadership of the Syrian Arab Republic (Mr. Shoigu met with President Bashar al-Assad upon instructions from the President of Russia). Meeting participants also discussed the operation of the existing de-escalation zones and the creation of one more zone in Syria.
They exchanged opinions regarding the situation on the Korean Peninsula in the context of North Korea's latest missile launch.
Vladimir Putin held a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council to discuss the situation in Syria and North Korea.
Before a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council. Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin.
Before a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Before a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council. Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev.
0 Comment to "President Putin met with permanent members of the Security Council"


A few years ago I went on a wild edibles foraging workshop at the Hermitage in Edinburgh. Our guide, Monica Wilde, introduced us to so many different edible 'weeds' that I found it hard to remember them all. While on the course, one that was easy for me to remember was Cleavers (Galium aparine), or sticky willy as we used to call it when we were kids. Monica advised us it is great to get the lymph moving.
Just out to get some edibles from the garden. My mum will pick these up as weeds but now she's left them for me. This is what I'm after. Cleavers – we call it sticky willy in the U.K. So this is brilliant for getting the lymph moving. I'm just going to add a little bit of this to my juice.
At this time of year, I've got some sticky willy growing in the garden. So before it gets pulled out and thrown away as a weed, I thought it would be a good time to add it to my juice.
I love adding wild edibles to my juices. Using just a little bit means I can get the benefits of the phyto-nutrients without impacting the taste of the juice very much.


text:
The absolute dumbest thing you'll see all week: Godzilla vs. Kong
Tom Chick, March 31, 2021 | Movie reviews
I don't mean to belittle dumb movies. Some of my favorite movies are dumb. But Godzilla vs. Kong is steeped in a special kind of concentrated studio inanity. It stinks of dumb. It is the most profoundly stupid "vs." movie since Batman vs. Superman. It's not even worthy of Syfy's Animal X vs. Animal Y movies, which can at least pretend they're being deliberately campy. Godzilla vs. Kong is so profoundly dumb that it doesn't even know it's dumb.
I should point out here that I adored the last Godzilla movie, and it had its share of dumb. Remember when Vera Farmiga decimated the human population because reasons? I mean, at least Thanos was doing some math. But Vera Farmiga decided to turn loose 17 giant monsters to raze the world's cities and kill millions of people because…the monsters would leave behind radiation to make plants flourish? Someone correct me if I have that wrong. Of course, she paid for her sins. She had to sacrifice herself at the end of the movie to save her daughter. If you raze cities and kill millions, you can't just say you're sorry. You must also die a noble death, preferably saving a child in the process. That's the moral calculus of Hollywood.
Godzilla vs. Kong is incapable of moral calculus. Or even moral math. Or even math. It's too dumb to make any meaningful points, or even plot points. Instead, it opts for a magical axe, TRON spaceships, and a little deaf girl with a tear rolling down her cheek as she tells King Kong, in sign language, "Godzilla not enemy". At one point, the three-headed Monster Zero from the last movie is retconned as being telepathic. For plot reasons. Don't ask. You'll just be disappointed. But Godzilla vs. Kong explains that each of Monster Zero's heads is telepathic "because its necks are so long". I'm not making that up. That's actual dialogue. The movie feels the need to explain Monster Zero's telepathy as biologically mandated by long necks. For instance, if a giraffe or Elizabeth Debicki had multiple heads, their heads would need telepathy to communicate with each other. That's the kind of dumb you get in Godzilla vs. Kong. Profoundly inane plot elements without the shame to hide themselves or the self-awareness to lampshade themselves. There're just out there, treated as if they were explaining or justifying something, as if they were necessary.
So you get the magical axe, the TRON spaceships, the little girl with the persistent tear shining wetly on her cheek, telepathic links, a fusion defibrillator, a couple of overweight comedic relief sidekicks, a conspiracy, a new evil corporation, a hot lady villain in a tight outfit, a shameless ploy to excite the Chinese box office, and a handful of recognizable actors who look confused. Dumbness abounds, glommed onto everything like papier-mache made from the copious studio notes that obviously poured into the production. Not the dumbness of an auteur, which Warner Brothers bestowed upon us when they let Zack Snyder have a Justice League do-over. But the dumbness of a soulless corporate widget assembled from a half-assed script that can barely stitch together CG sequences and a cast of confused actors who look like they would rather be anywhere else.
To be fair, some of the CG sequences are thrilling enough, even if they aren't integrated very well with the rest of the movie. One of the last movie's strengths was how every CG sequence had its own sense of character. All of them directly related to the human scale, interacting with human events, cool hardware, and diverse settings, with distinctive creatures and sound design to die for. It absolutely justified seeing it in a theater. But here are just monsters punching each other to little effect while the rest of the movie waits for them to finish. The first sequence, played among a carrier fleet, knows enough to riff on Jaws and The Poseidon Adventure. But those two and a half examples of cleverness are an anomaly. Because from then on, the CG sequences get more ridiculous, more untethered, and more irrelevant. You're going to be really silly if you went to a theater to see this.
Consider the resolution of Godzilla vs. Kong. The huge climactic battle, which is just a lot of bumping into skyscrapers, is resolved by the stupidest inadvertent technical "oopsie!" since Anakin Skywalker pushed a button in the first Star War prequel. This movie thinks you can hack a computer by pouring a drink into it. That's how it resolves a putatively epic conflict between two titans of soulless corporate inanity and their existential threat to humanity. Bzzt, zap, sizzle, password accepted! Humanity saved! "Cheating bitch," Kurt Russell mutters through his thick Antarctic beard. Actors pretend to cheer triumphantly.
The final insult is the lack of any indication that Warner Brothers has any long-term interest in any of this. Maybe it's for the best. Maybe we can't trust them to turn this franchise over to someone with the last movie's sense of delight, or wonder, or at least curiosity. At the end of Godzilla vs. Kong, no one finds Thor's hammer or Monster Zero's head. No one implies that Mothra will be back. Mecha-Godzilla is squandered. No newspaper clippings hint that there are developments afoot. Eventually, the credits are just the credits.
But first, it all comes to a close with King Kong released into the wild where he can be studied by caring scientists. Just as we met King Kong early in the movie with a couple of old timey songs, we leave him with "The Air That I Breathe" by The Hollies. Don't even, movie. As if. I don't know what Warner Brothers paid for that song, but I do know they didn't earn it. Besides, Lynn Ramsay locked up that song a few years ago in You Were Never Really Here. I guess that means it's a fitting song, because that's how I feel about Godzilla vs. Kong. Within a week, it will disappear into a black hole of forgettably vapid studio product. It was never really here.
last reply by Rock8man 10m
Qt3 Movie Podcast: Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
The future looks bright in Tokyo 42 and Hover: Revolt of Gamers


text:
package com.tguzik.annotations;

import java.lang.annotation.*;

/**
 * Communicates the failure mode of annotated class/method.
 *
 * @author Tomasz Guzik <tomek@tguzik.com>
 * @since 0.1
 */
@Documented
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.CLASS)
@Target({ ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD })
public @interface ExpectedFailureProfile {
    /** How the annotated type/method handles failures? */
    Kind value();

    /** Does the failure corrupt internal state? Can object be reused after failure? */
    Transactional transactional() default Transactional.UNKNOWN;

    /** How many times does the type/method retry before giving up? */
    int retries() default 0;

    enum Kind {
        /** Reports failure as soon as it occurs */
        FAIL_FAST,

        /** Reports failure but continues with processing */
        CARRY_ON,

        /** Completely hides failures */
        IGNORE,

        /** Automatically retries when failure occurs */
        RETRY
    }

    enum Transactional {
        YES,
        NO,
        UNKNOWN
    }
}


How do you follow up one of the most successful and beloved film franchises of all time? If you're Christopher Nolan, you head for the stars.
The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Nolan is in negotiations to produce and direct the sci-fi project Interstellar as his next movie following the tremendous success of his Dark Knight Trilogy. Negotiations have apparently been underway for months and are being described as "very complex".
Interstellar was written by Nolan's brother and regular collaborator Jonathan Nolan.
The film follows a group of explorers who travel through a wormhole. It is said to include elements of time travel and alternate dimensions and is based on theories from Caltech physicist Kip Thorne. Steven Spielberg was previously attached to direct the film and it's unclear if he will still be involved with the project.
Since finishing The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan has focused his attention on producing this summer's highly anticipated Superman reboot, Man of Steel.
We're definitely excited to see what Nolan does with a true sci-fi movie and Interstellar sounds like it has all the elements Nolan looks for in a film... but what do you think?
Do you want to see Nolan direct Interstellar or were you hoping his foray into space might have the words "Episode Seven" in the title?
Oscar Nominee Quvenzhané Wallis's Many Talents!


text:
Home Health Stranded on Shore: Grand Princess nCoronavirus Distress
Stranded on Shore: Grand Princess nCoronavirus Distress
Noshin Aneesh
Grand Princess is a Grand-class cruise ship owned by Princess Cruises, at a cost of approximately US$450 million. She was the largest and most expensive passenger ship ever built at the time, The Grand Princess was the best of the Princess cruises fleet until the Royal Princess in 2013.
Usually, the Grand Princess is based year-round in San Francisco, California, sailing to Alaska, Hawaii, the Mexican Riviera, and the California coast.
In March 2020, it was reported that two passengers of the ship's cruise to Mexico of 11–21 February 2020, had contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus disease and one of them had died. After the news spread the cruise ship now returning from Hawaii was forced to stay offshore right as it returned to San Francisco. The ship has around 3,533 passengers aboard (2,422 guests and 1,111 crew members, with 54 nationalities), Some of whom were exhibiting symptoms similar to that of the CoronaVirus.
READ MORE Top 3 medicine apps to order online in India
The California National Guard's 129th Rescue Wing dropped off and retrieved coronavirus tests, while the ship was stranded near the coast of California. Vice President of the United States of America Mike Pence said during a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing that of the 21 people who tested positive, 19 were crew members of the ship and two were passengers, while one of the tests showed to be inconclusive.
It was announced that Grand Princess will be allowed to dock in the port of Oakland on 9 March, and eventually allowed to disembark, starting with those in acute need of medical treatment.
As of now, the passengers on board are already quarantined, they have been told to not leave their rooms. Crew members are to be held on the ship for quarantine and treatment, and all disembarking passengers will be tested for the coronavirus and will be held in isolation at a federally operated facility. The ship looks absolutely deserted, as most of the passengers are sticking with the rules and preferring to stay inside their respective rooms.
READ MORE 11 Unbelievable Brain Capabilities & Facts
Many passengers say that they are being taken care of well by the crew of the ship. It's been reported that people have been given crossword books and packs of cards to pass the time. And for food, each day passengers are given a paper with the list of food options available. Lunch and Dinner are served via Room service.
Another Princess-owned Grand-class ship, Diamond Princess, also had experienced an outbreak of the disease in February 2020, and had been quarantined for nearly a month in Yokohama, Japan; at least 696 out of the 3,711 passengers and crew had contracted the virus, and six of them had died.
Avoid going to crowded places and put off international travel for a while. Stay safe and wash your hand regularly!
Coronavirus: Overview, Symptoms, Prevention, Latest Updates
Things you Need to Know About the CoronaVirus
Is the CoronaVirus just a Glorified Common Cold?
Day to Day Habits Of Yours That Ruin Your Skin
Top 10 Best Private Super Specialty Hospitals in Hyderabad 2020
READ MORE 5 MUST VISIT ATTRACTIONS IN AUSTRALIA
nCoronavirus distress
Previous articleIs the CoronaVirus just a Glorified Common Cold?
Next articleHow Website Hosting Services Used In Future?
The Many Benefits of Address Search Tools


text:
800 W Campbell Rd,
Student Union 1.601
Monday - Friday 9 AM - 4 PM
Email us at editor@utdmercury.com with your name, major, year and area of interest.
Academic senate approves credit/no credit options for fall, spring
At the speed of blight
Comets smash competition at NACE league
11 23 20 Issue
Comics: 11/23/20
Spring enrollment for in-person classes remains same as fall
Big Idea Competition goes virtual, Glaucomedi takes first prize
Four's a crowd: new guidelines for students attending spring 2020 sporting events
NCAA implements eligibility waiver for D-III athletes
Tuning in to student artists
DIY pomp and circumstance
Silent performance for an empty campus
CRT is critical for effective diversity training
Student Government's push for extended credit/no credit option fails
Streamlining internship application process
Mercury Morning News
Source FAQs
Submit an Op/Ed
Women's team heads into tournament expectation free
Team finishes on a three game skid after difficult regular season campaign, will face Howard Payne in opening round
After a season filled with young players and growing pains, the women's basketball team qualified for the ASC tournament, which will be held at UT Tyler starting Feb. 25, for the tenth season in a row. To win it, however, the Comets will have to leap over a number of hurdles — including what may be the best team in conference history.
Last year, the Comets took home the ASC crown after hosting the conference tournament and knocking out rival UT Tyler in the championship game. Led by a senior heavy roster, UTD finished with a 26-5 record, the best in program history, and advanced all the way to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament.
This year, the team has had to take a step back. With just three players who saw major minutes in last year's campaign returning for the season, UTD is sneaking into the tournament as the fourth seed in the Eastern division with a 14-11 record.
Head coach Polly Thomason said rebuilding after having so much success hasn't been easy.
"We thought we could just come right in and it's just changing of the guard and we'll do the same thing," she said. "The adjustment is realizing, with just six returners, it was just a lot more difficult than we thought it was going to be."
Thomason said she was still pleased with the experience and playing time younger teammates have been able to get as a result of the lack of upperclassmen.
"I think, moving forward, there's a lot of really good talent here and there's a lot of really hard workers and good kids that want to be successful. And now that they have experience and now that they've gone through a season where maybe we don't win 20 games … they'll be able to use that as motivation for their future — like a couple of teams in the past have here," Thomason said.
Heading into the tournament, the team will be facing off against Howard Payne University, the No. 1 seed in the ASC West. This year, HPU went 16-9, including a 68-57 win over the Comets when the two teams met on Jan. 2.
Thomason said for the team to have a chance to win its first round game, it will have to shut down HPU guard Danyel Bradley, who is averaging 19.8 points per game and shooting nearly 50 percent from the field.
"She can do anything," Thomason said. "She can shoot the three, attack off the dribble, I think that's going to be our number one priority — being able to contain her and limiting her touches and limiting her good looks and open looks."
Thomason also emphasized the need for the defense to step up to give UTD a shot to advance.
Senior guard Jasmine Lopez, who transferred this year from UT Tyler and is the team's third-highest active scorer, said the team has regrouped since its loss to Howard Payne earlier this year.
"Looking back then, we aren't the same team even though it was like a couple of months ago," she said. "It's crazy how our team has changed in a positive way."
Although the field of opponents for UTD is unclear after the first round, one thing is almost certain — all roads to the ASC title will go through fifth-ranked UT Tyler.
The Patriots enter the tournament as only the second team in conference history to finish the season with no losses to Eastern Division opponents. With a 24-1 record, the team is heading into the postseason as the heavy favorites to win the title.
Thomason said for UTD to have a chance to upset those expectations, the Comets will have to do three things: defend, rebound and maintain possession of the ball.
"If you're going to play three games in a row, that third game in three games your shots might not be falling. You might have dead legs, you might need to really rely on your defense and your rebounding," she said. "I feel confident that we can do those things, that we have the foundation. It's just going to be up to us on if we can do them or not."
As the team gears up to play in that first game, Thomason said she is unsure of her expectations.
"I just want my team to play hard for 40 minutes and make it a complete game," she said. "Play each possession one at a time and then play each quarter one at a time. Not have a bad quarter, not have consecutive bad possessions, but really try and put four solid quarters together and let's see where we're at at the end of the game. We've only been able to do that two or three times this year and we've won those games handedly, but it's the games where we just have one bad quarter that have cost us. … I just need us to play four strong quarters and give ourselves a chance to play."
ASC Tournament8 Esteban Bustillos113 Women's Basketball19
Men's squad looks to be key player in ASC tourney
NBA head coaching position less strong
800 W. Campbell Rd. Richardson, TX 75080
Email us at editor@utdmercury.com with your name, major, year, and area of interest.
800 W Campbell Rd.


You can expand the impact of our work with a gift for our OWLT Stewardship Trailer!
You've helped us preserve some very special and significant places – and we could really use your help with our continued caretaking of them.
Nearly 7,000 acres of land!
These 7,000 acres encompass some of the most unique features that etch our Ozaukee and Washington County communities into our minds forever – from the Kettle Moraine landscapes to our signature rivers and streams. Keeping this land pristine and protected for future generations is core to our collective mission.
Protecting and maintaining the land entrusted to us is a responsibility we take seriously, but we can't do it without you and we can't do it without the proper tools. Recently, we were able to purchase a truck for use by our Stewardship Team members. We're enormously proud of these very talented team members and the amazing work they do, and our first-ever OWLT pickup truck sure makes a difference in their efforts. The truck allows them to reach more remote places and operate more efficiently in monitoring water quality, conducting needed restoration work and controlling invasives. We're excited about that truck purchase, to say the least!
While the truck is a wonderful start…as the pictures below will attest, something is still missing. You see, we need a trailer for that pickup truck! A basic enclosed trailer will allow our Stewardship Team members to be more efficient and mobile, and when they're working on our preserves and easements across our two counties.
Will you please help us? We need to raise $12,000 for this valuable stewardship asset. We're 25% of the way there, with over $3,000 raised already. Our goal is to raise enough to purchase the trailer this winter in time to prepare it for use in 2019 to improve the very special land we protect and preserve.
Our OWLT Executive Director, Tom Stolp, and I have made the first two $100 gifts to launch this "Trailer Campaign." Will you consider matching our individual $100 gifts with your own? Please know we will be genuinely grateful for your tax-deductible gift, in any amount. As always, every dollar makes a difference!
Once more, thank you for your past support of Ozaukee Washington Land Trust, and in advance, thank you for your investment now in our work, our mission, and our people! Together, we are a part of conservation that will last forever.


text:
And…They're off! KHC's 'This is MY Old Kentucky Home' Facebook photo contest
By Kentucky RealEstateRama -
FRANKFORT, Ky. – April 25, 2014 – (RealEstateRama) — Communities, organizations and individuals across the Commonwealth staged group photos at historic sites Wednesday ranging from the Belle of Louisville and Lexington's Hunt-Morgan House, to a community-wide photo shoot at Federal Hill in Bardstown, otherwise known as "My Old Kentucky Home." All to kick off the Kentucky Heritage Council's new Facebook photo competition, "This is MY Old Kentucky Home."
In addition to the annual running of the Kentucky Derby, May is National Historic Preservation Month, and the goal is to highlight the many different kinds of historic places that Kentuckians feel at "home."
"Historic places matter to Kentuckians. We want to invite people to share how and why they value Kentucky's historic places, and build interest in the reuse and preservation of historic buildings," said Craig Potts, KHC executive director and state historic preservation officer. "We want people to be able to tell their own story about how historic buildings and places make them feel."
To enter, participants download the contest sign, found at www.heritage.ky.gov, or make their own; hold it in front of their favorite "Old Kentucky Home"; get a snapshot; then "like" the Heritage Council's Facebook page at facebook/kyshpo and submit it to win – the only rule being, the site must be 50 years old or older. Participants will be asked to tell where the photo was taken, and why the place photographed is special.
Participants may submit one photo per Facebook account, but can vote once a day for their favorite photos. Posters are encouraged to share all their photos on social media using the hashtag #myoldkyhome and tweet their photos to @kyshpo.
The contest period continues through midnight (EDT) Friday, May 23. The top five photos with the most "likes" will go into a random drawing to determine the winner, who will be announced during the last week of May. The grand-prize winner will receive an all-expense paid weekend in Bardstown, courtesy of the Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission.
The prize package includes overnight accommodations at one of Bardstown's historic bed and breakfast inns, a gift card for downtown dining or shopping, and admission for two adults to My Old Kentucky Home State Park/Federal Hill; The Stephen Foster Story (June 14-August 16, 2014); Civil War Museum of the Western Theater; a private tour of Wickland, the home of three governors, or a visit with the Spirits of Wickland; Heaven Hill Distilleries Bourbon Heritage Center; Barton 1792 Distillery; and Willett Distillery.
"Historic buildings tell the story of our shared history, and of the people and events that built our communities and make us who we are today," Potts said. "Preservation simply means taking care of historic resources and finding new uses for them, so that we can pass them on to future generations."
An agency of the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, the Kentucky Heritage Council / State Historic Preservation Office is responsible for the identification, protection and preservation of prehistoric resources and historic buildings, sites and cultural resources throughout the Commonwealth, in partnership with other state and federal agencies, local communities and interested citizens. This mission is integral to making communities more livable and has a far-ranging impact on issues as diverse as economic development, heritage tourism, jobs creation, affordable housing, community revitalization, environmental conservation and quality of life. www.heritage.ky.gov
Diane Comer
Kentucky RealEstateRama
Previous articleAmerican Land Title Association Statement on CFPB Home Closing Process Report
Next articleClimate Change Litigation – Will Property Insurers Take the Lead?


text:
When right swipe becomes special : The Asian Age by Dyuti Basu
Date on which testimonial was published:
As online dating takes the world by storm, the differently abled too are increasingly turning to the web to find love
The idea of using the Internet to find love and companionship is nearly as old as the medium itself. The growing popularity of the likes of Tinder and Shaadi.com have made it easier for Indians to get lucky in love and not left too far behind are the differently abled as well, who are getting a helping hand through special apps and services to find love on the Internet. Inclusive dating apps and websites like Voice Vision, Inclov, Ability Matrimony and Viklang Shaadi are becoming increasingly popular among the differently abled who are looking for help in seeking out partners outside their immediate social circle.
"When I first saw Imran's profile on Facebook, I did not trust him," says Anu Multani, winner of the Miss Wheelchair India 2015 title. "You can make a fake account on Facebook and though I saw him in a group for people with disabilities, I did not really talk to him," she adds. Anu and Imran Garana, both of who have been diagnosed with polio, were on the look out for someone to spend their lives with but had not been able to find a compatible partner. For both, Inclov, a new mobile matchmaking app launched in January this year, was the answer to a prayer. Soon after its launch, the couple met via the app and after a month of courtship, they decided to tie the knot. Along with family and friends, Shankar Srinivasan, the co-founder of the app that played cupid, attended the wedding. "They are the first match to get married through our app," he beams. The newlywed couple can't stop gushing about each other, "He's normal, he's loving and he's a good husband," says Anu while Imran admits that he fell for her as soon as he saw her photo. While the Garanas were able to find love online, 29-year-old Varsha Kewalramani is yet to find a match. Still, Varsha, who suffers from a genetic skin condition called Epidermolysis Bullossa, is hopeful she'll find a prospective partner on the service. Talking about her interaction with the app, the corporate lawyer says, "I found the app quite user-friendly and its privacy features came handy as well. It's been a mixed experience and I'm yet to find someone with whom I can connect, but that's the case with all dating sites, isn't it?" she says.
These recent apps have not only helped the community of disabled people but have also increased the interaction between them and non-disabled people. "Around 30 per cent users of Inclov are non-disabled. On using the app they realise that there are plenty of disabled people successful in their respective fields," says Shankar. "We call ourselves a matchmaking app because it's more than just marriage and dating. People aged 40 and older can also come here and find companionship or even friendship."
"Everyone wants a Shah Rukh Khan or Kareena Kapoor these days," says Sushmeetha B. Bubna, founder of Voice Vision, another portal that provides matchmaking for people with disabilities. "Just because these people look a bit different, talk a bit differently or need the help of prosthetic devices or wheelchairs, they are in no way less than anyone else," she says, stressing that services like hers can help bridge a gap between disabled people and non-disabled people.
Jeeja Ghosh Nag, head of advocacy and disability studies at the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy admits that it's also a tricky turf to tread on. She is of the view that these matchmaking services must help people find companionship without negatively affecting their morale.
"People with disabilities often think that they are inferior to others. The older websites had a very negative impact on users' psyche by segregating people or clumping them together only based on disabilities," says Sushmeetha.
Unlike most other matchmaking services, Voice Vision has offline sessions where people can mingle with each other. "We organise yearly get-togethers where people with and without disabilities can meet and socialise. Even if you don't find a soulmate at these meetings, you are certain to find a friend," assures Sushmeetha. Additionally, these meet-ups also include awareness, counselling and motivational sessions. While the participants might not always find a match, these sessions help build their confidence, she says.
Dating and marriage can be a daunting prospect. But Jeeja, who has been simplifying the process has some advice for people with disabilities on keeping up with new age dating. "You have to keep telling yourself that you are lovable and that there is someone who can understand your qualities and love you for the person you are," she concludes.
Previous PostPrevious Entrepreneurial Idea Award ,2016 – Business Standard
Next PostNext India's Blind Dates: Channel 4 London by Marcel Theroux


text:
You are here:Home-Articles-Topics-Team Blue-BCBSNE raises over $373,000 for United Way of the Midlands
BCBSNE raises over $373,000 for United Way of the Midlands
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE) exceeded its annual United Way of the Midlands (UWM) fundraising campaign goal of $350,000 by raising $373,357.
UWM is a local charitable organization dedicated to helping the most vulnerable work toward independence through programs fostering basic needs, education and financial stability. For over 30 years, BCBSNE's annual fundraising campaign has engaged employees in an array of activities to raise funds for the nonprofit.
This is the second year BCBSNE has hosted a virtual fundraiser benefiting UWM. With most employees continuing to work remotely, Team Blue had to get creative and brainstorm fun, engaging ways to rally employees and raise funds for the organization.
"Our success in this year's United Way campaign is just one more reason why I am so proud to be Blue," said Kim Arnold, BCBSNE marketing and communications vice president and 2021 campaign co-chair. "We pull together as a team—whether we are physically together or not."
The fundraiser kicked off with a variety of online sales.
The first was a sweet collaboration with the local small business, Omaha Bakery. Employees had the chance to place an order from a specially-curated menu of freshly baked goods. From frosted sugar cookies to plain jane brownies, supporting the community never tasted so delicious!
Employees and their families had the opportunity to burn off the sweet treats and break a sweat by participating in a virtual 5K run/walk or 1-mile walk. Racers and walkers completed the distance and submitted their time to be entered in a prize raffle.
In addition, employees had the chance to grow their skillset by purchasing classes from expert instructors.
"This year was another chance to get creative in fundraising for United Way," said Desiree Adams, reimbursement analyst at BCBSNE and campaign event co-lead. "We were really excited to be able to feature our colleagues and even family members as contributing instructors. The topics included: the power of storytelling, meal prepping for success, how to BBQ like a boss, sewing 101 and how to master the art of mixology."
Another virtual fundraising event included a kids coloring contest, where employees were encouraged to submit artwork from the many talented young artists in their lives. Employees then had the chance to vote for their favorites to be featured on the InBlue homepage, BCBSNE's internal communication site for employees, in 2022.
The fundraiser closed with the annual trivia challenge hosted by BCBSNE's Young Professionals (YP) Connect employee resource group.
Employees formed teams of six and put their knowledge to use in a round of trivia.
"It was a fun time with many teams from across the organization," said Rebekka Erks Bryne, organizational development consultant at BCBSNE and campaign event co-lead. "The trivia hosts Jamie Heimann and Tom Kocanda did a great job of keeping the game fun and competitive spirits high. Although there could only be one winner, every participant should feel good that they contributed to the United Way!"
This was one of the many events that contributed to the fundraiser's success.
"I'd like to extend a special thanks to all employees for their generosity and hard work on this year's United Way campaign," said BCBSNE Chief Information Officer and 2021 Campaign Co-Chair Rama Kolli. "I'm so proud to work for an organization that is dedicated to building up the community."
To read more stories like this, visit Community Engagement.
By Mary Kate Phelan|2021-11-15T09:53:31-06:00November 15th, 2021|Categories: Team Blue, Topics|Tags: BCBSNE, campaign, fundraising, fundraising campaign, nonprofit, Omaha, United Way, United Way of the Midlands|Comments Off on BCBSNE raises over $373,000 for United Way of the Midlands
About the Author: Mary Kate Phelan
Mary Kate Phelan interned in Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska's Communications department during the company's 2021 - 2022 internship program year.
Class V of the Nebraska Health Care LEAD program announced
Wise & Well: Cameron Arch finds joy in spiritual wellness
Year in review: A recap of 2022 told through 12 BCBSNE articles
BCBSNE's chief medical officer appointed to the Primary Care Investment Council
Gov. Ricketts highlights success of workforce development programs
Open enrollment extended into 2023
Learn the ins and outs of Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period


text:
La estación de Drancy es una estación ferroviaria francesa ubicada en el municipio de Drancy (departamento de Sena-Saint-Denis).

Historia
La estación fue en principio un punto de parada establecido en 1868 en un lugar llamado «Pont des sables». En 1903, Drancy y Le Blanc-Mesnil decidieron de aliar sus esfuerzos con el fin de construir la estación. La primera obtuvo el derecho de bautizar la estación de su nombre. La construcción comenzó en 1912 y estuvo acabada en 1919.

En 2016, según las estimaciones de la SNCF, el uso anual de la estación es de 6.757.361 viajeros.

Galería de imágenes

Referencias

Bibliografía
 M.Mérille y G.Géraud, La ligne de M. Gargan, Amarco éditions, 144 páginas.

Drancy
Estaciones de ferrocarril del departamento de Sena-Saint Denis
Estaciones de la línea RER B
Estaciones de ferrocarril inauguradas en 1868
Zona 3 de transporte público de Isla de Francia

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Allan Barr was a great Scottish academic, and leading researcher, with over 50 publications on his principal research area, that of dynamics and non-linear vibration. He also applied his academic knowledge to many practical applications including aircraft design, the oil industry and biomedical engineering such as artificial hip design.
Professor Richard Kitney is a bioengineer whose work focuses on applying engineering and physical science to biology and medicine through design, mathematical modelling and data analysis. Richard as published over 300 papers in the fields of synthetic biology, mathematical modelling, biomedical information systems, medical imaging and the general application of computers to healthcare. He is Founder and Chairman of Visbion Ltd, a biomedical IT company with over 400 systems in 10 countries. Richard's achievements have been recognised by many academies including the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Medicine, and Richard was awarded an OBE for services to information Technology in Healthcare in 2001.
Professor Rene De Borst is a civil engineer who is known for his work on computational solid mechanics and computational fluid-structure interaction, applied to a wide range of problems in civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering. He joined the University of Sheffield in January 2016 after holding the Regius Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow since 2012. Rene is the author of a book, has edited thirteen books and conference proceedings, and written over 200 journal papers and 30 book chapters. He has also supervised over fifty PhD students and two dozen post-docs, and twelve of his former students have become full professor.
Professor Robert McMeeking is a mechanical engineer and materials scientist holding professorships at the University of Aberdeen and the University of California, Santa Barbara, teaching mechanics of materials and computational methods. Previous appointments include Acting Assistant Professor of Applied Mechanics, Stanford Unviersity (1976-78); Assistant Professor of Theoretical and Applied mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1978-82); and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Materials, University of California (1985 – Present). In 2005, Robert became a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and was awarded the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal by Brown University in 2007.
Professor Win Rampen is Founder and Chairman of Artemis Intelligent Power, an engineering company spun-out from work at the University of Edinburgh, where he currently holds the Chair of Energy Storage. Win has spent his career developing a new breed of efficient and controllable fluid power machines. The Digital Displacement® machines have been applied in large offshore wind turbines as well as off-road construction machinery. In 2014 he was awarded the I.MechE. Bramah Medal and received the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Prize in 2015. He is a Fellow of both institutions and is also interested in grid-scale energy storage, using pumped heat technology.
Professor Rebecca Lunn's research is in engineering geosciences, with a particular focus on energy. In 2011, she became the first woman and the first engineer to be awarded the Geological Society's Aberconway Medal. She has been a member of the Committee for Radioactive Waste Management since 2008 which advices the UK Government on radioactive waste disposal. Lunn's research interests include: development of subsurface monitoring technologies; design of non-cementitious grouts for ground and rock-fracture sealing; modelling subsurface hydro-mechanics; and improving public and government understanding of science to enable a more-informed debate on the UK's and Scotland's energy future.
John Archer was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University from January 1997 until his retirement in July 2006. During Principal Archer's tenure the University grew substantially with overall student numbers increasing by a third including a doubling of the number of postgraduate students. At the same time Heriot-Watt made considerable advances in research, became recognised as Scotland's most international university with around thirty per cent of on-campus students from outside the UK, and achieved unparalleled numbers of off-campus students studying Heriot-Watt programmes in well over 100 countries.
Bill Cormie achieved great distinction in a broad range of activities, professionally and through his contributions to the community. His achievements were matched by a balanced and engaging but modest personality that made him many friends and admirers. He was the eldest of four children, from a family with a craftsmanship background. His father, James, was a foreman iron turner, and this may have influenced his choice of a career in civil engineering. After Dumbarton Academy he entered the faculty of engineering at the University of Glasgow and graduated with first-class honours in civil engineering in 1937. He financed his studies by lecturing part-time at Stow College.


MADRID — Antoine Griezmann was getting increasingly tired of all the missed opportunities.
The jeers were becoming louder and the criticism was growing tougher.
He desperately needed to turn things around, and it took a stunning overhead kick for him to get going again.
Griezmann regained his scoring touch when Atletico Madrid needed him, finding the net with a remarkable volley to lead the Spanish club to a 2-0 win over Roma on Wednesday, keeping alive the team's hopes of advancing in the Champions League.
Griezmann hadn't scored in eight games with Atletico, a drought that had been costly for the team as it endured a streak of only two wins in 10 matches in all competitions.
"We all have to improve, and I'm the first one who needs to do it," said Griezmann, who entered the match on Wednesday with only three goals in 14 matches.
He was jeered by some fans at Wanda Metropolitano Stadium when he was substituted in the second half of the 0-0 draw against Real Madrid in the Spanish league on Saturday. He was also replaced in the last-minute win at Deportivo La Coruna in the previous round.
"I had been trying my best but the ball just wouldn't go in," Griezmann said.
The France forward also set up Kevin Gameiro's goal against Roma at the Metropolitano, sending a perfect pass to his teammate inside the area.
Only victory could have kept Atletico from being eliminated on Wednesday, although the club still remains in a difficult position to make it to the knockout stages for the fifth straight season. It must defeat Chelsea in England on Dec. 5 and hope that Roma doesn't beat last-place Qarabag in Italy.
The team's poor campaign in Group C is mostly blamed on its offensive struggles. The defence has been working as usual, but the offence has not produced the goals needed for victories.
The problems were obvious in the two draws against Qarabag, which left Atletico depending on other results to advance. The team played with an extra man in both matches after red cards to Qarabag players, but it could not capitalize on numerous scoring opportunities.
"This time we capitalized on our chances," Simeone said.
Atletico scored only seven goals in its last 10 matches. It hadn't scored more than a goal in a game since September.


using pastiche pop culture references, ink, hi-liters, and scented markers, I Try to capture that single, fleeting moment of reality we can all anchor to through our ability to relate in the vast unreal that we live in these days. In A Fun Way, Of Course.
I am an artist working out of the Capital. I am primarily an illustrator with a strong marketing and graphic design background. I live with a cat and a rabbit who hide their mutual disdain in the presence of their feeder/cuddler.