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Why used car prices are pushing inflation higher
A pedestrian walks past a certified pre-owned car sales lot in Alhambra, California on January 12, 2022.
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Despite President Joe Biden's upbeat comments on what seem to be early signs of a peak in inflation, used car prices continue to rise at levels not seen at any time this century prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Biden administration has blamed much of the rising inflation rates in the country on the used vehicle market. The problem, which the White House acknowledges, is that there's not much it can do to assist in lowering the rates right now.
In the past 20 years used cars' contribution to inflation averaged zero. It's now more than 1% on a year-over-year basis, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In December, prices consumers paid for goods and services rose 0.5% while used car prices rose 3.5%. Based on a weighted calculation of that price change and Americans' demand for used cars, the Labor Department estimates that used car prices contributed 0.112 percentage points to the overall 0.5% increase.
The price of used cars is also having a historically high impact on overall headline inflation, according to White House economic advisor Jared Bernstein. Bernstein, who sits on Biden's Council of Economic Advisers, wrote that he finds used cars' impact on headline inflation "remarkable and revealing."
"It's a reminder of how extremely unusual this current inflation is," he continued. "The world has not forgotten how to produce new (and thus used) cars and we should expect this series to revert once the underlying supply constraint eases."
Reflecting a view held by most economists, Bernstein wrote that the primary supply-chain hiccup responsible for both used car inflation and its impact on the consumer price index data is a shortage of semiconductors used in the manufacturing of new cars.
Economists say that backlog is thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, which shuttered factories around the world and disrupted shipping routes over the past two years. Those logistical hurdles are believed the chief suspect behind a massive 25% climb in used car prices in 2021, according to industry insights company Cox Automotive.
But the pandemic changed consumers' demand for cars and forced hundreds of thousands to cancel or postpone travel plans in 2020. That one-time mass cancellation led to unprecedented demand for cars in the spring of 2021 as vaccines and relaxed public-health rules allowed entire populations to schedule vacations and other travel at the same time.
"There's still a lot of demand out there that just has not been met yet. It's unsatiated demand," Charlie Chesbrough, senior economist and senior director of Industry Insights at Cox Automotive, told CNBC. "Until the new market can rebuild such that demand is met and that there is enough…
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Pablo Daniel Osvaldo (Buenos Aires, 12 de gener de 1986) és un exfutbolista argentí nacionalitzat italià. La seva posició dins del terreny de joc era de davanter.
Va iniciar la seva trajectòria al Lanús, del qual va ser traspassat al Banfield i posteriorment al CA Huracán. Des d'aquest equip va fer el salt a Europa en fitxar per l'Atalanta BC italià. Després de ser cedit al US Lecce va fitxar per l'Fiorentina on hi restà dues temporades abans de ser traspassat al Bologna FC.

L'hivern del 2010 fou cedit al RCD Espanyol, club que es reservà una opció de compra a final de temporada, i es convertí en el màxim golejador de la temporada, amb set gols. El 31 d'agost de 2010 l'Espanyol executa la seva opció a compra de tots els drets i passa a ser jugador del club a tots els efectes per a 5 temporades, i el 25 d'agost de 2011, el club fa oficial el traspàs d'Osvaldo a l'AS Roma per 15 milions d'euros fixes i 2,5 variables.

Va anunciar la seva retirada l'1 de setembre de 2016.

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El 9 de novembre de 2007 Osvaldo, que té la doble nacionalitat italiana i argentina, va acceptar la convocatòria de Pierluigi Casiraghi per a formar part de la selecció italiana sub-21.

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Futbolistes del Bologna Football Club 1909
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MEMA warns Mainers to prepare for holiday storm
Updated: 8:34 PM EST Dec 23, 2020
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The Maine Emergency Management Agency is asking residents to prepare for possible power outages due to heavy rain along strong winds beginning Christmas Eve through Christmas Day. The agency says a planning call was held Wednesday involving the National Weather Service, the Department of Transportation along with county leaders and representatives from utility companies. "The timing of the storm isn't good, but folks still need to prepare for possibly losing power as well as poor driving conditions," said MEMA Director Peter Rogers.Vanessa Corson, spokesperson for the agency, says residents should be prepared for flooding due to rain and snowmelt. Corson is also urging Mainers to gather necessary supplies, such as water, food and batteries before the storm arrives. She says conditions could prompt some emergency shelters to open. If you or someone you know needs a safe place to stay during or after the storm, Corson encourages Mainers to call 211 or visit Maine211.org. "If you have been to a shelter in the past it is important to check ahead to see if it's open if there's a shelter or charging station open, be prepared that you're going to have to follow those health and safety guidelines," Corson said. The most severe conditions are expected late Thursday into Friday.
AUGUSTA, Maine —
The Maine Emergency Management Agency is asking residents to prepare for possible power outages due to heavy rain along strong winds beginning Christmas Eve through Christmas Day.
The agency says a planning call was held Wednesday involving the National Weather Service, the Department of Transportation along with county leaders and representatives from utility companies.
"The timing of the storm isn't good, but folks still need to prepare for possibly losing power as well as poor driving conditions," said MEMA Director Peter Rogers.
Vanessa Corson, spokesperson for the agency, says residents should be prepared for flooding due to rain and snowmelt.
Corson is also urging Mainers to gather necessary supplies, such as water, food and batteries before the storm arrives.
She says conditions could prompt some emergency shelters to open.
If you or someone you know needs a safe place to stay during or after the storm, Corson encourages Mainers to call 211 or visit Maine211.org.
"If you have been to a shelter in the past it is important to check ahead to see if it's open if there's a shelter or charging station open, be prepared that you're going to have to follow those health and safety guidelines," Corson said.
The most severe conditions are expected late Thursday into Friday.

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Art within the machine: how machinima turns the camera on videogames
People having been making movies out of videogame graphics since the technology first allowed gamers to press record. Whether fan homages shared online, pointed critiques or gallery pieces, these works are part of a thriving and fast-evolving practice.
Matt Turner
Updated: 2 April 2019
San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam (2016)
Machinima – a portmanteau of machine and cinema – is a term used to describe the process of using real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. It's a practice that has existed for as long as in-game recording has been possible, the first generally attributed work being United Ranger Films' Diary of a Camper – a minute-and-a-half long fan-film made within first-person shooter Quake (1996) – though some claim examples that pre-date it. Miltos Manetas' Miracle, for instance – shot using flight-simulator F/A-18 Hornet (1993) – was made in the same year. Both of these films use their source material in different ways, to different ends; and while one of them was exhibited on the wall of a major gallery, the other was released online for free as a downloadable demo-file.
Is This a Game to You?, a machinima screening and panel discussion, takes place at BFI Southbank on 3 April 2019, as part of the Raised by the Internet season.
Indeed, two histories of the practice of machinima run concurrently, with little crossover. The first includes the sort of films made by game-players themselves, a tradition into which Diary of a Camper fits. First arising through experiments from early in-game recording options offered by games such as Stunt Island (1992), Doom (1993) and Quake (1996) that allowed players to capture and export individual stunts or kills, or record entire matches or speed-runs, this sort of machinima was made by gamers, for gamers.
Before long, creators were orchestrating narrative scenarios of increasing complexity, entirely in-game, and dubbing computer-mic-recorded dialogues over the edited materials. Several years after that, a term to describe this practice, 'machinima', was coined and a scene was born, one that grew sizeably in the years following. Works such as Rooster Teeth Productions' Red vs. Blue (2003-present) or Jon Graham's Arby n' the Chief (2008-present) showed how polished and professional the practice could be, and also how sustainable: those two examples alone generating more than 500 episodes and almost one million subscribers on YouTube. Like gaming itself, a niche pursuit became popular entertainment.
Super Mario Movie (2005)
Parallel to this, artists have adopted the method, making films within videogame environments that, as a rule, take a more critical position – offering reflections on the medium and its mechanics; how games work; and what they can show, or fail to. Besides the aforementioned Miltos Manetas – whose series Videos After Videogames (1996-2002) extracts idle moments from games including Super Mario 64 (1996) and Tomb Raider (1996) and situates them as standalone works of video art – artist Cory Arcangel has long seen the artistic potential of videogames.
An artist who appropriates various aspects of popular culture, Arcangel counts NES cartridge hacks among his best-known works. Both Super Mario Clouds (2002) and Super Mario Movie (2005) present modified versions of Super Mario Bros (1985) as video installations. The former strips the game of everything but its scrolling vista of pixelated white clouds and blue skies; the latter revisions it beyond recognisability as a colour-shifted, graphically warped surrealist modification. Both pieces take the familiar iconography of one of the world's most recognisable videogames and morph it into something else, exemplifying the credo of creating something new from found sources that is central to machinima.
As Manetas writes in his accompanying manifesto for Videos After Videogames: "artists after videogames don't play videogames but relate to them". Artists often deconstruct game-worlds from a distance to see what they reveal about the real one they reflect.
Survival Rates in Captivity (Free Will Mode #5) (2015)
In Angela Washko's Free Will Mode (2013-14) – a series of videos made within sandbox life-sim The Sims (2000) – the artist tests the limits of the autonomy of the characters in the game by setting them to 'self-play'. She finds that while they will make certain choices to survive (eg eat, sleep, defecate), they can never alter the external environment they are placed within. Across the videos, the characters drown in pools without ladders, starve in rooms without doors and burn to death in house-fires that they are too exhausted to extinguish. These elaborately staged torture environments expose humanity's own sometimes unquestioning relationship to the built environment.
Working along similarly anarchic lines, Brent Watanabe's San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam (2016) was a live-stream (now archived as a recording) of a modified version of Grand Theft Auto V (2013) that spawns an AI deer into the game's city, and leaves it to play itself. It's a game without players: thousands tuned in to watch the critter wander its open-world expanses. A total inversion of the game's intended parameters, it proved to be a surreal, strangely compelling experiment into the unpredictable capabilities of in-game artificial intelligence systems.
These sort of experiments sit adjacent to a wider tradition within artist's machinima, the idea of 'game interventions', a videogame version of performance art that sees artists interacting directly with game worlds and their players in order to make statements or provocations. Georgie Roxby Smith is an artist who regularly makes work in this mode, much of which explores game violence, exposing how regularly it is gendered. Her jarringly fatalistic intervention 99 Problems [WASTED] (2014) sees a semi-clothed female avatar repeatedly and ritualistically killing herself within the world of Grand Theft Auto V, the surrounding non-playable-characters barely registering a response as she blows her brains out beside them. Each death is an empty death, and results in an automatic respawn.
99 Problems [WASTED] (2014)
Similar in approach is Joseph Delappe's straightforward but pointed dead-in-iraq (2006-11). Started on the third anniversary of the start of the Second Gulf War, this longitudinal memorial-slash-performance sees the artist enter America's Army (2002) – an online multiplayer first-person-shooter built as a recruitment and training tool by the US military – and type the "name, age, service branch and date of death of each service person who has died to date in Iraq" into the game chat.
Other films link war-game violence with real-world realities. Josh Bricker's Post-Newtonianism (2010) features two channels. One shows a video released by WikiLeaks of US attack helicopter footage from Iraq, the aircraft's pilots audible on the soundtrack as they fire upon civilians. The other displays similar imagery from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2007). As audio from both sources mixes across the two frames, the origin of its source becomes indeterminable, the two videos increasingly indistinguishable from each other. Videogame representations rarely achieve verisimilitude, but here, the distortion of the real-world footage renders both depictions equally unreal, showing how easily we are desensitised to images and the meanings behind them.
Claire L Evans's Modern Warfare (2010) is set within the airport level of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009), controversial at the time of release for allowing the player to partake in a terrorist attack and slay non-combatants. In her film, Evans chooses to attack no one, turning her character's assault rifle on the various video monitors that scatter the airport. By diverting the game design's intended play-path and instead wreaking destruction on the screen-apparatus, the film seems to almost be destroying itself, the game's first-person avatar – only ever seen as a pair of hands grasping a gun-barrel – trying to escape from the confines of his existence by breaking the rules of the creation within which he is trapped.
She Puppet (2001)
The avatars that game-players control have been a perpetual source of interest for artists. Peggy Ahwesh's She Puppet (2001) looks at Lara Croft, the protagonist of Tomb Raider (1996). Using quotations from Fernando Pessoa, Joanna Russ and Sun Ra, Ahwesh weaves an oblique verbal essay on "women, virtual bodies, role-playing, identity issues and fandom", while the Croft character is seen moving around the game world distractedly, her body under near-constant attack.
An equally unsettled expression of the player's relation to (or rather, alienation from) their avatars is in Alex Hovet's Counter-Charge (2016), which takes the semi-explicit oddity Leisure Suit Larry III (1989) as its source. In this dreamlike, delusory film, the eponymous character wanders the game's tropical environments, frustrated in his attempts to pursue the subject of his attentions by a remixed game-world that seems to resists his goal at every turn. As Hovet explores the game's peculiar gender dynamics, his role as controller of the Larry character seems to be in a battle against his own innate, relentlessly libidinal drives. The game's strange text dialogues falter when faced with an unexpected female player with an agency of her own.
Some artists are interested in games as a cultural phenomenon: what game-worlds mean to the players who are immersed in them. Larry Achiampong has made several works that involve videogames, but Ph03nix Rising: The 3rd Son (2014) is particularly connected to games as a culture. Splicing in images from a wide selection of games including Streets of Rage (1991) and Street Fighter II (1991), alongside other pop culture sources, the film explores how Achiampong shaped his identity from the media that he and his brother consumed. More than just escapism, games were spaces "where solutions to everyday realities could be achieved", test sites for working out who they were and what they might become.
Codes of Honor (2011)
Jon Rafman's Codes of Honor (2011) has a similarly reverential tone, a nostalgic ode to New York's classic arcade, the Chinatown Fair, which closed in the year of the film's making. Like Ph03nix Rising it mixes sources, blending in-game materials with documentary footage of the arcade and the players that frequented it. Rafman's voiceover describes the specific pleasures of hardcore gaming, the positive feedback loops that come from skill-improvement, the thrill of close competition and the furtive sense of community present within the fighting genre.
Other artists are keen to acknowledge gaming culture's darker sides. Kent Lambert's RECKONING series (2006–present) looks at the points where gaming communities, popular culture and contemporary politics bleed together, with results that are as strange as they are unsavoury. Both RECKONING 3 (2014) and RECKONING 4 (2016) have soundtracks featuring disembodied, depressed-sounding voices lifted from online multiplayer games, whilst the images (a collage of various videogame environments and manipulated clips from blockbuster movies) seem similarly alienated.
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis' SWATTED (2018) goes a shade darker, looking into the phenomenon its title refers to, whereby gamers call in fake threats to the police on behalf of their online-gaming opponents who are live-streaming, resulting in armed officers kicking their doors down in full view of the still-broadcasting webcam. The film mixes narration from individuals who have been subjected to this dangerous and occasionally fatal prank with artistically glitched wireframe landscapes from the games they play.
SWATTED (2018) teaser trailer
While artists of all descriptions have been using videogames as source material, few would call their work 'machinima', and fewer still would claim any affinity with the community that grew around the term. Making distinctions between 'popular-machinima' and 'artists-machinima' isn't necessarily productive: not all the above makers would describe themselves as artists, and to deny artistic value to the machinima being made online would be doing it a disservice.
The community's hub, multichannel network machinima.com, amassed more than 12 million subscribers before its latest owner AT&T shut it down earlier this year, deleting all of its users' content in the process. It is easy to forget how impermanent the web can be, until a corporation wipes out an entire subsection of it without warning. Machinima is one of the most democratic forms of filmmaking, requiring only a computer for its creation, but without an equally independent archival infrastructure it might easily end up forgotten. Cinema has had more than a century to get where it is, whereas games have only really had half of that, depending on where it is agreed they started. It would be a shame if something involving the convergence of these two young media did not get its fair chance to grow too.
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Q: Cannot access theano shared variable I created a number of shared variables and placed them in an array like so:
self.params = [self.We, self.Wr, self.Wv, self.b]
When I tried to get their value in another part of the code, something like this:
self.h = [theano.shared(value=p.get_value()*0.) for p in self.params]
I get this error:

AttributeError: 'TensorVariable' object has no attribute 'get_value'

Any help really appreciated.

A: The problem was that eventhough I used the shared api, I also cast to a float32 with .astype(theano.config.floatX) , and this was causing the conversion from sharedVariable to just tensorVariable

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Racial Bias in Healthcare; Free Waffles as Vaccine Incentive?
Welcome to this week's edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the Web to help you learn...
Medical News Today: Giving up alcohol for just 1 month has lasting benefits
By Sheela on January 3, 2019
Many of us will have enjoyed numerous glasses of wine, beer, champagne, or other alcoholic beverages over the winter holidays. Thus, in January, we may feel the need to take a break from alcohol. An alcohol-free month is the best choice we could possibly make for our health, British researchers conclude.
Going without alcohol for just 1 month will really boost your well-being throughout the year, researchers find.
Dry January is an initiative of the charity organization Alcohol Change United Kingdom, which encourages people to try giving up alcohol for 1 month at the start of the year.
Although the charity that promotes this effort is UK-based, thousands of people around the world pledge to take part in this campaign each year.
It is fairly logical to assume that giving up alcohol for 31 days can only benefit health, since drinking regularly is a major risk factor for cancer, liver disease, and cardiovascular diseases, among other issues.
Now, a study by researchers from the University of Sussex in Falmer, UK, shows just how much skipping alcohol for 1 month can improve your life and concludes that these benefits are long-lasting.
The research, which Dr. Richard de Visser from the University of Sussex led, found that people who took part in Dry January in 2018 reported higher energy levels and healthier body weight. They also felt less need to drink alcohol, even several months after participating in this initiative.
1 alcohol-free month boosts long-term health
Dr. de Visser and team analyzed data that they collected from Dry January participants in three online surveys. A total of 2,821 people filled in a survey upon registering for the campaign at the beginning of January. In the first week of February, 1,715 participants completed a survey, and 816 participants submitted additional data in August 2018.
The researchers found that giving up alcohol for a month helped the participants reduce their number of drinking days later in the year. The number decreased from an average of 4.3 days per week before taking part in Dry January to an average of 3.3 days per week afterward.
Moreover, people who went teetotal for a month also got drunk a lot less frequently later on in the year. Rates of excessive drinking fell from an average of 3.4 times per month at baseline to 2.1 times per month on average.
In fact, Dry January participants also learned to drink less. They went from consuming an average of 8.6 units of alcohol per drinking day at baseline to 7.1 units of alcohol per drinking day later on.
"The simple act of taking a month off alcohol helps people drink less in the long term; by August, people are reporting one extra dry day per week," notes Dr. de Visser.
"There are also considerable immediate benefits: nine in 10 people save money, seven in 10 sleep better, and three in five lose weight," he adds.
Important benefits, however, are also available to those who give up alcohol for shorter periods. An alcohol-free month would be better, but even less than that can still boost a person's health, Dr. de Visser says.
"Interestingly, these changes in alcohol consumption have also been seen in the participants who didn't manage to stay alcohol-free for the whole month — although they are a bit smaller. This shows that there are real benefits to just trying to complete Dry January," the researcher emphasizes.
A long list of benefits
The people who took part in Dry January last year noted numerous mental and physical health benefits as well as a "healthier" bank account. More specifically:
93 percent of participants reported experiencing a sense of achievement at the end of the alcohol-free month
88 percent had saved the money that they would otherwise have spent on drinks
82 percent of participants reported an enhanced awareness of their relationship with alcohol
80 percent felt more in control of their drinking habits
76 percent understood when they felt more tempted to drink and why
71 percent of participants learned that they did not need alcohol to have fun
71 percent said that they enjoyed a better quality of sleep
70 percent reported better overall health
67 percent had higher energy levels
58 percent of participants lost weight
57 percent reported improved concentration
54 percent said that they noticed better skin health
"The brilliant thing about Dry January is that it's not really about January. Being alcohol-free for 31 days shows us that we don't need alcohol to have fun, to relax, to socialize," says Dr. Richard Piper, the CEO of Alcohol Change UK.
"That means that for the rest of the year, we are better able to make decisions about our drinking and to avoid slipping into drinking more than we really want to," Dr. Piper notes.
"Many of us know about the health risks of alcohol — seven forms of cancer, liver disease, mental health problems — but we are often unaware that drinking less has more immediate benefits too. Sleeping better, feeling more energetic, saving money, better skin, losing weight… The list goes on."
Dr. Richard Piper
So, be it this January or later in the year, you may want to try swapping alcohol for tea, juice, or water for a month or even a few weeks. It could make you happier and healthier, and your bank account will thank you too.
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Lebeckia, rod grmova od 19 priznatih vrsta iz porodice mahunarki. Područje im je ograničeno na Kapske provincije Južne Afrike.

Vrste
 Lebeckia ambigua E.Mey.
 Lebeckia brevicarpa M.M.le Roux & B.-E.van Wyk
 Lebeckia brevipes M.M.le Roux & B.-E.van Wyk
 Lebeckia carnosa Druce
 Lebeckia contaminata Thunb.
 Lebeckia gracilis Eckl. & Zeyh.
 Lebeckia grandiflora Benth.
 Lebeckia leptophylla Benth.
 Lebeckia longipes Bolus
 Lebeckia macowanii T.M.Salter
 Lebeckia meyeriana Eckl. & Zeyh.
 Lebeckia pauciflora Eckl. & Zeyh.
 Lebeckia plukenetiana E.Mey.
 Lebeckia sarcophylloides E.Mey.
 Lebeckia sepiaria Thunb.
 Lebeckia sessilifolia Benth.
 Lebeckia uniflora B.-E.van Wyk & M.M.le Roux
 Lebeckia wrightii (Harv.) Bolus
 Lebeckia zeyheri M.M.le Roux & B.-E.van Wyk

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 Acanthobotrya Eckl. & Zeyh.

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Today, we started with a stunning video of the history of the Church and then finished our discussion of Acts 2 as it gives the first description of the early Church. Start your discussion by having each person share what you learned from the video about the history and development of the Church during the past 2,000+ years. What would happen to the Church today if it were like you and your community group? What can you do together this week to further the mission of the Church?
1. What common characteristic did the three greatest churches in the first century—Alexandria, Rome, and Antioch—share? What does this say to us today—does it give us hope? How does it motivate us to be the Church today?
2. The people of the early Church were known as people who had been with Jesus. How are the people of the Church known today? What can you do today to continue or change the way the Church is known in this time?
3. Acts 2:42-47 captures the first description of the early Church. Reread those verses and then discuss how the Church is doing today in demonstrating each of those characteristics that were true of the early Church.
4. Todd said that the Book of Acts is Luke's effort to answer the question of what the Church, the body of Christ, should look like. Then Todd shared a number of the attributes of the early Church gleaned from Acts 2:42-47. Have your community group take a few minutes to list as many of the characteristics of the early Church as you can from Acts 2:42-47. Which of those characteristics are still true of the Church today? Which are true of your little church that is your community group? What can you do to make the Church today like the early Church?
5. In answering the question of what we should be doing today to be the Church, Todd emphasized the opportunity we have to be taking in the Word of God through The Journey. Check it out at wmcc.jointhejourney.com. He also encouraged us to be about the engine of the Church, which is prayer. God makes the Church go, and prayer is how we connect with Him. Are you praying for the Church? For this manifestation of the Church called Watermark? For God's people to be radically transformed? For God's people to be radically used by God to transform others?
6. The Church is the hope of the world. Day-by-day. It depends on you because the Church is you. How then will you live? Together, let us live so that others will know that we have been with Jesus.


Study Guides - Fun in Fourth!
This year, you will notice that study guides will look a little different than they may have been presented in previous years. Rather than expecting students to memorize concepts and then work out problems from each of the units as regurgitated information, we want students to understand what they need to know and apply those concepts in their own terms by referring to exemplar sample questions and using their reading language and vocabulary. These study guides and sample questions will serve as models for what a student should expect on an assessment in correlation with our standards. This format will help to guide them in their studying rather than define their studying.
As a fourth grade team, along with our administration, we believe this new format will enhance student's learning and understanding of the reading standards for the curriculum using best practices. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments and we will be happy to discuss with you.


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Alaska State Fair 2014: Duck Dynasty stars to headline concert venue on August 30
Duck Dynasty stars will be among the highlighted acts at this year's Alaska State Fair, officials announced Wednesday.
Phil Robertson and other members of the show will headline the concert venue August 30, fair marketing director Dean Phipps said.
The family patriarch was briefly suspended by A&E last year after GQ magazine quoted him declaring that gays are sinners and African Americans were happy under Jim Crow laws establishing segregation. Supporters of Phil Robertson's right to voice his opinions flocked to his defense before the network reinstated him.
Duck Dynasty stars will be among the highlighted acts at this year's Alaska State Fair
The fair is not making a statement in booking the family, Dean Phipps said.
"Us having them at the fair is not an endorsement of those opinions. But it's a reflection of the popularity of the show with a lot of Alaskans who would want us to have them here," he said.
Public opinion was running about 50-50 on the fair's Facebook site after the act was announced, Dean Phipps said. Some people stopped in at fair headquarters to buy memberships that would allow them to purchase tickets to the show before they go on sale to the general public.
"We're the Alaska State Fair, which means we represent all Alaskans, and if there's anything that all Alaskans have it's an opinion – and it's all not the same," Dean Phipps said.
"We're charged with representing all Alaskans, and there's a ton of them that are fans of <<Duck Dynasty>>. "
The fair does not book rap acts that promote violence or crime, he said. But when it comes to something more "subjective" like booking members of the Duck Dynasty cast, people can decide whether to attend the event, Dean Phipps said.
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Ferruginous bauxite deposits developed from flows of the Columbia River Basalt Group in northwestern Oregon and southwestern Washington. Samples of the iron pisolite and the gibbsite nodular zones from the upper portion of the weathering profile of drill core from Columbia County, Oregon and Cowlitz County, Washington, were analyzed by instrumental neutron activation. The mineralogy was determined using Xray diffraction and Mossbauer spectroscopy.
The gibbsite nodular zone is above the clay-rich saprolite or relic basalt zone. The nodules contain relic vesicles and well preserved relic plagioclase microlites. Gibbsite occurs with poorly crystalline goethite and hematite in the gibbsite nodular zone. Clays are absent in this part of the profile .
The iron pisolite zone is at the top of the profile above the gibbsite nodular zone. Both maghemite and goethite pisolites occur in the lower part of the zone while maghemite pisolites are dominant in the upper part of the pisolite zone.
The parent flow is the Frenchman Springs Member of the Wanapum Basalt for the Columbia County profile and the Pomona Member of the Saddle Mountains Basalt for the Cowlitz County profile.
Distribution of the major, minor and trace elements through the profile shows three distinct sympathetic patterns consisting of lanthanide elements and Na; As, Sbi Th, Hf, and Ta; and transition metals Fe, Ti, V, and Cr.
Ratios between the high-field strength elements Ta and Hf are nearly constant through the profile, and Hf appears to be the least mobile elements of the elements analyzed in the profile. Ratios of other elements were calculated against Hf, based on the assumption that it has remained largely immobile during weathering, to show element enrichment and depletion in the profile independent of mass-volume changes. Transition metals and Al show a progressive depletion through the upper gibbsite nodular and iron pisolite zone due to leaching in the profile. Lanthanide elements (except Ce), As, and Sb show an obvious enrichment in the iron pisolite zone relative to the gibbsite nodular zone.
Volume reduction during weathering was calculated based on the immobility of Hf. In the gibbsite nodular zone, the volume reduction calculated for bulk samples is greater than for gibbsite nodule separates suggesting that a greater volume reduction occurred the matrix material surrounding the nodules. Ratios between gibbsite nodules and parent basalt of the immobile elements Hf, Ta, Fe, Ti, Th and Cr suggest that the nodules, where the relic textures are preserved, have undergone volume reduction. Based on the immobility of Hf, the gibbsite nodules lost approximately 40% of the original volume. The volume factors based on the immobility of Hf show that the pisolite zone experienced a greater volume reduction than the gibbsite nodular zone.
Absolute gains and losses relative to the parent basalt show the following relative order of depletion: Na > La > Eu > Sm > Co > Mn > Ce > Sc > Ta > V > Cr > Lu > Th > Fe > Ga > Al. The lesser mobility of Ce and Lu relative to other lanthanide elements suggests fractionation of lanthanide elements in the bauxite profile. Aluminum is both enriched and depleted at different depths in the gibbsite nodular zone suggesting that Al is mobilized from the matrix and possibly the pisolite zone into Al enriched gibbsite nodules.
Volume reduction and destruction of relic textures in the pisolite zone is accompanied by small-scale mobilization of Th, Cr, Fe, Hf, Ga, Sc, and Ta during the formation of iron pisolites.
Formation of the iron pisolite zone above the gibbsite nodular zone may indicate a change in climate from a heavy year round to a seasonal rainfall pattern.
Fassio, Joseph Michael, "Geochemical Evolution of Ferruginous Bauxite Deposits in Northwestern Oregon and Southwestern Washington" (1990). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 3821.


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PAS'S MOVE ON HUDUD IS ILL-CONCEIVED BY CHANDRA MUZAFFAR
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar
Read here: http://tinyurl.com/kcknmv2
From media reports, it appears that the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) is determined to table a Private Member's Bill in the June session of the Dewan Rakyat that will seek to facilitate the implementation of hudud --- the Islamic penal code --- in Kelantan.
The implementation will be based upon the Hudud Bill adopted unanimously by the Kelantan State Legislative Assembly in November 1993.
I shall attempt to appraise the wisdom of doing this from THREE closely inter-related perspectives:
a) The CONCEPT of hudud in general AND as enunciated in the (Kelantan)Bill;
b) The PRACTICE of hudud in OTHER countries; and
c) The LOCAL CONTEXT in which hudud would be implemented.
A. THE CONCEPT .
The Kelantan Hudud Bill has been subjected to a comprehensive analysis in Muhammad Hashim Kamali's " PUNISHMENT IN ISLAMIC LAW: AN INQUIRY INTO THE HUDUD BILL OF KELANTAN" (Kuala Lumpur: Institut Kajian Dasar, 1995).
["Punishment in Islamic Law: An Inquiry into the Hudud Bill of Kelantan"
By Mohammad Hashim Kamali.Kuala Lumpur: Institut Kajian Dasar, 1995. pp. xvii + 178 ISBN: 983-884-038-6]
Kamali, one of the world's leading Islamic jurists, reveals in detail the weaknesses of the Bill, including those pertaining to its categorisation of hudud offences and how it contradicts the Quranic prescription on punishments and why it conflicts with the Malaysian Constitution and the Penal Code.
ALL MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, FROM GOVERNMENT AND THE OPPOSTION, MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS, SHOULD DIGEST THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK BEFORE DEBATING THE PASS SPONSORED BILL.
They will realise that the PAS approach is FOCUSSED ESSENTIALLY upon modes of punishment and NOT upon the fundamental principle of justice which is the overriding concern of the Quran.
When justice is one's leitmotif one would first strive to ensure that the social ethos and the power structure conduce towards equity and fairness rather than preoccupy oneself with detailed descriptions of how different forms of punishment would be meted out.
Besides, the concept of hudud --- or boundaries --- IN THE QURAN HAS A MUCH WIDER AND DEEPER MEANING and is not confined to its penal aspects.
It is also employed in relation to fasting, family laws and inheritance and indeed embodies all of God's teachings and guidelines.
By over-emphasising punishment, PAS has also SIDE-LINED provisions on repentance and reformation which are crucial to all those instances in the Quran where punitive measures are mentioned in the context of specific offences.
B. THE PRACTICE
It is not just the failure to appreciate the spirit of compassion and justice that accompanies legal provisions in the Quran that renders THE PAS MOVE TO INTRODUCE HUDUD PROBLEMATIC..
The party and others who subscribe to a similar view have NOT examined the realities surrounding the implementation of hudud.
Most Muslim majority states do NOT provide for hudud.
1. The most populous Muslim nation on earth, INDONESIA, has not incorporated such a provision into its legal system though one of its smaller provinces, Acheh, has introduced elements of the Islamic penal code while retaining civil law in other areas.
The change is drawing more and more criticism from WITHIN Achenese society itself.
2. TURKEY, one of the more prominent Muslim states today, with a leadership rooted in an Islamic movement, has stayed away from hudud laws.
3. Arab states such as Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, among others, have not included hudud in their criminal justice systems. In some instances, their constitutions proclaim a general commitment to Sharia as "a way of life."
4. Those countries which have sought to enforce hudud such as Afghanistan, Northern Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Sudan do NOT t seem to have succeeded in reducing the very crimes that the law is meant for.
In some of them, murder and robbery are still as rife as ever. Even if street-level theft has been kept in check in one or two cases, there is ample evidence of massive looting of the nation's wealth by the elite for the elite.
And yet the hands of these thieves are NOT cut off! It merely reinforces the point that it is NOT the mode of punishment that ensures justice BUT THE ABILITY OF SOCIETY TO HOLD THE POWERFUL ACCOUNTABLE.
5. If accountability and justice are still lacking in hudud-based societies, their parlous situation is further exacerbated by the plight of women and non-Muslims.
IN ALMOST EVERY ONE OF THE STATES THAT HAS EMBRACED HUDUD LAWS, WOMEN HAVE BEEN MARGINALISED BOTH IN THEIR PRIVATE SPHERE AND IN THE PUBLIC ARENA.
In those countries where there is a NON-MUSLIM MINORITY, their space for expression and action often shrinks, in the wake of hudud enforcement.
C. THE LOCAL CONTEXT.
This brings us to the situation IN MALAYSIA.
Since it is Kelantan that wants to implement hudud, it is pertinent to ask: HOW would the punishments prescribed in the hudud laws help to reduce various crimes in the state (Kelantan) ?
In Kelantan, as in other states in Malaysia, a number of robberies and murders appear to be related to DRUG ABUSE. UNLESS this underlying cause is eliminated, it is unlikely that the crime rate will be reduced even if the modes of punishment are brought in line with hudud rules.
There is also another problem that Kelantan will have to address.
Though its NON -Muslim population is small, at about 5 percent, the state's Buddhists, Hindus and Christians have the right to continue to be charged under the existing law which means that the state will have two sets of criminal legislation.
As argued by some others, a Muslim and a non-Muslim charged for the SAME crime will have to be tried under TWO DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS and meted out two different sentences.
One could be more severe than the other.
--Would that be just?
-- Would that be morally right?
EQUALLY SERIOUS, WHAT WOULD BE THE IMPACT OF THIS BIZARRE ARRANGEMENT UPON RELATIONS BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND PEOPLE OF OTHER FATHS?
Wouldn't it lead to GREATER POLARIZATION at a time when we are already struggling with increasing communal polarization?
D. CONCLUSION
In the ultimate analysis, the PAS bid to implement hudud in Kelantan is NOT just about its understanding of hudud.
IT IS SADLY ABOUT HOW THE VAST MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS IN THIS COUNTRY UNDERSTAND HUDUD. IT IS AN UNDERSTANDING SHAPED LARGELY BY THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ULAMA --- an interpretation that is literal and static.
This is why modes of punishment including those that have no basis in the Quran are perceived as sacrosanct.
MALAYSIAN MUSLIMS FORGET that it is the underlying moral principle of right and wrong that is fundamental --- a principle which regards murder and robbery and adultery as eternally wrong.
In order to do justice to the victims of these and other wrongdoings, every religion and every epoch has formulated modes of punishment which are often SHAPED BY THE PREVAILING SOCIAL MILIEAU.
If one fails to distinguish the contextual from the eternal, the ephemeral from the perennial, the universal message of religion will be lost.
Great Muslim thinkers have cautioned Muslims about this through the ages.
1. SHAH WALIULLAH
The illustrious eighteenth century theologian Shah Waliullah (1703-1762) for instance emphasised that "every age must seek its own interpretation of the Quran and the traditions."
He believed that, "ONE OF THE MAJOR CAUSES OF MUSLIM DECAY AS RIGID CONFORMITY TO INTERPRETATIONS MADE IN OTHER AGES."
2. MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), the distinguished twentieth century poet-philosopher, was also of the view that in approaching the Sharia, "each generation, guided but unhampered by the work of its predecessors, should be permitted to solve its own problems in accordance with the level of its consciousness and the demands of the time."
3. ALI SHARIATI
Another reformer of repute, Ali Shariati (1933-1977), was equally critical of "traditional, formalistic Islam" and sought to liberate the religion from the grip of those ulama "who had imprisoned Islam by monopolising it."
4. SYED HUSSEIN ALATAS
Here in Malaysia, Syed Hussein Alatas (1928-2007) had for many decades, through works such as Kita dengan Islam argued eloquently for an understanding of Islam that goes beyond the literal and connects with the essence of the faith.
In an essay entitled, Al-Quran: Nilai dan Peraturan in Dewan Budaya (February and March 1980), I has also explored further the distinction between contextual rules and the eternal message. It explains why when PAS began pushing for hudud soon after it came to power in Kelantan for a second time in 1990, I raised the question, Hudud: Central to Islam? in a 1992 article which became a chapter in my Rights, Religion and Reform ( London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002)
Now that the issue of hudud has re-surfaced with even more serious implications for the nation as a whole,WE SHOULD REMIND OURSELVES OF THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT FACES US.
In Kamali's words, nineteen years ago"
"We either choose to retain the eternal message of Islam, uphold its civilizational ideals, and invest our energy in the task of reconstructing a society in that image OR lower our sights only to see the concrete rules and specific details.
" This latter alternative … attaches higher priority to details and make them the focus of attention at the expense of the broader and more important objectives of Islam.
"Islam's commitment to moral virtue, to justice, to equality and freedom … and to the promotion of humanitarian and compassionate values are of universal and perpetual significance.
" Failing to understand these will inevitably lead to the misapprehension and misinterpretation of Islam and its criminal justice."(Muhammad Hashim Kamali)
- DR CHANDRA MUZAFFAR
PAS'S MOVE ON HUDUD IS ILL-CONCEIVED BY CHANDRA MU...


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AFTER ELECTION, SRI LANKA PM INVITES RIVALS TO WORK TOGETHER
Sri Lanka's prime minister on Wednesday invited all political parties in the island nation to work together after his party won the most seats in parliamentary elections and thwarted a political comeback bid by the country's former strongman president.
Officials from Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Party were working to gain seven more seats to give it an outright majority, and enable Wickremesinghe to be sworn in for a second term as prime minister, a position second to president in Sri Lanka.
The UNP won 106 seats in Monday's elections, seven short of a majority in the 225-member Parliament. Former strongman leader Mahinda Rajapaksa failed in his attempt at a political comeback seven months after he lost his presidential re-election bid, with his party winning 95 seats.
"I'll discuss with President Maithripala Sirisena on building consensus on our national problems. We'll build a national consensus under which we'll do our politics," Wickremesinghe said.
Sirisena is the leader of the United People's Freedom Alliance, which contested Monday's elections under Rajapaksa.
Sirisena broke away from Rajapaksa's Cabinet last year and won an upset victory in the Jan. 8 presidential election with support from Wickremesinghe, who was opposition leader at the time. Rajapaksa's loyalists, however, compelled an unwilling Sirisena to field the former president in the parliamentary elections.
Both parties have been bitter rivals for decades, and their cohabitation will be a novelty in Sri Lankan politics. An earlier cohabitation between a president and a prime minister elected from different parties ended after bickering.
In Sri Lanka, the prime minister acts for the president when he is absent and replaces him if he is impeached, incapacitated or dies. The president has wide executive powers and usually holds the defense, foreign relations and sometimes finance portfolios. The prime minister heads lawmaking and has some governance powers.
Since his presidential loss, there has been a sharp reversal of fortunes for Rajapaksa, his family and friends, who were once all-powerful controllers of the nation. Some now face investigations or lawsuits on allegations of corruption, misuse of power and even murder.
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Let me introduce Yannick Puech. In the next months he will take over the MAXON developer support. For now his focus will be on the PYTHON side of things with addition of the C++ and COFFEE APIs by end of this year.
There are so many unanswered or not completed Topics in the Python Forum and I'm sure there will be more in the future.
Thank you for join the developer support team.
Hope we do not bug you too much.
wish you a good start!
It is nice that there is some additional manpower now. As nux already mentioned, many things stay open. I hope you can make a difference!
Cool this is great news. The more support here the better, can't wait for this knowledge base to grow more. It's been a great help to me so far. Welcome Yannick.
welcome Yannik... may you be blessed with many good tidings... and may your code work on the first go... all praise Thor, god of thunder. but seriously, maxon... you got it going on.
Hello Yannick and welcome to the team! This is a very exciting time for C4D plugin developers, especially those of us working with Python. Any assistance you can offer will be greatly appreciated.


The Department of Corrections' project to enhance and focus its reentry efforts was introduced to key staff at Montana State Prison in early February, a recognition of the critical role that the state's largest correctional facility must play in the success of the effort.
More than 40 unit managers and case managers from throughout the 1,485-bed Deer Lodge prison gathered for the briefing on the Montana Reentry Initiative.
Deputy Warden Ross Swanson laid the groundwork for the more than three-hour meeting by emphasizing that providing reentry services and programs that help inmates transition to their communities upon leaving prison is nothing new. But the new effort to improve that work is here to stay, he said.
Changes in state and department leadership won't alter the initiative, he added. "Regardless of the new governor and new director, we will be doing reentry and we will be doing it better."
Updating the prison staff was a key part of the reentry effort since the process of preparing inmates for reentering communities has to begin when offenders enter prison and continue through their release and their time under community supervision.
Sam Casey, DOC's reentry coordinator, said prison is where an offender management plan has to be developed as a "roadmap" that follows each offender through his or her time in the corrections system. The key to that plan is consistent use of a valid, uniform tool for assessing every offender's needs and risks, he said.
The result will be a clear indication of how to address the educational, addiction, employability, housing and social needs of inmates, Casey explained. The point at which inmates are handed off to community supervision must be seamless and effective if the benefits provided in prison are to transfer to parole or probation, he said.
Prison staff must have the skills to show empathy, provide positive feedback and to intervene at critical times, Casey added. "You are agents for change. You have to remove barriers to change. Don't be one."
Swanson noted that the prison is changing a policy to put more emphasis on education among inmates, who will soon be required to obtain a GED before they can have work assignments. In addition, the prison's education and vocational programs will merge to create more efficiency, he said.
Some inmates prefer to spend their final few months in locked housing units to avoid incidents that could jeopardize their leaving. Delivery of treatment and other services are difficult in those housing units.
Inmates have to be actively involved in development of their case management plans so they know what they need to do.
Staff members need to understand that helping in-mates in reentry is part of their jobs and is not some-thing to be criticized as being "soft on inmates."
Housing is a crucial element of the reentry process.
Inmates from out of state lack family support in the community.
Many inmates resist seeking a GED be-cause they don't want to appear uneduc-cated or to be teased by other inmates.
Communication be-tween prison staff and community correc-tions staff is a neces-sity for inmates to successfully return to the community.
Inmates locked up for long periods of time lack social skills needed on the out-side.
Inmates with heinous \crimes and consid-ered high risks to reoffend are very difficult to place in the community, especially in prerelease centers.
Some inmates refuse to participate in treatment and merely want to finish serving time and leave.
Development of the DOC's reentry initiative is an ongo-ing process that requires involvement and commitment from all corrections staff, from inside the prisons to within the communities of Montana, Casey said. But it also re-quires the cooperation of all Montanans if the effort is to be successful, recidivism is to decline and Montana is to become safer, he added.


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LF-112 is a squat bunn foot in unfinished pine. This style of wooden foot was commonly used on both chairs and sofas.
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New for the 2017-2018 plow season is the introduction of BOSS D-Force. Available as an option on new truck plow purchases, this option allows the user to maintain constant hydraulic down force to improve scraping performance while backdragging. D-Force will be available for all new straight-blade truck plows (excludes EXT, Trip-Edge, and Heavy-Duty plows) and will not be retrofittable to existing plows.
Operation of D-Force is made simple. Simply pull up to an area for backdragging, put the plow in float mode (either by pressing and holding the down function for 2 seconds or via double tapping of the down function) so the Red LED is displayed on the controller. Double tap the down function a second time to activate D-Force. The controller LED will switch to an Orange color and the power unit will run for a short duration, applying down force to the cutting edge through the lift cylinder. If necessary, double-tapping a second time will run the power unit again. Please note, BOSS recommends using D-Force in backdragging motions only. D-Force is not intended for forward travel.
The D-Force system uses a few different components from BOSS' standard straight-blade truck plows. These components include a new hand controller, hydraulic manifold, and hydraulic accumulator. The hydraulic manifold includes an additional relief valve to control hydraulic pressure when down force is applied, as well as an additional port for the accumulator. The accumulator is a small component attached to the side of the coupler tower below the SmartHitch switch. The accumulator includes a diaphragm that creates two chambers- a first chamber for hydraulic fluid, and a second chamber for pressurized nitrogen gas. The accumulator allows hydraulic fluid to be pressurized up to 1200 PSI when charged by the power unit. The fluid portion of the accumulator is connected to the hydraulic circuit such that the accumulator accepts hydraulic fluid when the pressure increases, compressing the gas on the other side of the diaphragm. When the fluid pressure fluctuates due to changes in the road, obstacles, etc., the compressed gas expands and contracts to maintain pressurized fluid in the hydraulic circuit preserving the D-Force effect.
D-Force utilizes the SmartHitch circuit to apply hydraulic down force to the cutting edge. When D-Force is activated, the SmartHitch valve locks and the power unit runs, allowing pressure to increase within the lift and lower hydraulic circuits, creating down force. While the power unit runs, the accumulator fills with fluid. When 1200 PSI is reached, fluid begins to dump over the D-Force relief valve. While plowing, the vehicle and plow will eventually encounter uneven terrain and obstacles. When the cutting edge is forced upward, any pressure over 1200 PSI will dump over relief. When the cutting edge travels downward, the reserved pressure in the accumulator will maintain added fluid pressure in the cylinder and allow the plow to maintain down force with the plowing surface. The accumulator allows approximately 2 inches of cylinder travel while maintaining down force.
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Which Green Energy Plan Is For You?
As you may well be aware, renewable and green energy are on the rise around the world now contribute to a record 22% of global electricity supply. As such, more and more energy suppliers now provide green options or have even made environmentally friendly energy the core ethos of their business. But, with all of these suppliers, packages and tariffs it can be a bit of a minefield for energy customers looking for the best and of course, the cheapest. It is hard enough just finding the cheapest energy deal, let alone the best green one but true to form, Love Energy Savings are on hand to help you work out the best green energy plan for your home.
Green energy deals are obviously dual purpose in that they help the environment and can also turn out to be very cost effective. Business energy customers can also benefit from such energy packages as they can look extremely good to customers who like to see companies doing their bit for the planet. All said and done, renewable energy is only going to get more and more important as fossil fuels run out and we look to get our power from more sustainable sources.
All energy suppliers in the UK get at least some of their electricity from renewable sources and there is obviously no way to get sustainable gas, but these firms vary greatly when it comes to their levels of support. Green energy may not always be the cheapest form of power but the long term benefits are plain for all to see and you can even generate your own electricity and sell it back to National Grid. For more information on this, refer to our Guide to Feed-In Tariffs.
If you are curious as to just where each supplier gets their energy from, you can refer to what is known as their fuel mix. You can refer to our energy suppliers hub to find this information and it will also be available on their own respective website as well. Some suppliers are putting their heart and soul into this, others are more concerned with competitive pricing or providing mass amounts of gas and electricity.
Unfortunately, if you currently get your energy from one of the Big Six then you are not likely to be offered a green tariff. This is because since the summer of 2013, EDF, E.ON, SSE, Scottish Power and npower all decided to terminate their green offerings. This was due to the campaign by Ofgem for "Simpler, Clearer and Fairer Energy" which stipulated that suppliers should have no more than four products available. Unfortunately, the green energy deals were the ones to go meaning that the number of plans vetted by the Green Energy Certification Scheme fell pretty sharply.
This could be another reason for the rise of the independent energy supplier, as more and more domestic and business energy customers realise that they could actually get the services they require from the independents. With better customers service and green, bespoke energy deals on offer from these less recognised brands, could the era of dominance by the Big Six be coming to an end?
As with most other areas of the energy sector, Ofgem has thrown its two pennies worth in regarding the issue of green alternatives. In June 2014 the regulator stated publicly that it was concerned that the deals being labelled at "green" were not officially certified. As such, it has demanded that all energy providers are far more transparent as to exactly how green their contracts are.
We have plenty of suppliers on our panel here at Love Energy Savings which offer green energy and you can find out more by visiting our dedicated pages for Ovo Energy, Ecotricity, Woodland Trust Energy, Good Energy and Green Energy. Alternatively, you can go to our full list of UK Energy Suppliers to find out more and perform a free energy comparison.
Finally, if you are desperate to find out if the current energy plan your home or business is currently on is green, then you can always refer to the GECS. This is the Green Energy Certification Scheme which assesses the deal you are on and gives you a stamp of approval if it is satisfactory. This is an impartial service, so you can rest assured this site will help you to make the best decision regarding your green energy deal.
Remember, you can always speak to a member of the Love Energy Savings team regarding any aspect of your home or commercial gas and electricity needs. We are utterly impartial and can find you the best deal with the minimum amount of hassle due to our cutting edge technology and committed energy experts. What's more, we will never charge you a penny!


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GiftTRAP Review
April 2, 2007 2 minute read
This is a review of the party game GiftTRAP. I received a complimentary review copy and am way past due in posting my review. Julie, Jacob, Matthew, and I sat down to play this and had quite a good time.
The components for the game are first-rate - right up there with the best party games I've seen lately (Liebrary, Wits and Wagers for example). The game comes in a gift box with a nicely designed packing approach on the inside where the board provides some structure for storage. The player bits come in individual mesh gift baggies. The cards are solid, full color, and the text is high contrast and easy to read. This is a nice package and you won't be disappointed with the physical design.
GiftTRAP is a game about knowing your fellow gamers and their preferences, a common mechanic also seen in games like Apples to Apples and Attribute. Each round consists of a number of possible gifts being put on display equal to the number of players plus one. The players in turn places markers on the gifts that indicate what the player would like vs. not like, with a few shades of gray in between. They also indicate what gift they think each other player would most want to receive. Players score points on a giving track and a receiving track based on how well they give to others and how well others give to them.
The scoring and tracking mechanics are my only complaint. It was confusing to everyone how to track points on both scales given the reflexive nature of give/receive. I'm sure we'd become pros at it after a while, but I can't help but think it would be an obstacle to casual gamers. This is similar to my complaint about Wits & Wagers: the game itself is a blast, but the scoring and winner determination almost seem to be an afterthought. Still, it is a party game and the journey is more important than the final destination.
The game is light and fun and leads to interesting conversations, even in our intimate family setting. I think it would work well as an icebreaker as long as folks aren't too wrapped up in winning. The game is at its best when you've got one gift that is perfect for multiple individuals, and others that aren't good for anyone. How do you decide? How will you explain it after the results are revealed? The banter and laughter that result from these dilemmas are what the game is all about.


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The Waikikie Story
OUR NAME - Waikikie
People often ask why we chose to spell Waikikie with the 'e' on the end. It's simple... we needed a way to differentiate our name, while still paying tribute to one of the favorite Hawaiian Islands.
OUR FOOD - Hawaiian Grilling
Welcome to barbecuing and grilling in Hawaii. When the first Polynesians arrived in the Hawaii Islands, they found nothing to eat. The Islands themselves, being very new geologically and very isolated, had little in the way of indigenous life. The Polynesians brought pigs, dogs, chickens, taro and sweet potatoes with them. After James Cook arrived in Hawaii, a steady stream of newcomers started arriving, bringing with them plants and animals from their native lands. Chief among these were Missionaries
from New England who brought cows, horses, sheep, and goats as well as a wide variety of new plants. This introduction of new foods and traditions changed the Hawaiian diet greatly. As American business began to move in and develop large plantations, new cash crops, like sugar cane and pineapples were introduced. To man the plantations, immigrants were brought to Hawaii as laborers from places like China, Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Each new wave of immigrants brought a new cooking tradition with them.
What developed from all this is known as "Local Food". Local Food is an East-West Pacific mix created in the 1920s and '30s by lunch wagon cooks and small stores and restaurants. Typical Local Food meals are lunch plates which consist of rice and meat covered in gravy, served with either salt seaweed or chili peppers, sesame oil or soy sauce. Also popular is Teriyaki, a sauce used to prepare all kinds of meat. As you can see, Hawaiian food is a unique cuisine created from a very diversified background.
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Devesh is a sought after tabla player and educator. In addition to tabla solos and playing with Indian Classical Music, he has collaborated and worked with musicians across a broad range of musical genres from Western Folk and Western Classical to Flamenco and Jazz as well as Latin Music and Japanese Taiko. Devesh has collaborated with notables such as Susie Ibarra, Tarun Bhattacharya, Brian Mellick, Alex Torres. He has performed at a wide array of music festivals in both the US and abroad including Wanderlust and Frendly Gathering. Devesh regularly visits schools and colleges and teaches students of all ages from elementary school to college students about Indian Classical Music and Tabla. He is an ambassador for Tabla and Indian Classical Music for his generation and makes the music relatable and accessible to a wide audience. In addition to this, Devesh and Veena Chandra conduct a yearly community arts project which exposes public at large to Indian Classical music. Devesh and Veena Chandra together run The Dance & Music School of India which Veena Chandra founded over 30 years ago. Devesh has been teaching and in charge of running many of the schools initiatives since 2005.
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Veritas Hires Accenture Vet as Chief Strategy Officer
By Chris Ehrlich
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The data management company Veritas Technologies is welcoming an executive to its C-suite.
Veritas hired Lawrence Wong as SVP and chief strategy officer, according to the company this month.
In this newly created role, Wong will partner with other Veritas leaders to develop and execute a comprehensive cloud strategy and lead the company's corporate growth strategy and acquisition efforts.
He will report to Vertias CEO Greg Hughes and be a part of the company's leadership team.
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Lawrence is a technology leader with decades of entrepreneurial and operational experiences, helping organizations modernize their businesses and achieve their digital transformation goals.
Most recently, he served as managing director and member of the Global Leadership Council (GLC) at Accenture, where he ran the U.S. West Cloud First business. In this role, he was responsible for helping enterprise clients accelerate innovation and move IT workloads to the cloud.
Previously, he held leadership roles at McKinsey & Company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and several enterprise software startups.
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"The enterprise is looking for guidance on how to navigate today's digitally complex world, and the need for a trusted partner to help them on their journey to the cloud is more important than ever," said Hughes with Veritas.
"Lawrence's background as an accomplished IT transformation leader and strategist is a powerful addition to our executive team."
Wong said Veritas is well positioned to help enterprise customers address challenges, such as operating in fragmented and complex multicloud environments "with unprecedented data growth."
Wong said he looks forward to advancing Veritas' cloud strategy "at this important inflection point in the industry," as the company helps clients "modernize their approach to data management."
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Chris Ehrlich is the managing editor of several web properties in the TechnologyAdvice network. He has over 20 years of experience delivering content-based results across journalism and communications, including on B2B technologies. As a leader in digital journalism, he's driven targeted content that resonates with audiences and increases key metrics. As a leader in branded communications, he's driven multi-channel content for clients that spreads their messages and generates measurable returns. He holds a B.A. in English and political science from Denison University in Ohio.
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Machine to determine bending properties of materials as leather, fabrics, coated fabrics and synthetic materials.
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in the soles of athletic shoes. It can carry out an initial fatigue and can capture impact data in order to study them.


In the second episode of the series, as Steven starts creating a new life for himself, he pursues a lawsuit against Manitowoc County law enforcement officials for corruption in his case.
In the third episode of the series, Steven is back in jail, charged with murder, but there are troubling questions about how he was arrested and why.
In the fourth episode of the series, an unexpected confession casts doubt on Steven's role in the murder case, but the new suspect gives conflicting accounts of what occurred.


Pulmonary hypertension is a rare disease of the cardiovascular system that is characterized by an increase of pressure in the blood vessels and lung. The blood supply to the lungs is reduced, which makes oxygen uptake difficult. Pulmonary hypertension is triggered by vascular hypertrophy in the pulmonary artery. Vascular hypertrophy increases the resistance in the lungs whereby right-heart overload rises substantially.
This overload often leads to right ventricular insufficiency and can result in heart failure.There is no cure for pulmonary hypertension. The goal of the therapy is to heal the underlying disease, which leads to pulmonary hypertension. After manifestation of chronic pulmonary hypertension only symptomatic treatment is possible.
Medication with effects on vascular dilation is used to reduce pulmonary vascular resistance. These include calcium antagonists, endothelin-receptor-antagonists, phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE-5) inhibitors and prostanoids.
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This topic provides an introduction to configuration in Episerver, and describes the configuration files and their structure in the Episerver platform, including the different files and elements used for storing configuration settings and the hierarchy within them.
When you install the Episerver platform, it places files that contain configuration data, connections, and log features in the wwwroot folder in each of the CMS and Commerce Manager websites.
Web.config. The main configuration file for the website application contains configuration for the ASP.NET API and the Episerver CMS API. Commerce also has a web.config file for the backend Commerce Manager site.
episerverLog.config. Contains settings for logging with log4net used by both CMS and Commerce.
Note: Previous releases of Episerver CMS used the configSource attibute to extract the episerver and the episerver.framework sections into separate files called episerver.config and episerverFramework.config.
module.config. A configuration file installed with the CMS sample templates, showing how to deploy new modules to your solution.
Web.Debug and Web.Release. Configuration transformation files created by Visual Studio to deploy solutions requiring configuration changes.
You also may have feature-specific configuration files in the solution folder structures for CMS and Commerce.
Like all ASP.NET web applications, Episerver CMS stores configuration settings in the web.config located in the root directory of the application. ASP.NET uses functionality called configuration inheritance; the file in your project only contains changes and additions to the configuration found in the machine.config file, which is the base configuration for all applications on your machine.
The web.config file is separated into sections containing settings for a specific part of the application, usually based on namespaces. For example, the <system.web> section stores the settings used by the classes in the System.Web namespace. A list of section definitions at the top of web.config tells ASP.NET what sections this application uses in addition to the sections inherited from machine.config. A definition also tells ASP.NET what class to use when you create an object representation of the section. The following example shows a definition.
The Episerver CMS API stores settings in several sections. If you scroll down in the web.config file, actual instances of the sections assign values to the section properties.
A configuration class can assess any Episerver CMS setting because all settings are typed members of the configuration class, which lets you see settings through IntelliSense. Access to the CMS application settings goes through the static object EPiServer.Configuration.Settings.Instance. You do not to instantiate this class because it is a global static available throughout the application.
The configuration files are in XML format and are divided into sections containing configurations for various system parts. This section describes the typographical conventions for the descriptions of configuring elements and attributes. Each subelement is described in two different ways: a pseudo XML structure that shows the hierarchy and includes attributes, and a set of tables that describe each element's attributes.
The type of the attribute value appears as the value, such as stringAttribute="string".
Elements and attributes appear in alphabetical order.
An ellipsis (...) indicates element collections at the same level as the repeatable element.
Parentheses indicate (Obsolete elements and attributes).
Descriptions of attributes appear in table format; one table for each element.
Attributes appear with name, default value and description.
Attributes appear in alphabetical order.


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MBA Education's School of Multifamily Property Inspections is designed to help originators, asset managers, underwriters, servicers, and those inspecting multifamily properties better understand the nuances of physical property conditions, as well as the appropriate way to perform efficient physical inspections. MBA works closely with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to provide a course that prepares inspectors for Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac-financed multifamily properties.
Successful completion of this course (passing the exam) results in an MBA Certificate of Completion that is recognized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Together with a group of parliamentarians and scientists, Hans-Josef Fell initiated the Energy Watch Group in 2006, and has since served as its president. He sets the organization's strategic direction, and utilizes his vast expertise in energy and climate politics to foster political dialogue and public discourse. Hans-Josef Fell was a member of German Parliament for the Green Party from 1998 to 2013 and drafted the 2000 Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), the foundation for the expansion of renewable energy in Germany and worldwide. Until today, the law has been replicated over 100 times around the globe and can be seen as the legal prototype for the global rollout of renewables.
Hans-Josef Fell holds academic degrees in physics and physical education at the teaching level. He was awarded with multiple prizes and awards, such as the Lui Che Woo Prize for his lifetime achievement in environmental and climate policy, the order of merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Nuclear-Free Future Award, and many more.
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Shakespeare Martineau celebrates local sporting talent
Published: 25th October 2018
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Author: Sophie
We've been working closely with national charity SportsAid to celebrate the achievements of three Midlands-based rising stars in the world of sport.
Our support will help towards the training costs, equipment and competition expenses for these talented young athletes.
They include Sophie Woodward, 14, who recently won four gold medals at the National Para Swimming Championships; cyclist Jack Rootkin-Gray, 15, who recently took home the gold in the under-16 Alan Rosner Memorial Circuit Races; and gymnast Korben Fellows, 15, who won gold and silver medals at this year's British Championships, for the pommel and rings events respectively.
The recent 'Spotlight on Sport' evening held at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground in Nottingham, drew upon the many links between sport and business. With Tim Lawler, CEO of SportsAid, interviewing both Helen Richardson-Walsh, gold medallist and 2016 Olympic Games GB hockey player and Niamh Emerson, winner of a bronze medal in this year's Gold Coast Commonwealth Games heptathlon during the evening.
Speaking of her award, Sophie Woodward said: "I have received grants and funding in the past but have never been made to feel this special. The knowledge that Shakespeare Martineau is supporting me and rooting for me has boosted my confidence enormously. It was also really inspiring to listen to the journeys of the other athletes in attendance at this great celebration of sport."
Duncan James, partner and head of our Nottingham office, said: "We have always believed that the worlds of business and sport share a common ethos, where dedication, tenacity and resilience all pay great dividends.
"We are hugely proud of our continued relationship with SportsAid, and our ability to support young athletes such as Sophie, Jack and Korben. The firm looks forward to following their careers closely and we wish all three of them the greatest of success."
Tim Lawler, CEO of SportsAid, said: "In my experience, the business world understands the values and inspiration of sport. They are two different worlds, but they do have some common ground. For this reason, it makes sense for businesses to align with, and sometimes invest in sport – it can make a huge difference.
"One very compelling area of sport to invest in is to help the next generation of the nation's sporting heroes – our stars of tomorrow. These young people are pathfinders – they show the way with their achievements, their ambition and their passion – and by helping them to achieve their personal best, they will in turn inspire others. It is a brilliant way for businesses to create a living legacy in sport and society."
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