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Over Christmas we're delighted to announce we will start work on an exciting makeover of the Rose Bowl Food Court and Tiki Coffee Shop. The revamp will enhance the spaces as a place for our community to work and relax. Alongside new lighting, furniture and flooring, our chefs have been working hard to develop a new food offer in the Rose Bowl Food Court.
Join us in January to check out our revamp for yourself!
The Rose Bowl Food Court will reopen as the Beckett Kitchen from 14 January. As well as a new name, the seating area is being enhanced to offer a greater variety of seating choices. This includes comfy sofas and armchairs and a variety of tables and chairs to cater for every occasion. Beckett Kitchen will also be serving a revamped food offer in the refurbished serving area.
From the 14 December until the 11 January there will only be a limited service whilst we refurbish the space. Hot and cold food will be served in the Rose Bowl atrium along with barista coffee available from RB Espresso, which will be partially open.
The Tiki Coffee Shop will undergo a revamp over Christmas. The seating area is being improved to offer an enhanced space for our community on Headingley Campus and later in the New Year the serving counters will also be refurbished. During the counter refurbishment the Tiki Coffee Shop will also take on a striking new look, but the same great coffee and name!
From the 14 December until the 6 January, Tiki Coffee Shop will be closed. Additional seating will be available near the Chicken Shack and barista-style coffee will be served from the Food Court. It will re-open on the 7 January.


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Q: the program is skipping generating a two all togher and just doing a three The random function is way out of order with the generates.
When the computer generates a two it is supposed to be paper and say computer wins or something along those lines and it is generating paper but a three for the number instead of a two.
public partial class frmRPS : Form
{
    Random rnd = new Random();
    int myWin;
    int myTie;
    int myLoss;

    private void btnRock_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        picRockYou.Visible = true;
        picPaperYou.Visible = false;
        picScissorsYou.Visible = false;
        int Computer;
        Computer = rnd.Next(4);
        if (Computer == 1)
        {
            picRockComputer.Visible = true;
            picPaperComputer.Visible = false;
            picScissorsComputer.Visible = false;
            lblOutput.Text = "You Tied Nice Job";
            myTie += 1;
            lblTies.Text = myTie.ToString();
            lblOutput.Visible = true;
        }
        if (Computer == 2)
        {
            picRockComputer.Visible = false;
            picPaperComputer.Visible = true;
            picScissorsComputer.Visible = false;
            lblOutput.Text = "Computer Wins You Lost Try Again";
            myLoss += 1;
            lblLoss.Text = myLoss.ToString();
            lblOutput.Visible = true;
        }
        if (Computer == 3)
        {
            picRockComputer.Visible = false;
            picPaperComputer.Visible = false;
            picScissorsComputer.Visible = true;
            lblOutput.Text = "Congratulations You Won!";
            myWin += 1;
            lblWins.Text = myWin.ToString();
            lblOutput.Visible = true;
        }
    }
}

A: According to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zd1bc8e5(v=vs.110).aspx,
return value of .Next(int maxValue) is
A 32-bit signed integer that is greater than or equal to 0, and less than maxValue
you're not processing 0 value
Potential fix:
Computer = rnd.Next(3) + 1;

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Floating Point Unit; a sub-unit of the CPU core. The CPU is made up of different functional sub-units. There is the ALU (Arithmetic and Logical Unit), the FPU, Registers (temporary storage areas), and the caches. The CPU Core refers to all components of the CPU except the caches; it forms the area that is responsible for the actual computation.


What is EVS? The European Voluntary Service (EVS) is part of the Erasmus + . Program financed by European commission.
About: I finished my degree in Primary School teacher in 2014.
About: I finished my education as a teacher and now i want to see other countrys.
About: I finished school in March 2014. In May I came to Latvia, Daugavpils.
About: I finished school in 2012 and after that I studied tourism for three years. Afterwards I worked one year at the French administration.
About: I finished school in summer 2013 and after my EVS I want to go to university.
About: After my EVS in Latvia I started studying at the Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenber. I major in Economics and Management and minor in English Studies. Also I enjoy working with children and youth in different projects.
About: I finished highschool in summer 2012 before I spent 1 month in a work camp in Helsinki. Now I am studying in Germany.
About: I finished a master in translation before my EVS and I want to work in international relations after!
01.01.2015 – 30.06.2016 Европейская волонтерская работа в Польше!
01.12.2015 – 30.11.2016 Европейская волонтерская работа в Болгарии!
В рамках проекта у Вас будет возможность организовывать различные мероприятия, проекты, изучать иностранные языки и много другое.
Projekta ietvaros TEV būs iespēja: organizēt dažāda veida aktivitātes bērniem un jauniešiem; popularizēt Eiropas brīvprātīgo darbu; apgūt poļu valodu; piedalīties diskusiju klubos utt.
Polish non-profit organization "East-West Mutual Understanding" Association is looking for 3 volunteers from Moldova, Latvia and Bulgaria (age 18-30 years), who want to come to us for 12 months to work in 3 youth centres in Olawa (near Wroclaw city).
09-10.2014 EVS vacancies in Vienna!
16.05.2014 – 16.04.2015.Call for EVS volunteers from Germany!
Dear sending organizations,Society "ERFOLG" (2013-LV-65) is a hosting and sending EVS organization in Latvia (Daugavpils city).
Europejskie Forum Młodzieży is glad to inform you that we have an approved EVS projects. We would like to invite you to take part in our action between 7th of April and 6th of June. In our project we can host volunteers from Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey for 8 weeks.
at the Youth Association from Transylvania?
03.04.2014 European Voluntary Service Did you ever dream about being a volunteer, but never knew how to apply?
Are you curious about all the adventures that these experiences can bring?
ERFOLG international volunteers will visit Daugavpils' high schools, to share stories and answer all your questions.
08.01.2014. During 7 months our Volunteer – Marks Badalans participated in EVS project in Iceland, which was financially supported by Program "Youth in Action". The European Voluntary Service enables young people to carry out voluntary service for up to 12 months in a country other than their country of residence. It fosters solidarity among young people and is a true "learning service". Beyond benefiting local communities, volunteers learn new skills and languages, and discover other cultures. Non-formal learning principles and practice are reflected throughout the project.
12.12.2013. В обществе «Erfolg» работали волонтеры из Германии, Николас Штедте и Мадлен Герштнер. Мадлен и Николас прибыли в наш город в рамках программы «Европейская волонтерская работа» при поддержке программы «Молодежь в действии».
''Erfolg'' takes an interview to Ana Raviashvilli.
Ana came to Latvia as volunteer and we would like to ask a couple questions to her.
Вот уже несколько дней, как в наш город, в общество «ERFOLG» из Германии, из города Альценау, прибыл новый европейский волонтёр – Пия Мария Лохер.
16.05.2013. In the network of project "Youth in Action", 15th of May in the "Erfolg" community was arrived volunteer from Portugalia, Maria Do Carmo Pascoa. I asked Maria to tell us some about herself and here is the following interview.


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MAINCAST & MAINCREW
ANNA – BIRGIT MINICHMAYR
Birgit Minichmayr is an Austrian actress. She studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and stopped her training there in the third year of her studies, as she got engagedat the Burgtheater in Vienna. She was also a member of the Volksbühne Berlin ensemble and the Residenztheater in Munich. In 2001, Birgit Minichmayr was honored as "Shooting Star" at the Berlinale. She worked with famous film directors such as Tom Tykwer ("Perfume"), Michael Haneke ("The White Ribbon"), Doris Dörrie ("Cherry Blossoms") and Maren Ade ("Everyone Else" – Silver Bear at the Berlinale for Birgit Minichmayr as Best Actress). Further information: http://players.de/actresses/Birgit-Minichmayr/125/vita
NICK – PHILIPP HOCHMAIR
Philipp Hochmair, born 1973 in Vienna. Studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, among others, taught by Klaus Maria Brandauer, and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris. Engagements at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Staatstheater Hannover, Volksbühne Berlin and Zurich Schauspielhaus. 2003 – 2009 company member of the Vienna Burgtheater (admitted in the Gallery of Honor). Since 2009 member of the ensemble of the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. Starring in numerous movies and television films, including Heinrich Breloer Die Manns – ein Jahrhundertroman, Winterreise (director Hans Steinbichler), Day and Night (Sabine Derflinger), The Fatherless (Marie Kreutzer) and The Shine of the Day (Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel), Die Auslöschung (Nicholas Leytner) and Männertreu (Hermine Huntgeburth). Hochmair regularly tours with his solo projects Goethe's Werther!, Jedermann Performance (together with his band Elektrohand Gottes), as well as The Trial and The Man Who Disappeared by Franz Kafka. Further information: www.schlag-agentur.de/index.php/de/actor/profile/philipp_hochmair
MISCHA / ANDREA / EISVERKÄUFERIN – MONA PETRI
Born in 1976 in Zurich. Education at the Bern University of Music and Theater. Engagements at the Landestheater Tübingen and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, where she received the sponsorship award of the Armin-Ziegler Foundation in 2003 for the role of "Eve" in "Das Mass der Dinge – The Measure of Things". From 2006-2009 she played at the theater "Tourneetheater MARIE", since then freelance actress on several stages. Swiss "Shooting Star" at the Berlinale 2003 and Swiss National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in Markus Fischer's "Füür oder Flamme". Numerous leading parts and supporting roles in cinema and TV productions, for example in Christoph Schaub's "Jeune homme", Werner Swiss Schweizers "Verliebte Feinde" and in "Verdacht" by Sabine Boss. Further information: www.agentur-heppeler.de/de/schauspielerinnen/mona_petri
TAREK – MEHDI NEBBOU
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HARALD – Michael Ostrowski
http://www.divina.at/schauspieler/michael-ostrowski/
DIRECTOR – GREG ZGLINSKI
Born in Warsaw, Poland (08.04.1968). Pantomime and Acting School in Zurich, Switzerland, where he has been living for 15 years. Language studies in Australia and France. Composer, guitar and bass player in rock music formations. Film studies at directing department at the National Academy for Film, Television and Theatre (PWSFTViT) in Lodz, Poland. Former student of Krzysztof Kieslowski. 2005-09 member of the "Zurcher Filmstiftung" film commission in Switzerland. Member of Swiss and Polish Filmacademy. Further information: www.swissfilms.ch/de/film_search/filmdetails/-/id_person/7985
SCREENPLAY – JÖRG KALT & GREG ZGLINSKI
PRODUCER – KATRIN RENZ & STEFAN JÄGER
www.tellfilm.ch
CO-PRODUCER – BRUNO WAGNER, ANTONIN SVOBODA & LUKASZ DZIECIOL
http://www.coop99.at/
http://opusfilm.com
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY – PIOTR JAXA
www.jaxa.com
GAFFER – RAPHAEL TOEL & PIOTR MICHALSKI
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1272542/?ref_=nv_sr_1
ORIGINAL SOUND – RETO STAMM
www.retostamm.ch
SOUND DESIGN – LAUREN JESPERSEN
COSTUME – TANJA HAUSNER
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MAKE UP – MARTINE FELBER
SET DESIGN – GERALD DAMOVSKY
EDITOR – KARINA RESSLER
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SOUND EDITOR & MIX – FELIX BUSSMANN & MICHAL KOSTERKIEWICZ
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Bedford County School District (BCSD) or Bedford County Schools is a school district headquartered in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

History

The first class of African-American students graduated from the district in May 1890. In 1964 African-American students became admitted to schools previously reserved for white children due to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Schools
High schools:
 Cascade High School
 Community High School
 Shelbyville Central High School
 Bedford County Virtual High School (Currently only 9th and 10th grades)

Middle schools:
 Cascade Middle School
 Community Middle School
 Harris Middle School
 Liberty Middle School
 Bedford County Virtual Middle School

Elementary schools:
 Bedford County Learning Academy
 Cascade Elementary School
 Community Elementary School
 Eakin Elementary School
 East Side Elementary School
 Learning Way Elementary School
 Liberty Elementary School
 Southside Elementary School
 Thomas Magnet School
 Bedford County Virtual Elementary School

The district previously operated East Bedford School and Bedford County Training School for Negroes, the latter previously John McAdams High School and also Harris High School for Negroes. These schools were reserved for black students. In 1967 it merged into Shelbyville Central.

Demographics

In the Jim Crow period circa 1930s to 1960s the district had around 700 African-American students.

References

External links
 Bedford County Schools
School districts in Tennessee
Education in Bedford County, Tennessee

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Letters About Literature Awards: Home
Nevada Letters About Literature Student Competition Winners Announced
Nevada Humanities has announced the winners of the statewide Letters About Literature program. 243 students from Nevada submitted entries to the national competition at the Library of Congress, and nine Nevada students placed in the top three of their respective judging categories and will be honored in a ceremony in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. The first place winners in each category will represent Nevada at the national competition in Washington, D.C.
Letters About Literature is a national reading and writing contest for students in grades 4-12, organized by the Library of Congress. Students across the country are asked to read a book, poem, or speech and write to the author (living or dead) about how the book affected them personally. Letters are judged on state and national levels. Tens of thousands of students from across the country enter the Letters About Literature competition each year, with over 23,900 entries submitted to the Library of Congress in 2019. Encouraging students to write to authors deeply engages children with the content of the books that they read and Letters About Literature encourages students to reflect and respond.
A judging panel in Nevada made up of educators, librarians, and members of the literary communities evaluated students' letters on content, expression, structure, and grammar. Letters were also judged on how well the entry provided reflective details to support how the author's work changed the reader's view of the world or self.
The following Nevada students will advance to the national competition:
Level 1 (Grades 4, 5, and 6): Robert Chondro, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas, NV, with his letter to Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth.
Level 2 (Grades 7 and 8): Ellie Lakatos, Lawrence and Heidi Canarelli Middle School, Las Vegas, NV, with her letter to Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Level 3 (Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12): Gavin Markovic, Veterans Tribute Career and Technical Academy, Las Vegas, NV, with his letter to Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Honorable mentions go to the following Nevada students:
Level 1 Second Place: Harrison (Hank) Labastida, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas, NV, with his letter to J.K. Rowling, author of The Harry Potter Series.
Level 1 Third Place: Ivan Sun, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas, NV, with his letter to R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder.
Level 2 Second Place: Julianna Gomez, Coral Academy of Science Middle School, Reno, NV, with her letter to John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars.
Level 2 Third Place: Katelyn Lee, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas, NV, with her letter to An Na, author of A Step from Heaven.
Level 3 Second Place: Dakyung Lee, Coronado High School, Henderson, NV, with her letter to Virginia Woolf, author of Professions for Women.
Level 3 Third Place: Tirza Keating, Douglas High School, City, Minden, NV, with her letter to Ernest Hemingway, author of The Old Man and the Sea.
Nevada Humanities will recognize and award prizes to the state winners, as well as the honorable mentions , at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 6 pm at The Writer's Block 519 South 6th Street in Las Vegas. A reception will follow. The Library of Congress will announce all National Honor Winners in Spring 2019 and will publish all state-level winners on its website.
Next year's competition will be announced in Fall 2019. Visit read.gov/letters for details on national awards and ceremonies.
About Nevada Humanities
Nevada Humanities is one of 56 independent, nonprofit state and territorial humanities councils affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. With offices in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada Humanities creates public programs and supports public projects statewide that define the Nevada experience and facilitate the exploration of issues that matter to the people of Nevada and their communities.
Nevada Reads and Nevada Center for the Book are programs of Nevada Humanities and are made possible with support from Nevada State Library, Archives, and Public Records; the Institute of Museum and Library Services; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Library of Congress Center for the Book promotes books and libraries, literacy and reading, and poetry and literature. Library of Congress programs include a diverse range of events, series, lectures, partnerships, prizes, contests, and awards. For more information, visit nevada humanities.org.
Contact Nevada Humanities: Stephanie Gibson, Program Manager (sgibson@nevadahumanities.org)
Photos of the winners taken by Jim Laurie.


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With the digital era, comes a lot of changes not just in the way we communicate but also the way we buy and sell products and services. Since its inception, the internet has had an impact on a lot of things and business is one of the many areas which have been totally revolutionized.
Today, at-least one in every 3 people in the world, has either bought something online, or offered some sort of service through the internet. This is indicative of how much ecommerce has grown over the years considering that in 1998, only 5% of all businesses worldwide, had embraced the internet and ecommerce.
This internet revolution, has had both a positive and a negative impact on businesses. The businesses which embraced technology and incorporated ecommerce into their models early enough, have reaped and continue reaping the benefits of ecommerce. On the other hand, those businesses which are lagging behind in embracing ecommerce, are reeling from the effects of their prosaic approach in business.
Small businesses can be defined as businesses with few employees generally under 100, are most of the time privately owned and more often than not, focus on a single product or service. These businesses haven't quite had a foothold in their respect markets and have very little influence on the said markets.
Ecommerce has had both a positive and a negative impact on businesses worldwide. Some small businesses view ecommerce as a tool developed by the big established market leaders to help them reach an even wider audience and kill off competition from startups while other small businesses view ecommerce as a platform to show themselves to the world and put up a fight against the big established market leaders.
In the past, businesses had to set aside thousands of dollars to market themselves and reach their target audiences. This favored the big established companies who had the budget and capability of setting up marketing campaigns while the small capital-less businesses languished in unpaid loans.
Social media, search engines and other modern day business marketing platforms are way cheaper than traditional media marketing platforms like TV and Radio. This means that small businesses have a good chance of marketing themselves for less.
With ecommerce, small businesses don't require large physical facilities and offices to run their daily activities. Business don't need to hire out expensive office and shop spaces. Businesses can be run from very small offices or from home as a lot of the displaying is done online on the businesses' websites. This means these small businesses can save and use the funds elsewhere.
Thanks to the numerous ecommerce tools available to small businesses, tracking of stock and the progress of one's business, is way easier than it was before. Since almost all the transactions are digitized, tracking the progress of the business is way easier than it used to be. This means that owners can understand the commodities and services which are on demand and focus more on them for the better of their business.
Ecommerce has really made it very easy for small businesses to scale and sustain their growth. The availability of informatics and data make it very easy for businesses to track their growth and predict their growth or lack thereof.
Although the digital marketing platforms are relatively cheap, they don't provide a level playing ground for both small and established businesses. To successfully run an online campaign, a business needs enough budget to not only initiate the campaign but also sustain it over a period of time. This is where the small businesses feel a little aggravated.
It is clear that ecommerce has done more good than harm to small businesses. It contradicts the archaic status quo that businesses can't grow their profits infinitely. Any small business that is serious about its growth, must therefore embrace technology and incorporate ecommerce into their model.
Fortunately, companies like us here at Runrex, are at your service and are looking to help you in the journey of digitizing your service delivery. We offer an array of services which help small businesses to increase their online presence and reach a wider audience. Give us a call today and we will get you started on this amazing ecommerce business.
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It's been a frustrating few weeks for those on the left, center, and reasonable right as polls tighten and our anxieties about a potential Trump presidency are raised, and what's most frustrating about it is a general feeling of helplessness. Our minds are made up, but there's nothing we can do to dissuade the stubborn alt-right, while those scant few swing voters seem to be giving Trump a second look because of the way the media has normalized his candidacy. Brian spoke about this a few days ago, but the most frustrating thing about the way the media has put two very uneven candidates on even ground is our inability to do anything about it.
Those who watched last night's Commander in Chief debate hosted by Matt Lauer got a heavy dose of the lowered bar. Lauer repeatedly challenged Hillary Clinton, and on questions of substance or policy, he repeatedly cut her off or urged quick responses. When it came to Donald Trump, Matt Lauer got pushed around. Trump deflected. He lied about certain statements, and Lauer didn't challenge him on those lies or fact check him.
The media is letting Donald Trump create his own fictional reality, and there are a lot of people who have bought into that world and want to live there. Trump voters don't need a qualified candidate; they only need the illusion of one, and the media is allowing that illusion to exist.
When the media does push back, the Trump campaign accuses it of being dishonest and unfair, and the media has been put in a position where 40 percent of the country — and its viewership — believe that "facts" and "the truth" are dishonest and unfair, so the media has to let the lies pass lest it affect the their ability to sell fabric softener, and Matt Lauer's Today show sells a metric ton of fabric softener.
No? Then whose role is that? The media, for better or worse, or where we get our information, and if the media can't ferret out the truth, then who will? The media is not meant to act as a press release. It's not a mouthpiece for the candidates. The Fourth Estate exists for us, not those running for office. It's not meant to normalize white supremacy; it's meant to act against it.
With nine weeks left, our fight is no longer with Donald Trump. He can dig his own grave, if the media will stop using a backhoe to fill it back in. Our fight is with the media, which must be held as accountable as anyone else on the right for the rise of Donald Trump. His entire candidacy has been slickly engineered by the very mainstream media he rails against, and now it's time that the media stands up to him and do its job by treating both candidates equally, instead of grading Donald Trump on the toddler curve.


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'Climate clickers' campaign supports MELT! on the way to the climate-friendly Festival Berlin, July 12, 2011. 20,000 young people from all over Germany and Europe travel on 15 July for three days to the MELT Festival! on the grounds of Ferropolis to Grafenhainichen. Numerous artists and musicians, mass spraying energy on stage is waiting for them. Behind the scenes, however, energy is saved: MELT! makes this year a major step towards sustainable Festival. The youth campaign climate clickers are part of the game"as well as more aggressive actions. This year the focus is on energy consumption.
Renewable electricity is created with a new solar energy system for Ferropolis of staging is more attention paid to energy-efficient LED lighting and operated with bicycles a disco. "To prevent as many enemy air emissions, but also the visitors must join: with a target group prepared brochure, the rock 'n' roll guide on the way to the climate God", which makes Campaign climate clickers"that every visitor is an important and active part of a climate-friendly festivals. The guide includes numerous realistic tips from climate-friendly hair drying on CO2 poor getting up to environmentally-conscious cooking own meals. "Climate protection must not end with leaving the festival area: climate clicker helps saving in everyday life" with a variety of energy saving advisors on. Climate protection measures in the framework of the MELT! Festivals in the background all energy-efficient running off, have the organisers of the MELT! A comprehensive approach to create festivals.
In addition to the new solar plant on the roofs of Ferropolis, there are many more actions: there is high potential for CO2 savings at the arrival and departure of visitors. Viewers be motivated on the site to arrive by public transport or carpooling. A specially equipped hotel train facilitates the visitors the climate-friendly arrivals and departures. Also the culinary supply is its part at.


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Many of you guys have been asking me about affordable off-camera speedlights. At the recent PhotoPlus Expo in NYC, I met Moishe from Midwest Photo Exchange, www.mpex.com, who sent me a couple of their flagship speedlights, the Lumopro 160.
The Lumopro 160 has the same power output as a Canon 580 EXII or Nikon SB900! It's about the same size as those flashes as well and beside being compatible with your Nikon or Canon DSLR, you can use this with an incredible range of cameras depending on how you sync.
The Lumopro 160 is a fully manual flash. That means there is no TTL which is how they can keep the price so low. This means, you have to control your flash manually as it will not be controlled via TTL. All of the controls for the Lumopro 160 are on the back of the flash and couldn't be easier to control. You can zoom the flash from 24mm – 105mm and set the power settings from 1/1 down to 1/64. Beside conventionally syncing via the hotshoe, the Lumopro 160 has both PC and miniplug sync jacks so you can easily sync with any camera with a PC sync jack and you can also easily sync with other Lumopro 160's.
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On the Norwegian Wikipedia page for the 1982 exploitation epic RAW FORCE — probably the only time I'll ever get to begin a sentence that way — we are informed that the movie was banned in Norway in 1984. That's the most attention any kind of majority, political or moral or otherwise, has paid this movie. RAW FORCE is made for almost no one, because it is apparently made for almost everyone. (Except children. This is not, please, a movie for small children.) Nearly every convention or trope of genre movies from the first seventy or so years of the existence of film is expended in this one rickety heap of madness.
When we discussed RAW FORCE on the Daily Grindhouse podcast, I noted that describing this movie is like fighting a giant squid: Just when you've bested one wavy storytelling strand, another one snaps up and grabs you by the throat. It's a mess. It's a glorious food-fight orgy of a mess.
Here's the vintage trailer from the 1980s, which is quite likely the most joyfully dishonest trailer I've ever seen:
That trailer literally sells a different movie. The clips are the same, but some of the character names and all of their backstories are totally different. The editors somehow cobbled together a cohesive story from several scenes that have no connection. This is the SHOGUN ASSASSIN of movie trailers. RAW FORCE is plenty of kinds of fun, but one adjective that does not apply is "cohesive." This is the summary I gave on the podcast:
"Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
— Anton Chekhov.
Okay. So early on in RAW FORCE, when a plane lands on a remote island and a character mentions that the waters surrounding the island are infested with vicious piranha, you can bet you will see those fish by the end of the movie. And if that character is a white-suited human trafficker who looks and talks pretty much exactly like Adolf Hitler, you may fairly assume he'll be the one to meet them.
Otherwise, RAW FORCE, also known as KUNG FU CANNIBALS, completely ignores the principle of Chekhov's gun. This movie operates under its own rules, and also it doesn't have any rules. If you somehow managed to drink up all the movies and television shows of the 1970s and then you barfed them back up, the mess on the bathroom floor might look like this.
Saloon fights, graveyard fights, bazooka fights, hippies in warpaint, gratuitously naked ladies, karate-chopping hobbit bartenders, giggling monks who dine on human women, ninja zombies, a BOOGIE NIGHTS style group of protagonists calling themselves the Burbank Karate Club, an ornery sea captain, a kung fu chef, an extended riff on 'Gilligan's Island',and the aforementioned worst person in human history, Adolf fuck-his-mother Hitler: All this and more in RAW FORCE.
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If you listen to that podcast, you'll also hear me put forth the theory that if Adam McKay and Will Ferrell were to remake RAW FORCE, that remake would make eleventeen million dollars. I stand by that theory, and here's who I think should play who:
MARK WAHLBERG as MIKE (2nd from rt.)
JOHN C. REILLY as JOHN (in the middle)
JAMES FRANCO as GARY SCHWARTZ (2nd from left)
TYLER PERRY as THOMAS SPEER (left)
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE as COOPER (right)
FRED WILLARD as LLOYD
SCARLETT JOHANSSON as COOKIE
TONY JAA as GO CHIN (left)
REGIS PHILBIN as CAPTAIN HARRY (right)
MERYL STREEP as HAZEL
JAMES FRANCO as BARTENDER *
*SHOCKING DUAL ROLE!!!
MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY as ZOMBIE OF MUSHASHI
MICKEY ROURKE as ZOMBIE OF MUSHASHI #2
NICOLAS CAGE as ZOMBIE OF MUSHASHI #3
and DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON as VIC DIAZ
— JON ZILLA.
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Paul Was Consumed With The Threat Of Wolves – Are We? – By Rev George Ong (Dated 26 Jan 2021)
"In the larger context of Acts 20:17-38, Paul was on his way to Jerusalem, and he came ashore at Miletus, the seaport for the city of Ephesus. He called for the elders of the local church at Ephesus to meet him at Miletus.
The reason was that Paul wanted to give them his last instructions, knowing that he might not see them again on this earth as he was well aware that he could be martyred in Jerusalem (Acts 20:22-25).
It was indeed a poignant meeting. I read and studied this passage with tears in my heart, and they almost streamed down my eyes.
What do you think was Paul's chief concern that he would have to tell the elders of Ephesus as this might be his last meeting with them? What occupied the mind of Paul before he said his last goodbye to them?
Among his last words to them was his great concern about the savage wolves who will come and not spare the flock; and that they as elders must do their part in guarding the sheep against being harmed (Acts 20:28-31).
Doesn't that tell us that false teachers, false teachings and the damage that they could do to the body of Christ are of great concern to Paul?
Acts 20:31 NIV
31 "So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears."
According to Acts 20:31, how long did Paul keep warning the shepherds about the savage wolves that will not spare the sheep in Acts 20:29?
For 3 years, and Paul did it night and day (Acts 20:31)!
How intense was Paul's warning to them?
Paul did it with tears (Acts 20:31)!
Are you beginning to see why I am contending against Joseph Prince, the wolf, day and night, and sometimes with tears? Do you now know why I have produced 10 volumes of ebooks, comprising 4,800 pages, and, currently, the videos about Joseph Prince's false teachings endlessly – and more to come? Have you realised that I have spent countless hours, blood, sweat and tears, doing the only thing I am doing, with no financial remuneration and at my personal expense to accomplish that, and worsened by the fact that I'm being criticised by some sections of the church for it?
What is this all about? I'm no more than following the example of Paul. I'm as concerned as Paul about alerting the larger body of Christ to the deceptive teachings of wolves, such as Joseph Prince, and warning the sheep from being harmed by him.
Some people are wondering (and even criticised me) whether I am too fixated and overly intense as I keep bringing up Joseph Prince as a false teacher and his heresies in my videos endlessly.
Well, if that is so, these people need to take the same issue to the Apostle Paul. This is because Paul must have been too fixated and intense, as he had warned the elders of the church about the wolves who would harm the sheep and that the elders must be alert to guard them, for how long and how intensely? – For 3 years, night and day, and with tears!
The irony is that the danger of false teachers, which was of such foremost concern to Paul that it had gripped his heart for 3 years, night and day and with tears, is the least priority of most modern believers.
"When the Apostle Paul was preoccupied with the threat of false teachings so intensely on a daily affair and with tears, the church ought to repent over her nonchalance and indifference." (Acts 20:31) (George Ong)
Why was Paul and I so fixated, intense, and concerned about heresy? Because heresy is a cruel and heartless thing that could lead people to the lake of fire. If one hasn't come to grips with the cruelty and heartlessness of heresy that could lead believers to hell, it is unlikely to feature much in one's priorities.
Next, has it ever occurred to you that before Paul's impending martyrdom in 2 Timothy 4:6-8, his last words were still the same – about people who will be led astray by false teachings in 2 Timothy 4:3-4?
2 Timothy 4:1-8 NIV
1 "… I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage – with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. 6 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness…"
We don't see the connection between Paul's concern about the threat of false teachings and his impending martyrdom (which could take place within weeks and, perhaps, even within days from the time of writing) because we don't read 2 Timothy 4:1-8 as one continuous flow. But if we do, the connection becomes rather clear.
In Acts 20:28-31, we have talked about the fact that Paul's last words to the elders of Ephesus were his concern for the flock that would be led astray by wolves.
And here again in 2 Timothy 4:1-8, before his impending passing away by martyrdom, Paul was still speaking about the same issue. This shows that the issue of false teachings and false teachers constantly preoccupied the mind of Paul.
The sad thing is when Paul was so consumed about the issue of heretics and heresies and their harm to the body of Christ, much of the modern church does not even care two hoots about it."
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"It's terrific, you were inspiring without being sentimental or romantic… and hard headed about the challenges. Really great job." – Michael Pollan
The Greenhorns documentary film, completed after almost 3 years in production, explores the lives of America's young farming community – its spirit, practices, and needs. It is the filmmaker's hope that by broadcasting the stories and voices of these young farmers, we can build the case for those considering a career in agriculture – to embolden them, to entice them, and to recruit them into farming. The production of The Greenhorns is part of our grassroots nonprofit's larger campaign for agricultural reform.
You can now purchase our DVD from Collective Eye Films for community screenings, institutional use, and home movie nights!
If you would like to watch it but have limited funds, many local libraries have been more than happy to buy a copy. Try yours!
Film Advisors
Al Attara, Metropolitan Exchange, Green Business Incubator Les Blank, Flower Films
Amigo Bob, Ecological Farming Association, Eco-Farm
Ignacio Chapela, UC Berkeley, Microbial Ecology
Jim Churchill, Ojai Pixie Tangerines/Film Festival
Mariana Coyne, Living on the Wedge, Slow Food
Claire Cummings, Journalist, Environmental Lawyer
Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, WATER Institute
Joan Dye Gussow, This Organic Life, Environmental Nutritionist
Karen Heisler, Pie Ranch + Mission Pie
Kendra Johnson, California FarmLink
Sandor E. Katz, The Revolution will not be Microwaved, Wild Fermentation
Craig McNamera, Center for Land Based Learning + Sierra Orchards
Ken Meter, Crossroads Resource Center
Denise O'Brien, Women's Food and Agriculture network, Iowa
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Botany of Desire, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Bonnie Powell, The Ethicurian.com
Megan Shaw Preligner, Open source librarian, Prelinger Library
Judith Redmond, Full Belly Farm
Tom Stearns, High Mowing Seeds
Reverend Billy Talen + Sister Savitri D, Spiritual Advisors
Alice Waters, Chez Panisse
Aaron Woolf, King Corn
Almost two years after its founding in a basement in Berkeley, California, The Greenhorns has matured from an idea for a recruitment film into a widespread national community. We are now happily rooted on my first commercial farm, Smithereen, on rented land in the Hudson Valley of New York. In the autumn of 2007 we officially began seeking out mentors and characters for a film, traveling the country with a confident intuitive sense of an emerging movement of young farmers and a series of borrowed cameras and generous cinematographers. On the road for these 2 years we have found that the movement has emerged–scrappy, resourceful, adaptive young Americans have brought the products and the spirit of this movement into the sun, and we are proud to be the reporters of its successes and a hub for a much-needed centralized network. This is America, and it takes all kinds.
All over the country we have met enterprising, hopeful greenhorns: descendents of family dairies, punky inner-city gardeners, homesteaders, radical Christians, anarcho-activists, ex-suburbanites, graduates with biological science degrees, ex-teachers, ex-poets, ex-cowboys. The sons of traditional farmers, the daughters of migrant farm workers, the accidental agriculturalists and the deliberate career switchers all mark our maps. In foothills, warehouses, back valleys, and vacant lots they are popping up as we reclaim human spaces in the broad lazerland of Monoculture that has engulfed rural America. This Obama spring finds the young farmers as unlikely poster children of a new zeitgeist. Aptly so. Ranging around the country in my filmmaking, I have met hundreds of new and aspiring young farmers. I have found them a powerful, proud and wily subculture. I have found them to be charismatic icons of change, patriots of place, sensible and sensitive stewards of land and resources. They are the creators of a retrofit future, and just in time. We now have the political change. We have reawakened our democratic will and discovered a dilation in the realms of possibility. We must take advantage of the moment. Yes! We are farming! We are hopeful. The produce of local agriculture is in hot demand with the most loyal of customers. CSAs all have waiting lists, and healthy mothers determined to have healthy babies are fiercely devoted to nutrition and the farmers who provide it.
Popular literature and sensibility is gravitating to our message of health for our selves, our soil, our social fabric. I have learned that it is possible for us to succeed, to prosper; meanwhile the market continues to grow! Farming in America is simultaneously a privilege and a service. And no, it is not easy. Young farmers in America face tremendous structural obstacles. They seek access to land, capital, education, and business training. They seek cultural support and open minded consumers. They need reasonable paths to acquiring mechanical equipment and other infrastructures of medium-scale agriculture. These are missing components of our culture and our laws, and they are deeply missed by young farmers who are forced to improvise and invent new institutions to serve their new needs and new marketplace. The movement is for real. Its practitioners are skilled, savvy and ferocious. They are assets to their community and guarantors of our future. They are shovel-ready, shovel-sharpened. Relishers of flavor, recipients of the generosity of photosynthesis. Hell bent on recovering from the age of convenience. They are young farmers with young muscles wisely applying their lives to the problems at hand. But it takes the applied passions of thousands, hundreds of thousands of courageous actions to repair a nation. It will take a radical shift in the structure of the Farm Bill, in the literacy of eaters, in the shape of commerce and land management. It will take the support of you all.
If you are thinking of farming, do! If you cannot join us, connect with your stomachs and please buy and savor and share our products! If your kid wants to farm, tell them its OK! Help them open a savings account or lend startup capital to a young farmer in your town. Please collaborate. Please facilitate. Please donate. Please join us or rally on your own to ensure the success of AmericaÍs young farmers.
– Severine von Tscharner Fleming May 20, 2009 Smithereen Farm, Hudson River Valley, NY


Dr. Karen E. Joynt, Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
The reality that race and ethnicity are inextricably linked to the risk of death in the United States makes elucidation of the complex mechanisms underlying disparities of paramount importance. In this issue of JACC: Heart Failure, Durstenfeld et al. (1) report findings on health outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities following hospitalization for heart failure in New York City's municipal health system, NYC Health+Hospitals. This system is the largest public health system in the United States and is charged with providing care for more than 1 million patients, many of whom are poor and underserved. In this setting, in which access to services is ostensibly similar between subpopulations, Durstenfield et al. (1) report the seemingly paradoxical findings that black, Hispanic, and Asian patients had lower 1-year mortality than white patients, but higher readmission rates. These observations confirm prior findings of higher readmission rates (2–5) and lower mortality rates following hospitalization for racial and ethnic minorities (6,7) and add to the large, complex, and growing body of literature on the link between race/ethnicity and health outcomes (8–11).
The authors should be commended for starting the more difficult job of trying to unpack why these differences and disparities exist by using a dataset in which access to care should not differ by race and ethnicity. However, the fact that they find, even in a system with theoretically equal access, that these same patterns hold suggests that there is much more to learn. To solve the paradox, we need to go further. What plausibly links race and ethnicity to higher readmission rates but to lower mortality rates? How can these 2 seemingly opposite patterns coexist?
One possibility for the observed inverse relationship between readmissions and mortality might be the different underlying biology of heart failure in individuals of different race/ethnicity. Black and Hispanic individuals are more likely to have diastolic dysfunction and nonischemic cardiomyopathy, as well as early clinical heart failure, and these are linked to higher rates of poorly controlled diabetes, obesity, and hypertension (12–14); it is thus feasible that racial and ethnic minorities suffer from disease earlier because of poor preventive care but then have heart failure that is more responsive to the institution of treatment for these underlying causes once diagnosed. Conversely, in the current report, white patients were on average more than 10 years older than minority patients and were more likely to have dementia—both risk factors for mortality that are not modifiable.
Beyond biology, the paradoxical relationship between mortality and readmissions may be due to the fact that different factors influence these 2 outcomes. Whereas readmissions are highly sensitive to factors outside the hospital (15), mortality may be more sensitive to acute in-hospital treatment of disease, which has been shown previously to differ less by race/ethnicity than many outpatient measures (16). As inpatient care has become increasingly protocolized and standardized, care may have commensurately become more equal.
Readmissions, on the other hand, are by definition sensitive to what happens after discharge, and it is possible that racial and ethnic minorities face greater disadvantage outside hospital walls. For example, black and Hispanic individuals are more likely to live in poverty (17) and are more likely to live in neighborhoods with high levels of deprivation and income inequality, both of which have been linked to readmissions (18,19). The availability of healthy food, safe space to exercise, and even clean air may be worse for racial and ethnic minorities, and each of these elements may influence the likelihood of return to the hospital. Further, black and Hispanic individuals tend to be cared for by lower-quality physicians in the outpatient setting (20), which may impact readmission rates.
Mortality and readmission could also be paradoxically linked because of differential patterns of use of health care services. In contrast to many other clinical conditions, the admission rate for patients presenting to the emergency department with heart failure is very high—more than 80% by some accounts (21). If racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to present to the emergency department with heart failure rather than to clinic, whether due to the unavailability of high-quality primary care, a lack of experience with navigating the health care system, or other factors (22), it is possible that the population of black and Hispanic patients presenting with heart failure is simply less acutely ill overall. Admitting a less sick population will naturally lead to lower mortality rates. Although generally this would lead to lower readmission rates as well, this could be offset by the same factor that led to the higher admission rates in the first place—the propensity to use the emergency department as the primary site of care for heart failure exacerbations.
Finally, central to the hypothesis of the current report is the premise that access to care should be similar in patients within a single health system. However, given the sheer size of New York City's public health system, which encompasses 11 acute care hospitals and more than 70 outpatient clinics spread across 5 boroughs, there is likely a great deal of heterogeneity in access and quality that may impact outcomes. This heterogeneity may be due to both patients and providers: access to care is a complex notion that encompasses not only the availability or existence of health services, but also an individual's ability to engage those resources. Although guided by the principle of equal access, the availability of a public health system is likely inadequate to ensure equal access for the most vulnerable in our society.
The distinction between the above options (and many more that are surely at play) is not just academic. Our ability to solve this paradox—and an even broader one, which is that despite lower mortality after acute hospitalization, racial and ethnic minorities still suffer from strikingly lower life expectancy than their white counterparts (23)—will determine whether we can design policies and clinical interventions that can begin to reduce the disparities in health and health outcomes that remain so prevalent in this country.
Both authors have reported that there are no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
(2011) Readmission rates for Hispanic Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure and acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J 162:254–261.e3.
(2014) Disparities in surgical 30-day readmission rates for Medicare beneficiaries by race and site of care. Ann Surg 259:1086–1090.
(2014) Association between skilled nursing facility quality indicators and hospital readmissions. JAMA 312:1542–1551.
(2013) Cardiovascular mortality in Hispanics compared to non-Hispanic whites: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the Hispanic paradox. Eur J Int Med 24:791–799.
(2013) Outcomes for whites and blacks at hospitals that disproportionately care for black Medicare beneficiaries. Health Serv Res 48:114–128.
(2003) Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (National Academies Press (US), Washington, DC).
(2014) Current quality of cardiovascular prevention for Million Hearts: an analysis of 147,038 outpatients from The Guideline Advantage. Am Heart J 168:398–404.
(2010) Racial disparities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions. Am J Prevent Med 38:381–388.
(2014) A decade of racial and ethnic stroke disparities in the United States. Neurology 82:1080–1082.
(2010) Race/ethnic disparities in left ventricular diastolic function in a triethnic community cohort. Am Heart J 160:152–158.
(2006) Racial differences in the characteristics of patients admitted for acute decompensated heart failure and their relation to outcomes: results from the OPTIME-CHF trial. J Cardiac Fail 12:684–688.
(2015) Community factors and hospital readmission rates. Health Serv Res 50:20–39.
(2008) Do hospitals provide lower-quality care to minorities than to whites? Health affairs 27:518–527.
United States Census Bureau. People in Poverty by Selected Characteristics: 2012 and 2013. In: United States Census Bureau S, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division, editor. Washington, DC, 2014.
(2013) Understanding why patients of low socioeconomic status prefer hospitals over ambulatory care. Health Affairs 32:1196–1203.
(2012) Differences in life expectancy due to race and educational differences are widening, and many may not catch up. Health Affairs 31:1803–1813.


LOCATED IN THE CAPITAL OF ALABAMA, THE TEAM WITH THE FUNNY NAME, BISCUITS, PLAYS IN WHAT HAS TO BE THE BEST BALLPARK IN THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
I'M THINKING IT MAY BE THE BEST IN ALL OF DOUBLE 'A'.
LOCATED ALONG THE ALABAMA RIVER, WHICH I DID NOT GET TO SEE, IS RIVERWALK STADIUM.
IT IS CALLED RIVERWALK BUT THE RIVER IS NOT IN VIEW OF THE PARK. THAT IS OK BECAUSE THIS PLACE IS SO AESTHETICALLY PLEASING THAT NO OUTSIDE DISTRACTIONS ARE NEEDED.
UPON ARRIVING AT THE PARK, YOU WALK INTO THE 100+ YEAR OLD BUILDING, BUILT I BELIEVE IN 1895, AND USED BY THE ALABAMA RAIL COMPANY. IN MANY WAYS, MONTGOMERY COULD HAVE USED THE CITY SKYLINE AND THE TRAIN STATION IN THE OUTFIELD. INSTEAD THEY WENT ONE BETTER AND USED THE STATION BUILDING AS HOME FOR CONCESSIONS AND SKY BOXES.
GAME THAT THERE WERE NO VENDORS SO THIS AREA NEEDS TO BE SPACIOUS. THE CONCESSION FOLKS SEEM TO BE USED TO THE CROWDS BECAUSE ANY LINES I SAW WERE MOVING QUICKLY DURING THE GAME.
WALK AROUND THE FIELD ON A SPACIOUS WALKWAY.
ONCE THE GAME BEGINS, THE BISCUITS DO THE RIGHT THING, THE GAME IS HANDLED VERY WELL.
THE GREAT LOOKING FIELD, THE QUICK UPDATES ON THE SCOREBOARD, AND THE MINIMAL BETWEEN INNING PROMOTIONS, THE GAME HERE IS NUMBER ONE.
IN LOOKING AROUND THE PARK, ANOTHER ASPECT I AM A BIG FAN OF IS THE RIGHT FIELD AREA. THE WALL IN RIGHT FIELD BUBBLES IN ABOUT 10 FEET MAKING A BIG LUMP BETWEEN RIGHT FIELD AND RIGHT CENTER.
BISCUITS GAMES. THERE IS SO MUCH MORE HERE, THE MASCOT, THE FRIENDLY STAFF, AND THE SMALL SIZE OF THE PARK KEEPS EVERYONE CLOSE TO THE ACTION ON THE FIELD.


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2015: The Year in Review, Part 1
Compiled by City Times Staff
City Hires Consultant for Riverfront Upgrades
The Wisconsin Rapids Finance and Property Committee on Tues, May 5 unanimously approved hiring a consultant to complete a design plan for a
The current view of Mead Rapids View Park (City Times Photo)
two-mile section of public riverfront space.
The project will focus on the section of riverfront property between Riverview Expressway and the northern Wisconsin Rapids city limits.
Mayor Zach Vruwink said the city is working with Rep. Scott Krug to secure some state funding via a Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) grant.
"We're very much convinced that- and other communities that have done this have demonstrated- once a city invests in itself with some of these public spaces, private investors will also invest- and they invest in different ways," he said. "So we're looking at a very large investment along the east river bank."
Rapids Students See Heavy Metal
Wisconsin Rapids Area sophomores visited manufacturing sites and learned about industrial career opportunities during the 3rd annual Heavy Metal Bus Tour on May 20.
Erco Worldwide in Port Edwards, Wis.
"We felt the need to shine the light on the manufacturing jobs that are available here in this community," said Melissa Reichert, chamber president. "This is an idea that originated in Wausau…the idea to shine the light on metal manufacturing up in the Wausau community. We modeled our program after it."
The tour, hosted by the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce, exposes students to the various local career opportunities in the fields of engineering and manufacturing. Sophomores from Wisconsin Rapids and Nekoosa High Schools spent the day visiting local manufacturers including ERCO Worldwide, a chemical producer, and Jacoby Custom Cues, a pool cue manufacturer. Students also toured Mid-State Technical College to learn about the various educational programs available in the field.
"We are a very technically based company. Our manufacturing process requires good technical knowledge. When we search for new employees we're really searching for high level mathematical, science, logic-based skills," said Dawn Jenson, ERCO Worldwide technical manager. "We think this Heavy Metal Bus Tour is a really great way to start introducing students to the great kinds of jobs that exist right here in our community."
Grand Rapids Fire Department Gets New Ladder Truck
Firefighters in the Town of Grand Rapids have a new ride.
The town announced this week it had replaced it aging aerial ladder truck. The new ladder truck is just another tool, according to Fire Chief Donald Bohn, in keeping the community safe.
"Our officers and firefighters are serious about the safety of all residents of the Town of Grand Rapids, and those in our contracted service areas in Saratoga and Grant," Bohn said. "With the great community support and cooperation, our department is better able to serve everyone, residents and businesses alike."
The new truck also helps the fire department keep its current high insurance classification. The town's Public Safety Committee previously approved the truck.
"As the town chairman and a board member for over 20 years I am proud to see that our board recognizes our high quality well trained fire department members and are providing them with modern trucks and equipment," said Town Chairman Arne Nystrom.
Council Approves Funding For Economic Growth Group
The Wisconsin Rapids Common Council approved a $20,716 contribution to the formation of a full-time president position for the Regional Economic Growth Initiative, a South Wood County no-profit group charged with fostering economic growth in the area.
"It's a desire to have a regional entity that's responsible for economic development," said Adam Tegen, Wisconsin Rapids Director of Planning and Economic Development and REGI board member. "That's encompassing not only working with our existing businesses to make sure they have what they need to stay open and to ideally expand and thrive in our community but also to be that forward-facing entity that goes out and is the public face of our region, trying to attract additional investment and companies in this area."
Tegen said the REGI board is looking for a 3-year funding commitment from the city to get things off the ground and running.
"The goal of REGI and the new president when he is on board is to expand the funding for that entity. To bring in non-profit money and business money, utility money to try and offset any investment from the city or the other municipalities," said Tegen.
Fire Department Receives Heart Attack Treatment Award
The Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department was presented the Bronze Level Recognition award from Mission: Lifeline on Tuesday for their work in improving treatment measures for victims of severe heart attacks.
"It's really a testament to our investment as a city that we make in our services," said Mayor Zach Vruwink. "It's something as a city to hang our hat on. The fact that there's now been an acknowledgement for our efforts to continue to be fast and provide a level of care that people need us for."
Mission: Lifeline was created by the American Heart Association to improve treatment of ST-elevated myocardial infarctions (STEMI), a type of heart attack caused by a complete blockage of blood flow to the heart, and out of hospital cardiac arrests in order to make sure patients receive appropriate treatment, including heart catheterization, for their life-threatening conditions within an acceptable time frame.
That time frame is 90 minutes.
"If that happens within a 90-minute time frame, patient survivability is around 98 percent," said Scott Young, WRFD Deputy Chief. "More importantly, the majority of patients can return to a quality lifestyle. By that I mean we hope they can maintain a lifestyle they had pre-cardiac incident."
City Officials, Public See First Riverfront Options
Preliminary concepts for future possible updates to the Wisconsin Rapids riverfront were seen by city officials and the public over the last week, bringing a glimpse into what's possible on the river.
"They're definitely making progress by the way of achieving the objective of activating some of the spaces that we think can serve better purpose for the public," said Wisconsin Rapids Mayor Zachary Vruwink. "This stage was very much high level concepts. Then we get feedback from staff, elected officials and the public."
New York-based Supermass, an urban landscape design firm, was hired by the city in May to complete a design plan for a two mile section of public riverfront space between the Riverview Expressway and the northern city limits. Many public parks dot the riverfront including Legion Park, Mead Rapids View Park and Veterans' Memorial Park.
"I like the concepts. We all would like to make more use out of the riverfront," said 8th District Alderman Terry Dolan. "But we're going to need entities to work together to make that happen. Obviously the city doesn't have the money to just do that."
City Urges State to Improve Transportation Funding
After years of reduced state funding for road construction, the Wisconsin Rapids Common Council, in conjunction with the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, unanimously approved a resolution calling for state support in transportation funding.
In a memo to the council, Vruwink outlined the need for support of the resolution.
"The current and future condition of our infrastructure, absent new revenues, threatens our economy- as lack of funds delay much needed projects and also threatens the state of our already declining and compromised roads and bridges. With the next biennium state budget already passed, the state must adopt a responsible level of bonding, user fees and other revenue sources to adequately fund Wisconsin's transportation system to prevent further road deterioration and take a step in the right direction for improving our local road conditions."
According to Vruwink, limits on amounts the city can levy from the citizens make it difficult for the city to fund road improvements and that responsible and sustainable bonding and an increase in vehicle user fees are needed to achieve this goal.
"Since we've chosen as a state, they've chosen not to do an iPass situation where you have a toll road at this time…something does need to be done," said 7th District Alderman James Stack.
The resolution says that about 90 percent of Wisconsin roads are under the purview of local governments for improvement and repair. Also, according to a study by the Local Government Institute of Wisconsin, the condition of the state's highways are in the bottom third of the country.
Rapids Accepted into Community Development Program
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has accepted 18 municipalities, including Wisconsin Rapids, into its Connect Communities Program, an initiative that works with communities to advance downtown and urban corridor revitalization efforts.
With the latest members, there are now 43 participants in the Connect Communities Program, which provides access to resources and training to help downtown organizations pursue revitalization and redevelopment efforts. Since the program was launched in January 2014, participating communities have reported adding 175 total new businesses and more than 500 jobs, as well as $30 million in private investment.
"We are proud that Wisconsin Rapids has been selected by the Connect Communities Program. This designation validates the vision shaped by years of local support – from the planning of civic leaders from years past down to our present day, to the interest and suggestions of everyday community residents." said Mayor Zachary Vruwink in a memo. "With continued engagement from our citizens, our involvement with Connect Communities will help us to leverage the unique assets of our Downtown Riverbank district."
Police, EMS Celebrate National Night Out
Firetrucks were on display for children to explore at National Night Out.
The Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services met for an afternoon of food and fun on Tuesday to celebrate National Night Out.
The National Night Out is an annual community building event that promotes police and community relationships and neighborhood camaraderie. Rapids has celebrate NNO for the past six years after joining the National Association of Town Watch.
"When we have a chance to interact in a positive way with our community and to let them know that law enforcement, EMS, fire, our rescue services, our ham operators, all these people that come together in a time of need, a time of emergency, it's good to get to know us and have interaction with us during a non-emergent situation," said Chief of Police Kurt Heuer.
Heuer has been chief for every NNO in Rapids.
"When the chips are down and something needs to be done in our community as far as an emergency there's a trust factor," said Heuer. "We work with some of the best here."
Rapids Water Declared Best Tasting in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Rapids' drinking water was declared the best tasting in Wisconsin this year, taking the title at the Wisconsin State Fair last week.
The Wisconsin Rapids water tower
In the annual competition sponsored by the Wisconsin Water Assocation, Rapids' water was chosen over 20 other drinking water utilities including 2nd place winner Arcadia and nearby Stevens Point that won 3rd place. Point had previously taken the title in 2009 and Arcadia was last year's winner.
"I did bring a bottle of Wisconsin's best tasting water this evening," said Mayor Zachary Vruwink during his monthly report on Tuesday night at a meeting of the Wisconsin Rapids Common Council. "I can rub that in my peers faces as they've gone around and jabbed each other the last number of years for having the best tasting water. I can obviously turn the table on them."
Judges included representatives from MillerCoors, Ocean Spray, the Water Council, the Public Service Commission and Wisconsin brew masters. The non-scientific judgement was made based on taste, odor and appearance of the water samples.
Firefighters Fill the Boot for MDA
Wisconsin Rapids Firefighters braved traffic today as they collected donations for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in their annual Fill the Boot fundraising campaign.
Firefighters raise funds for MDA, accepting cash from those driving by.
Firefighters gathered around the entrance to the Crossroads Center from noon to 4:30 PM gathering donations from passersby for the MDA's various programs. Donations collected by the firefighters go toward research for cures to muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy and other life-threatening diseases that can impair the ability of those diagnosed to walk, move or breath.
Firefighter Brian St. Myers said this year's fundraising goal is $5,000, a goal they've achieved before but a substantial increase from last year's total of about $3,000. St. Myers has worked on Fill the Boot for the past eight years.
"It's nice to meet some of the people you serve and give them the opportunity to help someone else too," said St. Myers.
MDA Fundraising Coordinator Heather Buchberger said the MDA spends $75,000 per day on research towards curing muscular dystrophy and related diseases so most of the funds raised go towards that effort. In addition to research, she said funds are also distributed to the MDA's summer camps, support groups, free clinics and equipment repairs.
"Someday we want you guys not to be out here at all doing this because we have a cure for muscle disease," said Buchberger to the firefighters.
5K Runners get Kolored for Kids
A sea of white t-shirts and clean faces were soon stained Saturday morning as the Kolor for Kids FunFest runners sprinted through five kilometers of brightly colored corn starch to raise money for the Children's Miracle Network.
The Kolor for Kids 5K color run began at 9:00 AM Saturday morning in an effort to raise funds for the Children's Miracle Network. This is the fourth Kolor for Kids event and has already raised over $12,000 this year. All money raised will benefit the local Children's Miracle Network hospital, Ministry St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, Wis. Proceeds will support medical equipment, child life specialists and patient specific grants.
Prior to the race, doves were released by Lindsey Krueger, this year's Miracle Child, and her little sister Lauren.
The color run ended in a blast of color thrown by the runners.
"The doves are in remembrance of those who could not be with us today and it's a celebration of life for those who are here as well," said Amanda Vandehay, foundation development specialist at the Foundation of Ministry St. Joseph's Hospital.
Lindsey received treatment from the CMN after suffering from head trauma caused by falling from a tree.
A grand finale of color throws ended the day in a plume of rainbow powder. The color run events have become increasingly popular fundraising events. Vandehay said that the color runs have been extremely successful since the CMN began using them for fundraising.
Rapids Funeral Home Takes Top Honors
Herman-Taylor Funeral Home has been honored by the National Funeral Directors Association with their 2015 Pursuit of Excellence Award.
Only 155 firms from around the world received this prestigious recognition, placing Herman-Taylor Funeral Home among an elite group of funeral service providers. Pursuit of Excellence Award recipients raise the bar on funeral service excellence by adhering to the highest ethical and professional standards and providing unsurpassed service to families and communities.
"Herman-Taylor Funeral Home's voluntary participation in the Pursuit of Excellence Award program reflects a clear determination to exceed the expectations of those they serve," said NFDA Chief Executive Officer Christine Pepper, CAE. "This prestigious recognition assures families of the high-quality, compassionate service they will receive the moment they walk through the funeral home's front door."
Local Author Publishes Cranberry Themed Children's Book
Wisconsin Rapids author Lisl H. Detlefsen is excited for the upcoming release of her debut children's book, "Time for Cranberries," a tale of the cranberry harvest season.
The book, to be released on September 1, follows the adventures of Sam, the 7-year-old son of cranberry farmers, as he is invited to work his first cranberry harvest. Sam learns the process of harvesting cranberries from booming and corralling to picking and cleaning. Sam is hungry to learn about the cranberry's harvest but more so to eat them.
"I was inspired to write this book from my experiences living on our family's cranberry marsh and I'm very excited to bring it to readers," said Detlefsen.
Detlefsen is originally from Janesville and went to art school at UW-Madison but she moved to the Rapids area after she got married. Her husband Robert continues to operate his family's 140-acre cranberry farm on the Whittlesey marsh. The farm has been in the family since 1871. It has been part of the Ocean Spray family of cranberry farms since 1956 and produces the fruit for juices and sauce.
Waterski World Record Attempt Unsuccessful
The world record books will remain unchanged in one waterski event this year.
Multiple attempts by the Wisconsin Rapids Aqua Skiers and five other area ski show teams ended in failure as they tried to break the world record
72 water skiers set up for the world record pyramid attempt.
for largest human waterskiing pyramid on Lake Wazeecha. The current record consists of 60 people in the pyramid. Saturday's attempt was for a record 72 skiers. The six ski show teams include the Aqua Skiers, Aquaducks, Backwater Gamblers, Badgerland, Beaverland Must-Skis and Water Bugs ski show teams.
The skiers had a hard time getting beyond the starting platform. Once the pull boat took off, the skiers slid from their platform, hit the water and seemed to stop almost instantly. Upon a failure, all the skiers had to return to shore, and recoil their ropes, which were nearly 300 feet long, before heading to the start platform and trying again. Each reset took about 30 minutes.
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OETI – Institut für Ökologie, Technik und Innovation, the Vienna based textile testing and certification body, has announced the new label "INSPECTED QUALITY", developed for products composed of 100% natural fibres, produced regionally and in an environmentally friendly way.
The new certification is targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises who want to illustrate the local, eco-friendly and high-quality character of their products. Natural fibres include plant, animal and mineral fibres like cotton, flax, hemp, animal wool and hair and silk. Among the "environmentally friendly production" requirements, there is a commitment to improving environmental performance and to pollution prevention, investigation of direct and indirect environmental aspects, a definition of quality and environmental goals, risk management and quality control and transparent supply-chain.
OETI relies on a dual-system to check compliance with the relevant criteria consisting of the submission of test reports and documents, plus an audit once every three years. The first INSPECTED QUALITY awarded company is the Austrian Moosburger KG that produces horse hair matrasses, mattress pads and pillows.


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Ambiancé è un film sperimentale del 2020 diretto da Anders Weberg.

Nato come protesta contro la ricreazione dei vecchi classici, la pellicola si propone al secondo posto nella lista dei film più lunghi nella storia del cinema con un totale di 720 ore (30 giorni) contro invece le 857 di Logistics, che detiene il primo posto.

Produzione
Weberg ha dichiarato di avere ormai completato 400 ore di riprese di Ambiancé e che, per stare nei tempi del lancio mondiale, ogni settimana dovrà andare avanti di 7 o 8 ore con la troupe.
Parte di queste riprese, è stata girata nell'ottobre del 2015 su una spiaggia in Svezia, dove anche il celebre Ingmar Bergman avrebbe ripreso alcune scene del film Il settimo sigillo.

Distribuzione
Un primo trailer di 72 minuti è stato rilasciato nel 2014, mentre nel 2016 un secondo di 439 minuti (7 ore e 20 minuti) a ripresa continua è stato caricato sul web. Benché nel 2018 fosse stata prevista l'esistenza di un altro trailer di 72 ore, quest'ultimo non fu mai pubblicato.

La data di uscita del lungometraggio è stata prevista per il 31 dicembre 2020 quando verrà trasmesso in mondovisione. Oltre ad aver evidenziato l'opera come ultima della sua carriera di regista, Weberg ha anche annunciato che, una volta terminata la proiezione, distruggerà lui stesso l'unica copia esistente della pellicola, facendo sì che non possa più essere vista.

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"I can't release [their names]," explained Linton, who then said he didn't know their names ("I'm telling you what I know").
Linton first said he got the information from his taxi (hack) inspectors, from whom drivers report suffering widespread abuse. Then he said it was Metropolitan Police Department officers, working with hack inspectors, who brought these alleged crimes to his attention.
Bill Miller, spokesman for the U.S. attorney, said he'd seen the recent media reports and would like to be helpful but "no cases [fitting that description] come readily to mind." "It's not to say we haven't had any," said Miller, who explained that his office would need more information in order to track down the cases. He suggested contacting MPD.
Not only the content but the timing of Linton's comments is being called into question.
As part of the city's campaign to implement what one official described as "a forceful modernization of the taxi industry," drivers are being given a so-called fare increase. "This is part of the deal, a quid pro quo," explained Councilmember Mary Cheh, who has oversight of the taxicab industry.
The so-called fare increase raises the per mile rate to $2.16 from $1.50 per mile, while completely eliminating the $1 fuel surcharge and partly elminating the extra passenger fee, among other sources of driver revenue. Since most District rides are short in distance (exact numbers are hard to come by), drivers contend that the increased fare won't make up for the loss in revenue resulting from the elimination of fees and surcharges.
Linton told The Examiner that the so-called fare increase may go into effect by April 21. The issue is on the agenda for the commission's April 11 meeting, which is likely to be contentious.
Even if the proposed fare increase amounts to a small gain for drivers, it still won't come close to restoring drivers' 30 percent loss of income that resulted from the installation of meters, which were set at the lowest rates in the country.
In a separate but related issue, passengers may soon see a $0.25 to $0.50 surcharge on all rides if legislation introduced by Cheh passes the Council. That money, however, will go directly to the taxi commission, bypassing drivers, and will be used to install devices in the backseat of all cabs similar to those found in New York City which display advertising, news and entertainment, and have proved very unpopular among passengers and drivers.


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Netflix Pledges $100 Million to Aid Entertainment Workers Impacted by Covid-19
by A.A. Cristi Mar. 20, 2020
Streaming giant Netflix has created a $100 million relief fund to aid entertainment workers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
$15 million of the fund will go to organizations providing aid to entertainment professionals who have been put out of work as a result of the covid-19 outbreak,
The fund will also allocate $1 million each to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Covid-19 Disaster Fund, the Motion Picture and Television Fund, and the Actors Fund Emergency Assistance. Fondation des Artistes and AFC will share an additional $1 million gift.
Part of the funds will be specifically allocated to countries where Netflix maintains a significant production presence.
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement. "Most of the fund will go towards support for the hardest hit workers on our own productions around the world...We're in the process of working out exactly what this means, production by production. This is in addition to the two weeks pay we've already committed to the crew and cast on productions we were forced to suspend last week."
Sarandos added that the company is "only as strong as the people we work with and Netflix is fortunate to be able to help those hardest hit in our industry through this challenging time."
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Check Out This Week's Top Stage Mags
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DEAR EVAN HANSEN National Tour to End its Run This Summer
The North American Tour of Dear Evan Hansen, which first launched at the Buell Theatre in Denver, Colorado in October 2018, will end its run on July 2nd, 2023 at the Koger Center in Columbia, South Carolina. See how to purchase tickes!
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66th Annual Obie Awards to Return Live and in Person in February
The 66th Annual Obie Awards, celebrating and honoring Off- and Off-Off-Broadway will take place on Monday, February 27, 2023 at Terminal 5.
Alyssa Fox to Take Over as Elphaba in WICKED Beginning in March
Alyssa Fox will take over the role of Elphaba in WICKED at Broadway's Gershwin Theatre beginning Tuesday, March 7th. See how to purchase tickets!
Alan Cumming Returns OBE, Citing 'Toxicity' in the British Empire
Alan Cumming has taken to Instagram to reveal that he has returned his OBE, due to his feelings about the 'toxicity' of the British Empire.
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Shoppers in Norwich were treated to a host of events including ice sculptures, male underwear models and a visit from Harry Potter star Chris Rankin at the weekend.
The Christmas Shopping event in John Lewis on Saturday saw ice sculptures carved live outside the shop while the Norwich City Concert band played nearby and customers were handed mulled apple punch and mince pies.
Inside the store actor Chris Rankin, who plays Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films, signed autographs for fans.
He said it was a welcome return to Norfolk, as he grew up in Dereham and went to Northgate High School.
"It's nice to come back and do local events, to see people say 'I'm from Dereham too'," he said.
The latest instalment of the film franchise, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1, is released on Friday, and shooting for the second and final film has already finished.
"It's really weird to think that it's been ten years, it's been amazing," said Chris.
He also judged the Harry Potter costume competition, and handed the winners Harry Potter Lego games and cinema tickets to see the new film.
Staff also put on a Christmas treasure hunt around the shop for children, and a post box so that they could send their letters to Father Christmas.
For adults there were two Calvin Klein underwear models on display in the shop window.
They promoted the Calvin Klein Christmas mens' range by posing for those on the pavement from 11am, and then headed to the menswear department to take part in a series of fashion workshops.
Other events in the store included cookery demonstrations, food tastings and a special Christmas menu was put on in the store cafe.
General manager Richard Marks said the idea behind the event was to "kick-start Christmas".
"I'm pleased we've been able to stage an ice sculpture event in the city, we've been able to keep that tradition alive," he said.


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Science & Policymaking
Dutch want their mussels free from micro-plastic litter, call on EU to act
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Toxic substances contained in micro-plastic waste can enter the food chain through ingestion by marine fauna like sea cucumbers, plankton and mussels, claim the Dutch, who will call on EU environment ministers to address the issue at a meeting today (18 June) in Luxembourg.
Micro-plastics, the Netherlands argues, find their way into marine ecosystems, resulting in a concentration of micro-plastics in water that are "sometimes higher than that of plankton". These substances usually originate from industry, household products and cosmetics such as scrubs or toothpaste.
The trouble, the Dutch environment ministry argues, is that micro-plastics can absorb toxic additives like PCBs or DDT and can enter the food chain through ingestion by marine fauna.
The Netherlands will invite EU member states and the European Commission to "start a discussion" in order to address the issue, according to a note circulated ahead of today's ministerial meeting.
"The findings of a recent study on plankton imply that micro-plastics can negatively impact upon zooplankton function and health if ingested in large quantities. Studies on mussels show the same result," the Dutch said in the note to the EU Council of Ministers, invoking the precautionary principle to address the growing problem.
"Although there is a still a large degree of uncertainty, what we already know gives us cause for concern," the Netherlands state. "In this case, the precautionary principle applies."
Some cosmetic manufacturers like Beiersdorf, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive and L'Oréal have already pledged to stop using micro-plastic scrub beads in their products, which would further justify an EU-wide ban.
"Since the cosmetics industry is already starting to take its share of responsibility, we would suggest considering a European ban on micro-plastics in cosmetics as a possible measure," the Dutch said.
Mussels are found in large quantities along the Dutch coastline and the sustainability of the mussels industry is a serious issue in the Netherlands, as illustrated by a series of videos posted on YouTube by the aquaculture sector.
"Zeeuwse mosselen", or mussels from the Dutch province of Zeeland, are a very popular and typical Dutch speciality seafood dish. According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, the Dutch aquaculture sector produces 50,000 to 60,000 tonnes of mussels per year. 60 to 70% of the mussels are exported to Belgium and France.
Some restaurants offer certificates ensuring that Dutch mussels on their menu are sustainable.
The European Commission launched a public consultation (Green Paper) in March 2013, which aims to launch discussions about how to make plastic products more sustainable and reduce the impact of plastic discards on the environment.
The Green Paper mentions micro-plastics as one of the public policy challenges posed by plastic waste.
Micro-plastics are an important category of marine litter referred to in the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), for which EU countries will have to develop targets and measures.
Information note from the Dutch delegation: Micro-plastic litter: a growing environmental problem (10 June 2013)
Background note: Environment Council (14 June 2013)
Press release: Environment: What should we do about plastic waste? New Green Paper opens EU-wide reflection (7 March 2013) [FR] [DE]
Green paper on a European strategy on plastic waste in the environment (7 March 2013)
Public consultation on the Green Paper on Plastic Waste
Marine Strategy Framework Directive


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Bank fraud case; CBI arrests Delhi-based firm's director
Nov 15, 2022, 08:23 am IST
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a managing director of a New Delhi-based firm on Monday in connection with a Rs 512.67 crore bank fraud investigation.
Avinash Jain, the director of Arise India Limited, a company that produces electrical goods, has been identified as the accused.
In 2020, a case was filed against a private company based in Mangala Puri and others on allegations of causing banks to lose approximately Rs 512.67 crore.
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