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2004 Top 10 - #3 and The Hall of Shame
#3: Before Sunset : For an early summer Valentine to all of us romantic movie-goers, Richard Linklater not only formulated a worthy sequel to his early-'90s love story, Before Sunrise, but he crafted 2004's best English-language motion picture. Before Sunset picks up nearly a decade after the first film ended, and answers all the necessary "what happened to..." questions. We re-connect with the characters as they re-connect with each other. And, as the chemistry begins to emerge from beneath the rust, we realize along with the protagonists that there may be such a thing as a soul-mate. Before Sunset is talky (it takes place in real time), but, for those who loved the first movie, that will not be a drawback. It's possible to argue the merits of the original picture against those of its sequel, but they work best when viewed as two chapters of a single story. Although the tone of Before Sunset is a little darker than that of Before Sunrise (youthful exuberance has been replaced with a kind of world-weary pessimism), the ending of the second film is less ambiguous and just as optimistic. Before Sunset is a chance to once again fall in love with these characters. One can only hope that Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy will give us another opportunity to meet them in the near future.
The 2004 Hall of Shame
As I go about counting down the Best of 2004, let me not neglect the other side of the fence. I see no real need to keep anyone in suspense, so I'll reveal the whole gory list at once. If you have seen one or two of these movies, you have my sympathy. If you have seen three or four, you may need to consider therapy. If you have seen five or more, you must be a film critic. No one else would willingly subject themself to such abject misery. As a reference point, consider #1 to be the "worst of the worst" (at least for this year).
#1: Without a Paddle: Also known as Grizzly Adams Strikes Back, with an Oscar-worthy performance by Bart the Bear.
#2: Van Helsing: As if Bram Stoker didn't already have enough reasons to turn in his grave...
#3: Catwoman: Felines did not fare well in movies this year (see #8, as well). Even the vision of Halle Berry in the dominatrix suit doesn't make this one worthwhile.
#4: Eurotrip: Eurotrash.
#5: The Whole Ten Yards: Offical burial for the careers of Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry.
#6: A Dirty Shame: It's nice when a title functions as its own best review.
#7: Envy: It sat on the shelf for two years before being released. It should have sat there longer.
#8: Garfield: Aside from not being funny and arriving in theaters fifteen years too late, what's not to like about this movie?
#9: The Perfect Score: Proof that even an actress of Scarlett Johansson's charisma and talent cannot save every movie in which she appears.
#10: Walking Tall: The most ill-advised remake of the year, and, considering some of the contenders, that's saying something.
The Dirty Harry Approach
We interrupt my year-end look back at 2008 for a story I stumbled upon in today's Philadelphia Inquirer. The direct link is here, but I'll copy and paste the relevant details:"A South Philadelphia man enraged because a family was talking during a ...
2006, more than any other recent twelve-month period, has been a year when hype and controversy have sold movies. From United 93 to World Trade Center, from The Da Vinci Code to Snakes on a Plane, studios have been courting the free advertising that...
Defanged
Note: Someone sent me an e-mail last week encouraging me to write more frequent ReelThoughts. His rationale was that it would be "good for business," which is hard to deny. More Reelthoughts = more pageviews = more opportunities for readers to ...


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Video shows Virgin Orbit rocket crash falling back to Earth
virgin orbit cosmic girlcarrying the LauncherOne rocket, taking off from Spaceport Cornwall, UK.
Photograph: Ben Birchall (SHOVEL)
After failing to reach orbit and delivering seven payloads aboard, Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket plummeted back to Earth towards its fiery destination. The rocket's hellish descent was captured on video, revealing the ill-fated journey back from space.
Ramón López, an observer for the Spanish Meteor Network, captured the rocket re-entering Earth's atmosphere from Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa. He released the footage in youtubeas well as in twitter.
Reentry Launcher One 2023-01-09
The video shows the second stage of LauncherOne falling back to Earth. "By doing so, friction with the atmosphere causes it to fragment, heat up and burn, creating a slow fireball in the sky," Marco Langbroek, professor of astrodynamics at Delft Technical University in the Netherlands, told Gizmodo in a interview. the e-mail. "The rocket stage at that time still carried the payloads attached to it—they burned along with the rocket stage.
Langbroek identified the fiery object in the video as LauncherOne based on the time the video was captured, its geographic location, the viewing direction as seen from Lanzarote, and the direction of movement of the object. "Very slow apparent speed in the sky, long duration, and the general appearance of the fireball is also consistent with the re-entry of an artificial object into the upper atmosphere," he added.
Virgin Orbit's modified Boeing aircraft, called cosmic girltook off on Monday at 17:02 ET from Spaceport Cornwall, England carrying the LauncherOne rocket tucked under its left wing. The mission should mark the first orbital launch from British soilbreaking new ground for the space industry in the UK.
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Nonetheless, LauncherOne experienced an anomaly during firing of its second-stage engine and failed to reach orbit. "The upper stage has not reached the required velocity to place itself and its payloads into an orbit around Earth," Langbroek said. "Although it briefly reached space, then fell back to Eartth again due to this insufficient velocity, on a suborbital ballistic trajectory."
The mission, titled "Start Me Up", carried satellites for seven commercial and government customers, including two cubesats for the UK Ministry of Defence, Oman's AMAN Earth Observation Satellite, and Stork-6, the sixth satellite that would later be included in the constellation of Earth observation cubes of Poland.
All satellites met the same fate, burning up along with the rocket during re-entry. It was a disappointing end to a highly anticipated mission, which was intended to usher in a new era for the European space industry. Virgin Orbit and the UK Space Agency have launched an investigation to determine the cause of the rocket anomaly.
"We will work tirelessly to understand the nature of the failure, take corrective action and return to orbit once we have completed a thorough investigation and mission assurance process," Dan Hart, CEO of Virgin Orbit, said in a statement. declaration. Following the mission failure, Virgin Orbit shares took a huge hit, falling about 22% in premarket trading on Tuesday morning, NBC reported. The company's financial situation was already looking a little bleak, with Virgin Orbit reporting a net loss of $139.5 million through September 30, 2022, Ars Technica reported based on the company's quarterly results.
"We will be working closely with Virgin Orbit as they investigate what caused the anomaly over the coming days and weeks," Matt Archer, UK Space Agency's director of commercial spaceflight, said in a statement. published to Twitter.
Despite the recent setback, the UK still seems determined to establish its launch capability on British soil. "Despite this, the project has succeeded in creating a horizontal launch capability at Spaceport Cornwall, and we remain committed to becoming Europe's leading commercial small satellite launch provider by 2030, with vertical launches planned from Scotland," said Archer.. With LauncherOne grounded for now, the UK can look to other companies to get its orbital launches off the ground and into orbit.
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Boat and ropes were where they should be this morning.
Before continuing on our way we wanted a few bits from town. Mick wanted more cable ties, we were running short and come in handy every now and again and I wanted some sheets of card to make some stencils for Panto.
Mick headed to Wilkos whilst I walked across town to find an art shop. Tucked behind The Old Town Deli Cafe is a small but well formed art supply shop. I'd rather buy from a shop like this than Hobbycraft. The lady helped me pick out some cheaper card to cut up, I just want to draw round it so I didn't have to fork out for expensive manila card. This will save a lot of time in marking out the main portals of my set which have a repetitive pattern.
I decided to have a look in M & S as I'd spotted what looked like a tasty gluten free chicken pie the other day. Cutting out pastry from my diet has reduced the amount of sausage rolls and pies we have and I do like a good pie. They had some in the chillers and handily Mick had turned up there too, so he paid.
Back at the boat we decided to move on a bit so that Tilly could have some shore leave and we could enjoy a full nights sleep without her careering around the boat to use up her energy at 3am! The Banbury Museum can wait till next time we're here.
All covers were unclipped and rolled back. Mick hunted through his tool box for some snips to cut through the cable ties he'd put round the ropes yesterday. But the strange thing was the cable ties had gone! They weren't reusable ones, you had to cut them. No sign of the bits either, just what had happened to them? Where had they gone? Strange.
Before Banbury Lock there is a lift bridge which is well used by people crossing to reach Castle Quays. I waited for a lull in pedestrians and wound it up, a very easy mechanism, there's plenty more to come that won't be so easy. Once through the lock we stopped at the service block to fill with water, empty yellow water and dispose of rubbish. By the bins, Mick happened to pick up the latest brochure for Chipping Norton Theatre, handy to see what is on especially the two films on Sundays whilst we are in rehearsals.
We pulled on a short distance further on for lunch, a hire boat selfishly having plonked itself right in the middle of the first moorings! As we cruise now we are taking note of suitable moorings for ease of access to work for me, but suitable for Tilly and Mick also. The first stretch by the station are a touch noisy, but beyond near Morrisons are better. Another mile further on between two lift bridges just past a large building site, we pulled in to an Oleanna sized gap, this would do us for the day. Tilly and I had a walk up to look at the next lift bridge and Mick chopped up the big bit of wood we've had on the roof for a while.
The stove is lit and we'll most probably try to keep it in tonight as the temperature is due to drop. A cosy evening in front of the stove knitting socks for strangers with the rumble of the M40 in the back ground, who could ask for more.
1 lock, 1.48 miles, 3 sheets card, 1 litter picker, 1 pack cable ties, 1 very tasty gf chicken pie with jacket potatoes from the stove, 1 full water tank, 1 empty wee tank, 0 rubbish left onboard, 1 tail held high cat, 1 peaceful nights sleep ahead, we hope.
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I find a clove hitch around the bollard provides sufficient discouragement to stop anyone casually lifting the rope off the bollard.Some cable ties become brittle and snap easily when cold so test yours after a spell in the freezer before relying on them in cold weather.


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PATCO Fraud Dispute Settled
Landmark Wire Fraud Case Comes to Close Tracy Kitten (FraudBlogger) • November 27, 2012
The ongoing dispute between PATCO Construction Inc. and People's United, formerly Ocean Bank, over a $500,000 account takeover incident dating back to 2009 has finally come to a close.
The two parties agreed in mid-November to settle their differences. People's United will pay PATCO for the losses the construction company suffered after a series of fraudulent wire transfers hit the company's commercial account, says Mark Patterson, co-owner of PATCO.
On July 3, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston reversed a lower court's judgment from 2011, which favored the bank. The appeals court also recommended that the two parties pursue an out-of-court settlement (see PATCO ACH Fraud Ruling Reversed).
Originally, PATCO was seeking damages and legal fees in addition to compensation for the fraudulent losses it suffered.
But Patterson says settlement was the only recourse. "We took the court's advice," he says.
Patterson would not offer further comment about the settlement, and People's United did not respond to a request for comment.
Avivah Litan, a fraud analyst with consulting firm Gartner, says the settlement should serve as a lesson for other institutions. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," she says. "The banks are clearly better equipped to prevent account takeover than their customers are, although certainly customers should institute whatever security measures they have access to."
Unreasonable Security Cited
In its 43-page ruling, the appellate court described the bank's security procedures as "commercially unreasonable," and said the bank should have detected and stopped the fraudulent transactions that hit PATCO's account. The ruling also claimed the former Ocean Bank increased PATCO's fraud risk by relying on what it referred to as a "one-size-fits-all" approach to monitoring and authentication of high-dollar transactions.
David Navetta, founding partner of the Information Law Group, says the PATCO case and others like it illustrate the increasing challenge banks face in the courts. "I think these cases ultimately hurt the negotiating position of banks involved in an ACH fraud situation arising out of online banking," he says.
As a result, Navetta suggests that, in many cases, banks might be better off if they simply cover the losses linked to account takeovers rather than risk losing a court battle.
The appellate ruling in the PATCO case, however, opened the door for future cases to explore the obligation commercial customers have for ensuring their own security. Pointing to Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code, which provides protections to commercial customers similar to those provided for consumers under Regulation E, the court suggested commercial customers have some responsibilities.
Under Article 4A, a bank typically bears the risk of loss when unauthorized funds transfers are approved. The bank may shift that risk of loss onto the customer by either proving the commercial reasonableness of its offered security procedures or by proving that it approved the fraudulent payment or transfer on good faith and in compliance with security procedures noted in its contract with the customer. But in its July ruling, the appeals court said: "Article 4A does not appear to be a one-way street. Commercial customers have obligations and responsibilities as well."
Had the parties not settled, their ongoing legal dispute likely would have involved a review of whether PATCO fulfilled its own obligations under the Uniform Commercial Code.
Litan says a simple rules-based fraud prevention system likely would have prevented Patco's account from being breached. But the larger question of customer obligations remains to be determined. "We are really no closer to knowing that then we were before," she says.
Other Fraud Cases
The PATCO case is the second high-profile dispute over an account takeover event to be settled out of court this year. In June, California-based Village View Escrow settled with its former bank, Professional Business Bank, for more than the $400,000 drained from its account in March 2010.
In May 2010, PlainsCapital Bank and Texas-based Hillary Machinery settled their legal differences over an ACH/wire fraud incident that cost Hillary Machinery more than $800,000 for an undisclosed amount. The case was the first to draw attention to account takeover risks posed by lax online security.
So far, of the incidents that have hit the headlines, only the ACH/wire fraud case between Michigan-based Experi-Metal Inc. and Comerica Bank was resolved in court. In June 2011, a district court ruled in favor of EMI and ordered Comerica to reimburse the business for the more than $560,000 drained from its account via fraudulent transactions.
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Toronto, Ontario - June 7, 2006 - Black Press Limited, a privately owned and operated company in which Torstar Corporation has a 19.35% interest, announced it has agreed to acquire the Akron Beacon Journal, the daily newspaper in Akron, Ohio. The purchase price is $165 million U.S. which will be financed internally by Black Press.
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While France and England gave materialistic, anti-traditional expressions to the concept of "the people" that was taking shape since the French Revolution, German Idealism was a return to a spiritual, metaphysical direction. The German Revolution moved in a volkish direction, where the volk was seen as the basis of the state, and the notion of a volk-soul that guided the formation and development of nations became a predominant theme that came into conflict with the French bourgeois liberal-democratic ideals derived from Jacobinism. Fichte had laid the foundations of a German nationalism in 1807-1808 with his Addresses to the German Nation. Although like possibly all revolutionaries or radicals of the time, beginning under the impress of the French Revolution, by the time he had delivered his addresses to the German nation, he had already rejected Jacobinism. Johann Heder had previously sought to establish the concept of the volk-soul, and of each nation being guided by a spirit. This was a metaphysical conception of race, or more accurately volk, that preceded the biological arguments of the Frenchman Count Arthur de Gobineau. Herder stated that the volk is the only class, and includes both King and peasant, and that "the people" are not the same as the rabble that are championed by Jacobinism and later Marxism.
French and English racism was introduced to Germany by the Englishman Houston Stewart Chamberlain who had a seminal influence on Hitlerism. English Darwinism, a manifestation of the materialistic Zeitgeist that dominated England, was brought to Germany by Ernst Haeckel; although Blumenbach had already begun to classify race according to cranial measurements during the 18th century. Nonetheless, biological racism reflects the English Zeitgeist of materialism. It provided primary materialistic doctrines to dethrone Tradition. Its application to economics also provided a scientific justification for the "class struggle" of both the capitalistic and socialistic varieties. Hitlerism was an attempt to synthesis the English eugenics of Galton and the evolution of Darwin with the metaphysis of German Idealism. Italian Traditionalist Julius Evola attempted to counter the later influence of Hitlerian racism on Italian Fascism by developing a "metaphysical racism," and the concept of the "race of the spirit," which has its parallels in Spengler, whose approach to race is in the Traditionalist mode of the German Idealists.
Because the Right, the custodian of Tradition within the epoch of decay, has been infected by the spirit of materialism, there is often a focus on secondary symptoms of culture disease, such as in particular immigration, rather than primary symptoms such as usury and plutocracy. "Race" becomes a matter of skull measuring, rather than spirit, élan and character. Hence the character of a civilisation and of a people is discerned via the types of bone and skull found amidst the ruins. History then becomes a matter of counting and measuring and statistics. How feeble such attempts remain is demonstrated by the years of controversy surrounding the racial identity of Kennewick Man in North America, having first thought to have been a Caucasian, and now concluded to have been of Ainu/Polynesian descent. The Traditionalist does not discount "race". Rather it plays a central role. How "race" is defined is another matter.


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Jacaranda, the Tree of Heaven
The magnificent Jacaranda
While most of the colour has drained from the bush and it seems to be a quiet time while it catches its breath, the city streets have erupted in a blaze of purple. This is because the Jacaranda is in bloom. I always thought that this was an Australian tree because it is so widespread on most of the east coast, but it turns out that according to Wiki the Jacaranda is a member of the Begonia family and a native of tropical and subtropical regions of Central and South America, although it is now very common in South Africa too.
Close -up of the blossom
According to Helen Curran, Assistant Curator of the Sydney Museum, in her delightful article "The Dream Tree: jacaranda, Sydney icon" it has come to us via those intrepid plant hunters of the C19th. with the first specimens arriving in Australia from London. Curran explains how the tree became so ubiquitous despite early difficulties. I especially like the following quote:
"The jacaranda flames on the air like a ghost,
Like a purer sky some door in the sky has revealed."
Excerpt from 'The Jacaranda' by Douglas Stewart, from The Dosser in Springtime (1946)
The Jacaranda is certainly popular in Perth. I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw all that purple. You don't see many in Tasmania because they don't like frosts, but it is said that on the mainland you can literally follow the progress of spring by the successive blooming of the Jacarandas along the coast. Grafton, about 600 Km north of Sydney has been celebrating their flowering for 81 years with its annual Jacaranda Festival in late October, but Perth has been holding its own for the past sixteen years.
Older suburbs have the finest specimens
Here it doesn't take place until late in November - last weekend to be precise, but unfortunately I didn't hear about it until the day after, when we were on our way to a Christmas Festival.
Around Darlington
And another
Purple haze above and below -Jacaranda season is very shortlived
The early settlers (at least since the 1930's anyway, according to Curran) must have really appreciated those magnificent trees as you see many fine examples in older suburbs. Applecross, where the festival is held, has a whole avenue of them. You do have to be quick though to catch those Jacarandas in bloom. I had planned to go back and take more pictures (I seem to be saying that a lot lately), but after only about a week which included several days of weather above 30o C, many of the blossoms had fallen and the trees were starting to look threadbare.
Purple petals on the footpath behind the Midland Town Hall
There's still a flush of purple in the Hills
The ephemeral beauty of the Jacaranda reminds me of that equally short -lived lilac that blooms all over Siberia in Spring. What a pity it doesn't seem to have a scent.
PS You'll be pleased to know that the Bobtail depicted on the previous page was not '"our" lizard, the one that gave me the fright of my life a couple of years ago when its large reptillian head appeared behind the roses I was weeding. I saw it again yesterday - my youngest son could probably tell you whether it was a girl or a boy. It was snacking on a snail. This is good because the snails aren't my friends anymore. I've noticed that they are responsible for the big black spots that appear on the leaves of the roses and sometimes you find them curled up right inside the flower heads or destroying the buds before they open.
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Years and years ago, I began to dream about this very month in this very year. I wondered what I'd be like, what my boy would be like, and what we'd be like as a mother and son.
In November of 2013, that far away place, I would become the mother of a teenager.
I'm a much wiser me, more in love with my Savior and more confident in who He made me to be.
As a mother and son, we're just how I'd imagined we'd be. We joke, we hug, and both have an equally intense love for chocolate chip cookies.
Now it's on to this month's Things I've Learned post. Each month (save October), I've made it a habit to link up at Chatting at the Sky, where Emily and the other bloggers share what we've been learning, be it silly or serious, it's there.
1. I love Instagram. I love the simplicity and beauty of seeing just a snapshot of the lives of the people I follow, which isn't very many since I just made an account a few weeks ago. I follow my real-life friends, some online friends, interesting people, and my favorite authors too. It's fun. You should try it. Then let me know so I can stalk follow you too. You can follow me HERE, if you are so inclined.
2. There's an Apple Cider herbal tea made by Bigelow that is super yummy, and it doesn't have any sugar unless you add it yourself. It's perfect for this time of year.
3. I didn't learn this for the first time in November, but I was reminded once again when I was reading An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott to the family that I love me some good old-fashioned charm. Give me a story with quaint homes, horse-drawn sleighs, and long dresses and wool socks, and you've got a happy girl. That's probably why I love Anne of Green Gables, the Little House books, Little Women, and Caddie Woodlawn too. Swoon.
4. I went out early on Black Friday to meet some girlfriends as I do every year. We start at Target, grab a coffee, casually stroll around, and will maybe hit two more stores after that. We grab some items, but we're super relaxed about it and just enjoy being together while our families are home sleeping. This year's outing started with a bit of hilarity. The temperature was well below zero on Thanksgiving night, so Jeremy (being the thoughtful man that he is) started up the vehicle I was going to be driving the next morning to make sure it would start up for me in the frigid temps. We don't have a garage, so sometimes cars just don't start when it's crazy cold. He planned to leave the car running a bit to warm up the engine, but then he forgot all about it. 8 hours later, at 4:00 a.m., my husband scared the living daylights out of me by jumping out of bed after realizing he'd left the car running. I left the house at 5:30, and to my delight, it was still warm inside the van. I learned it's good to keep your gas tank nearly always full, just in case you accidently leave it running all night. You never know, it could happen. But maybe only to crazy people like us.
5. Watching snow fall is absolutely one of my favorite things. I am so taken each time. You'd think it would get old since I've lived in the Arctic since I was eight years old, but it just doesn't.
6. For the past several months, I'd been lamenting about how I didn't have time to write every day like I'd almost nearly need to if I was contracted to finish the book I'm working on. Then in walked the 31 Days series I wrote in the month of October. The work I put in during those four weeks showed me otherwise. I can write each day. I just need to change how I spend my free hours.
7. I buy cheap makeup. I do. And I buy a different kind each time because I like change and often wonder if there's something better still undiscovered. I'm faithful to my mascara and eyeliner, but that's it. Amazingly, I found one more I'll be adding to my faithful list from now on. It's Cover Girl's Clean Whipped Creme foundation. It glides on amazingly, and is just perfect. It reminds me of the kind I used to buy from The Body Shop years ago. But after they stopped carrying it, I've been lost. Nothing has even come close until this little gem from CG. I wear the lightest color imaginable and can't remember the name, but it very well could be called casperthefriendlyghost or something like that.
What did you learn in November? I'd love to know.
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I literally love and agree with everything on your list! :) And this time of year especially makes me crave the old-fashioned, I'm sure you feel the same way!
You too, Jacque! I love that you work in L&D... so amazing. When I'd visited your site in the past, I thought it was funny how much we had in common. :) Ooh, and that's so fun you use MFW. I am LOVING it so much. It's getting us back to the place we'd like to be. Lord bless your week.
Sorry to esse drop on your conversation but could you tell me about why you love MFW? I need curriculum that works. Life has gotten busier by adding a sweet baby in March and i just can't plan like in the past.
I'd love to share why I love MFW, Barb!
1. Grades 2-8 are all combined for Science, Bible, History/Geography, etc... I LOVE that. I currently have 3 kids in that category.
2. I love the missionary focus.
3. I love that it's all planned for me. I've tried pulling things together myself in the past after a few years of Sonlight and Winter Promise curriculums, but now I'm back to needing it all laid out. LOVE. MFW is very organized.
4. They choose great books.
:) Do have any other questions?


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Coffee News Roundup, 1/16/2015
by Guillermo Tenaschuk January 17, 2015
GE's Cafe French Door Fridge with K-Cup Brewer
Starbucks Flat (You Can Say That Again) White
We'll be giving our take on the new Starbucks Flat White in this space soon, but in the meantime, it seems like many who've tried it would probably put the emphasis on "Flat." Starbucks' own blog entry introducing the product features many comments from customers who aren't even sure the baristas were trained to make the drink, and found that the drink worked better as a concept than in its execution. The situation probably isn't helped by the fact, as Quartz pointed out, that there's not much consensus as to what, exactly, constitutes a Flat White.
By Any Other Name
Speaking of Starbucks, CityMetric reports on a new trend for the industry leader: what it calls "Stealth Starbucks." In much the same way that the biggest beer brewers like Coors and InBev (owners of the Budweiser and Heineken brands, among others) have tried to hide behind faux "craft" brews (like MillerCoors' Third Shift and Batch 19 and InBev's Landshark and Diageo's Smithwicks), Starbucks is trying to camouflage its presence behind one-off neighborhood cafes "inspired by" Starbucks. Some operate under the Starbucks Reserve imprint, while others have been given new names altogether (like Seattle's 15th Ave Coffee & Tea). Largely confined to New York and Seattle, there are signs the company plans to take the brand(s) to a wider public, opening up to one hundred locations. Some coffee drinkers (and coffee shop owners) are less than pleased, but Starbucks' CEO Howard Schultz insists it's a benign move, designed to allow Starbucks to try new things that would not be in keeping with their traditional outlets and the expectations that go with the existing brand.
Ice, Water, or Coffee?
Gizmodo had an interesting write-up on GE's latest offering in its Cafe line of refrigerators. The Cafe French Door refrigerator has the bits you'd expect (namely, an ice maker and water dispenser), and something you probably wouldn't expect: an added module that brews Keurig K-Cups. The Cafe series already had the option to dispense hot water, so the addition of the Keurig feature wasn't as much of a stretch as it might seem at first. What's novel is that the fridge's LCD changes with the addition of the Keurig module to show a display similar to that found on higher-end Keurig machines (including options for size and brew strength). The appliance debuts in late 2015, and will also have built-in smart technology that allows it to be remotely controlled and programmed.
Strictly Commercial
Finally, a bit of coffee-related humor, courtesy of the folks at I Need Coffee. There's a decades-long tradition of celebrities who wouldn't be caught dead shilling for companies on the American airwaves filming commercials overseas, from the unexpected (Sylvester Stallone advertising for Knorr) to the even-more-unexpected (like guitarist Adrian Belew's endorsement of Daikin). They've uncovered coffee commercials starring the likes of John Malkovich, Edward G. Robinson, and Tommy Lee Jones, mostly made for Japanese television, with a couple of European markets represented for good measure).


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Q: How to know where winget installed a program? I had installed Zotero using winget install Zotero.Zotero and it installed fine in C:\Program Files (x86)\Zotero. But when I run winget upgrade, it shows two Zotero versions, like so:
Name   Id            Version Available Source
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Zotero Zotero.Zotero 6.0.10  6.0.13    winget
Zotero Zotero.Zotero 6.0.9   6.0.13    winget
2 upgrades available.

I have verified that the currently installed Zotero version is 6.0.13. Since I have had prior installations of Zotero with and without winget, I think, these entries might reflect those installations. So, I wanted to uninstall / remove these without removing version 6.0.13, currently installed at C:\Program Files (x86)\Zotero.
My question is, how do I make winget show the installation directories for these two versions, so that I can manually remove them?

A: The exact location depends on the package & so far as I can tell there's currently no way to fetch that info for all installed winget packages.
For those which don't have installers, but are just files downloaded, they're put under a folder under: %localappdata%\microsoft\winget\packages
Where there's an exe with a portable command alias (i.e. to avoid having to add each exe's path to your PATH variable), a symlink is created. That symlink is held in  %localappdata%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links\.
Note: Some apps' manifests may specificy a default install directory.  That's given in their InstallLocation property (see schema).

A: I couldn't find anything matching among winget command line options.
But a partial workaround is to use where command to search by executable name.
Like where zotero

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Open access for human – and planetary – health
Caitlin Edgell
Guest posts, Open access
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many scientific publishers chose to make their COVID-19-related content open access. This decision likely strengthened and accelerated the world's response to the disease. It also left many wondering whether we could address other global emergencies if we opened up other areas of research with the same sense of urgency. For example, could we address one of the biggest threats to human and planetary health, the climate crisis?
In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, many scientific publishers across the globe made an admirable commitment to make all research relating to the virus published in their journals openly available. This decision was made in line with a 2016 joint statement on data sharing in public health emergencies issued by Wellcome that had previously been used to encourage information sharing during the Zika and Ebola outbreaks.
Later, in March 2020, the national science and technology advisers of 12 countries, including, Germany, the UK and the USA, released an open letter to scientific publishers asking them to make all their articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic publicly accessible. Within days, 30 publishers had pledged to make their COVID-19-related content openly available. Many others quickly followed suit.
As a result of these decisions from publishers, more than 75% of COVID-19 papers published between January and November 2020 were open access, compared with less than 50% in other biomedical fields. This likely strengthened and accelerated the world's response to the pandemic, but it may have also changed the scientific publishing landscape permanently. This has left some wondering whether other global emergencies could be addressed if we opened up other areas of research with the same sense of urgency. For example, could we address one of the biggest threats to human and planetary health, the climate crisis?
When many people think about the effects of the climate crisis, they picture extreme weather events – the floods, heatwaves, wildfires and storms. However, the climate crisis is also a health emergency. The potential health-related impacts of the climate crisis include: increases in heat-related illnesses; increases in cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases due to air pollution; poorer nutrition and decreased food safety due to food insecurity; increases in waterborne diseases due to water insecurity; and increases in the spread of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases due to changes in the geographical distribution of animal species.1 In short, the prognosis is poor.
In the face of such a complex problem, many organizations – from universities to businesses and even entire countries – have already made climate emergency declarations to signal their commitment to preventing the worst effects of the climate crisis. Now, the editors of more than 200 medical journals across the world have added their voices to this urgent call to action against the climate crisis and the destruction of nature in a recent joint editorial.2
Co-written by the editors-in-chief of 18 medical journals – including the BMJ, The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine – and simultaneously published in 229 medical journals, the editorial calls for urgent action to keep average global temperature increases below 1.5°C and to stop biodiversity loss for the protection of both human and planetary health.
The authors also consider how health institutions, including medical journals, could do more to help the world face the climate crisis by educating people about the health risks of global heating and biodiversity loss, developing environmentally sustainable health systems and divesting from fossil fuel assets. While these are all worthy goals, there may be a much simpler way that the publishers of medical journals – and publishers across all research fields – could help. They could make all research relating to the climate crisis and its broader health impacts published in their journals open access immediately.
Research that is published open access has a greater impact than research that is locked behind a paywall. It is read more and cited more, and it can be built upon, reproduced, validated or refuted by other researchers much more easily. It can also be used by members of the public, educators, clinicians, journalists and policymakers to spread awareness of pressing issues.
What's more, open access publishing benefits researchers in low- and middle-income countries who may not be covered by institutional subscriptions or able to afford to buy the articles they need to support their research. By making articles about the climate crisis freely available, these researchers would be able to access research from across the world. This could be vitally important in the fight against the climate crisis given that global heating disproportionately affects people in low-income communities.
"Humans have faced no greater threat than climate change," says Richard Smith, chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, chair of Open Pharma and former editor of the BMJ. "It is thus only sensible for all research – and I would add all educational material – to be available open access to everybody everywhere. I hope that publishers will rise to this challenge as most have to the Covid pandemic."
The COVID-19 crisis has shown that, when pressed by a public health emergency, scientific publishers can make large amounts of research open access, and they can do so rapidly. Now that over 200 medical journals have publicly acknowledged that the climate crisis is a significant threat to human health, will they make the same commitment for climate research?
After all, UN climate experts predict that we have less than 10 years to prevent the most dangerous effects of global heating. If this isn't a health emergency, what is?
Haines A, Ebi K. The imperative for climate action to protect health. N Engl J Med 2019;380:263–73.
Atwol L, Baqui AH, Benfield T, Bosurghi R, Godlee F et al. Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health. BMJ 2021;374:n1734.
Caitlin Edgell is a Medical Writer at Oxford PharmaGenesis.
A version of this article was first published in the BMJ.


"The left-wing point of view is so pervasive that they don't even realize it's a point of view. It is just a point of view. I think this character likes that, he likes to have another point of view," Allen added in regards to his character on the show.
People often perceive Allen's character, Mike Baxter, as sharing his real-world views but the veteran TV star says he is not the sum of his latest character.
Allen also mentioned President Donald Trump's recent exchange with CNN's Jim Acosta, saying it was "unpleasant" to watch.
"It was so unpleasant to watch on both sides, that the guy wouldn't leave him alone, where did the sense of decorum go?" Allen asked.
Concluding the extensive interview, Allen reminded everyone his job is to make people laugh, no matter how they feel about the Trump Administration.
In May, it was announced that Last Man Standing would return to television on Fox after the successful six-season series was abruptly canceled by ABC late last year.
The show received astounding ratings when it returned in September, season 7 premiering to an average of 8 million viewers in the 18-49 demo.


Shoper 9 POS is a versatile Point of Sale (POS) application to manage all your operations in a retail store or distributor location. The application comes in two flavours – Retail or Distributor and can be installed as required.
Retail businesses may include a single store or a chain of stores selling different items. In such scenarios, it is possible to use Shoper 9 POS. The application supports major operations of Purchase, Stock, Sales and Bar coding. Master data for items to be transacted, can be entered or imported from other sources. Similarly, sales promotional schemes and discounts can be created.
In a large retail network of stores, the individual POS applications at the stores are controlled by the Shoper 9 HO application.
The main strength of the Shoper 9 POS application is its user friendly billing system. This function ensures that the waiting time at the counters is reduced and customers are serviced quickly. The POS application reduces the amount of data entry work by the use of text files that can be imported into it.
The application's extensive reporting system is useful to the store manager and the retail HO management. The application enables a comprehensive interface with Tally.ERP 9 to post inventory information for the purpose of generating accounting, inventory and statutory reports.
The cash proceeds of sales of items at your stores (both owned & franchisee) are to be remitted periodically to your head office (HO). Shoper 9 provides you with the Franchisee A/c options in the POS application to manage the payment collection and allied processes of your stores. Using this option your stores could make regular payments to HO. You can record franchisee, bank, and general details and also generate reports on outstanding amounts to HO. The option allows you to print pay-in-slips which are the proof of remittances to HO.


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GALLERY: Rock double up Rapids
By Thomas Perry, The Daily Press (Timmins)
Saturday, January 21, 2017 1:17:47 EST AM
FRENCH RIVER – Alexandre Brisson scored a pair of empty-net goals to help lead the Timmins Rock to a 4-2 win over the Rapids Friday night at the Noelville Arena.
The victory allowed the Rock (25-10-3-0) to keep pace with the Crunch (27-11-4-1) who edged the Iroquois Falls Eskis 3-2 in overtime Friday night in the battle for second place in the NOJHL East Division standings.
With both teams winning, the gap between the Crunch and the Rock remains at six points, although Timmins has five games in hand.
It was the Rapids who got on the scoresheet first Friday night in French River, as Adrian Nicholas beat Rock netminder Albert Rogers for his third goal of the season 6:37 into the first period.
Wayne Mathieu's 18th goal of the season, just past the midway point in the frame, got the Rock back on even terms prior to the end of the first period of play, however.
Dean Kiriacou's first goal in a Rock uniform late in the second period provided the visitors with a 2-1 lead heading into the third period.
That goal stood up until the 19:09 mark of the final period when Brisson scored his first goal of the night and 15th of the season into an empty net with Rapids goalie Korlan Vader on the bench in favour of an extra attacker.
That marker would stand up to be the game-winning goal, as Nichols netted his second goal of the night and fourth on the season to pull the Rapids back to within a goal with 29 seconds remaining in regulation.
Brisson provided the Rock with a little insurance when he scored his second goal of the night and 16th of the season, also into an empty net, just 11 seconds later and with 18 seconds remaining on the clock.
Rogers turned aside 31 of the 33 shots he faced to earn the victory for the Rock.
Vader blocked 30 of the 32 shots the Rock fired his way and was tagged with the loss.
NOJHL NOTES — Maxime Lague played his first game in a Rock uniform Friday night … Rock captain Jordan Rendle was sick and unable to dress for the contest … The three stars were Brisson, Vader and Kiriacou … The Rock went 0-2 on the power play, while the Rapids were 0-4 with the man advantage … Official attendance at the Noelville Arena was 267 … Friday night's other action saw the Wildcats defeat the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners 4-1 in Elliot Lake, the Beavers blank the Soo Eagles 6-0 in Blind River and the Rayside-Balfour Canadians thump the Express 8-1 in Espanola … The Rock will continue their two-game road trip in Powassan Saturday night with a game against the NOJHL-leading Voodoos. The Crunch and the Eskis will play the second half of their home-and-home series at the Jus Jordan Arena. Both games are scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.
Photos by Dal Photography
GALLERY: Lague will add size
Voodoos edge Rock


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The Post unites Hollywood royalty delivering gripping yarn
Updated / Thursday, 18 Jan 2018 13:14
Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post
By John Byrne
TV Editor
Reviewer score
Director Steven Spielberg
Starring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, Bradley Whitford, Matthew Rhys
Now this is the business. Not only does The Post boast some serious Hollywood royalty – director Steven Spielberg, actors Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep – it also heaves with one of the greatest ensemble casts in cinema history.
It would be more surprising if it wasn't a cracker. But it is.
And although it's based on a true story set in the early 1970s, it also has a strong modern resonance as the behaviour of then US President Richard Nixon isn't too dissimilar to the carry-on of the current incumbent.
Indeed, it was the Trump administration that helped focus the mind of Steven Spielberg. He said that "when I read the first draft of the script, this wasn't something that could wait three years or two years - this was a story I felt we needed to tell today."
Streep stars as newspaper heiress Katharine Graham. She's a busy and unsure woman who tries to balance her social life with her responsibility as owner of The Washington Post, a newspaper she took over following the suicide of her husband.
With the Post, she often finishes second to the men in charge, particularly Ben Bradlee, the editor-in-chief, played here by the now peerless Tom Hanks.
When journalists attempt to publish and expose the Pentagon Papers - classified documents regarding undisclosed information about the involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War - Graham has to decide whether to follow her gut instinct or bow to the misgivings of the paper's senior management.
Matthew Rhys and Bob Odenkirk
Streep is very impressive as Graham, but Hanks is even better as Bradlee, while they're both served by a marvellous supporting cast that includes Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Bradley Whitford, Carrie Coon and loads more.
Following in the footsteps of other exceptional, newspaper-related Hollywood films such as The Front Page, The Sweet Smell of Success, All the President's Men, Ace in the Hole and the incomparable Citizen Kane, The Post is a gripping yarn.
Oh, and pure Oscar bait.
Belfast is must-see movie magic
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Boiling Point: a great film about the worst day at work
Licorice Pizza the perfect way to start 2022
Titane: The most bonkers movie you'll see this year
Spielberg gives a new, magical spin to West Side Story
C'mon C'mon is a sweet way to see off 2021
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Each character has 3 vertices. Physical, Mental, and Social.
Each of these has at least one named ability. Like physical: fencing. Or Social: Ladies man. These are pure flavor.
Each of the areas has a starting escalation level of 1.
Each of these vertices is thematically connected to the other two areas. i.e. Physical is connected to Mental and Social, Social to Mental and Physical. Think of these as being the corner points of a triangle.
Each scene you play is framed to deal with Physical, Mental, or Social ability.
Each scene you play gives you the right to raise the escalation level of thematically connected vertice by 1.
Each scene you play is really about the thematically connected ability you choose to raise by 1.
Each session, you can only raise thematically connected vertices 3 times. After that nothing happens.
Each time you raise a thematically connected ability, you have to do it from a different vertice than last time. So no raising Physical 2 times in a row with Social. Social-Mental-Social is ok.
The GM sets the escalation level of difficulty for each session. Players wishing to beat the threat must match the escalation level in one ability. You can win ties with Vote pool points.
if you narrate a scene in which you lose or suffer defeat, you get one point for your vote pool.
Vote pool can be played as a tie breaker on other players threat challenge.
Making a campaign out of it.
The threat levels start from 2 and steadily rises. Each time you defeat a threat a new one is introduced.
??One player can only defeat one threat per session.?? Still, each player should play the thematically connected scenes to keep up with the campaign escalation level.


While a chiropractic student, I traveled with a group of medical providers to a community in Ghana to provide supplies, assist with health screens in remote villages, and work in a local hospital within a variety of departments. During my time there, I interviewed different community members employed by the hospital or by non-governmental organizations working with the hospital about their perceived health burdens and openness to chiropractic. Unexpectedly, interviewees expressed that while they practiced a Western medicine model, there was some uncertainty on how much that body of knowledge applied to them since they felt so underrepresented in the studies that contributed to that knowledge. The patients and study participants described were rarely people that came from similar geography, cultures, and lifestyles or had physical characteristics they identified with.
Closer to home, this issue resurfaced in discussions about the abilities of chiropractors to provide culturally competent care for populations that are underserved and have very different experiences than chiropractors were thought to have had. The other parties were not saying that chiropractors could not or should not practice in these settings, but rather they were not able to find published materials that demonstrated this was happening. The available material did not sufficiently support the expansion of these services within an already resource-strained public health system.
Therefore, while we focus on diversity within our profession, it appears we would be well served to also focus on the diversity of the patients and communities we serve and this focus needs to be evidenced in publications and inclusion in research.
This likely mirrors what happens as practitioners become embedded in their local communities, but increasing community engagement in research and academic partnerships would provide an avenue to demonstrate this commitment on a larger scale. Through subsequent publications, we would better establish a body of evidence revealing our commitment to patient and community health to those outside of the chiropractic profession such as the greater scientific and health care communities, but most importantly, our patients.
Dr. Madigan is a member of the ACA Commission on Diversity and also serves on the ACA Editorial Review Advisory Board, Clinical Guideline Review Task Force, and the Student ACA Committee. Her current faculty appointment at National University of Health Sciences, her alma mater, allows her to serve as the NUHS-IL SACA advisor. She is also completing her PhD in Public Health at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Oh SS, Galanter J, Thakur N, Pino-Yanes M, Barcelo NE, White MJ, de Bruin DM, Greenblatt RM, Bibbins-Domingo K, Wu AHB, Borrell LN, Gunter C, Powe NR, Burchard EG. Diversity in Clinical and Biomedical Research: A Promise Yet to Be Fulfilled. PLoS Med, 2015; 12(12): e1001918.
Holzer JK, Ellis L, Merritt MW. Why we need community engagement in medical research. J Investig Med, 2014; 62(6): 851–855.


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Creed of Gold is a 2014 film about fictional corruption at the Federal Reserve. It was produced by Crystal Creek Media and directed by Daniel Knudsen. Filming of Creed of Gold took place in several locations near Indianapolis, Indiana and Detroit, Michigan with some additional photography taking place on location in New York City.

Plot
Creed of Gold begins with a flashback during the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. A reporter hides a list with names of powerful bankers who financed the revolution. The list is discovered seventy years later by a Russian history professor. The professor's son Adam eventually inherits the list and begins to research the names on it. Adam Smith is an incoming freshman at a fictional American school called Havenhurst University. In his Money & Banking class he is assigned to work on a term paper with Kirsten Stanford. Kirsten is a wealthy girl from upstate New York and her father is on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve. The two do not see eye to eye but eventually work things out and begin researching together. Their work is being thwarted by a greedy Federal Reserve board member named Stuart Wornwall. Wornwall is secretly stealing money from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by programing the computer system to misappropriate funds every time the Federal Reserve buys and sells bonds from the US Government. Adam and Kirsten uncover Wornwall's family history through the list. This discovery links Wornwall's family fortune back to the offenses committed during the Bolshevik revolution.

The film was released August 12, 2014.

Cast
 Taylor Lindsey as Adam Smith
 Ellen Lawrence as Kirsten Stanford
 Nicholas Willeke as Cody Williams
 Vanessa Ewing as Jenell Slone
 Alexander Ganahl as Byron Tackitt
 William Greene as Stuart Wornwall
 Dr. Jay L. Wile as Gerald Steinberg
 Sehul Viras as Wornwall's Hitman

Production
Principal photography began June 10, 2010 and ended July 12, 2010. Various locations near Indianapolis, Indiana were used for filming, including the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza, Taylor University, the Columbia Club and the Indianapolis Union Station. The Indiana State House doubled as the interior of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The film took three years to complete and secure international distribution. The movie trailer was released by Crystal Creek Media on June 29, 2012.

Themes
The main theme is that certain actions may escape the boundaries of International law but they are still wrong because they are a violation of Natural law. Ron Paul's campaign advisor Doug Wead has a special feature on the DVD about what is going on with the Federal Reserve and its impact on American citizens and the rest of the world.

Though the film deals with complex topics it was awarded the Dove seal of family approval from the Dove Foundation.

Release
Creed of Gold premiered in Indianapolis, Indiana and was released August 12, 2014.

Awards
The film was nominated for an Adam Award for best feature drama at the Sabaoth International Film Festival in Milan, Italy and won a Redemptive Storyteller Award at the Redemptive Film Festival.

See also
October Revolution

References

External links

 Crystal Creek Media

2014 films
Films about financial crises
Films set in New York City
Fictional portrayals of the New York City Police Department
Films about the New York City Police Department
Films shot in Indiana
Films shot in Michigan
American independent films
2010s English-language films
Films directed by Daniel Knudsen
2010s American films

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Toyota is defying the notion that modern cars have to be high-tech machines packed with the latest technologies by creating a new roadster concept crafted in wood. Setsuna will be the focus of the company's first appearance at Milan Design Week (12 – 17 April), an open-top two-seater conceived to embody the affection owners develop for their cars over time and the central role they can play in family life.
Today Toyota has released more images, video footage and details of the car, highlighting the craftsmanship and details that make Setsuna unlike any other vehicle.
In its development of a car that makes such great use of wood, the Toyota team consulted many experts, including carpenters who specialist in building shrines and temples, and shipwrights.
"Sumitomo Forestry, a company that fully understands our concept, shared their knowledge of wood construction with us, and together we engaged in various types of joint development from the early stages, including wood selection and proposals for processing techniques and assembly methods," said Tsuji.
Every new car has a clock in the dashboard, but the timepiece in the Toyota Setsuna doesn't only mark the minutes and hours, it also counts the passing years. It will mark up to a century to record its years of constant service to successive generations and its evolving role as a valued member of the family in its own right.
Setsuna's circular, radial emblem captures the idea of "the accumulation of moments". It represents both a clock face and the blooming of a flower, reflecting the designers' wish for a growing relationship between car and family.
Wood was chosen as the primary material for Setsuna's construction, to express the idea that love grows as time passes; wood changes in colour and feel in direct response to the love and care shown to it. As Setsuna is passed from generation to generation, the physical changes in its wooden bodywork reflect the bond it has built with its owners and their shared experiences.
Setsuna is not a piece of furniture; it is a fully functioning car, although not road-legal. For this reason, different types of wood were chosen for specific parts of the vehicle: Japanese cedar, with its vivid grain and flexibility for the exterior panels; strong and rigid Japanese birch for the frame; hard-wearing Japanese zelkova for the seats; and smooth-textured castor aralia for the seats. The panels feature different grain patterns in the cedar, achieved with straight and cross-cutting of the raw timber, creating attractive contrasts.
Sections of Setsuna have been crafted using traditional Japanese joinery techniques such as okuriari and kusabi. Okuriari allows the panels to be fitted without using nails, so they can be easily removed. It makes for stronger joints and allows minor changes to be made to the mortise and dovetail joints if they become worn over time. The joints in the car's frame feature split tenons fastened to through-tenons that pass through several component parts in the frame to give a secure hold.
Setsuna's body is made up of 86 handmade panels, each of which will change in appearance as the car ages. When repairs are needed, individual panels can be removed and replaced, without the whole bodywork having to be taken off. Repaired panels will bear the marks of the craftsmen who worked on them, adding to the individual character of each car.
Lacquer finishing is applied by hand to bring out the beauty of the wood grain. Wipe-lacquering is applied to the door mirrors, seats, steering wheel and the banding lines on the bodywork, a technique that involves repeatedly applying the lacquer to the surface and wiping to set it along the grain of the wood to create a combined texture. Colour and intensity will change with use over time to give the vehicle a different appearance at different moments in its lifecycle.
The seats have been designed to be comfortable and inviting to anyone, in the same fashion as park bench. The castor aralia timber has been lacquered and the parts which come into most contact with the body are covered with leather.
Aluminium is used for parts such as the wheel caps, steering wheel and seat frames, creating both contrast and harmony with Setsuna's wooden features.
Setsuna's wooden elements will slowly bend over time, giving the body a pronounced, beautiful curve, rather like a boat. The front presents a heptagonal shape while, viewed from the side or above, the car's form is elliptical.


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Major protests broke out in Tunisia following the self-immolation of a student in late December. The demonstrators are protesting unemployment and government violence, and as opposed to a previous norm of protests from spontaneous worker unions the recent uprisal seem to engaged a much larger part of the population to participate. The unemployment protesters were joined by net activists causing an alarm around the extensive web filtering and repression of journalists, soon followed by international assistance from Anonymous groups and OP:Tunisia. Several government agencies have been DDoS:ed or had their webpages defaced.
The Tunisian dictatorship has responded with riot police and arrests starting late December 2010 with several arrests of lawyers.
In Europe the issue started getting media attention a few days ago. Reporting up until that point had been scarce but is now spreading through several international venues, especially in the European Union. In a response that might be related, late afternoon yesterday the dictatorship started arresting a large number of Tunisian information activists and journalists. While Tunisian bloggers have been subject to disappearances, arrests and torture in the past, actions against them have not previously been this large in scale.
About 20% of the Tunisian population are connected to the internet, a large part of whom have connections in their homes. The infrastructure and subscription fees are some of the lowest in Northern Africa.
Getting media coverage of the recent protests in Europe is good, but hardly sufficient. The European Union has an obligation under their own framework treaties to use trade as a tool for encouraging democratic development in foreign trade partners. In Northern Africa, this instrument has sadly been poorly used. France Telecom and Orange hold large stakes in the Tunisian telecommunications market. In a criticized France is ramping up their firearms exports to Khaddafi's dictatorship in Libya, but they are also since many years back one of the largest providers of firearms and other weapons to Tunisia. Unfortunately, the foreign trade policies of one of the largest economies in Europe, and a founder country of the European Union at that, makes it unlikely that the European Commission will take trade action against Tunisia.
My understanding of the European Commission is that the Directorate Generals responsible for human rights, justice or telecoms have limited influence when it comes to foreign trade and the policies that would put effective pressure on foreign regimes. Commissioner Karel de Gucht and President José Manuel Barroso may underestimate the impact they have on the human rights situation in third countries. Unfortunately, parliamentarians in Europe and member states have limited influence on those positions, and we may have to hope for European governments and Council of Ministers to take a stronger stand for human rights in other countries.


Do you want to create a fortune? Simple! Just wave your magic wand and chant the magic formula, "wizardz of wealth!" three times.
Unfortunately, it's usually not that easy.
Programming our mind and body to accomplish our goals may take repeated attempts. Expect many misses along the way, but we must resolve to keep trying and learning from our experiences. Some studies have shown that most millionaires fail 17 times in business before making their first million!
Like a key to a car, all it takes is one little piece of the puzzle to be missing, and we can be frustrated in our efforts. That's why it is so important to never give up until we find the right solution.
If market conditions change we need to be mentally flexible and seek aternative solutions.
First things first. Get expenses in line, stripping out the needless ones. Find new cash generators, and hopefully steady, reliable sources. Only when our base needs our taken care of with plenty of reserves will I consider the "finer things" in life.
Defense allows us to stay in the game long enough to try some offensive plays.


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How teenagers can get "Lit From Within" with Deanne Barrett
In this episode of The Unstoppable Teen Podcast, Kevin interviews an incredible high school teacher from Canada who goes the extra mile to help her students succeed.
You might be wondering why on Earth you'd want to listen to an interview with a teacher
Well, this particular teacher, Deanne Barrett, has interviewed teen experts from all over the planet and is sharing the recordings of those interviews online – for FREE!
So if you want to increase your confidence, achieve better grades or deal with a problem you're facing, you're going to want to listen to this interview and tap into Deanne's expert advice.
"When we lose that sense of curiosity or interest in taking on a new challenge, then I think there is a dullness in life."
Deanne Barrett –Teacher & Creator of Lit From Within
How Deanne become a teacher(3:01)
What makes a great teacher (4:11))
What Deanne was like as a child and teenager (5:07)
What you can do to improve your reading skills and English grade (6:28)
Deanne's top 5 favourite books for teenagers (9:41)
How to accept the unique personal traits and not conform to the crowd during your teen years (11:23)
Top tips if you're considering a career as a teacher (14:10)
What's brilliant about our education system (17:10)
What Deanne would do to improve education (19:07)
Why it's important for young people to know what their strengths are (21:15)
What students can do to take control of their own learning and improvement (22:48)
The common mistake that students need to avoid when learning (25:07)
What parents can do to help and support their teen's learning (26:39)
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Who We Are /
Frank L. VanderSloot /
Our CEO: Helping Melaleuca Grow
Frank L. VanderSloot is the CEO of Melaleuca Inc. Headquartered in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Since the company began in September 1985, VanderSloot has directed its growth into an international company that generates more than $2 billion in annual revenue.
Honoring 35+ Years of Excellence
VanderSloot has earned awards for his leadership from institutes of higher learning and prestigious business organizations.
Under VanderSloot's leadership, Melaleuca has been ranked on Inc. magazine's list of the nation's 500 fastest-growing, privately-held firms. Melaleuca is a member of the Inc. 500 Hall of Fame and is the only firm to remain on Inc.'s list for five consecutive years while also earning the publication's "A profitability" rating each year.
A Business Mind
VanderSloot earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Prior to founding Melaleuca, Frank was an executive at Automatic Data Processing and Cox Communication.In addition to his responsibilities at Melaleuca, VanderSloot owns several large cattle ranches, and one of the nation's largest and most elite registered Angus herds.


King George County Board of Supervisors member and RCC alumna Ruby Brabo.
If you live in King George County, you may have met her at a town hall meeting or perhaps read her name in the news. She's become a well-known personality in her community through her service as the Dahlgren District Supervisor on the King George County Board of Supervisors. Her personality shines as much as her namesake. Her name is Ruby Brabo, and she is happy to share with all that her experience at Rappahannock Community College has helped pave the way for her meteoric rise to prominence.
Brabo is a champion of her county — a place she's called home since 2006. She is quick to say that King George County is a really special and diverse place.
Brabo began her service on the King George board in 2012, just two years after she earned her Associate of Art and Sciences degree from RCC.
"I decided that I wanted to obtain a degree before my oldest daughter graduated high school," laughs Brabo. She had some college credit from just after high school, but was having a hard time getting those credits to be accepted by four-year schools. She shifted gears and noticed that RCC was very close by and offered her a chance to earn an associates degree and eventually transfer to a four-year institution later.
While attending classes, Brabo served as her homeowner association's president. After working with the county government to successfully finish an infrastructure project in her neighborhood, she found that she enjoyed that type of work and her friends and collogues encouraged her to run for office.
While on the board, she realized that a few issues are very close to her heart — education and managing economic growth. These two related principles guide many of her decisions and her love of working for the residents of King George through the governmental process is still as strong now as it was back in 2012.
Something different includes serving as a representative at the local, state and federal level for a variety of posts, including appointments by Governor Terry McAuliffe.
While she enjoys her role within the local government, she hopes to expand her role by representing King George as a whole, not just the Dahlgren area. This up-coming election in November, Brabo is seeking the at-large seat.
Brabo will not say how long she wants to continue working as an elected official, and says she is not sure what might happen in the future. Right now, she is focused on King George.
One place she hopes life will take her is to the finish line of her bachelor's degree, which she is currently working on through American Public University. Her hope is that she can complete her B.A. before her younger daughter graduates high school.
When reflecting on her current push to graduate, Brabo feels that RCC was what got her back into the mindset for school and classwork. After going many years between high school and sustained college-level work, she needed a little push here and there in order to stay on course.
It's been quite a journey for Ruby Brabo, one with unexpected twists and turns. She's made the most of her opportunities but is humble and is quick to give credit to friends, family and others who have helped her along the way.


Area 36A-4 regulates hunting opportunities for mountain goat in Idaho and covers 131 square miles. Public lands comprise 131 square miles (100%) of the total land covered by this game management unit. The greater region is best serviced by Obsidian. The elevation of the region ranges from a low of 6,700 feet to a high of 11,600 feet above sea level. There are 4 trailheads that provide public gateways to these forested and wilderness areas: Challis National Forest, Sawtooth National Forest, Sawtooth Wilderness Study Area.


Through research designed to promote introspection and self-evaluation, students will create a strategy for success in an online college environment. Through guided self-reflection students will evaluate their English, math, and research skills and then identify resources that will help them improve upon these skills. Students will create a complete financial assessment of the cost of obtaining a degree and explore the regulations and responsibilities associated with financial aid. A guided, self-reflective approach to creating a strategy for degree completion will be the final assignment in the class.
· Demonstrate familiarity with college policies and resources.
· Self-evaluate English, math, academic writing, and research skills, and determine how these skills correspond to academic success.
· Identify relevant resources that will address priority skill areas.
· Recognize the full cost of a college degree, and understand the responsibility involved in any corresponding student loan debt.
· Develop a plan for success, through introspection and self-evaluation, to achieve academic goals.


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Bo Jackson Named 51st All Sports Speaker
Bo Jackson, the first athlete in the modern era to play professional baseball and football in the same year, has been tabbed as the keynote speaker for the 51st annual ASA Banquet on Feb. 7 at the Emerald Coast Convention Center.
"It was pretty big shoes to fill the year after Tebow," said ASA President Drew Espy, who attended Auburn for three years and watched Jackson play in his Tigers days. "We went out and got the greatest athlete of the 20th century."
It's hard to argue different. But that's what the ASA is synonymous for, attracting the likes of NFL and MLB MVPs, Hall of Fame coaches, Super Bowl quarterbacks, award-winning journalists and LPGA major champions.
That includes Tim Tebow, Nick Saban, Steve Spurrier, Bobby Bowden, Paul "Bear" Bryant and another dual-sport s
tar in "Neon" Deion Sanders, each of whom has helped the ASA gain the prestige and recognition to serve the community with its rich monetary donations.
Last year alone, the ASA raised around $140,000 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast, the Okaloosa County chapter of Special Olympics, the Eleanor J. Johnson Youth Center and the Okaloosa/Walton County Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
This year with Jackson at the helm, that generosity could reach new heights. After all, the résumé of the former Auburn star precedes itself.
At Auburn, Jackson ran for 4,303 yards with 45 touchdowns and a 6.6 yards-per-carry average. During his senior year he posted 1,786 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns en route to winning the Heisman Trophy.
From there he was selected with the first overall pick in the 1986 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but he refused to play for them. Instead he signed a three-year contract with the defending World Series champion Kansas City Royals, who drafted Jackson with the 105th overall pick in the fourth round of the 1986 draft.
The following year the dual-sport athlete was drafted in the seventh round by the Oakland Raiders, who afforded the running back the freedom to play the whole baseball season before reporting.
He'd become the only professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star and a Pro-Bowler, finishing his four-year NFL career with 2,782 rushing yards, 5.4 yards per carry and 16 touchdowns and his eight-year MLB career with a .250 batting average, 141 homers, 415 RBI and 82 stolen bases.
Among his NFL highlights, the then-rookie rushed for 221 yards and three touchdowns against Seattle on Monday Night Football. In 1989 he was selected to his lone Pro Bowl after rushing for 950 yards, 5.5 yards per career and four touchdowns.
Among his MLB highlights, the outfielder made the American League All-Star team in 1989 and was named the MVP after robbing a two-run base hit and going 2-for-4 with a 448-foot homer, two RBI and a run scored. That year he logged a career-best 32 home runs and 105 RBI to accent 26 stolen bases.
"This is exciting for me because I was born into an Auburn family and had the opportunity to see Bo play as a young kid," Espy said. "We've been represented by Georgia and Florida and FSU and Alabama but never Auburn, so this will be something different."
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Q: WebClient create java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: null ExchangeStrategies.withDefaults I'm trying to play around Spring WebFlux Webclient.
Tried to create a simple webclient in a quartz cron job
this.webClient = WebClient.create(this.queryUrl);
I made sure the queryUrl is valid.
However, I've got an error as following:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: null
at org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.ExchangeStrategies.withDefaults(ExchangeStrategies.java:67)
at org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.DefaultWebClientBuilder.initExchangeStrategies(DefaultWebClientBuilder.java:302)
at org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.DefaultWebClientBuilder.build(DefaultWebClientBuilder.java:269)
at org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.WebClient.create(WebClient.java:154)

Tracing into the code, I've found that
DefaultExchangeStrategiesBuilder  is null.
Does anyone have any idea what is missing?
It's a simple web client.
Thanks.

A: <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
        <version>2.13.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.13.0</version>
    </dependency>

Adding these dependencies and making sure the versions are the same.
I only had jackson-core before.
I tried to move the job out of quartz and ran it directly in main.
it still threw an exception, but it's different and  I then looked it up
and some one has asked the issue and the solution to make sure both jackson packages need to be included and versions must be same.
I then added them to the pom file. try to run the job and it worked.
Putting the job back to quartz to run and it also worked.


Each Command Sequence can optionally display a "LED-like display" beneath its button, and specify this LED's color.
If you specify Command Sequences or Command-generating Sliders, and are controlling more than one transceiver, you must specify a User-defined Control Set for each transceiver.
An Initial Command Sequence can be optionally executed when Commander starts, or when a new radio Model is selected. To define, edit, or test this sequence, click the Edit button in the Initial Command Sequence Panel on the Config window's General tab.
Note: if you wish to include the ampersand character in the name, use a pair of back-to-back ampersands, e.g. R&&B.
Function describes the function of the Command Sequence; this information will appear in a popup explanation window when the mouse cursor lingers above the associated Command Sequence button if the display of control explanations is enabled.
an even number of hexadecimal characters, e.g.
execution proceeds with the following command.
a sequence of ascii characters preceded by a single apostrophe, e.g.
will QSY to the most recent 20m frequency and mode, and clear Split.
<DataSignalsEnable Off> <DataSignalsEnable On> checks the Parallel Port Data Signals panel's Enable box, thereby enabling frequency-based control of the parallel port data output.
<DataSignalsEnable Off> un-checks the Parallel Port Data Signals panel's Enable box, thereby disabling frequency-based control of the parallel port data output.
When the value of the Parallel Port Data Signals panel's Enable box is changed by either of these commands, the new Enable box setting is not saved in the Windows Registry.
execution of the Command Sequence terminates.
<FreqDepDevEnable Off, N> <FreqDepDevEnable On, N> enables Frequency-dependent Device N, where N is a number the range of 0 to 3.
<FreqDepDevEnable Off, N> disables Frequency-dependent Device N, where N is a number the range of 0 to 3.
execution proceeds with command N.
the comparison between button caption and name is case-independent.
the comparison between the current primary transceiver's name and name is case-independent.
<Wait> pauses for the duration indicated in the Command Interval textbox after executing the previous transceiver command in the sequence before executing the next transceiver command in the sequence.
The Save and Load buttons enable you to save a Command Sequence to a specified file, and load a Command Sequence from a specified file.
If you are controlling multiple primary transceivers, you can define a user-defined control set that specifies the Command Sequences to be loaded when you switch among primary transceivers.
Substitution strings let you insert the value of a command-generating slider, CI-V address, or ascii character into a specified position within a radio command.
S means "signed decimal digits"
B means "unsigned binary bytes"
N is an optional digit indicating the Number of decimal digits (including the sign in a signed decimal format) or hexadecimal bytes to insert; when not present, a single decimal digit or hexadecimal byte or binary byte is inserted. For unsigned binary bytes, N is limited to the values 1 or 2.
For example, the command FEFE6EE01401<2D4>FD will use the current value of slider 2 to set an Icom 756 Pro III's AF gain. The S is only optional when the substitution string appears in the Command of a command-generating slider's Configuration window; in this case, the slider's own value is used, as shown in the screenshot in the section below.
The substitution string <CIV> is replaced hexadecimal radio commands by the current transceiver's specified CI-V address. Thus, the command FEFE<CIV>E01401<2D4>FD will be executed by the transceiver whose CI-V address is specified in the Radio panel on the Configuration window's General tab.
When controlling a Flex Signature transceiver, the substitution string <FlexSigPanStream> is replaced by the hexadecimal ID of VFO A's panadapter. This ID is required by some of the commands used to control a Flex Signature transceiver.
The substitution string <n> (where n is an integer between 0 and 127) is replaced in ASCII radio commands by a single character whose ascii value is n; for example, <13> will be replaced by the "carriage return" character.
receiving a directive from another application (e.g. WinWarbler).
In the example shown in the above screenshot of Commander User Slider 4's Configuration window, the ASCII command AG0000; will be generated when slider 4's handle is moved to the extreme left, the ASCII command AG0255; will be generated when slider 4's handle is moved to the extreme right, and the ASCII command AG0128; will be generated when slider 4's handle is centered.
Note that while the CI-V commands used to control Icom transceivers are expressed in hexadecimal, variable settings must often be expressed in decimal. For example, the template used to control an Icom 756 Pro III's AF gain with slider #2 is FEFE6EE01401<2D4>FD (with a lower bound of 0 and an upper bound of 255) . In contrast, using slider #5 to select a Yaesu FT-1000MP's mode would be accomplished with 000000<5H>0C (with a lower bound of 0 and an upper bound of 11).
Only the signed decimal and hexadecimal formats should be used with sliders that can take on negative values. For example, the FlexRadio template 'ZZWB<1S4> will generate commands like ZZWB+028 or ZZWB-014 .
Commander's 16 sliders are numbered 1 through 16 and organized into two banks of 8, which each bank containing two rows of 4 sliders. The same ALT checkbox that switches between banks of Command Sequences also switches between banks of sliders.
When clicked, the Save button saves the slider definition to a file you specify; the slider definition includes the slider's current value. The Load button loads the slider definition from a file you specify and sets the slider to the value saved in the file.
If you are controlling multiple primary transceivers, you can define a user-defined control set that specifies the Command-generating Sliders to be loaded when you switch among primary transceivers.


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So what's your preference …'real' mail or e-mail? I'm almost positive that the answers will be age-biased.
Jun. 14, 2011 12:00 p.m.
So what's your preference …'real' mail or e-mail? I'm almost positive that the answers will be age-biased. For those of us who were 'print-raised' and can remember sending a first class letter for six cents (three cents if it were to a local address or unsealed!), e-mail will never carry the cachet, the romance, or the mystery of a genuine, handheld letter.
Many of us from the early to mid-last century will have struggled with and succumbed to the immediacy and intricacies of e-mail and even appreciated its ability to get things done in a hurry and without accumulating reams of paper. And for business, or even quick friend and family orders, questions, plans/changes, and reassurances, e-mail is the winner.
BUT …! It's not the same! An e-mail letter and a snail mail letter may carry the exact same information and endearments, but the transference of the literal human touch is not there.
Now, a letter in the superbox is a much more in-depth experience — almost as titillating as bending to look through the glass door of old 'Box 88' of my youth, when I could see, even before inserting the key whether a fat air mail letter from Canada's nether regions was awaiting. This after hearing the train from Toronto puff into the station, watching the mailbags lugged across the square to the P.O., and giving the postmistress and her minions time to sort the mail. And if I'd forgotten my key, sometimes the ladies behind the grill would grudgingly go to retrieve my letters from the box.
Yes, an envelope in the hand is worth many scrolls on the screen. Usually just the handwriting itself precludes a glance for the return address. And there's still the mystery of what may be inside; paper and words for certain but the possibility of so much more — pressed leaves, flowers, feathers, even tiny flat pebbles or shells; photos, clippings, or a carefully chosen card that says or shows so much. And how, on an e-mail letter can you convey, genuinely, S.W.A.K.?
Occasionally, on our travels, we choose to send a missive scratched on an unconventional form of stationery. I've sent and received notes written on a far northern scroll of birch bark or on a thin patch of cedar. I haven't yet figured out how to scan that bit of the real world into an e-mail.
Letter-writing (real) can be a very special occasion in itself. You may have splurged on some creamy vellum or linen stationery. Taking your favorite pen (yea, even one with real ink!), the putting of the words on the paper is a sensual experience of no small pleasure, and you can't help thinking about just how the recipient will react to them. Sometimes, your correspondent will even let you know that he/she can tell your mood and disposition at the time of writing by the appearance of your handwriting.
Like the rest of life, one's letter-writing habits change over the years.
Early on, we would not have dreamed of writing a letter on lined paper — horrors — what did that say about our penmanship? When the fingers began to cramp and the hand became less steady, though, those lines were a helpful guide to our thoughts.
Then somewhere along the way, the 8 x 11 ½ blank pages gave way to cards … still a letter, but with a smaller surface to cover (but once in a while having to tuck in an extra page to get it all said).
— Nancy Whelan is a regular News columnist. She lives in Oceanside.


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What percentage of the population in Ireland is homeless?
How many people are homeless in Ireland in 2018?
What country has highest homeless rate?
What percentage of the world is homeless 2020?
What to do if you become homeless in Ireland?
Which county in Ireland has the most homeless?
What country has no homeless?
Why does Japan have no homeless?
What country has lowest homeless rate?
What city has most homeless?
What state has highest homeless rate?
What state helps the homeless the most?
What is the main cause of homelessness in Ireland?
How many houses in Ireland are empty?
What do you do if you find yourself homeless?
All persons
70-74 3.4 0.8
75+ 5.5 0.8
The total fell by 66 between October and the end of November to 10,448 people. The figures, published on Friday, show there were 3,752 homeless children and 6,696 homeless adults living in emergency accommodation at the end of November, an increase of 480 when compared to the same month in 2018.
1. Manila, Philippines. The most homeless city in the world is Manila, Philippines with 3.1 million people, with 70,000 of them being children. Homelessness is a large problem across all of the Philippines with one-fourth of the the overall population living in poverty.
Based on national reports, it's estimated that no less than 150 million people, or about 2 percent of the world's population, are homeless to some extent. However, about 1.6 billion, more than 20 percent of the world's population, may lack adequate housing.
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If you are homeless, you should contact your local authority and let them know you are homeless. They will then do an assessment to determine what type of support they can offer you. Find more information on accessing emergency accommodation in Dublin, Cork and Galway below.
Outside of Dublin, Limerick had the highest number of homeless adults (312), followed by Cork (282), Galway (191), Louth (137) and Kildare (125).
For the past 30 years, tackling homelessness has been a focus for successive governments in Finland. In 1987, there were more than 18,000 homeless people there. The latest figures from the end of 2017 show there were about 6,600 people classified as without a home.
Homelessness in Japan (ホームレス, 浮浪者) is a social issue primarily affecting middle-aged and elderly males. Homelessness is thought to have peaked in the 1990s as a consequence of the collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble and has largely fallen since then.
Finland has all but eradicated rough sleeping and sustainably housed a significant number of long-term homeless people. Finland is the only country in Europe where the number of homeless people has declined in recent years.
1 — New York City. As the most populous city in the United States, it may come as no surprise that New York City tops the list of largest homeless populations. HUD estimates that New York City has 78,604 homeless people that live in shelters and without shelter.
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When analyzing the ratio of homelessness to state population, New York, Hawaii, and California had the highest rates in 2020. However, Washington, D.C. had an estimated 90.4 homeless individuals per 10,000 people, which was significantly higher than any of the 50 states.
The experiment in Utah is likely the most successful Housing First program. The Housing First project began in Utah as a 10-year project with the goal of eliminating homelessness entirely by the end of 2015.
The root cause of the homeless crisis in Ireland is the broken housing system. … Provision of affordable public housing must form a key part of any country's housing system. It acts as a safety net for families and individuals pushed out of the private rental market due to the high cost of renting or lack of housing.
There were 203,048 empty buildings in April 2016, of which the vast majority (98.4%) were single-dwelling units. A total of 3,308 multi-dwelling buildings containing 11,680 duplexes, flats or apartments were completely vacant.
Contact Shelter
They will be able to help you understand your rights, assess your needs, and help you to explore the options available to you. You can contact Shelter's housing advice helpline on 0808 800 4444 (free from landlines and most mobile networks), or by visiting their website.
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