at YMCA, Camp Lakeside, Nilshi.
What we offer: We have a set package.
1. Transport from Mumbai to & fro the Camp site. Board and lodge.
2. Use of boating related equipment : Life jacket, boat, paddles, trolley etc.
a. How to wear a PFD. d. Capsize drill.
b. Safety on water. e. A race.
The cost is Rs.2,500/- per person. Includes travel, food, accommodation and training.
1st Kayaking Camp = 6th & 7th June. 3rd Kayaking Camp = 20th & 21st June.
2nd Kayaking Camp = 13th & 14th June. 4th Kayaking Camp = 27th & 28th June.
In July '09 : Sat 11th & Sun 12th; Sat 25th & Sun 26th.
In Aug '09 : Sat 9th & Sun 10th; Sat 15th & Sun 16th ; Sat 22nd & Sun 23rd .
YMCA and Aable Boats will introduce you to the joys of kayaking on the still waters of Andhra lake near Lonavala.
AAble Boats is promoted by Homi Manekshaw. He is also a regular instructor who volunteers his services to introduce and train newcomers to sailing at the Training Sessions jointly held by Colaba Sailing Club, Bombay Sailing Association and Royal Bombay Yacht Club. AAble Boats provides Manpower training, Yacht Management and Yacht Charters.
We also cater to made to order packages for groups. Our packages are perfect for the newcomer, as well as the experts at paddling. They can be as short as a day trip, a week-end or stretch up to a week. You will be treated to boating and camping in cabins or in tents. Enjoy the evenings with games to singsongs around bonfires.
Please print out the registeration form and get it with you .
I agree that the YMCA and AAble Boats are released from liability in connection with unavoidable illness or accident. The YMCA & AAble Boats also have my permission to use necessary medical measures in the event of an emergency. I shall not hold them responsible in any way for loss or damage to person or property. I will participate in all camp activities on land and water, of my own free will and risk. I agree to abide by the rules and regulations laid down by theYMCA and AAble Boats.
Will attend the camp on _________________June, 2009.


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N.K. Jemisin announces The Awakened Kingdom, a sequel to the Inheritance trilogy
By Aidan Moher May 5th, 2014
After teasing fans for a few weeks, N.K. Jemisin, award-winning author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, announced that she is currently working on a sequel to her popular Inheritance trilogy. The novella, titled The Awakened Kingdom follows the events of the Inheritance trilogy, and is "a bit more lighthearted than the main trilogy," Jemisin said.
"Please note," she was quick to make clear, "this is a novella and not a full novel." Fans of the trilogy might be disappointed that they aren't getting a full-length novel, but Jemisin pointed out that while it's set in the same world, and likely deals with the fallout from the end of the trilogy, The Awakened Kingdom is full of original content.
"A few old faves will appear, but for the most part this is a new story with new characters," Jemisin said. "Shill is a true child god — unlike Sieh, who just played at childhood — and frankly I'm loving her; writing her basically means contemplating how a being with an adult-level intellect, Phenomenal Cosmic Power, and no freaking clue about anything blunders through complicated events."
Jemisin also revealed the first blurb for the novella, which, if you're sensitive to such things, contains spoilers for the Inheritance trilogy.
As the first new godling born in thousands of years — and the heir presumptive to Sieh the Trickster — Shill's got big shoes to fill. She's well on her way when she defies her parents and sneaks off to the mortal realm, which is no place for an impressionable young god. In short order she steals a demon's grandchild, gets herself embroiled in a secret underground magical dance competition, and offends her oldest and most powerful sibling.
But for Eino, the young Darren man whom Shill has befriended, the god-child's silly games are serious business. Trapped in an arranged marriage and prohibited from pursuing his dreams, he has had enough. He will choose his own fate, even if he must betray a friend in the process — and Shill might just have to grow up faster than she thinks.
"As the marketing text notes," she continued. "A good chunk of the story will take place in Darr and focus on a young Darren man, in a society in which men have few rights and forced male circumcision is a thing — so still some Serious Stuff therein."
In addition to The Awakened Kingdom, Jemisin also announced that Orbit Books will be publishing an omnibus edition of the Inheritance trilogy in print and eBook formats.
The Awakened Kingdom will be available on December 9th in eBook form.
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vikzwrites May 6, 2014 at 6:41 am
really looking forward to this.
Paul Weimer May 7, 2014 at 11:45 am

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Newsom, Chiu propose bond measure for streets
Cracked, patched and pothole filled Great Highway at the foot of the Cliff House in San Francisco is one of the streets we looked at for the annual Pavement "Quality Report Card" reporting on 19,000 miles of Bay Area pavement on Wednesday October 18, 2006.Kat Wade/The Chronicle
San Francisco voters will probably decide whether to pony up millions of dollars to repair the city's notoriously pothole-ridden streets under a proposal Tuesday from Mayor Gavin Newsom and Board of Supervisors President David Chiu.
They proposed placing a $368 million bond measure on November's ballot to repair streets, improve decrepit stairways and sidewalks, and construct curb ramps accessible to people in wheelchairs.
But despite the top two City Hall officials joining forces even as they butt heads over next year's budget, passage of the bond measure is far from certain. It needs approval from eight of 11 supervisors to make it to the ballot and a two-thirds passage rate from voters, which could be a tough benchmark during a recession.
In addition, the ballot could be filled with tax-raising measures including a sales tax increase, a new gross receipts tax and a vehicle license fee, ideas that have been floated by supervisors to help the city cope with its dire budget deficit.
But Newsom and Chiu said that the poor condition of the city's streets and sidewalks is one of the top complaints they hear from city residents and that they're hopeful the city will get behind repairing them.
"People are at the point where they're fed up with the streets, and I hear it every day," Newsom said. "I think they're going to be open to it. It's the right time to do this type of project."
Chiu said paying for the repair work won't be a big burden on residents because it's part of the city's 10-year capital plan, agreed to by the board and mayor. Each year, the city's infrastructure needs are prioritized to ensure that the city floats new capital bonds only as old ones expire, thus minimizing the effect on taxpayers.
"Our roads have been ignored for years," Chiu said. "I'm very happy to be working with the mayor on this."
But Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, who crafted the legislation creating the 10-year plan, voted against its recent renewal last month. He opposes the streets bond measure because he believes the city should be paying for it out of its general fund, not asking property owners to shoulder an extra burden.
"We have a $6 billion budget, and we really don't have the money to pay for street resurfacing?" he asked. "Isn't one of the fundamental tenets of creating a government to take care of your roads?"
He said that special, one-time bond measures - like last year's approval of a rebuild of San Francisco General Hospital - make sense, but that they shouldn't be used to pay for basic services.
Newsom and Chiu say the streets bond measure would create 2,650 jobs and would pay for the repair of 2,500 segments of various streets, add trees and pedestrian lighting to streets, improve guardrails, tunnels and retaining walls around the city and fix buckling sidewalks.
The 10-year capital plan also recommends placing a $580 million bond on the June 2010 ballot to pay for a variety of earthquake safety and emergency response projects, including repairing the emergency water system, repairing fire stations and moving police headquarters out of the seismically unsafe Hall of Justice.
The plan also recommends $1.4 billion worth of other work, including replacing the county jail at the Hall of Justice. It is unclear if or when that will be placed on a future ballot.


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Fort Hill Home
Map & Trails
Ancient Earthworks
Fort Hill is managed by the Arc of Appalachia on behalf of Ohio History Connection. The Arc of Appalachia has expanded the 1200 acre park with five property acquisitions, adding 280 more acres to the greater Fort Hill Preserve region.
Ancient Earthworks. The major earthwork at Fort Hill is an ancient earthen-walled enclosure constructed on top of a large flat-topped ridge. The earthen-stone wall has a circumference over one and a half miles, its span interrupted with at 36 definite made-man openings, and three more possible man-made openings. The wall itself ranges from 6 to 15 feet in height, averages 30 feet wide at its base, and encloses 35.3 acres. It was built to follow the natural contour of the rim of the hill, and is bordered on the inside wall by a substantial ditch. The total length of the embankment has been surveyed at 8,619 feet.
Eleven Miles of Hiking Trails. A total of eleven miles of hiking trails exist at Fort Hill, offering some of the best hiking in the entire state of Ohio. Because of the relatively long length of the preserve's three trails, they are best suited for hiking enthusiasts. Hikers, please note back country trail conditions. It is wise to dedicate approximately one hour per mile in order to leisurely and safely enjoy Fort Hill's back country trails. The trails are generally primitive in nature, being narrow, uneven, and traversing rolling hills that can sometimes approach steep. After a rain or in the spring after winter snow melt, the paths can be muddy, so please be prepared with proper foot gear. Before coming in the fall/winter, be sure to check the dates the hiking trails are closed for the deer management hunt. Fort Hill is a protected natural area. Regulations require that hikers remain on the trails. Harvesting or disturbing plant and animal life is not permitted. Fishing is not permitted. Dogs are allowed, but must be kept on a leash at all times.
Old Growth Forest. Fort Hill boasts a stunning natural area of 1600 acres, sheltering one of the largest and oldest contiguous forests in all of Ohio. It is estimated that the park preserves over 800 vascular species of plants within its boundaries, an outstanding remnant of the temperate deciduous forest that once covered nearly all of the eastern United States. In 2015 Fort Hill was officially inducted as part of the Old Growth Forest Network.
Fort Hill Floral Displays. Fort Hill has a truly spectacular spring wildflower display including such showy species as Large-flowered trilliums, columbine, celandine poppy, and Sweet William woodland phlox. Hiking the gorge trail is mid-April is an enchanting experience.
Shelter House: Picnicking is a very popular and historic activity at Fort Hill, and the park offers some of the most beautiful picnic grounds in the state. The grounds are shaded by tall trees and dissected with a small meandering stream. The handsome picnic shelter was built in the 1930's by the Civilian Conservation Corps out of native rock and wormy chestnut. Grills are available at both the picnic shelter and picnic areas. Fort Hill's picnic shelter can be reserved for exclusive use for a fee of $40 per day. For reservations, please call ahead at 937-365-1935. Otherwise, use of the picnic shelter is first come, first served. Click here for regulations and more information.


It might be a stretch goal in a spread-out city like Atlanta, but parks advocates say that everyone should live within a 10-minutes walk of some nice public green space.
"You find that people who live near parks, they know more of their neighbors, they have more friends and they're happier with where they live," said George Dusenbury, Georgia state director at The Trust for Public Land.
So Wednesday, (10/10, by the way) folks across the country walked to parks for what TPL has declared National Walk to a Park Day.
The point of the campaign, said Dusenbury, is to promote there being enough parks so that people can live within a 10-minute walk of one. Parks are important because of what they do for mental health, physical health, strengthening community and the environment, he said.
He was speaking in Woodruff Park, where about 20 folks from The Trust for Public Land, Park Pride, the city of Atlanta and the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District made their pilgrimage.
Michael Halicki leads Park Pride, a metro organization that helps communities get the most out of their parks. He said that looking at it only as this or that geographic quadrant of the city alone misses the larger story.
"It's that we need more parks throughout the city as a whole and we also need quality parks that meet the communities' needs throughout the city," Halicki said. It's not just if a park is there, but has there been any investment in it lately, does it do what the neighbors need it to do?
So why isn't Atlanta there?
"I think if anything, it is a stretch goal, when you look at the fact that Atlanta is a decentralized … spread-out city" Halicki said.
City of Atlanta Parks and Recreation Commissioner Amy Phuong arrived at the small park gathering with a piece of paper in her hand: an endorsement of the campaign, signed by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Phuong said the mayor understands the power of parks and will be rolling out a few parks initiatives soon. Phuong pointed out that Sara J. Gonzalez Park on Coronet Way was just rededicated with works including an all-new inclusive play area for children of all abilities, designed to stimulate all the senses. And on Monday, Atlanta City Council is scheduled to hear an ordinance that would see the city lease Lullwater Conservation Garden on Lullwater Road as a public space, at a nominal $1 per year, with the city to perform routine maintenance.
The city has also OK'd an expansion of Piedmont Park and the Atlanta Botanical Garden that will cost the city some $20.4 million — that's not even counting what private partners will put into it. Council approved the idea earlier this year, but gave it tough hearings along the way, asking whether it's equitable to spend so much on one relatively small expansion.
Phuong said the impact fees that are going into that expansion only could have been used for a project like that, and so it is not a case of one project sucking up all the resources.
"When there are other opportunities across the city, we will find those resources, where it meets our goals to continue to expand both the quality of our green spaces and programs, as well as the amount," Phuong said.
Halicki said he doesn't think of big signature parks and neighborhood parks as an "either-or" situation. A city needs both, he said, and they do different things.
Just look at the Eastside BeltLine Trail. He said that after people visit it, they go back to their own neighborhoods and advocate for their own fine parks.
"I think that … by looking at what parks can be kind of lifts all boats," Halicki said. It gets everybody on board with a larger vision and gets them to working on how to get to that vision.
In a TPL ranking of 100 cities by their "Park Score," Atlanta ranks 43rd in the country as of 2018, up from 50th the year before. The BeltLine is helping bring that score up, as will other green spaces now under construction like Kathryn Johnston Memorial Park. But so is a change in the calculation, to include private support for parks.
A SAFE 10-minute walk to a park. I live a short distance from three ATL parks, none of them which are safely accessible due to missing sidewalks and crosswalks.


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Belong here
At Lucidworks we're building the future of search for the world's top companies. And we'd love for you to join us.
Hey, future Lucidizen!
What's a Lucidizen? A member of our growing global team of thinkers, creators, and doers. We're a diverse global team spanning a full spectrum of expertise, connected by a passion to elevate our customers' success through game-changing search. With deep roots in AI and enterprise search, we're all about empowering global brands and organizations to personalize business experiences for their customers and employees. Our impact is growing just as quickly.
At Lucidworks we live our values in everything we do. They're a cornerstone of the way we think, solve problems, and deliver the things that matter. We've carefully crafted these six values to create our vibrant, engaging culture.
Honor People
At Lucidworks, everything starts with people: our culture, our impact on customers, and the way our technology helps deliver the things people want and need. "Honor People" reminds us to see the human in every interaction, each line of code, and all we deliver to the people we serve.
We see "curiosity" as a superpower. It's more than just asking questions: it's about embracing a growth mindset and really wondering what we can learn from each other. The more we open our minds, the more we see – and that's an active practice here at Lucidworks.
Champion Customers
Our success? It begins with our customers. Prioritizing them guides our decisions and actions. Whether we work directly with them or build the things that empower them to succeed, fueling their vision is the reason we do what we do.
Break the Bottle
At Lucidworks we value bright ideas, unconventional thinking, and new solutions to all kinds of problems. We like being different. Challenging assumptions and thinking outside of the box (or, um, bottle) helps us do that – and points us to where we actually want to go.
Align & Commit
Clear agreements make us stronger. We actively align on decisions, commitments, and the actions that build results. We plan impact and outcomes before we act, and we keep our word with others who depend on our contributions. Alignment is an active practice here at Lucidworks, core to what makes us strong.
Enjoy This
Great people, exciting products, and customers we're proud to empower – there's much to enjoy here at Lucidworks. Yet "Enjoy This" means more. Enjoyment means we're on the right path. Remembering that helps us course correct when things get tough, so we get back to where we want to be.
"From my first day at Lucidworks I've been supported in building skills to enrich my career growth. Both personally and professionally, I'm set up to succeed in my role and as part of an inspiring team. Our values point each of us toward high standards – and make us want to achieve them."
Revenue Team
"Lucidworks makes 'family first' walk, not just talk. As a military spouse and parent of a small child, I'm able to excel in my career while prioritizing the needs of my family. For a working parent, the support I get here is fantastic."
We want working at Lucidworks to benefit you. That's why we cover 100% of our employees' healthcare premiums, worldwide, and generously fund premiums for dependents. With medical, dental, vision, and other forms of wellness, we provide a solid baseline and actively explore what else we can offer. We believe in the importance of parental leaves, work-life balance, flexible work schedules, and support for you working from home, one of our offices, or the mix that works for you. Get to know our benefits and the message is clear: we care about your wellbeing because we care about you.
Employer Paid Healthcare
We pay 100% of employee health insurance premiums and a generous percentage of dependent premiums.
A Stake in the Game
We value ownership and support it by providing equity grants to all full-time employees.
Flexible Team Work
We're flex by design: work from home, use one of our offices, or go hybrid.
Paid Maternity and Parental Leave
We support all new parents with paid leave above and beyond our generous maternity leave.
Generous PTO and Time Off
We believe in balance. And we walk the talk with regional holidays, flex days for you to choose, competitive PTO, and our "First Fridays" – days off for you to do as you wish on the first Friday of each month.
People First Culture
We mean it. Our C-Team advocates for our people and culture. We walk the walk. Our "continuous improvement" mindset applies to all we do for our people as we continue to grow.
"I feel seen and supported at Lucidworks. The things that make me 'me' are the things I'm encouraged to share in ways that let me do my best work. It's amazing to see that empowerment across our company."
"A company that believes in your potential and supports you by taking action is a company that changes your life. That's Lucidworks. My voice matters here because I'm valued. Growth is like magic… it's inspiring!"
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"Lucidworks' parental leave has made it much easier for my wife and me to transition as working parents. I love the time I was able to spend with our new baby in these early days. As a new father, this flexibility and support is cherished."
Diversity drives innovation
Diversity is a foundation of who we are. We see the value it brings to our success, and we welcome, support, and celebrate talent across a full range of backgrounds, origins, orientations, and identities. Our growing DEI initiatives, employee resource groups, and cross-company alliances benefit all of us, throughout our company and in all we do.


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A child's future is worth every sacrifice.
Greg Wickherst is a single dad of a little girl called Izzy. One of his tasks is to take care of her hair every morning but he just doesn't know how.
A man walked past his son's bedroom , he saw to his horror that his bed was nicely made and everything was cleaned up too perfectly.


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NGO Installs Bio-Toilets At Delhi Border For Women At Farmers' Protest
HomeAll IndiaNGO Installs Bio-Toilets At Delhi Border For Women At Farmers' Protest
The pits have been dug on the roadside. The recycled material is sourced from multiple vendors across the county. Each toilet costs around Rs 60,000.
All IndiaPress Trust of IndiaUpdated: January 01, 2021 4:37 pm IST
100 women and specially-abled people have been using the bio-toilet every day, NGO founder said
With more women joining the farmers' protest at the Singhu border over the last few days, an NGO is installing bio-toilets made using recycled material to ensure that they don't have to worry about the lack of basic amenities.
Days after farmers from different states set up camp at various border points of Delhi to protest the Centre's new agricultural reforms in late November last year, many women protesters were forced to head back home due to the unavailability of clean toilets and bathing spaces.
"This is the first time we are doing a project at a protest site. Someone sent me a picture of a street here which was completely covered with fecal matter. So, we thought we should come here and do something," said Ashwini Agarwal, the founder of Basicshit, an NGO working for sanitation issues.
Each toilet will have a 10-foot-deep pit. Sawdust and charcoal will be used to remove the odour, he said.
The pits have been dug on the roadside. The recycled material is sourced from multiple vendors across the county. Each toilet costs around Rs 60,000, he said.
The NGO has already installed a bio-toilet at the protest site.
Around 100 women and specially-abled people have been using the bio-toilet every day, Mr Agarwal said.
The NGO has also initiated crowdfunding to help it build more such toilets.
"Anyone can install such a bio-toilet. There are ''do-it-yourself'' designs available on our website. We have also been teaching farmers how to make one," Mr Agarwal said.
More bio-toilets are coming up at the women's shelter near the main stage at Singhu border, he said.
Farmers have come forward to dig the pits and install the toilets, Sahaj Umang Singh from Basicshit said.
"They have also given us empty tin canisters which we have used for making urinals for men," he said.
"The idea to make a urinal for men out of tin canister originated at the protest site. The farmers hand them over to us after using the ghee and oil," he added.
Farmers have been camping at Delhi's gateways for over a month now to demand the repeal of the Centre's three farm laws -- the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act.
Enacted in September, the three farm laws have been projected by the central government as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove the middleman and allow farmers to sell their produce anywhere in the country.
However, the protesting farmers have expressed apprehension that the new laws would pave the way for eliminating the safety cushion of MSP and do away with the mandi system, leaving them at the mercy of big corporates.
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ADX partners with FTSE Russell to create new benchmark indices
FTSE ADX General Index is replacing ADX General Index as of Monday 10th of January 2022.
FTSE ADX sector indices to replace six existing sector indices and introduce four new sector indices.
The partnership will work to introduce new co-branded indices for the ADX market during the course of the year.
ABU DHABI, January 10 2022: The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and FTSE Russell have partnered to develop co-branded indices, supporting the exchange's recently launched derivatives market and bringing the exchange's stock performance measures into line with global standards.
As of 10th of January 2022, the FTSE ADX General Index is replacing the ADX General Index, and FTSE ADX sector indices will take the place of the existing sector indices, leveraging the Industry Classification Benchmark. ADX is the first exchange in the region to make FTSE Russell its index administrator. Further new indices will be co-developed under the partnership to support ADX's vision of introducing new tradable index products on its market. The exchange launched single stock futures in the fourth quarter of 2021 following an agreement sealed in September with NASDAQ in September to deliver matching, real time clearing and settlement technology as ADX broadens its asset class offerings.
Saeed Hamad Al Dhaheri, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange commented: "Our partnership with FTSE Russell is part of ADX's wide-ranging strategy to develop a dynamic exchange, which includes investment in state-of-the art market technology and increasing the opportunity set for investors and issuers. The new range of FTSE-ADX indices will provide robust benchmarks and support the listing of index derivatives, ETFs other index-based products on the exchange."
Arne Stall, Chief Executive Officer, FTSE Russell, said: "ADX is an innovative and vibrant marketplace that empowers the UAE's economy. We are delighted to work together to strengthen the country's capital markets with open access to data, pricing, and performance metrics. Our collaboration confirms FTSE Russell's commitment to the Middle East region and we look forward to announcing a range of new benchmarks in the coming months."
ADX's benchmark index, the ADI, crossed the 9,000-point threshold in 2021 for the first time. The benchmark gauge rose 64% last year, making it one of the best performing exchanges in the world. At the same time, the exchange's market capitalization more than doubled to AED 1.6 trillion with net foreign investment reaching AED 15.2 billion.
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) was established on November 15 of the year 2000 by Local Law No. (3) Of 2000, the provisions of which vest the market with a legal entity of autonomous status, independent finance and management. The Law also provides ADX with the necessary supervisory and executive powers to exercise its functions. On 17th March 2020, ADX was converted from a "Public Entity" to a "Public Joint Stock Company PJSC" pursuant to law No. (8) of 2020. ADX is part of ADQ, one of the region's largest holding companies with a broad portfolio of major enterprises spanning key sectors of Abu Dhabi's diversified economy.
ADX is a market for trading securities; including shares issued by public joint stock companies, bonds issued by governments or corporations, exchange traded funds, and any other financial instruments approved by the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA). ADX is the second largest market in the Arab region and its strategy of providing stable financial performance with diversified sources of incomes is aligned with the guiding principles of the UAE "Towards the next 50" agenda. The national plan charts out the UAE's strategic development scheme which aims to build a sustainable, diversified and high-value added economy that positively contributes to transition to a new global sustainable development paradigm.
About FTSE Russell:
FTSE Russell is a global index leader that provides innovative benchmarking, analytics and data solutions for investors worldwide. FTSE Russell calculates thousands of indexes that measure and benchmark markets and asset classes in more than 70 countries, covering 98% of the investable market globally.
FTSE Russell index expertise and products are used extensively by institutional and retail investors globally. Approximately $16 trillion is currently benchmarked to FTSE Russell indexes. For over 30 years, leading asset owners, asset managers, ETF providers and investment banks have chosen FTSE Russell indexes to benchmark their investment performance and create ETFs, structured products and index-based derivatives.
A core set of universal principles guides FTSE Russell index design and management: a transparent rules-based methodology is informed by independent committees of leading market participants. FTSE Russell is focused on applying the highest industry standards in index design and governance and embraces the IOSCO Principles. FTSE Russell is also focused on index innovation and customer partnerships as it seeks to enhance the breadth, depth and reach of its offering.
FTSE Russell is wholly owned by London Stock Exchange Group.
For more information, visit www.ftserussell.com.
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The Contempt That Poisoned Flint's Water
The National Guard has arrived in Flint, Michigan, passing out bottled water and filters in an effort to protect residents from the city's tainted water supply.
Photograph by Brittany Greeson / The New York Times / Redux
Even before the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, was found to be tainted with lead—before water from some areas tested at more than twice the level considered to be toxic waste, and public-health officials said that every last child in the city should be treated as if the child had been poisoned—the governor's office knew that the water was discolored, tasted bad, smelled strange, and was rife with "organic matter." They knew, as one memo sent to Governor Rick Snyder in February, 2015, noted, that "residents have attended meetings with jugs of brownish water." Officials figured that a reason it looked that way was the presence of rust. And they thought that was just fine. They wished, in fact, that the residents would realize how good they had it, when it came to the water's substance, and stop complaining about its style. Various safe-water laws, the February memo said, "ensure that water is safe to drink. The act does not regulate aesthetic values of water." The "aesthetics" (the word comes up several times in e-mails about Flint, which the governor released Tuesday night under pressure) were bad because "it's the Flint River"; "the system is old"; "Flint is old"—the water, in a word, fit their picture of the city, in which about forty per cent of its hundred thousand people lived below the poverty line (and more than half are black). Until April, 2014, Flint had been part of Detroit's water system, which had Lake Huron as its source. It was scheduled to be connected to a new pipeline in 2016 or 2017, which would save money; Flint is in such desperate financial straits that it was under the oversight of an Emergency Manager. When that manager felt he couldn't negotiate a low enough price for Detroit water in the interim, the city was left with the option of drinking from the river that ran by it, and past its active and derelict factories, and had been last regularly used decades before. The city would treat the water itself. All the city had to do was pass a few tests; as long as it did, it didn't matter if the residents were, in effect, drinking dirt. But then, almost immediately, the water began to fail the tests. In August, 2014, and again that September, the water was found to have unacceptably high levels of fecal coliform bacteria, and specifically E. coli. Certain neighborhoods were instructed to boil their water, while the city added chlorine to the supply to disinfect it. It took a lot of chlorine—and that may be where Flint's troubles really began. (NBC has a timeline of the crisis.) The city's water managers, unaccountably, seem not to have added any anti-corrosion agents to the water. Nor did they check for corrosion issues in a way they ought to have for a city Flint's size. (In a remarkable memo a year later, Brad Wurfel, the spokesman of the state's Department of Environmental Quality, said that the staff had "made a mistake," and followed the wrong protocol.) By October, 2014, General Motors had announced that it would no longer use the water, because it was corroding its equipment. It was also—and this should have been entirely predictable—eating into the lead pipes that delivered the water to people's homes, causing them to crumble into the water. Flint is old, and its water system took decades to build. It took only months of cheap, corrosive water to mangle and perhaps permanently destroy it.
Still, the memos from the governor's office continued to dismiss "the rusty factor" as aesthetic. It might not be good enough for G.M.'s machines, but it was fine for people. The water, as the governor's office told the public, was still, passing the tests—except in the case of one known carcinogen, TTHM, which was produced by the interaction of chlorine and that "organic matter." The water wasn't passing those tests, but it was close enough, and, anyway, since TTHM caused cancer after long exposure, but not within the few years people in Flint were being asked to drink it. The TTHM regulations, a memo to the governor noted, were only estimated to prevent two hundred and eighty bladder-cancer cases each year, "out of more than 330 million people," and so "it's not like an imminent threat to public health." The exchanges in the governor's office continued to center around how to get one simple message out to the people of Flint: "residents should feel confident that their water is safe to drink unless the DEQ or City notifies them otherwise."
The memos note that there are plenty of contaminants that the tests don't look for: E. coli was a particular health hazard, but it should have been a proxy, a sign, like the "aesthetic" issues, that water as dirty as that might have other problems, too. The state and city seem to have ignored that basic lesson of epidemiology—they didn't seem to register until recently, for example, that there had also been a spike in cases of Legionnaire's Disease in Flint, which might also have had something to do with the water. Ten people died in that outbreak.
Lead is an imminent and persistent threat to public health. It can cause miscarriages and the births of babies who are too small. Children whose developing brains are exposed to lead can have developmental delays and disabilities for their entire lives. Older people can suffer memory loss, weight loss, circulation problems, behavioral problems; they can feel sick and exhausted. Lead stays in your bones even once it leaves your blood. And there were soon signs that the people in Flint were drinking lead. They weren't told to stop using the water; indeed, for months, the opposite was the case.
Residents were not only reporting that their water seemed strange. They were reporting that they were sick, had rashes, that their entire bodies were weak. The various Michigan authorities continued to report that they couldn't find anything unusual—certainly not lead, except maybe some "seasonal" spikes, or statistical flukes. At most, people should let their water run for a while before using it. And yet, in February, 2015—a year ago—an E.P.A. water expert named Miguel Del Toral sent the Michigan D.E.Q. a memo saying that it might be testing the wrong way. "Folks tend to discount these values as anomalies, but particulate lead release is a normal part of the corrosion process and it is universal (common) in all systems," he wrote. Flint's habit of "pre-flushing the tap" the night before samples were collected might be skewing things. Del Toral continued, "My point on that was that people are exposed to the particulate lead on a daily basis, but the particulate lead is being flushed away before collecting compliance samples which provides false assurance to residents about the true lead levels in the water."
The question going forward is whether Michigan authorities deliberately gamed their testing protocol to overlook the lead that they should at least have suspected was there. Under the rules, the lead level would be judged unacceptable if ten per cent of samples the water authorities collected show more than fifteen parts per billion. In June, 2015, the Detroit Free Press examined documents on the testing obtained by the A.C.L.U.; the paper reported that after Flint had collected only thirty-nine of an expected hundred samples, a D.E.Q. official wrote to let city officials know that those samples were looking high. Somewhat ambiguously, he expressed "hope" that the rest of the samples would be "below the AL," or action level, for lead. Going above that level would put the department in the position of having to do something. The samples are supposed to come from around the city and reflect a judgment about what homes might be at risk. Instead, for whatever reason, as the Free Press noted, a quarter of the remaining samples "came from a single stretch of Flushing Road in Flint," which had a water-main section only a few years old. "Not surprisingly, all of those samples measured very low for lead," the paper reported. And the testers still got the numbers under the acceptable level only by throwing out one sample that was extraordinarily high—over a hundred parts per billion. They later said, bizarrely, that it was because the household used a filter, which would, if anything, suggest that the lead there was even higher.
It was. That sample had come from the house of Lee Anne Walters. The water from her taps was orange. Her twin four-year-old boys were sick—one of them weighed only twenty-seven pounds. Her daughter's hair was falling out, and so were her own eyelashes. She had insisted that the city test her water and, after she got a doctor's letter, it did. The water measured a hundred and five p.p.b. When it was retested, it measured almost four hundred p.p.b. The city suggested that she hook up a hose and use her next-door neighbor's water instead; the problem must be her house. She tracked down Del Toral, by looking up the E.P.A.'s phone number and calling. Del Toral repeated his warnings and began working with residents and speaking out. At the same time, Walters started going to town meetings, as did other residents. A group of researchers from Virginia Tech, led by professor Marc Edwards, began to do what the city and state had so avoided: asking whether the water was truly safe. One of the samples they took recorded a level of 13,200 p.p.b.: lead soup. On August 31, 2015, the researchers released their results: more than a third of their samples showed an elevated level of lead. On September 24th, Doctor Mona Hanna-Attisha, a local pediatrician, announced that there had been a significant spike in the levels of lead in the children her hospital had tested. The state continued to say that its studies were better—more comprehensive.
On September 26th, days after Dr. Hanna-Attisha released her results, Dennis Muchmore, the governor's chief of staff, sent a memo complaining about the response. One local politician was being a "press hound." The state had already spent money on dealing with the "less than savory aspects" of the water; other solutions were expensive. "Now we have the anti everything group turning to the lead content which is a concern for everyone, but DEQ and DHHS and EPA can't find evidence of a major change . . . Of course, some of the Flint people respond by looking for someone to blame instead of working to reduce anxiety."
Someone is to blame. When the state redid the tests, under a more watchful public eye, Flint failed; President Obama has declared a federal state of emergency in Flint, with the National Guard bringing in bottled water. The city has switched back to Detroit water, but that doesn't solve the problem of the pipes leaching lead. What may lie at the heart of the tragedy, though, appears to have been a certain contempt. It was as if state officials thought that it was all a cultural problem, poor people being frivolous instead of drinking water that had long been, as one memo put it, "perfectly fine." Really, what did they expect?
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My favorite lifecafe salad- chicken, veggies, chipotle ranch dressing…. made to order it's delicious and PACKED with veggies. Hello 4-5 servings in one sitting!
Got this yogurt on Saturday at Whole Foods… it's almost gone, I LOVE yogurt.
Plowing through these K-Cups–> hello fall even when it's 90 out!
Lately I've been getting a lot of questions about what I eat on a daily basis. While I love cooking, making up new recipes, and sharing them here at Hungry Hobby, the fact is I just don't have the time to make big meals. I'm literally almost always on the go which typically means small meals and snacks throughout the day. For this week's meal plan I put together a list of my typical super fast meals, typically packed with protein and healthy fat as the main focus. I'll add things like a piece of fruit, canned beans, pre cooked quinoa, brown rice, or a microwaved sweet potato as needed for carbs.
I also include plenty of snacks throughout the day to keep me going. It's not fancy, but it does the trick and I can get on to the rest of the day or bed whatever is needed!


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Os ewoks são uma raça que se origina no universo fictício da série de filmes Star Wars. Na série, eles são uma tribo de seres inteligentes, semelhantes a um urso de pelúcia, caçadores nativos da lua florestal de Endor. Os ewoks vivem em várias cabanas em copas de árvores e moradias primitivas. Eles aparecem pela primeira vez no filme Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), onde eles ajudam a Aliança Rebelde derrotar as forças do Império Galáctico na Batalha de Endor, dando a possibilidade que o gerador de escudo fosse destruído, e, como consequência, a segunda Estrela da Morte.

Por causa do sucesso que tiveram junto ao público, renderam dois filmes feitos para a televisão: Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure e Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, assim como a série animada Star Wars: Ewoks e diversos livros, jogos e brinquedos. Eles também tiveram seu próprio desenho animado, e no Brasil, este desenho foi exibido pelo Xou da Xuxa da Rede Globo, entre 1987 e 1989, e nos canais pagos Fox e Fox Kids, entre 1995 e 1998.

Características

Ewoks são indivíduos curiosos que tem mais ou menos um metro de altura. São onívoros e usam lanças, estilingues e facas como armas. Eles também usam asa deltas, comboios de guerra e bordoks (animais herbívoros) como veículos. Embora extremamente hábeis em sobrevivência na floresta e na construção de tecnologia primitiva como planadores e catapultas, os ewoks ainda têm que progredir da tecnologia do nível da pedra quando foram descobertos pelo Império. Eles são aprendizes rápidos, contudo, quando expostos a tecnologia avançada com processos e conceitos mecânicos simples.

Os ewoks são semelhantes aos mamíferos e humanoides, que por causa de sua baixa estatura, possuem uma vantagem quando tentam se esconder. Eles são cobertos de pelos da cabeça aos pés, com o marrom e o preto sendo as cores mais comuns. Outros ewoks têm uma pelugem quase branca ou avermelhada. A maioria conta com uma cor sólida, apesar de que alguns portam listras. Os ewoks têm olhos grandes e brilhantes, nariz pequeno e preto e mão que possui dois dedos e um polegar oposto. Mesmo sendo baixos, os ewoks são fisicamente fortes o suficiente para dominar combatentes humanos. O humano Mace Towani comparou sua aparência àquela de "pequenos ursos", apesar de que eles algumas vezes são chamados de "mini wookiees."

Bastidores
George Lucas criou os ewoks por que ele queria que no Return of the Jedi figurasse uma tribo de criaturas primitivas que trouxesse abaixo o Império, de alta tecnologia. Ele originalmente tinha intenção que as cenas fossem feitas em Kashyyyk, o planeta natal wookiee, mas na medida em que as gravações foram evoluindo, os wookies se tornaram tecnologicamente capazes. Lucas criou então uma nova espécie no lugar, e diz que a sua concepção foi simples: os wookies são altos, então ele fez os ewoks baixos.

Inspiração
Se acredita que os ewoks foram moldados com base nos hobbits, o pequeno e facilmente negligenciado povo que causou a destruição do mestre das trevas Sauron em O Senhor dos Anéis de J. R. R. Tolkien. Lucas escolheu a palavra "Endor" para o planeta da lua para homenageá-los, uma vez que é o nome élfico para a Terra Média, o cenário da maioria das histórias de Tolkien.

Criação
Os ewoks foram nomeados em homenagem aos miwok, uma tribo nativa norte-americana, indígena à Floresta Redwood na qual as cenas de Endor foram filmadas para Return of the Jedi, localizado em San Rafael, próximo do Rancho Skywalker de Lucas. O nome também é um trocadilho com as sílabas de wookiee ao contrário. No filme, o nome ewok nunca é pronunciado, mas aparece nos créditos finais.

Como apresentado nos filmes, os ewoks aparentam como seres bípedes atarracados e sapientes, que possuem de altura aproximadamente um metro. Eles têm pés achatados, são completamente cobertos de pelos e possuem olhos grandes que parecem jóias. Tanto seu pelo quanto os olhos vêm em tons de terra, primariamente marrom, branco, cinza, ouro e negro. Apesar de sua baixa estatura, os ewoks são fortes: na cena da batalha climática de Return of the Jedi, eles são mostrados dominando fisicamente e uma vez inclusive jogando um Stormtrooper, apesar desse detalhe não ser consistente ao longo do filme. Ewoks vivem nas alturas, entre as árvores das florestas de sua lua de residência, em vilas construídas em plataformas entre as poucos espaçadas árvores.

Uma língua "ewokesa" foi criada para os filmes pelo designer de som Ben Burtt de Return of the Jedi. Na faixa de comentário para o DVD de Return of the Jedi, Burtt explica que a língua é baseada em calmuco, uma língua falada pelo povo calmuco da Rússia. Burtt escutou a língua em um documentário e gostou do seu som, que parecia muito alienígena para os ouvidos ocidentais. Após alguma pesquisa, ele identificou uma refugiada calmuca de 80 anos de idade. Burtt a gravou contando histórias folclóricas em sua língua nativa, e então usou as gravações como a base para sons que se tornaram a língua ewok e foi utilizada por atores de voz que imitaram a voz da idosa em diferentes estilos. Para a cena na qual C-3PO fala ewokês, o ator Anthony Daniels trabalhou com Burtt e inventou palavras, baseado nas gravações calmucas.

Aparição em Return of the Jedi
Os ewoks estiveram envolvidos em uma grande parte da última obra da trilogia original de Star Wars de George Lucas. Quando o Império começa as operações na lua de Endor, antecedendo aos eventos mostrados no filme, ele ignora os primitivos ewoks. A Princesa Leia Organa, parte da equipe de combate rebelde, então torna-se amiga do ewok Wicket W. Warrick, um batedor de dita vila, e é levada para conhecer os outros ewoks. O resto da equipe de ataque são acidentalmente capturados pelos ewoks e trazidos à vila. Os ewoks veneram o androide protocolar C-3PO, pensando que ele é algum tipo de divindade devido ao seu corpo dourado e brilhante e por uma posterior demonstração de força feita por Luke Skywalker através da Força. C-3PO conta ao Conselho dos Sábios as aventuras dos heróis rebeldes Skywalker, Princesa Leia e Han Solo. Os Ewoks aceitam os rebeldes em sua tribo e se aliam à sua causa. Eles então ajudam na batalha campal a destruir o gerador de escudo imperial no superfície da floresta, e suas armas primitivas derrubam os tropas imperiais e os andadores AT-ST do Império. Esta assistência pavimenta o caminho para a vitória na Batalha de Endor. Mais tarde naquela noite os ewoks são mostrados organizando uma enorme comemoração.

História
Antes do Império Galáctico chegar a Endor, os visitantes de outros sistemas estelares eram raros. Apesar disso, os ewoks da Vila da Árvore Brilhante, liderados pelo Chefe Chirpa e o curandeiro Logray tiveram contato surpreendentemente extensivo com forasteiros. Estes ewoks ajudaram os viajantes humanos Mace e Cindel Towani resgatar seus pais de um Gorax. Mais tarde, um grupo de Sanyassan Marauders, que haviam caído na lua florestal várias décadas antes, atacaram os ewoks, matando toda a família Towani exceto Cindel, e tendo vários prisioneiros ewoks. Um jovem ewok chamado Wicket W. Warrick ajudou Cindel e outro viajante humano Noa Briqualon que anos antes também havia caído na lua de Endor a derrotar os Sanyassans, resgatar os prisioneiros, e encontrar as peças necessárias para reparar a nave de Briqualon.Por fim, eles ajudaram a parar um cientista imperial chamado Dr. Raygar, que tentou roubar a sagrada Pedra do Sol para usá-la para controlar o Império.

Os ewoks também tiveram contato com muitas outras espécies inteligentes na Lua Florestal, como os yuzzums, gupins, guerreiros lagartos e teeks. Seus primos, os duloks, habitantes do pântano, são rivais dos ewoks e geralmente lhes causam problemas.

Destino
Alguns ewoks foram removidos de seu planeta e levados como animais de estimação ou escravos. Outros foram embora voluntariamente por sua curiosidade, especialmente após a Batalha de Endor ter levado ao estabelecimento de entrepostos comerciais da Nova República na Lua Florestal.

Ligações externas
StarWars.com Personagens: Wicket W. Warrick, um ewok guerreiro.
Action Figure Archive Guia de bonecos da série de quadrinhos

Raças de Star Wars

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Storming success for Ashfords LLPs' Gromit Unleashed 2 campaign
In support of this year's Gromit Unleashed 2 (GU2) trail in Bristol, leading law firm Ashfords LLP undertook a host of activities to help raise profile and money for The Grand Appeal.
As well as sponsoring one of the Feathers McGraw sculptures on the trail, the firm hosted a family-friendly afternoon for their clients and contacts and commissioned an eye-catching billboard at Bristol Temple Meads train station for 8 weeks in the summer, encouraging the public to share images of the sculpture on social media. For every image shared, Ashfords committed to donate 50p to The Grand Appeal.
The firm is delighted to have contributed over £500 to the charity off the back of the event and billboard, which will be added to the impressive £1.3million raised at the auction of the spectacular sculptures, marking the end of the trail.
This year's trail marks five years since Gromit Unleashed, and three years since 'Shaun in the City', which raised over £6 million for The Grand Appeal and brought over 2.5 million people to Bristol.
Andrew Worley, Partner at Ashfords' LLP, commented: "Ashfords have had a great time supporting the GU2 trail by sponsoring Feathers and making sure all visitors to Bristol through Temple Meads could not miss that the GU2 event was on helping raise as much money as possible for Bristol Children's Hospital."


AR Navigation gets Pete on the Right Track!
Sorry folks, Pete was in Kawasaki, Japan last week custom installing a Thule Fairing. I love Japan and had a little too much sake to write up a blog, but I'm back now.
Heading to Texas this week to compete in a 12-hour adventure race. It'll be a blast, although I'm a little rusty with my navigation skills and you know how important navigation can be in an adventure race. Lucky for me I can get in a little tabletop navigation practice before the race. AR Navigation Supplies makes these pretty sweet books for brushing up on the nav. skills, plotting bearings, route choice, UTMs etc. I'm also going to try the MBO-2 Rotating Mt. bike Map Holder. I've always gone old school, with a map case dangling from my neck, but thought it was time to make an upgrade.
Well, that's it for this week. Kampi and here's to hoping I don't get too lost.


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WITSA Secretary General Dr. James H. Poisant visits Daffodil International University
Dr. Md. Sabur Khan, Former Chairman of Global Trade Committee & Director of WITSA and Chairman of Board of Trustees of Daffodil International University hands over a memento to Dr. James H. Poisant, Secretary General of World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) during his visit to Daffodil International University.
Dr. James H. Poisant, Secretary General of World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) visited Daffodil International University(DIU) yesterday on 23 April, 2019. Invited by Dr. Md. Sabur Khan, Former Chairman of Global Trade Committee & Director of WITSA and Chairman of Board of Trustees of Daffodil International University, he made this visit to DIU. Professor Dr. S M Mahbub Ul Haque Majumder, Pro Vice Chancellor of DIU accorded floral reception at his arrival in the campus. Mr. Mohammad Nuruzzaman, CEO of Daffodil Family, Mr. Md. Emran Hossain, Director (Administration) of DIU, Mr. Md. Shahid-Ul-Munir, President of Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) and other high officials of DIU were also present during his visit.
It may be mentioned here that Daffodil International University has been awarded WITSA Global ICT Excellence Award (Merit Winners) for successive two years in 2016 & 2017 for sustainable growth.
WITSA is a global ICT industry association comprising members from 80 countries around the world. WITSA's members represent more than 90 percent of the world ICT market. WITSA facilitate international trade and investment in ICT products and services through their global network upholding theme" Fulfilling the Promise of the Digital Age".
World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA), the largest international ICT organization which is called as Olympic of Information and Communication Technology has conferred the responsibility of hosting World Congress on Information Technology 2021(WCIT 2021) in Bangladesh where more than 3000 registered IT experts from all over the globe will took part and showcase their products and services .


I'll introduce a new topic with a thoughtful article in the New Yorker. It might be possible to exchange a few ideas--at least until the neanderthals weigh in with a hijack.
Specter goes through the decriminalization of drugs in Portugal, and presents both sides pretty fairly. He repeats a key fact that I discovered about ten years ago--that illegal drugs now rival oil and arms in economic significance. His source is the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, and he calls the drug business a $400 billion dollar a year industry. Now I believe that oil, a legal substance, has corrupted government at many levels. How much more so has drugs? It is possible to buy drugs in any prison in this country, and that is only possible with the cooperation--and corruption--of the guards.
I don't know that de-criminalization wouldn't lead to an increase in use, or it could be regulated effectively in anti-government America. Under age kids currently obtain and abuse cigarettes, alcohol, and subscription drugs. An interesting article, check it out.
How about drug testing welfare recipients?
If we were a libertarian nation, and drugs were legal, the problem would solve itself. However legalization now would just speed up our decline.
Clearly doctors should be monitored more carefully. Michael Jackson is a case in point.
Monitored by some gov agency?
Many highschool athletic programs drug test.
Paid for by welfare recipients, privately and randomly monitored.
Well mac, I guess you have to be a subscriber to the New Yorker to read Specter's article. As a result, my exposure is limited to the abstract presented.
Regarding marijuana, I believe that it will ultimately be legalized in California. The big question though is whether the federal government will allow it. I think that it should, as a continuing effort to criminalize its use and punishing folks makes no sense at all. I guess when you come down to it, this is an area where I firmly believe that there should be limits on the government's power and its oppression over individuals. Prohibition didn't work, and the continued criminalization of marijuana is not going to work.
I have to wonder though whether Bard feels the same about ending punitive government regulations relative to this topic. From his past commentary on this forum, I would think not. If that's the case, it would be a bit ironic don't you think?
Drug tests would be paid for many times over with the welfare, medicaid, medicare, unemployment, and Obamacare expenses they would save. IMO, you do drugs, and the taxpayers' obligation to you drops to some bare bones minimum, maybe even behind that of stray dogs, who never chose their lot.
And in response to the idiots who say I'm lucky drugs never messed me up, there's no luck involved. I've never as much as inhaled a cigarette, let alone touched any illegal substances. I respect myself too much for that and have the brains to realize their threat, especially having lost my GD dad to alcohol and my dear mom to chain smoking.
Have we been unplonked or is iso peeking?
For the record SW, I am against the death penalty unless the prosecutor is willing to put his life on the line if he were wrong.
Long term use of Marijuana has very significant effects on health and psyche. Scizophrenia and lung cancer are 2 possible outcomes. As you all know, medical marijuana is a joke. You can get a prescription with an ingrown toenail for $79. It makes you immune to prosecution.
If they can give Maddoff life in prison, they should give a major importer of heroine 20 years. How many desperate mothers have lost their kids to drugs?
"Long term use of Marijuana has very significant effects on health and psyche. Scizophrenia and lung cancer are 2 possible outcomes."
Oh really? Why don't you share a bit more with us. I'd love to hear all about the recognized medical results that support your conclusions.
As I expected, neanderthal Bard was the first to try to hijack discussion, and then posted nonsense about mental illness. He's not yet back from "make it up" land, I guess he alters reality by listening to talk radio and reading Ann Coulter.
No doubt that drugs, even marijuana, have significant health and societal effects. With our current war on drugs, and associated cost, we're interdicting about 10%, and illicit drugs fund massive corruption around the world. Is there a better way?


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Q: Laravel relationship using same files table for different models I created a files table to store metadata of files and the local path where to find this file.
I want to use this table, for multiple models.
For example, users can store a profile picture in this table. But companies could have their logo stored in this table. So actually, all models I have that can store a file, are having a relationship to this table.
So in users and companies I have created a column file_id, that refers to the id on the files table. Because the files table can store files for multiple models, I am not storing a user_id or company_id in the `files table.
Now the question is, how can I add this relationship to the users and companies table? Because as far as I can see, it requires the files table to have the id of users or companies.
What am I missing?

A: This seems like a Polymorphic Relationship. from the documentation:

Polymorphic Relations
Table Structure
Polymorphic relations allow a model to belong to more than one other model on a single association. For example,
  imagine users of your application can "comment" on both posts and
  videos. Using polymorphic relationships, you can use a single comments
  table for both of these scenarios. First, let's examine the table
  structure required to build this relationship:
posts
    id - integer
    title - string
    body - text

videos
    id - integer
    title - string
    url - string

comments
    id - integer
    body - text
    commentable_id - integer
    commentable_type - string

Two important columns to note are the commentable_id and
  commentable_type columns on the comments table. The commentable_id
  column will contain the ID value of the post or video, while the
  commentable_type column will contain the class name of the owning
  model. The commentable_type column is how the ORM determines which
  "type" of owning model to return when accessing the commentable
  relation.
Model Structure
Next, let's examine the model definitions needed to build this relationship:
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Comment extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get all of the owning commentable models.
     */
    public function commentable()
    {
        return $this->morphTo();
    }
}

class Post extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get all of the post's comments.
     */
    public function comments()
    {
        return $this->morphMany('App\Comment', 'commentable');
    }
}

class Video extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get all of the video's comments.
     */
    public function comments()
    {
        return $this->morphMany('App\Comment', 'commentable');
    }
}

So, in your case, your files table structure could look like this:
files
    id - integer
    url - string
    fileable_id - integer // <--- the id of the object
    fileable_type - string // <-- the type of the object (user, company, etc)

Then in your models:
File.php
<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class File extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get all of the owning fileable models.
     */
    public function fileable()
    {
        return $this->morphTo();
    }
}

User.php
class User extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get all of the user's files.
     */
    public function files()
    {
        return $this->morphMany(File::class, 'fileable');
        // or
        // return $this->morphOne(File::class, 'fileable'); equivalent to hasOne
    }
}

Company.php
class Company extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get all of the company's files.
     */
    public function files()
    {
        return $this->morphMany(File::class, 'fileable');
        // or
        // return $this->morphOne(File::class, 'fileable'); equivalent to hasOne
    }
}

A: You are going in right direction.
You can have users and companies foreign key in your files table.
Look in Laravel 5 Polymorphic relations.
https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/eloquent-relationships#polymorphic-relations
you can have foreign key fileable_id and the type of the foreign key fileable_type
if you would add a file for companies record
Let, say your company id is 24 and Model you are using is App\Models\Company
Add following to your File Model App\File
public function fileableable()
{
    return $this->morphTo();
}

And following to your App\User and App\Company
 public function files()
{
    return $this->morphMany('App\Comment', 'fileable'); // use morphOne if you want One to One relation
}

To create the file for Company.
$company = Company::find(24);
$company->files()->create([
   'path' => '/folder/myfile.txt',
   'size' => '14585',
   'extension' => 'txt',
]);

At this stage you might get MassAssignmentException
inside your App\File Model
add $fillable = ['path', 'size' , 'extension'];
Your record will look like :
id   path                size   extension     fileable_id    fileable_type

1  /folder/myfile.txt   14585   txt           24              App\Models\Company

Laravel automagically stores the fileable_id and fileable_type judging by the object calling the relationship method. You dont have to put those manually
Tip : Always go through the official Docs

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Should You Fire A Bandmate?
Every band has had to take a hard look at their situation and decide if it's time for a bandmate to be let go.
This can be a very tough situation. If this person has worked really hard or is a good friend, it can be especially difficult.
Sometimes, though, in order for the band to move forward you have to make the decision of firing them or trying to work it out.
Every member of the band has to be good at their roll in order for the band to be tight. If you've got a player that just can't seem to keep up, it will be noticeable most of the time. I say most of the time because I have talked to people who don't know the difference between a good band and a bad band (and it always blows me away).
If that member is working really hard and taking lessons and you feel that he/she is almost there, then give them a little more time.
If they are not doing anything to better themselves, then it may be time to have the talk.
This can be any number of things. There is the one member who is sick all the time and always wants to cancel. Or the other who is always late to practice or unprepared, not knowing the songs.
These guys are a little easier to let go because they don't take it serious enough. Every band should be fun, but there's a point where you actually have to do the work and if that one person is causing the preventing the work from being done, you gotta let them go.
Every band starts with a vision; "Hey, let's do all metal versions of Justin Timberlake songs". Everyone's excited except for Chad. Chad will go along because he wants to be in a band an you're the best band in town. But he doesn't play the songs as enthusiastically as everyone else.
At the gigs he's rolling his eyes and noodling on other songs in-between numbers.
Chad's making everyone else look bad. Way to go, Chad.
It's time to talk to Chad and find out if he really wants to be in the band. You might get him to come around and see the bigger picture. If so, great! If not, Chad should understand that everyone needs to on the same page.
It's quite possible that you are the one that is the odd man out. I've been in this situation. The band just doesn't excite you or maybe the personalities are too different.
You could be out of your league, being the best or worst player in the band.
Or maybe you're the guy that is always late or just have too much going on to learn the songs.
Make sure it's not you before you talk to the others about getting rid of Chad.
One final option is just to disband. Take a good hard look at the band and gauge all of the things above. If you don't have 75% of the members trying hard and all on the same page, then the project will likely fail sooner rather than later.
Breaking up the band might be the best way to keep friendships in tact.
Always discuss this decision with other bandmates before you do anything. Find out if everyone is feeling the same way, then decide how to approach the problem person. It might be best to have a one-on-one with him so he doesn't feel ganged up on.
Whatever you do, be cool about it. The guy that's about to get fired is in the band for the same reasons you are. Put yourself in their shoes and approach it with some diplomacy.


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The past several decades, we have seen a dramatic decline in doctrinal and biblical preaching, and most significantly there has been an increase in motivational speaking instead of preaching.
In addition to this, many churches today have oriented themselves to a distorted understanding of the gospel by espousing a strange "super-grace" approach that trickles down to not only what they preach, this is most obvious by preachers who refuse to take a stand against sin and rarely if ever mention the need for repentance. This is nothing new. For centuries the body of Christ has wrestled with something called antinomianism (anti means "against," nomos means "law"). This is the belief that the law of the Old Testament has been done away with and that, once we are in Christ, there is free grace in which we can almost live any way we want since we are not under the Law but under grace. Thus, according to this view, the Old Testament is not that important to read except for metaphors, types and symbols regarding the coming of Christ. Some even mistakenly say it is just a history book with no application for their lives. The New Testament is all about grace and does away with the Old Testament Law! Of course, Paul the apostle warned against this sort of thing in Romans 6:1-2 when he rhetorically asked, Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? His response: God forbid! How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer in it?The first thing the apostle Jude says in his epistle (in the context of contending for the faith in verse 3) is that ungodly men amongst them were turning the grace of our God into a license to sin. Evidently these free-grace preachers were twisting the Scriptures by teaching that "we are no longer under the Law" means "we are no longer under any obligation to obey the law of God once we are saved." This in spite of each of the Ten Commandments being directly cited or taught indirectly in the New Testament. Examples of exact citations are Ephesians 6:1-3, which quotes the fifth commandment; James 2:11, which quotes the sixth and seventh commandments (regarding murder and adultery) and says in verse 12 that believers will be judged according to the "law" of liberty; and Romans 7:7, where Paul quotes the 10th commandment regarding not to covet. Paul also says that we dishonor God when we disobey the (moral) law (Rom. 2:23). Obedience to the Ten Commandments (the moral law) is also taught indirectly, as in 1 John 5:21, which instructs believers to stay away from idols (from the second commandment, regarding not making a carved image to worship); and when Yeshua said that the greatest commandment in the Torah is to love God with all the heart, mind and soul (Matt. 22:37-38), which corresponds to the first commandment regarding having no other gods before Him. Paul makes it clear in Romans 7:12 that the law is holy, righteous and good and that the purpose of being filled with the Spirit of Christ is so the righteousness of the law would be fulfilled in us (Rom. 8:4). What these grace teachers teach is cheap grace and that we can just float around as spiritual beings without any standards for obedience and disobedience!
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Tyranny in a Police State >
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Police Tasered truant girl, 12
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Just a peckerwood who lives in the hills with too many guns.
when did their safety and convenience start mattering more than ours?
That's a rhetorical question, right?
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Desertrat
Hi, there, boys and girls!
Naw, this one, I think the cop lost his (?) mind (?). No excuse.
Got to thinking: She's running; he's running. Taser? He's gotta be staying pretty close, right? I realize that squad-car waffle-butt his age might be totin' 40 or 50 extra pounds, but something's rotten in the State of Denmark or somewhere.
If she's "out-running" him, how is that he's close enough to use the Taser?
I've known a lot of cops. The smart ones, generally, aren't on the "Obey me! Right NOW!" trip.
'Rat
Dull'Hawk
DullHawk.com
Smart? Cops?!
Kent For Liberty
Firefly militia: millions strong, one at a time.
Declaration of Liberation: I hereby withdraw any and all consent (if, indeed, consent was ever given) to be subject to the whims of the murderous, criminal collective known as "government".
Ever read Jim Wilson's column in "Shooting Times"? Not only did he spend many years in law enforcement, he's a helluva picker and a fair song-writer. I "coffee-up" with him from time to time; he's quite enjoyable. http://www.sheriffjimwilson.com
I rode "Buddy Patrol" with the Austin PD, back in 1973. I learned a lot, just riding along during the 3PM-11PM shift on Friday nights. That's part of why I regard LEOs as most good, many indifferent, very few bad.
I've know the deputy sheriffs in my area for over 20 years. One was probably Mensa-qualified. The others have been danged nice guys. A recent sheriff was a staunch Second Amendment supporter and an NRA member.
Over at The High Road, it seems like darned near half our moderators are LEOs. Not quite, actually, but it seems so. You oughta go to The Firing Line and search for "The Law Dog Files". They're a hoot! I've personally met several of THR's LEO mods; they're welcome at my house anytime.
No group is perfect. Write that down and remember it. That includes any Board on the Internet, too...
, 'Rat
Most cops choose a career that involves taking away the rights of people that harm nobody but themselves, enforcing seat belt laws, prostitution laws, and drug laws. I don't care if a cop has a good attitude while he is ordering me to pay 30 bucks to the state for not wearing a seat belt, he is still enforcing a sick law.
We have had a rash of home invasion robberies the last 2 weeks. Not a day has gone by that these 2 and sometimes 3 guys dressed in black and ski masks with guns break into homes, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. These are really some bad dudes. Nobody has been shot, but some homeowners have been beaten. The news reports show one or two cops going to the house to take the report, after the fact. The cop interviewed always says "these guys are armed and dangerous, don't resist, give up your belongings, it is not worth your life."
At the same time, cops are going around and lecturing people who leave their garage doors open while carrying in groceries or mowing the lawn.
Meanwhile, tonight, cops showed themselves using their ploys and toys to make criminals out of teens. They have 7 cars positioned around town with keys in the ignition, The cars have cameras to show the thieves faces, in the cars, freaking out when the red lights come on. Cops are staking out the cars, and when the guys take off in the stolen car, the chase begins. If the guys really make a run for it, out come the spike sticks, and multiple cop cars making wild maneuvers to stop the thieves. Two of the videos showed young teens making a run, being a danger to other unsupecting drivers, and skidding sideways when spike sticks flatten the tires. The cops get on camera with chests puffed, smile, and warn the viewers "do this and we will get you."
At the same time, cops in unmarked cars are sitting outside convenience stores ticketing those who run into the store and leave the keys in their cars or leave their car running.
We've all seen how cops set-up johns with female cop "prostitutes" , or entice people into buying a ten dollar bag of dope, on TV programs. Now some are car thieves. Some of these people did not have a record before the cops set them up. I wonder how many of these people will be unable to get a decent job in the future, because of their records, and will become the next batch of home invasion robbers that cops can't seem to catch?
ultralongrunner
Miami-Dade police said an officer should not have used a stun gun to stop a 12-year-old girl who was skipping school.
BY SUSANNAH A. NESMITH
snesmith@herald.com
I just wanna know when they kill a kid with a taser, what's going to happen?
Around here, the cops carry their tasers below their sidearms and are known to be quite quick to draw and zap. The good news is that the ambulance service I work for isn't trained to remove the barbs, but the fire department is. So the fire department gets called, not us... (unless they also got pepper maced).
debeez
Probably about the same thing that will happen to the cop who shot that college kid in the eye with a pepper bullet...
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You are right, probably nothing. Heck, we've been killing people with tear gas/pepper spray for years without a cry of alarm.
If you are exposed to it enough, pepper spray doesn't work very well as the cops are finding out. Sure it hurts, but it can be dealt with.
I wonder what it would take to defeat tasers? I did see someone so whacked out on cocaine that the taser made him smile as he kept fighting and wonder if given enough exposure or proper training/mindset, you could fight through the effects.
ZooT_aLLures
greetings Mouse,
I figured you'd be a valued addition to this forum, primarilly because you seem to be able to put things into perspective, and question EVERYTHING.....and more importantly seem to be an honest person regardless of whether or whether it's not in your best interests to do so.......
Even some cowboy and indian outlaws in the 1800's eventually stopped sleeping under buffalo skins, and came to town to entertain paying customers. For some I imagine the bruising of their ego never healed.
We all have some scar tissue that never lets us completely forget the intent of the adventure.
Gee, I guess I live in the wrong place.
Vignette:
Cowboy Doug arrives at the postoffice in his ancient pickup, simultaneously with the constable. "Doug," sez the constable, "Your license plate's expired." (For sure, it was. About three years before.)
"Yeah, and I don't have any insurance or an inspection sticker, but don't tell the law."
"Doug, I AM the law."
"Well, forget I said anything."
"Okay." And they walked on into the postoffice...
Nice to have folks interested in keeping the peace. We're a little short on folks only interested in enforcing the law...
Jack Boone
I sure wish I lived where Desertrat lives, things are a lot different some other places.
I have one question regarding tasering kids. On the threads we have had here, the six year old was tasered in a school, the 12 year old was tasered for truancy.
My question. Were either one of these tasered by regular officers, or by people who were specifically detailed to these particular jobs? In other words, do cops detailed for school security even carry tasers? Or do cops detailed to truancy?
In the long run, that's where we care about the next offense. If we don't resist the idea of people detailed to these jobs carrying tasers, we won't be able to do much about the fact that some of their victims will die. Sooner or later. And using the pre-rehearsed excuse that it was done "for their safety".
A similar reason that Concealed Carry is now legal in Alaska without permit. When it was done by permit, that fact was shown to the state trooper when he "ran the license" from his patrol car. So when he shot the driver in the back on a dark road, he would already have his reason prepared, that the whole incident was "for his safety" after the driver had "put the car into reverse" to "run over the trooper".
I repeat, sure wish I lived where desertrat does. It would change my ideas a lot.
"No government should declare war on its own people."


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Ghost Airfields of WW2: Part 2
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Second in the series, again a simple trick, sticking an aerial photo on a Google map, Maps eh, what's not to like. A selection here from the fair scatter across Norfolk, more to follow eventually.
The Ghost above is from a series of photos which were pointed out to me by a chap called Brendan in Ipswich, the original is owned by Lew Funk: his Son John is digitising his fabulous and fascinating collection which catalogues his activities in USAAF 34th Bomb Group at Mendlesham in Suffolk from 1943 – 1945. In 1943 He visited Norwich, and took this, and so did I again in 2012. White stuff was an International, GAP was a Barclays bank, Buntings is Habitat, or was and Bullen's remains unchanged. I like the fact that these show life going on, rather than ending. Much better. Thanks to Lew and John Funk, you can view their little bit of USAAF history in East Anglia here. The original is here
RAF Attlebridge
Just South of Weston Longville, not far out of Norwich. This site is amazingly complete, although covered in turkeys.
Originally used by No 2 bomb group completed in 1941. No 88 Squadron flew Blenheim IVs and Bostons. It then was given USAAF designation 120 as part of 2nd Bomb wing extended for heavy bomber use. The First American flying units at Attlebridge were squadrons of the 319th Bombardment Group (Medium) flying B-25 Mitchells which arrived at Attlebridge on the 12th September 1942 from Harding Army Air Field Louisiana. The airfield was then a satellite field for RAF Horsham St. Faith where the Group HQ and some personnel were stationed. The Mitchells moved out during November to St-Leu, Algeria as part of Twelfth Air Force, and Attlebridge was used by a training airfield with a few B-24 Liberator aircraft. No. 320 (Dutch) Squadron RAF, moved in during March 1943 flying B-25 Mitchells departing in February 1944.
From the 7th March 1944 and was used by the United States Army Air Force Eighth Air Force 466th Bombardment Group (Heavy), arriving from Topeka Army Air Base Kansas. The 466th was assigned to the 96th Combat Bombardment Wing, and the group tail code was a "Circle-L". It's operational squadrons were: 784th Bombardment Squadron (T9), 785th Bombardment Squadron (2U), 786th Bombardment Squadron (U8), 787th Bombardment Squadron (6L).
The group flew the B-24 Liberator as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. Being a mine of information, absolutely none of that came from Wikipedia at all…
I'm lying, interesting though isn't it.
It is now owned by Bernhard Matthews PLC RIP etc, and is therefore bootiful *yawns at stereotype of Norfolk*, as I said a lot of it is intact, although the hangers have gone, there's all sorts of bits and bobs. in an ideal world this could effectively be a very complete historical example of a WW2 airfield in most parts, I wonder whether the owners might consider this.
Not exactly a ghost like the other ones, as the vast majority of the base is still there and still operational just as of earlier this year. But you still get that backward flick to when it was a WW2 station flying two of my favourite bits of wood out across the channel; The Mosquito and the Wellington, as well as HP Harrow.
I spent a very enjoyable day watching all sorts of fantastic things here a couple of years ago, including the BBMF and the Vulcan. top stuff.
go here for more info www.raf.mod.uk/rafmarham/
RAF Tibenham
Famous bomber field in South Norfolk, near Diss. There's rather a lot of it left in terms of runway, the NE runway also appears to have been extended after the original RAF/MOD aerial was taken apparently in the early 1950s just in case it was needed for jet aircraft.
Jimmy Stewart of Hollywood fame was famously stationed here for part of his war. Now used by Norfolk Gliding club, altogether more peaceful.
RAF Shipdham
Shipdham was a bomber base, home to 319 BG medium flying Marauders and 44 BG heavy flying Liberators from September/October 1942 onwards respectively.
following the war it became a repatriation stopover for German POWs flying back to Germany from the US. The site was sold off in chunks between 1957 and 1963. Quite lot of the site still exists including the CT which is in the industrial estate although derelict.
RAF Hethel
Both an RAF base and a USAAF base given designation Station 114. Flying B26 Marauders of 320th Bombardment Group (Medium), 310th Bombardment Group (Medium) from 1943 also used as a training airfield for B-24s by other 2nd Air Division Groups and also from B24s from 389th Bombardment Group (Heavy). operational squadrons of 389 on completion of the base were 564th Bombardment Squadron (YO), 565th Bombardment Squadron (EE), 566th Bombardment Squadron (RR) and 567th Bombardment Squadron (HP).
After the yanks pulled out the RAF moved back in training A Polish RAF Squadron of Mustangs. The base shut in 1948. Bits are still visible as it's now owned by Lotus who drive cars up and down the remaining runway, the T1 and T2 hangers are intact as are various other periphery building, nice eh.
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Jon	on June 15, 2020 at 4:18 pm
The photo at Marham was just after the war.
It was when it was developed to a Very Heavy Bomber Station prior to the arrival of the Washingtons.


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