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Former Grupo Bimbo Executive, Visionary Food Industry Leader Releases Practical Guide to Cultivating Effective Leadership
10 Sep, 2018, 13:00 BST
Leonard W. Heflich presents his recipe for fostering professional and personal success and balance in new book
DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania, Sept. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A longtime innovator in the global food industry has released his accessible and engaging roadmap to becoming a truly impactful leader through the development of a personal and professional mission and vision and consistent reinforcement of strong values and clear communication.
In "Balanced Leadership: A Pragmatic Guide for Leading," author Leonard W. Heflich draws on his four-decades-plus career in the food industry and his own experience turning around a large, failing manufacturing facility to encourage readers to dream about the future they want. Ultimately, Heflich aims to provide his audience with the necessary tools to become flexible leaders who can strike a dynamic, changeable balance both in and out of the workplace.
"I started writing this book while I was taking trips every Sunday to visit my grandmother in a nursing home. During those trips, I often had plenty of hours to think, and inevitably my mind drifted to questions about leadership and what made leaders effective," Heflich said. "As the pieces of the puzzle started to materialize and come together, I tested my theories on the job and found that they worked. The ideas in this book helped me to succeed, and my hope is that this book will help you to be a more successful leader as well."
Peppered with bits of wisdom from leadership sages both fictional and real, "Balanced Leadership" delivers a frank, conversational and relatable approach to the benefits any person can reap by choosing to grow their leadership skill set and invites readers to move forward in pursuit of their personal and professional passions and goals.
"Balanced Leadership: A Pragmatic Guide for Leading"
By Leonard W. Heflich
ISBN: 978-1-5320-4427-4 (hardback); 978-1-5320-4425-0 (paperback); 978-1-5320-4426-7 (electronic)
Available through iUniverse, Barnes & Noble and Amazon
Leonard W. Heflich is a visionary leader with more than 40 years of experience in the food industry and notably served as the Vice President of Food Safety, Quality and Crisis Management for Grupo Bimbo, one of the largest baking companies in the world. Heflich is an expert in food safety, leadership, risk assessment and management and innovation in the workplace. An avid baker for more than 30 years, Heflich currently teaches a baking science course as an adjunct professor at Delaware Valley University and is President of the Board of the Center for Food Integrity. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, Institute of Food Technologists and American Association of Cereal Chemists, and his written work has been featured in Baking and Snack Magazine, Sosland Publishing and Juran's Quality Handbook: Seventh Edition. Heflich holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a master's degree in management science from Stevens Institute of Technology. He currently resides in Doylestown, Pa. To learn more, please visit www.innovationforsuccessllc.com.
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The study of magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world has blossomed in the decades since the publication of the translation of the Greek magical papyri by Hans Dieter Betz and his team in 1987. Although a scholarly interest in magic flourished at the turn of the 19th century, resulting in the editing and publication of collections of texts, the recent waves of scholarship have employed new methodologies drawn from anthropology, literary criticism, and comparative religion, focusing more on the social contexts of this material, as well as the cultural ideologies and constructs revealed. Because "magic" is a term coming from Greco-Roman antiquity that has meant many different things to many different people at many different times, one of the fundamental issues in the field is the demarcation of that field of study. Not only is the definition of magic still hotly contested, but scholars might dispute the inclusion of any of the bodies of evidence listed in this bibliography as appropriate for a study of magic.
The primary texts that provide the evidence for magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world range from Egyptian papyri to lead curse tablets to learned manuals on astrology and alchemy. The scholarship on ancient magic has followed the editing and publication of the primary texts, especially when translation and commentaries have made these difficult materials accessible to a wider scholarly audience. Although many of the papyri and defixiones have been translated, much still remains accessible only to scholars with a command of the ancient languages (not just Greek and Latin, but also Demotic Egyptian, Hebrew, and other languages of the ancient Mediterranean).


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I haven't posted my frugal achievements for a few weeks; that's not to say I haven't had any, I have. But I've also been super busy, super tired and battling vertigo and this 100 day flu that's going around. So, this is a list of what I've accomplished over the last few weeks, a bit of a mish mash, and in no particular order. Somethings I do without thinking every week (like collecting the shower warm up water) and then there are the other one off things, done to save money, time and energy for our household.
This last week I've spent mostly at home, one of my favourite things to do.
That means of course that there has been more time to putter around, doing small jobs that get put off when I'm busy.
This week all our meals have been cooked at home, from scratch, using ingredients in the pantry, fridge and freezer (they have for the last three weeks).
I bought 10kg of potatoes from Pellegrino's for $1.80 (we have enough potatoes to last us about two months now, three if we eat more rice and pasta as the starch in our meals).
I made three loaves of wholemeal bread.
I made a big pot of pumpkin soup and chopped the other half of the pumpkin into single portions then vacuum sealed in meal sizes. Four meals of pumpkin in the crisper and being vacuum sealed they'll keep for at least four weeks.
Took the hem up on a pair of dress pants I was given.
Saved the shower water and used it to fill the washing machine.
Used craft materials I had to make some cards to send to a friend.
Made 10 twist'n'pop cards for an order and sent them off.
Gratefully accepted two dozen eggs from Wendy.
Took a load of things from the boys to the op shop.
Was surprised with a beautiful bouquet of flowers (thank you Karen) and some very yummy salted caramel fudge (which I kept for myself, thank you Joy).
Bought 30kg chicken fillets for $3.89/kg. Skinned, bagged in meal portions, vac sealed and put them into the freezer.
Bought a whole rump and the butcher sliced it for me. $12/kg - not cheap but we haven't had steak for ages. Used Wayne's after-hours pay for this treat. Six meals vac sealed and in the freezer.
Made three pots of pumpkin soup. Two were eaten during the week, one will did lunches over the weekend.
Made a double potato bake, had one with tea on Friday night, cut the other one into singles serves and froze them.
Made a double batch of vegetable moussaka. We ate one on Friday and Saturday nights, the other one is in the freezer.
Bought 1.5kg capsicums for $3. Whipped out the Nicer Dicer knock off and had them all diced in no time. Bagged in 1/2 cup portions and froze them.
Worked on our spending plan - May was expensive for us, June looks like it is going to be. Thank goodness we not only have a spending plan but actually use it, all expenses will be covered.
Emptied the bottom drawer in the kitchen. It's the "junk" drawer and I can't remember the last time it was opened or we needed anything in it so out it all went. Rearranged the order of the kitchen drawers and put the everyday tea towels in the third drawer.
Took Hannah to DFO at Moorabbin where she bought her suitcase for her trip saving $290 - we were both so excited. The case was already reduced as it was the end of that particular case in the colour she chose, then for the long weekend DFO has a massive sale and there was another 25% off!
Dried the washing by the fire or outside on the two sunny days we had.
Kept the ducted heating off all week and the fire going. We haven't had the ducted heating on at all this winter - a huge saving on our gas bill. Even when we have bought firewood it works out to around $14 a week cheaper than running the ducted heating! We usually go firewood collecting, but this past year because I've been sick we haven't, so we're using a combination of bought and collected firewood.
Murphy came to visit. In the course of four days the dryer stopped working and can't be fixed, the TV in our bedroom has gone wonky (yes, that's the technical term for what's happened) and, horror of horrors, the iron stopped working!
Good thing is I rarely use the dryer for anything other than extra storage, we can do without TV in the bedroom for a while and seriously, a broken iron? Not my favourite household chore and if the washing is hung carefully and folded properly we can get away without it for a while.
Then last Monday I had a fall and landed on my laptop, cracking the screen (that was a very expensive fall!). I'm looking at whether I can claim it on our contents insurance.
Found a leak under the laundry trough. Rescued my supply of laundry soap. Found a container to hold all 44 bars of soap. Decanted borax and washing soda into containers.
Made a big batch of crumbs for schnitzels and parmas, using broken crackers, Weetbix crumbs and dried breadcrumbs.
Made a double batch of KFC mix.
Made a double batch of Shake'n'Bake.
Made and then stitched name labels into some jumpers and winter blouses for my mother.
Added to the stockpile with half-price groceries from Woolworths after checking Aldi prices to make sure they were cheaper at Woolworths.
Looked at the Flybuys offers and activated the ones that worked with the shopping list, then shopped at Coles after checking Aldi prices to make sure Coles were cheaper. Added 3000 points to our account and saved $48.
Used vouchers to buy petrol for all the cars and made sure my Flybuys card was swiped each time.
Took a box of craft materials and two bags of clothes to the op shop.
That was my last few weeks. What did you do to save money, time and energy this week?
Thank you Karen, the flowers are just gorgeous, they really make me smile. I love colour in the house during winter when outside is so dull and dreary, and they are just perfect.


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game of thrones and life is strange
I played through Game of Thrones and Life Is Strange at the same time this fall. I started both of them when about half the episodes were out, and played through one episode a week (alternating weeks between the two games), so I got a slightly compressed but still episodic experience out of them. If I'm remembering correctly, the last episode of each was the only time when I had to wait for episodes to come out, otherwise I played through each game on a biweekly cadence.
And I'm glad I made the pairing; on the one hand, I seem to be more temperamentally suited to the Telltale style, but on the other hand, I liked Life Is Strange a lot more.
The aspect of the Telltale style that I'm referring to is how it forces you to make choices: you have a limited amount of time, and you have to make your response by then or say nothing. Thinking about this more, there's actually a split in my personality when it comes to decisions: if I'm playing a game where I'm, say, fighting with limited ammo, then I'll save all the time, and sometimes even reload if things go less than optimally. Whereas I never take back narrative decisions in BioWare RPGs, and in fact I've never replayed one of their games, as much as I enjoy them: the way I played them is the way it really happened, so why would I want to try doing it differently?
I'm not sure exactly what's going on here, what it is that causes me to respond in a "never reconsider" way instead of an "everything is temporary" way: maybe it's the narrative aspect and a belief in the sanctity of story, or maybe it's just that I trust games to be accepting of a range of narrative choices in a way that I don't trust them to be accepting of a range of combat choices. Whatever it is, Telltale games trigger it even more: I don't have time to calculate possibilities, I have to react as I (or as my interpretation of my character) really feel at that moment.
Having said that, though: I'm happy enough to have played Game of Thrones , but I'm also happy to be done with it, and I doubt I'll play the likely sequel. Maybe I'm a bit Telltaled out after two seasons of The Walking Dead ; or maybe I'm a bit Game of Thrones ed out after watching four seasons of the TV show (yes, I watch them a year late) and after finally reading the books this year.
And I do think that those are both playing into my feelings about the game, but also part of it is the game itself. Like The Walking Dead , Game of Thrones takes place in a horrific world (though arguably one that is less pervasively so); but The Walking Dead focused on a few characters that it suffused with love and humanity, while this game has a large cast of characters that are frequently horrific themselves, and with their calculations primary in their mind. Which, actually, works well in the books and TV series (though I almost stopped watching the TV series after the first two episodes), but those are of a much broader scale, about the world as a whole, or at least the continent. This game, though, is focusing on one minor family; and while, in general, I prefer a much more human scale, part of the reason why I prefer that is because a human scale allows games to focus on, well, humanity.
Life Is Strange is the opposite in all these dimensions. On a mechanical sense, it not only allows you to think about your decisions as much as you'd like, it actively encourages you to experiment and rewind time until you're comfortable not with your choice but with the outcome of your choice. Which I did a couple of times, but it wasn't my style, so eventually I just stuck with my choices.
They also use the rewind time mechanic as a puzzle mechanic there; works well enough, my only issue there was, because I didn't want to use the mechanic in narrative bits, I sometimes forgot I could use it in puzzle bits! But that's on me, not on the game.
In terms of scale, Life Is Strange is the polar opposite of Game of Thrones , and I far prefer that. A teenage girl, a small town, her problems; and her amazing magical ability, but one special thing I can deal with! I got sucked in pretty well, the twists that started about halfway through drew me in much more than anything in Game of Thrones .
And then there's the final episode. That one, I don't know what to make of, but I'll give them credit for going out on a bang and giving me something to think about. I've seen claims that the intended true ending is saving the town; that's not the ending I chose, I haven't even watched it on Youtube, so I don't have an informed opinion on the matter. I will say, though, that halfway through the episode, Warren made a case that every time you rewind time, you make things worse; I wasn't completely convinced by his argument, but I'm more convinced by that than I am by the idea that it's supposed to be obvious that, if you intend to make a choice that will save the town, then the town actually will be saved!
So, based on Warren's argument, it made at least as much sense to choose with my heart; and, after my dream sequence in the episode, there was absolutely no question where my heart led. The dream sequence showed you all of your fears, and they felt real as fears; but it also showed you how you and Chloe mattered to each other, and that felt real, period.
And that's what can be so great about small-scale personal games, what grandiose games have a much harder time with. My life has nothing to do with saving the world; it has a lot to do with a few people who matter a lot to me, though. I'm a very different person than Max, than Chloe (especially than Chloe!), but that questioning and that feeling hits me very much indeed.
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Meghan Markle is already nailing her duchess status and will make her first solo appearance
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Danielle Gay
The Duchess of Sussex will finally have a chance to truly shine.
It seems that Meghan Markle is nailing her life as a royal already, with Kensington Palace announcing she will make her first royal appearance alone this month.
The Palace confirmed the Duchess of Sussex will attend the opening of an exhibition titled Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The appearance will be a solo one for Markle and while there she will view exhibits from the countries she is scheduled to visit during her royal tour in October.
The Duchess of Sussex will attend the opening of 'Oceania' at @RoyalAcademy on Tuesday 25th September.
The Duchess will view exhibits from regions including New Zealand, Fiji, the Kingdom of Tonga and Australia, which she and The Duke of Sussex will visit in October. #RAOceaniapic.twitter.com/j6aiE9OLWR
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) September 18, 2018
This will prepare Markle for her 16-day visit to the Pacific, during which, the Duchess will pay a visit to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Kingdom of Tonga. The Duchess of Sussex already has a number of royal appearances under her belt, despite only joining the British royal family in May. She's also conducted an appearance without her husband, the Duke of Sussex, accompanying The Queen on a royal visit to rural England.
The news comes as Kensington Palace announced the Duchess was putting her support behind a cookbook, titled Together: Our Community Cookbook, which showcases over 50 recipes from women whose community was affected by the Grenfell Tower fire." The book will go on sale on September 25.
As the months go on, we're certainly getting a feel for the causes and initiatives that Markle is passionate about, as well as getting a better idea of her inherent flair for royal life
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Have you fallen behind on your mortgage payments and need to know how to stop foreclosure at the last minute?
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The first step to stop foreclosure at the last minute involves filing for bankruptcy. When you file, the court issues an order containing an "automatic stay," putting a foreclosure on hold. While the lender can get around an automatic stay by filing a motion, even if their motion is granted, it will take a couple months to take effect. If the lender does not make a motion to remove the stay, the hold will last throughout the remainder of the foreclosure process, which can last up to 4 months.
The inability to file another bankruptcy for a certain period of time, and can lose your protection against new collection actions (such as wage garnishments).
Credit takes a hard hit, and even if you can get credit, it comes with significant interest rates.
Chapter 13 bankruptcy may allow you to save your home if you are ALREADY in the bankruptcy process.
Chapter 7 may help you if you can no longer make payments.
2. Apply for a loan modification.
It is easier to apply for a loan modification before you are facing the daunting task of how to avoid foreclosure, but it is still possible to do this at the last minute. If the modification is approved, your foreclosure remains stopped unless you stop making payments again.
If your lender is using a nonjudicial process to foreclose outside of court, then you can actually file a lawsuit against the lender. This is risky for several reasons. First of all, it can be very costly. Second of all, since you are the plaintiff challenging the foreclosure, you will have the burden of proof (meaning that it's on you to provide evidence that you are not at fault).
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China Looks To Increase Oil Imports
By Irina Slav - Jan 22, 2018, 4:00 PM CST
China may be producing less oil, but it is refining more, fresh statistical data from Beijing has revealed, suggesting that Asia's biggest oil consumer will continue with its international upstream push and imports will continue to increase as domestic demand expands.
Last year, crude oil production in China fell by an annual 4 percent to 191.51 million tons — or about 3.85 million bpd — to the lowest in nine years on the back of maturing fields and few viable new discoveries at home. This was largely offset by imports, which continued to rise, booking a 10.1-percent annual jump to 8.43 million bpd. In November, these hit a record-high of over 9 million bpd.
Analysts interviewed by Bloomberg expect the decline in local oil production to continue in the near term, but China's maturing fields will not be the only or even main reason: China is shifting to natural gas. In December, gas imports hit an all-time high, as the country fought a cold spell amid efforts to reduce its dependence on coal and replace it with gas. At 7.89 million tons—including pipeline flows and LNG shipments—the December figure beat the previous record, booked in November, by 20 percent.
Local gas production is also on the rise as Beijing fights pollution, at 147.4 billion cu m last year — yet another record that China broke last year.
So, if the country is firmly moving in the direction of natural gas and away from oil in terms of hydrocarbons production, this means it will come to rely even more heavily on imported crude because households and factories may get heat and electricity from gas, but cars overwhelmingly drive on gasoline, and petrochemicals production is set for further growth. Related: New Breakthrough Boosts Solar Fuel Efficiency
Last year, oil refining in China went up by 5 percent to another record of almost 568 million tons.
Now China's state-owned oil and gas giant CNPC has just added fuel to already strong price optimism on oil markets by forecasting that crude oil demand in China will jump by 4.6 percent this year to 12 million barrels per day. Refiners have plans to add some 36 million metric tons in annual refining capacity, which equals about 723,000 bpd. The country's total, then, will reach 808 million tons annually, or 16.23 million barrels daily.
All this is good news for oil exporters and not so good news for fellow refiners in Asia. The United States is exporting growing amounts of crude oil to China. So is Russia: An extension of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline between Russia and China began operations on January 1, doubling the crude oil export volumes from 15 to 30 million tons annually, or almost 220 million barrels.
Meanwhile, China is exporting more and more oil products, undermining other Asian refiners' already depressed margins because of the higher crude oil prices. The trend looks stable for now: China will gobble up more oil this year and in the next few, and most of it will be imported. This year, the rate of oil refining is set for another record, according to at least one analyst, as petrochemical majors expand into refining to make sure they have sufficient feedstock levels for their main business.
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Jeffrey J. Brown on January 22 2018 said:
It would be more accurate to say that China looks to continue to increase their oil imports.
Some definitions:
GNE = Global Net Exports of oil, Combined net oil exports from (2005) Top 33 net oil exporters (BP + EIA data, total petroleum liquids)
CNI = Chindia's Combined Net Imports (BP, total petroleum liquids)
ANE = Available Net Exports, GNE less CNI
In regard to China & India ("Chindia") using the BP data base Chindia's Net Impots (total petroleum liquids, excluding biofuels & refinery gains), or CNI, increased from 5.1 million bpd in 2005 to 12.0 million bpd in 2016, which I would round off to 5 and 12 million bpd respectively.
Following is a link showing my GNE/CNI chart for 2002 to 2011, using EIA data:
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Note that the extrapolation (based on the 2005 to 2011 rate of decline in the GNE/CNI Ratio) shows the ratio falling to just below 4.0 in 2015, on track to approach 1.0 (the Chindia region theoretically consuming 100% of GNE) by 2030.
Using the updated data, the GNE/CNI Ratio fell to 3.8 in 2016, on track to approach 1.0 by the year 2033:
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What I define as Available Net Exports (ANE, or GNE less CNI) fell from 40 million bpd in 2005 to 33 million bpd in 2016. This is the volume of Global Net Exports of oil available to importers other than China & India.
An article on China's 2017 oil imports:
China Sets New Records for Gobbling Up the World's Commodities (January, 2018)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-12/world-s-commodity-engine-roars-to-another-record-with-xi-at-helm
Oil Coronation
The crown of the world's biggest oil importer now sits firmly atop China after the nation's shipments surpassed the U.S. on an annual basis for the first time ever. What's more, it's also one of the largest buyers of American crude.
Inbound shipments from across the globe -- Russia to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela -- jumped about 10 percent to average 8.43 million barrels a day in 2017, data from China's General Administration of Customs showed on Friday.
The unprecedented purchases may be bettered in 2018, if import quotas granted by the government to China's independent refiners are a signal. The first batch of allocations was 75 percent higher than for 2017.
petergrt on January 22 2018 said:
Most of the discussion is about the increases of Chinese oil imports, while only in passing mentioning that China is expanding its refining capacity and exporting huge quantities of the final products to Asia and Europe, where refineries are all but going under . . . . . In other words, China is importing oil as row material and exporting it as a value added manufactured product, just as they have been doing with all manufacturing.
The point is that the thrust of most such articles is to form a basis for increased demand for oil and thus justification for higher prices, whereas if the exports are taken into account the big picture would be considerably different.
I usually exclude refinery gains from net export calculations, because it's a net energy loss, i.e., the energy output from the refinery is less than the energy input, and it tends to distort the export numbers from a net oil importer. However, it is of course a necessary step. In any case, if we define net exports as domestic production less domestic consumption, this calculation takes into account refined product exports.
And based on the extrapolation of recent data, the Chindia region's net imports (taking into account product exports) alone would theoretically consume 100% of Global Net Exports of oil (GNE) in about 15 years, theoretically leaving nothing for about 155 net oil importing countries. Of course, that's a point that we cannot arrive at and still have a functioning global economy, but that is the trajectory that we are on.
In any case, given an ongoing, and inevitable, decline in GNE, unless the Chindia region cuts their net imports of oil at the same rate as, or at a rate faster than, the rate of decline in GNE, it's a mathematical certainty that the rate of decline in ANE (GNE less Chindia's Net Imports) will exceed the rate of decline in GNE and that the rate of decline in ANE will accelerate with time.
I've used the following example to illustrate the differences between gross and net exports:
Production Land (P) has 2.0 Million Bpd of production, but no refining capacity. Refinery Land (R) has 2.0 Million Bpd of refining capacity, but no production.
Ignoring refinery gains and other minor issues, P has consumption of 1.0 Million Bpd, and R has consumption of 1.0 Million Bpd.
P's gross exports to R are 2.0 Million Bpd. R's gross imports from P are 2.0 Million Bpd.
R refines 2.0 Million Bpd, consumes 1.0 Million Bpd, and exports 1.0 Million Bpd of refined product to P.
P's net exports are production (2.0) less consumption (1.0) = +1.0 Million Bpd.
R's net exports (actually net imports) are production (zero) less consumption (1.0) = -1.0 Million Bpd.
Alternatively, you get the same answer if you define net exports as gross exports less gross imports.
Re: The 64 Billion Barrel Question
In regard to the US, we still remain quite dependent on crude oil imports. Based on the most recent four week running average EIA data, US refiners were dependent on gross crude oil imports for 45% of the Crude + Condensate (C+C) inputs into US refineries, and they were dependent on net crude oil imports for 39% of the C+C inputs (taking into account C+C exports).
But here is the root of my problem--the vast disconnect between the conventional wisdom top line focus on production numbers, versus what my projections suggest for remaining post-2005 Available CNE (Cumulative Net Exports of oil), i.e, the remaining supply of CNE available to importers other than China & India.
Note that GNE = Global Net Exports of oil. CNI = Chindia's Net Imports. ANE = GNE less CNI.
If we extrapolate the rate of decline in the GNE/CNI Ratio, we get an estimate of when the Chindia region alone would theoretically consume 100% of GNE, and we can get a rough estimate of remaining Available CNE (remaining CNE available to about 155 net oil importing countries).
By definition, we have depleted the volume of post-2005 Available CNE; the only question is the magnitude of that depletion. The problem is that my data suggest that the magnitude of the depletion has been enormous.
The GNE/CNI Ratio chart suggests that we have already consumed, through 2016, about two-thirds of post-2005 Available CNE. Based on the 2005 to 2016 rate of decline in the GNE/CNI Ratio, I estimate that remaining Available CNE are down to about 64 GB (billion barrels). This is the estimated remaining volume of Cumulative Net Exports of oil available to about 155 net oil importing countries.
Frank the Tank on January 24 2018 said:
Never mind that ICEs are effectively banned in China and India after 2030 and the transition to the majority of new cars being EV will tip around 2023.
Also of no interest is China's absurd capacity for electric bus manufacturing. Half their bus fleet will be over to EV by the time half the new cars sold are EV. That is a mindblowing amount of demand disappearing in 3-5 years.
We can have these conversations for another 18 months or so, but after that it'll start getting ridiculous. There's no angle to maintaining global oil demand growth past 2025 or so, and these 1M+ growth figures for 2022 are almost physically impossible.
China added 54GW of solar capacity in 2017 to a total of 130GW or 7% of national electricity demand. They're projected to be at 250GW or more in total by 2020, though current growth rates puts them at more like 400GW. No need to pay for oil when you have EVs sucking up all that "variable generation".


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MousePaw Media is more than a company - we're a family. We encourage each other to become the best we can be, collectively challenge the assumptions and conventions of the industry, and have fun while doing it!
This page lists all of our current employees and alumni.
Operation SpyRat originally came from Jason C. McDonald's imagination – it first took the form of a free web game on his (now defunct) website, KidMagine.com. Jason heads up the programming department, with eight computer languages under his belt. He is the primary designer of Ratscript, the company's in-house programming language.
A TBI survivor, Jason is acutely aware of life with a learning disability, yet he doesn't let his challenges slow him down. In addition to his role in the company, he mentors young programmers, and speaks on the topic of software development.
Anne McDonald's background as a writer and editor has deepened her love for the English language. Her experience as a homeschooling parent, and as part of the recovery team for helping Jason rebuild his language skills after a traumatic brain injury, has given her extensive knowledge about education, especially for disabled and hands-on learners.
She has a keen eye and ear for detail, which she applies to quality control and as Audio Engineer. Her varied volunteer work over the years makes her about as adaptable as her armadillo counterpart, Annie A. Armadillo. Whatever she doesn't know, she can find out.
Chris is an old school coder (he speaks of punchcards and COBOL) who contributes his expertise and snark to the development team at MousePaw Games. He's also one of the nerds responsible for wrangling the production server.
Hobbies: Camping, hiking, rock climbing.
Nate is a computer engineering student with a passion for storytelling through games, whether on the tabletop or on the computer. With a knack for the nitty gritty of computer architecture, he brings a unique perspective to the project.
Playing: Tabletop & graphical RPGs, chess, card games.
Jane McArthur has been an essential part of MousePaw Media since its beginning, offering encouragement to her sister, Anne and nephew, Jason. Now she lends her endless creativity and editing skills.
Sergio started coding in high school, as an extension of his mathematics interest. He understands the important role software can give in helping people from all walks of life to learn and excel.
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As the son of a computer scientist, Jarek grew up playing on and experimenting with computers. In middle school, he and a friend got into modifying games, first in working with save files, and later moving on to creating more intense mods. This developed into a desire to know more and more about how computers run.
Reading: Sci-Fi, especially David Eddings.
We've had many great team members come and go from our project. While they're absent in body, they're still very much a part of MousePaw Media.
All internship graduates are exhaustively listed on this page. A (*) next to the title indicates a graduate.
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It is now official, Vijay Pande has announced that the v7 client has a target release date, namely the first quarter of 2011.
Of course, this gives a wide range for the release, and last minute bugs may well appear that may delay the release beyond the target date. However the fact that a date has been announced in advance at all is a good sign that no such issues are expected.
To recap, the new client has been designed with usability in mind. The current clients might best be described as functional, and the new client is intended to address the usability deficiencies and make contributing much easier. For the developers, the new code is intended to be much easier to maintain and more logical to add to, allowing faster development of further improvements.
As a result it should be easier for the client to be modified to support new client types or methods than it has been with the current clients.
We will keep you updated of any news on this release.
New Fermi OpenMM and Gromacs 3 projects: p6806 and p6881 Happy New Year! Time to take stock... and look forward to 2011!


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The Maine Bicentennial
2020 - two hundred years of statehood for the State of Maine. On the 15th of March, 1820, the former District became the 23rd state in the Union. In August of that year, the 1820 census was taken. Here are my MAINE ancestors, and where they were at the time of statehood.
Jeremiah Brown - 5th Great Grandfather
Cornville, Somerset, Maine
Jeremiah Brown and Charlotte Lewis were married ca Mar 1820 in Cornville, but it is known that she had two children prior to Oct 1818 (one of them perhaps my 4th GGF Joseph Brown). The household now with 5 children in 1820 census, some may not be their own kin.
More about: The Family of Jeremiah Brown and Charlotte Lewis
Joseph Gray (abt 1787-aft 1874) - 5th Great Grandfather
Newfield, York, Maine
Married to Betsey Plaisted in Wolfeboro, NH in 1811, they first removed to Newfield, ME, and then went on to Athens, Maine soon after. My 4th GGM Elmira Gray is one of the females under 10 yrs of age - her sister Sarah is another, while a third, and the one in the 16-26 age range, is not known.
More about: Joseph Gray of Athens, Solon, and Brighton, Maine
Philip Levitt (Leavitt) Esq. (1774-1861) - 5th Great Grandfather
Athens, Somerset, Maine
With wife Mary (Pike) (1774-1826), they had ten children (according to Leavitt records), the numbers above showing several other persons also living with them. Philip was a cooper, and also ran a store and tavern, so is one of the "2" people engage in commerce (far right number), with five family members farming. My 4th GGF, Joseph Leavitt, was not yet 15 at the time of this census.
James Shattuck (1763-1830)
Solon, Somerset, Maine
Originally from Pepperell, MA, he arrives in Solon, ME between 1810-1820 with his 2nd wife Amy (Tarbell). Son Lovell Shattuck was 13 years old during this census, and is seen in the 10-16 yr column.
More about: James Shattuck of Pepperell MA and Solon Maine
John Steward (1740-aft 1840)- 5th GGF
Canaan, Somerset, Maine
Born in Lunenburg, MA, he was in Norridgewock, ME by 1787, when he married Abigail Whitcomb. Son Alaxis Steward, my 4th GGF, would have been 7 yrs old at time of this census.
More about: Duncan Stewart of Rowley MA and His Descendants to Maine
Henry Wyman (1762-1837) - 6th Great-Grandfather
Madison, Somerset, Maine
Henry and wife Sarah (Tuttle) married in Goffstown, NH in 1793, and soon moved to Madison, ME. He was a Rev. War veteran - a large family, though I haven't compiled a list of children yet. 3 persons in household were engaged in agriculture.
More about: Henry Wyman of Madison, Maine
Capt. James Brown (1760-1838)
Kittery, York, Maine
James Brown, with wife Sarah (Fernald), both 45+ years of age in 1820. One son, Elihu Deering Brown, was almost 20 yrs of age at this time, and would be one of the "2" in the 16-26 column.
Elihu Fernald (1763 - 1851)
Elihu the only male left in the household, with wife Hannah (Chandler) (1765-1836), and three daughters. One those females being my 4th Great-Grandmother Jane C., 16 yrs old in 1820.
More about: Elihu Fernald of Kittery, Maine
Week 15 of the #52Ancestors Challenge - "Taxes"
A database recently added to the Harvard University website was the "1771 Massachusetts Tax Inventory", which includes the information (in searchable form) about the taxable property of individuals living in 152 Massachusetts towns in 1771. Of interest to me is the inclusion of four (District of) Maine towns from York County, Kittery being one where some of my ancestors resided during that time (the other 3 towns were Berwick, Sanford, and York).
There were 594 tax payers listed for Kittery, and I found five of my direct ancestors on that list.
JONATHAN FERNALD [my 6th Great-Grandfather]
1 dwelling house
1 acre, tillage land (10 bushels of grain produced per year)
3 acres of English and Upland mowing land (1 ton of hay per year)
1 cow
1 swine
3 £ - annual worth of whole real estate
EBENEZER FERNALD [my 7th Great-Grandfather, 1699-1787]
25 acres of pasture
12 barrels of cider per year
7 acres of English/Upland mowing land (6 ton of hay per year)
1 horse
3 cows
6 goats/sheep
8 £ ann. worth of estate
THOMAS BROWN [my 6th Great-Grandfather, 1730-1808]
- no numbers attributed to him
WILLIAM DEARING (DEERING) [my 7th Great-Grandfather, 1706- ]
30 acres English/Upland mowing land (22 tons of hay per year)
20 acres of fresh meadow (10 tons of hay per year)
1 "servant for life"
16 £ annual worth of whole real estate
JOSEPH CURTIS [my 6th Great-Grandfather, 1721-1772]
1 acre of tillage (10 bushels of grain)
4 acres English/Upland mowing land (3 tons of hay per yr)
1 acre fresh meadow (1 ton of hay)
2 £ annual worth in estate
NOTE: Page not yet complete, as I would like to add maps to current locations where these properties once stood. This could take awhile!
Elihu Deering Brown of Kittery, Maine
The gravestone of my 4th Great Grandparents, Elihu D Brown and Jane C (Fernald) Brown. It is located in Orchard Grove Cemetery in Kittery, Maine. Also on the stone is Elihu's first wife Martha C Fernald, as well as his brother Thomas Brown (b.12/2/1796, d. 1/1/1863), who lived with him at Locke's Cove in Kittery.
I am not sure when the Orchard Grove cemetery was started, but was probably not in operation when Martha Brown died in 1837. Was she buried in a home plot, and later moved here, or was that the case with all of them? Perhaps this stone was inscribed after they were all deceased, or maybe they once had separate headstones. There are still 5 children (see family register at bottom) who died young, and no stones have been found for them in Kittery.
On the 1856 map of Kittery, Maine (at right), the land of "E. Brown" is highlighted. The 1872 map (below) also shows the property being in the possession of Elihu, but it would later be owned by his son James W Brown, following his return from Malden, MA.
See blog on James W Brown for more on the family:
http://www.mynewenglandancestors.com/blog/brown-lockes-cove-kittery
ELIHU DEERING BROWN, the son of Capt James and Sarah (Fernald) Brown, was born in Kittery, Maine on 4 Nov 1800, and died there on 16 Feb 1879. He married first to MARTHA C FERNALD, a first cousin, on 29 Apr 1824 [Kittery VR, pg 280]. She was born in 1791, the dau of Samuel and Elizabeth (Chandler) Fernald, and died on 22 Oct 1837 [Old Kittery, pg 396]. He secondly married, on 17 May 1838 [Kittery VR, pg 292], to JANE CHANDLER FERNALD, also a first cousin. The daughter of Elihu and Hannah (Chandler) Fernald, she was born 9 May 1804 in Kittery, and died there on 16 June 1882.
In the 1850 census, Elihu was listed as a laborer, and was a mariner by 1860. In the 1870 census, he was now a "retired mariner".
1860 Kittery, York, Maine census (pg 38)
The children of Elihu D Brown, the latter three by second wife Jane.
i. THOMAS SULLIVAN BROWN, b. 5 Jan 1825; d. 11 Nov 1826
ii. SARAH ELIZABETH BROWN, b. 30 Sept 1826; d. 17 Sept 1827
iii. THOMAS BROWN, b. 3 Nov 1827; d. 19 Sept 1830
iv. MARTHA BROWN, b. 3 Aug 1829; Marr JOHN WILLIAMS
v. SAMUEL FERNALD BROWN, b. 1832; d. 1881 in California (went west during the gold rush)
vi. JAMES FERNALD BROWN, b. 14 Sept 1839; d. 10 Oct 1840
vii. JAMES WILLIAM BROWN, b. 28 Dec 1841; marr EMILY A WAITE
viii. LYDIA MARGARET BROWN, b. 30 Aug 1845; d. 21 Oct 1846
Elihu Fernald - Kittery, Maine
My 5th Great-Grandfather ELIHU FERNALD (1763-1851) seems to have been a lifelong resident of Kittery, Maine, seen in all the census records from 1790 to 1850, living there. The "Old Kittery and Her Families" book says he was a carpenter, and had thirteen children.
I have yet to look up real estate transactions concerning Elihu, but it seems that he sold his property to son Elihu Jr prior to 1847. Elihu Jr, in his will, wrote that his father had the right to live in his Kittery home, as would sister Olive Locke, so long as she took care of their father. Junior had already moved to Portsmouth, NH by this time, and had owned a house on Bow St.
In York County Probate, widow Margaret Fernald filed Elihu Jr's will, and an appraisal of his Kittery property was taken in 1856 (submitted in Nov). It contained:
"a certain lot of field and pasture land, with dwelling house and barn thereon containing about 34 acres, situated on the main road leading from Traips Corner to Kittery Point Bridge, known as homestead of Elihu Fernald, dec'd."
Below is the 1850 census, showing Elihu (Sr) living with his daughter Olive and her family.
1850 Kittery, Maine census
Several children of Elihu and Hannah (Chandler) died young, but are not seen in the Orchard Grove Cemetery plot. I don't believe this cemetery had even been started at this time, so they may have been buried in a family plot on their homestead.
from the NH Gazette, 9 Dec 1851, pg 3
On Elihu Fernald Sr's grave, his death date is inscribed as "4 Dec 1857". The seven is an error, as stone also shows his age at death as 88 yrs, which collaborates with his 1763 birth date, recorded in the town's records.
Fernald Plot, Orchard Grove Cemetery
GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE FAMILY OF ELIHU FERNALD OF KITTERY, MAINE
ELIHU FERNALD (Jonathan, Ebenezer, William, Renald) was born on 3 Oct 1763, likely in Kittery [Kittery VR, pg 164], the son of Jonathan and Sarah (Weeks) Fernald. He died on 4 Dec 1851, in Kittery. He married on 18 Jan 1787 in Kittery, Maine [Kittery VR, pg 172] to HANNAH CHANDLER, the daughter of Thomas and Jane (Marr) Chandler. She was born 23 Sept 1765 and died on 20 Sept 1836.
The following list of children, from "Old Kittery and Her Families", pg 395. Not sure yet of the original source of these birth dates, as they are not found in Kittery vital records.
i. JAMES BROWN FERNALD, b. 11 July 1787; d. 25 May 1822. Marr Ann Card, moved to Portsmouth, NH.
ii. MARY FERNALD, b. 9 May 1789; d. 10 July 1789
iii. MARY FERNALD, b. 9 Jul 1791. Marr Robert Newson
iv. HANNAH C FERNALD, b. 14 June 1793.Marr William Parker of Saugus, MA.
v. ELIZABETH FERNALD, b. 16 Sep 1796. Marr John Alden Of Boston, MA.
vi. BENJAMIN CHANDLER FERNALD, b. 1 Jun 1798; d. 11 Sept 1878. Marr Lavinia L Fernald. Lived Portsmouth
vii. SARAH FERNALD, b. 23 Mar 1800. Marr Thomas Jones of Portsmouth, NH
viii. ELIHU FERNALD, Jr., b. 6 May 1802; d. 24 Aug 1847. Marr Margaret T Holbrook. Lived in Portsmouth, NH
ix. JANE C FERNALD, b. 9 May 1804; d. 16 June 1882. Marr ELIHU D BROWN on 17 May 1838.
x. PAMELIA FERNALD, b. 14 Oct 1806. Marr Samuel Parker of Saugus, MA
xi. OLIVE C FERNALD, b. 30 Jan 1808; d. 30 Nov 1874. Marr William B A Locke.
xii. THOMAS FERNALD, b. 28 Oct 1809; lost at sea ca 1829
xiii. MARTHA FERNALD , b. 18 Jan 1811; d. 10 Sep 1814


TO: All concerned citizens, Walmart Workers, internet and beyond!
Our Walmart in Bentonville, AK and how we were ignored by America's Largest Retail Giant (President Mike duke, Board Chairmen David Glass and about thirteen other board members.
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 12 October 2011.
Videos by George Boston Rhynes for K.V.C.I., Keeping Valdosta Citizen Informed.
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All Georgia Elected Officials, Internet, blog and Beyond.
Video by George Boston Rhynes for K.V.C.I.
Why is the State of Georgia still an "At Will To Work State?" Wherein, a Georgia worker can be terminated from their job for "good cause, bad cause or for no cause at all. And Georgia Employers are not required to provide workers with a reason for being terminated.
As a Retired United States Armed Forces Military Veteran; I was a victim of a wrongful termination. Yet, after 3 1/2 years, 30 letters, 30 You Tube Videos, 34 pages of documented proof to the President/Board of Directors with documented proof from a former employee to the company president but no response from the company.
This entry was posted in Activism, bostongbr, Community, Economy, Government, K.V.C.I., Our Wal-Mart 12 October 2011 and tagged at-will, bostongbr, George Boston Rhynes, march, right to work, termination, Wal-Mart on October 19, 2011 by admin.


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What's Different This Time Around
Posted on August 3, 2013 by Brent Sasley
Earlier this week at Open Zion I gave my first, quick reaction to John Kerry's press conference, at which he announced the rules of the game for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. I noted there were two things, in particular, that might go some way in helping these talks achieve genuine progress: putting all issues "on the table" and the secret nature of the discussions.
Read the piece in full here.
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In Thinking about New Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
John Kerry has just announced a basis for restarting talks between Israelis and Palestinians in Washington. More specifically: "We have reached an agreement that establishes a basis for resuming direct final status negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis." He added that "The agreement is still in the process of being formalized."
This probably doesn't sound all that exciting or new to most. But it needs to be remembered that, under the current conditions in the Middle East, with Benjamin Netanyahu struggling with a rightist party and government coalition, and with Abbas struggling against Hamas, institutional decay, and growing dissatisfaction among the Palestinian population, it's no easy thing to bring the two sides together for direct talks at a high level.
That said, lots can still happen to derail things, including even before the talks start. Here are some other things we should bear in mind as the process moves forward:
1. Most people expected Netanyahu to keep putting this off and not be serious about it. As I've been arguing for many months now, Bibi can be pushed into talks. He isn't an ideologue; he's a pragmatic opportunist. He does believe, deeply, that Jews have a historical and biblical claim to the West Bank, and if nothing were standing in his way he probably would do his utmost to extend Jewish sovereignty over it all. But there are obstacles, and more than anything Bibi wants to remain in power and focus on external threats to Israel (primarily Iran). Under these conditions, getting him to talk was always more possible than many presumed.
2. Similarly, most people assumed Mahmoud Abbas was too weak or uninterested to agree to genuine talks. If we didn't already realize it with the Oslo negotiations, that both he and Netanyahu have been able to—thus far, anyway—tells us something about Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking: namely, avoiding deterministic assumptions.
3. Importantly, this is only a beginning to talks, not an agreement. There are plenty of material and emotional obstacles blocking an easy pathway to success. Building on the point above, I'm not convinced Bibi would be willing to sign a final agreement ending all Jewish claims to the West Bank. (I'm not so sure Mahmoud Abbas wants to be the one to end it all, either.) But making progress is important and highly relevant. It will set positive conditions for the continuation of talks, build confidence, and make it easier for the next Israeli and Palestinian leaders to finish the work begun here.
4. It seems that Tzipi Livni and Saeb Erekat will be leading the talks. I'm not so sure how useful that is. Both are experienced, and both have proven—despite some backpeddling at times—genuinely interested in a deal. But it's not clear how much support from their political masters either has. Both are politically weak, without much of their own power base, and so will be limited by the specific instructions Bibi and Abbas give them. Time will tell if that's enough to construct a stable platform for continuing.
5. Kerry expended enormous energy to make this happen, devoting most of his time to this one issue even while developments elsewhere in the Middle East require urgent attention. It remains to be seen whether he can maintain that level of determination and pressure to help the talks along. Without it, I'm less optimistic the process will move forward.
6. Hamas won't be happy.
7. On Israel's domestic front, there are lots of questions remaining about what Naftali Bennett (leader of Jewish Home) and Yair Lapid (leader of Yesh Atid) will do. Neither has been all that enthusiastic about the peace process. (I realize that's a gross understatement about Bennett.) They'll be put to the test now: will they support the talks and anything that comes out of it? It's likely that Livni will have to report back to Bibi (either directly or through his personal emissaries to the peace talks) on any substantive issues, no matter how minor. How much support his coalition gives him will help determine how likely Bibi is to keep the talks going.
Bennett had previously said he wouldn't break the coalition apart over talks; just yesterday he reversed himself. That's not surprising. In addition to being ideologically opposed to any withdrawals from the West Bank (he wants to outright annex all of Area C), Bennett's party is made up of at least a couple factions that struggled against each other before being united into Jewish Home; and all are opposed to giving up Jewish control over the West Bank. Bennett's election as party leader was never a sure thing, and was contested from the beginning. His institutional position is threatened as well, then; he can't afford to agree to anything that might endanger his place at the top of the party. Either he'd be forced out (and it wouldn't be easy to find another institutional home), or he'd remain but the party would break apart, weakening Bennett's ability to win seats in the next election.
As for Lapid, nobody knows what he might do. His party has many doves in it, but his ambition to become prime minister means he needs to play more to the right for votes. If he sees the population is increasingly in favor of talks, though, he'll probably go with it.
8. This could be Shelly Yachimovich's opportunity to seize the mantle of promoter of the peace process. Assuming Bennett pulls out of the government, Labor could fill the gap. Even if he doesn't, Bibi might be thinking about bringing Labor in for extra insurance.
9. Look what Israel has been able to accomplish without Avigdor Lieberman in the government: the apology to Turkey, and now progress in peace talks. Just saying.
10. All of what I've just written could well prove to be meaningless. This is, after, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Posted in Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish Home, John Kerry, Labor Party, Likud, Mahmoud Abbas, Naftali Bennett, National Religious Party, Peace Process, Saeb Erekat, Shelly Yachimovich, Tzipi Livni, West Bank, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid	| 2 Replies


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Q: How to iterate an ActiveRecord object's associated objects I need to perform operations on all of a Rails 5 ActiveRecord object's associated objects, but I don't want to have to write a separate method call explicitly for each object.
For example, let's say "vacation" is the object I'm dealing with, and it could have many associated objects (let's assume all has_one for simplicity): agent, traveler, plane, ship, hotel.
I could do:
do_stuff_to_assoc_object(vacation.agent)
do_stuff_to_assoc_object(vacation.traveler)
do_stuff_to_assoc_object(vacation.plane)
...etc.
but that's very inelegant, especially if there are many associations.
Thanks to How to get all the associated models from ActiveRecord object?
, I know I can get the associated objects' model class names as strings, or the AssociationReflection object, but how how do I get the actual object they represent?
   parent_object.reflect_on_all_associations(:has_one).map(&:class_name).each do |model_name|
      ### how to convert model_name into the object?
      do_stuff_to_assoc_object(obj)
    end

  def do_stuff_to_assoc_object(obj)
     # I do things to the associated object here
  end

A: Model name can be converted to object using public_send in case you fetched the association models, check below:
parent_object.reflect_on_all_associations(:has_one).map(&:class_name).each do |model_name|
      # assuming that parent_object is the object that has all associations.
      obj = parent_object.public_send(model_name)
      do_stuff_to_assoc_object(obj)
    end

  def do_stuff_to_assoc_object(obj)
     # I do things to the associated object here
  end

As per @Clemens Kofler comment, to avoid double iteration, we can remove the .map as following:
parent_object.reflect_on_all_associations(:has_one).each do |association|
          # assuming that parent_object is the object that has all associations.
          obj = parent_object.public_send(association.class_name)
          do_stuff_to_assoc_object(obj)
        end

      def do_stuff_to_assoc_object(obj)
         # I do things to the associated object here
      end

Reference:
https://apidock.com/ruby/Object/public_send

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FC Halifax Town have announced that youngster Shiraz Khan has joined Frickley Athletic on a month's loan.
He joins Ross Barrows who is also on loan with Frickley.
Meanwhile Isaac Baldwin and Elliot Harrison are both on loan with Ossett Albion.


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For the real scoop on Three Twins' flavors, we went straight to the source: Founding Twin Neal Gottlieb. Here's what he says about our traditional sweet treat, Vanilla Chocolate Chip.
It is hard to improve upon this classic, but somehow we did. Three Twins Ice Cream's Vanilla Chocolate Chip begins its life as our delicious Madagascar Vanilla ice cream.
We then add organic dark chocolate chips from some fancy-schmancy European country. We at Three Twins clearly love milk, but we also think that the contrast of flavor and slight bitterness that dark chocolate ponies up in this ice cream trumps anything milk chocolate chips could possibly offer.
Mind you, these are not the gargantuan, pebble-like chips that one typically finds in ice cream. Size does matter in this case, and bigger is not always better. The chips that we use are actually quite small. Besides being really cute, they can be more evenly dispersed in our ice cream than regular-sized chips and they have a pleasant lil' crunch to 'em.
That's it. Think of it as vanilla ice cream with chocolate freckles. And really delicious ones, at that.
Fun fact: The chocolate chips that we use are a 4,000 count, meaning that approximately 4,000 of them make up one pound. We use close to 1,000,000 chips in one full day's production run at our Petaluma ice cream factory.


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This data must be analyzed to gain insight or come to a conclusion about what the data has to offer, such as future activity predictions or the latest trends.
When analyzing data, a business can make better choices in their business decisions, when and where to start a marketing campaign. This data will also help them understand when they should introduce a new product or service onto the market.
Analytics is also known as a basic business intelligence application or productive analytics that is often used by scientists. Other advanced kinds of analytics are known as data mining which evaluates large sets of data to understand patterns, trends, and relationships.
Exploratory data analysis not only identifies patterns and relationships but confirms data through statistical techniques to discover if a set of data is true. Another distinction is the analysis of numerical data that is measured on a numeric sale. Interval and ratio scales are quantitative, i.e. a country's population. A qualitative data analysis focuses on nonnumerical data including images, text, etc.
In order for big data to work properly, a business must have an infrastructure in place to collect and house this data and provide access to it. The information must be secure while in storage and in transit. At a higher level, the storage systems and servers must be designed for big data, data management, and integration software. Also, your business intelligence and data analytics software and applications must be in place.
The majority of infrastructures will be on-premises for companies to continue leveraging their data center investments. More and more, businesses rely on cloud computing services to take care of their big data needs.
In order to collect data, there must be sources in place to carry it out. This includes web applications, social media channels, mobile apps, and email archives. As IoT has become more established, businesses should have sensors on all their devices, vehicles, and products to gather their data. Also, new applications that generate user data will become more critical. IoT big data analytics provide their own specialized tools and techniques.
In order to store all this incoming data, a business must have good storage in place such as traditional data warehouses, data lakes, and cloud-based storage. Security infrastructure tools might include data encryption, user authentication, other access controls, monitoring systems, firewalls, enterprise mobility management, and other products to protect their systems and data.
Apache's Hadoop project develops open-source software for scalable, distributed computing. Hadoop is a technology that is most closely associated with big data. Hadoop's library is a foundation that provides the distribution for the large sets of data across extensive groups of computers that are using simple programming standards. It's developed to scale from a single server to thousands with each providing local computation and storage.
- Hadoop Common: which are common utilities that support other Hadoop modules.
- Their File System for distribution: measures the access to the data.
- Hadoop YARN: the core for scheduling and group support management.
- Hadoop MapReduce: which is a YARN-based system for parallel processing of large sets of data.
This is an open source cluster-computing foundation that works as an engine for processing big data in Hadoop. It is one of the best big data distributing processing structures that can be sent in many ways. Spark offers native bindings for Java, Python, Scala and specifically for Anaconda Python distro, and R programming languages for big data. It also supports SQL, streaming data, machine learning, and graph processing.
Data lakes are storage repositories that house very large volumes of raw data in their native format until it's needed. Digital transformation actions increase the growth of data lakes and IoT Data lakes. They are developed to make it easier for you to access enormous amounts of data when you need it.
Traditional SQL databases are designed for dependable transactions and ad hoc questions but are limited, making them less satisfactory for some applications. NoSQL databases address these shortcomings, storing and managing data in ways that will allow for increased operational speed and greater flexibility. Many of these databases were created by companies looking for improved ways to store content and process data for huge websites. NoSQL database can be extended horizontally across thousands of servers.
An IMDB (in-memory database) is a management system that basically depends on main memory instead of disk for data storage. These databases are faster than disk-optimized databases which is important to keep in mind for big data analytics, the creation of data warehouses, and data marts.
There are certain skills required for big data and big data analytics. These skills are found either within an organization or through outsourcing. A lot of these skills are related to important big data technology components including Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, IMDB, and analytics software.
Other skills are acquired through precise training including data science, data mining, statistical, and quantitative analysis, data visualization, general programming, data structure, and algorithms. There is also a growing need for people with overall management skills to oversee big data projects until they are completed.
Because big data analytics have become high in demand, the shortage of people with the right skills has become a challenge for most businesses.
Companies can analyze customer data to improve their customers' experiences, improve their conversion rates, and increase retention through Customer Analytics.
Companies can increase their operational performance and improve the use of corporate assets. Operation Analytics can help businesses find solutions for running more efficiently and improving their performance.
Data Analysis helps businesses discover suspicious activities and patterns that suggest there are fraudulent behaviors taking place and reduce the risks.
Data analytics is also utilized to optimize the price a company is charging for their products and services to increase their revenues.
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WHILST listening to Radio 2, host Chris Evans quickly interviewed a vintage radio restorer. The restorer, a very knowledgeable gentleman, briefly explained the history of Radio Rentals (started out renting radios and eventually became popular for renting TV's and video recorders on the UK high street in the 70s and 80s).
So Radio Rentals began around 1930 in a small shop. By 1936 radios had become more popular and more people rented radios from them. The weekly cost of renting a radio back then was 1 shilling 9 pence a week. Chris asked Mr Radio Restorer why people just didn't buy the radios outright instead of renting. Mr Radio Restorer explained that many could not afford to buy a radio outright in those days. A radio would cost around £30 to buy outright (20 shillings = £1). The average weekly wage in 1936 was 40 shillings 9 pence.
The conversation between Chris and Mr Radio Restorer struck a chord with me. The mere mention of Radio Rentals and Chris' logical question made me consider my early years.
I come from a family of six. Growing up in the 70s was having a wash in the in a bowl (like a circular washing up bowl), pushing 50p coins into a meter to supply gas and bulky black and white TV's. Our TV's were never brand new, always second-hand. The lifespan of the TV's was about 12 months. My dad knew a chap called Zaki who'd supply us with half dead black and white TV's. Zaki was also the guy that repaired the TV's when random black lines started running horizontally down the screen. We saw a awful lot of Zaki in our household and I still have memories of him saying 'That will be 5 pounds to fix' or 'I'll get you another TV for £30'.
The 70s were about knackered secondhand black and white TV's. The 80s were about the upgrade a colour TV. We stayed loyal to Zaki and he supplied us with knackered colour TV's. Moving to colour was a huge step change for us but there was a bigger leap about to land. The video recorder was on the scene and they were expensive. Some came with a remote control … a wire connecting the remote control to the video recorder. There were 2 main models, the top loading (clunky) or the slightly more smooth front loading. The video recorder had arrived but they were expensive.
Step in Radio Rentals! Mum decided to rent a video recorder. It arrived and the whole household was excited with this new technology. We enjoyed going to the video shop to rent the latest overpriced film, slotting it into the video recorder, then left disappointed when the viewing quality had us squinting. Anyway after renting the video recorder for a couple of years, (and I began to understand the real concept of money), I asked mum how much it costs to rent the machine. After she'd told me, with my very basic maths and knowledge of current selling prices, I calculated that we could have bought almost 2 video recorders with the amount we'd splashed out to date. Why, why, why?
A few years later the reason why came to me. Basically we could not afford to buy outright at the time. We could manage a monthly payment to rent, but to buy outright, no chance! So during the interview when Chris asked the question, I knew straight away what the answer would be from Mr Radio Restorer.
Things are slightly different these days – electronic equipment is much more affordable for many. We tend to have the financial power to buy things outright. With the help of Miss Visa & Mr MasterCard things are pretty simple. Radio Rentals are no longer on our high street. Were Radio Rentals ripping us off? Not really – just one of the basic principals of business … supply the customer with something they need, do it well and make a profit. On that note I'm off to watch the Simpsons in glorious colour on our fully paid off, flat screen, full HD TV … not purchased from Zaki!


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Imagine that you are the last photographer, the only one left in the world!
You will have to take charge of photographing all kinds of things: weddings, birds in flight, street shots, landscapes, fine art nudes and all the other subjects.
And you can only use one lens for all of these genres.
Which lens would you choose?
By definition, the focal length is the distance in millimetres that exists between the focal plane of the sensor and the optical centre of the lens.
The smaller the focal length, the larger the angle of vision.
The larger the focal length, the smaller the angle of vision.
The angle of vision determines the visual field of the lens and allows us to classify the lenses into different groups.
The wide angle lenses cover the angle of view between 64° and 84° degrees of visual field what means a larger angle of vision than the human eye.
It is most commonly used for landscape photography – usually between 12 mm and 24 mm. For street photography, the most common focal lengths are 28 mm and 35 mm, sometimes 50 mm.
We call a lens "normal" when the field of vision is similar to the human eye, not including peripheral vision. These are the lenses between 50 mm and 70 mm.
Traditionally 50 mm is the most used lens (Bresson, Cappa, Plossu, Frank) and suitable for many disciplines.
The telephoto lens has a focal length greater than 50mm (for full frame sensors or 35 mm film).
Long telephoto lenses are mainly used in sports. Very common are the 300 mm telephoto lens, but the most used is the 70-200 mm zoom because it can be used for many occasions.
The short telephoto lenses, 85 mm, 100 mm, 135 mm are used frequently for portrait photography. The 50 mm lens is also used for portrait photography, depending on the photographer's choice and what he/she wants to realise.
There is a lot to talk about when it comes to the focal length and which one is the best to use. Depending on the type of photographs you want to take, you will choose one or another. Sport photographers, macro photographers or street photographers will all choose a different one.
So, do you know which one you would choose if you were the only photographer left on earth?


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Epicatechin and catechin modulate endothelial activation induced by platelets of patients with peripheral artery disease
R. Carnevale, L. Loffredo, C. Nocella, S. Bartimoccia, T. Bucci, E. De Falco, M. Peruzzi, I. Chimenti, G. Biondi-Zoccai, P. Pignatelli, F. Violi, G. Frati
Platelet activation contributes to the alteration of endothelial function, a critical initial step in a the rogenesis through the production and release of prooxidant mediators. There is uncertainty about the precise role of polyphenols in interaction between platelets and endothelial cells (ECs).We aimed to investigate whether polyphenols are able to reduce endothelial activation induced by activated platelets. First, we compared platelet activation and flow-mediated dilation (FMD) in 10 healthy subjects (HS) and 10 patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD).Then, we evaluated the effect of epicatechin plus catechin on platelet-HUVEC interaction by measuring soluble cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), NOx production, and eNOS phosphorylation (p-eNOS) in HUVEC. Compared to HS, PAD patients had enhanced platelet activation. Conversely, PAD patients had lower FMD than HS. Supernatant of activated platelets from PAD patients induced an increase of sCAMs release and a decrease of p-eNOS and nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability compared to unstimulated HUVEC. Coincubation of HUVEC, with supernatant of PAD platelets patients, pretreated with a scalar dose of the polyphenols, resulted in a decrease of sCAMs release and in an increase of p-eNOS and NO bioavailability. This study demonstrates that epicatechin plus catechin reduces endothelial activation induced by activated platelets.
Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/691015
Platelet Activation
Biological Availability
Dilatation
Carnevale, R., Loffredo, L., Nocella, C., Bartimoccia, S., Bucci, T., De Falco, E., ... Frati, G. (2014). Epicatechin and catechin modulate endothelial activation induced by platelets of patients with peripheral artery disease. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2014, [691015]. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/691015
Epicatechin and catechin modulate endothelial activation induced by platelets of patients with peripheral artery disease. / Carnevale, R.; Loffredo, L.; Nocella, C.; Bartimoccia, S.; Bucci, T.; De Falco, E.; Peruzzi, M.; Chimenti, I.; Biondi-Zoccai, G.; Pignatelli, P.; Violi, F.; Frati, G.
In: Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, Vol. 2014, 691015, 2014.
Carnevale, R, Loffredo, L, Nocella, C, Bartimoccia, S, Bucci, T, De Falco, E, Peruzzi, M, Chimenti, I, Biondi-Zoccai, G, Pignatelli, P, Violi, F & Frati, G 2014, 'Epicatechin and catechin modulate endothelial activation induced by platelets of patients with peripheral artery disease', Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, vol. 2014, 691015. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/691015
Carnevale R, Loffredo L, Nocella C, Bartimoccia S, Bucci T, De Falco E et al. Epicatechin and catechin modulate endothelial activation induced by platelets of patients with peripheral artery disease. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2014;2014. 691015. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/691015
Carnevale, R. ; Loffredo, L. ; Nocella, C. ; Bartimoccia, S. ; Bucci, T. ; De Falco, E. ; Peruzzi, M. ; Chimenti, I. ; Biondi-Zoccai, G. ; Pignatelli, P. ; Violi, F. ; Frati, G. / Epicatechin and catechin modulate endothelial activation induced by platelets of patients with peripheral artery disease. In: Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2014 ; Vol. 2014.
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The jewels of Simlipal
Sourabh Biswas
The wonders and colours of nature are a sight to behold as we present to you our first photo-story about the Simplipal National Park.
Simlipal National Park a Biosphere Reserve, especially known for it's Tiger population, is situated in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha. Simlipal is distinguished for its lush green forest, sprawling over 2750 square kilometers of area and rich biodiversity in the Eastern Ghats region. This photo story, about the biodiversity of Lulung and Sitakund areas of the park, is composed of the photographs I clicked during my visit in March 2019.
1. Signature Spider (Argiope sp.)
Spiders are one of the most successful stealth hunters in the world. Signature spiders are one of a kind. They got their names from the 'X' like the zig-zag pattern they wave in their web. These patterns are called 'stabilimentum', and it reflects UV light. It helps the spider to capture flying insects and also serves as warning signals to more massive creatures.
2. Rock Agama (Psammophilus sp.)
Rock Agamas are endemic to the rocky hills of peninsular India and are known to be active during daylight hours. Males of this species are well known for bright colours, mostly red and orange. Females are greyish in colour. The tone gets more glaring when the male performs behavioural displays to persuade females or during territorial combat.
3. Five-bar Swordtail (Graphium antiphates)
Not all butterflies love nectar, but some of them relish on dead plant materials, carrions or mud to procure nutrients and minerals. Males from Papilionidae and Pieridae family form congregations on mud or decaying forest litter. This is known as mud-puddling behaviour is known to enhance reproductive success. Females receive spermatophore (a protein capsule containing sperms) along with sodium and amino acids collected during mud-puddling, as nuptial gifts from males. Nutrients enhance the survival rate of the eggs.
4. Common Pierrot (Castalius rosimon)
This little butterfly from the Lycaenidae family is widespread in the Indonesian archipelago, but some species are also found in India. Males and females of this species are quite similar in appearance except for the upper wing and black marking on the underwing.
5. Orchid Tit (Hypolycaena othona)
This beautiful butterfly also belongs to the family Lycaenidae, commonly called 'blues'. The upper wing of the males are metallic blue. This butterfly is mostly found in Himalayas and the Eastern and Western Ghats.
6. Coorg Bambootail (Caconeura ramburi)
This Coorg Bambootail or Indian Blue Bambootail damselfly is present in both the Eastern and Western Ghats. The stomach of this species are segmented like bamboo; that's how they got their name. Males of this species are azure in colour, the females are yellow.
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Nair, M.V. 2011. Dragonflies and Demselflies of Orissa and Eastern India, Wildlife Organisation, Forest and Environment Department, Government of Orissa, 232 pp.
Sourabh Biswas is a 2nd year PhD student at the Behaviour and Ecology Lab, IISER Kolkata. He is an ardent nature lover and a passionate macro photographer. He loves to explore different parts of India specially in search of butterflies.


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Q: How to lock keyboard layout on login screen in Gnome I use Gnome 3.xx desktop manager on openSUSE 42.xx and two keyboard layouts. I would like to lock the keyboard layout on the Gnome login screen, so it is always US layout. Basically, I want logins and passwords to be only entered in English_US. Is there a way to achieve it?
Or, alternatively, warn the user about non-English layout and caps lock pressed.
I would also appreciate if you could point me to good information sources about tweaks that make experience of working with several keyboard layouts better.


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Adweek's Ad of the Day for #TakeOnHistory
#TakeOnHistory directed by Smith & Foulkes for Wimbledon has been awarded 'Ad of the Day' by Adweek.
"Developed with Nexus Studios and Oscar-nominated directors Smith & Foulkes, the timeline—from bedecked-in-long-pants-and-dresses through to the TV age and more contemporary winners like Billie Jean King, Bjorn Borg, Chris Evert, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, Steffi Graf, Serena Williams and others—is both anthemic and epic, befitting a tournament of such stature."
Read the full piece here.
The spot also received a 5 star rating from David Reviews, a Shot's Hot Shot and was named 'Ad of the Day' by The Drum.


Who can own property in Romania?
It all depends whether you are an EU or non-EU citizen.
EU citizens can own land, apartments or houses in Romania, just like any Romanian citizen. In this respect, you need to obtain a special fiscal identification code (in Romanian "NIF"), which allows you to pay taxes. You can get this from the fiscal authorities (in Ro "ANAF"). However, if you already have a Romanian CNP, you are already registered with ANAF.
On the other hand, non-EU citizens cannot own land in Romania. Even if you want to own a flat or house without land, in practice they are usually sold together and cannot be separated.
I am non-EU, what are my options?
As non-EU, you can own property, including land, through a Romanian company. The fastest solution is to incorporate a limited liability company (in Romanian "SRL") as sole owner and buy property through it.
Also, if you married to a Romanian or otherwise EU citizens, your spouse can buy property in their own name. Then the real estate will belong to the couple together, as common property obtained during marriage – unless you have a prenup agreement that states otherwise.
Can I get a bank loan for my real estate purchase?
When it comes to financing a real estate purchase, you might have a hard time getting a loan if you're not a Romanian citizen. And it gets usually even more complicated if all your money is obtained from abroad, not from a Romanian employer, in a local bank account.
There is no official legal restriction for lending money to expats, and it all eventually depends on the bank and their internal policy. But, in practice, banks are much more reserved to offer loans in this case, as they are concerned about potentially not getting their money back.
How can a lawyer help me with my real estate purchase?
A lawyer can help you with a real estate due-diligence, such as checking land specifications, current and past ownership, preparing a solid sale-purchase agreement and even assisting you with the purchase itself, in front of a public notary – including the negotiation process. This way, you can make sure that your property purchase is safe and legal.


TARBORO, NC -- Four people are dead in three related shooting incidents in Tarboro Saturday afternoon.
It began just before 1 p.m. at the Master's Touch Barber Shop located at 801 West St. James Street when police said 40-year-old Ian Sherrod walked in and shot 36-year-old George Lee Dickens Jr - killing him.
When police got there, they got another call at 1:20 p.m. about a second shooting at the Mobile Home Estates.
At the second location, officers found 28-year-old Ana Marlen Cruz-Franco shot to death and 36-year-old Ventura Sanchez seriously wounded. Sanchez was treated at Vidant Edgecombe Hospital, but he died on Sunday morning.
Authorities later discovered Sherrod lived right next door to the two victims killed at the Mobile Home Estates.
Police next got a tip that Sherrod was in his pickup truck in the area of Main Street and Northern Boulevard in Tarboro.
The information was radioed to Tarboro police officers, deputies with the Edgecombe County Sheriff's Department, and the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
Officers found Sherrod sitting in his truck displaying a gun at a parking lot in the 2,300 block of Main Street.
As is standard in all officer-involved shootings, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to review the incident.
One of the officers involved was with the Tarboro Police Department, the other was a deputy from the Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office. Both have been placed on paid administrative leave, pending the outcome of the investigation.
Tarboro police said that Sherrod had no criminal record, and they are working to determine a motive for the shootings.
Anyone who witnessed any of the shootings - or who can give information - is asked to contact the Tarboro Police Department at (252) 641-4247.


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Kim Hyun-joong to show "deeper affection" to Jung So-min
Kim Hyun-joong poses during a photocall of a press conference for the YouTube version of TV series "Naughty Kiss" held at the Megabox theater in COEX of Seoul, South Korea on November 1, 2010. [Group 8]
Boy band SS501 member and actor Kim Hyun-joong has said he will show deeper affection toward his co-star Jung So-min in the YouTube version of his latest TV series "Naughty Kiss".
"There are no regulations or restrictions to what is broadcast through YouTube so we'll be able to express our affection to each other in a deeper way. Hence, you'll get to see a more natural-looking married couple", Kim said with a smile of the newly produced online version of the drama which tells of the twos characters married life.
Directed by Hwang In-roi of "Princess Hours" (MBC, 2006) and "Iljimae Returns - Moon River" (MBC, 2009) fame, Kim and actress Jung So-min had starred in the TV show which ran for eight weeks from early September on public network MBC.
The TV show's producer Group 8 and YouTube owner Google came together to create a YouTube version which was newly shot in seven ten-minute long episodes with the same cast and director from the TV show but with new or additional details.
Song Byung-joon, CEO of Group 8, explained that he focused on making each episode fun and distinctive since a TV drama has continuity to its story but it would not be the case for the web-based version.
Showing every Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, the online version of "Naughty Kiss" will premiere at 7 p.m. today and run till November 16. Two episodes containing behind the scenes clips will show on November 17 and 18.
"Naughty Kiss" is based on Japanese comic "Itazura na Kiss" which sold over 27 million copies in Japan and has been made into animation in Japan and a top-rated television drama in Taiwan.
The 16-part series was sold to 12 countries around the world ahead of going on air and so far has been purchased in a total 11 nations in Asia.
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