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Q: Why does my .find() function keep throwing up an error? i want to try to open up a file, find the index of a particular string (S_N) then seek the position and write something underneath.
i am using the code...
C1 = open("Class 1.txt", "a")
pos = C1.find(S_N)
C1.seek(pos)
C1.write(correct)

and every time i use it, python throws up this error...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\eddie\Documents\HOMEWORK!!!!\11c\Computing Science\controlled assessment help\task3\task 3 official.py", line 41, in <module>
    pos = C1.find(S_N)
AttributeError: '_io.TextIOWrapper' object has no attribute 'find'

WHY DOES THIS NOT WORK????

A: You cannot search directly through a file for a String; you must first convert to a string. Also, you are opening the file in a mode, which is write-only, so try something like this:
C1 = open("Class1.txt","r")
dataList = C1.readlines()
data = ""
for line in dataList:
    data += line
C1.close()

# do stuff with data, which is a string

Other Notes:
I do not recommend having a space in your file name; rename it to Class.txt as in my example.
To .find(something), something must be a string, like: data.find("S_N")

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Kellyanne Conway On Tara Reade: The Me Too Movement Is "Being Completely Disingenuous & Hypocritical By Not Giving This Woman Her Due"
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While appearing on Saturday's airing of Justice With Judge Jeanine, Kellyanne Conway gave her take on the latest revelations regarding former Joe Biden staffer Tara Reade's allegation against the former Vice President.
Newly-uncovered video evidence appears to support former Reade's accusation that the former Vice President sexually assaulted her in 1993 within the Senate corridor.
Meanwhile, forces of the left have paid rather little attention to Reade's claims, which Kellyanne finds "hypocritical" and "disingenous". However, she does think there are some in the Democratic party who may use it as an opportunity going forward to push Biden out of the race.
"How do you think the Democrats can actually look at themselves when they are so critical of Republicans with no evidence, and they've got the guy who's running for president, who's being accused of sexual harassment, if not worse?" Judge Jeanine asked.
Kellyanne replied, "Two things going on here, neither of which is good for the Democratic party, Jeanine."
"The first is the obvious. The whole Me Too movement — the people who actually believed this person or that person with very thin or no evidence — because of their political leanings and because they were trying to stop from the Supreme Court or from the presidency. They are not on solid ground here. They're being completely disingenuous amd hypocritical by not even giving this woman her due," she asserted. Video Below
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"The second part is, you know a lot of Democrats tried to push Joe Biden out of the race," Kellyanne continued. :They didn't want him to be the nominee. Now that they're stuck with him, and they're using this as a backdoor excuse to maybe call into question, 'Can we afford…. this kind of possible scandalabra into the election."
"And, you know, Biden in hidin' has really helped him, and when he comes back out, he's gonna have to debate Donald Trump and answer questions about Tara Reade and other people," she concluded. Video Below
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Relocation of the Plumley lean to was completed on the weekend of July 8th. Thank you Peter Davis for the photos and thank you to all the volunteers for all your hard work!
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A historic buildings survey day was held at Great Horwood Village Hall on Saturday 22 October 2011, organised by the BAS Historic Buildings Group (HBG). Twenty-four people took part, mostly HBG members but including a few villagers.
After a short introduction to the history of the village, the 24 participants divided into four teams to conduct a quick survey of all buildings, whether historic or modern, within the village's Conservation Area.
Great Horwood was an Anglo-Saxon village, held by 'Young Aylward, a thane of King Edward's' before the Norman Conquest in 1066 and granted by William the Conqueror – along with much of the rest of the county – to Walter Giffard. The manor was valued at £4 in Domesday Book.
After a break for lunch, the group was given a guided tour of the parish church of St James by John Brushe, before dispersing to conduct overview internal surveys of four of the village's historic houses. Altogether Great Horwood contains 46 listed buildings.
This initial one-day survey covered 127 buildings, including the whole of the village Conservation Area.
Four buildings within the Great Horwood Conservation Area – the village's historic core.
The second stage of the project began early in 2012 with the first of a planned series of individual house surveys.
On a bitterly cold February day eight members of the Historic Buildings Group converged on Mulberry Cottage in Spring Lane. Dividing into two groups of four, they conducted a measured survey both outside and inside the cottage.
The cottage is already listed Grade 2, where it is officially described as 17th-century with an 18th-century extension to the east. Initial results from the survey show a more complex picture, suggesting a two-bay cottage with an attached barn at its eastern end – both dating from the 16th or 17th century. This barn was then converted into a separate cottage in the 18th century. A second survey was done at 15 Little Horwood Road in March.
A detailed study of medieval Great Horwood was written by Dr Matthew Tompkins as a PhD thesis for the University of Leicester. Titled 'Peasant Society in a Medieval Manor, Great Horwood 1400-1600', the thesis runs to 263 pages and gives a detailed picture of life for the ordinary people of Great Horwood as they worked and exchanged their small village landholdings.
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Greenhouse growers notes: A promising new predator
November 18, 2008 By Gillian Ferguson Tom MacDonald and Sheila Goodfellow
The gall midge, Feltiella acarisuga, is a mosquito-like insect
that can greatly assist in biological control of two-spotted spider
mites (TSSM) in greenhouse vegetables.
Research is showing that gall midge can help with biocontrol of spider mites in vegetable crops
Adult Feltiella acarisuga resting on leaf surface
Photo provided with the kind courtesy of Biobest Canada
The gall midge, Feltiella acarisuga, is a mosquito-like insect that can greatly assist in biological control of two-spotted spider mites (TSSM) in greenhouse vegetables.
This past summer, F. acarisuga was released as part of a large commercial trial at Cristofari Farms in Leamington, Ont. This predator was included because of its ability to fly and its highly effective searching abilities. This is in contrast to commonly used predatory mites, which can only walk on the plant's surface to locate their prey. In addition, the predation capacity of F. acarisuga is reported to be much higher than that of Phytoseiulus persimilis. The objective of releasing this predator was to observe how F. acarisuga might contribute to an IPM program that has traditionally been based upon the use of various predatory mites. Weekly observations produced very encouraging results.
Feltiella acarisuga is widely distributed naturally and is thought to prey specifically on tetranychid mites, the family to which TSSM belongs. Once adult F. acarisuga are released in a crop, they fly around searching for spider mites. When they've located a spider mite colony, they lay eggs on the leaves alongside the spider mite colonies. After about two days, orange-coloured larvae, the predatory stage, hatch and can begin feeding immediately.
While some studies indicate that a female F. acarisuga can lay as many as 24 to 33 eggs in her lifetime, other studies indicate this to be as low as 10 per female, depending on available food. A food source such as honeydew or a sugar solution is needed for F. acarisuga to maximize its egg-laying capacity.
White cocoons or pupae of Feltiella acarisuga alongside veins of cucumber leaf.
Photo courtesy Gillian Ferguson, OMAFRA
Feltiella acarisuga has three larval stages and they feed on all stages of mites. Larvae feed by sucking the eggs of TSSM, either partially or entirely, killing the egg in either case. Larval F. acarisuga will also attack adult TSSM by first paralyzing them. Research at Texas A&M University System indicates that larvae can consume an average of 185 eggs during their lifetime. If, however, larval F. acarisuga are unable to find TSSM, they will become cannibalistic and feed on their own eggs, larvae and pupae. After about a week when the larvae have matured, they transform into pupae that appear as small white cocoons that are usually found alongside leaf veins. After another week or so, depending on temperature, adults emerge, mate within 24 hours, and begin laying eggs after one or two days.
Work by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Dave Gillespie and Don Quiring indicate that overall development time ranges from more than 30 days at 15°C to less than 10 days at 27°C. Temperatures above 30°C are lethal to the larvae. Generally, higher humidities favour the performance, reproduction and survival of this predator.
Studies, also by Gillespie and Quiring, showed that predation by F. acarisuga increases exponentially between 40 and 90 per cent RH. They also observed that larvae stopped moving when they were exposed to 30-50 per cent RH.
Temperature and humidity conditions during July of this past year appeared to favour activity of F. acarisuga in commercial cucumbers at Cristofari Farms. Only one release was made at the beginning of July, and this consisted of 1,000 F. acarisuga pupae to each of four houses, which each measured 200 ft x 37 ft (61 m x 11.3 m).
At this time, spider mite populations were increasing quickly, primarily due to the prevailing high temperature conditions. Within two weeks of release, larvae were visible in many areas of high spider mite populations, and pupae were visible one week after the larvae were observed. Where larvae were observed, there were on average two to three per leaf.
Larva or predatory stage of Feltiella acarisuga feeding within spider mite colony on underside of cucumber leaf.
In one house that was more highly infested, F. acarisuga was present on 40 per cent of all the leaves sampled, and in one location, over 20 each of larvae and pupae were counted. The percentage of live spider mites on these leaves was correspondingly very low.
This experience indicates that perhaps we have not sufficiently tapped into the potential of F. acarisuga. In addition to its ease of application and mobility within a crop, work in the U.K. has shown that F. acarisuga can successfully suppress spider mites on hairy plants such as tomatoes, and also prey on carmine mites and diapausing mites.
However, environmental conditions such as low humidity and very high temperatures can limit its activity. Also, because its rate of reproduction is lower than that of TSSM, repeat releases are recommended for suppression of TSSM. Bearing in mind all of the factors that favour activity of F. acarisuga, we feel that this predator will make a valuable contribution to suppression of TSSM in greenhouse vegetables.
Acknowledgments:
■ The kind co-operation of Domenic Cristofari of Cristofari Farms, Leamington, and support of MGS Horticultural Inc. Leamington, in trials for evaluation of biological control agents against two-spotted spider mites in greenhouse cucumbers is gratefully acknowledged.
Authors: Gillian Ferguson, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs, Greenhouse & Processing Crops Research Centre, Harrow, Ont.; Tom MacDonald and Sheila Goodfellow, MGS Horticultural Inc., Leamington, Ont.
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How the Mafia Robs Jewelry Salesmen
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Retired Mafia Detective Gary Jenkins tells how Mafia gangsters set up and rob jewelry salesmen. You may not know, but every day in the U.S., thousands of honest, hardworking salesmen load up their sales cases and hit the road to show their samples of gold, silver, or platinum jewelry with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, or other precious stones embedded. Mafia associates gather intelligence constantly on these salesmen. Gary tells about a gang working for the infamous Chicago Police Superintendent William Handhardt and gives an example from his own experience in Kansas City.
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Guy Altabello dealt with Hanhart second command a guy named Joseph Basinski. Ultra Bella will provide the names addresses car descriptions and license numbers and schedules of the various salesman that called on his son how to rob a jewelry salesman I happen to see on Facebook this morning, Mike Byrne up in Chicago, puts out Chicago Tribune articles and he put one out about William Hanhart. And some of his juries that gang he had a big gang of Chicago outfit kind of a lot of associates and professional criminals up there that went around robbing jewelry salesmen in jewelry stores. So how to rob a jewelry salesman in every major American city, jewelry salesman ply their trade by the hundreds of 1000s throughout the country, carrying jewelry samples around in jewelry salesman cases and call on independent Europe jewelers, and you know, they just travel around like any independent traveling salesman does. They travel in cars, they stay in hotels, they eat on the road, they stopped for gas, they use the bathroom, they do all the other normal roadtrip activities, which makes them kind of vulnerable to these guys mak es them a soft target.
Professional Jewelrey. The professional jewel thief needs intelligence on these guys though. So when the FBI broke up this jewelry theft ring of Chicago police superintendent William and heart a lot of these trade secrets were revealed and we kind of knew what they were but they got some solid information. When they when they took this whole crew down. There's in this article and Tribune they had a guy learned they had a guy named Guy Ottobello of Elmhurst. And he worked in his son's jewelry store which was called Altabellos. And it was in Wheaton, which is a far west kind of Chicago, small town suburb, and Guy Altabello dealt with Hanhart second command a guy named Joseph Basinski. Alta Bello will provide the names addresses, car descriptions and license numbers and schedules of the various salesman that called on his son or his son's store, he could even give him approximate time of how long they would be in the Chicago area and when they came and when they might come back. And example this was real specific was one day in 1996 Altabello passed along the description of a salesman's rental car that called on his store that day Hanhart then used the police aboard that you know, a called a sergeant a Sarja you know, as Commander Hanhart you know, would you find out about this cards and rental company cards, so they found out everything they could from rental company, and they get more of a fix on the guy and and then they start trying to find the guy that see where he goes next or where he's staying what hotel he's in, and, and and they know that he's gonna have maybe $100,000 worth of jewelry or less or more, they're gonna have he's gonna have a lot. Now, when they took this down, they're rested this Joseph Basinski in and he was carrying around a case of some guide and he they found descriptions of salesmen, car descriptions, home addresses, hotel names, that these various salesmen would stay in telephone numbers and other detailed information about travel schedules. And he had it run more than 100 Different salesman is amazing, you know, and here in Kansas City, we had a crew, Johnny Joe Calia, and George Bruton Jimmy Toes are Crazy eyes Abbot formed up this crew now they all didn't go on every score, but they you know, they got a score going then it got some information then they would, you know, get together and they had people in the jewelry business. I can tell you that right now. I know one time our guys caught Johnny Caresio and Johnny Joe Calia shadowing a jewelry salesman, exclusive shopping area called the plaza. These guys were just down there goofing around. They didn't really have a plan or what they were doing. They were just driving through. Probably looking at the girls It was a sunny day I can't remember.
And they see Calia and Careso and look like maybe another guy that couldn't tell exactly who it was. And they seem to be like focused on a guy parking and going in he's into a store in a jewelry store. And so then our guys you know they went drove around the corner quickly and came back and sat up on him trying to watch that store and that Guy Jewelry sale or That guy's car that went in and they found out later was a jewelry salesman and calling for some help to get down there because you know you don't know how this is gonna go down they're gonna take him down there maybe they follow him somewhere else. Maybe try to follow him to his hotel room and break in his trunk there because they didn't do armed robberies you know that the the break in something to break into a car and steal $100,000 score the the consequences are much less than if you put a gun in their face. But these guys
as their antennae were up and there wasn't any time John Jo Calia burned them and you always know when you've been burned, very few people. Don't let you know when they burned. Yeah, I've noticed they'll give you luck. They'll come back by, they'll do something, it or sometimes it's even some of them. It's just like a shift in their body. As you see them, they like come to attention come to a little more alert, and they can't help but look your way. So they came to a alerted on our guys and they were gone. They were totally gone. Now the only time we ever and I like caught one here in the city. And we didn't know the intelligence unit didn't do it. But it happened is
an alert district officer noticed a guy in a really nice car. Remember what Caresio had it with John Caresio, really nice car walking out into a vacant lot where a lot of other crap was thrown out there and throwing something down. So a pause over snatches him up and makes him walk back out. And the district officer finds a really expensive looking briefcase. And he finds a really nice looking salesman case. And so he looks in him and he sees that, you know, there's some kind of something in there indicated they belong to a jewelry salesman, he got I got good information on grease, yo, they couldn't really never be probable cause to take him in. But they got really good information on him. Let him go took the case in the briefcase, and and looked at it as evidence possible evidence, put it in the property room got ahold of detectives and then about that time, you know, later that afternoon or the next day, the report comes in that some salesman's cars had the lock picked on the trunk trunk was open and closed and there was no signs of forcible entry. And he lost, you know, 70 or $80,000 worth of jewelry. And one of their guys Jimmy tolls, he was like an expert at being a lockpick they always usually brought him along they thought they were going to have to pick a lock and especially in a car told us to go around the golf courses and and pick the lock, you know, guys would leave really expensive sets of clubs locked up in their trunk while they play cards or They gamble at Suburban country clubs and, and he picked the locks and get these really nice sets of clubs out so so they got they made it they were able to make a case on presyo But he was not talking about anybody else. So that's how jewelry, that ring works. And in our case in Kansas City, they were all mob associates. So they would had to kick to the Civella family or to Cammisano or somebody Hanhart and them I don't know if I would imagine Hanhart he got the money. He got the lion's share because he set up everything and he was pretty tightly connected to the mob the outfit. I don't know if he would have had to kick to him or not then he probably did and you know they don't really like somebody having a piece of action that's really going well and making money for people unless they get a little taste of it. So I don't know. Anyhow, that's a quick down and dirty story about the how you catch a jewelry theft. Right. Thanks guys. Thanks, guys.


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27 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have observed the Minister here trying to answer and go round the issue of Charterhouse Bank. How come that when matters are brought here regarding Charterhouse Bank, several road blocks are created such that we cannot get the information? Whereas this House has discussed issues of the National Bank of Kenya (NBK) and their loan portfolios here, how come that issues regarding Charterhouse Bank cannot be brought here and hon. Members given the information they require in order to interrogate the way it was finally closed? view
27 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, just before we went on recess, I had requested for a Ministerial Statement from the Minister for Lands in connection with the grabbing of several pieces of land, among them the land belonging to Nyandarua Institute of Technology which measures over 100 acres. I also asked about the grabbing of the market which belonged to ladies. The land was allocated to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) money and several other pieces of land. Last week, the hon. Minister assured this House that if I will be around today, he will give me a proper answer just because ... view
20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. If you allow me because it affects all of us, there is an issue which the Minister for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 should note that the Fund managers are threatening us that they will freeze the funds and go on leave. If he gives us the leeway that we can go up to March, what authority do the CDF managers have to say that they view
19 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. There was a Ministerial Statement I had requested from the Minister for Lands before we went on recess. I had even discussed with him and this is in respect to the grabbing of the institute land in Nyandarua and also grabbing of dispensaries by individuals. It came up two weeks ago. The Temporary Deputy Speaker who was in the Chair, hon. Imanyara, directed that it comes the following Tuesday. Now, it is the third week and it has not come. I have talked to the Minister about the issue of land ... view
19 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to get your direction on when it should appear or whether the Minister is ready with the Statement. view
19 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will be available but the Question had been put in through the Clerk's office before we went on recess. I do not know why it did view
19 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to take this opportunity to join my colleagues in thanking our President for the wonderful job he has done. Maybe he does not know that to us who come from that area, he is our mentor. When we were young, we used to hear of Makerere University and we read very hard, so that, at least, we could go to Makerere. We used to hear that he went to London University. We all looked forward also to go to the University of London. He has been a mentor and even to come to Parliament, it ... view
11 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, since this subject has come to the House so many times, am I in order to request our Attorney- General to familiarize himself with the letter that was brought here by the late Prof. Saitoti? If, for sure, it is not correct, and to avoid it being brought here, would I be in order to request the Attorney-General that, that letter be expunged from the records of the House, so that, that information does not keep on cropping up here? view
6 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am also in the same predicament and need your guidance. I had requested for a Ministerial Statement before we went on recess from the Minister for Lands, regarding the grabbing of land belonging to Nyandarua Institute. I was expecting it from last week. view
5 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, considering that the Minister is handling many Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who were displaced from Mau and during the post-election crisis, and considering that right now Egerton University has fenced the land in question, what will he do urgently? This is because listening to him it is as if he is helpless. What will he do to solve the problem rather than wait until he is handed more IDPs before he resettles the ones at hand? view
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White Gold: the Diary of a Rubber Cutter in the Amazon 1896-1906
by Jasmine Virdi | Nov 2, 2018 | Cultural Anthropology, Sustainability & Ecology
White Gold is the diary of an American named John C. Yungjohann, recounting his journey through the Brazilian Amazon and the toilsome ten years of his life spent working as a rubber cutter there. The book is of major relevance today due to the economic and ecological developmental paths that we have begun to take on a societal level.
Within his diary, Yungjohann writes in detail about the flora and fauna particular to the Amazon at that time as well as his encounters with the various groups tribal Indians in that region. In particular, Jungjohann became increasingly close with the Yanomami Indians of which he relates their customs and traditions.
The Amazon Under Threat
With the days of the rubber boom long gone, new trajectories of economic exploit now threaten the Amazon. Brazil's new president, the recently elected Jair Bolsonaro has vowed to develop Brazil's powerful agribusiness sector, aiming to open up and allocate more rainforest to the production of beef and soya in order to meet sustained international demands. Further, Bolsonaro stated that he wanted to dissolve the Environmental Ministry, planning to merge it with the Agriculture industry, instead favoring the interests of those who have stakes in converting forest into farmland.
The Amazonian rainforest is the world's largest rainforest, sometimes referred to as the 'lungs of the Earth' because it is thought that more than 20% of the world's oxygen is produced there. Moreover, the Amazon is one of the world's most biodiverse regions and is estimated to be home of 390 billion trees, among them 16,000 different species, let alone being the tribal home of 1 million indigenous Indians.
The Preservation of Knowledge
Due to economic exploit, the ways of life of indigenous groups are on the verge of being lost, alongside many species, plants, and trees, having implications for the planet as a whole. Thus, it is important in today's quickly changing world to make efforts to preserve and deepen our knowledge about such biologically, culturally and economically rich areas of our planet. More than preserving knowledge, we need to make collective efforts to preserve its very existence.
About the Editor, Sir Ghillean T. Prance
Sir Ghillean Prance FRS PPLS has conducted 39 expeditions to study the Amazon's flora. He is a former Director of Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London, author of 24 books, monographs and extensive papers on the taxonomy of tropical plants, ethnobotany, and conservation. He was involved with the development of the rainforest biomes at the Biosphere 2 project and at the Eden Project. Most recently, he worked as co-editor of the landmark academic volume, Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs: 50 Years of Research.
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Since the June 2015 update we can say that we haven't used flash or any other type of artificial lighting in any of the photographs on our website. Our reason for avoiding flash is quite simple: photographs made with natural light are more ... erm ... natural than those made with flash.
4. Wouldn't it be much easier to capture those dragonflies and then photograph them?
Yes, it certainly would be. But would you be happy with a 'wildlife photograph' made in a zoo? Or with a photograph of a 'ferocious' lion which has first been heavily sedated? We wouldn't, and so we only photograph animals that are free to come and go as they please, even if that means many can't be photographed. No net, no tricks - just the camera and lots of patience.
5. I'm the editor of a popular science magazine. Can we publish some of your photos?
Yes, of course you can. We'd be happy to discuss with you the terms and conditions of such publication, and to establish reasonable licensing fees.
6. How many of your photos have been published and where?
Bos, Wasscher & Reinboud (2007): Veldgids Libellen, 5th ed.
Verdú, J. R., Numa, C. & Galante, E. (eds.)(2011). Atlas y Libro Rojo de los Invertebrados amenazados de España (Especies Vulnerables).
and we're hopeful that many more publications will follow in 2019.
7. Are you sure your captions refer to the correct species?
Yes, we are reasonably sure. If we have any doubts about the correct determination of a species, we don't include any photographs of the animal(s) in question. We are also very fortunate to have enlisted the assistance of expert entomologists in determining the species.
8. How do you crop your photographs?
We'd like to say that we never crop any of our photographs but that wouldn't be entirely true - even though it does remain our objective to avoid cropping altogether. Having said that, the reality is a bit more complex and we need to distinguish between shaving and cropping. Because we put a one-inch border around our prints, and because we print on 18 x 12 inch paper, we have to shave some pixels off the height of our landscape-orientated photographs (or the width of our portrait-orientated photographs) in order to maintain/restore the original 3 x 2 (or 2 x 3) format. Other than such shaving, however, more than 99.5% of our photographs (as of July 2017) are indeed uncropped. In other words, they only contain native pixels rather than the 'invented', interpolated pixels that come with cropping. Those photographs that we have cropped are mainly of dragonflies in flight, where getting close enough to the subject to fill the frame sufficiently is virtually impossible to achieve with a manually focused macro lens, irrespective of its focal length. If you would like more information about the degree of cropping applied to a photograph before ordering a print of it, please let us know and we'll gladly send you the relevant data.
9. How often do you use autofocus?
In a word: never. As of September 2015 all of our photographs have been made using manual focus.
10. Why do you have 20 photos of so many species?
Because 20 is the maximum we've set ourselves for each European species. As of May 2016 we have reached our target number of 20 photos for each of the 133 species on our checklist. From here on in we will of course continue to replace existing photos with newer, better ones.
11. Why is there no forum on your website?
We don't host a forum for three main reasons. Firstly, maintaining and policing a forum would be an administrative task which would only distract time and attention from our main activity, dragonfly photography. Secondly, we reckon there are already enough forums as it is and ours would almost certainly add no value whatsoever. And thirdly, we don't particularly like a lot of the forums we've seen; a large number of them seem rather parasitic in nature in that their owners tend to generate very little content themselves, other than the occasional equipment field test in which they claim on rather spurious grounds that "camera X is vastly superior to camera Y", "lens A blows lens B out of the water", etc. And such a claim is then typically accompanied by a direct link to the owner's favourite retailer's website. So instead of generating quality content to attract visitors those forum owners seem more interested in generating internet traffic, presumably with a view to increasing their (click-through) advertising revenue. If that idea appeals to you, then you're in luck - you should have no problem whatsoever finding a forum or two somewhere near you. If the idea doesn't appeal to you and you'd rather see content than unsolicited advertising, then you too are in luck - you've come to the right place.
12. Can I include one or two of your photos in my PowerPoint presentation?
We receive this request quite often and to date we've never refused (although we do continue to reserve the right to refuse). We would insist, though, that you do ask our permission prior to the presentation and that you include the appropriate accreditations.


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On December 7, 1787 the Delaware State Legislature, by a unanimous vote of 30 to 0, became the first state to ratify the newly proposed national Constitution.
When a new State Constitution was adopted in 1792, the office of State Executive, which had previously been called President and chosen by the Legislature, was changed to Governor, and became an elected position. The term of office was kept at three years.
Delaware with only three counties (New Castle, Kent and Sussex) had the fewest in the nation. They also had the smallest State Legislature, comprised of nine State Senators and twenty-one Representatives.
Each county had three Senators, serving for three years. Their terms were staggered, so that one Senator was elected every year from each county. The House of Representatives had twenty one members, seven from each county, and who were elected annually at large.
Congressional, State and County Elections were held simultaneously in early October. Delaware elected one Congressman from 1788 – 1810, two for 1812 – 1820, and then one again from 1822 onward. State offices elected by popular vote were Governor, State Senator and Representatives. County officials elected by popular vote were Levy Court Commissioners, Coroners and Sheriff.
The voting alignment of the three counties, with New Castle voting Republican and Sussex and Kent being Federalist, meant that the State Legislature was almost always controlled by Federalists. As a result, from 1792 to 1820 Delaware chose Federalist Presidential Electors, even in 1820 when all four electors gave their Vice Presidential votes to Daniel Rodney, a Federalist and former Governor.
The Legislature also selected United States Senators, and with the exception of Caesar A. Rodney, who was elected in 1822, all those chosen during this time period were Federalists.
Party competition began with the state elections of 1792 and continued virtually unabated until 1826, when the last Federalist Governor was elected. Despite the dominance of Federalists in the Legislature, the parties were fairly balanced in popular voting strength, with Republicans electing their candidate for Governor in 1801, 1810, 1820 and 1822 and Congressmen in 1792, 1794, 1802 and capturing one of their two seats in 1816, 1818 and 1820.
Delaware counties were broken down into Hundreds, which seem to be the equivalent of townships. By 1811 state election returns started to be reported by Hundreds, a procedure which began showing the tight cohesion in voting amongst Federalist and Republican tickets.
The Hundreds also elected local officials such as Assessors, Inspectors and Road Commissioners. These elections were held in September, before the state voted in October, and on occasion, if they were favorable to either party, these returns were reported in the newspapers.
Delaware, the first state in the Union was the last to elect a Federalist Governor.
The State of Delaware: The official website for the First State
Clerk of the Market: The officer who has charge of the records, correspondence, and accounts of the Market.
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Q: searching a specific field in elasticsearch through Spring data elasticsearch I'm using Spring data Elasticsearch to parse data in ELasticseach. I have already there an indexed element (elastalert) witch contains the alert_sent property. So what i want to do is returning all alerts that were sent to the admin. I tried defining a method in the Repository List<Alert> findByAlert_sentTrue() but it seems that the underscore is a problem (as mentioned in the documentation http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/elasticsearch/docs/current/reference/html/#repositories.query-methods.query-property-expressions).
Here' the mapping of the indexed element:
{
  "elastalert_status" : {
    "mappings" : {
      "elastalert" : {
        "properties" : {
          "@timestamp" : {
            "type" : "date",
            "format" : "dateOptionalTime"
          },
          "aggregate_id" : {
            "type" : "string",
            "index" : "not_analyzed"
          },
          "alert_exception" : {
            "type" : "string"
          },
          "alert_info" : {
            "properties" : {
              "recipients" : {
                "type" : "string"
              },
              "type" : {
                "type" : "string"
              }
            }
          },
          "alert_sent" : {
            "type" : "boolean"
          },
          "alert_time" : {
            "type" : "date",
            "format" : "dateOptionalTime"
          },
          "match_body" : {
            "type" : "object",
            "enabled" : false
          },
          "rule_name" : {
            "type" : "string",
            "index" : "not_analyzed"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

I created an entity to use that indexed element:
   @Document(indexName = "elastalert_status", type = "elastalert")
    public class Rule {
        @Id
        private String id;
        private String name;
        private String es_host;
        private String es_port;
        private String index;
        private String type;
        private String query;
        private String TimeStamp;
        private String email;
        private int runEvery;
        private String alertsent;
        private String alertTime;
        private String matchBody;
    ...
Getters and Setters
...

With Curl it would be
curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/elastalert_status/elastalert/_search?pretty' -d '
{
  "query": { "match": { "alert_sent": true } }
}'

So how can I get all those sent alerts using Spring Data Elasticsearch ?
Thanks.

A: I found a solution for this, I started by creating a Repository which extends the ElasticsearchRepository and added my personnalized query
public interface RuleRepository extends ElasticsearchRepository<Rule,String> {

    @Query("{\"bool\": {\"must\": {\"match\": {\"alert_sent\": true}}}}")
    List<Rule> findSentAlert();
}

and to visualize those alerts just add this piece of code:
    List<Rule> rules = repository.findSentAlert();
    System.out.println("Rule list: " + rules);

I hope it could help someone :)


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One doctor's misfortune boosts TB treatment activism
It's Christmas; you're in a hospital isolation ward, sleep-deprived and depressed, bilious and sometimes swallowing your own vomit to keep the pills down, with a painful 3 cm hole in your lung and slowly going deaf – that's how it was for one unfortunate Somerset West doctor two years ago.
Now remove aspiring paediatrician Dr Dalene von Delft's medical aid, her cutting edge collegial advice, a steadfast and supportive doctor-husband and an ability to persuade a major drug company to allow compassionate use of an as-yet unproven drug for multi-drug resistant TB – and you have the distilled experience of most MDR TB and XDR TB-infected South Africans. Von Delft counts her blessings because she knows that her struggle pales in comparison with most of her compatriots'. Today she is alive and well, joining the privileged and/or lucky minority (estimates are 42%) of South Africans cured of MDR TB. The worst three months of her treatment left her a changed person, and an activist clinician with strong ideas on the value of basic TB prevention methods that educationalists, peers and health system designers could implement so easily, thus saving hundreds of lives as the local epidemic burgeons.
TB Facts
Tuberculosis is one of the major causes of disability and death worldwide.
Over 95% of TB deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, according to the World Health Organization. In 2014, 9.6 million people became ill with TB and 1.5 million people died from the disease.
TB is a leading cause of death for people infected with HIV.
In 2015, 1 in 3 HIV deaths was due to TB. Globally in 2014, an estimated 480, 000 people developed multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).
TASK is part of the global research community that is committed to finding new ways to better understand, diagnose, treat, and ultimately prevent TB.


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CNN reporter gets rare tour of what he says Israel calls 'terror tunnels'
(JTA) — A CNN reporter was given a tour of an Islamic Jihad tunnel in the Gaza Strip.
The reporter, Ian Lee, described the tunnel as "hot and humid, narrow and low hanging. It feels claustrophobic," in the report released on Sunday. He adds: "Israel has a different name for them: terror tunnels."
In the video, the masked terrorists are seen getting a pep talk from their leader, identified as Abu Abdallah, and praying from the Koran.
Lee noted that access to Islamic Jihad and its operational sites for journalists is "rare." He allows himself on camera to be blindfolded in order to be taken to the next site, a rocket launcher used to fire rockets into southern Israel.
Islamic Jihad last month fired more than 100 rockets and mortars, triggering a massive Israeli response. One of the rockets shot from Gaza hit an Israeli kindergarten an hour before the children were scheduled to arrive.
Abdallah told the reporter: "The world needs to know that the resistance never plans to target children," but that sometimes their aim is off.
"The world hears the conflict only through Netanyahu's voice. We try to make it hear us through the sound of these simple missiles, to say that we are here, we have land, we are human beings. We want to live in dignity," Abdallah also said.


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The LCBO has a theft problem that they REALLY don't want to talk about
At the Liquor Control Board of Ontario thieves stealing bottles of booze from LCBO stores is apparently nothing to get concerned about — the losses are incurred by Ontario taxpayers after all. Yet when it comes to the practice of journalism? That prompts LCBO management to call the police!
Incredible, but true: the LCBO is completely nonchalant when it comes to skyrocketing theft at its retail stores. But as we found out the other day when reporting the actual extent of the theft, the LCBO subscribes to a "shoot the messenger" mantra.
First off, employees and a security guard at the LCBOS's Queen's Quay store tried blocking our cameras. When that didn't work, they actually called the Toronto Police Service.
Apparently, the practice of journalism is a thought crime when it comes to Ontario's liquor monopolists. The cops never did show, however, they probably had real crimes to attend to — like gun violence.
The backstory goes back more than a year ago. That's when Rebel News and some other media outlets first began reporting on the theft problem at the LCBO, something that has noticeably increased in recent months.
But it wasn't just the theft that was the issue — it was the response to the theft by the LCBO. Namely its response of "look the other way and do virtually nothing."
Indeed, according to the LCBO's theft policy, workers shall not attempt to detain or arrest thieves. Instead they're supposed to alert police or security personnel. Fantastic! Surely that thief is going to politely wait around until law enforcement drops by to make an arrest.
Not surprisingly, according to LCBO whistleblowers, the LCBO's shop theft policy is a giant loophole that is routinely being exploited by criminals.
All retailers must deal with theft, but given that the LCBO is government-owned (a.k.a., taxpayer-owned), all Ontarians have a stake in this entity that is clearly being mismanaged when it comes to the "five-finger discount" problem.
How much thievery is actually occurring at the LCBO? Incredibly, the LCBO refused to comment, even though this is a government entity that is allegedly committed to transparency and "social responsibility."
So, we filed a Freedom of Information request for the nitty-gritty numbers. Amazingly the LCBO still denied the release of the theft numbers based on five reasons:
Advice to government
Economic and other interests of Ontario
Excluded employment and labour relations information.
So what do those five reasons actually mean in tangible terms? Frankly, we have no idea.
Take "advice to government." The LCBO, as a crown corporation, should actually be taking its advice from government (unless the tail wags the dog in Ontario these days).
As for "personal privacy"? We're not asking for the names of the thieves (as if criminals are entitled to privacy, anyway). We just wanted the sheer dollar amount of the thievery.
What about "law enforcement"? It would seem that the bureaucrats the liquor board are just making up nonsense to cover their collective butts.
But at Rebel News we don't bend the knee. So, we appealed the decision and we scored yet another victory when we won our case. And we now — finally — have that number!
In fiscal year 2018–2019, the LCBO saw more than $5.1 million of booze disappear. Worse, as we discovered in reporting this story, the LCBO is far more concerned about keeping this number secret than actually clamping down on the thievery!
And the thievery is a growing racket. Much of the booze being stolen form the shelves of LCBO stores is destined for the resale market. Translation: many of the thieves aren't impoverished alcoholics or destitute tramps, but illicit entrepreneurs.
What a fantastic business model: just imagine, receiving all of your stock for free... or more accurately, getting your stock paid for by the Ontario taxpayer. Gee, is this what Premier Doug Ford meant in 2018 when he pledged that under the PCs Ontario would be "open for business"?
Alas, we'll never know. Not only did the LCBO headquarters refuse to comment, but calls and emails to the office of Rod Phillips, Ontario's finance minister, were not returned.
It's enough to cause one to drink.
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By Tamara Ugolini
BREAKING: Julie Payette steps down as Governor General: Report shows toxic work environment
Are lockdowns the solution? Toronto reacts to Doug Ford's stay-at-home order
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Q: Convert interface to struct type SipField interface {
    Info() (id, name, defaultValue string, length int)
}

type Field string

func (f *Field) Get() string {
    return string(*f)
}

func (f *Field) Set(s string) {
    *f = Field(s)
}

type CommandID Field

func (cid *CommandID) Info() (id, name, defaultValue string, length int) {
    return "", "command ID", "", 2
}

type Language Field

func (l *Language) Info() (id, name, defaultValue string, length int)
{
    return "", "language", "019", 3
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func InitField(f interface{}, val string) error {
    sipField, ok := f.(SipField)
    if !ok {
        return errors.New("InitField: require a SipField")
    }
    _, _, defaultValue, length := sipField.Info()
    field, ok := f.(*Field)
    if !ok {
     return errors.New("InitField: require a *Field")
    }
    return nil
}

How should I do for converting interface{} to Field(CommandID, Language...) in InitField() function? I try to directly type assert by
field, ok := f.(*Field)

but it not working.I have tried to use unsafe.Pointer but failed also.

A: Have a look at Type assertions chapter in Go reference. It states:

x.(T)
More precisely, if T is not an interface type, x.(T) asserts that the dynamic type of x is identical to the type T.

Types CommandID and Field are not identical as described in Type identity.

A defined type is always different from any other type.

Both types CommandId and Fields are defined as described in Type definitions.

A type definition creates a new, distinct type with the same underlying type and operations as the given type, and binds an identifier to it.
TypeDef = identifier Type .

You can only do
field, ok := f.(*CommandID)

or
field, ok := f.(*Language)

As @mkopriva mentioned in the comment, you can do type conversion later to *Field but this it does not seem to be your goal.
Other solution is to introduce a Field interface with Set and Get methods. Then you will need to provide an implementation for every implementing type.


This beautiful, spacious home is sparkling clean and ready for new owners!
Entertain your family and friends in the open-plan living room with fireplace * The large island kitchen has a breakfast bar plus lots of counter space and cabinets * The walk-in pantry/utility room features Whirlpool washer and dryer * The private master suite is separate from the guest bedrooms * Relax in the master bath garden tub * There are dual vanities, a separate shower, and a big walk-in closet, too * The large bonus room upstairs could be a media or family room, with its storage closet * The flex room at the front could be a study/office or guest bedroom * Step out into the private covered patio for morning coffee! * The patio leads you onto the deck to enjoy the professionally landscaped yard * There are lots of blooming roses and shrubs, and mature trees all around the home.
The Estates of Deer Creek neighborhood is located in the Cibolo-Schertz school district. It is near plenty of shopping, dining, and services in Schertz or the Forum shopping center. It is just a couple of minutes from the IH-35 corridor leading to Fort Sam Houston and downtown, or Randolph AFB via FM 78, but the neighborhood is quiet and convenient for walking and cycling in the country.
The sellers have moved out of state, so the home is in turnkey condition. It is offered at a price well below the tax assessment value.


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Daniel Petersen may refer to:
 Daniel F. Petersen (born 1951), American politician from Iowa
 Daniel Frederik Petersen (1757–1816), Norwegian military officer
 Danny J. Petersen (1949–1970), posthumous recipient of the Army Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War
 Dan Petersen (born 1972), Danish footballer

See also
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Popular Minto Royalton end unit (wide lot) townhome steps to public transit, Chapman Mills Conservation hiking trail and easy access to Riverside South via Strandherd Armstrong Bridge. Family-oriented neighbourhood with minimal through traffic. Private side entrance opens into sun-filled living room. Open concept kitchen walking out to large deck in fenced-in backyard. Spacious master bed with sitting area, full ensuite bath (soaker tub) and walk-in closet. Finished lower level with laundry and storage area. Freshly painted throughout and newly landscaped!


Americans are far too obese. Sadly, even the healthy U.S. citizens spend way too much money and time at greasy food stands, stuffing their faces with desserts, and not taking good enough care of their meals. This can't happen anymore. People need to stop eating junk food because it's actually causing major health problems.
It?s time to change your diet and start eating healthier. Here are some of the best healthy foods you should check out to start living a healthy lifestyle.


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Moosehead Lake, Maine
Night photos from a long camping trip I took around Moosehead Lake, much of it with my friend Mike Taylor, from October 3-11, 2013.
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Milky Way over Spencer Bay
This is another Milky Way shot at Spencer Bay, Moosehead Lake, Maine on October 4, 2013, 12:48 AM. This is a composite of two photos: the sky was shot at ISO 3200 and a 30 second exposure, the ground at ISO 1600 and a 4 minute exposure, plus long exposure noise reduction. Both were shot with a Nikon D700 and 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm and f/2.8. A little bit of artistic star bling was added with StarSpikes Pro to make them pop.
Milky Way at Play
The Milky Way shines over a swing at Lily Bay State Park on Moosehead Lake, Maine on October 4, 2013, 11:33 PM at one of Mike Taylor's night photography workshops. Several other photographers are shooting along the beach. The bright star in the middle is Vega. I set the tripod low on the ground for this shot and combined two exposures in Photoshop: ISO 3200, 30 seconds, f/2.8 for the sky and ISO 1600, 4 minutes, f/2.8 for the ground. The orange glow is light pollution off in the distance, color shifted and saturated with Lightroom to look like sunset. Shot with a Nikon D700 camera, 14-24mm f/2.8 lens, Promote Control, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod, leveling base, & ballhead @ 14mm.
Panorama of the northern lights over Mt. Kineo from Kineo Island.
Northern lights seen from the base of Mt. Kineo on the North Bay of Moosehead Lake in Maine, October 8, 2013, 20:37
Rift Star Trails
I like coming up with new types of star trails that haven't been done before, it's challenging to think outside the box with so many creative people in this world! For about a year I've been tinkering with various ways of presenting a rift in time/space with star trails in a spherical panorama, influenced by many scifi movies and TV shows that I've enjoyed over the years. More recently, Interstellar got me thinking about it again and playing around with different projections of vortex star trails. Last week Sathya Narayanan of http://liketheocean.com/ made some of this a lot easier with his new Photoshop scripts that are quicker than manually doing this with custom macros and droplets. This is a compilation of several images shot on the night of October 8, 2013 from the North Bay of Moosehead Lake at the base of Mt. Kineo. The northern lights and sky are a single shot at 11:43 PM, the lake is a stack of 243 images from 10:22 PM to 12:41 AM for a brighter reflection, and the "rift star trails" are 125 frames from a single star field shot at 9:52 PM when the northern lights were dim. I layered and masked everything in Photoshop. The RAW files were edited with Lightroom. Camera settings: 14mm, f/2.8, ISO 2500, 32 seconds for each of the photos Equipment used: Nikon D700, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8, Promote Control, Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod, BH-40 ballhead, DewNot heat strip, and DewBuster controller.
Milky Way over Mount Kineo
Mount Kineo reflecting in North Bay on Moosehead Lake, Maine, October 9, 2013, 11:30 PM. The two bright stars overhead are Altair and Vega. The orange glow is light pollution. Two exposures were combined for this shot in Photoshop: ISO 2500, 40 seconds, f/2.8 for the sky and ISO 2500, 154 seconds, f/2.8 for the ground with light painting on the rock and beach. Shot with a Nikon D700 camera, 14-24mm f/2.8 lens, Promote Control, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod, leveling base, & ballhead @ 18mm.
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Freshwater Fishing in VA
Fishing on Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia
Bluegill Fishing in Appalachia, VA
Richard Corrigan, Leaf Group
Bluegill are among Virginia's most abundant game fish. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images News/Getty Images )
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Bluegill Fishing in Kentucky
Perhaps the most abundant and commonly caught of Virginia's many game fish, bluegill swim in countless lakes and ponds across the state. The town of Appalachia, nestled among the Appalachian Mountain ridges of western Virginia, is a destination for fishing, hiking, hunting, bird-watching and outdoor recreation of all kinds. Quiet mountain lakes dot the landscape around Appalachia, and you can catch bluegill in almost all of them.
Habits and Habitat
Bluegill are rounded, flattened sunfish with small mouths and large eyes, easily differentiated from similar species by their dark blue gill covers. Fish measuring 6 to 8 inches are common, but giants longer than 12 inches and heavier than 2 pounds have been pulled from Virginia's waters. Bluegill are hard-fighting for their size, and their meat is prized for its mild, slightly sweet flavor. They are well adapted to still waters and slow-moving rivers, where they typically inhabit shallow, weedy areas. Bluegill spawn during springtime in Virginia, and they create colonies of nests in shallow water. Because of its high elevation and relatively mild climate, bluegill often spawn a little later around Appalachia, perhaps not until early summer. This is the easiest time to catch them, but bluegill often bite readily at any time of year, with prime fishing conditions stretching from spring well into fall.
The 250-acre, man-made Big Cherry Reservoir is one of the closest lakes to Appalachia and harbors populations of bluegill, bass and several other species. The lake is accessible only with four-wheel drive, however, and a Big Cherry Use Permit -- available at the Big Stone Gap Town Hall -- is required to fish the lake. Lake Keokee is another nearby lake with excellent bluegill fishing. Spanning 92 acres, this reservoir also offers fishing for the closely-related redear sunfish, along with largemouth bass and channel catfish. The lake is surrounded by national forest land and is most easily fished by canoe or kayak. Small boats can be hand-launched from the shore, and a small pier also provides a place to fish. Other bluegill lakes in the region include Bark Camp Lake, Wise Reservoir and Upper and Lower Norton Reservoir.
Bluegill are not difficult to catch, and fishermen usually need nothing more than a night crawler on a hook to catch them. You can suspend your bait a few feet under a bobber, or use a light split-shot sinker to fish near bottom. In the weedy areas that bluegill prefer, a bobber helps to keep your bait free from snags. Cast as close as you can to weed beds, brush piles, submerged timber and other weedy or woody cover. Small jigs can also tempt bluegill to bite, and fly-fishing can also be effective. Bluegill often share habitat with largemouth bass and other sunfish species, so catching a mixed bag of fish is not uncommon.
Statewide angling regulations apply to most waters in the Appalachia area. The daily limit -- either singly or in combination with other sunfish species -- is 50 fish. You can fish for bluegill at any time of year, and there are no size restrictions in place at the time of publication. A complete guide to Virginia's fishing regulations, as well as online license sales, is available through the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries website. A current Virginia fishing license is required, and you can also purchase one in person at most bait shops and sporting goods stores across the state.
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries: Lake Keokee
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries: Bluegill
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries: Freshwater Fishing Regulations
Virginia is for Lovers: Virginia Climate
Town of Big Stone Gap: Parks
Richard Corrigan has been a full-time professional writer since 2010. His areas of expertise include travel, sports and recreation, gardening, landscaping and the outdoors. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from SUNY Geneseo in 2009.
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Most of us wake up to an alarm clock, have an alarm on the microwave, set off our smoke detector every time we toast some bread, an iPhone that chimes to let us know we have a meeting and a neighbour whose car alarm wakes the neigbourhood most nights at three in the morning.
So many gadgets warning us of .... well nearly everything, results in a desentitisation to the urgency of alarms. I'm not telling you anything you dont know. Look around you next time the fire alarm at your local shopping centre activates. Do you see people fleeing for the nearest exit? Generally not.
Alarms are ambiguous. They let us know something somewhere is wrong. Unless we can ascertain what and where and whether it's even our problem to investigate, or a problem that is going to affect us, we are socially conditioned not to 'over-react'. In fact we are socially conditioned to take our behavioural cues from those around us.
Back to the shopping centre scenario I mentioned previously, those patrons strolling the mall or those actively shopping will take their cue after an alarm activation from those around them. If no one changes their behaviour then no apparent danger is perceived and little if any action results from the sounding of an alarm. If however, the alarm is combined with a physical indicator such as smoke, an explosion, or perhaps the smell of leaking gas then the ambiguity is removed and people will generally react. As people react then the surrounding people are given permission (so to speak) to react as well. It's now perceived as OK to look or behave in a concerned way or even take action and evacuate because your behaviour is not out of place when compared to those around you.
So, what is the solution to eliciting action out of people who are not so close to the cause of an alarm to be immediately affected by the somatic cue of the emergency?
Voice commands in conjunction to the alarm. The power of a 'call to action' or a direct instruction from an authority figure will generally create the previously mentioned 'permission' to change your behaviour. This understanding is pivotal when appointing staff as Wardens for any facility. Quiet retiring Wardens who are too timid to speak aloud and issue instructions to occupants within a facility during times of need are of little or no value to an effective emergency management system.


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China's top talent prefers domestic firms to big multinationals
Human resources, Weekly
While in the 1990's Chinese students graduating abroad preferred to get a job with large foreign multinationals, their sons and daughters now prefer to work for domestic Chinese tech companies such as Xiaomi. They are convinced that Chinese startups can offer them the same opportunities today as foreign multinationals in the 1990s. The career choices of two different generations of foreign-educated Chinese students reflect a wider trend. Once upon a time, foreign multinationals could cherry-pick top Chinese talent from universities with the promise of large salaries, generous benefits and the chance to work at market-leading companies. Today, China's cutting-edge technology companies – often referred to as China Tech Corporation (CTC) – are the most sought-after employers among many Chinese students.
This marks another blow for multinational corporations (MNCs) already struggling to do business in China amid restrictions and growing hostility towards them as the U.S.-China trade and tech war gathers pace. New graduates are looking less to get a high salary, but care more about personal improvement and access to the best resources a company can offer to develop new products. Moreover many Chinese today perceive a "bamboo ceiling" in the U.S., where they are more often seen as engineers rather than executives. One Chinese executive who now oversees the technology unit of a listed finance and insurance firm in China said that he used to lead a team of 20 engineers at one of the world's most valuable tech companies in Silicon Valley. "My job was to keep optimizing the performance of a product. But within three years in China, I was promoted to be Chief Scientist of our entire company, leading a team of 1,000," he said.
LinkedIn compiled a list of the top 25 most desired employers in China, and about 60% were local Chinese companies, with 13 of them internet firms. Alibaba, Baidu and Bytedance topped the list. Tesla ranked sixth behind its Chinese challenger Nio. Amazon, the only other foreign company on the list, ranked eighth. Li Qiang, Executive Vice President of Zhaopin, one of China's largest online recruiters, described the rising status of CTC among jobseekers as "the dawning of a new era". "Nowadays, there is nothing a multinational can offer that a domestic firm cannot, be it a compensation package or the chance to be part of international expansion," he said. "Jobseekers are not particularly looking for domestic firms or multinational firms. They are after good firms and most of the good firms in China these days happen to be domestic tech firms," he added, as reported by the South China Morning Post.
A survey by Zhaopin in late 2018 found that 28% of Chinese university students said MNCs were their employer of choice, down from 33.6% in 2017. A recent survey by Universum shows that Apple and Siemens were the only two Western names in the top 10 ideal employers for Chinese students in the engineering sector this year, while there were four foreign firms in the top 10 list in 2017. Huawei Technologies ranked top in the Universum list. Xiaomi ranked second, while Apple ranked seventh. It seems that China's rising clout in the world is now an attractive factor for jobseekers.
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Here's the entire list of winners at MTV Movie & TV Awards
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Washington D.C. [USA], June 18 (ANI): The much-awaited MTV Movie and TV awards hosted by Zachary Levi turned out to be special for actor Dwayne Johnson as he was presented with the Generation Award.


State Troopers in Caldwell County made two arrests Friday.
At about 7:25 am, 30-year-old Donovan Benson of Kansas City was arrested for alleged speeding and on three Lee's Summit traffic warrants. He was held at the Caldwell County Detention Center.
At about 6:20 pm, Troopers arrested 41-year-old Jamie Elliot of Marceline for alleged possession of a controlled substance and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia. She was taken to the Caldwell County Detention Center.


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George B. Field (Providence, ) é um astrofísico estadunidense.

Honrarias
1978: Medalha Karl Schwarzschild

Ligações externas
George B. Field Homepage, Harvard.edu

Membros da Academia Nacional de Ciências dos Estados Unidos
Alunos do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts
Naturais de Providence
Medalha Karl Schwarzschild


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Q: How to solve BeamDeprecationWarning in Apache-Beam First,
Code for storing data in google cloud platform bigQuery tables after generating simple data.
Imported Apache-Beam library and used it.
Runner used Google Cloud Platform Dataflow.
Here code.
from apache_beam.options.pipeline_options import PipelineOptions
import apache_beam as beam

pipeline_options = PipelineOptions(
     project='project-id',
     runner='runner',
     temp_location='bucket-location'
)
def pardo_dofn_methods(test=None):
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 class testFunction(beam.DoFn):
    def process(self, element):
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        testing = {'test_column': result[0], 'test_column2': result[1], 'test_column3': result[2],
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        return [testing]

    def finish(self):
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with beam.Pipeline(options=pipeline_options) as pipeline:
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          'test1,test2,test3,test4'
          'test5,test6,test7,test8'
       ])
      | beam.ParDo(testFunction())
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            schema='test_column:STRING, test_column2:STRING, test_column3:STRING, test_column4:STRING',
            create_disposition=beam.io.BigQueryDisposition.CREATE_IF_NEEDED,
            write_disposition=beam.io.BigQueryDisposition.WRITE_TRUNCATE
      )
  )

pardo_dofn_methods()
It works well when run it.
However, there are two warnings:
BeamDeprecationWarning: options is deprecated since First stable release. References to <pipeline>.options will not be supported
 experiments = p.options.view_as(DebugOptions).experiments or []

BeamDeprecationWarning: BigQuerySink is deprecated since 2.11.0. Use WriteToBigQuery instead.
kms_key=self.kms_key))

I don't know why there is a warning.
Thank you.

A: The deprecation warning "BigQuerySink is deprecated since 2.11.0. Use WriteToBigQuery instead." is no longer displayed when I tested WriteToBigQuery() using apache-beam==2.31.0 and runners DataflowRunner and DirectRunner. Thus this should not be displayed when using version 2.31.0 onwards.
The deprecation warning "options is deprecated since First stable release. References to .options will not be supported" is still shown as long as options is defined (see github reference) to provide warning on users.


Periodontal disease is the leading cause of bone loss in the oral cavity, though there are others such as ill-fitting dentures and facial trauma. The bone grafting procedure is an excellent way to replace lost bone tissue and encourage natural bone growth. Bone grafting is a versatile and predictable procedure which fulfills a wide variety of functions.


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The Black Range
The Natural History of the Black Range
The Black Range Naturalist
The Human History of the Black Range
Mimbres Messenger
Echinocereus fendleri (Set 1)
Fendler's Hedgehog Cactus - Echinocereus fendleri
Ready Pay Gulch - East of Hillsboro, New Mexico, USA
On March 7, 2015 we found Fendler's Hedgehog Cactus (photos here) on the ridge in Ready Pay Gulch. Echinocereus fendleri tends to grow at higher elevations than species like the Fishhook.
Cactus species can be variable in appearance, and for me, typing them to species can be difficult. For instance, the E. fendleri, pictured below appears to be more elongated than the one above. Some authorities recognize as many as eight varieties of this species. The specimen in the photograph below was taken on the road to the Snake Mine, east of Hillsboro, on July 14 of last year.
Cactus have adapted to the harsh environment found in the deserts of the America's by developing a number of interesting features. We all know, for instance, that the surface of a cactus is waxy and hard. But not until recently did I discover that it is thicker on the "sunny side" of the plant, increasing its protective value. And the spines, we all know they are to be avoided but in some species they are thick enough to provide shading to the surface of the cactus.
The most interesting feature of cacti, for me, is that they open their stoma at night so that oxygen and carbon dioxide can be exchanged. Carbon dioxide is required for photosynthesis and oxygen is a by-product of the process. The exchange of raw material occurs at night when there is less loss of water from the open stoma. During the day, when photosy nthesis occurs, the stoma are closed.
The range map from BONAP, right, shows that this species is native to our area. In Mexico it is found in Chihuahua and Sonora. This species was first described by Engelmann in 1849 as Cereus fendleri. In 1860, Sencke redescribed it as Echinocereus fendleri. There are two recognized subspecies, the nominate form and E. f. rectispinus (which has been described as E. rectispinus and E. hempelii, in the past). It is also known as Pinkflower Hedgehog Cactus.
This species is listed in CITES Appendix II, its "trade (is) controlled to avoid use incompatible with species survival".
The type specimen (shown below) for this species was collected by Fendler on June 9, 1847 (or 1846?), in New Mexico.
Snake Mine Road - East of Hillsboro, New Mexico, USA
Immediately above and below - July 14, 2014
Hillsboro, NM May 2016
Immediately above and all below.
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Ibrahim, a journalist by profession, serves as an assistant to Marwan Elias Badl, one of the senior field commanders of the Sinjar Protection Forces, the Yazidi militia established ad hoc in August 2014 to halt the Islamic State (IS) onslaught against Yazidi population centers west of Mosul. The militia numbers some 12,000 fighters, most of them untrained, ordinary men who rushed to take up arms to thwart IS' designs. A few of them are rank-and-file fighters, while some are officers with the Kurdish peshmerga. According to internal estimates, the IS militants killed thousands in their pogrom against the Yazidis. About 5,000 Yazidis are still being held by IS.
Contact with Israel is a dirty business in this neighborhood, military contact all the more so. Be that as it may, in a reality where all levees have been breached and the worst appears to have already befallen the Yazidis, what could they possibly lose by seeking a rapport with Jerusalem?
The conversation with Ibrahim was not the only call with Sinjar. Majdal Rasho, a native of Sinjar, had settled in Germany and built his life there. He married and had a family, making a living as a manufacturing supervisor at a chocolate plant. In his spare time, he served as a photographer for TV stations broadcasting in the Kurdish language. He returned to Sinjar as a fighter, but also in his capacity as a video photographer for German TV networks.
Yazidism is a religion with no more than a million followers. Its adherents are centered around Mosul and the Sinjar mountain range, in northern Iraq. Their largest diaspora in the West is in Germany, estimated to number some 100,000.
Dinnay left Germany for Sinjar at the outbreak of the pogrom, leading a delegation of human rights activists. During one of the aid flights arranged by the Iraqi air force, a helicopter carrying food supplies and medication to the besieged Yazidis crashed. Some of the passengers aboard, among them Dinnay, were injured.
The communication between the Yazidis and the Israeli media has been coordinated by Idan Barir, 34, a researcher at the Tel Aviv University Yavetz School of Historical Studies. In the months since IS' offensive against Yazidi population centers, Barir has become Israel's top expert on the Yazidis, thanks to his extensive connections with members of the Yazidi community.
So far, Israel has not officially responded to such calls, which have yet to be fully formulated and have only recently began over the last few days. In fact, no formal request has come from the Yazidis for asylum as refugees. Barir is currently trying to find a way to reach decision-makers in Israel to pass on the messages from his faraway friends. Without a doubt, it is an unusual overture of friendship for the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and it will be interesting to see if and how Israel takes up the gauntlet. Given the sensitivity of the matter, it is quite uncertain whether anyone will hear about it.
Hauser is the first senior figure in Israel who agreed to comment on the Yazidis' call for help. As a private person, he refrained from reference to the Yazidis' request for military aid, taking care to say nothing that might be interpreted as a promise. He believes, however, that Israel should favorably consider the Yazidis' calls.
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Galactic Suite Design é uma empresa de design aeroespacial com base em Barcelona, Espanha. A empresa desenvolve conceitos, design e interiores de habitats e de veículos. O projeto que primeiro levou a empresa aos olhos do público foi o Galactic Suite Space Resort, que tem a intenção de desenvolver uma pequeno estação espacial privada na órbita terrestre baixa, o segmento orbital para uma experiência de turismo espacial, que também incluirá treinamento intensivo em uma ilha tropical.

A Galactic Suite Design também é a empresa líder do consórcio de empresas que está pondo em prática o Barcelona Moon Team, um concorrente que participa do Google Lunar X Prize, com o lançamento com destina à Lua agendado para ocorrer em 2015.

Ligações externas
 Galactic Suite Design official site
 Galactic Suite Space Resort official site
 Google Lunar X-Prize official site

Empresas
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Register while you can for La Jolla Cove Swim: Discount rate runs to Aug. 18 for the Sept. 8 event
The La Jolla Cove Swim will feature five age-based competition heats, with ingress and egress at The Cove.
(Photo by John Gibbins / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Sunday, Aug. 18 registration deadline for discounted entry fees is quickly approaching for the La Jolla Cove Swim, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 8 (check-in is at 7:30 a.m.). Those who register by the 18th will get a free T-shirt and can take advantage of the $65 fee. After Aug. 18, fees go up $20; and same-day registration is $100.
The event will feature five swimming heats, based on age, with ingress and egress at The Cove. The swim consists of three legs with two left turns around two buoys.
All swimmers who complete the race will receive a medal, and trophies will be awarded to the top female and male regulation (non-wetsuit) swimmers. Each age group will have one female and male regulation swimmer winning a medal for their age group. There will be age brackets of five years beginning with 18 and under, 19-24, 25-29, 30-34, etc. The top age group will be for those over 60.
Swimmers, ages of 13-17, will need to sign a waiver the day of the event (or e-mail race coordinator judyahalter15@gmail.com for a waiver to sign and bring to registration). Parental approval is required for swimmers younger than 18. The recommended minimum age for this swim is 16.
Prior competitive open water swimming is required for all participants.
But, to make it a "true community event," said organizer Judy Adams Halter, there will also be activities in Scripps Park for the general public. "There will be a historical exhibition showing some of the highlights from local swims of the last 100 years," she told La Jolla Light. "101-year-old La Jolla resident Marianne Burkenroad will be honored for winning the La Jolla Rough Water Swim in her age bracket in 1974. We have some past winners participating, as well as swimmers coming in from as far away as Alaska, and up and down the East Coast."
Awards for the public will include "oldest participant" and "furthest traveled," and City Council member Barbara Bry will be on hand to give out the top distinctions.
"Our merchants have donated terrific silent auction prizes that will allow all community members to participate in supporting our beloved La Jolla Cove Scripps Park," Halter added.
Proceeds to fund park concerts in 2020
Seventy-five percent of proceeds from the one-mile swim will underwrite the launch of Friends of La Jolla Cove/Scripps Park and its planned projects. These include bringing back the La Jolla Concerts by the Sea in summer 2020 (the former Concerts by the Sea was canceled in 2016 due to lack of sustainable funding) and, maybe, the Fourth of July fireworks show at The Cove.
The other 25 percent will go to the Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego, City of San Diego Life Guards, Windansea Surf Club, and La Jolla Cove Swim Club for youth swimming lessons in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
And based on the number of registrants already signed up, Friends of La Jolla Cove/Scripps Park can sponsor to four or five concerts — the first of which has already been booked.
"Andrew Johnson and his band, Full Strength Funk, has committed to play for free in our summer concert series on July 12, 2020," Halter said. "Full Strength Funk plays at Humphreys, the Fairmont Grand Del Mar and other well-known venues. This is another great example of how the community is rallying around bringing back a treasured tradition to create more cultural events for our community. It takes a village and we are blessed with many civic- minded citizens who are creating opportunities to engage."
Johnson, a longtime La Jolla resident, told the Light: "Full Strength Funk plays many of the community summer concerts (this year we played Allied Gardens, Tierrasanta, Civita Park and Point Loma), and I've never understood how a town with the resources, spirit and natural beauty of La Jolla wasn't able to support our own concert series."
— To learn more or register for the swim, visit thelajollacoveswim.org
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Alastor, czyli duch samotności (Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude) – poemat angielskiego romantycznego poety Percy'ego Bysshe Shelleya, napisany w 1815 i opublikowany w 1816.

Treść
Utwór opowiada o wędrówce, w jaką wyrusza młody poeta, miłośnik natury i wszystkiego, co jest dobre i piękne, a zostało wymyślone i zrobione przez ludzi. Młodzieniec udaje się w drogę w poszukiwaniu prawdy i zamierza odkryć tajemnice wszystkich rzeczy i dotrzeć do źródeł czasu. Poemat jest opatrzony łacińskim mottem ze św. Augustyna: Nondum amabam, et amare amabam, quaerebam quid amarem, amans amare (Jeszcze nie kochałem, lecz chciałem kochać, szukałem tego, co mógłbym kochać, chcąc kochać). Poemat Shelleya jest między innymi polemiką z poglądami Williama Wordswortha. Być może to Wordsworth był pierwowzorem bohatera poematu.

Forma
Utwór został napisany nierymowanym pięciostopowcem jambicznym, znanym jako blank verse i powszechnie stosowanym w literaturze angielskiej od XVI wieku. Przed Shelleyem tej formy używali między innymi Henry Howard, hrabia Surrey, Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, William Szekspir, John Milton i William Wordsworth.

W wielu miejscach, łącznie z tytułem, poeta stosuje aliterację, czyli współbrzmienie początkowe: At night the passion came,/Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream; His strong heart sunk and sickened with excess/Of love.; his scattered hair/Sered by the autumn of strange suffering/Sung dirges in the wind. Aliteracja tradycyjnie jest używana przez poetów angielskich do przeciwdziałania monotonii wiersza białego. Alastor jest aliterowany w większym stopniu niż późniejsze utwory poety.

Przekład
Poemat przełożył na język polski Jan Kasprowicz. Przekład został włączony do antologii Poeci angielscy. Wybór poezyi, wydanej we Lwowie w 1907. Przekład jest napisany jedenastozgłoskowcem.

Kasprowicz przetłumaczył także wiele innych dzieł poety, między innymi poematy Adonais i Epipsychidion, jak też cykl sonetów Oda do wiatru zachodniego.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne

Utwory poetyckie Percy'ego Bysshe Shelleya
Angielskie utwory poetyckie
Utwory literackie z 1816
Utwory literackie napisane wierszem białym
Utwory przełożone przez Jana Kasprowicza


We make wreaths and garland with our own Fraser fir brush, and Donna makes bows in a wide variety of colors. With some advance notice we can craft wreaths to your individual wishes - call or email. We always have a good supply of 12-inch and 16-inch wreaths, the most popular sizes. We can make 24" (shown in the photo), 36", and 48" for a bold holiday look on your barn or business. We ship 12" wreaths (22" outside diameter) by Fedex ground anywhere in the lower 48.
Paxton Greens is a family-run Christmas tree farm in Cuttingsville (Shrewsbury), Vermont. We welcome visitors and families to select and cut their own Christmas tree, or select the tree and we will cut it for you. For those who shy away from the do-it-yourself experience, we always have some pre-cut trees available.
Our trees are primarily Fraser and Balsam fir, but we also have some gorgeous white pine. Our Christmas shop always has a good selection of freshly-made wreaths, top quality tree stands, a warm wood stove, and hot mulled cider.
We supply hand saws (NO chain saws, please), tractor and trailer, sleds, and free netting of your tree.
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Doofor will participate to Bauma Munchen 2019, the World's Leading Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material and Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Equipment. The fair will be in Munich, at 8. – 14.4.2019. The main topic of the event will be, that how sustainable, effecient and digital path of raw materials will be delivered in the future. Come and feel a heartbeat of the industry.
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County of Minburn: Conserving Ukrainian Canadian Historic Places
February 7, 2013 May 7, 2014 Michael
The County of Minburn recently listed one of its newly designated Municipal Historic Resources on the Alberta Register of Historic Places. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Dormition of St. Mary of Sich-Kolomea (otherwise known as Sich-Kolomea Ukrainian Orthodox Church) is one of the many historic resources that tell us about Ukrainian Canadian settlers.
The Sich-Kolomea church is valued by the county because of what it conveys about the Ukrainian Canadians setters who built it. The church served the pioneer farmers of the area, and was the first church in what was to become the Vegreville mission district. It is also a beautiful example of the Canadian interpretation of the Byzantine style of church architecture seen in many eastern rite churches built on the Canadian prairies.
There are many municipal and provincial historic resources that tell us about the Ukrainian Canadian settlers in east-central Alberta. You can use the advanced search features of the Alberta Register of Historic Places to learn more about the places that form their legacy.
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