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Volume 24, Number 1 Issue 91, Summer (2003)
Mythlore is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published by the Mythopoeic Society that focuses on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and the genres of myth and fantasy. The full text of Mythlore from 2002 onward is available in several electronic databases from Gale, Ebsco, and ProQuest. Mythlore is also indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, the Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA), and other sources.
See the Aims and Scope for the statement of editorial purpose of the journal.
The Anatomy of a Friendship: The Correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962
Don W. King
Wizards and Wainscots: Generic Structures and Genre Themes in the Harry Potter Series
Kerrie Anne Le Lievre
"The whole art and joy of words": Aslan's Speech in the Chronicles of Narnia
Joy Alexander
Brothers of Perpetual Responsibility: Monasticism, Memory, and Penance in Cassutt, Donaldson, and Straczynski
Kim Coleman Healy
A Darker Ignorance: C. S. Lewis and the Nature of the Fall
Mary R. Bowman
David Lavery and Scott McLaren
Theodore J. Sherman, Middle Tennessee State University
Verlyn Flieger, University of Maryland, College Park
Charles Huttar, Hope College
Barbara Reynolds, Cambridge University
Peter J. Schakel, Hope College
Richard C. West, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Donna R. White, Arkansas Tech University

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Figures needed to determine total building energy consumption:
Performance Year Baseline Year
Grid-purchased electricity 745.61 MMBtu 853.76 MMBtu
Electricity from on-site renewables 0 MMBtu 0 MMBtu
District steam/hot water (sourced from offsite) 0 MMBtu 0 MMBtu
Energy from all other sources (e.g., natural gas, fuel oil, propane/LPG, district chilled water, coal/coke, biomass) 0 MMBtu 0 MMBtu
Total 745.61 MMBtu 853.76 MMBtu
Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or 3-year periods):
Performance Year Jan. 1, 2017 Dec. 31, 2017
Baseline Year Jan. 1, 2013 Dec. 31, 2013
A brief description of when and why the building energy consumption baseline was adopted (e.g. in sustainability plans and policies or in the context of other reporting obligations):
Gross floor area of building space:
Gross floor area of building space 7680 Gross Square Metres 7680 Gross Square Metres
Source-site ratio for grid-purchased electricity:
Total building energy consumption per unit of floor area:
Site energy 0.10 MMBtu / GSM 0.11 MMBtu / GSM
Source energy 0.24 MMBtu / GSM 0.28 MMBtu / GSM
Percentage reduction in total building energy consumption (source energy) per unit of floor area from baseline:
Degree days, performance year (base 65 °F / 18 °C):
Degree days (see help icon above)
Heating degree days 1000 Degree-Days (°C)
Cooling degree days 650.50 Degree-Days (°C)
Floor area of energy intensive space, performance year:
Laboratory space 0 Square Metres
Healthcare space 0 Square Metres
Other energy intensive space
EUI-adjusted floor area, performance year:
7680 Gross Square Metres
Building energy consumption (site energy) per unit of EUI-adjusted floor area per degree day, performance year:
18.15 Btu / GSM / Degree-Day (°C)
Documentation (e.g. spreadsheet or utility records) to support the performance year energy consumption figures reported above:
UAb_Edificios_Sustentabilidade_Ano2017_V01.pdf
A brief description of the institution's initiatives to shift individual attitudes and practices in regard to energy efficiency (e.g. outreach and education efforts):
The Open University conducted a workshop about good environmental work practices to all, staff and professors, in the context of the program "Programa Fixe" where some topics were focused on the energy efficiency.
A brief description of energy use standards and controls employed by the institution (e.g. building temperature standards, occupancy and vacancy sensors):
A brief description of Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting and other energy-efficient lighting strategies employed by the institution:
The Open University has undertaken the replacement of all lamps in the total area of the campus by LED lighting in 2007.
A brief description of passive solar heating, geothermal systems, and related strategies employed by the institution:
A brief description of co-generation employed by the institution, e.g. combined heat and power (CHP):
A brief description of the institution's initiatives to replace energy-consuming appliances, equipment and systems with high efficiency alternatives (e.g. building re-commissioning or retrofit programs):
The Open University has undertaken the replacement of all printers by high efficient multifunctions printers and moving to a refill toners policie instead of buying new.
Data source(s) and notes about the submission
The data for the heating and cooling days was acess with the http://www.degreedays.net/
and in this tool the only station acessible was Lisbon and Oporto.


The Ibec KeepWell Summit is powered by Zevo Health. A delegation of health specialists will be available on the day to answer your questions about workplace wellness. Zevo Health has developed a unique way of implementing workplace wellness by using data driven research methods. "We believe every workplace is unique and a workplace wellness programme should fit the workplace", Richard Murpy, CEO of Zevo Health.


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Q: Arduino and External Peripherals I am a CS guy getting started with Arduino. This is probably  a very basic electronics question but from going over the arduino tutorials everything is connected to the arduino with a resistor.
Well since i am following the tutorials i know what type of resistor i should use but what i do not know is why i should use one? and What type of resistor to pick i am to do something which is not covered in a tutorial.

A: The resistor simply serves to limit the current into or out of a pin in case something goes awry.  If your AVR decides to output high on a pin that something else wants low (or vice-versa), large, damaging currents can occur if not limited by some resistance.  The current limit for AVRs is about 20 milliamps, and given that the voltages are usually 5V, something larger than 250 ohms "would work".
To give a margin of safety, 1-10k is a great choice; for digital signals it seldom matters unless you're into very high-speed applications (beyond the AVRs capability anyways).  For analog inputs, a similar resistor would also be advisable, as the amount of current the ADC takes to sample is negligible when your resistor is in the few kilo-ohm range.

A: The underlying principle that you want to learn is Ohm's Law, which describes the relationship between voltage, resistance, and current in a circuit.

A: Resistors are used to

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*limit current,

*devide voltage

*protect against over voltage

*pull-up, pull down

*current to voltage conversion

*etc ...

1) limit output current, the absolute max current per IO is 40mA, a typical LED works on ±2V 20mA.
the resistance value can by calculated by (5V - 2V)/(0.02A)=150Ω usually a 220Ω resistor is used, because: it consumes less power, there doesn't flow 20 milliamps, and there is no notable difference in emitted light.

2) if you have a analog voltage that variates between 0 and 10 Volts, you 'll need a voltage divider of 1/2. pick by example z2 10k and calculate z1 by 10k*(Vin,max/5V -1). take a value of resistance higher than the original calculated. and recalculate the new Vout.

3) place a resistor of 10k in series between the analog input of the arduino and the 'to measure voltage'

3) if you have to measure a analog current, you place a resistor to ground and the analog input, calculate the resistor by Z=5V/amps.

4) if you connect a button to the arduino, you 'll need to place a pull up or a pull down resistor. if you 're not using a resistor, the input is floating and can take any value (high or low). or you can enable the internal weak pull up. by pinMode(xx,INPUT); digitalWrite(xx,HIGH);. and disabeling by digitalWrite(xx,LOW); by default the pull-up is disabled.

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Shaw House and Farm were built on a chalk promontory in the North Wessex Downs in 1810. The arrangement of the family house and outbuildings around a central courtyard is typical of the Model Farms of the 19th Century. In 2017 Connolly Wellingham were appointed to develop concepts for the refurbishment of the former Calf Shed and conversion to residential accommodation. The works will sensitively repair the barns and upgrade the fabric to create a low energy dwelling that conforms to the historic pattern of the farm's agricultural evolution, and its setting within the wider working courtyard.
The conversion will carefully remove layers of lesser quality 20th Century alterations and conserve the original masonry walls and timber roof structure. New timber clad elevations are recessed to revive the memory of the formerly open shelter, reinstating the original dual aspect relationship with both the central courtyard to the south, and the views across the agricultural landscape to the north. Internally the domestic accommodation is a balance of volume and enclosure, developing from the layout of stalls around which the original plan functioned.
Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent was granted in Spring 2018.


This album was released by "Universal Music," one of the world leaders in show business.
Unforgettable Eugene's voice sounds in this album. This CD was released six months after the release of the first solo album "Eugenia" in South Korea.
This album is a compilation of works of popular artists, well-known to public worldwide. Among them – Donna Summer, Sissel, instrumental music by Ernesto Cortazar and Kaoru Nakasome. Eugene is represented in this album by one of her most expressive works – "Bolero" by Leo Delibes. The bonus track is a video of her concert performance of this aria.
Eugenia Laguna's portrait photo was used for the cover of this album.


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The Walnut Street Theater located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the nation's oldest theatre and the state theatre of Pennsylvania. Located in the heart of Philadelphia, the Walnut has stood as the original Philadelphia theatre venue as multiple other theatre companies and tour venues have opened over the past decades. While the Walnut Street Theatre is still the middle of their 2012-2013 season, the company has proudly announce their 2013-2014 season which we are happy to bring you today!
The Walnut Street Theatre was built and opened in 1809. It is the oldest operating theatre in the English speaking world and oldest theatre in America. The first production held in the theatre was The Rivals in 1812. From 1941 to 1969, the theatre was owned by The Shubert Organization and held many pre Broadway runs for shows that would soon be very well known as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Diary of Anne Frank, A Man For All Seasons and A Raisin in the Sun just to name a few. The Walnut Street Theatre Company took over in 1983 to serve as a regional not for profit producing company and has been in place their ever since. The 2013-2014 season for Walnut Street marks the theater's 205th season and 31st as a not for profit.
A truly exciting year of theatre following on the heels of the current one for this theatre! This season, referred to as a "Season of Dreams", is truly fantastic. Walnut has some solid Broadway blockbuster as well as a mixed diverse set of productions that may expand their fan base in the Philly region.
Currently, the Walnut Street Theatre is running The Music Man through January 6th, 2013! The rest of the season includes Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband running January 15th until March 3rd, Good People running March 12th until April 28th and ending their season with Grease running May 14th until July 14th. The building is located at 825 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106.
Don't miss your chance to join in on the 2012-2013 Walnut Street Theatre Season! If you are in Philadelphia and want to catch some of the best theatre in the region, check out any of the productions running at The Walnut Street Theatre! This venue will not only provide you with a theatrical experience you enjoy but one in which you will want to come back for more! For more information, check out Walnut Street Theater's Official Website. Be sure to check Luner on Theatre on Facebook and Follow Us on Twitter as well! We are constantly updating these pages with information! And of course, check out the rest of Luner on Theatre for all your theatre news you don't only need but want to know and so much more!


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Q: Azure pipelines get env variable with value of other variable I have a pipeline for a Maven project that needs to retrieve specific app keys from an Azure Key Vault, then pass that value as an argument. The name of the argument is always the same, but the name of the secret env variable is not. They are defined as ENVIRONMENT-APP_NAME-KEY. All keys are stored in one key vault.
What I'd like to do: set a variable, eg. APP_KEY_NAME="$(ENV)-$(APP)-KEY". This would be the name of the secret that was injected into the environment variables with the Key Vault step. I then set another variable, APP_KEY_VALUE, that is set to the value of the secret.
In Bash we can archive this quite easily by doing this: echo ${!APP_KEY_NAME}. It returns the value of the environment variable with the name of the value of $APP_KEY_NAME (and thus outputting the secret). But this doesn't seem to be supported in a Maven task on Azure pipelines (passing the value as -Dencrypt.key=${!APP_KEY_NAME}
The reason I need to do this is because the pom file expects encrypt.key as a variable, I'm not allowed to make changes to the project's pom.
Does anyone know how I can do this on Azure pipelines / in a Maven task? Thanks!


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Збинек Гейда (чеськ. Zbyněk Hejda, 2 лютого 1930 року, Градец-Кралове — 16 листопада 2013, Прага) — найбільший чеський поет останньої третини XX століття, прозаїк, перекладач і правозахисник.

Життєпис
Народився в східній Богемії, недалеко від кордону з Моравією. Дитинство провів в селі Horní Ves (край Височина). Батько — комуніст, в 1938 був виключений з партії за симпатії до книги Андре Жіда Повернення з СРСР, в 1939 розстріляний гестапо.

У 1947 Збинек Гейда вступив в КПЧ. Вивчав мистецтвознавство, філософію і історію в Карловому університеті в Празі (1949 — 1953). Хотів займатися гуситами, але був залишений асистентом на кафедрі історії робітничого руху. У 1958 відсторонений від посади за критику вторгнення радянських військ в Угорщину в 1956 році. Тоді ж його вірші були опубліковані в моравському літературному журналі Host do domu, що видавався в Брно (в 1969 був закритий владою). Разом з Вацлавом Гавелом і ін. видавав ліберальний журнал Обличчя, впливовий в 1960-ті роки.

У 1969 році був прийнятий до Спілки письменників, де зайняв незалежну позицію. У 1970, після його різко-критичних відгуків про вторгнення СРСР до Чехословаччини, яке поклало кінець Празькій весні, втратив можливість публікуватися у відкритій пресі; в 1977, після підписання ним Хартії 77, був позбавлений місця в празькому букіністичному магазині. Працював двірником, перебував під наглядом спецслужб, друкувався тільки в самвидаві і закордоном. Перекладав вірші Емілі Дікінсон, Георга Тракля, Ґоттфріда Бенна. У 1985 році увійшов до редколегії журналу «Центральна Європа», що починався як самвидавний. Співпрацював з самвидавним журналом Яхима Топола і ін. Revolver Revue.

Після Оксамитової революції став широко публікуватися. У 1996 було видано повне зібрання його віршів. Викладав історію літератури на медичному факультеті Карлового університету. У червні 2006 був присутній на III фестивалі поезії країн Вишеградської групи та Росії в Москві.

Книги

 І все тут наповнене музикою / A tady všude muziky je plno (1963, бібліофільське видання, перевид. 1979 у самвидаві, у відкритій пресі — 1993)
 Саме блаженство / Všechna slast (1964)
 Сусідство смерті / Blízkosti smrti (1978, самвидав; 1985 — Мюнхен, 1992 —  Прага)
 Леді Фелтем / Lady Felthamová (1979, самвидав; 1987 —  Париж, на двох мовах, 1992 —  Прага)
 Три вірші / Tři básně (1987, самвидав)
 Відпустка в санаторії / Pobyt v sanatoriu (1993)
 Я нікого там не зустріну / Nikoho tam nepotkám (1994)
 Меланхолійний вальс / Valse mélancolique (Брно, 1995)
 Básně (1996, збірка віршів)
 Překlady (1998, переклади)
 Дорога до Церекві / Cesta k Cerekvi (2004, проза)
 Сни / Sny (2007, проза)

Примітки

Джерела
 Zbyněk Hejda
 Z. Hejda's poetry

Чеські поети

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One of the best things about New York City in Spring/Summer are the street fairs and food festivals. UrbanSpaceNYC offers a seasonal semi-permanent brick and mortar location to restaurants looking to open up an off site annex and for catering companies looking to gear up interest in their wares.
One of those catering companies is Firebelly Korean Barbecue. Currently residing at UrbanSpaceNYC's Garment District location, Firebelly is located on Broadway between 40th and 41st street.
Very much like Taco Domo or Korilla Barbecue, Firebelly is a Korean fusion restaurant, offers tacos, burritos, bibimbap, and Korean style chicken wings on their menu. Their protein is all done in the Korean style, while their presentation is on the Mexican side.
Today I ordered their spicy wings (under the cashier's suggestion) and their bulgogi bibimbap.
In respect to their chicken, I was not a fan of the batter. There was a gritty residue after you swallowed it. The chicken itself was cooked perfectly and was juicy, but wasn't marinated, so there wasn't much flavor without the sauce. As for the sauce, it was tasty, but not really something to write home about. Would have liked it more if it was a bit more savory or if it offered something more than just heat.
As for the bibimbap, unfortunately the rice was underdone, so I was spitting out under cooked rice kernels every so often. The beef was also a bit tough. The sauce, which I would assume was the same as the wings sauce masked everything, so I couldn't really tell if the meat was marinated or not. The side of kimchi could have been part of the issue as well.
Not going to lie, the workers were really nice, but the food wasn't enough to have me come back.


As Christians, the grace (or unearned favor) of God covers every part of our lives. We might overlook its power, but God pours out His grace on us freely.
Everyday I don't live up to God's perfection in some way. Some days I am short with my husband and get frustrated too easily. At times, I have trouble forgiving when others hurt me, or I let a bad attitude get the best of me. Don't get me started on how easily frustrated I get in traffic! But even on my worst day, when I am the farthest thing from gracious, God still pours out His grace on my life. He chooses to see me for the value I have in Him, and He forgives me and loves me because of that.
This is the beautiful part about grace. There is nothing I can do to earn it. I can't read my Bible enough, share my faith enough, or make enough good choices to earn God's approval. He loves me because I belong to Him through Jesus. The minute we understand this fact and start to live like it's true, everything changes. Our relationship with God becomes an actual relationship and not some spiritual gymnastics routine. When we accept that there is nothing we can do to earn more of God's favor we can rest and feel secure in His love.
After we accept the grace of God in our lives, the hard part which is also the best part begins. We have to give that grace away to others. When we allow the grace of God into our lives, it must flow out of our lives.
Stop and think about how you treat others, are you forgiving and gracious toward them? Do you actively seek God's help to love others like God loves you?
I'll be the first to admit that often I am more selfish than I am gracious. I want to love others the way that God loves me, but it's hard. People are messy! Loving people is just as messy. People are rude sometimes, or they don't do the things we think they should. Other times, people are hurtful and don't have our best interest at heart. Whatever the reason might be, loving others the way that God loves us isn't an easy thing to do. Most of us don't have the strength to love others on our own. That's because we need God's help. When we admit that our love for others is imperfect, God will give us His love for others. His love for others will flow through us for their sake.
We were bought with a price that we could never pay, the sinless perfect life of Jesus. Because of His sacrifice, God smiles on us and is gracious to us. God no longer condemns us. This forgiveness comes freely to us, all we have to do is ask.
Lord I want to understand your grace. I want to be confident in your love for me. God give me eyes to see others the way you see them. You see them for who they are and you still love them deeply. Help me to forgive those who hurt me. Fill my heart with patience toward those who are different than me, and please forgive me for the times that I fall short. Be glorified God in all that I say and do. Amen.


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If the first casualty of war is truth, the second is freedom to speak. Since the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, government repression of political speech has accelerated, and so have attacks on Muslims.
France arrested at least 54 people for "glorifying" or "defending" terrorism in the week after Charlie Hebdo — none of whom were even alleged to be connected to the attacks. Those arrested include French comic and satirist Dieudonné, who has previously been jailed for anti-Semitic comments. The New York Times reports:
"Those swept up under the new law include a 28-year-old man of French-Tunisian background who was sentenced to six months in prison after he was found guilty of shouting support for the attackers as he passed a police station in Bourgoin-Jalieu on Sunday. A 34-year-old man who on Saturday hit a car while drunk, injured the other driver and subsequently praised the acts of the gunmen when the police detained him was sentenced Monday to four years in prison."
According to the NYT report, the man in Bourgoin-Jalieu went to jail for uttering these words:
"They killed Charlie and I had a good laugh. In the past they killed Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Mohammed Merah and many brothers. If I didn't have a father or mother, I would train in Syria."
Not all the repression comes from the government. In an opinion article in Al Jazeera, Fariha Róisín writes:
"On Twitter, just after I confessed my unpopular opinion about Charlie Hebdo, a stranger tweeted at me that Islamophobia doesn't exist because Muslims aren't people."
Vox reported that it got no threats from Muslims for publishing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, but received numerous and violent threats for publishing articles about anti-Islamic bigotry:
"The most common states a desire that jihadist militants will murder the offending writer: a recent email hoped that Muslims will 'behead you one day' so that 'we will never have to read your trash again.' Some directly threaten violence themselves, or imply it with statements such as 'May you rot in hell.'
"Others express a desire to murder all Muslims — one simply read 'I agree with maher Kill them all' — also often implying the emailed journalist is themselves Muslim. One pledge to attack Vox writers begins, 'Fuck you and any cunt who believes in allah.'"
Fox News, of course, gained notoriety with commentator Jeanine Pirro's rant demanding that all Islamists be killed, but she is not an isolated voice. Anti-Muslim bigotry runs rampant in a wide swath of U.S. media.
Even before the Charlie Hebdo massacre and subsequent crackdowns on "pro-terrorist" speech in Europe, Glenn Greenwald documented the monitoring and criminalizing of online speech in the United States, Britain, and Scotland. His article featured a Tweet from police in Scotland that said: "Please be aware that we will continue to monitor comments on social media & any offensive comments will be investigated."
An op/ed from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, also published before Charlie Hebdo, denounced repression of speech around the world, citing Saudi Arabia, Russia and Turkey, but also noting crackdowns in the UK and France.
"In the UK, a woman was recently sentenced to five years in prison for 'promoting terrorism on Facebook.' This news comes after promises from UK telecoms to block 'terrorist' and 'extremist' content on their networks. …
"A French anti-terror law passed this autumn provides harsher penalties for extremist speech posted online (as opposed to offline), raising concerns from civil liberties advocates in the country."
Unsurprisingly, anti-Muslim bigotry escalated quickly into acts of violence post-Charlie, targeting Muslim businesses and mosques, from vandalism to bombing and grenade-throwing in France. Ajamu Baraka, writing in Common Dreams, said that the defense of Charlie Hebdo has roots in "a cross-class, transnational white identity," noting that the "humanity and cultures of Arabs and Muslims have been denigrated in France for decades."
In Germany, Pegida's anti-immigrant and explicitly anti-Islamic marches in Dresden continue to draw huge crowds. Pegida stands for the Patriotische Europäer gegen eine Islamisierung des Abendlandes, which translates to Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West. While Pegida stands on the far right, anti-Islamic sentiment is widespread, with 52 percent of Germans in a recent poll saying that Islam does not belong in Germany. According to an article in Al Jazeera published before the Charlie Hebdo attack:
"Germany has joined the ranks of other EU countries, where Islamophobic populism and even terrorism have been part of the political landscape for more than a decade. PEGIDA claims to be peaceful, but its subtext is full of xenophobia and hatred. Some have already taken the rhetoric one step further: In rural Bavaria on Dec. 12 a home for refugees was firebombed. In France, Sweden and Belgium, mosques have burned."
In the United States, Duke University canceled a planned use of the Duke University chapel bell tower for a Muslim call to prayer on Fridays, after receiving threats it deemed too serious to ignore. More than 700 Muslim students attend Duke, and they have prayed in the chapel on Fridays for years. In addition to security threats, the Washington Post reported:
"Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, called on donors and alumni to withhold support from Duke until the policy was reversed. The hashtag #boycottduke spread quickly, and many of the reactions on Twitter referred to recent terrorist attacks, and interpreted it as an anti-Christian move."
Free Speech Hypocrisy
Jon Stewart rightly criticized world leaders who took part in the July 11 Paris march for freedom of the press and against terror, naming them as "journalist-punishing Russia, journalist-jailing Turkey, Palestinian cartoonist-jailing Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, a little out of breath, having just days ago flogged a blogger." To that list, we can add the leaders of France, England, Scotland, Germany, and the United States whose defense of free speech is increasingly selective and limited.
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Wish Howie a Happy Birthday!
Some people don't make a big deal of their birthdays – Howie Hawkins is one of those people.
But, we all know that he's pretty awesome and deserving of appreciation on his birthday. So please, leave a greeting in the comments below or on his Facebook page! And eat a slice of applie pie in his honor.
One way to show appreciation for Howie's many years of organizing to build an independent, Green, left electoral alternative by become a supporting member of the Green Party of New York. Join a growing base of monthly contributors - the supporting members program is sliding scale, so whether you give $3 per month or $50, what matters is that Greens from across the state help make the Green Party an organization that has the resources needed to stand up for economic justice, stable climate, and a peaceful future - on the ballot and in the streets.
Way to go, Howie! Keep on running.
Howie – While waiting for this link to open from Facebook, I was trying to figure out what "Howie Hawkins, the OG" was supposed to mean. It could be "Old Guy" or it could be "Original Green." I'm going with the latter! Happy birthday, Howie, and thanks for all you've done over the years and, I hope, will do for many years to come. Bask in the appreciation and enjoy your day!
Happy Birthday Howie…You are an inspiration!


With Rev. John Riley and music by Margo LeDuc with Russell Norman on piano, and Ron E. Beck on drums.
I AM EMPOWERED BY DIVINE STRENGTH. When I trust in divine strength, I am poised and self-confident. I am blessed and I bless others. My inner strength soothes and calms those around me. Conflicts or drama yield to the power of Spirit. I am a beneficial presence in the world.


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A complete multi-line insurance review for insurance agency personnel and risk managers describing the moving & storage insurance issues.


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The state of Alabama is classified as humid subtropical (Cfa) under the Köppen climate classification. The state's average annual temperature is 64 °F (18 °C). Temperatures tend to be warmer in the state's southern portion with its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, while its northern portions, especially in the Appalachian Mountains in the northeast, tend to be slightly cooler.  Alabama generally has very hot summers and mild winters with copious precipitation throughout the year. The state receives an average of  of rainfall each year and experiences a lengthy growing season of up to 300 days in its southern portion.  Hailstorms occur occasionally during the spring and summer here, but they are seldom destructive. Heavy fogs are rare, and they are confined chiefly to the coast. Thunderstorms also occur year-around. They are most common in the summer, but they are most commonly severe during the spring (i.e. March through May) and late autumn (i.e. November). That is when destructive winds and tornadoes occur frequently, especially in the northern and central parts of the state. Central and northern Alabama are squarely within Dixie Alley, the primary area in the U.S. outside the Southern Plains (i.e. the traditional Tornado Alley) with relatively high tornado risk. Alabama is ranked second in the U.S for the deadliest tornadoes. Hurricanes are quite common in the state, especially in the southern part. Major hurricanes occasionally strike the coast, such as Hurricane Frederic in September 1979 and Hurricane Ivan in September 2004; both storms resulted in significant to devastating damage in the Mobile area.

Temperature

Summers in Alabama are among the hottest in the United States, with high temperatures averaging over  throughout the summer in many parts of the state. In the extreme south, summer's heat is tempered slightly by winds from the Gulf of Mexico which often blow inland by up to 10–15 miles. In parts of northern Alabama, the elevation above sea level similarly tempers the summer heat. In summer, average afternoon high temperatures are especially high in Montgomery and Tuscaloosa (both averaging  in July and August). The average nighttime humidity is highest in southwest Alabama, which results in the highest average (high plus low temperature) for reporting stations in the state. While afternoon highs in Mobile are slightly cooler than those in
Alabama's inland cities, the warm nights produced by proximity to the Gulf of Mexico results in the average annual temperature for Mobile being the highest in the state. Cool morning temperatures help keep the northeast highlands among the more temperate locations in the state and lowest in the northeast among the highlands. Thus at Mobile the annual mean is , the mean for the summer , and for the winter ; and at Valley Head, in DeKalb county, the annual mean is , the mean for the summer , and for the winter . At Montgomery, in the central region, the average annual temperature is , with a winter average of , and a summer average of . The average winter minimum for the entire state is , and there is an average of 35 days in each year in which the thermometer falls below the freezing-point. At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below , as was the case in the extreme cold wave of 12–13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of  was registered at Valley Head. The highest temperature ever recorded was  in Centreville, on September 6, 1925 (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/scec/records). During the exceptional August 2007 heat wave, three instances of official  heat were recorded at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, each tying the all-time record for the capital city. Winters are generally mild in Alabama, as they are throughout most of the southeastern United States, with average January low temperatures around  in Mobile, around  in Huntsville, around  in Montgomery, and around  in Birmingham.

Extremes

Precipitation
The amount of precipitation is greatest along the coast (62 inches/1,574 mm) and evenly distributed through the rest of the state (about 52 inches/1,320 mm). Much of the rainfall is produced by thunderstorms and, occasionally, by hurricanes and other tropical disturbances. In central and northern Alabama, average monthly precipitation amounts are highest from November to April, typically peaking in December or March, as at Huntsville (December maximum) or Birmingham (March maximum), with August to October the driest months. Along the coast, summer thunderstorm rains are markedly more frequent and tropical weather systems are a threat from July to October. Accordingly, at Mobile, virtually the wettest city annually anywhere in the eastern United States (wetter than even Miami, FL with its drier winters), monthly average precipitation peaks in July and August, but virtually the entire year is wet, with October a slightly drier month.

Although snow is a rare event in much of Alabama, areas of the state north of Montgomery may receive a dusting of snow a few times every winter, with an occasional moderately heavy snowfall every few years.  Historic heavy snowfall events include the New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm and the 1993 Storm of the Century.  The annual average snowfall for the Birmingham area is  per year.  In the southern Gulf coast, snowfall is less frequent, sometimes going several years without any snowfall.

El Niño and La Niña
During El Niño, Alabama receives colder than average winter temperatures with wetter than average conditions along the southern parts of the state and drier than average conditions in the northern parts. La Niña brings warmer than average temperatures with the drier weather in the southern parts of the state due to a northern storm track.

Hazards

Alabama is also prone to tropical storms and even hurricanes. Areas of the state far away from the Gulf are not immune to the effects of the storms, which often dump tremendous amounts of rain as they move inland and weaken.
Thunderstorms are common during the summer throughout Alabama and also occur during other times of the year including winter. South Alabama reports many thunderstorms. The Gulf Coast, around Mobile Bay, averages between 100 and 110 days per year with thunder reported, which eastern and northwest Alabama have 70 to 80 thunderstorm days per year.  Occasionally, thunderstorms are severe with frequent lightning and large hail – the central and northern parts of the state are most vulnerable to this type of storm, the northern and central regions of Alabama are especially prone to tornadoes. Alabama ranks seventh in the number of deaths from lightning and ninth in the number of deaths from lightning strikes per capita.

Tornadoes occur frequently in Alabama during the spring and fall months, these tornadoes can be devastating and even deadly.– these are common throughout the state, although the peak season for tornadoes varies from the northern to southern parts of the state. Alabama, along with Kansas, has the most reported F5/EF5 tornadoes than any other state – according to statistics from the National Climatic Data Center for the period January 1, 1950, to October 31, 2006. An F5 tornado is the most powerful of its kind. Several long – tracked F5 tornadoes have contributed to Alabama reporting more tornado fatalities than any other state except for Texas and Mississippi. The Super Outbreaks of April 1974 and April 2011 both badly affected Alabama. The northern part of the state – along the Tennessee Valley – is one of the areas in the US most vulnerable to violent tornadoes . The area of Alabama and Mississippi most affected by tornadoes is sometimes referred to as Dixie Alley, as distinct from the Tornado Alley of the Southern Plains. Alabama is one of the few places in the world that has a secondary tornado season (November and December) along with the spring severe weather season.

See also
Climate change in Alabama

References

Geography of Alabama


We have been married for over 25 years, had the usual challenges everyone faces and have come out the other side stronger and hopefully wiser. Our children are independent; Kate is at the University of Tasmania studying to be a teacher and Alex, is studying viticulture through Charles Sturt University whilst assisting in the management of the vineyard.
Glenn's background is in retail and wholesale liquor and Sandy's is in pharmacy. Whilst we have owned our own business and worked together for almost 20 years we had no background in agriculture. We do, however, have a passion to run our businesses in the most professional way we know how. We try to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers and give them a product that we are happy with.
Sandy volunteers with the Tasmanian Ambulance Service. Sandy crosses the T's and dots the I's; no short cuts allowed! Hopefully you can taste this in the wines.
Kate assists with social media and helps out at busy cellar door events.
Alex's growing skills and knowledge are invaluable in the vineyard and ensures our practices are the best they can be. He also volunteers with the local Tasmanian Fire Service brigade and SES.


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Florida is a haven for rich people who hate paying taxes
by Scott Harrell
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Let's face it: The entire nation favors the rich when it comes down to giving back, paying one's fair share, etc. But Florida is apparently among those states particularly attractive to the wealthy as a kind of homegrown tax shelter.
According to WalletHub, a financial website that sends us interesting little tidbits, oh, every five minutes or so, Florida is the fifth best state in which to be rich from a tax perspective.
So what does that mean? Basically, that in Florida, people who make more than $150,000 a year pay a smaller amount of tax as a percentage of their overall income. Which makes sense — after all, Florida doesn't have a state income tax. And other taxes, such as sales and property taxes, and somewhat low in some areas for Florida when compared to other populous states, particularly those with comparatively desirable real estate.
Interestingly, the report also found Florida to be the fifth best state in the nation from a tax perspective for those who make a "middle income," a designation for which the report used an average salary of $50,000 per year as a metric.
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Florida lawmakers will try again to ban public funds for stadiums
by Jim Turner, the News Service of Florida | Feb 11, 2019
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Rick Scott has investment ties to the company responsible for screwing up SunPass
by Monivette Cordeiro | Oct 19, 2018
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Disney will give 125,000 workers cash bonuses, but Orlando unions want pay raise


Broadly, SEO can be broken up into on-page and off-page strategies. On-page SEO refers to things like content relevancy and the way your website is constructed. Off-page SEO refers to strategies that increase the number of backlinks pointing toward your domain. This practice is commonly known as link building.
In today's Top Tip Tuesday video, Nathan explains why link building is important and how a single link from an authoritative website can be a lot more effective than several links from less credible sources.
Here are some factors you should keep in mind to increase the effectiveness of your link building efforts.
Good, relevant and appropriate content will improve your site's organic visibility. Try to incorporate your target keywords into your content naturally and appropriately. In particular, it is important to include keywords in your page URL, title tag, meta description and body content.
The higher the domain authority of a source (website), the higher is the value of a link. For example, newspapers and magazine websites with years of history and reputation will have a much higher domain authority compared a new student magazine start up. In fact, low authority sources can actually reduce the authority of your site. Therefore, it is important to maintain a backlink profile that includes plenty of authoritative sources and constantly make an effort to get higher authority sources.
Anchor text is the clickable text that contains your hyperlink. When link building, try to use whichever keywords you are trying to rank for as your anchor text. This practice signals to Google that the destination web page is about those keywords. However, excessive keyword stuffing can be penalised by Google, so try to keep your anchor text keywords looking as natural and relevant as possible.


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O'Connell Earns First GSPSS Podium Finish at Waterford Speedbowl
May 27, 2018 Devin O'Connell
Waterford CT – Devin O'Connell of Madison CT, earned his first Super Late Model win at The New London-Waterford Speedbowl with the Granite State Pro Stock Series on Saturday, May 26th, in the Full Fender Throwdown.
The format of the race was different from the normal 100-lap Granite State feature format. The race consisted of three, 35-lap segment races with the overall winner having the best average finish. O'Connell qualified fifth for the first segment and finished sixth.
The second segment saw the field of cars inverted resulting in a starting position of eleventh for O'Connell with an eight-place finish. It would be the third segment that would see O'Connell shine. He began the third 35-lap segment in third and quickly took the lead and pulled away from the field taking the win by more than a full straightaway.
O'Connell's average effort netted him overall second place behind Joey Doiron and ahead of Cory Casagrande.
After the race Devin stated, "It feels so good to finally pick one up for the Chatham Highlander Motel, Bilstein Shocks, my family and my crew. Never mind the fact that it's at my home track that has been my kryptonite tracks for years."
O'Connell will be on the track next for the Short Track Showdown at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with the Granite State Pro Stock series on June 24, 2018.
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Readings suggested by Pastor Louie.
A great thought to keep in mind. Cultural winsomeness will not be enough for Christians.
Great article with the Holydays right around the corner. Reaching Out to Non-Believers this Holiday Season.


Agni Devi is the upcoming political thriller film scripted and directed by John Paul Raj and Sham Surya. The film has the star cast of Bobby Simha, " Madhoo," Remya Nambeesan, " Sathish," Anu Mohan, " Sanjeev" and Bose Venkat. Seantoa Studio and Jai Film Productions produce the movie. Jakes Bejoy is Agni Devi music director. Jana is the cinematographer. The film is inspired by a novel penned by crime novel specialist Rajeshkumar.
Madhoo will be seen as a politician and Bobby Simha will be seen as a cop. Sathish plays an important role and the trailer revealed it. The second trailer that released today is an interesting one that has a lot of political elements. Madhoo's dialogues are super perfect and she has done a negative shade. We hope this film would bring new fame to Bobby, Madhoo and Sathish.


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About Lairds House
About Bedlington
Things to do in Bedlington
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Valentine's @ Lairds
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Friday & Saturday Dinner
Bedlington is an ancient market town, with a rich history of industry and innovative residents. Located approximately 10 miles northeast of Newcastle and Newcastle Airport, Bedlington is roughly 10 minutes from the A1 motorway. Situated in South East Northumberland, it is home to over 20,000 people.
The town has evidence of habitation from the Bronze age, with a burial site being located just behind what is now the main Front Street. A cluster of Bronze age cist burials were discovered during the excavation of the site in the 1930s.
St Cuthbert's Church is the longest-standing building in the town, with parts of this dating back to the 11th century it recently celebrated being 1000 years old. The church is situated 200m from the Lairds House, in the heart of the original sandstone conservation town centre.
Most of the medieval town has disappeared with many of the historic buildings and factories being demolished over the years, but there are still nods to the medieval street layout. The main Front Street is currently made up of Georgian and Victorian buildings.
Welcome to Bedlington Sign photo credit: © Copyright Graham Robson
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History of Bedlington
Today Bedlington is probably best known for being the home of the Bedlington Terrier, a dog that has taken the town's name across the planet…not for the first time! At key points in history, before and during the industrial revolution, goods made in Bedlington made it to all corners of the globe.
With a large industry-first in Bedlington over 250 years ago in the form of its world-renowned ironworks, the industry remained at the heart of the town until the closure of the pit mines in the 1980s. Today Bedlington's Front Street is host to a number of well-established eating and drinking venues and there is an emergence of new establishments in the town.
Bedlington is home to notable residents including:
The Bedlington Terrier – world-renowned breed described as "a dog with a lions heart but the appearance of a lamb"
Sir Daniel Gooch – engineered and built trains and was also queen Victoria's driver. He laid the first trans-Atlantic cable from the UK to the US.
John Birkenshaw – Inventor of the modern railway line that allowed trains to operate at a much faster speed, which was key during the Industrial Revolution.
Ironworks – an integral part of the town's history; here significant parts of the first locomotive, made by George Stephenson, were produced. The first train to depart Kings Cross, when the station opened in 1852, was hauled by a loco built at the Bedlington Engine Works. The ironworks and Engine Works also produced the first locomotives to help build railway systems as far and wide as Russia, Holland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, France and Persia. Replicas of the first locos are on display at museums in Naples and Utrecht.
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Farm Size Matters
How can we stop farmer suicides?
By Madeleine Thomas on Apr 16, 2015
Trigger warning: This piece discusses suicide, depression, and suicide's aftermath.
Mona Lee Brock went into the office early that morning, as she always did, when she received a panicked phone call. The telephones in the crisis center were lighting up all over the place, as was common. This particular call was from a farmer's wife. A day prior, the farmer had spoken to Brock and agreed not to hurt himself, but now his wife couldn't find him. And she was afraid. Brock asked where the farmer kept his .410 shotgun.
It was the height of the '80s farm crisis, one of the greatest economic turmoils since the Great Depression. Drought and defaulted loans left hundreds of thousands of farmers broke. Many farmers became homeless or worse yet, turned to suicide.
Brock visited their home later that morning. The farmer's wife stayed inside the house while Brock went to investigate where her husband might be. She found him in the driveway, at the left rear wheel of his truck. He had already shot himself in the head.
"It just leaves you speechless," Brock says, "You just forget to breathe, you forget to live."
It's been three decades since the farm crisis swept the country, but suicide rates among farmers are still high — the second highest of any job right now, in fact. According to a recent study of workplace suicides between 2003 and 2010 published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, jobs with the highest suicide rates include "protective service occupations" like police officers and firefighters, with 5.3 suicides for every 1 million workers. Farming, fishing, and forestry jobs collectively follow closely behind with a suicide rate of 5.1 per 1 million workers. Some experts put the rate at nearly twice the rate of the general population.
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The environmental stressors farmers face today aren't disappearing anytime soon, either. Extreme drought in California, erratic weather throughout the Midwest and Corn Belt, and heavy snowfall in the Northeast have made farming that much harder. In a business where livelihoods revolve around deep-seated connections to the land, where family connections run even deeper, and where firearms are easily accessible, mental illness is reemerging as its own farming crisis. Understanding the mental health of our farmers and rural communities is perhaps as important as ever.
Farmer suicides tend to increase when farm economics falter. The 1970s were a prosperous decade for American farmers: Exports more than doubled and gross farm income rose about 4 percent each year. Riding the wave of financial success, many farmers took out new loans to fund their expanding businesses. But farm prices dropped dramatically in the '80s. President Carter embargoed grain exports to the Soviet Union in 1980, resulting in surpluses. Drought struck in 1983. By 1984, the country's agricultural debt topped $216 billion. In just five years, between 1981 and 1986, more than 60,000 farmers were left homeless due to foreclosures.
In turn, many American farmers took the financial hardship out on themselves. Throughout the 1980s, more than 900 farmers died by suicide in the Upper Midwest alone, in states like Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. The Oklahoma farm Brock visited on that tragic morning was one of hundreds she visited during her decades-long career as a crisis counselor for a Farm Aid-sponsored line. Sometimes she averaged 48 calls a day.
Mona Lee Brock at the 2004 Farm Aid concert.
More often than not, Brock entered a home only to find distressed farmers waiting for her, shotguns resting across their legs. Many had fields of corn, wheat, barley and rye, but fridges and pantries completely bare of food. Brock understood their hardships: A farmer's wife herself, her family farm went under in 1985, and her husband suffered a fatal heart attack soon after.
Today, some experts worry the issue of farmer suicide is far from over. "In California and southeastern Colorado, where the drought is still pronounced and other places where there is severe drought, yes, there are parallels," says Robert Fetsch, who counsels farm and ranch families as co-project director of the Colorado AgrAbility Project at Colorado State University. Last year alone, California was predicted to lose more than $800 million in crop revenue and more than $200 million in dairy and livestock — and the state's megadrought shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
Even within the last 10 years, high-profile farmer suicides have made national news. Take Dean Pierson — a dairy farmer from Copake, New York — who shot his 51 milking cows in their heads one January morning in 2010 before taking his own life with a rifle shot to the chest. Or Jelle Hans Reitsma, a California farmer, who at 37, and millions of dollars in debt for his two dairies, shot himself in a walnut orchard in 2008. A note left for the manager of his local bank branch read, "Welcome to the kill." Theirs are just two of many untold stories.
In New York state, a brutal winter has taken its toll on dairy farmers in particular (about 60 percent of New York's farms are dairy operations). Edward Staehr, the executive director of NY FarmNet, a crisis hotline center, says call volumes have spiked of late — over 50 a week in some cases. That's because wind and heavy snow have lead to a lot of structural damage on farms, like roof collapses. At the same time milk prices have nosedived, leading to lower profits. (New York dairymen aren't alone: In September, I wrote about how California's dairy industry is also teetering on the edge of collapse). Staehr says his hotline now receives 6,000 calls a year.
On family farms in particular, where personal issues are often intertwined with financial ones, the tension is that much higher. "Over half our calls, between 50 and 60 percent, have some type of interpersonal issue that has to be dealt with before progress can be made in the farm business," Staehr says. "Could be intergenerational conflict or family conflict, sibling rivalry, relationship issues, and so on."
Family farms are a "hidden stress issue in agriculture," adds Val Farmer, a clinical psychologist based in Missouri who specializes in rural mental health and family relationships.
"A lot of families have this complex arrangement of farming with their adult children or siblings," Farmer says. Poor communication, grudges, and resentment can run high, but the financial losses of ending the family farm are far too serious to ever think about disbanding the business. "The relationships become too tension-filled or so hurtful that they can hardly stand to be around each other. But dissolving the partnership is more problematic, the financial losses are staggering," he says. "So people that don't really belong together are still trying to make it together and they don't know how to solve their issues between them."
For some, losing the family farm can feel like losing everything. It's an end to generations of heritage, self-worth, and a place in the world. For many, losing the family farm means losing a home, too.
Paul Force-Emery Mackie, incoming president of the National Association for Rural Mental Health, was a teenager living on his family's dairy farm in Hillsdale, Mich., when the farm crisis hit.
"I remember it was, quite frankly — the honest word would be frightening," Mackie says.
Mackie recalls one day in particular, when he accompanied his father to a bankrupt dairy farm. He walked into the milkhouse not more than two hours before an entire 80 to 100-cow herd was to be sold off.
"The guy who was losing the farm and losing the cows, losing his life, losing everything that he did, was standing over the milk tank, eating a plate of food that his wife had just dropped off," he says. "She was crying, she was upset. And all I heard him say was, 'The cows didn't deserve this, they have to be milked.' He still had that sense of commitment to the animals, his family."
Such memories are one of many reasons Mackie has committed his life to studying rural behavioral health. Even though his family's operation managed to weather the 1980s farm crisis, he watched a lot of other families lose their farms. "If the family farm is gone, it's essentially gone forever, because its no longer in the family," Mackie says. "That cultural, historical tie to that piece of property has essentially been shattered. Psychologically, that's a bad place to be for anybody."
Despite the efforts of Mackie, Farmer, and others, rural behavioral health is still an under-researched, underfunded field. "Behavioral health is the area of healthcare that agricultural people understand the least well," says Michael Rosmann, a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in agricultural behavioral health and one of the field's leading researchers. "It is the area that probably is in most need of research and clarification so that we improve the understanding and treatment of behavioral health issues." Rosmann and other experts believe the country's rural agricultural population should be classified as a health disparity group, which according to the CDC, would mean that farmers consistently face greater barriers to proper healthcare due to the unique environmental, cultural, and economic factors. If farmers and rural America were more widely recognized as a health disparity, more government funding could be directed toward addressing the issue.
"We can't get the money through the CDC and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to look at these issues," Rosmann adds. "CDC funding has been threatened and has been cut back greatly. Until we invest in the right tools, we're not going to get anywhere."
Through his work, Rosmann has found that nearly two thirds of the agricultural population responds normally to stressors in their environments, while a third go on to experience depression or addiction. The longer someone like a farmer is exposed to these stressors, the less likely they are able to cope. The risk of suicide also increases with age, economic stress, and exposure to stress.
Rosmann also says that male farmers commit suicide about twice as often as non-farming males. Robert Fetsch, the counselor at Colorado State, points to the societal messages bestowed upon men. From a young age, men in general are taught to distance themselves from anything feminine; they're expected to be occupationally and financially successful, confident, and self-reliant; and they're discouraged from reaching out for help should they find themselves feeling hurt or hopeless. The insular nature of rural culture doesn't help, either, and may make these pressures more pronounced in farming families. In isolated towns, where everyone knows each other, their families, the cars they drive, and the tiniest, most intimate details of their personal lives, it's that much harder to seek help for mental illness.
"I've had many men tell me, 'I'm not going to park outside the mental health center with my pickup, everybody's going to know I'm nuts,'" Fetsch says. "That is a problem."
Loosening the stigmas around mental illness throughout rural America remains an important and constant challenge. Part of the solution lies in making access to mental health services more private in these insular communities, by increasing the number of mental health professionals who make house calls for example, or by establishing counseling centers in more discreet areas, like at universities or in agriculture extension offices.
In the meantime, a sprinkling of organizations, advocates, and caring individuals are working to bring more attention to the problem. Kim Keller is a third generation family farmer in Canada and cofounder of Farm At Hand, a free app that helps farmers manage day-to-day operations. In February, the company launched a campaign, called #HereForFarmers, to raise money for mental health awareness. The social initiative has already raised more than $12,000 so far, all of which will be donated to Farm Stress Line, a 24/7 crisis hotline based in Canada.
"You work with your family, day in, day out, you go on holidays with your family, your lifestyle is your work," Keller says. "That's why we launched the #HereForFarmers campaign, to bring awareness to what a farmer goes through each year and how much work it actually does take. It's important that everyone has access to resources to help them cope and to help them not feel alone."
And then there's Mona Lee Brock, the crisis counselor in Oklahoma. At 83, Brock is now retired, but she still receives the occasional phone call. Some farmers call seeking help, others call to express their thanks. For years at Christmas time, Brock says she found her office full of yellow roses and poinsettias, sent to her from farmers whose lives she convinced were worth keeping.
"I don't regret a single second of the time that I spent," Brock says. Though she always took off work for the holidays she and her two sons held dear, like Christmases and their birthdays, she never had a complete break. "As my son said, and this says it all right here, 'Mama never got to eat a meal with us, she was on the phone,'" she says. "I was there, but I wasn't. I took care of those telephone calls."
Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
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FIRE Faculty Network Conference happening this weekend in Chicago!
Peter Bonilla
Two years removed from the last time we gathered for FIRE's Faculty Network Conference, we're thrilled to officially return this weekend to Chicago, joined by a contingent of committed faculty. The Faculty Network Conference's sessions begin this morning and run through tomorrow, Oct. 16, at the University of Chicago's Gleacher Center.
This year's slate of presenters bring a rigorous and heterodox body of research and commentary that promises to set a high bar for engagement and discourse among our attendees. Topics of discussion include a reappraisal of recent debates over campus "safe spaces," examinations of campus diversity and inclusion requirements from a variety of pedagogical perspectives, student self-censorship in the classroom, faculty self-censorship on social media, and more. Our featured presenters are:
Daniel Cullen, Rhodes College
Elizabeth Niehaus, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Anthony Rotolo, Grand Canyon University
Brian Soucek, University of California, Davis School of Law
Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Carleton College
Jonathan Zimmerman, University of Pennsylvania
April Bleske-Rechek, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire; Ryan Owens, University of Wisconsin – Madison; and Tim Shiell, University of Wisconsin – Stout
The Faculty Network Conference will be highlighted by this evening's keynote address from Robert Zimmer, Chancellor of the University of Chicago. Zimmer's accomplishments are many and widespread, both as a mathematician and a higher education leader. Zimmer served most recently as president of the University of Chicago from 2006 to 2021. Among his enduring accomplishments, Zimmer presided over the creation in 2014 of UChicago's Committee on Freedom of Expression. That committee, of course, produced the now famous Chicago Principles on freedom of expression, which have been emulated by dozens of universities since they were adopted by UChicago in 2015. We're honored to have Chancellor Zimmer address this year's conference.
In light of COVID-19, we're also taking steps this year to make the conference more accessible to Faculty Network members by livestreaming the sessions for faculty interested in tuning in. Faculty can get more information by signing up for FIRE's Faculty Network or by emailing facultyoutreach@thefire.org.
If you're a faculty member interested in defending and sustaining academic freedom, free speech, and other civil liberties on campus, please consider joining the FIRE Faculty Network. By joining, you'll receive information curated specifically for faculty, including the latest legal developments, strategies for activism, and noteworthy research and reporting related to free speech and academic freedom.
Here's to a successful Faculty Network Conference! We hope you'll join us online, and we offer our thanks to all our distinguished participants.


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The first in the set of three, Yamla Pagla Deewana discharged in the year 2011 and got positive surveys from pundits. It earned Rs 55.28 crore at the ticket counters. After it's prosperity, the creators reported the second film Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 which turned out in the performance centers in 2013. Not at all like the principal portion, this time the creators neglected to influence the gathering of people to snicker and the film made a pitiful entirety of Rs 36.7 crore in the cinema world.
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Special Issue on "Culture Games"
Industries, stakeholders, and the general public approach culture (both tangible and intangible) for a variety of purposes, and digital games can channel each of these purposes in different ways. In the context of a cultural experience, people may want to learn (with serious games) but also to have fun (with simple entertainment games), spend some spare time (with casual games), socialize (with social or multiplayer games), or create (with collaborative creation games). Similarly, cultural institutions wish not only to teach, but also to attract more visitors (promotional games or advergames). In the last decade, there have been substantial developments in the gaming technologies applied to cultural heritage purposes. Technologies like crowdsourcing and human computation have become more sophisticated. New game-oriented (but not only) media such as mixed-reality, virtual reality and natural interaction (e.g. motion-based gameplay) have become more prevalent.
Our goal in this special issue is twofold: a) to broaden the scope and explore gaming in cultural heritage across multiple genres used in real-life and b) to include the latest developed gaming technologies in the field of culture.
As a final outcome, we wish to attract a broad set of researchers from the game studies and game research community, the HCI and AI communities, as well as the applied cultural heritage community, into a truly interdisciplinary and pertinent special issue.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. Please follow the format instructions for the journal. When submitting, please select the option "Culture Games" as the manuscript type in the journal submission system.
George Lepouras is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese and Vice-Rector for Finance, Planning and Development at the same institution. He holds a first degree in Mathematics from University of Athens, MSc in Information Technology from University of Strathclyde, Scotland and a PhD in Human Computer Interaction from University of Athens. Dr Lepouras is a senior member of ACM and has served as the chairman of the Greek ACM SIGCHI. His research interests include game-based profiling, personal and task information management, multilingual interfaces, web based interfaces, virtual reality and augmented reality applications as well as cultural technologies. He is an author and co-author of more than one hundred papers, of which more than forty appear in international journals. He has participated, as researcher, technical manager, team or project coordinator, in many national and European research and technological development projects, among which are SmartGov, DELOS, Experimedia and CROSSCULT (www.uop.gr/~gl/).


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* Speaking at the reception on February 6 for the 40th anniversary of China-US diplomatic relations and the Chinese New Year, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said that as the world is undergoing profound changes, it needs both China and the United States to work together.
* Talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May were constructive and robust, but the European Union (EU) will not reopen negotiations on the Brexit deal, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday (February 7) in a joint statement.
* Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned on February 7 the United States against using force to topple the legitimate government of Venezuela.
* The Republic of Korea's government said on February 7 that it will spend 13.2 trillion won (around US$12 billion) in border areas with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for the next decade.
* The Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday that it has asked the US side to destroy weapons prohibited by the arms-control Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
* Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday that Moscow will take comprehensive measures to ensure its security if the United States leaves the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
* US House Democrats and Republicans on February 7 clashed with each other over a bid to release President Donald Trump's tax returns.
* Yemen's warring parties have reached "a preliminary compromise" on demilitarizing the crucial Red Sea port of Hodeidah and opening humanitarian corridors for the famine-threatened country, a UN spokesman said on February 7.
* The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on February 7 announced to sanction a Turkish national for six alleged violations of US sanctions against Iran.
* Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on February 7 that a new phase of cooperation between Iraq and Jordan has started.
* The Israeli and US militaries will hold a major joint military exercise in Israel next week, the Israeli army said Thursday.
* China and African Union (AU) member countries have reiterated their joint commitment to strengthening cooperation in peace and security through the successful implementation of the China-Africa Peace and Security Initiative.
* The Ukrainian parliament on February 7 passed a constitutional amendment stating its commitment to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU). The amendment was supported by 334 votes in favor in the 450-seat parliament, according to a statement released on the parliament's website.
* Heavy rain and hailstorm Thursday evening hit Indian capital New Delhi and parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) of Noida.
* China's meteorological department forecast Friday that snow and sleet were likely to hit central and east China in the next three days due to the co-influence of cold air and southwest warm moist airflow.
* A UN envoy said Thursday that the atmosphere for resuming the dialogue on Kosovo has been exacerbated over the past few months.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bangladesh government recently signed agreement for US$50 million in loan to promote microenterprise development for inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction.
* Seven people were beheaded and three young girls kidnapped by armed men early Thursday in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, state radio station Radio Mozambique (RM) reported.


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Club Q neighbors hopeful for help from Chamber fund
by: Maggy Wolanske
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — On Monday, the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Corporation (Chamber & EDC) announced a $40,750 fund to help businesses in El Paso County impacted by the Club Q shooting.
"We know that many people have been so generous to support the victims and their families and the communities truly come together to support the LBGTQ+ community," said Johnna Reeder Kleymeyer, President and CEO of the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Corporation. "But we cannot forget the businesses that have also been affected. And we think that's a role for the chamber and EDC and our partners with exponential impact to help make a difference."
>>Fund to support businesses affected by Club Q shooting
The funds will help businesses that may need additional security, or that have faced hardships from lost revenue, forced closure, or reduced employee staff hours.
Shaleen Pandya is the owner of the Subway in the shopping plaza by Club Q and he shared the impact of Club Q on the business.
"We've always had a very close business," said Pandya. "Unfortunately, the two who passed away, Daniel and Derrick, they were regular customers of ours…so I'd see them all the time, at least once a week."
Pandya said after the tragedy on November 19, Subway limited its business hours to close earlier.
"I know a lot of other businesses are, everything's just slowed down a lot," said Pandya. "And it's, it's nothing negative. It's just like, you know, no one wants to go somewhere where tragedy has struck."
Elephant Thai is also located in the same shopping plaza by Club Q. The owner, Suwanna Meyer, shared that the restaurant was closed for three days.
"So when I know this happened, I feel very scared, very shocked," said Meyer. "And I never thought that this would happen in this area at all."
Chamber & EDC partnered with the Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade to give these funds to businesses affected by the shooting.
"We partner with them often when there is a need in our community," said Kleymeyer. "And we're just thankful that they provided the matching grant dollars so that we could now have a fund over $40,000 to support our local small businesses."
El Paso County businesses can apply for this fund online and applications will be accepted until Dec. 12.
"We hope that everyone will go to that site and apply," said Kleymeyer. "Special attention will be given to those that had business closure, lost revenue, decreased staff hours, decreased staff availability, added security or decreased customers."
An independent group of volunteer business leaders will go through the applications and award grants to businesses.
"The average grant will be around $5,000, but…any business in El Paso County that is legally allowed to do business in the state of Colorado is eligible," said Kleymeyer.
Chamber & EDC will also welcome any additional donations and if you are interested in donating to call the Chamber at 719-471-8183.
Both Subway and Elephant Thai owners shared they will be applying for the fund. Meyer is hopeful and determined to continue to serve signature dishes to the Colorado Springs community.
"I'm very happy that I can stay in this community to cook, to use my passion to serve this good food, to Colorado Springs people and people who live around this area," said Meyer.


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sudo apt-get install gcc
Reading package lists... Done
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Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
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On Tuesday 4 July 2017 I'll be reading from This Little World at the 'On the Nail Literary Gathering' hosted by the Limerick Writers' Centre.
I will be reading with Terry McDonagh, and signing copies of THE BOOK, of course!!
And don't forget … there's an Open Mic afterwards, so bring some writing or music of your own to entertain us all. Many thanks to Dominic Taylor for the invitation. Chuffed to have been asked to do the gig.
I'd a great day in Galway at the #Herstory Nollaig na mBan Open Mic.
The event was hosted at the Cornstore by Galway2020 who not only provided a great – still festive – space, but also coffee, biccies and buns. Thanks, Nollaig and the gang!
Susan Millar DuMars was the MC, and led off the readings. I was called up next. EEEK! But, I guess someone has to go first. Right up to the time I'd to leave the house, I was dithering about what poem to read. I had a few to choose from – having written a whole song cycle about women on the edges of History, some years ago. And there are a couple of new poems in The Notebook! In the end, I did pick one of 'my girls': a poem about my great-grandmother, Lucy May (Louie) Fitzell.
Themes ranged from the woman at home during WW1, poems interlocking the lives of mothers and their daughters, of a mother- and daughter-in-law, of an anonymous woman handing over her baby at the Tuam mother and baby home. Gráinne Mhaol got great treatment in an animated recitation by Pat McArdle. Pat is a man, by the way …. for yes, men were welcome to take part, and did! Margaretta D'arcy spoke to us about Louie Bennett – a mighty woman not served well by historians, or the State. We also heard excerpts from works in progress – including the 'delights' of working for a boss from hell in New York!
All in all, a lively way to spend a drizzly beginning to 2017. I got to meet up with two writing buddies, and heard engaging, diverse work. As Susan said, It would be wonderful if this could become an annual event. TG4 filmed proceedings for the Róisín show, which goes out on Wednesdays at 8.30pm. Róisín was there too, and she seemed to enjoy herself!
Epilogue: Of course, being in the Cornstore, I just HAD to drop in to Charlie Byrne's for a browse. I picked up some interesting travel books – including the letters of Gertrude Bell. The best thing was, I still have credit on my account with them and didn't even have to open my purse. Yippee!


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Alonissos Mayor Calls for Creation of 'One of a Kind' Underwater Archaeological Park
Tag: Alonissos, divind tourism, diving, Greece, Greece tourism, Greek news, Greek tourism, Harry Theoharis, l13167l, Petros Vafinis, Sofia Zacharaki, Tourism, tourism and travel, tourism and travel Greece, travel, underwater archaeological park, Vicky Loizou
Alonissos Mayor Petros Vafinis recently presented the municipality's plan for the creation of an underwater archaeological park – the first of its kind in Greece – during a recent meeting with the leadership of of the Greek Tourism Ministry.
The island of Alonissos is home to Greece's first underwater museum, which features the 5th-century shipwreck of Peristera at a depth of 25 meters. The museum opened in the summer of 2020, offering divers the chance to explore through guided diving tours.
Speaking during the 1st Inter-Regional Forum that was held earlier in April, Mayor Vafinis called for the opening of six more shipwrecks in the area, and possibly others that have not been explored yet.
"In this unique environment, divers will be able to enjoy an underwater treasure of shipwrecks during a seven- to 10-day program, that cannot be found anywhere else. Our aim is to create the first underwater archaeological park in Greece in the largest natural marine park of Europe," he said.
The mayor called for the cooperation of relevant authorities and the coordination of the Greek Tourism Ministry for the project to be carried out.
Alonissos Mayor Petros Vafinis
Mayor Vafinis also referred to the operation of Greece's first underwater museum, which was welcomed by Greek and international media, and amateur divers with enthusiasm.
"It is important that the island's visitors last summer ignored the difficult circumstances caused by Covid-19, visited Alonissos and the Peristera shipwreck, and said they were willing to live the unique experience again," he said.
The 1st Inter-Regional Forum was held under the title "Sea tourism, yachting, diving" with the participation of Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis, Deputy Tourism Minister Sofia Zacharaki and Secretary General for Tourism Policy and Development Vicky Loizou, among others.
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Elefsina Archaeological Site Upgrade to be Completed in 2022


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