The webinar described the components of the FreshLink Ambassador Program model.
expand EBT access and increase income for 65 farmers.
This booklet is the result of asking the question, "What can we do to increase sales and attendance at our market?", reports the results from using our market as a "living lab" to systematically test ideas to answer this question.
This guide is for farmers market organizers, public health professionals, and food justice advocates who want to learn how farmers markets can accept SNAP/EBT benefits. The guide includes an overview of SNAP/EBT in North Carolina and how to implement a successful SNAP/EBT program at farmers markets. The guide also describes farmers market nutrition incentive programs and how farmers markets can implement their own incentive program. Download the guide here.
As a companion to the Guide's section on record-keeping, RAFI is also offering a new tool, the Guide to Excel for Farmers Market SNAP/EBT Programs. This downloadable Excel workbook contains instructions, tips, templates for SNAP/EBT record-keeping in Excel 2013; we hope to offer a guide for additional versions of Excel and Google Sheets in the future. Download the Excel guide here.
The Farmers Market and Faith Community Partnership Guide is a first edition publication from Rural Advancement Foundation International. The Guide lays out how farmers market managers can identify, reach out to, and build partnerships with local faith communities that will strengthen the market's outreach, awareness, and accessibility. The Guide includes case studies from farmers markets with existing faith community partnerships as well as resources and templates farmers market managers can use. As this is the first edition, we recognize we didn't capture everything. If you have comments about how to improve this resource, please contact RAFI.
This Q&A accompanies Michigan State University's Economics of Healthy Food Incentives at Michigan Farmers Markets report.
This study, conducted by Michigan State University in partnership with the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service and Fair Food Network, found that offering SNAP and Double Up at markets resulted in positive and distinct increases to direct agricultural sales beyond the value of the benefits themselves. It also reveals data-driven insights into SNAP families' shopping behaviors when incentives are in place.


The NFL season is half over and two familiar faces — Peyton Manning and Tom Brady — are on top of the league.
Using three different advanced stats, we came up with a formula to rank all 32 NFL starters at the halfway point.
The formula uses Football Outsiders' DYAR metric, Advanced Football Analytics' "win probability added" metric, and ESPN's total QBR metric. These three stats measure slightly different things, so weighting them evenly should give us a decent picture of the NFL quarterback pecking order.
There are some surprises (Carson Palmer!) and some not-so surprises (Peyton).
One thing to know: He's the best in the world, despite the fact that he self-admittedly 'stunk' against New England.
One thing to know: He has thrown six interceptions during his team's three-game losing streak.
One thing to know: He has the lowest interception rate of his career.
One thing to know: He's being helped by the emergence of a bunch of good young wide receivers. Rookie Martavis Bryant made his debut in Week 7 and he already has five TD catches.
One thing to know: Tom Brady is just as stunned at the things Rob Gronkowski does as the rest of us.
One thing to know: This is his best statistical season since his second year in the league ... which was nine years ago.
One thing to know: He's significantly better than last year. He has career highs in completion percentage, TD rate, and yards per attempt. He already has a career high 26 touchdown passes.
One thing to know: He's expected to play in Week 10 despite a broken bone in his back.
One thing to know: Flacco is hurt by Steve Smith tailing off since his hot start. Smith has only 71 receiving yards in his last two games combined.
One thing to know: With 8 INTs, he's already two-thirds of the way to last year's total of 12.
One thing to know: The Falcons have a ton of issues, but passing offence isn't one of them. Ryan's numbers are similar to what they were during the team's 13-3 season in 2012.
One thing to know: A year after leading the league in interceptions, Eli has the lowest INT rate of his career.
One thing to know: He has been perfectly competent, which is good enough with the team he has around him.
One thing to know: Stafford is throwing it much less than he did in past years. He's on pace for his fewest passing attempts ever in a full 16-game season.
One thing to know: That massive contract extension hasn't lit a fire under Dalton. He's still frustratingly inconsistent.
One thing to know: He may or may not have been the target of a Brandon Marshall rant.
One thing to know: He's not blowing anyone away, but he has improved his completion percentage this year and cut down on his picks. The Dolphins are an intriguing wild card underdog as a result.
One thing to know: His numbers are down across the board this year, and he's not making nearly as many big plays as he did last year.
One thing to know: The second half of the season is massive for him. He has played well against a weak schedule, and now he has a chance to make a miracle playoff run.
One thing to know: The offensive line in front of him has fallen apart. He got sacked eight times in Week 9.
One thing to know: He has an incredible story. He was a walk-on in college and wasn't drafted, and now he's quarterbacking a decent team.
One thing to know: He's having one of his worst statistical seasons, but you can't really blame him with the lack of weapons he has around him.
One thing to know: The difference between him and E.J. Manuel has been shocking.
One thing to know: It has been an up and down year, but he has still been the best rookie QB.
One thing to know: He hasn't been that terrible. With absolutely nothing around him he's at least making some of these games interesting.
One thing to know: Peyton Manning's rookie interception record is in play!
Unranked: The 6 QBs who haven't played enough games to be ranked yet.
Zach Mettenberger, Tennessee Titans -- He's making his first start since J.J. Watt scolded him for having fun.
Mark Sanchez, Philadelphia Eagles -- He's the guy for the rest of the regular season with Nick Foles out.
Josh McCown, Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- He won back the job after Mike Glennon disappointed.
Michael Vick, New York Jets -- He's the official starter now that the Geno Smith era is over.
Robert Griffin III, Washington Redskins -- He'll play his third game of the year, and his second since dislocating his ankle.
Ryan Mallett, Houston Texans -- He'll make his first start after the benching of Ryan Fitzpatrick.


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Every year, hundreds of thousands of adult Chinook salmon race upstream to their spawning grounds in the tributaries and mainstems of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. But sometimes, salmon get mixed up about which river they should return to for spawning. Following the 2016 fall-run migration season, we shared our surprising results of adult salmon monitoring on the Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers. Despite the intense drought that began in 2011, and the underwhelming ocean harvest for the 2016 season, we saw a record-breaking number of salmon return to the Stanislaus River, and the second largest return we'd ever recorded on the Tuolumne River. During the 2017 migration, returns of fall-run Chinook to the San Joaquin Basin made up 32% of total Central Valley escapement, which is triple their usual contribution. We had a hunch that this influx of fish was due to salmon straying from other rivers, and, based on the proportion of returning adults with clipped adipose fins, it seemed likely that many of these fish were from hatcheries. Recently, we crunched some numbers that helped reveal the true scale of hatchery influence on salmon returns in the San Joaquin basin.
Figure 1. Fish hatcheries in the Central Valley, CA that produce fall-run Chinook salmon.
Determining how many salmon came from hatcheries, and which hatcheries they came from, is not an easy task. For one reason, the only external mark given to hatchery-origin fish is a clipped-off adipose fin (a small, fleshy fin behind the dorsal fin), but this mark is not unique to any specific hatchery (they rely on microscopic coded-wire-tags (CWTs) embedded in fish snouts for that). A second reason is that the five California hatcheries that produce fall-run Chinook (Figure 1) only mark about 25% of the fish they release. This means that even if an adult's adipose fin is intact, it could still have come from a hatchery – for every hatchery fish with a clipped adipose fin, there are about three hatchery fish with unclipped fins. In spite of these challenges, and thanks to the Constant Fraction Marking/Tagging Program, it is still possible to provide a statistically valid estimate of the hatchery contribution to adult salmon returns (Mohr and Satterthwaite 2013). CWTs are recovered during annual carcass surveys as biologists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) collect heads from recently deceased salmon on or near their spawning grounds (we also collect salmon heads from carcasses that wash up on our weirs). At the Ocean Salmon Project's lab in Santa Rosa, the code on each recovered CWT is read and submitted to the Regional Mark Information System, the go-to source for information about tagged and marked fish throughout the Pacific region. Because each CWT code is unique to a particular group of fish released from a particular hatchery, we can calculate the proportion of recovered CWTs that came from each hatchery (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Hatchery origin of coded-wire-tags recovered from annual CDFW carcass surveys on the Stanislaus and Tuolumne Rivers. Note that these are proportions that do not reflect the different number of tags collected in each year.
Combining CWT recovery data with information from CDFW carcass survey reports, we are able to estimate the proportion of returning adult salmon that originated from Central Valley hatcheries (Figure 3). CWTs recovered from the Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers from 2010 to 2016 revealed that a high proportion of the salmon came from the Mokelumne River Hatchery and the Merced River Hatchery. But we also frequently encountered fish from across the state, including Coleman National Fish Hatchery on Battle Creek, Nimbus Hatchery on the American River, and Feather River Hatchery (Figure 2). Since 2010, there has been a greater than 50:50 chance that a returning adult salmon we observed on the Stanislaus or Tuolumne River came from a hatchery. In both rivers during 2015 and 2016, almost 100% of those record-setting numbers of salmon came from a hatchery.
Figure 3. Hatchery influence on adult fall-run Chinook salmon returning to the Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers. The proportion of fish marked with a clipped adipose fin and the estimated hatchery contribution are based on total counts from weirs on each river. No estimate from the Stanislaus weir was available in 2011 because the weir had to be removed early due to high river discharge.
While a large number of returning adult salmon might seem to be a cause for celebration, in reality, the high contribution of hatchery fish masks the decline of wild spawners. A recent paper by Willmes et al. (2018) observed similar patterns with natural-area spawning fall-run Chinook on the Feather River. A primary concern about replacing wild populations of salmon with hatchery fish is an eventual loss of genetic diversity, a phenomenon known as the Ryman-Laikre effect (Ryman and Laikre 1991). Wild salmon have evolved unique adaptations to the specific requirements of individual watersheds, and such genetic diversity is important for helping a species cope with threats like climate change. However, most hatchery fall-run salmon are genetically similar, and through interbreeding with wild spawners, they can essentially "dilute" the salmon gene pool. Although hatcheries can inflate the number of fish returning to the San Joaquin Basin, the situation is really one of quantity vs. quality.


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Each System Center Configuration Manager site requires a supported SQL Server version and configuration to host the site database.
The site database must use a full installation of SQL Server.
A computer that is remote from the site server.
The default or named instance of SQL Server.
A SQL Server cluster. See Use a SQL Server cluster to host the site database.
A SQL Server AlwaysOn availability group. For more information, see SQL Server AlwaysOn for a highly available site database.
The site database can use the default instance of a full installation of SQL Server or SQL Server Express.
SQL Server must be located on the site server computer.
SQL Server transactional replication is supported only for replicating objects to management points that are configured to use database replicas.
Configuration Manager supports the versions of SQL Server that you use.
The SQL Server versions you use remain in support by Microsoft.
SQL Server supports replication between the two versions of SQL Server. For example, SQL Server doesn't support replication between SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2016. For more information, see Deprecated features in SQL Server replication.
Unless specified otherwise, the following versions of SQL Server are supported with all active versions of Configuration Manager. If support for a new SQL Server version or service pack is added, the Configuration Manager version that adds that support is noted. Similarly, if support is deprecated, look for details about affected versions of Configuration Manager.
Support for a specific SQL Server service pack includes cumulative updates unless they break backward compatibility to the base service pack version. When no service pack version is noted, support is for the version of SQL Server with no service pack. In the future, if a service pack is released for a SQL Server version, a separate support statement is declared before the new service pack version is supported.
When you use SQL Server Standard for the database at the central administration site, you limit the total number of clients that a hierarchy can support. See Size and scale numbers.
This version of SQL Server isn't supported. For more information, see Deprecated support for SQL Server versions as a site database.
The following are required by all installations of SQL Server that you use for a site database (including SQL Server Express). When Configuration Manager installs SQL Server Express as part of a secondary site installation, these configurations are automatically created for you.
Configuration Manager supports two exceptions to this collation to meet standards that are defined in GB18030 for use in China. For more information, see International support.
Configuration Manager requires that the compatibility level for the site database is no less than the lowest supported SQL Server version for your Configuration Manager version. For instance, beginning with version 1702, you need to have a database compatibility level greater than or equal to 110.
Only the Database Engine Services feature is required for each site server.
Configuration Manager database replication doesn't require the SQL Server replication feature. However, this SQL Server configuration is required when you use database replicas for management points.
Use a dedicated instance of SQL Server for each site. The instance can be a named instance or the default instance.
Reserve memory for SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio and setting the Minimum server memory setting under Server Memory Options. For more information about how to configure this setting, see SQL Server memory server configuration options.
For a database server that is installed on the same computer as the site server: Limit the memory for SQL Server to 50 to 80 percent of the available addressable system memory.
For a dedicated database server (remote from the site server): Limit the memory for SQL Server to 80 to 90 percent of the available addressable system memory.
For a central administration site: Set a minimum of 8 gigabytes (GB).
For a primary site: Set a minimum of 8 gigabytes (GB).
For a secondary site: Set a minimum of 4 gigabytes (GB).
The site database requires SQL Server common language runtime (CLR) to be enabled. This option is enabled automatically when Configuration Manager installs. For more information about CLR, see Introduction to SQL Server CLR Integration.
The following configurations are optional for each database that uses a full SQL Server installation.
This configuration is a best practice and might require you to manually register the service principal name (SPN) for the account.
Use the local system account to simplify the configuration process.
When you use the local system account, Configuration Manager automatically registers the SPN for the SQL Server service.
Using the local system account for the SQL Server service isn't a SQL Server best practice.
For information about SPNs for the site database, see Manage the SPN for the site database server.
For information about how to change the account that is used by the SQL Server service, see SCM Services - Change the service startup account.
SQL Server Reporting Services is required for installing a reporting services point that lets you run reports.
After you upgrade SQL Server from a previous version, you might see the following error: Report Builder Does Not Exist.
To resolve this error, you must reinstall the reporting services point site system role.
Intersite communications use the SQL Server Service Broker, which uses port TCP 4022 by default.
When a computer running SQL Server hosts a database from more than one site, each database must use a separate instance of SQL Server. Also, each instance must be configured to use a unique set of ports.
Configuration Manager doesn't support dynamic ports. Because SQL Server named instances by default use dynamic ports for connections to the database engine, when you use a named instance, you must manually configure the static port that you want to use for intrasite communication.
If you have a firewall enabled on the computer that is running SQL Server, make sure that it's configured to allow the ports that are being used by your deployment and at any locations on the network between computers that communicate with the SQL Server.
For an example of how to configure SQL Server to use a specific port, see Configure a server to listen on a specific TCP port.
Use backup and recovery. Using backup and recovery for a SQL upgrade scenario is supported. You can ignore the SQL versioning requirement when reviewing Considerations before recovering a site.


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It's Friday the 13th and before we get to the gross foods, here's a brief (and freaky) history lesson. With a phobia all its own, known as friggatriskaidekaphobia (say that thirteen times fast!), Friday the 13th is steeped in urban legend. While hard to believe in the era of TGIF!, Fridays have been associated with all sorts of disasters from stock market crashes to major maritime accidents since the 14th century. In maritime lore, Friday is considered an unlucky day, and an especially bad day to begin a voyage, thus the source of the urban legend of HMS Friday. Well before the movie Friday the 13th in 1980, references to unlucky #13 date back to Babylonian legal documents, the Code of Hammurabi from circa 1,700 BCE. Even developers of many modern day skyscrapers and office towers omit the 13th floor from elevators due to the association with the unlucky number.
"It's been estimated that [U.S] $800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day [Friday the 13th] because people will not fly or do business they would normally do," said Donald Dossey, founder of the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute, who estimates that 17 to 21 million Americans suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia. The British Medical Journal even reports that "[Hospital] Admissions due to transport accidents were significantly increased on Friday 13th [vs. Friday the 6th] (total 65 v 45) [... and ] the risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by as much as 52%. Staying at home is recommended." Interestingly, the 13th of the month is 0.3% more likely to fall on a Friday than any other day of the week.
Now onto the freaky foods...!
1. Balut (Seen above and below) A speciality of street vendors across the Philippines and Vietnam, balut is basically a soft-boiled duck fetus. The fertilized duck egg is allowed to incubate in a hatchery for up to 18 days before it is soft-boiled and eaten, straight from the shell with a pinch of salt.
2. Casu Marzu So bad it's illegal. Literally "rotten cheese", Casu Marzu is a Sardinian speciality derived from pecorino, a sheep's milk cheese, that has been left to "ferment" (aka rot) with the aid of insect larvae. The process is considered finished when the liquefied fats begin to seep out of the rind (lagrima, Sardinian for "tears") and the round is riddled with live cheese-fly larvae which, once disturbed, can launch themselves nearly 6 inches into the air. Clearly a violation of every health law ever and dozens of social mores. No thank you.
3. Century Egg Or pidan (after the pine needle pattern which develops) is another Asian-egg delicacy, this time from China. Essentially a chicken, duck or quail egg is preserved and aged for a few weeks... or months... and then sliced and eaten with pickled ginger. Traditionally, the preservation process included packing the whole, raw eggs in clay, ash, salt, lime (okay, mud) and rice hulls, however contemporary methods include soaking the eggs in a brine solution which is said to achieve the same effect: raising the pH level inside the egg and thus, curing it.
4. Stinkheads A traditional Eskimo meal of, well, fermented fish heads - preferably of King salmon. The heads and guts are thrown in a barrel, wrapped in burlap and buried for a week or so. For a while, plastic bags and buckets were used but the nature of the plastic dramatically increased the risk of botulism and contemporary preparation still includes in-ground storage. Eek.
5. Bat Paste and Fruit Bat Soup While bats are known disease carriers, they are still a relatively common protein source in Thailand, Guam and elsewhere. Begin with a freshly-caught adorable little fruit bat in a remote, sub-tropic village. Drop live into a pot of boiling broth, water or milk. Simmer until desired doneness. Discard leathery wing tissue and hollow bones, combine with fresh herbs and blend into a paste - it does "wonders for the libido." If you're looking for a new aphrodisiac, this may be your shtick!
6. Head Cheese Possibly only made more disgusting when made into head cheese loaf, seen above, which is chock-full of fresh veggies, chunks of meat and ...other stuff.
7. Caterpillar Fungus Basically, a mushroom. That grows from the head of dead and mummified caterpillars. Essentially, the caterpillar fungus is a medicinal mushroom eaten in Tibet and China that is the result of a parasitic relationship between the fungus and the larva of Ghost Moths. Oftentimes, the fungus kills the larva and mummifies the body, growing from the head of the empty shell. Interestingly, the caterpillars (only found between certain elevations in the Himalayan foothills) live underground pupating for 5 years, munching on roots and you know, becoming infected with a dangerous fungus. Used for a variety of purposes, from an aphrodisiac to a cure for cancer, these mushrooms are served up as soup - seen here.
8. Still-Beating Cobra Heart & Blood-Infused Vodka Be still, my beating heart! Now, I'm as much about infused vodkas as the next gal, but this seems a little... oh, I don't know, disturbing. A southeast Asian speciality, swallowing a still-beating cobra heart followed by a shot of blood-infused booze (most often vodka, sometimes whiskey...) is said to make you strong and stronger -- in that order. I know a few brave souls (read: dumb college guys) who've done the deed and said it wasn't so bad. The video? A clip from A Cook's Tour featuring Anthony Bourdain swallowing a cobra heart and gulping down blood-booze - tune in around 5:55 for the whole cobra experience.
10. Monkey Brains Okay, okay, I realize the movie poster is misleading - but this is serious stuff! Monkey brains (chilled or otherwise) are a regional delicacy. Rumors surrounding its preparation include serving from the cut-open skull of still-living monkeys and while open-skull presentation is truly traditional, not so of the live entertainment.
12. Hasma A traditional Chinese ingredient in both soups and desserts: dried fallopian tubes of Asiatic grass frogs. Sold dried, this reproductive equipment swells immensely when rehydrated in water, broth or coconut milk and takes on a jelly-like texture. Sometimes prepared as soup, hasma is still available in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and North American cities with large Asian populations. Seen here, the hasma looks pretty delicious - prepared with coconut milk and sugar for a sweet treat with a texture similar to tapioca. Mmm!
13. Cow's Stomach Aka tripe is an Italian specialty and still one of Rome's favorite dishes tripa alla Romana. While this is typical fare to some, offal and I have a hate-terrified relationship (I bet you can guess which way it goes), there's just something abut eating stomach that seems... wrong... and maybe counterproductive.
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The Russians Are Coming... To Harper Woods
Chris Handyside | Thursday, May 21, 2009
It's one of those rare, shining and crisp Detroit spring mornings and Mapquest has hosed me a little bit. And so here I am, windows rolled down, driving down block after block of side streets, clocking modest working class bungalows in the east side enclave of Harper Woods, thinking I've imagined my quarry. Just as the descending addresses are about to signal yet another wrong turn, it appears: A grand, sprawling and climbing hand-crafted wonderland-cum-sanctuary – the St. Sabbas Russian Orthodox Monastery, announcing its presence. It's true.
Tucked away into this otherwise run-of-the-mill, slightly-down-at-the-heel neighborhood is an authentic, working monastery celebrating and keeping alive the milleniums-old traditions of Christianity's most ancient lineage. The compound sprawls over seven acres of property, including two main lots, where the monks have converted former homes into the church itself, a library, living quarters for the monks, and, perhaps most notably, a gourmet-quality restaurant called the Royal Eagle. But it also encompasses a temporary woodshop across the street and a parcel of land set aside for future use (more on that later).
Entering the monastery gardens, one is transported out of time, to a place of quiet. The garden paths roam gracefully over ponds and lead to gazebos. The tree-shaded patio (on this day, covered in helicopters of towering maples) is lined with tables where congregants and lay people can sit and reflect. The church itself is a marvel of authentic antiquity, walls covered in gilded, faithful renderings of the saints, hand painted by a local iconographer in the strict, traditional Orthodox style. The grounds exude a grounding air of the handmade and the exultant. And that's exactly as St. Sabbas' abbott, Rochester Hills native Father Pachomy, and the six monks attached would have it (except for the maple helicopters, that is).
The series of events that led to the establishment of St. Sabbas is enough to give even the most hardened skeptic pause.
The Russian Orthodox church in Detroit has roots that stretch back to the early 1900s, but by the 1980s, Detroit's hard times sent many parishioners to the suburbs and the church closed the original Russian Cathedral on Joseph Campau.
In 1999, the church had set up temporarily in Eastpointe and had a house that a parishioner had purchased in Grosse Pointe Woods to be used as a showpiece for the monks' artisanal woodworking and remodeling.
"The Bishop found out a year later that the parishioner had bought a house in Grosse Pointe," recalls Father Pachomy. "And he flipped! He said, 'Monks cannot be living in Grosse Pointe.' This is against the ideal of orthodoxy. He said put it up for sale and I'm shipping you to New York to put you in charge of remodeling and reconstruction there. '"
"I said 'Eminence, I don't really want to move to New York. What if we have a monastery in Michigan, will you allow me to stay? He said 'yes, you have to get rid of the private property, you fund it yourself, the Diocese doesn't have the money. We had gotten the house for $160,000 and he said to put it on the market one year later for 350,000."
So Father Pachomy and his reluctant real estate agent (a member of the Zamboni family – yes, that Zamboni family) put up the sign.
"The bishop and he told me to pray to St. Sabbas, and if it's God's will for us build a monastery we'll sell. If not I'm off to New York with no questions.'"
The house sold in three days.
"I said 'Father, we sold the house for 350,000'" recalls Father Pachomy with a smile. "He said 'you're so disobedient! I told you 600,000!"
After a long day of property hunting, Father Pachomy picked up the mail at the temporary church and headed down Kelly Road toward the highway. As it happens, the CVS nearby had caught fire and traffic was directed down Old Homestead Road, right past a house that was in the process of being converted into a neighborhood clinic, but that was up for sale by the owners.
Father Pachomy nearly didn't get out to check it out, bespoke as he was in full Cossack and long beard and at first reluctant to wander a strange neighborhood. But a parishioner and his child were in the car and the child chided him saying "'Father, since when are you ashamed to be a priest?' I've never been ashamed to be a priest, but out of the mouths of children comes the truth. And so we stopped."
As it happens, the family was reluctant to sell, and was headed off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Father Pachomy made a phone call to another abbott there and arranged for a feast and viewing of church treasures for the family and their fellow travellers. When they couple returned, they agreed to sell the house to the church.
They set to work immediately, renovating the main property and meticulously crafting church and property with the help of both monks and lay craftsmen – including an iconographer and a master woodworker, under whom resident monks apprentice.
Six monks are "attached" to the church, each of whom contributes to the constant building, woodwork and renovation. "Everyone does a little bit of everything," says Father Pachomy. Until we find the right monks – after all, who wants to be a monk in the modern world – to fit in the right category, which is a hard process in the modern day."
But this is the modern world. And renovations cost money. So Father Pachomy and company struck upon the idea to turn an old motorcycle repair garage on an adjacent property into a Russian Tea House – the Royal Eagle.
The Royal Eagle is built in a traditional, gorgeous Venetian style to honor the memory and bequest of an Italian-American church patron. Its interior is appointed in authentic French antique furniture and decorations. The vibe is at once cozy and lavish.
Helmed by a gourmet chef from the Czech Republic, the Royal Eagle offers tea seatings on Tuesdays and "fish frys" on Thursdays.
"We call it a fish fry because we didn't want to get into a problem with having a restaurant in a residential neighborhood, but churches are allowed to have fish frys, so we call it a fish fry," smiles Father Pachomy. "But the food is over the top. Lamb, borscht, sesame-encrusted whitefish. It's really a thing."
Last year, says Father Pachomy, 7,000 folks came through St. Sabbas for tea or dinner (reservations are strongly recommended for the intimate dining room).
Things didn't go so smoothly at first, though.
"One neighbor couldn't stand the traffic and she tried to get the police to shut us down. The police said 'we're not shutting them down. It's the best thing that's happened to this neighborhood,'" Pachomy recalls.
"And so she went one step further and she called the health department. So the health department came out and said, 'you need 80k worth of renovations and a brand new kitchen which we had just put in."
So, who did they turn to? Well, Mike and Marian Illitch, as it turns out, who are close friends of Father Pachomy and St. Sabbas.
"They put in the kitchen and got us the license and brought us up to par. They got us up and running."
As the site has matured, the relationship with the neighborhood and the city has grown even more friendly.
"Harper Woods is very glad we're here" smiles Pachomy. "Not to say anything bad, but what else do you associate with Harper Woods? The neighbors know that we put in the work and that we're improving the neighborhood. We have some very interesting neighbors who visit us often. There are a couple Wayne State professors in the neighborhood who come here all the time just to sit and read in the quiet."
These may be very serious monks, walking a very traditional religious path, but they have plans, nonetheless. Big ones. Pachomy says that the proceeds from the restaurant are earmarked for the construction – on yet another of the adjacent lots – of a mini-village of eight traditional Russian log cabins to both house the monks and to sell their work.
And it all leads back to the church, of course. With a congregation numbering nearly 250 who attend traditional services on weekends that require head covering and dresses for females and further require that congregants stand – as is custom – for the service, surrounded by the saints.
"We have a big plan here. A very big plan," says Father Pachomy. "But the religious part of it, the biggest part of it, of course, is that we have a lot of people who are looking for religion, young people, who are tired of going to church where they have rock 'n' roll concerts or bodybuilding for Jesus. They're looking for the simple, historical church without all of the stuff that's been added throughout the centuries. So we're serving two purposes – filling a cultural void, a spiritual void."
And if the aura of giddy awe surrounding the vanful of Red Hat ladies pulling up in front of St. Sabbas on this bright and shiny day to enjoy a morning nosh at the Royal Eagle is any indication, it seems to be getting the balance right.
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Ceropegia meyeri Decne.
Photo: Helen Pickering
Victoria Falls: very close to the Livingstone statue overlooking the Falls
Synonyms: Ceropegia pubescens E.Mey.
Perennial twining herb with annual stems, up to 1.5 m long, growing from a disc-like tuberous rootstock. Milky sap present. Leaves opposite, variable, lanceolate to ovate, up to 8 × 3 cm, cordate at the base, more or less pubescent; margin entire, lobed or appearing toothed with many very small short lobes. Flowers in 2-4-flowered axillary clusters. Corolla bottle-shaped, 4-6 cm long, swollen 7-9 mm wide in the basal two-thirds of the tube, white to greenish-white, more or less distinctly spotted or striped in the upper half; lobes linear, c. 1 cm long, curving inward and connecting at the tips to form a more or less spherical "cage", black with green stripes; margins reflexed with long hair-like cilia. Fruit in 2 erect, almost parallel, follicles, terete, linear-filiform, up to 10 cm long, hairless.
Notes: Note: the long bottle-shaped corolla and the relatively small cage easily distinguish this species.
Worldwide distribution: Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and South Africa as far as the Eastern Cape.
Zimbabwe distribution: N,W,C,E
Images last updated: Saturday 1 August 2009
Bruyns, P.V. (2014). The Apocynaceae of Namibia Strelitzia 34 SANBI, Pretoria, South Africa Pages 87 - 89.
Dyer, R.A. (1983). Ceropegia, Brachystelma and Riocreuxia in Southern Africa. Balkema
Pickering, H. & Roe, E. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Victoria Falls Area Helen Pickering, London Page 27. (Includes a picture).
Other sources of information about Ceropegia meyeri:
Flora of Caprivi: Ceropegia meyeri
Flora of Mozambique: Ceropegia meyeri
Flora of Zambia: Ceropegia meyeri
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Ceropegia meyeri
African Plant Database: Ceropegia meyeri
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Ceropegia meyeri
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Ceropegia meyeri
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Ceropegia meyeri
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Ceropegia meyeri
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Ceropegia meyeri
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network): Ceropegia meyeri
iNaturalist: Ceropegia meyeri
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Ceropegia meyeri
JSTOR Plant Science: Ceropegia meyeri
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Ceropegia meyeri
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Ceropegia meyeri
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Wikipedia: Ceropegia meyeri
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2022). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Ceropegia meyeri.


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← Hello, abs.
Daytona incident →
Daytona!! (spoilers)
Posted on March 7, 2004 by carolyn
Peter and I had a busy weekend, so we're just now sitting down to watch the Daytona 200. Consider this the opening AMA race stream of consciousness entry.
Pre-race:
ARRGGGHHHH!! WHAT in GOD'S NAME is crawling on Ben Bostrom's face? Why do the otherwise perfectly attractive Bostrom brothers believe that these sideburns are a good idea? Someone close to them needs to take them aside and gently suggest a razor.
Is it just me, or does Matt Mladin look like Johnny Depp this year? This isn't a bad thing. Bostrom brothers: note the lack of sideburns.
The Miguel Duhamel interview is cracking me up. I think this is the most I've ever heard him talk — such a cute Canadian accent, yah der you betcha!
Yay, warm up lap! I'm sitting here eating pizza and yelling "WOOOO!! BIKE WEEK!". Peter keeps glancing over at me, looking somewhat worried.
WOOOO! BIKE WEEK!!
Lap 1: OK, if this is how the season's going to be, either Honda or Ducati needs to change the bike color. We're trying to figure out the top three riders. "Honda Honda Ducati?" "No, Ducati Honda Ducati." "No, that can't be….oh! Honda Ducati Honda!"
Lap 6: Looking to be a good race already. Lots of passes…mostly, of course, during the commercials. Heaven forbid Speed Channel ever show us a replay.
Lap 7: Why can't Speed Channel figure out how to pronounce Miguel Duhamel's name?
Lap 10: They're talking about how one of the teams (didn't catch which) didn't test their tires on 18-20 continuous laps before the Daytona. This seems like a poor game plan.
Lap 12: Wow, Jake Zemke's doing well. He's up to 4th now.
Lap 15: If the race is 57 laps long, why is Eric Bostrom pitting already? That doesn't really bode well. Three stops is pretty darn often. He can't count on 15 laps per tire during the regular season…
Lap 22: Man, poor Ben Bostrom. This pit stop is taking forever…that chain was loose as anything. We noticed it right as the commentator mentioned it…I'm surprised that he don't have radio communication with his pit crew — it sounded as though the delay was partially due to the crew assuming that he needed a new tire, not a chain adjustment.
Lap 25: And Ben's back into the pits. Ugh. Poor guy.
Lap 33: Seems like almost everyone is taking a 3-pit stop strategy. That seems odd.
Lap 34: They're talking to Ben Bostrom now — they're still not sure what happened to his bike. He says that he may have busted his clutch off the starting line. 🙁 He seems like such a nice guy; it's too bad about his sideburns.
Lap 35: Miguel, Jake, Matt. A good lineup.
Lap 36: Ugh, now it's Matt, Eric, Miguel. Christ, I think Speed Channel intentionally takes commercial breaks when the leaders are about to swap places.
Lap 40: Whee, Miguel coming into pit row at 150mph. Zoom! I wish I had a team of guys to fuel up my bike and swap my tires within 12 seconds.
Lap 43: Yikes, another Bostrom with an unexpected pit stop. Kinda hard to tell what's going on, but it seems like he was getting oil on the rear tire — it was smoking like a mudderfudder during decel. Peter and I had just been talking about colored smoke this afternoon; I was mentioning that oil farts out white smoke, and now we got a good demonstration.
Lap 45: They just mentioned that the 10th place racer gets $4000. That's the first time in my years of watching racing that the commentators mentioned the purse.
Lap 48: Matt, Aaron, Miguel.
Lap 49: Yikes! Yates is down! And he just walked up and kicked privateer Anthony Fania in the butt! Ha! Now they're fighting! Woah, Anthony, that's not a family gesture there. Oh man. Aaron Yates kicks my ass. That man is incapable of not being fined. The crash replay was astonishing — it looked as though Anthony Fania went down and was sucked into Yate's rear tire. *shudder*
Lap 50: Matt, Miguel, Jake. Time to get crazy on worn tires. I'm still laughing at Yates headbutting Fania and getting the wank-off gesture.
Lap 52: Peter and I are still talking about Aaron Yates. "He even looks a little like Larry Ellison," says Peter. That's a little Silicon Valley humor there.
Lap 54: Ricky Orlando: 47 years old, wrecked at the beginning, and is still in 6th place. Damn.
Lap 56: We think Miguel's setting Jake up…. Woah, photo finish! Who came in 2nd?
Victory Lane: Matt Mladin, Jake Zemke, Miguel Duhamel. It'll be a fun season, watching Jake go up against Eric and Ben.
Post-race:
I don't think the commentators are buying this whole "3 pit stops" strategy. They keep asking Matt about it as though he didn't just win by a mile.
Hee! Jake looks as though he doesn't quite believe that he came in second. Aww, he's giving his little Academy Awards speech. 🙂 I think the newbies are the only ones that plug the sponsors.
Miguel's making a lot of excuses for that third place finish. Like that's anything to be ashamed of.
We're looking forward to watching the CBR1000RRs during the regular season. They really tore off the line at the beginning of the race. Plus, Jake and Miguel: no sideburns.
The interview with Jack Pfeifer is awesome. $6500 for 4th place…seems a little low. Though I guess if you get ten 1st place finishes, you might almost make Bay Area wages. I think I'd rather ride a motorcycle around than sit behind a desk. Hrm.
Oh, woo, they're going to talk about the Aaron Yates fiasco du jour. Woah, even the pit crew guys are fighting. It'll be interesting to see, as the pit crew was saying, how the AMA is going to handle it.
From CycleNews.com: "According to Kerry Graeber, vice president, director of communications for AMA Pro Racing, a decision will be made on the Aaron Yates/Anthony Fania altercation sometime next week.
'We spent the last couple of hours talking to everyone and we have tape,' Graeber said. 'It will be reviewed and a decision will be made this week on what we will do. We will address it on Monday when we get to the office.'"
More on the 'altercation' from Superbikeplanet.com.
So, that was the 2004 Daytona 200. Let the season begin!
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Joanne has lived in Mountain Lakes since 2003. She and her husband, Rich, MLHS Class of 1987, have four children, Richard, MLHS Class of 2015, Matthew, MLHS Class of 2018, Thomas, MLHS Class of 2021 and Emma, MLHS Class of 2024. Joanne has been an educator for the past 20 years, working first as a high school teacher and now currently as a high school guidance counselor at Parsippany Hills High School. Joanne earned an MA in Administration and Educational Leadership from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education and an MsC in Comparative Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Aruni lives in Mountain Lakes with her husband, Nish Kolonne, and their three boys – Jayden (MLHS Class of 2025), Liam (MLHS Class of 2029) and Gavin (MLHS Class of 2031). Aruni works for a global healthcare company to guide and shape the commercialization & market access strategy of new medicines. Prior to this role, she provided consulting services to the biotech and pharmaceutical industry for 5+ years. Aruni received a dual Bachelor's degree (BA in Biology, BS in Microbiology), and earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine. She then completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University. Commitment to education is a top priority for Aruni. Since moving to Mountain Lakes in 2016, she has dedicated her time to volunteering in the local community including serving on the Wildwood School Referendum Planning Committee, the Advisory Council of the MLHS Academy for Biotechnology, and a prior 1-year term on the MLSD Board of Education in 2020.
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Kevin moved to Mountain Lakes in 2016, with his wife, Rimma, and daughter, Elizabeth (MLHS Class 2022). Kevin has three adult children – Rory, Jacob, and Alyssa. Kevin earned a bachelor's degree in Zoology from Western Illinois University and master's and PhD degrees in Environmental Health Science from New York University. Kevin had a 30-year career at Procter & Gamble Company where he led global organizations in the Company's pharmaceutical and personal healthcare businesses. After retiring from P&G he founded Healthcare Innovation Partners, which supports start-up businesses and the development of healthcare products. Kevin has served as an advisor to government agencies including the FDA, EPA, NASA, and the World Health Organization and serves on the executive boards of several companies. Kevin is an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University, lecturing in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy.
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Since living in Mountain Lakes, Erinn has served in various volunteer roles including the following H&SA Board Positions: President, VP of Programming, Wildwood Assistant Chair & Chair, Bake Sale Chair, Scholarship Chair, and Historian. Erinn has also volunteered with MLEF, as a CCD Teacher and Lector at St. Catherine's Church, and for ML Swim & Dive, MLBTB Soccer, Tri-Town Little League and MLBT Youth Boys Lacrosse.
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Researchers imaged the structural and chemical evolutions of LiCoO2 cathodes upon Li dendrite contact at an atomic scale. A spontaneous, irreversible conversion reaction leads to the formation of Co metal and Li2O, with CoO as a metastable reaction intermediate. Enlarge Image.
Rechargeable lithium (Li) batteries are the most widely used energy storage devices found in consumer electronics and electric vehicles today. There are challenges, though, to optimizing their capacity, recyclability, and stability. During a Li battery's charge-discharge cycles, highly localized Li dendrites—strands of Li that grow inside batteries—can form and hurt the battery's performance.
"Lithium dendrites are fine strands, like whiskers, that can come in contact with cathode materials and cause a chain of irreversible, spontaneous chemical reactions," said Yingge Du, a researcher from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) who recently led a study to visualize this phenomena. "It can lead to performance decay, short circuiting, and safety hazards," he added.
Du and his team sought to pinpoint the exact failure mechanism. To do so, they needed to precisely control how and when the Li dendrites came into contact with the cathode materials. The team used in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to directly image the structural and chemical evolutions of lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2) thin film cathodes on Li dendrite contact. "LiCoO2 is still one of the most widely used cathode materials," said Du, "and making it into well-defined single-crystalline form by pulsed laser deposition can unleash the power of advanced electron microscopy." Using this approach, researchers discovered an unexpected Li propagation pathway and detailed reaction steps that lead to the cathode failure.
Their study, "Direct Visualization of Li Dendrite Effect on LiCoO2 Cathode by In Situ TEM," was recently published in Small and featured on its cover.
Why it matters: To meet the increasing demands for large-scale energy storage devices, there is an urgent need for researchers to develop safer, rechargeable batteries with higher energy output. Li metal has been regarded as an ideal, high-capacity anode material. However, its use is greatly hampered by the formation of Li dendrites that can penetrate the separator—a permeable membrane placed between a battery's anode and cathode. Once Li dendrites are in direct contact with cathode materials, a chain of irreversible, spontaneous chemical reactions can occur, leading to performance decay, short circuiting, and safety hazards.
While significant efforts have been devoted to detect, understand, and prevent the Li dendrite formation within the electrolytes, little is known regarding the detailed reaction pathways involving Li metal and cathode materials. Bridging this knowledge gap may provide detection and design principles that are critical to future energy storage solutions.
Summary: In this study, Yingge Du and his team of researchers at PNNL studied Li dendrites and their effect on cathode materials. They sought to understand the detailed reaction pathways, which could lead to the development of better Li batteries.
Using pulsed-laser deposition, Du and his team fabricated well-defined, epitaxial LiCoO2 thin films with controlled crystallographic orientations to serve as the model cathode materials. A Li metal tip was used to mimic the Li dendrite inside a TEM to study its reaction with prepared LiCoO2 samples.
Advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques—including scanning transmission electron spectroscopy, nanobeam diffraction, and electron-energy loss spectroscopy—allowed such reactions to be investigated with high spatial and temporal resolution. In combination with density functional theory calculations, researchers elucidated the reaction steps, intermediates, and final products at an unprecedented level. An unexpected Li diffusion direction perpendicular to the Li-containing planes was found, which tore the LiCoO2 crystal apart, generating large amount of grain boundaries and antiphase boundaries. While Co metal and Li2O were found to be the final products of the full conversion reaction, CoO was identified as a metastable intermediate at the reaction front as a result of facile phase transition from LiCoO2.
"The reaction steps and intermediates revealed provide a clear failure mechanism for the LiCoO2 cathodes caused by Li dendrites, and may also offer insights into the over-discharge processes in cathodes," remarked Du.
What's next? Continuing this work, Du's team intends to fabricate all-solid-state batteries by multi-step deposition processes using pulsed-laser deposition to better understand the ion transport processes across the well-defined interfaces.
Acknowledgements: This work addresses the Basic Research Needs for Synthesis Science for Energy Relevant Technology as identified by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), including Priority Research Direction 2 ("Accelerate materials discovery by exploiting extreme conditions, complex chemistries and molecules, and interfacial systems") and Priority Research Direction 4 ("Integrate emerging theoretical, computational, and in situ characterization tools to achieve directed synthesis with real-time adaptive control").
Sponsors: This work was supported by the DOE, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Early Career Research Program under Award No. 68278. P.V.S. was supported by the DOE-BES Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award No. 10122. A portion of the research was performed using the W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) (Ringgold ID130367), a DOE Office of Science User Facility sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at PNNL. PNNL is a multi-program national laboratory operated for DOE by Battelle under contract DE-AC05-76RL01830.
User Facilities: This work was performed using the W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a DOE Office of Science User Facility sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at PNNL.
Research Team: Zhenzhong Yang, Phuong-Vu Ong, Le Wang, Timothy C. Droubay, Peter V. Sushko, Yingge Du, and Wu Xu (PNNL); Yang He, Mark E. Bowden, and Chongmin Wang (EMSL, PNNL).


This new article came out and was posted at WebmasterWorld by Brett Tabke that said "But 60% of Google users said they would switch search engines if a better service were introduced." Currently, of that study, 48% use Google as their main engine, so for 60% of those people to say they would drop Google if something better came along is huge.
People can compare Google to AltaVista back in the day. Where is AltaVista now? Yahoo bought them and they are cannibalizing its technology to make the new and improved Yahoo! Search. But AltaVista never had the brand name and the reach Google has today. Google is synonymous with the word Web search, just like Kleenex is synonymous with tissues. That is something really hard to change. "I'll Google that word and get you the answer boss." "My home page is Google." "Where would I be without Google?" These are all statements I hear now and then by average Web users.
Ok, so you buy other brands of tissue paper. You buy the generic brand even though Kleenex is synonymous with tissues. But would 60% switch if a new engine came out that was better then Google? Well what is "better"? Less spam? More relevancy? Google isnt bad with either of the two. Plus relevancy is in the eyes of the beholder. I know many people in the education industry use Teoma because Teoma's results and tools are more focused on research. But Google is more focused on the public.
Take Apple computers for example, I know I can buy a more powerful Windows machine but I am a die hard Apple fan. I take the brand, the look, the design and the power of my PowerBook into consideration. I am proud to be an Apple computer user. Are you proud to be a Google user? That is the question.
Pick up the discussion at the SearchEngineWatch Forums.


The Experience API specification defines the structure of various objects such as statement, agent, verb, activity etc. The primary reader of the specification is a developer. If we wanted a computer program to be able to understand and apply the spec in order to validate statements, that program wouldn't be able to read the English specification. We'd need to translate the structures defined in the specification into a language that a computer could understand.
That's exactly what schema are: translations of the structures defined in the specification into a machine-readable format. Schema are particularly useful for validating data structures such as statements sent by an activity provider to an LRS.
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Q: How to get the cookie from a GET response? I am writing a function that makes a GET request to a website and returns the response cookie:
extern crate futures;
extern crate hyper;
extern crate tokio_core;

use tokio_core::reactor::Core;
use hyper::Client;
use std::error::Error;
use hyper::header::Cookie;
use futures::future::Future;

fn get_new_cookie() -> Result<String, Box<Error>> {
    println!("Getting cookie...");
    let core = Core::new()?;
    let client = Client::new(&core.handle());
    println!("Created client");

    let uri = "http://www.cnn.com".parse().expect("Cannot parse url");
    println!("Parsed url");
    let response = client.get(uri).wait().expect("Cannot get url.");
    println!("Got response");
    let cookie = response
        .headers()
        .get::<Cookie>()
        .expect("Cannot get cookie");
    println!("Cookie: {}", cookie);

    Ok(cookie)
}

fn main() {
    println!("{:?}", get_new_cookie());
}

This doesn't work; it is stuck on the client.get(...) string. The output I'm getting is:
Getting cookie...
Created client
Parsed url

and after that nothing happens.
What am I doing wrong and how I can change it so it'd work?

A: See the documentation for the wait method:

Note: This method is not appropriate to call on event loops or similar
  I/O situations because it will prevent the event loop from making
  progress (this blocks the thread). This method should only be called
  when it's guaranteed that the blocking work associated with this
  future will be completed by another thread.

Future::wait is already deprecated in the tokio-reform branch.
I'd recommend to design the full application to deal with async concepts (i.e. get_new_cookie should take a Handle and return a Future, not allocating its own event loop).
You could run the request with Core::run like this:
let response = core.run(client.get(uri)).expect("Cannot get url.");

A: As Stefan points out, by calling wait, you are putting the thread to sleep until the future has completed. However, that thread needs to run the event loop, so you've just caused a deadlock. Using Core::run is more correct.
As Francis Gagné points out, the "Cookie" header is used to send a cookie to the server. SetCookie is used to send a cookie to the client. It also returns a vector of all the cookies together:
fn get_new_cookie() -> Result<String, Box<Error>> {
    println!("Getting cookie...");
    let mut core = Core::new()?;

    let client = Client::new(&core.handle());
    println!("Created client");

    let uri = "http://www.cnn.com".parse().expect("Cannot parse url");
    println!("Parsed url");

    let response = core.run(client.get(uri)).expect("Cannot get url.");
    println!("Got response");

    let cookie = response
        .headers()
        .get::<SetCookie>()
        .expect("Cannot get cookie");
    println!("Cookie: {:?}", cookie);

    Ok(cookie.join(","))
}

However, if you only want a synchronous API, use Reqwest instead. It is built on top of Hyper:
extern crate reqwest;

use std::error::Error;
use reqwest::header::SetCookie;

fn get_new_cookie() -> Result<String, Box<Error>> {
    let response = reqwest::get("http://www.cnn.com")?;

    let cookies = match response.headers().get::<SetCookie>() {
        Some(cookies) => cookies.join(","),
        None => String::new(),
    };

    Ok(cookies)
}

fn main() {
    println!("{:?}", get_new_cookie());
}

A: reqwest 0.11 (and perhaps earlier) update
In the get_new_cookie function, I believe the code snippet to retrieve the cookies from a reqwest::Response goes something like:
// returns Option<&HeaderValue>

response.headers().get(http::header::SET_COOKIE)

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House panel favors veterinary bill
by Jeannie Roberts | January 17, 2019 at 3:33 a.m. | Updated January 17, 2019 at 3:33 a.m. 0comments
Sen. Larry Teague, D-Nashville, shows phone pictures to Sen. Joyce Elliott (right) and Sen. Linda Chesterfield, both Democrats from Little Rock, at the end of Wednesday's Senate session. - Photo by Thomas Metthe
Veterinary technicians and technologists would be able to perform their services away from the physical presence of a veterinarian under a bill that a House committee on Wednesday recommended for approval.
House Bill 1124 -- sponsored by Reps. DeAnn Vaught, R-Horatio, and David Hillman, R-Almyra, and Sen. Bruce Maloch, D-Magnolia -- would create certifications for veterinary technologist and technician specialist; the state now has a certification for veterinary technician.
The House Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Economic Development recommended approval of HB1124, which now goes to the House.
Under the legislation, the licensed veterinarian need not be physically present but can give written or oral instructions for the treatment of the animal and must be "readily available" either in person or through electronic and communication technology.
"This is the best way to help rural Arkansas with our vet problem," Vaught said.
Currently, no Arkansas college or university offers a doctor of veterinary medicine degree, and only Arkansas State University at Beebe offers the veterinary technology certification.
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"They all go out of state and don't come back," Vaught said.
According to the state Veterinary Medical Licensing Board roster, there are about 110 licensed veterinary technicians in the state. Under current law, they work with a licensed veterinarian present.
Under current law, a "veterinary technician" has an associate degree from a college-level program accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association.
The bill would define a "veterinary technician specialist" as someone who has completed formal education training and testing through a specialty academy approved by the Committee of Veterinary Technician Specialties of the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America.
HB1124 would define a "veterinary technologist" as someone who is a graduate of a four-year baccalaureate program accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association.
All three must be licensed by the state Veterinary Medical Examining Board.
Cody Burkham, executive vice president of the Arkansas Cattlemen's Association, told the committee that he hopes the bill is the "first step of several that" will be taken to address the shortage of large-animal veterinarians in Arkansas.
"I'm not one to exaggerate the problem," Burkham said. "I don't think it's hyperbole to say there's a crisis in rural American farm country."
According to the veterinary board, 987 veterinarians are licensed in Arkansas. Of those, 749 live in the state. Others are from states including Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Missouri.
Nearly 200 are from Northwest Arkansas, the home of several poultry-processing plants.
"You simply cannot find large-animal vets," Burkham said. "They are scheduled weeks, months in advance."
Veterinarian technicians and technologists have primarily offered technical support to veterinarians or researchers. They can conduct physical examinations and take a patient history, provide client education, care for a hospitalized patient, do lab work, administer medication and vaccines, and provide dental prophylaxis. They can also assist in radiology, anesthesiology and surgery.
Under HB1124, technicians and technologists would have limited powers when it comes to administering medical care and pharmaceuticals, especially controlled substances, without a veterinarian physically present.
The technicians could administer antibiotics, for example, but not narcotic pain medications. They could not perform a diagnosis or surgery or prescribe medications, appliances or treatment unless otherwise determined by the board.
"I'm still hung up on this collaborative agreement," Rep. Jeff Wardlaw, R-Hermitage, said. "Do they report back to the vet?"
Vaught explained that, according to the law, the technicians and technologists are employees of the veterinarian, who is responsible and liable for their performance.
Under HB1124, their salary would come from the veterinarian, and they would not be able to receive a fee or other compensation.
"They will not be able to put out their own shingle," Vaught said.
The legislation would likely mean a pay increase for the technicians and technologists "because they'll be able to do a lot more than they were allowed to do," Vaught said.
Rodney Baker of Capital Concepts, who was at Wednesday's meeting as a representative of the Arkansas Veterinary Association, told lawmakers that the association backs the bill.
He said the legislation would not stop a veterinarian from having more than one location, but it would not allow the vet to have a separate office staffed only with a licensed technician or technologist.
"You're not going to get good health care for these animals if you've got one location with one veterinarian and 15 offices out here," Baker said.
Wardlaw said he foresees problems for the licensing board.
"They're going to have to sanction somebody and then they're going to be in a lawsuit, so they'd better come up with some pretty strict rules and regulations about how that's going to be done," Wardlaw said. "I just think there's going to be problems."
Baker said he was sure there would be bumps in the road ahead.
"This is the fastest way to get some help with some of these husbandry practices out there," he said.
The calendar of public events of the 92nd General Assembly for today, the fourth day of the 2019 regular session.
9 a.m. House Education Committee, Room 138.
9 a.m. House Judiciary Committee, Room 149.
9 a.m. House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee, Room 130.
9 a.m. House Revenue & Taxation Committee, Room 151.
Upon adjournment of the House, House Management Committee, 4th floor conference room.
10 a.m. Senate Insurance and Commerce Committee, Room 171.
10 a.m. Senate State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee, Old Supreme Court chamber.
11 a.m. Senate convenes.
10 a.m. House convenes.
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Philanthropic fund giant's shift to outcomes-oriented grantmaking
Youth involved an extension of the "Sonnets in Noongar" project in which Shakespearean works were performed in traditional Noongar language. Funds come via the Noongar Charitable Trust, which is managed by Equity Trustees. Picture: Eva Fernande
Having distributed more than $124 million worth of grants in the 2018-19 financial year, Equity Trustees is Australia's second-largest steward of funds for charitable trusts and foundations.
It handles the affairs of 650 different funds, and increased distributions by a massive $37.1 million on the previous year.
Its grants - on behalf of those funds - are spread across a wide span of social endeavour. This includes major investments in medical research, the young, the old, the environment and animals, human services, arts and culture, community development and indigenous services.
Managing all those grants - 3200 annually at last count - is a huge task, a bigger responsibility, and an incredible opportunity for the 18-member team to generate impact.
GMI readers will be most interested in the approximately two-thirds of its distributions that come from "discretionary" funds. These are the funds for which decision-making on spending has been entrusted to Equity Trustees.
Why paying the bills is not enough for philanthropy
Yet until recently, in the important area of distribution, there remained an elephant in the room, says the general manager of charitable trusts and philanthropy, Jodi Kennedy. And that was the fact that the organisation wasn't doing enough to demonstrate how it was making an impact.
At the Grantmaking in Australia conference, in a panel session dedicated to Equity Trustees' re-orientation towards outcomes, Ms Kennedy characterised the transformation as a move from "being stewards of money to becoming drivers of social change".
This move was prompted by Ms Kennedy's realisation soon after joining the organisation in 2017 that Equity Trustees needed better insights into its activities if it was to truly meet its stated goals.
"What I discovered early on was that [while] we were really good, and very efficient, around the actual distribution of the money, it was apparent that we really didn't have much of a sense of how effective we were being as funders in the sector.
"The challenge is in being able to demonstrate why people should entrust us with their money."
And that, she says, is why the organisation realised it must go beyond "careful stewardship".
"We had to demonstrate that we are not just giving money to charity, we are deepening that impact of that money by the way we are stewarding and distributing that money to the sector."
The switch has meant the organisation has become more informed about its funding, has empowered grantseekers, is better able to advise clients, is helping enhance the culture of giving in Australia, and is looking for better ways to collaborate with like-minded organisations to solve society's biggest problems.
Children at the New York! New York! For Kids exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne last year. The event was supported by the Truby and Florence Williams Charitable Trust, which is managed by Equity Trustees
The risks of not measuring impact
Ms Kennedy acknowledges disquiet by some philanthropists who believe this kind of analysis is too expensive, too time-consuming, and inessential to the task of distributing funds.
But she says that thinking ignores the risk that philanthropic funds may not always have the desired effect.
"All funders giving money at scale have a responsibility to do this [measure impact]. There can be negative and unintended consequences for funders. And unless you engage in a learning journey to understand what those are, and your influence and impact is, then how are you going to know if there are those negative outcomes?"
Measuring impact also meant being much more upfront with grantees.
"We had never really been very transparent around how much, where, and why we gave the money to the organisations that we did. It's easy for us to demand the sector to show evidence about how you're making impact, and why should we give it to you, over somebody else. And yet, we as an organisation weren't doing that."
A public commitment to change, collaboration
Now Equity Trustees accepts that like its beneficiaries, it must show evidence, and it has put its intentions on display.
Part of that commitment to evidence was last year's Annual Giving Review, in which Equity Trustees outlined its proposed impact framework.
Ms Kennedy explains the intent: "This is where we started to say publicly, 'This is who we are, this is what we do, this is where we're heading. And if you're seeking funding, here's some insight into the decision-making process'."
That impact measurement framework will be rolled out over three years. It aims to deepen community impact by:
cultivating a culture of effective philanthropy
strengthening the for-purpose sector
using impact measurement and insights to catalyse lasting positive social impact across four key areas.
Those four areas are children and young people; ageing and aged care; medical research and health; and animals and the environment.
This new tactic has generated a greater understanding of the importance of collaboration for the organisation, because as an influential, networked organisation with the ear of active philanthropists, Equity Trustees is well placed to bring power brokers together to solve society's biggest problems.
Equity Trustees can identify, for example, a group of philanthropists with common goals and interests related to ageing, for example, to work as a team.
"One of the major things we've learnt is let's not try to do this on our own but use our influence and position as a large corporation to bring people to the table that need to be there, to solve those complex problems," Ms Kennedy says.
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How Equity Trustees is leaning on the experts
Equity Trustees has been working with impact specialists Think Impact for about a year on this project.
Think Impact founder Ross Wyatt told delegates Equity Trustees is helping to solve a $130 billion problem: that, he says, is the total revenue of for-purpose organisations in the country, all trying to tackle difficult social problems, yet often in isolation.
He said that with Think Impact's assistance, Equity Trustees is doing two crucial things: informing philanthropists about those big challenges, and identifying the best investments to address those social challenges, particularly in the focus areas listed in its Annual Giving Review.
It means, he says, that organisations such as Equity Trustees can "focus on the areas that matter and invest responsibly".
But he warns that other organisations considering following the same path must understand that it's not just about adopting a framework, "like a warm comfy blanket". He says organisations may need to change their culture, systems, processes, and even data capture methods to be capable of "impact-led design" of their grants programs.
Mr Wyatt says a challenge has been upending the power dynamic between "givers and receivers" and encouraging philanthropists to accept that having money doesn't necessarily mean having solutions: in fact, the organisations they are funding may have those answers.
Equity Trustees is now moving to the second phase of its outcomes-focused program, which will establish a new way of working with grant recipients and philanthropists.
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At the Australian Institute of Grants Management, we'll be watching with great interest and keep you informed.
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HomeNewsCity floats utility rate increases at GPC
City floats utility rate increases at GPC
Thursday, Apr. 22nd, 2021
Lloydminster City Hall. [Photo: 106.1 The Goat]
The City of Lloydminster is discussing a proposed rate increase to utilities, tabled at the April 19th Governance and Priorities Committee session.
Solid waste and storm-water utility rates were reviewed and adjusted in 2017. A similar review and adjustment on water was completed in 2018.
Administration points out that operation expenses and inflation continue to rise and the need exists to upgrade existing ageing facilities.
Mayor Gerald Aalbers says they have some legal requirements which they are mandated to meet.
"We have to provide clean drinking water that meets the needs of our community. But, first that's already governed by the provincial and federal governments. That's the why are we building an 81 and a half million dollar wastewater treatment plant, is it wasn't a choice we made."
The proposal could see a projected increase to residential utility bills by $3.94 for a low
water user and $5.31 for a high-water user with water consumption exceeding 23 cubic metres a month, or 23,000 litres.
Overall, the average Lloydminster residential household would likely see an increase of $4.87 a month, according to the City's calculations.
For the average commercial user, the average increase could add out to $8.02 per month. For high commercials users in excess of 500 cubic metres per month, that utility bill could increase by $78.57 monthly.
Waste Services could also increase
On Curbside collection, residents could see an increase of 15 cents monthly, up from $16.00 to $16.15.
A trip to the Landfill could go up to $5.35 per month, up from $4.00 under this plan.
Mayor Aalbers also said the City has to take into account capital budget increases and the cost of producing quality water.
"It's very much a challenge to maintain a zero cost increase over more than a couple years. In this case, it was 2018, the last time the water rate moved for residents and businesses. So I think they can appreciate there has been some slight costs."
The Committee accepted the utility rate proposal as information and the matter will be brought to a future Council meeting for a decision.
Correction: A previous version of this article contained a typo that stated the waste-water treatment plant would cost 81.5 billion dollars. The correct number is 81.5 million dollars. We apologize for the error.