Good morning herbal tea is a mix with i.e. lime blossom, marjoram, time and oregano.
Whenever you experience irritation of a sore throat or your respiratory tract, Licorice is the herbal tea that you want to drink.
Peppermint tea has a light brown color, a mint taste and aroma. It is a refreshing tea that can also work as a remedy for nausea, heartburn, migraine and tension headaches.
Adukibeans are small and red-brown of color. They are especially popular in the Asian kitchen and are often used for desserts and other sweet dishes.
Organic almonds in purest condition. These raw almonds need no further processing, they are already delicious in it's unroasted and unsalted state.
These brown almonds are being roasted dry for a perfect, nutty taste without added oil. These almonds are delicious without further additions, and can be used for all kinds of dishes.
There is almost no better snack than perfect roasted organic almonds with a little bit of sea salt. We roast the brown almonds with a bit of vegetable oil to enhance the flavor, and you can definitely taste it!
Cinnamon almonds are a true classic. There is almost no other snack that can match the combination of organic, roasted almonds with a bit of cane sugar and a bit of cinnamon.
Almonds and chocolate are a popular combination, and not without reason! These crispy brown almonds are mixed with a delicious layer of sweet, creamy milk chocolate.
Chocolate and cinnamon is a surprising but still a classic combination. add some nice crispy almonds to it, and you got a snack that is delicious for everyone!
Dark chocolate and almonds are a classic combination! These crispy brown almonds are mixed with a delicious layer of pure chocolate.
Deze amandelen met pure chocolade en kokos zijn een heerlijke snack voor iedereen die gek is op de combinatie van knapperige noten en romige chocolade. De milde kokos en donkere chocolade vullen de amandel perfect aan.
The nutty taste of roasted almonds goes perfectly together with the rather salty taste of the tamari. Our roasted tamari almonds are a lovely, healthy snack, but can also be used as addition in salades or other savory dishes.
Organic white almonds are all-round and need no further additions. The unroasted, unsalted almonds are shortly blanched to erase the skin.
These coconut - white chocolate almonds are irresistible! The creamy, crispy, chocolate almonds and tropical coconut are a combination that is really worth trying out!
Roasted organic almonds are even nicer with a pinch of sea salt. We roast the white almonds with a bit of vegetable oil to enhance the flavor, and you can definitely taste it!
De geroosterde, gehakte amandelen hebben een perfecte, nootachtige smaak. Deze amandelstukjes zijn heerlijk zonder verdere toevoegingen, en lenen zich voor allerlei gerechten.
The anise plant (Pimpinella anisum) is a flower bearing plant that belongs to the umbel family. Aniseed is the dried seed of this plant.
Almost no one can resist the sweet taste of dried apple. Our crispy, organic apple rings are loved as a snack by both children as adults.
The sweet taste of dried apple goes perfectly together with a pinch of cinnamon. This classic combination is almost satisfying for everyone. Our crispy, organic apple rings are loved as a snack by both children as adults.
These organic apple pieces are perfect as addition to all kinds of dishes and pastries. For example, try mixing a handful of apple pieces with muesli for a healthy, sweet snack.
Our organic, dried apricots have a lovely sweet taste. They are perfect as a fast snack or addition to all kinds of recipes or pastries.


Glendale Community College is a public, 2-year institution established on a 100-acre campus in southern California, with three satellite centers throughout the region. GCC offers over 80 associate degree and certificate programs, many of which are designed for college transfer. GCC students also have the opportunity to enroll in the field classes through the Baja Program, which offers courses in subjects including Anthropology, Oceanography, and more.
glendale has a very beautiful campus.
glendale has very understanding teachers.


In an effort to learn by doing and help test out recipes by fellow bloggers, I'm starting a series called "Try it !".
Whenever I find a healthy, diabetic-friendly recipe for which I can procure the ingredients, I'll try it out and share the results with you! Of course, I'll link back to the original post so you can check out the recipe as described by the original blogger.
I used up half the sauce for pasta for 2, then added the remainder of the sauce to stir fried tofu and capsicum to make a side dish for our dinner rotis!
I love Celeste's recipes a lot too but also love, love your version of it! Yummy!
Thanks so much Sophie. Your blog is another on my list for hunting down recipes to try for this series!
This is a wonderful recipe from Celeste. and your move to promote healthy eating — appreciate and laud it.
Thanks Namrata. It's the encouragement from all of you that keeps me going!
Oh yum, I'll have to remember this!
Yup, it's quite a different and tasty pasta sauce!
Thanks Violet! I'll probably do one of your desserts for this series.. Haven't been able to get almond extract so far for that almond cookie recipe that I wanted to try.
I look forward to seeing whichever dessert you decide to bake! 🙂 Perhaps try substituting vanilla extract for the almond extract?
Cool, thanks for the tip, Violet!
Stalking …OMG….lol ;))) anytime sweetheart.


2012 Republican presidential hopeful and Tea Party favorite MIchele Bachmann was a major supporter of pork barrel spending, earmarks and subsidies. MSNBC's Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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The Adelaide Review partners with Learning Environments Australasia for its State Awards, which will be announced in late September and published in a following edition of the magazine.
Learning Environments Australasia (formerly CEFPI Australasia) is a community of more than 700 professionals working together to plan and build better learning environments through discussion, research, innovation and practice. It aims to develop an understanding of the connections between pedagogy (teaching) and places for learning.
A key feature is the annual awards for excellence in design, landscaping and interiors as well as innovation in conceptual thinking and community engagement.
Entries must be registered by Monday, July 24 and submitted by 15 August. Entries will be announced at the annual awards event on Wednesday, September 27 and published in the November edition of The Adelaide Review.
Eligible state award winners are automatically entered into the national awards process and the winner(s) into the international awards for 2018. Previous recognised projects for South Australia include Galilee Catholic School and the Australian Science and Maths School.
As an affiliate of the world-wide organisation Association for Learning Environments (A4LE), Learning Environments Australasia members are mainly architects and educators, and their associates. They include individuals, schools and educational institutions as well as architectural firms and corporations throughout South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
At a local level, its members are actively involved in planning, designing, building, equipping and maintaining learning environments that centre a community and enhance student achievement and enjoyment.
The diversity of professional membership is key. In addition to architects, landscape architects, interior designers, project managers, principals, business managers and educational administrators, the association also includes professionals in state government, Catholic and Independent school systems, specialist consultants, product suppliers and manufacturers of furniture carpets, building materials and technology systems. All of whom contribute to the development of quality learning environments.
The priority of this professional collaboration is to explain and extend our collective knowledge. To understand and to engage with the broader community and enhance their understanding of the design process as well as the ongoing use and maintenance of their buildings, equipment, g rounds and site.
This knowledge is developed and shown though the locally-based site visits and discussion forums as well as an annual conference with international speakers, workshops, and a one day annual gathering, the Regional Day Out.


The manufacture and distribution of illicit drugs such as heroin is a primary focus of many major law enforcement organisations worldwide, including the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in the United States and the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, as drug shipments pass hands between dealers and cross borders so rapidly, it can be difficult if not impossible to trace a batch of drugs back to an initial manufacturer. As a result of this, the chances of locating and arresting the manufacturers of illicit drugs can be slim.
To a forensic drugs analyst, a whole range of characteristics can be examined and used to classify and compare different batches of the same drug, including physical appearance, packaging, and chemical composition. To an extent, heroin chemical signatures are already beneficial in comparing different batches of the drug in attempts to establish links and possible sources of the narcotics. This may be based on agents or adulterants a product has been cut with, and the relative concentrations of those substances. The manufacturing process itself can vary in terms of chemicals and apparatus used and the skills of the manufacturer, resulting in further characteristic differences in the chemical profile. However these differences may not be distinct enough to be valuable and are certainly not able to pinpoint the country from which a batch originated. Though there is still no reliable method of tracing an illicit drug back to a particular location, ongoing research is aiming to change this.
One method of studying the history and even origin of a sample is to use isotopic composition. Isotopes are different forms of elements that are incorporated into substances in the environment in varying ratios and abundances, influenced by a number of factors that can alter these ratios. These processes can be described as isotopic fractionation. Interestingly, isotopic ratios can be characteristic to different regions of the world, enabling certain materials to be traced back to the geographic region based on the ratios of particular isotopes contained within that material. With this in mind, they have often been used to trace unidentified human remains to a particular location or study the origin of food products. Focusing on isotopes allows for heroin samples to be studied and compared based on regional characteristics as oppose to the variation caused by the production process.
For the first time, researchers at Florida International University have utilised strontium isotope ratio analysis to determine the provenance of illicit heroin samples. 186 unadulterated, undiluted heroin samples of known origin were obtained from a number of geographic regions including Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, South America, and Mexico. Of a particularly challenging nature is South American heroin and SA-like Mexican heroin, which can be extremely difficult to differentiate based on their chemical compositions alone. Heroin samples were dissolved via a microwave-assisted acid digestion method before being subjected to a technique known as a multi-collector inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS). This instrument utilises an inductively coupled plasma ion source to ionise target analytes, which are then separated and analysed by the mass spectrometer. The use of MC-ICP-MS allows for the strontium concentration of particular samples to be determined. The strontium isotope ratio (87Sr/86Sr) value of each individual sample was then compared with the overall mean values of ratios from different regions in order to establish the likely origin of that particular heroin sample. Samples from the same geographic region would be expected to exhibit a similar isotope ratio.
The results demonstrated the possibility of differentiating between heroin of different geographic origin. South American and Mexican heroin samples were correctly classified 82% and 77% of the time respectively. South East and South West Asian heroin samples were somewhat more difficult to differentiate due to more of an overlap between strontium isotope ratio values. SE Asian samples were correctly classified 63% of the time and SW Asian samples only 56% of the time. It is not clear whether this elemental strontium is endogenous or the result of external contamination, but either way it is sufficiently characteristic to be associated with a particular geographic location.
The strontium isotope composition of heroin can be affected by a number of factors, including the soil in which components are grown and groundwater in the area, which can result in region-specific isotope compositions. The use of strontium isotope ratio analysis has presented promising results in the origin determination of illicit heroin. Although a larger scale study incorporating samples of a more worldwide origin would be ideal, initial results suggest that this technique could allow for an unknown illicit drug sample to be traced back to a country of origin, aiding criminal intelligence agencies in the war against drugs.
Debord, J., Pourmand, A., Jantzi, S., Panicker, S. & Almirall, J. Profiling of Heroin and Assignment of Provenance by 87Sr/86Sr Isotope Ratio Analysis. Inorg Chim Acta. In press (2017).


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'Blame White People, Science Says' – Study: White people to blame for pollution – But blacks and Hispanics suffer the most
Blame White People, Science Says: White people are primarily the cause of the disproportionate amount of pollution inhaled by Black and Hispanic communities across the United States, new research shows.
Flashback 1846: White Men Blamed For Destroying The Climate For Over 200 Years - 1846: 'That great changes have taken place in the climate of Australia all testimonies satisfactorily prove...It is evident to any observer,at some period, the country has been subjected to the mighty action of heavy rains, and of sweeping, deluging floods...The aborigines say that the climate has undergone this change since white-man came in country'
Flashback 2005: Men Warm Globe, Women Feel the Heat, Group Claims – The solution?! 'Climate gender justice'
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Blame White People, Science Says: White people are primarily the cause of the disproportionate amount of pollution inhaled by Black and Hispanic communities across the United States, new research shows. An extensive study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines racial disparities in exposure to particulate pollution–which kills around 100,000 Americans per year–as well as how much of that pollution can be attributed to different populations. The researchers found that while Black and Hispanic people are exposed to 56 and 63 percent more pollution than they make, respectively, white people enjoy a "pollution advantage" of being exposed to 17 percent less pollution than they create. "These findings confirm what most grassroots environmental justice leaders have known for decades, 'whites are dumping their pollution on poor people and people of color'," Robert Bullard, known as the "father of environmental justice," told the AP. (AP, Washington Post $, Reuters)
WaPo: Study: White people to blame for pollution – But blacks and Hispanics suffer the most
Excerpt: By Isaac Stanley-Becker March 12 at 4:59 AM
Air pollution, the leading environmental cause of death worldwide, reflects the stark racial inequalities of American life. In the United States, the problem is disproportionately caused by the white majority, but its consequences are suffered mainly by blacks and Hispanics.
That is the finding of a new study, about five years in the making, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The results illuminate the fault lines of the lethal environmental danger, which is inseparable from the threat of climate change and responsible for more deaths globally each year than automobile accidents.
The research confirms with new statistical certainty the determination that racial and ethnic minorities are acutely vulnerable to air pollution because of the neighborhoods in which they live. But it also introduces a largely unstudied element into the analysis, examining who is responsible for the pollutants inhaled disproportionately by blacks and Hispanics. The answer, according to a nationwide team of engineers and economists, is white people.The researchers argue that white people are disproportionately to blame for the consumption of goods and services generating dangerous particles known as "fine particulate matter," which gets lodged deep in the lungs, causing inflammation that triggers strokes and heart attacks, as well as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. However, this segment of the population doesn't endure an equivalent share of the consequences.
The study concludes that white people enjoy a so-called pollution advantage. They bear the burden of 17 percent less air pollution than is generated by their own consumption. Blacks and Hispanics, on the other hand, experience a "pollution burden." They face 56 percent and 63 percent more exposure, respectively, than is caused by their consumption.
Climate Activists: 'White America' condemned to Hell!? — Warmist Bill McKibben laments 'White America' has failed: 'White America has fallen short' by voting for 'climate deniers' – McKibben in the La Times: 'We may need, for example, things such as a serious tax on carbon; that will require mustering political will to stand up to the fossil fuel industry. And that's precisely where white America has fallen short. Election after election, native-born and long-standing citizens pull the lever for climate deniers, for people who want to shut down the EPA, for the politicians who take huge quantities of cash from the Koch brothers and other oil barons'
Green Groups for Whites Only: Minority enviro accuses Bill McKibben, Greenpeace, Sierra Club of racism – 'A native American environmental activist accuses mainstream enviro groups (350.org, Greenpeace, Sierra Club) of exclusionary racism'
Climate activist: 'Non-white, non-men climate experts' sought for TV & radio
NY Mag: 'Can Sunday's People's Climate march expand the movement beyond wonky white men?'
Skeptics attacked (again) as mostly being old white men (gun-toting, homophobic, anti-immigrant, too)
Flashback 1846: White Men Blamed For Destroying The Climate For Over 200 Years – 1846: 'That great changes have taken place in the climate of Australia all testimonies satisfactorily prove…It is evident to any observer,at some period, the country has been subjected to the mighty action of heavy rains, and of sweeping, deluging floods…The aborigines say that the climate has undergone this change since white-man came in country'
Grist Mag. Warmist David Roberts laments skeptics blocking climate action: 'How do you solve a problem like conservative white men?'
Warmist Chris Mooney: 'What's Up With Conservative White Men and Climate Denial?' — Links skepticism to 'social dominance orientation…male right-wingers want to dominate others'
Mooney: 'Fundamentally, this identity is all about testosterone firing and being an alpha male'
Climate Depot Response to Mooney: 'Fundamentally, your analysis is nonsense and ignores the fact that the public sees right through the politically manufactured and unscientific climate fear claims'
Sierra Club: The Big Problem With Environmentalism Is 'Unsustainable Whiteness'
Filed under: astrology, new study, wacky
NPR: 'Has Your Doctor Talked To You About Climate Change?' – Doctors Begin To Raise Climate Change's Health Effects With Patients

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Run by journalists and backed by readers, Hong Kong Free Press is a non-profit, English-language news source seeking to unite critical voices on local and national affairs.
HKFP teamed up with Fallout Media for our 2018 fundraiser video.
HKFP pays a visit to Hong Kong's wildest and farthest flung outpost – Tung Ping Chau.
Hong Kong Free Press and Tom Grundy featured in SRF, Switzerland (dubbed in German).
Southside Magazine interviews Tom Grundy of Hong Kong Free Press.
Interviewed by City Magazine for their July 2017 edition.
Tom Grundy featured on the Tatler '"Generation T" list for 2017.
German public radio station Deutschlandfunk interviews Tom Grundy of Hong Kong Free Press.


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Q: D3.js Time scale starting at now I have a graph which shows live data over the past 90 minutes currently my x axis is labelled 90 to 0 using
xRRange = d3.scale.linear().range([MARGINS.left, WIDTH - MARGINS.right])
                           .domain([90,0])

What I want to do is replace the numbers 0 - 90 with times, ie the 90 would be now-90 and the 0 would be now
I have tried the following but it fails to draw the axis, any ideas where I have went wrong
var xStart = Math.round(+new Date()/1000);
var xEnd = xStart - (60*90);
xTRange = d3.scale.time().range([MARGINS.left, WIDTH - MARGINS.right])
                         .domain([xEnd, xStart])
                         .nice()
xTAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(xTRange)
                      .tickSize(20)
                      .tickSubdivide(true);
vis.append('svg:g').attr('class', 'x axis')
                   .attr('transform', 'translate(0,' + (HEIGHT - MARGINS.bottom) + ')')
                   .call(xTAxis);

A: You seem to have swapped the xEnd and xStart. In your first code block, the smaller value is at the end. In your 2nd, the larger values is at the end.
Also, your first line converts the xStart and xEnd values into seconds. You don't convert them back to milliseconds in your domain call. When d3 coerces them into dates, they won't be what you expect (will be far lesser)

A: As @potatopeelings excellent answer states, JavaScript works with milliseconds.  Also, a couple of other things. It's d3.time.scale, not d3.scale.time.  And in your scale assignment, you need to reverse your xEnd and xStart.
Here it all is working:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
  <script data-require="d3@3.5.3" data-semver="3.5.3" src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.3/d3.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <script>
    var vis = d3.select('body')
      .append('svg')
      .attr('width', 400)
      .attr('height', 150);

    var xStart = new Date();
    var xEnd = xStart - (90 * 60000); // 60,000 milliseconds in minute

    xTRange = d3.time.scale()
      .range([20, 380])
      .domain([xStart, xEnd])
      .nice();

    xTAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(xTRange)
      .tickSize(20)
      .tickSubdivide(true);

    vis.append('svg:g').attr('class', 'x axis')
      .attr('transform', 'translate(0,' + 10 + ')')
      .call(xTAxis);

  </script>
</body>

</html>

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It's too bad that WordPress seems to break HTML in the title field – so I can't use a modest Roman numeral to indicate that it's you! Yes, you, reader from pol.co.uk, who clicked on a link in your google reader at 2:32 am CET, who is the one millionth sitemetered unique visitor to A Fistful Of Euros. Of course that doesn't mean you're actually the millionth person to see this page or read its content. After all, the definion of "visit" is different from counter to counter, as is the definition of unique visit. Moreover, Sitemeter.com doesn't have a chance to count even one of the about 4000 feed subcscribers we have – according to our feed statisticians over at feedburner.com – if they don't come here in addition to reading afoe in their favorite feed reader.
Still, it could have been anyone – but it was you! Congratulations! To you – and to us.
Over on almost a diary, I've recently mentionend a survey of German blogging called "Weblogs 2005 – Bloggen im deutschsprachigen Raum", conducted by Jan Schmidt at the University of Bamberg. While the German blogger himself is a relatively unknown species to date, the relatively small size of the German blogosphere as a whole has been observed with some interest for a while now, particularly when compared to the French blogosphere, and the amount of attention blogs have suddenly gained in the so called German mainstream media. It's one of the eternal questions of humanity asked a new variant: Does size matter?
Actually, I'm not entirely sure there is a European blogosphere yet, as most blogospheres seem to develop in their respective linguistic markets, complemented by a couple of English language (non UK) blogs operating in the same markets. Thus, the European blogosphere, narrowly defined, is still a rather tiny community.
Does anyone have suggestions for good blogs? I'm especially interested in blogs with an European perspective and ones covering the politics of a European country or region, but any good blogs are of interest of course.
One of my megalomanical hopes for AFOE was that we could use it to create a European corner of the blogosphere. Just as there is a comics blogosphere, a linguablogger blogosphere, a German blogosphere, and on a larger scale a techie blogosphere and a US politics blogosphere, there should be a pan-European politics blogosphere.
Basically I want every worthwhile English language blog about european politics to be on our blogroll. And I want as many as possible of them to become aware of each other and start talking to each other.
I think we have enough traffic for it to be actually achievable.


The work of carpenters in Melbourne, Victoria is wide and varied, so many choose to specialise in a particular line of work. Any qualified carpenter in Melbourne, Victoria should be able to perform general carpentry work involving framing and the installation and repair of timber structures and fixtures, while other jobs may require a specialist.
Scroll through this page to find carpenters and woodworkers in Melbourne, Victoria. You can browse their latest projects, read reviews and see how other homeowners rate their work, and message them directly.


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05 June 2015 – Launch of small business support desks and opening of new Soweto branch
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Johannesburg, 5 June 2015 – SARS Commissioner, Tom Moyane officially launched SARS' specialised Small Business Support Desks and opened the Orlando East branch, the second SARS branch in Soweto today.
According to Commissioner Moyane: "The Small Business Desks, which are being rolled out at SARS branches around the country, were established as part of government's commitment to support SMMEs and to make it easier for them to comply with their tax obligations. With the launch of this service, we are hoping to do our bit in the rolling back of the mortality rate of small businesses in South Africa".
"The launch of the Orlando East branch in Soweto – the 52nd SARS branch in South Africa – is further evidence of our commitment to expand our service footprint throughout the country. Our goal is to make it as easy and convenient as possible for taxpayers to interact with us," added Commissioner Moyane.
Information packs of small business material as well as specialised service will be offered at the Small Business Desks, providing a one-stop shop for those with small business queries. Small business queries such as business registrations, requests for tax clearance certificates and general business tax issues will be dealt with at these desks.
Taxpayers will also benefit from 'mobile registration', a tool introduced by SARS that will assist with on-the-spot business registration, making it easier for small businesses to comply with their tax obligations. "Ultimately, these efforts form part of our strategy to segment our services to taxpayers, and follows other specialised offerings such as a dedicated unit dealing with Tax Practitioners and a Tax Exemption Unit in Pretoria," continued Commissioner Moyane.
Since the desks were set-up at the Orlando East branch several months ago, an average of 50 people with small business queries visit the branch each day, with over 2000 general walk-in queries per week.
SARS has already rolled out 138 small business desks to 50 of the 52 branches nationwide. We are pleased to announce that SARS plans to add more desks in the current and upcoming financial years following the resoundingly positive feedback and demand received via an independent small business taxpayers' survey recently conducted.
World Environment Day: The Link Between Climate Change And Hunger
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Thanks for your curtius support via telephone and very quick delivery. I have wanted to replace the TV's in our RV for quite some time but I just couldn't figure out what I really needed. Now I don't have to worry about the analog to digital change over either.


He has worked at the University of Kansas as a faculty member since 1990 and was promoted to (Full) Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures in 2000, when he was also elected to chair of the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures (2000–2011). He has held several administrative positions at the University of Kansas, including Acting Associate Dean for Humanities (2012), Chair-Receiver for the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures and is currently the founding Director, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Kansas (2014– ). He has held numerous prestigious fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, US Department of Education, the Swiss Science Foundation, and the Moravian-Silesian Regional Research Fund. In 2017 he was elected to the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts as a Corresponding Member.
Among his prominent and recent publications are books: The Sociolinguistics of Slovene (as editor) (= Int'l Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 124, 1997); A Historical Phonology of the Slovene Language (= Historical Phonology of the Slavic Languages, vol. 13) (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 2000); A Short Reference Grammar of Slovene (= LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 30) (Munich: Lincom, 2008); articles/chapters: "Slavic" in The Indo-European Languages (London: Routledge, 2017); "Introduction" to Bibliography of Slavic Linguistics (Leiden: Brill, 2015); "The Slavic Area: Trajectories, Borders, Centres, and Peripheries in the Second World" in Globalising Sociolinguistics: Challenging and Expanding Theory (London: Taylor & Francis, 2015). Editorial work: he was co-founder and co-editor (with Marko Snoj) of Slovenski jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies (1997–2011) as well as Slavia Centralis (with Marko Jesenšek). In addition, Prof. Greenberg has published extensively and collaboratively on open-access issues with a focus on global equal-access to research for readers and researchers.
In addition to serving as General Editor (with René Genis) of the Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics (Brill, est. date of publ. 2019), he serves on the editorial boards of the journals Književni jezik (Sarajevo), Naučnaja periodika: problemi i rešenija (Moscow), Voprosy onomastiki (Moscow, Ekaterinburg), Croatica et slavica iadertina (Zadar). He serves on national and international boards including Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research, Georgia State University (Atlanta); Association for Department of Foreign Languages (New York); Gabriel Al-Salem Foundation (Florida, USA and Almaty, Kazakhstan).
In addition to his academic pursuits, Prof. Greenberg plays classical guitar, Russian seven-string guitar, and renaissance lute as a soloist, duet partner, and in ensembles in the US and Europe.
Teaching interests: Structure and history of Russian and other Slavic languages, Old Church Slavic, language and identity/nationalism, sociolinguistics; Russian, Czech, Slovene, BCMS language.
Research interests: Reconstruction of Common Slavic, Indo-European; dialectology; sociolinguistics; phonetics, esp. pitch-accent systems; language and identity/nationalism; Western South Slavic languages (Slovene, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian).
2013 article: (with A. Townsend Peterson and Ada Emmett) Open Access and the Author-Pays Problem: Assuring Access for Readers and Authors in a Global Community of Scholars. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 1(3): 1–8.
2013 article: (with Zbyněk Holub) A Circum-Pannonian Word-Prosodic Parallel: Paroxytonic Accent in the South-West Bohemian Dialect. Jezikoslovni zapiski 19/2. Ljubljana: Fran Ramovš Institute for Slovene Language, Scientific Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Arts & Sciences.
2012 article: (with Marko Snoj) O jeziku slovanskih prebivalcev med Donavo in Jadranom v srednjem veku (pogled jezikoslovcev) / On the Language of the Medieval Slavic Population in the Area between the Danube and the Adriatic (from a Linguistic Perspective). Zgodovinski časopis / Historical Review , vol. 115, 66/3–4 (146): 276–305.
2011 video presentation: (with A. Townsend Peterson and Ada Emmett) What is an Open Access Policy? Why should Purdue faculty care?.
2010 chapter: PIE Inheritance and Word-Formational Innovation in Slavic Motion Verbs in ‑i‑. New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion. Studies in Language Companion Series, vol. 115, V. Hasko and R. Perelmutter (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2010 chapter: The Illyrian Movement: A Croatian Vision of South Slavic Unity. Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language Identity Efforts, vol. 2, Joshua A. Fishman and Ofelia Garcia (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2009 article: Prekmurje Grammar as a Source of Slavic Comparative Material. Slovenski jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies 7: 29–44.
2008 book: A Short Reference Grammar of Slovene. LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 30. (Munich: LINCOM).
2007 article: Phonetic Evidence for the Development of the "Acute" Tone in Slavic. Tones and Theories: Proceedings from the International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentuation: 95–108. (Zagreb: Filozofski fakultet).
2007 article: [with Joseph Schallert] The Prehistory and Areal Distribution of Slavic *gъlčěti 'Speak'. Slovenski jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies 6: 9–76.


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Het 19e Europees kampioenschap basketbal vrouwen vond plaats van 11 tot 18 september 1983 in Hongarije. 12 nationale teams speelden in Miskolc, Zalaegerszeg en Boedapest om de Europese titel.

Voorronde
De 12 deelnemende landen zijn onderverdeeld in twee poules van zes landen. De top twee van elke poule plaatsten zich voor de halve finales.

Groep A

Groep B

Plaatsingswedstrijden 9e-12e plaats

Plaatsingswedstrijden 5e-8e plaats

Halve finales

Bronzen finale

Finale

Eindrangschikking

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There's a hint of fall in the air and we are SO excited for all the thrilling reads we have to offer this month with our down-priced ebooks! Check out which ones you can snag for only $2.99 throughout the entire month of October below.
Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
Three decades into his career, Ramsey Campbell paused to review his body of short fiction and selected the stories that were, to his mind, the very best of his works. Alone With the Horrors collects nearly forty tales from the first thirty years of Campbell's writing. Included here are "In the Bag," which won the British Fantasy Award, and two World Fantasy Award-winning stories, "The Chimney" and the classic "Mackintosh Willy."
The Toll by Cherie Priest
Titus and Melanie Bell are on their honeymoon and have reservations in the Okefenokee Swamp cabins for a canoeing trip. But shortly before they reach their destination, the road narrows into a rickety bridge with old stone pilings, with room for only one car. Much later, Titus wakes up lying in the middle of the road, no bridge in sight. Melanie is missing. When he calls the police, they tell him there is no such bridge on Route 177 . . .
Hell House by Richard Matheson
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House.
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Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened or the consequences will be too terrible to bear. The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated with being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers decide to break their strict regulations but, in so doing, they send the town spiraling into dark, medieval practices of the distant past.
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare culminating in a tragedy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community. Mysterious lights are seen moving across the sky. Domestic animals are found slaughtered and mutilated. And journalist John Keel, arriving to investigate the freakish events, soon finds himself an integral part of an eerie and unfathomable mystery.
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
"Something is murdering my men." Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims. When an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the problem, the men find something that's both powerful and terrifying.
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Queen by Timothy Zahn
Nicole Hammond is a Sibyl, a special human that has the ability to communicate with a strange alien ship called the Fyrantha. However, Nicole and all other sentient creatures are caught up in a war for control between two competing factions. Now, the street-kid turned rebel leader has a plan that would restore freedom to all who have been shanghaied by the strange ship.
The Family Plot by Cherie Priest
From Cherie Priest, author of the enormously successful Boneshaker, The Family Plot is a haunted house story for the ages—atmospheric, scary, and strange, with a modern gothic sensibility that's every bit as fresh as it is frightening.
The First Days by Rhiannon Frater
The morning that the world ends, Katie is getting ready for court and housewife Jenni is taking care of her family. Less than two hours later, they are fleeing for their lives from a zombie horde. Thrown together by circumstance, Jenni and Katie become a powerful zombie-killing partnership, mowing down zombies as they rescue Jenni's stepson, Jason, from an infected campground.
Nightflyers & Other Stories by George R. R. Martin
On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself, a cybernetic wonder with an elusive captain no one has ever seen in the flesh. Soon, however, the crew discovers that their greatest mystery – and most dangerous threat – is an unexpected force wielding a thirst for blood and terror….
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot leads the last of the able-bodied crew on a journey across the ice and into an uncertain future where they must fight for their lives against the elements, the ghosts of the past and, ultimately, themselves.
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The fabled riches of the House of Cthulhu draw thieves and warriors from throughout the civilized-and uncivilized lands, but none escape with so much as a single gemstone, for they discover that Cthulhu's House is not a temple but a dwelling-place. Surely the Elder God lives there still, waiting for an unwary person to open the portal between his world and ours . . . .
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Q: picard group of moduli of elliptic r-prym curves Let $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{1,1}$ be the DM compactification of the moduli stack of elliptic curves. Its Picard group is $\mathbb{Z}$. Let us now consider stack of $r$-prym curves $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{1,1}^r$, parametrizing elliptic curves plus an $r$-root of $\mathcal{O}$. It is compactified naturally as an Hurwitz stack. Is its Picard group known?

A: The stack $\overline{\mathcal M}_{1,1}^r$ is usually denoted by $X_1(r)$. It is a  modular curve. In fact one can write down by hand an isomorphism between the moduli functors for the Hurwitz stack interpretation of $\overline{\mathcal M}_{1,1}^r$ that you mention, and the modular interpretation of $X_1(r)$ described in Deligne-Rapoport: this isomorphism is described in Section 3 of http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2968638 . I should also say that there is a minor issue here -- there are two common definitions of $\overline{\mathcal M}_{1,1}^r$, and one is a $\mu_r$-gerbe over the other. For the isomorphism $\overline{\mathcal M}_{1,1}^r \cong X_1(r)$ you should use the "rigidified" version.
Anyway, the Picard group of a smooth twisted curve $\mathscr C$ is an extension
$$ 0 \to \mathrm{Pic}(C)\to \mathrm{Pic}(\mathscr C) \to \prod_{i=1}^k \mu_{r_i} \to 1,$$
if there are $k$ stacky points with stabilizers of order $r_1, \ldots, r_k$, and $C$ is the coarse space. Most textbooks on modular forms will describe the genus of $X_1(r)$, its number of cusps and the respective stabilizers. For instance this is described very explicitly in Diamond-Shurman.


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Root Film Gets New Trailer Showing Characters and Max Mode
Today Kadokawa Games released a brand new trailer of the upcoming visual novel Root Film, which is a follow-up to Root Letter.
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Today Kadokawa Games released a new trailer of the upcoming visual novel Root Film.
The trailer showcases the main characters of the game, also providing a taste of the rich voice-over cast.
Toward the end, we get to take a look at Max Mode, that lets us confront other characters in a face-off to unveil the truth.
You can check the video out below.
If you're unfamiliar with the game, it's the follow-up to Root Letter. Here's a handy description:
Root Film is about a TV series, called "Shimane Mystery Drama Project", which was canceled for an unknown reason 10 years ago. To reboot the project, three teams consisting of a director and an actress have been cast, including 23-year-old Rintaro Yagumo, the main character of the game.
His excitement about this amazing opportunity is quickly curbed, when a horrible murder interrupts their location scouting process. Follow him and a cast of unique and memorable characters by character designer Taro Minoboshi as they are drawn deeper into the thrilling mystery of Root Film.
If you'd like to know more, you can check out our most recent interview focused on the gam, the first hour of gameplay, the latest screenshots.
Root Film has been announced for PS4 and Nintendo Switch and will release in Japan on July 30, 2020. The western release will come courtesy of PQube Games but doesn't have a release date besides a generic "2020."
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Today, I visited a school that was having issues with some of their computers in specific locations. Usually, when a district calls with something like that, we start in the room(s) where the trouble seems to be and work our way outward from there. In this case, there was an elementary lab in which all but one row of computers was throwing up some weird errors.
The machines are running Windows 7, and the network icon in the system tray would change from the standard computer to one with a yellow warning triangle. Then, a message would pop up stating that the computer was connected to the local network but was "unauthenticated." Other computers showed the normal computer icon but when they tried to get online, the browser would throw up messages about unresolved DNS issues, etc.
When the tech would check the IP address on any of the errant machines, the initial address would show the local network scheme. However, when the warning icon appeared, an ipconfig revealed the address had been changed to a 192.168 range.
That range, as many of you know, is where things like wifi routers like to live. So, I asked about switches, other network equipment, etc. The tech had put in a new switch (new to them) that they had received from another district. Since the "new" switch was an HP Procurve, I thought maybe something was going on there. Plus, that had been the most recent change the tech could remember at the time.
I removed the switch and was about to put in another switch, the tech came in and told me that she remembered they were testing their new Kajeet-based MiFi hotspots at about the same time everything went wacko.
Instantly, we had our answer. You see, when they were testing the hotspots, they were using them in tethered mode, meaning they hooked up the device to the computer via USB cable and let the computer use that as the connection. Well, the hotspot is set up to hand out IP addresses (DHCP). Normally, this is not an issue - the computer gets an IP address and life goes on.
Here is the rub: If the computer in question is ALSO connected to the local network (via Ethernet cable, for example), the hotspot actually communicates down that wired line through the computer it is connected to. So... The hotspot was answering DHCP requests from certain computers on the network. Of course, I want to know why only those specific computers and not, say, computers spread throughout the district. Unfortunately, we may never know the answer because all of the trouble took place the day before I arrived and the hotspots were already disbursed.
So, in a nutshell (the TL;DR version, I suppose you kids would say these days): Erratic computer connectivity might be blamed on multiple DHCP devices on your network. Check for Wireless Routers, tethered hotspots, internet connection sharing, etc.


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Q: Nginx Proxy to Files on Local Disk or S3 So I'm moving my site away from Apache and onto Nginx, and I'm having trouble with this scenario:
User uploads a photo. This photo is resized, and then copied to S3. If there's suitable room on disk (or the file cannot be transferred to S3), a local version is kept.
I want requests for these images (such as http://www.mysite.com/p/1_1.jpg) to first look in the p/ directory. If no local file exists, I want to proxy the request out to S3 and render the image (but not redirect).
In Apache, I did this like so:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^p/([0-9]+_[0-9]+\.jpg)$ http://my_bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/$1 [P,L]

My attempt to replicate this behavior in Nginx is this:
location /p/ {
    if (-e $request_filename) {
        break;
    }
    proxy_pass http://my_bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/;
}

What happens is that every request attempts to hit Amazon S3, even if the file exists on disk (and if it doesn't exist on Amazon, I get errors.) If I remove the proxy_pass line, then requests for files on disk DO work.
Any ideas on how to fix this?

A: Thanks to keep my coderwall post :) For the caching purpose you can improve it a bit:
http {

  proxy_cache_path          /tmp/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=S3_CACHE:10m inactive=24h max_size=500m;
  proxy_temp_path           /tmp/cache/temp;

  server {
    location ~* ^/cache/(.*) {
      proxy_buffering        on;
      proxy_hide_header      Set-Cookie;
      proxy_ignore_headers   Set-Cookie;
      ...
      proxy_cache            S3_CACHE;
      proxy_cache_valid      24h;
      proxy_pass             http://$s3_bucket/$url_full;
    }
  }

}

One more recommendation is to extend resolver cache upto 5 min:
resolver                  8.8.4.4 8.8.8.8 valid=300s;
resolver_timeout          10s;

A: Shouldn't this be an example of using try_files?
location /p/ {
    try_files $uri @s3;
}

location @s3{
    proxy_pass http://my_bucket.s3.amazonaws.com;
}

Make sure there isn't a following slash on the S3 url

A: You could improve your s3 proxy config like this. Adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/44749584:
location /p/ {
    try_files $uri @s3;
}

location @s3 {
  set $s3_bucket        'your_bucket.s3.amazonaws.com';
  set $url_full         '$1';

  proxy_http_version     1.1;
  proxy_set_header       Host $s3_bucket;
  proxy_set_header       Authorization '';
  proxy_hide_header      x-amz-id-2;
  proxy_hide_header      x-amz-request-id;
  proxy_hide_header      x-amz-meta-server-side-encryption;
  proxy_hide_header      x-amz-server-side-encryption;
  proxy_hide_header      Set-Cookie;
  proxy_ignore_headers   Set-Cookie;
  proxy_intercept_errors on;

  resolver               8.8.4.4 8.8.8.8 valid=300s;
  resolver_timeout       10s;
  proxy_pass             http://$s3_bucket$url_full;
}

A: break isn't doing quite what you expect nginx will do the last thing you ask of it, which makes sense if you start digging around making modules... but basically protect your proxy_pass with the does-not-exist version
if (-f $request_filename) {
    break;
}
if(!-f $request_filename)
    proxy_pass  http://s3;
}

A: I ended up solving this by checking to see if the file doesn't exist, and if so, rewriting that request. I then handle the re-written request and do the proxy_pass there, like so:
location /p/ {
  if (!-f $request_filename) {
    rewrite ^/p/(.*)$ /ps3/$1 last;
    break;
  }
}

location /ps3/ {
  proxy_pass http://my_bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/;
}


I want to create an employee information in the system by uploading an image along with employee data. I am able to do it with different rest calls using jersey. But I want to achieve in one rest call. I provide below the structure. Please help me how to do in this regard.
Whenever I am trying to do, I get error in Chrome postman. The simple structure of my Employee json is given below.
However I can do it by making two different call, but I want to achieve in one rest call so that I can receive the file as well as the actual data of the employee.
Request you to help in this regard.
You can't have two Content-Types (well technically that's what we're doing below, but they are separated with each part of the multipart, but the main type is multipart). That's basically what you are expecting with your method. You are expecting mutlipart and json together as the main media type. The Employee data needs to be part of the multipart. So you can add a @FormDataParam("emp") for the Employee.
I just created a simple Employee class with an id and name field for testing. This works perfectly fine. It shows the image, prints the content disposition, and prints the Employee object.
It appears to work fine also, as you can see the response "Cool Tools". But if we look at the printed Employee data, we'll see that it's null. Which is weird because with the client API it worked fine.
So I guess this is really only part of a full answer. Like I said, I am not familiar with Postman So I don't know how to set Content-Types for individual body parts. The image/png for the image was automatically set for me for the image part (I guess it was just determined by the file extension). If you can figure this out, then the problem should be solved. Please, if you find out how to do this, post it as an answer.
See here for more about MultiPart with Jersey.
So as you can see from the Postman client, some clients are unable to set individual parts' Content-Type, this includes the browser, in regards to it's default capabilities when using FormData (js).
It's a little extra work to get the POJO, but it is a better solution than forcing the client to try and find it's own solution.
There is a conversation in these comments that you may be interested in if you are using a different Connector than the default HttpUrlConnection.
You can access the Image File and data from a form using MULTIPART FORM DATA By using the below code.
instead of hardcoded MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA in post request call.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged java jersey jax-rs multipartform-data postman or ask your own question.


Slip on the goggles in Professor Ehsan Kamalinejad's office, and a hologram of a wrestler, tattoos and all, appears on the desk. The wrestler, of course, is a 3-D hologram and not a real person, but the device used to create it may hold the key to helping the visually impaired better experience the world around them.
The goggles are the latest teaching and research device in Kamalinejad's toolbox and are preparing students for careers in a rapidly expanding field: augmented reality.
Unlike virtual reality, which creates an entirely artificial world for the user to navigate, augmented reality gives users an overlay of information on top of the real world. (Think Pokemon Go.) According to TechTimes.com, with AR, users can not only distinguish between the virtual and real worlds, but they are also able to interact with both at the same time.
In theory, this means that someone who is visually impaired, for example, could wear the goggles while walking through the Cal State East Bay campus and be informed of various obstacles or objects beyond their field of vision. And that's exactly what Kamalinejad and his team of advanced mathematics students are using the goggles to research.
Kamalinejad won a grant last year to get the coveted Microsoft HoloLens goggles, still in beta and unavailable to the general public. This quarter they are using advanced mathematics principles to push the technology forward and contribute to a larger body of research currently being done about artificial intelligence and its applications in everyday life.
Just a tool? Perhaps, but one Kamalinejad knows can do more with the right research.
Ehsan Kamalinejad demonstrates the HoloLens goggles.
If Kamalinejad and the students discover the answer is 'yes,' the possibilities are endless. Sensors similar to those found in the HoloLens goggles already enable self-driving cars to stop before striking something in the road. With a bit more research and programming, they could help the visually impaired complete everyday tasks such as navigating city streets.
Along with his A2E2 grant for $68,000, Kamalinejad and computer science assistant professor Jaiofei Zhong received a $35,000 National Science Foundation grant to support the HoloLens research.
Students came to the project from different backgrounds. Andrew Kim was a math student, while Kelby Madal-Hellmuth had taken classes in artificial intelligence. Both seniors applied to be part of Kamalinejad's project and were among the four chosen to participate.
Last summer, Kamalinejad and the team went to Fresno to present at an augmented reality conference and spent 10 weeks working on coding challenges and reading research surrounding augmented reality.
The work was challenging, but crucial to the students' future career paths.
The number of active virtual reality users worldwide is predicted to reach 170 million by the end of this year, according to Statista.com, and the market of VR and AR software is expected to see an increase of over 3,000 percent in the next few years.
As for the concerns of artificial intelligence taking human jobs and running our lives? Kamalinejad acknowledges the changes wrought by AI may be more significant than those brough about by the Industrial Revolution but says AI is merely another tool in humans' toolboxes.
"It's not a question of when, but a question of when it happens, what do we do about it?" he says.


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    const props = this.props;
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A Royal Canadian Air Force Second World War veteran and former prisoner of war now living in Colorado Springs, Colorado, received a surprise visit on February 23, 2018.
Squadron Leader (retired) George Sweanor, 98, was met by members of 419 Tactical Fighter (Training) Squadron at the Colorado Springs Airport following the unit's training mission in El Centro, California. Squadron Leader Sweanor was one of the founding members of the squadron, known then as No. 419 Squadron, which stood up in 1941 in the United Kingdom as the third RCAF bomber squadron overseas.
Squadron members and Squadron Leader Sweanor talked for more than an hour as he reminisced about his 419 days and his wartime experiences. "It was an honor for us to meet such a distinguished veteran and founding member of 419 Squadron," said Major Ryan Kastrukoff, deputy commanding officer of the unit.
During the war, Squadron Leader Sweanor served with the squadron in the United Kingdom. After making multiple flights over enemy territory, he was shot down and captured in 1942, and spent 800 days as a prisoner of war. He was also involved in the daring "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in Zagan, Poland, in 1944, and acted as a security lookout during the excavation of the escape tunnel dubbed "Harry".
Following the war, Squadron Leader Sweanor remained with the RCAF. He was a member of the group that opened Cheyenne Mountain, the former home of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.
His last assignment was in Colorado Springs, where he retired and began teaching at Mitchell High School. He is also a founding member of 971 Royal Canadian Air Force Association Wing in Colorado Springs, and regularly attends events as a special guest, along with members of the Canadian Armed Forces serving at NORAD.
Squadron Leader Sweanor was a special guest at Canada Day celebrations at NORAD Headquarters in 2014. At that time Canadian Lieutenant-General Alain Parent, then-deputy commander of NORAD, presented Squadron Leader Sweanor with the "Bomber Command Bar" to be affixed to the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, in recognition of his service with Bomber Command.
During the recent visit, squadron members presented him with a book commemorating the 75th anniversary of the squadron, a current squadron patch, and a squadron patch with his name stitched into it.
Squadron Leader Sweanor has written one book, "It's All Pensionable Time: 25 Years in the Royal Canadian Air Force", and blogs.


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Album of the Month (February 2017): Reba McEntire, 'Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope'
Angela Stefano Published: February 1, 2017
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New music from Reba McEntire is an exciting prospect -- so much so, in fact, that The Boot's readers have named her forthcoming new album, Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope, as The Boot's February 2017 Album of the Month.
McEntire first revealed her plans for Sing It Now -- a gospel album -- in mid-December; the country icon announced the news in a Facebook Live session, from the set of her then-forthcoming "Back to God" music video. That same day, McEntire shared one of the tracks from Sing It Now: "Softly and Tenderly," a collaboration with Kelly Clarkson and Trisha Yearwood; the song is Track No. 10 on the first disc of Sing It Now, but it's not an official single.
Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope, is a double disc of 10 traditional hymns and 10 contemporary faith-filled tracks (as well as one hidden track). As its first single, McEntire released "Back to God," one of the contemporary tunes; the song was co-written by Randy Houser and Dallas Davidson, and Houser included his own version of the tune on his debut album, Anything Goes, released in 2008. McEntire released the music video for "Back to God" on Jan. 25.
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"Sing It Now was the perfect title for this album," McEntire explains, "because the message and melody throughout the song connects the dots between the traditional hymns I grew up on and new music that has been uplifting for me in challenging times."
Other songs on Sing It Now include "Jesus Loves Me," the first song that McEntire ever sang in public, "Oh Happy Day" and "From the Inside Out." McEntire, Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus and band leader / musical director Doug Sisemore co-produced the record together in DeMarcus' home studio. In addition to Davidson and Houser, Jessi Alexander, Sarah Buxton, Steve Moakler, Dave Barnes, Lucie Silvas, Jeremy Spillman, Chris DuBois, Ashley Gorley, Michael Dulaney, Jason Sellers and Neil Thrasher, to name a few, helped pen tunes for the project, and "I Got the Lord on My Side," the sixth track on the record's contemporary disc, was written by McEntire and her mother, Jackie McEntire.
"Music conjures up great memories and goes hand and hand with us McEntires," McEntire shares. "Mama, Susie and Alice even came into the studio with me to record "I'll Fly Away," all of us gathered around an old hymnal straight from the Chockie church."
Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope will be released on Feb. 3, via Nash Icon Records (McEntire's label home) and Capitol Christian Music Group; the project is available for pre-order on iTunes or as part of special merch bundles on Reba.com. To celebrate the disc's release, McEntire will perform her first-ever concerts at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, on Feb. 15.
McEntire's Sing It Now earned 52.59 percent of votes in The Boot's February 2017 Album of the Month poll, beating out new releases from LeAnn Rimes, newcomer Brett Young, Alison Krauss, Little Big Town and more.
Reba McEntire, Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope Track Listing:
1. "Jesus Loves Me" (written by William Batchelder Bradbury; arrangement by Reba McEntire)
2. "Oh, How I Love Jesus" (written by Frederick Whitfield; arrangement by Jay DeMarcus, Tim Akers)
3. "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder" (written by James Milton Black; arrangement by Reba McEntire, Catherine Marx, Doug Sisemore)
4. "Oh Happy Day" (written by Edward Francis Rimbault; arrangement by Jay DeMarcus, Tim Akers)
5. "Amazing Grace" (written by John Newton; arrangement by Reba McEntire, Doug Sisemore)
6. "I'll Fly Away" (written by Albert E. Brumley; arrangement by Reba McEntire, Doug Sisemore)
7. "In the Garden / Wonderful Peace (Medley)" (featuring the Isaacs) ("In the Garden" written by Austin C. Miles, "Wonderful Peace" written by Warren D. Cornell; medley arrangement by Jay DeMarcus, Tim Akers)
8. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Swing Down Chariot (Medley)" (written by Wallace Willis; arrangement by Reba McEntire, Doug Sisemore)
9. "How Great Thou Art" (written by Stuart K. Hine; arrangement by Doug Sisemore)
10. "Softly and Tenderly (feat. Kelly Clarkson and Trisha Yearwood)" (written by Will Lamartine Thompson; arrangement by Doug Sisemore)
1. "Sing It Now" (written by Michael Farren, Joseph Habedank, Tony Wood)
2. "Angels Singin'" (written by Jessi Alexander, Sarah Buxton, Steve Moakler)
3. "God and My Girlfriends" (written by Patricia Conroy, Lisa Hentrich, Marcia Ramirez)
4. "Hallelujah, Amen" (written by Dave Barnes, Lucie Silvas, Jeremy Spillman)
5. "There Is a God" (written by Chris DuBois, Ashley Gorley)
6. "I Got the Lord on My Side" (written by Reba McEntire, Jackie McEntire)
7. "Back to God" (written by Dallas Davidson, Randy Houser)
8. "Angel on My Shoulder" (written by Leigh Reynolds, Amber White, Philip White)
9. "From the Inside Out" (written by Amy Fletcher)
10. "Say a Prayer" (written by Michael Dulaney, Jason Sellers, Neil Thrasher)
11. HIDDEN TRACK (physical copies only): "Jesus Loves Me (Reprise)" (written by William Batchelder Bradbury; arrangement by Reba McEntire)
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Indian Bitcoin platform Unocoin ensures $1.5 mln in pre Series-A funding
- Sep 30, 2016
Unocoin, an India-based Bitcoin startup, said on Friday it has raised $1.5 million in a pre Series-A financing round. This is the highest raised amount for a digital currency venue in India.
The round was backed by a strong team of international investors such as Digital Currency Group, Boost VC, Bank to the Future, Bitcoin Capital and FundersClub, as well as by-known local entities such as Blume Ventures, Mumbai Angels and ah! Ventures.
The company will use the money to expand its offering with new, enhanced solutions, among other things. In the recent past, Unocoin introduced many innovations to its product portfolio, including a merchant point-of-sale (POS) app, a mobile trading app, an auto-selling feature for remittance users, systematic investment planning (SIP) to mitigate against volatilty risk, integration with NETKI to simplifly Bitcoin addresses, and launched an API for developers.
"Over the coming months and years, we'll continue to build practical, useful features and tools on top of Bitcoin," said Sathvik Vishwanath, CEO and co-founder of Unocorn, without providing details.
Unocoin presents itself as India's most popular Bitcoin company. It operates one of the largest BTC/INR trading platforms that enables clients to buy, sell, store and use Bitcoins. Buying and selling is possible in Indian rupee through an Indian bank account, while storing and accepting the digital currency is done through users' Unocoin wallets. The Unocoin platform has some 100,000 users who execute monthly transactions worth more than INR 200 million.
"Empowered with our current round of financing from many of the best investors in the world, we believe that Unocoin is strategically positioned to reach millions of people in the next few years," said Sunny Ray, co-founder and president of Unocoin. "In the future, we believe that bitcoin has the potential to take market share from gold, substantially reduce the cost of remittance and potentially bank the unbanked."
The company was founded in late 2013, initially on a trial basis and later in full operation, and is based in the city of Bangalore. Since April 2016, the company is owned by Unocoin Technologies Private Ltd., which is a fully owned subsidiary of Singapore-based holding company Unocoin Technologies Pte Ltd.
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Jean-Rene Bernaudeau has found a French sponsor to replace Europcar for 2016 and secured Sylvain Chavanel as a team leader, French newspaper L'Équipe has reported.
The Vendee-based team manager has faced a frantic search for a new backer, even trying to land a British sponsor to keep his team alive. However according to L'Équipe the new sponsor will ensure the survival of the team, with Bernaudeau hoping to secure a place in the WorldTour in 2016 after racing as a professional Continental team this season.
"The latest news is very good. Everything seems sorted out but the project has yet to be made official because the sponsor wants to make the announcement. It'll be a French sponsor, that's all I can say," L'Équipe reported Bernaudeau as saying.
Bernaudeau had asked his current roster of riders to wait until August 15 before signing contracts with other teams. Thomas Voeckler and sprinter Bryan Coquard stayed loyal to the Bernaudeau and are set to be part of the new set-up but Pierre Rolland and Cyril Gautier have opted to move on. Rolland has joined Cannondale-Garmin, while Gautier will ride for Ag2r-La Mondiale.
According to L'Équipe, Bernaudeau has made a formal request for a WorldTour licence with the UCI, claiming he has a budget of 5.5 million Euro and a roster of 22 riders. The new French sponsor may boost that figure by several million but it remains tiny compared to the estimated budgets of Team Sky, BMC and Tinkoff-Saxo.
It seems the new sponsor will allow Bernaudeau to secure the services of Sylvain Chavanel, who is looking to end his career in a French team after IAM Cycling confirmed he no longer had a place in the Swiss team.
Chavanel turned professional with Bernaudeau back in 2000, racing with the Bonjour team until 2004. He reportedly has offers from Tinkoff-Saxo, Bretagne Seche and FDJ but has given his word to Bernaudeau.
"I'm going to end my career with Jean-Rene," Chavanel told L'Équipe during the rest day of the Vuelta. "I know I can trust him and that he respects me. I'm really motivated for this new experience."


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Nygard's lawyers argue U.S. federal court should throw out class-action suit
By: Ryan Thorpe
Posted: 07/9/2020 12:01 PM
This article was published 9/7/2020 (190 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The legal team representing Peter Nygard in U.S. court has asked for the class-action lawsuit against him, which alleges decades of sexual abuse and human trafficking, to be dismissed with prejudice.
The notice of the motion was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Tuesday.
Nygard, who is currently the subject of a criminal investigation by the Winnipeg Police Service, has been publicly accused of sexual misconduct by 57 women. The WPS has declined comment on the existence of its investigation, which the Free Press confirmed through interviews with alleged victims.
The motion advances multiple legal arguments for why the class action should be dismissed, including one centred on statute of limitations grounds and another on jurisdiction.
In the U.S., "dismissed with prejudice" means dismissed forever.
Nygard's lawyers argue the matter should not be dealt with in a New York court, since the plaintiffs and Nygard do not live in the city, and much of the alleged conduct happened outside of the U.S. In total, the cases for 50 of the alleged victims should be thrown out due to jurisdiction, the lawyers wrote.
The motion further argues the statute of limitations has passed for 38 of the alleged victims, and unless they can show they had previously tried to pursue their allegations in court in a "timely" manner, their cases should be dismissed.
In addition, Nygard's lawyers say individual allegations of sexual assault must be defended on an individual basis, and so the case should not be allowed to proceed as a class-action lawsuit.
"While defendants dispute plaintiffs' claims of sexual misconduct and are prepared to defend this case on the merits, the vast majority of the plaintiffs' claims — including all of the claims asserted by 52 of the 57 named plaintiffs — fail as matter of law and must be dismissed," the motion reads.
"Moreover, plaintiffs' claims (which arise out of a series of unconnected alleged incidents of sexual misconduct over a period of more than 40 years, will require individualized proof on the part of each plaintiffs, and are subject to individualized defences) are not eligible for class treatment, and must be stricken."
The lawsuit was first filed in U.S. court Feb. 13. Initially, it included the accounts of 10 women who claimed to have been drugged, raped and sodomized by Nygard. Since then 47 other women have signed onto the case.
Nygard, 78, has continually maintained his innocence in the face of the mounting rape allegations. He claims he's at the centre of an elaborate conspiracy to ruin his reputation by people with a personal vendetta against him.
In a sworn affidavit submitted to the court, Nygard revealed that since Feb. 25 he has been located in Canada and considers Manitoba to be his permanent home.
On Feb. 26, U.S. law enforcement raided Nygard properties in New York and California in connection with a federal criminal investigation led by a joint child-exploitation task force.
The allegations against him have not been proven in court.
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Wu Mei bowed to each member of the extended family as she responded to the announcement. It was time to board her flight to Beijing from which departure point she was to undertake the long flight to Australia. The family had congregated from rural communities around the city to wish her good fortune in her quest for an advanced degree in that country. Uncles shouted good wishes as she picked up her luggage and aunts cried as was customary for the occasion.
Well, that was the stated purpose, but the family were sending her there not so much for the degree but to hone her English skills and expose her to the culture of the big noses. Times had changed, the foreign devils were now useful as business venture targets and it was necessary to understand how they could be used for that purpose. This would be better achieved through association during a few years of observations abroad. There was the Chinese diaspora scattered around the world to nurture and protect as that was accomplished. That diaspora may not cherish the party, but they cherished their Chinese heritage and knew which village in China their ancestors had come from. Cultural pride transcended political theory.
Wu Mei's father was an important person. He'd been one of the generation who'd watched as their parents and relatives engaged in the cultural revolution as active participants and as he grew he was looked on with favour by the ruling Communist regime. He was a member of the party. It was expected! Then working his way through the evolving educational system he watched and waited his chance to advance through party ranks. He was progressively rewarded with positions of increasing influence.
He watched as China changed and education advanced. He noted an explosion of interest by foreign business corporations as China gradually opened its doors to investment. He sat in as party officials began to plan how this investment could be harnessed to eventually regain for China the position of power in the world it had held in ancient times. For the foreigners it was a business opportunity, for the Chinese, foreigner's business interest was a means to an end.
Wu noted the interest his superiors took in these business ventures. Their children went to the West to learn and returned to find their way into positions of influence within resident foreign business corporations or government appointments. This was done with the active approval of party officials. Then as years went by what they learned in their studies abroad and working for foreign firms in China eventually evolved into similar industries which they now headed up with the encouragement of parents and party members.
An explosion of Chinese industrial development followed and a generation of entrepreneurs fuelled the advancement of the new China. Restoration of Chinese power and influence was well on the way.
So Wu put his watching into practice and joined the new China outlook. His influence was used to send his sons to learn in the West one by one and establish contacts with the diaspora for future business opportunities. Seeking those of the diaspora who boasted ancestry from the region of his own ancestors Wu managed to arrange marriage matches for two of his sons with wealthy Chinese abroad. It was a good match. For wealthy Western Chinese it meant an opening wedge for business in China. For Wu it meant power and business opportunities in the West with the help of now further extended families. The remaining sons were brought back to China to establish family wealth through business enterprise. Wu pulled strings to see that happened.
Wu Mei was his only daughter. She was brought up in the ancient traditions of the race. Wu had watched in alarm as the new generation had used their recently acquired middle class wealth to engage in practices Wu felt had bought China to its low estate before the Communist takeover. So he personally supervised her education and upbringing to see her peer group didn't influence her with new ideas so far removed from the revolution. While Wu sought to instil in her mind the value of the revolution and the evils of foreign culture, he didn't realize Wu Mei as a very intelligent girl also knew how to watch and process what she saw happening around her. She saw her father preaching socialist orthodoxy but practicing what he preached against.
Their home was imposing with its luxurious appointing and the stable of foreign cars discretely housed. It was an undivided family home with his sons and their families occupying portions of the sprawling complex along with their parents, a nod to the past. Each of the sons were rising stars in the industrial world.
These kind of homes were becoming more accepted again though the great majority of city dwellers still struggled with small apartments though increasingly affluent. Rural dwellers were barely able to scrape up enough money to live and luxury didn't even enter their minds. They largely remained in their ancestral homes, though the haemorrhage of unemployed rural youth to the cities was just beginning. City and country were two different worlds.
Wu Mei observed it all. Outwardly she was the ideal traditional daughter deferring to her parents and elder brothers. Her life was arranged for her and she accepted that. She went to schools appointed, she studied what her father arranged. But underneath that exterior Wu discerned in his daughter a highly intelligent woman with latent strength hiding like a volcano for the opportune time to burst forth. He discerned in a moment of gilt she'd seen through all the pretence. Their socialist claims were at odds with their capitalistic life style. There was no sense in further pretence. He'd harness her into the burgeoning family enterprises. Her obvious potential would be much more valuable when harnessed than marrying her off as a strategy for another allied family's loyalty.
So it was plans were made for Wu Mei to attend the University of Sydney, Australia. Family interests had already been established in the Americas and Europe. Wu had previously cast his eye over a map of the world and put his finger on all major centres of business and nodded approval as he thought of direct and indirect profitable business connections. His finger hovered over Singapore and Indonesia momentarily then his eye fell on the island continent down under. He looked at it with interest. They spoke English there. Perhaps that would be a good place for Wu Mei to hone her English skills over a period of studies. She could register for a Master in Business Administration. His sons had taken various engineering degrees abroad and they were employing people for the legal and accounting side of their business. However, intricacies of international business required someone from within the family to provide an audit on the professionalism and honesty of their employed business appointees. Wu considered this to be a vulnerability. He was sure Wu Mei had the intelligence to care for that weakness and this surprised him. He'd previously considered educating his daughter was simply an important factor in arranging a suitable marriage.
That's great that you can use your knowledge of Asian history and politics to tell stories people can relate to (love, family, dream of parents).
I find the whole of Asia fascinating and love to read anything I can get my hands on in a history or culture setting.
Took me back to my trips to China, Beijing in particular.
Beijing has a huge air pollution problem but I'm sure the Chinese government will get that straightened out. They are very efficient and forward looking.
Wonderfully written, as always, Ian, and reading your stories gives me an insight to places I may not have the opportunity to visit in the future. Can't wait for the next post!
I put Chapter 2 up today. I hope you like it.
I enjoyed reading this insight into China particularly as it paints another perspective from that depicted by "Wild Swans – Three daughters of China" by Jung Chang. Jung Chang gave an interesting talk about her family at one of her book promotion talks in Wales a few years ago. Their experience wasn't as pleasant as that of the Wu family, and I'm glad for their story is rife with suffering.
Wild Swans is one of the many books I've read about China. Those are authentic because they are written by people who actually experienced the culture from birth. My story is the view of a foreigner who has lived among the Chinese diaspora but only visited China. Of course I read widely on that part of the world as I maintain an interest after 30 years living in Asia. I don't think I'm too far off the mark, though that would naturally be questioned by those who live there and have to maintain face. I really value Eric's comment as he is closer to the culture than I am.
Now you've done it Ian! I can't wait for the rest of this story. You have such a dpth of understanding into other cultures.
That's very generous of you Barb. While we have travelled extensively I have to confess that we only scratched the surface of all the different cultures of the world. I love learning from other cultures.
I'd just completed, minutes ago, the first draft of my latest novel – The White Tuan and the Houseboy – a tale set in post-WW2 Singapore, and decided to take a break when your post notification came through, Ian.
Of course, I had to read it and what a treat it has been.
You astutely summarized a typical family in the upper rungs of contemporary China and the belief system and goals driving that dynamic nation. Unfortunately, the current Chinese regime – and by this, I refer to the CCC – is proving belligerent. Even if a semblance of democratic processes ameliorates into the Chinese system of governance, then, there is hope for real world peace. Because the Chinese people, like ordinary folks everywhere, wish only for peace and prosperity.
I love the premise of your story and chuckled at how you borrowed words and phrases we once employed, even here in Singapore not too long ago – big noses, foreign devils. LOL!
This has been a good read and I look forward to the next installment.
Wow, praise like that coming from a genuine author who I greatly admire is really encouraging Eric. Thank you so much. I'm still considering how this story will end.


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Louisville Adopts Tree Ordinance Preserving More Urban Canopy
By Ryan Van Velzer
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Developers will have to preserve more of the city's tree canopy when building subdivisions and strip malls thanks to new rules from Louisville's Metro Council.
What started with a non-binding resolution and community meetings has snowballed into bipartisan, compromise legislation that protects more of Louisville's trees.
But it is not likely to reverse the trend of the city's shrinking urban canopy.
Republican council members say the rules strike a balance between conservation and private property rights. Democratic Co-sponsor Councilman Bill Hollander (D-9) says the measure is "not perfect" but a substantial improvement over existing rules.
"For the first time, there would be a requirement that on many pieces of land you would not be able to clear-cut the land, but would need to preserve some trees," Hollander said.
Metro Council passed the ordinance on a 25-1 vote Thursday amending Louisville's land development code, on the eve of Arbor Day. The ordinance moves to the desk of Mayor Greg Fischer, who tweeted his support Thursday evening.
Climate change, urban heat, air pollution and flooding are among the other challenges nipping at the heels of Louisville amid the coronavirus pandemic. The city's urban forest helps alleviate these problems, providing shade, improving air quality and capturing stormwater.
Louisville loses about 54,000 trees annually to economic development, age, storms and disease, according to a 2015 study. City residents are planting trees too, but experts say plantings are not happening fast enough to make up for the losses. And as Democratic Metro Councilman Brandon Coan (D-5) likes to say, the city can't plant its way out of this crisis.
The new ordinance requires new subdivisions and commercial developments that have lots with more than 50% tree canopy to preserve at least 20% of those trees in most cases. In certain cases, developers would be allowed to pay a fee in lieu of planting or preserving trees. Hollander said the fee-in-lieu should only be used as a last resort.
Back in 2017, the Metro Council passed an ordinance that requires any tree removed from the public right-of-way to be replaced. The new rules go further, requiring street trees for all land uses along public rights of way.
The ordinance also has stipulations for re-zoning properties and permit applications to close possible loopholes. In those cases, sites are ineligible if 20% or more of the site has been clear-cut in the last 24 months.
But loopholes remain. Democratic Councilman Markus Winkler (D-17) says the new rules create a potential "moral hazard" wherein a property owner clear-cuts land prior to entering into a purchase agreement. However, Winker said the city could potentially decline to approve the zoning changes if such problems arise.
"While that risk exists: One, it's relatively small to begin with and two, this doesn't eliminate our ability to address this if in fact we do see that happen," Winkler said.
Republican Councilman Anthony Piagentini (D-19) said the legislation balances the need to preserve open spaces with the need to grow the economy and protect the rights of private property owners.
"I want to congratulate folks on finding a very tight rope to walk and I think this does that," Piagentini said.
Democratic Councilwoman Donna Purvis (D-5) was the sole member to vote against the ordinance. Purvis said that she respects the need to to preserve tree canopy, but remains concerned about property owners who may not have the financial resources to maintain trees on or near their properties.
"I understand the need of having a tree canopy but I really wish there was some kind of way we could address these private property owners when these trees become problematic," Purvis said.
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