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Electoral Commission of Ghana gazetts the 2020 general election results.
The Electoral Commission of Ghana has gazetted the 2020 general election results.
This was done at the Assembly Press in Accra by the Commission.Per law, the EC has the mandate to gazette the results of every presidential elections after it has declared the winner.
In a report by the Ghana News Agency, the EC is said to have done this to give legal backing to the results which is being contested by the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to the source, the Commission is mandated by Constitutional Instrument (CI) 127, Regulation 44, Sub-regulation 11, to gazette the results, saying; "Without that, any case from a person or a group about the election results sent to court will be thrown away.
An instrument, which is executed under the hand of the Chairman of the Commission and under the seal of the Commission; and states that the person named in the Instrument was declared elected as the President of Ghana at the election, is prima facie evidence that the person named was elected.
Per the CI, the instrument referred to in sub-regulation 11 shall be published in the Gazette
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The Reds closed the first half on a 21-10 roll.
The Reds know they are considered to be sellers as the trade deadline approaches.
Despite the 21-10 run leading into the All-Start break, the Reds remain 10 games out of the National League Wild Card. It's widely assumed that it's just a matter of time before Matt Harvey gets a traded. Plenty of others are on the rumor mill as well.
"When you dig yourself a little bit of hole, there's more of a tendency to subtract as you get closer to the trading deadline," Reds manager Jim Riggleman said.
The Reds dug a little bit more than a little bit of a hole. They started the season 3-18. They went into Friday 40-35 since the abysmal start.
The Reds took the third-best record in the NL since May 7 into Friday.
"We've played well over the last month or so," Joey Votto said. "It would be really good to see that continue. Our next step is getting up to .500 and going from there.
The turnaround started just after Riggleman took over for Bryan Price, but Riggleman has consistently deflected credit. He was asked about accountability Friday.
"I never used that word," Riggleman said. "I hear that word a lot. I think we just ask our players to play hard, be professional and get after it each day and good things will happen. They've always done that.
The winning has bred confidence. The Reds start the second half with a 10-game homestand. That would seem to an ideal time to keep the roll going.
"We've played well on the road also," Votto said. "I don't think it matters – home or the road. Guys are excited to play ball. We've played better.
"We need to continue to play well. We've done a little bit. We haven't really done hardly anything yet. I think continuing a trend upward, getting to .500 would be a cool step and then go from there."


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If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me how to "do the Teal Pumpkin Project", I would be rich! I am excited to share with you how easy and affordable it is to include ALL children on Halloween. Join the Food Allergy Alliance of the Mid-South in turning the Mid-South teal this Halloween!
I was five months old when I started having eczema outbreaks on my skin. My parents and doctors tried to figure out what was causing it. My little hands scratched and tore up my skin. I even wore gloves or long socks on my hands to keep from scratching. By the time I was about two years old, we were able to get allergy testing done. At first, the allergist thought it was just eggs but by the time I was five I was allergic to all eight of the major food allergens, known as the Top 8 - milk, egg, peanut, tree nuts, wheat, soy, fish and shellfish.
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Bottom's Dream: chokecherry
By Robi Polgar, Fri., Jan. 7, 2000
(l-r) Jennifer Griffin and Ryan Cutrona in The Lesser Magoo
"Baby, you don't get more Bottom's Dream than this," responds Mitchell Gossett when asked about the production of Erik Ehn's chokecherry that this exceptional Los Angeles theatre company is bringing to town for FronteraFest 2000. "James Martin, the director, co-founded Bottom's Dream with [me. I am] in the cast. Both founding artistic directors will be in Austin for the performances." Furthermore, the traveling group includes actresses Jennifer Griffin and Bonita Friedericy, both company veterans: Griffin is appearing in her sixth show, having just portrayed Clytemnestra in the Bottom's Dream production of Ruth Margraff's The Elektra Fugues last spring; Friedericy played Dot in the highly acclaimed Bottom's Dream production of Mac Wellman's 7 Blowjobs in 1993. "This is the core of Bottom's Dream," says Gossett, "And we will all be in Austin."
And it's about time, too, as Bottom's Dream has been a haven for Austin theatre artists (and some of our favorite new playwrights) traveling the West Coast for a number of years now.
(l-r) Jennifer Griffin, Matthew Posey, Mike Hagiwara, William Mesnik, Alice Dodd, and Cheryl White in Elektra Fugues
Gossett first came into contact with Austin theatre at the original RAT Conference in Iowa City in December 1994. This was the gathering that first brought together some of America's brightest -- but not richest -- theatre companies, almost all of them working under the radar of the often staid and mostly institutionalized national theatre scene with its League of Resident Theatres structure. Spurred by playwright Ehn's notion of a national artists' hostelry as a way to share work across the country without breaking a theatre's bank, representatives of about 20 of these largely vagabond, kindred groups met on the University of Iowa campus to discuss and activate greater collaboration among them. Five Austin theatre companies were represented in Iowa City: Salvage Vanguard Theater, Frontera Productions, Physical Plant Theatre, The Public Domain, and then-independent producer Don Howell, who helped organize the Austin contingent. The Annex (Seattle), Woolly Mammoth (Washington, D.C.), the Undermain Theatre (Dallas), The Living Theatre and Thieves Theatre (both from New York City), Sledgehammer Theatre (San Diego), and Ehn, among other individuals and groups, were all there.
Gossett attended as the representative for Bottom's Dream, a talented and forward-thinking theatre company from Los Angeles that prided itself on producing bold new works by American playwrights, as well as seeking out like-minded companies across the country to exchange ideas, plays, and, occasionally, personnel. The Iowa dialogues led, naturally, to Bottom's Dream becoming a West Coast base for out-of-towners sharing their work, and that included some of Austin's envelope-pushing companies.
Following his trip to Iowa, Gossett and Bottom's Dream dove right into a process of collaboration and exchange that has been colored by many Austin connections. They hosted Salvage Vanguard Theater during its West Coast tour of David Bucci's original play Kid Carnivore, then had Bucci and Salvage artistic director Jason Neulander back to L.A. for the West Coast premiere of Bucci's Altamont Now, as part of the Sun and Moon Press contemporary drama reading series. They've been one of the West Coast's leading proponents of the works of playwright Ruth Margraff, newly relocated to Austin (Salvage just staged Margraff's The Cry Pitch Carrolls). And Bottom's Dream has exchanged ideas and mutual admiration for other Austin companies like Frontera and the Rude Mechanicals: "These are all core artists for BD," explains Gossett, "and we want to share our work. We like connecting ourselves to Austin theatre."
Gossett and company also credit Austin's theatre groups with providing a model of theatres working together in a mutually supportive environment that he believes "helped spur an exciting renaissance in the Los Angeles theatre community." Upon visiting the city for the 1996 RAT Conference, held in various theatres about town, he "was really impressed, really impressed ... with the tight community of Austin theatre. So much so that I have used the Austin theatre community as a model for Los Angeles theatre over and over again. Most recently with the Los Angeles Times and a dialogue we have been having here in L.A. with the press."
In addition to Margraff, the stable of playwrights that Austin theatre and Bottom's Dream share a passion for includes Erik Ehn, whose Big Cheap Theatre ethos has been the connective tissue for this nationwide body of groundbreaking, alternative theatres. Ehn's work has been seen in Austin more frequently: Anarchy in the Oklahoma Kingdom and Wolf at the Door were produced a few years back and, more recently, Frontera@Hyde Park has staged a pair of Ehn's poetic, socially probing plays: the roaming Enfant Perdus in 1996, and just this fall the commissioned work Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling. With so much in common, it just plain makes sense that Austin gets a look at Bottom's Dream in action.
So welcome the intrepid Los Angeles company as it premieres its own commissioned Ehn play, chokecherry, at this year's FronteraFest, February 3-5, before returning home for its Los Angeles run.
"All the theatres at that [original RAT] Conference have inspired Bottom's Dream," enthuses Gossett. "Each of those theatres and producers [are] doing excellent work within an ethic and intelligence that Bottom's Dream feels akin to. Every one of them. Frontera is one of those theatres. Frontera is a sister theatre. Frontera-Bottom's Dream is an important alliance, and FronteraFest 2000 seemed like a good opportunity to share each other's work. To celebrate each other.
"We just want to be a part of the [Austin] scene," continues Gossett, "even if only for three performances. Plus, we like the idea of premiering [Ehn's play] in Austin before its Los Angeles run two weeks later. Austin audiences will see what Los Angeles considers one of its best new-work theatres doing a world premiere."
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Rob Cesternino & Stephen Fishbach bring their "Know-It-All" non-sensibility to Week 2 of Australian Survivor as they give their take on this expanded international Survivor edition.
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A tale of two truckers
Mark B. Solomon
Like Lazarus arisen from the dead, the one-time corpse known as YRC Worldwide Inc. was out in force at last month's NASSTRAC annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. The less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier's exhibition booth was abuzz with activity, with CEO James L. Welch smiling and glad-handing shippers and third-party logistics service providers.
About 1,100 miles away in Fort Smith, Ark., Judy R. McReynolds, CEO of Arkansas Best Corp., the parent of YRC rival ABF Freight System Inc., had other things on her mind. Her company is locked in what has become a near life-and-death struggle with the Teamsters union to reach agreement on a new contract that calls for wage and pension cuts, as well as higher health care payments for workers. Without a satisfactory deal, ABF has warned that it would have to scale back its network, shutter terminals, and, invariably, lay off workers.
That's not to say ABF wasn't a presence at NASSTRAC. In fact, for the third time in four years, the shipper group named ABF its national LTL "Carrier of the Year," a testament to ABF's long-held and mostly undisputed reputation for service excellence.
But for a publicly traded concern like ABF, awards, while certainly appreciated, pale in importance at this point to the $230 million in cumulative losses suffered since 2009. ABF says much of the problem would disappear if its workers, who are the best paid in the LTL industry, would accept modest wage cuts and benefit concessions that would still leave them with higher salaries than YRC, and certainly higher than the nonunion entities that have come to dominate LTL.
So far, it hasn't gone well. Teamster leaders representing 7,500 ABF workers were not happy with the company's late April proposal, under which employees would take a 6.5-percent across-the-board wage cut, accept reductions in ABF's pension contributions as well as caps on those contributions, and pay about $3,000 a year for family health coverage, which is more than labor is accustomed to paying. "We've put millions of dollars worth of operational relief on the table, but that apparently is not enough," said Gordon Sweeton, co-chairman of the Teamsters ABF National Negotiating Committee, in a statement April 19.
Still, both sides agreed to extend the current contract, which expired on March 31, until the end of May in order to continue talking. This marks the second consecutive monthly extension and could be the first of many.
By contrast to the situation with ABF, the Teamsters appear to be playing well with other companies in the sandbox. At press time, the union looked to be on track to clinch a new contract with UPS Inc. and its UPS Freight LTL subsidiary by the beginning of May, which would be roughly three months before both pacts expire. And Teamster leaders agreed in late April to a restructuring at YRC Freight that allows YRC's long-haul unit to close three breakbulk terminals and consolidate 29 "end-of-line" terminals used as freight pickup and final delivery points. The change is expected to save YRC Freight up to $30 million a year by improving line-haul density, cutting building and leasing expenses, and reducing freight "touches" that often prolong transit times, raise labor costs, and increase damage claims.
It should be noted that ABF and the Teamsters bring baggage to the table that other companies don't have. In 2010, ABF and Teamster leaders agreed to wage and benefit concessions to roughly match three extraordinary givebacks agreed to by YRC's Teamster workers to keep the carrier alive at the time. However, ABF's rank and file spurned the proposal.
Then in a move ABF may live to regret, it sued YRC and the Teamsters in an effort to void those agreements on grounds they were negotiated outside of the broad labor compact that covers the trucking industry. Despite several legal setbacks, ABF insists on pursuing the suit, an approach that can't sit well with the Teamster hierarchy. After all, having a three-year lawsuit hanging over one's head might not provide a strong incentive to bargain with the party that brought it.
Transportation Trucking Less-than-Truckload
KEYWORDS ABF Freight System Inc. UPS UPS Freight YRC Worldwide
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Q: Semantic-UI Popup - Change HTML before initializing I'm working with Semantic-UI and have a popup with an input field in it (search field). The popup is initialized/opened "on: 'click'", but I would like to set a value to the input field with javascript before the user opens the popup.
Trying to do so with
document.getElementById("sok_tekst").value = input;

only leads to

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'value' of null

When I look in the console, I see that the HTML-code contains the popup with the input field (id="sok_tekst"), but it looks like I "can't reach it" with javascript before it's initialized.
I feel I have tried everything, and it looks like I need to open the popup before adding a value to the input field.
Here is a DEMO
Do anyone have a trick up their sleeve for this??
Thanks!
For the curious: I am using the input field as a search field in a table/work plan. When the table is redrawn, by the user changing week number, the popup are redrawn as well. I'm trying to keep the search value, and put it back in the input field, in the new popup, in the new table.

A: In order to initialize input value you shouldn't specify popup content with data-html="..." , this won't let change the value cause  the input is not yet created (this is why you're getting Cannot set property 'value' of null) , so should change it from a pre-existing HTML content , so use instead  popup: $('#YourContentSelector'), in popup setting to set the content ,then and you'll be able to change input value using :$('#input_test').val('test'); like the following :
HTML:

            <input type='text' placeholder='Input' id='input_test'>

JS(jQuery)
$(document).on('click', '.search.sok', function() {
  $('#input_test').val('test');
    $(this)
       .popup({
           popup: $('#content'),
            on:'click'
       })
       .popup('show');

});

Here is a working Demo
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Q: Difference between LayoutInflater and getLayoutInflater I'm just wondering what's the difference between
(RelativeLayout) LayoutInflater.from(mContext).inflate(R.layout.todo_item, null);

and
(RelativeLayout) ((Activity)mContext).getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.todo_item, null);

Here is how I am using it:
public class SomeAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

    private final List<ItemEntry> mItems = new ArrayList<ItemEntry>();
    private final Context mContext;

    public SomeAdapter(Context context) {
        mContext = context;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

        // TODO - Get the current ItemEntry
        final ItemEntry toDoItem = mItems.get(position);

        RelativeLayout itemLayout = null;
        // I'm getting ClassCastException on this.
        // itemLayout = (RelativeLayout) ((Activity) mContext).getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.item_entry, null);

        // code run as expected
        itemLayout = (RelativeLayout) LayoutInflater.from(mContext).inflate(R.layout.item_entry, null);

        // more codes
    }
}

A: getLayoutInflater(), where it is available, will always give you a LayoutInflater that takes themes and other styles into account.
LayoutInflater.from() just gives you a LayoutInflater, one that may or may not take themes and other styles into account, particularly depending upon what the Context is that you pass in as a parameter.
Outside of instrumentation testing and certain unusual scenarios (e.g., a Service needing to inflate a layout), use getLayoutInflater() for inflating layouts.


KNOXVILLE — Two state lawmakers in Tennessee are pointing to Kentucky's recent approval of hemp farming as they push for a similar measure.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports Republican Sen. Frank Niceley of Strawberry Plains is drafting a bill with Republican Rep. Andy Holt of Dresden, and they plan to introduce the measure in next year's legislative session.
Nicely said Kentucky and six other states have passed measures legalizing hemp even though federal law prohibits it. Nicely said there also is support for changing federal laws, notably from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul, both from Kentucky.
"The utilization of hemp to produce everything from clothing to paper is real, and if there is a capacity to center a new domestic industry in Kentucky that will create jobs in these difficult economic times, that sounds like a good thing to me," McConnell said in a statement earlier this year.
Hemp is controversial because the fiber is derived from the same plant as marijuana. Although varieties of the plant eliminate all or most of the drug component, authorities are concerned that marijuana cultivators might hide drug plants among a crop of fiber plants.
Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker of Tennessee did not take a position on the issue, but said it should be discussed.
"While we have not spent a great deal of time on the issue, we think it should be fully vetted and debated at the appropriate time," Laura Herzog, spokeswoman for Corker, wrote in an e-mail.
A spokesman for Alexander offered similar comments.
"This is a very interesting proposal that has a good economic argument behind it. Unfortunately, an amendment by Sen. Paul to allow industrial hemp to be grown and processed was not considered during the farm bill debate, but Sen. Alexander will carefully consider this issue going forward," Alexander's spokesman, Jim Jeffries, said in an e-mail.
Niceley, a farmer, said introducing the measure in the Tennessee legislature would "put pressure on Congress" to repeal its prohibition on growing the plant, which has a long history in the nation.
"Betsy Ross's first American flag was made of hemp. Cowboys used to have jeans made of hemp. The cover on covered wagons headed west was made of hemp," he said.
A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana in Ohio was rejected yesterday by Attorney General Mike DeWine.
DeWine said the submitted ballot summary omits references to amendment language which repudiates federal cannabis prohibitions and language saying "persons cannot be considered to be under the influence of cannabis 'solely because of the presence of metabolites or components of cannabis in his or her body.'"
Finally, DeWine said the summary did not refer to language in the body of the amendment saying that the departments of Agriculture and Commerce would be responsible for overseeing the program.


A comprehensive analysis of the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest coast confirms that the region has had numerous earthquakes over the past 10,000 years, and suggests that the southern Oregon coast may be most vulnerable based on recurrence frequency.
Written by researchers at Oregon State University, and published online by the U.S. Geological Survey, the study concludes that there is a 40 percent chance of a major earthquake in the Coos Bay, Ore., region during the next 50 years. And that earthquake could approach the intensity of the Tohoku quake that devastated Japan in March of 2011.
"The southern margin of Cascadia has a much higher recurrence level for major earthquakes than the northern end and, frankly, it is overdue for a rupture," said Chris Goldfinger, a professor in OSU's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences and lead author of the study. "That doesn't mean that an earthquake couldn't strike first along the northern half, from Newport, Ore., to Vancouver Island.
The publication of the peer-reviewed analysis may do more than raise awareness of earthquake hazards and risks, experts say. The actuarial table and history of earthquake strength and frequency may eventually lead to an update in the state's building codes.
"We are considering the work of Goldfinger, et al, in the update of the National Seismic Hazard Maps, which are the basis for seismic design provisions in building codes and other earthquake risk-mitigation measures," said Art Frankel, who has dual appointments with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington.
The Goldfinger-led study took four years to complete and is based on 13 years of research. At 184 pages, it is the most comprehensive overview ever written of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a region off the Northwest coast where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is being subducted beneath the continent. Once thought to be a continuous fault line, Cascadia is now known to be at least partially segmented.
This segmentation is reflected in the region's earthquake history, Goldfinger noted.
"Over the past 10,000 years, there have been 19 earthquakes that extended along most of the margin, stretching from southern Vancouver Island to the Oregon-California border," Goldfinger noted. "These would typically be of a magnitude from about 8.7 to 9.2 – really huge earthquakes.
The clock is ticking on when a major earthquake will next strike, said Jay Patton, an OSU doctoral student who is a co-author on the study.
The last mega-earthquake to strike the Pacific Northwest occurred on Jan. 26, 1700. Researchers know this, Goldfinger said, because written records in Japan document how an ensuing tsunami destroyed that year's rice crop stored in warehouses.
How scientists document the earthquake history of the Cascadia Subduction Zone is fascinating. When a major offshore earthquake occurs, Goldfinger says, the disturbance causes mud and sand to begin streaming down the continental margins and into the undersea canyons. Coarse sediments called turbidites run out onto the abyssal plain; these sediments stand out distinctly from the fine particulate matter that accumulates on a regular basis between major tectonic events.
By dating the fine particles through carbon-14 analysis and other methods, Goldfinger and colleagues can estimate with a great deal of accuracy when major earthquakes have occurred over the past 10,000 years.
Going back further than 10,000 years has been difficult because the sea level used to be lower and West Coast rivers emptied directly into offshore canyons. Because of that, it is difficult to distinguish between storm debris and earthquake turbidites.
With the likelihood of a major earthquake and possible tsunami looming, coastal leaders and residents face the unenviable task of how to prepare for such events. Patrick Corcoran, a hazards outreach specialist with OSU's Sea Grant Extension program, says West Coast residents need to align their behavior with this kind of research.
"Now that we understand our vulnerability to mega-quakes and tsunamis, we need to develop a culture that is prepared at a level commensurate with the risk," Corcoran said. "Unlike Japan, which has frequent earthquakes and thus is more culturally prepared for them, we in the Pacific Northwest have not had a mega-quake since European settlement. And since we have no culture of earthquakes, we have no culture of preparedness.


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Child Support – Child of Age of Majority
A child who has attained the age of majority (currently 18 years) is still entitled to basic table child support in the following circumstances: The child is enrolled in a full time program of education (Family Law Act section 31 (1); The child has not withdrawn from parental control (Family law Act section 31 (2); or In the case of children of married couples, the child is unable to withdraw from parent charge or obtain necessities of life due to…
Custody and Access – Office of the Children's Lawyer
Parents in a custody battle usually are faced with issue of how best to present to the court what they view as the child's needs or the child's views and preferences without appearing that they are influencing the child's decision one or way or another. Your family lawyer can assist you make a decision as to whether your case needs the involvement of Office of the Children's lawyer (OCL) to be appointed in order to effectively present the child's needs,…
Financial Disclosure – Child Support, Spousal Support and Division of Assets
When representing parties in issues relating to child support, spousal support and Division of assets, parties are required to exchange to each other full and financial disclosure. Failure to do so in a timely manner causes unnecessary delay and cost in resolving the issues. Rule 13 of the Family Law Rules covers the process of financial disclosure in family law proceedings. The rule generally describes the forms to be used for particular issues and the level of disclosure needed. When…
Custody and Access– Mobility After separation when one parent has custody of the children, he or she may decide to relocate for a considerable distance from the jurisdiction where both parents are residing with the children for various reasons notably, employment opportunities, relationship or family support. Often the access parent opposes the move to protect his/her access rights because the move often times interferes with the access schedule by reducing the frequency of access and increasing access costs. The test…
Pursuant to section 34 of the Children's Law Reform Act, a court may give such directions as it considers appropriate for the supervision of custody or access by a person, a children's aid society or other body. My focus here is on access supervised by a Supervised Access Centre. Supervised access orders are made to address the best interest of the child by addressing a parent's parenting skills, reintegration or introduction of child with the parent, protect the child from…


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Glastonbury Festival 2021: Revellers could be tested for coronavirus three times, Michael Eavis suggests
"There could be massive testing arrangements"
Tomas MalloyReporter
The organiser of Glastonbury Festival has suggested music fans could be tested three times for coronavirus at the event.
Michael Eavis has spoken about potential measures that could be put in place to keep the event safe in 2021.
Glastonbury Festival 2020 was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but as it stands Glastonbury Festival 2021 is still planned to go ahead.
Festival-goers with tickets for 2020 have been given the chance to keep their tickets for a spot at the event next year.
At Wells Festival of Literature on Wednesday (October 21) Mr Eavis spoke about Covid-19 testing that could be put in place at the festival.
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He said: "Next year, we are not sure about, but the testing is going so well now. There could be massive testing arrangements.
"Do we we want to test 200,000 people three times? When they leave their home, when they are halfway here and when they get to the gates, so that we are clear of covid for 200,000 people, which is quite a tall order really."
Mr Eavis added that the Mendip district of Somerset is one of the safest places in the country according to government coronavirus statistics, which he suggested "might help him a bit".
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Earlier this year, Mr Eavis conceded the world-famous event may not happen in 2021.
The diary farmer told ITV West Country in July he was "moving heaven and earth" to plan for the event in 2021, but "that doesn't mean it will necessarily happen".
He said "the only certainty is the year after", adding that he is confident the festival will survive in the long-term.
Michael Eavis


Male of ssp. britannicus. Taken at Catfield Fen, Norfolk on June 25th 2013.
Male of ssp. gorganus. Taken in the Vercors NP, France, on July 22nd 2018.
Larva. Taken at La Janda, Spain, on November 6th 2016.
The Swallowtail is the most spectacular British butterfly due to its size and colour.
In Britain the britannicus subspecies is only found in the Norfolk Broads. Individuals of the continental subspecies gorganus reach southern counties of England in some years.
The Swallowtail is restricted to the fenlands of the Broads where the larval foodplant grows. In Europe it is a butterfly of dry flowery meadows.
The main flight period is from late May to the end of June, and there may be a partial second generation in August. The pupa is the over-wintering stage.
In Norfolk, Milk Parsley (Peucedanum palustre) is the sole larval foodplant. In Europe the larvae eat various umbelliferous plants.
Adults feed primarily on Bluebell, Devil's-bit Scabious, Ragged Robin, Red Clover, Teasel and Thistles.
Males patrol around shrubs looking for females. Mating can last several hours.
This species has Near Threatened status on the UK list.


The Women's 50m Prone match was shot on 12th April, with our two NZ shooters only split by 0.4 points!
Janet Hunt has placed 10th on 608.2, with Sally Johnston only just behind in 11th on 607.8.
Well done to Ryan Taylor, shooting in the Mens 50m Prone at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane.
Ryan shot on 10th April and qualifed for the Final in 2nd place, with a score of 619.4, then placed 5th in the Final.
Our 3 TSNZ rifle shooters will soon be heading off to Australia for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
who are all competing in 50m Prone events.
at the Belmont Shooting Centre in Brisbane.
who will all be competing in 50m Prone events.
The selection period for the 2018 Commonwealth Games to be held in Australia in April has now closed, with the last TSNZ Designated Match for selection being held on 10th December. At closing there were 11 shooters over the NZSF disciplines of Smallbore, Pistol, Clay Target and Shotgun who have achieved both the domestic and international MQS (Minimum Qualification Score) required, and these shooters will now enter the next stage of the selection process for the 8 places currently available.
The TSNZ shooters who have qualified for this next stage are Janet Hunt, Sally Johnston, and Ryan Taylor.
We wish everyone the very best, and look forward to finding out in early 2018 who will be representing TSNZ and NZ at the Gold Coast Games.


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If you have an area that's in need of paving, patching, or resurfacing, summertime is a great time to call our asphalt paving company. Our experts have years of experience and can get the job done quickly. Contact us today or fill out our free estimate form for more information.