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Jacobs Architectural Designer in St. Louis, Missouri
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At Jacobs our Architectural Designers provide a range of skills as part of an integrated building services design. Reporting to Project Architect and a federal group leader, the successful candidate will work as a core project team.
The Architectural Designer is responsible for the coordination, development, and production of deliverables in support of overall scope of Architecture-Engineering projects under the guidance of more senior technical staff.
The Architectural Designer will take ownership of the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the work assigned to you. Individuals in this position must demonstrate the ability to progress from basic design work assignments to more complicated and involved projects working in conjunction with a technical team.
Work in a fast-paced environment and work under tight deadlines, while maintaining high quality standards
Prepare 2D and 3D architectural design drawings in all phases
Performs construction administration and field investigation tasks for assigned projects including document management and processing RFI's and Change Orders
Support PM, senior designer and/or architects in preparing project design and construction documents
Participate in internal and external meetings and document discussions
Gather information, makes studies, and prepare original rough layouts and sketches as required
Perform routine tasks under general supervision using well-defined standards, procedures and codes
Coordinate design with other architects and engineering disciplines
Perform product research; assist project designers and project architects with materials selection and system research
Assist in the design of new buildings, or renovations of existing buildings
At Jacobs, we're partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you'll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.
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United States Citizenship
Bachelors Degree in Architecture
At least 5 years' Architectural design experience
Candidates must be a registered Architect or on track for attaining a license
Ability to communicate thoughts and technical ideas in an accessible way
Self-motivated personality with the ability to work collaboratively and independently as appropriate in studio environment
Ability to work in a multi-discipline team environment
Ability to effectively meet deadlines
Proficiency in REVIT
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel program
Basic understanding of IBC and Accessibility Codes
Ability to travel
Ideally, you'll also have:
Proficiency in graphic software such as SketchUp, Bluebeam, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
Proficiency in 3D Modeling software such as 3D Studio Max and Rhino
Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws (https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf) and supplemental language (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/eeoc_gina_supplement.pdf) .
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With $13 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.


As I've been on the east coast almost four years now, I've traveled quite a bit with several trips to Boston and New York, but had yet to see Philly!
We left Saturday morning and returned Sunday night, so had to pack a lot into one quick trip, but it was so worth it!
Saturday: We arrived around noon and walked from the train station along the river trail to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and saw the "Rocky Steps." Did the art museum and then wandered to a coffee shop nearby to refuel.
We ended up to OCF Coffee House, which provided a cool way to see Philly's historic sites as it overlooks the historic Eastern State Penitentiary. My husband wisely chose a Reuben sandwich. I wanted to try a little of everything, which ended up being basically all sugar… I got a strawberry banana smoothie, peanut butter bombs (chocolate covered peanut butter balls), and a *spicy* golden milk latte.
We next treated ourselves to a massage at Le Reve Rittenhouse Spa, which was relaxing. But, I think we both would have preferred a little more on the deep tissue side. Oh well!
After getting massages we stopped for a beer at a cool spot called BRU where we did a beer flight of German beers!
Next we checked into our hotel at the Residence Inn near city hall before dinner. We originally had reservations at El Rez, but it was packed and ended up at a place we just happened to stumble upon which was AMAZING.
We had dinner at 1225 Raw Sushi and Saki Lounge, an Asian fusion sushi and saki lounge with adorable courtyard seating! I'd describe this place as Asian-Mexican fusion as they have dishes like ahi tuna nachos (which were amazing!) and sushi tacos. We also got sake, wonton cones stuffed with ahi tuna, scallops, and salmon, veggie tempura, and 3 rolls of sushi (including my go-to salmon avocado). It was more than enough food, but definitely unlike anything we've had before.
After dinner, despite being full of sushi-goodness, we stumbled upon a gelato place that bragged about being one of the best in Philly so we couldn't resist – Capogiro Gelato. I got the mango champagne and dark chocolate, husband opted for the cashew and marscapone.
The next morning we met friends for brunch at the most adorable little brunch place – Talula's Garden. We sat outside, ordered drinks, or la columbe coffee in my case, and food. I got the local mushroom omelet with truffle butter… delicious!
Next was sightseeing at the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and the waterfront. With the weather about 90 degrees and sunny, we ended up getting ice cream from the Franklin Fountain and chilling in these cool little net-like chairs over the river. We also had the entertainment of people doing paddle board yoga, so that made for some Sunday afternoon fun.
Finally columnated our visit to Philly the only way one should: Philly Cheesesteak. This part was mostly for Jake, but we stopped into Jim's Steaks for a classic Philly cheesesteak sandwich. Not an everyday kind of meal, but ya know, when in Rome!
With our stomachs full and our feet tired, we made our way back to the train station and headed back to DC!


The Fourth of July is a fun-filled summer holiday filled with barbecues, camping and of course, fireworks. While it may seem like a fun idea to take your pooch along to these festivities, dogs are more sensitive to noise than we are and don't associate the noise and flashes of fireworks with celebrations. Dogs can be nervous of fireworks and may even panic at the loud bangs they produce.
1. Keep your pet at home. More pets go missing on the Fourth of July than any other day of the year. This is usually caused when pets panic from the noise of fireworks and dart to get away from the noise, winding up lost, injured or worse. Also, make sure your pet is microchipped. A microchip is a permanent form of identification for your pet. It increases the chance of a missing pet being reunited with his family dramatically.
Adaptil is a synthetic pheromone that mimics what a mother emits to her pups to help them feel comfort.
2. Make a safe, quiet space for your pet. Put their bed and a favorite toy in a quite corner or bedroom in your house. If their crate is a safe spot, drape a blanket over the top to protect them from any bright lights of the fireworks. Give them a special treat or bone when they are in their safe spot to help positively reinforce their safe spot.
3. Increase your dog's sense of security by using the product Adaptil. Adaptil is a pheromone that mimics the natural pheromone released by a mother dog to reassure her puppies. This product can help reduce your pet's stress level and help them feel more at ease. Adaptil comes in a collar, diffuser, or spray.
4. Set up an appointment with your Veterinarian. There are additional treatment options available if needed, to help your pet feel at ease during firework season.
We hope you all have a safe and fun holiday, and encourage you to take these 4 easy steps to help comfort your pets!
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Some melodies are irrevocably linked to Christmas -- try humming 'Away in a Manger' in June and soon enough someone will exclaim about Christmas being months away. All the pieces on this CD describe aspects of the Christmas story -- angels singing, shepherds with their flocks, Mary and her baby Jesus -- as told by different cultures in different ages. The lyrics tell a 2000-year-old-story that has been elaborated on, imagined and poetically described.
Soprano: Helen Hurbridge, Nicole Carey, Kirsten Duncan, Jillian Harding, Laura Lloyd Jones, Siwan Lovett, Allison Tryon.
Alto: Frances Anggadi, Elizabeth Chalker, Rashmi Madan, Barbara Monsma, Georgie Rogers, Peppi Wilson.
Tenor: Rhys Hayward, Andrew Koll, Craig Mewett, Richard Phillips.
Bass: Tom Clarke, AJ Dean, Chris Prosser, Evan Squire, Michael Wilson.
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The bill, is infamous for its language on indefinite detention, and "disappearing" of American citizens. Once again, the bill was past via Fast-Tracking while most of the country was sidelined on the Phil Robertson issue with Duck Dynasty.
"It's a failure of leadership on the part of the majority leader," Arizona Sen. John McCain told reporters, echoing Republican colleagues who said the accelerated process was designed to prevent tough votes on Iran sanctions and other controversial issues.
Also, the bill would authorize a release of $527 billion in base defense spending for the current fiscal year, plus funds for the war in Afghanistan and nuclear weapons programs overseen by the Energy Department, among numerous other controversial measures.
With the recent push by PANDA (People Against NDAA), having success on local levels blocking the Indefinite Detention provisions, it is no surprise the defense bill passed quickly, and while so many were distracted.
Reading////Federal Judge Accuses Obama of Governance By "Secret Law"/The NDAA gives the authority for the President to arrest and detain as many people as he deems necessary without due process of law. This act allows for mass arrests and deportations to prison camps. When Obama signed this unconstitutional legislation, do you really think the government was never going to act upon this self-granted brand of tyranny?
Executive Order 13603 and the Civilian Inmate Labor Program gives the President the authority to incarcerate and conscript individuals into labor brigades in which they will be forced to work in slave labor units. Hitler did this in many of the death camps in which the inmates performed slave labor while they were being systematically starved to death. And where did Hitler get these wonderful ideas? He got the death camp ideas from the government's treatment of Native Americans in what I call the ultimate Karma slap in the face, resulting from our past bad acts, as a nation.And with the NSA surveillance spy grid, the American version of tyranny will be much more virulent than any other in human history.
In reply to 911……I never dreamed the US would slide south so quickly. From the coup of 2000 until the signing of NDAA on New Years of 2012, the entire nation was hijacked.
For those of us who read history, it is obvious. What is so disturbing is the number of people who watch and listen to US propaganda and are oblivious to what has just happened.
Obama was the worst fraud ever perpetuated on the people of the US. I can only say this, the next one will be even worse.
I looked at the names that voted to fast track NDAA revised…….both my so called Democrat senators voted yes……the two parties are a sham. This has become a one party oligarchy, and the use of US media to put out soothing lies seems to be working on the fools. The rest of us have to dig hard for the real news.
In this dreadful age of information, how ironic it is so hard to find any truth.


On a cellular level, I gained 2.9 Liters of water in less than 3 months. This means my body is detoxifying itself, regenerating healthy cells and repair damaged ones. My naturopath regarded this as a very rare rate of recovery and was very surprised starring that the only supplement I was taking that was capable of this detoxifying effect was the Spirulina in BioSuperfood. It was exciting to see the actual proof, numbers, of the changes my body was undergoing. Couldn't be happier to find this supplement.


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"Live from Nashville: The Alex Dezen Solo Album Release Extravaganza! Tune in as Alex Performs His Entire Catalog in the 8- (or Possibly 9) Hour Internet Concert Spectacular!" And was a day-long process that jumped to and from various Nashville-based venues. The catalog he played for this event two weeks ago [February 11, 2016] encompassed not only his solo music, but everything he composed for the Damnwells as well, rolling out an extensive set list that spanned 15-years in the making.
I had the opportunity to chat with Alex post-event and get his feedback on not only the idea behind it, but the overall experience (even though he did a pretty good job of keeping things up to date on his Twitter) – and if he would ever do it again.
The Damnwells have an eclectic sound that brings them a collection of fans from all walks of life. There music is reminiscent of Ryan Adams, U2 & The Dave Matthew's Band with amazing lyrical content and simplistically complicated instrumentals.
"Rock and roll and folk and soul?" Alex surmised when trying to pinpoint the genre of their music. "It's really hard to categorize your own band's music. It's like asking me to describe what I look like. I'm either going to disparage myself or avoid the question all together," he surmised.
"All kinds of people and things. I love Dylan. I love Tinariwen. I love Black Flag. I love birds. The animals that fly. I also love The Byrds, too. I like all kinds of stuff," he summed up at rapid speed.
Alex is a many of few words who writes songs of many. I think his ability to cut to the chase in conversations is the reason his songwriting is so distinct. His live stream showcased that in a way many writers not have the chance to and he said the idea came about just as quickly as his solo career.
"I read this interview with Bob Schneider where he talked about doing this 12-hour concert, and I thought that would be an amazing challenge. I don't have 12 hours of original material I've released, but I do have 8!" He laughed.


High-throughput DNA sequencing data is accumulating in public repositories, and efficient approaches for storing and indexing such data are in high demand. In recent research, several graph data structures have been proposed to represent large sets of sequencing data and to allow for efficient querying of sequences. In particular, the concept of labeled de Bruijn graphs has been explored by several groups. While there has been good progress towards representing the sequence graph in small space, methods for storing a set of labels on top of such graphs are still not sufficiently explored. It is also currently not clear how characteristics of the input data, such as the sparsity and correlations of labels, can help to inform the choice of method to compress the graph labeling. In this work, we present a new compression approach, Multi-BRWT, which is adaptive to different kinds of input data. We show an up to 29% improvement in compression performance over the basic BRWT method, and up to a 68% improvement over the current state-of-the-art for de Bruijn graph label compression. To put our results into perspective, we present a systematic analysis of five different state-of-the-art annotation compression schemes, evaluate key metrics on both artificial and real-world data and discuss how different data characteristics influence the compression performance. We show that the improvements of our new method can be robustly reproduced for different representative real-world datasets.
We would like to thank the members of the Biomedical Informatics group for fruitful discussions and critical questions, and Torsten Hoefler and Mario Stanke for constructive feedback on the graph setup. Harun Mustafa and Mikhail Karasikov are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation grant #407540_167331 "Scalable Genome Graph Data Structures for Metagenomics and Genome Annotation" as part of Swiss National Research Programme (NRP) 75 "Big Data".


In the first seven months of 2005, the personal information of more than 50 million individuals in the U.S. has been stolen by data thieves or lost by U.S. businesses. That's 10 times the number affected by data breaches in all of 2003, the last period for which comparable figures are available. DWT attorney Randy Gainer discusses the causes of the dramatic increase in the number of data breaches and the lawsuits that have been filed because of the data thefts in a recent article available here.


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A Brief Word on the Going Concern Freelancer Search
Alright, you guys know me so I'm not going to mince words here but let's just say the entries we've gotten thus far for the Going Concern freelancer spot have been, well, kinda sad. Dismal. Depressing. Pathetic, even. Do any of you actually read the site?
Sure, there are a few gems (you'll be hearing from us) but for the most part, applicants have been behaving as if this is some lucrative Big 4 opportunity and we're the recruiters talking up the illustrious position created just for you. Get over yourselves (trust us, we got over our own selves years ago or we wouldn't be here with you now), we both know that's BS so let's just cut the crap.
Colin is far nicer than I am so he won't say it but I will: BRING IT or don't bother. Serious. Don't waste your time or ours, we all have better things to do.
Applying for the gig like it's a job in public accounting is almost always an automatic disqualification. Again, have you READ this site? We don't want drones, we want revolutionaries. Proper grammar is of course a must (don't ask me how Colin got the job) but so is a healthy sense of humor (note: your love of LOLcats does not qualify as humor for purposes of this position), a bit of self-loathing, a desire to stir the pot and an innate need to make people feel uncomfortable by talking about things that have been silently known but not discussed for years.
If you're on the fast track to partner, want to retain your firm's alleged respect or still haven't shaken off the programming, this might not be the right gig for you. That doesn't mean we're automatically going to reject you for having career goals, just know that helping our objective here (see above re: stirring the pot) and advancing your own career in public accounting just might not work out well together.
It may sound like a novelty now but let's be real: coming up with content week in and week out about the most boring subject of all time is not easy. It's fun only because we have a good team and get to do (mostly) whatever we want but some days, it's certainly a chore. Our ideal candidate has already tried his or her hand at coming up with content and realizes how unglamorous this can be.
Truth be told, we're looking for an accounting wonk who actually LIKES delving into the nerdy stuff but can do so in a way that doesn't alienate the 80% of those in public accounting who don't actually give a flying rat's ass. It's a lot harder than it looks. It's especially hard when Colin is breathing down your neck expecting you to populate his editorial calendar on the agreed-upon schedule.
Why are we getting freelancer application emails addressed "to whom it concerns" when if you READ this site you know DAMN WELL to whom it concerns and it isn't to whom it concerns. Frankly, I'm disappointed. I get that some of you are understandably reluctant to give us the best you've got as you're worried we'll publish your full name to berate you for bad application emails but trust us, we have no desire to do so. We want to find amazing writers who are hiding out in public accounting somewhere (or already exiled from it à la Colin or on the fringes of it like me) and in order for both parties to get this to work, we need to trust each other. Let it out. Give us the best you have. I can't promise that we won't make fun of your applications in private email exchanges to each other but beyond that, we won't front you off or ruin your careers (unless, of course, you get the job but we'll talk then…). Gmail is free, go make a fake one under a fake name and reveal yourself later when we offer you the job if you're that afraid.
That's the thing. You can't be afraid if you're going to take this job. I've been called everything from the C-word after we first launched to… well… way too many things. A certain crazy CEO's lackey accused me of being a 45-year-old man directly due to my work here on GC. That's not to be taken lightly. It's a terribly fulfilling gig and as stressful as it has been these last 3 years, it's been worth it to somehow get into the AICPA 125th anniversary and be able to freak strangers out when I tell them I "write for an accounting website." Er, tabloid, depending on who I'm telling. No one is asking you to post your LinkedIn profile to be considered for the job so please keep that in mind.
Are we clear? It's pretty fun but it isn't easy and it certainly doesn't call for "to whom it concerns." Grow a pair for once in your life and say what you've been dying to say for years.
It's been terribly refreshing for me and somehow my career hasn't been ruined in the process so it's really not as scary as it seems.
Tags: Accounting bloggers, admin, Disappointment, maybe not-so-brief, Rants, you're slowly backing away now aren't you?
Going Concern Presents: Our 10 Most Popular Posts of 2019
Well, you guys did it. You made it through another year. 2019 was a pretty crazy 12 months in the accounting profession, and we were glad to be along for the ride. This year we found out about KPMGers in the U.K. defecating in bathroom sinks. And we thought about who in accounting would survive […]
Career Center October 9, 2019
Dear Hiring Managers, Lower Your Standards or STFU About How Hard It Is To Find Top Talent
There's a delicious rant blowing up on /r/accounting I wanted to share with you all on this fine Wednesday because A) it's hilarious and B) I'm fairly certain a good 99% of you can relate to OP's frustrations. Screw the pleasantries, let's jump right in. Accounting student rant. (Soft skills, brand building, *vomit*) from r/Accounting […]

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Last Tuesday, members of the Ethiopian community in Winnipeg called on Canada to sanction the North East African country. The protesters are angry about the regime's violent crackdown in the Oromiya and Amhara regions of northern Ethiopia. Hundreds of peaceful protesters have been killed and many more jailed since unrest began over a land dispute 10 months ago.
As protesters called for sanctions in Winnipeg, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development Katrina Gould was in Addis Ababa. During a meeting with the Foreign Minister she was quoted saying, "Ethiopia has managed to be a sea of stability in a hostile region."
Gould's trip follows on the heels of Harjit Sajjan's visit last month. According to an Ethiopian News Agency summary, the defence minister told Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn "Canada values Ethiopia's contribution in trying to bring stability to Somalia and the South Sudan."
In 2006, 50,000 Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia, which saw about 6,000 civilians killed and 300,000 flee the country. Washington prodded Addis Ababa into intervening and the U.S. literally fuelled the invasion, providing gasoline, arms and strategic guidance as well as launching air attacks.
The invasion and occupation led to the growth of al Shabab. Since the Ethiopia-U.S. invasion the group has waged a violent campaign against the foreign forces in the country and Somalia's transitional government. During this period al Shabab has grown from being the relatively small youth wing of the Islamic Courts Union to the leading oppositional force in the country. It has also radicalized and has turned from being a national organization towards increasing ties to Al Qaeda.
The Stephen Harper Conservatives government's public comments on Somalia broadly supported Ethiopian -U.S. actions. They made no criticism of U.S. bombings and when prominent Somali-Canadian journalist Ali Iman Sharmarke was assassinated in Mogadishu in August 2007, then-Foreign Minister Peter Mackay only condemned "the violence" in the country. He never mentioned that the assassins were pro-government militia members with ties to Ethiopian troops. The Conservatives backed a February 2007 UN Security Council resolution that called for an international force in Somalia. They also endorsed the Ethiopia-installed Somali government, which had operated in exile.
In what was perhaps the strongest signal of Canadian support for the outside intervention, Ottawa didn't make its aid to Ethiopia contingent on withdrawing from Somalia. Instead they increased assistance to this strategic U.S. ally that borders Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia. In 2009 Ethiopia was selected as a "country of focus" for Canadian aid and this status was reaffirmed in 2014. As one of the top donors, Canada has been spending over $100 million a year in the country.
Providing aid to Ethiopia has been controversial not only because of the invasion and occupation of its neighbor. An October 2010 Globe and Mail headline noted: "Ethiopia using Canadian aid as a political weapon, rights group says." Human Rights Watch researcher Felix Horne claimed Ottawa contravened its Official Development Assistance Accountability Act by continuing to pump aid into Ethiopia despite its failure to meet international human-rights standards. In addition to arbitrary detentions, widespread torture and attacks on political opponents, the Ethiopian government systematically forced rural inhabitants off their land. This "villagization" program cut many off from food and health services.
Canadian aid to Ethiopia faced another challenge. In February 2012 the family of a Somali-Canadian businessman sued Harper's Conservatives to prevent them from sending aid to Ethiopia until Bashir Makhtal was released from prison. In January 2007 Makhtal was "rendered" illegally from Kenya to Ethiopia, imprisoned without access to a lawyer or consular official for 18 months and then given a life sentence. The lawsuit was a last ditch effort by the Makhtal family to force Ottawa's hand.
Ottawa should take the recent protests by Ethiopian Canadians seriously. It can start by reversing its near total silence about the recent repression, which included dozens of demonstrators shot dead three days before Sajjan's visit. While severing aid to pressure a government is often fraught with complications, Canada's current policy seems to be enabling Ethiopia's repressive, interventionist policies.
"Canada's aid to Ethiopia has been a failed experiment in turning brutal dictators into democrats," Ethiopian-Canadian human-rights activist Yohannes Berhe told the Globe and Mail. Ottawa's policy is "tantamount to encouraging one of the most repressive regimes in Africa."
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As many of you know, this Wednesday saw me teach my last Music with Mummy and Jolly Babies groups in Babbacombe and, as of Saturday, I no longer own the Music with Mummy Torquay franchise. It is with a complete mixture of sadness and excitement that I bid farewell to one career and I return to teaching after a three and a half year 'break'.
For me, being a teacher is a real vocation and I have never wanted to do anything else for as long as I can remember. As a little girl I had books filled with imaginary names that were my registers. I took maths lessons using my bedroom mirror as my whiteboard and organised my bookshelf into a mini library. Sad. I know!
Not actually me of course, she looks a bit more 'fun' than me!
Then in 2004, after four years of training, I began by first year of teaching and can still remember that buzz of excitement when taking my first class into assembly and realising that for the whole year they were entrusted to my care. I enjoyed my job and worked hard, progressing through the 'junior ranks' relatively unscathed. However, teaching is exactly like everyone says and, although I enjoyed some amazing highs, the pressure and workload were often overwhelming. As the years progressed, and the government demanded increasingly more whilst simultaneously cutting funding, I realised that I had no life outside of school. I stayed late every night of the week marking and preparing for the following day. It dominated what I could do at the weekends as I was always exhausted by Friday night and had to start planning for the following week on Sundays.
When I left my job in October 2012 I was eight months pregnant and massive. I also couldn't remember feeling so calm and relaxed and actually it was quite sad to hear my husband tell me that it was like living with a completely different person. I resigned from my job in Hampshire and for the first time in my adult life was unemployed! So, as I obviously love to live on the edge, we relocated back to Torquay 2 days before Isabelle was due and (fortunately) she arrived two weeks later.
I had been a mum for approximately five minutes before I decided that for me, there was no way I could work like I had been before and look after my girl. I tried supply teaching for a while but hated it as I never built up relationships with the children – or adults- in the schools. Then one day Carol posted on Facebook about a vacancy in Torquay running Music with Mummy sessions. My mum thought I was mad but something about it just felt right to me.
So that was it. I built up my little business from three to six groups across two mornings. I developed lovely relationships with some fantastic families and best of all I got to see amazing little people grow and develop week after week. We've laughed, we've sung, we've played and I hope I've always been open and honest about my own parenting journey. I've felt connected to a group of like minded people and I've really enjoyed it.
Then last summer a good friend messaged me with the job advert at Warberry Academy for a part time teacher and I felt that familiar pull. As part of my interview I had to put on my big girl pants and teach a maths lesson to some Year Five children. Afterwards they asked me why I wanted the job. I told them that when I stand in a classroom and lead the learning I feel completely at home. I feel like it's exactly where I'm meant to be and it's the truth. It's always been the truth.
So, here I am, working again on Sunday nights. It's been a very steep and challenging learning curve to get back into school and I'd be lying if I said I loved every day. However, it's been the right decision at the right time and I've never been one to back down from a challenge!
I'd like to end by thanking everyone who has ever come to my sessions. It's a tricky business building something from the ground up and I've so appreciated your loyalty and all your kind words of support. I will really miss hearing all your 'news' of the week. I'd also like to single out the wonderful Carol Holbrow, who runs the Paignton sessions. Quite simply, you're the reason I've kept going and I'm so lucky to have you as a friend.
So that's it from me for now. However, at school recently I've seen quite a few Music with Mummy parents look around. So, who knows, maybe it's not a case of 'goodbye' but rather 'until we meet again'.


WFF / WBBF	- Gallery	- 2013. CHARKOV CITY HEADQUARTERS. OFFICIAL VISIT TO MAJOR GENNADIJ KERNES.
2013. CHARKOV CITY HEADQUARTERS. OFFICIAL VISIT TO MAJOR GENNADIJ KERNES. On May 31 - June 2, 2013 in Ukraine City Charkov the International WFF-WBBF (World Fitness Federation, World Body Building Federation) Federation organized the Amateur Europe Championship. The Media Work made was unbelievably great. Every of 1 500 000 Charkov Citizen knows about the coming event. Every street, underground, busses, radio and tv stations speak of the coming event. The Head Organizing Committee of these International Events is Charkov City Vice Major ALEKSANDR POPOV. On this occassion on May 30 the Official Meeting and the International Press Conference was organized at the Headquarters Major City Charkov. On May 31 the another Official Visit to the Major City Charkov GENNADIJ KERNES was organized as well. More information on the International Site www.wff.lt, see forum topics. Also information available on the Facebook pages: WFF-WBBF International, WFF-WBBF North America, WFF-WBBF South America, WFF-WBBF Asia, WFF-WBBF Europe, WFF-WBBF Africa, WFF-WBBF Asia Continental Federation.


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Canadian comedians dish on their most memorable meals
From a favourite childhood snack, to the dish that changed the course of a date, these are the meals that funny men Mark Critch, Darrell Dennis and Bruce McCulloch will never forget.
'It was the loveliest meal I've ever had,' says Mark Critch
Dominika Lirette · CBC News · Posted: Jan 04, 2020 9:00 AM PT | Last Updated: January 4
Chef Jeremy Charles, left, and comedian Mark Critch, right, caught fresh cod off the coast of Newfoundland to serve at Critch's wedding in August. (Photo by Nate and Nicole Photography)
Each week, Sarah Penton, host of CBC Radio One's Interior B.C. afternoon program, Radio West, asks a guest to share a story about their most memorable meal.
Mark Critch
When Mark Critch, host of This Hour Has 22 Minutes got married last August in Bonavista Bay in Newfoundland, he decided to go fishing the morning of his wedding.
The small town of Trinity along the bay has always held a special place in Critch's heart, because he used to work there in 1993 for a theatre company that was trying to train fishermen who were out of work to be actors.
Critch, pictured right, and his friend Jeremy Charles catching cod off the coast of Newfoundland the morning of his wedding. (Photo by Nate and Nicole Photography)
Many fishermen had lost their jobs after the cod fisheries were closed in 1992 to protect local stocks of fish.
However, each year there is a recreation food fishery, where people are allowed to fish a set amount of cod — and Critch's wedding happened to fall on one of those days;.
So, Critch and his friend, chef Jeremy Charles, went out and caught some cod. And when some other fishermen found out it was his wedding, they gave him their cod too.
Savoury stories: We ask 4 Canadian athletes about their most memorable meals
That night, all of the guests at the wedding had the fish in a stew made by Charles as their midnight meal.
"It was honest to God, it was probably the best thing I've ever had my life," said Critch.
"It was the loveliest meal I've ever had, because everything kind of came full circle in that moment: food, friends, family and the most important ingredient, love."
Listen to the full Memorable Meal here:
Comedian Mark Critch shares why the meal he ate at his wedding was so special. 3:38
Darrell Dennis
Los Angeles based actor-comedian-writer Darryl Dennis, from the Secwepemc Nation in B.C.'s Interior, has hosted CBC's ReVision Quest, appeared on Just For Laughs, has had numerous roles on television, founded two First Nations comedy troupes, and is a series regular on APTN's Guilt Free Zone.
However, the meal that stands out to him is not something you'd look for on the menu of a fine dining restaurant.
Dennis's favourite meal is a snack his mom prepared for him when he was a kid to help 'chase away the gloomies.' (@DarrellMDennis/Twitter)
When Dennis was young, his mom, who was a single mother after his father left when he was three, made sure he ate healthy food, even when she was a full-time student or working.
However, one day while they were living in Vancouver, on a particularly rainy and grey day, she made him cinnamon toast and hot chocolate to "chase away the gloomies."
"That was amazing, because I'd never seen that because this was the opposite of healthy," said Dennis.
Ever since then, whenever he's felt down, that's been his go-to meal.
We ask 3 notable Canadians about their most memorable meals
Ten years ago, when Dennis found out his father, with whom he wasn't close, had died, he had a panic attack and went to the hospital.
The next morning, after leaving the hospital, Dennis stopped at a diner to eat something he hadn't had in years.
"I said OK, give me cinnamon toast and hot chocolate, let's chase the gloomies away," he said.
"Everything felt good again."
Bruce McCulloch tells the story of a meal that turned around his second date with his wife. 2:42
Bruce McCulloch
When Bruce McCulloch, a former member of the sketch comedy group Kids In The Hall, and executive producer of CBC comedy show TallBoyz, went on his first date with his wife, it was a disaster.
Determined to make up for it on their second date, McCulloch took her to a restaurant he thought would impress her. However, when they arrived, it was closed.
"I was panicked that I was going to lose it with this woman," he said.
McCulloch's most memorable meals is one that he had with his wife on their second date.
So he found a nearby French bistro that happened to be open and ordered steak and fettuccini.
His now-wife,Tracy, ordered french fries and when they arrived, he took one from her plate.
"I'm from Calgary and you're allowed to just take someone's french fries without asking, especially on a date because, aren't we sharing?"
Turns out, she didn't feel the same way about sharing, so when McCulloch's steak arrived, she took his entire steak.
"[She] ate most of it right in front of me," he said.
In that moment, some of tension disappeared.
"That meal turned our relationship around and it began," he said. "When we got married in our backyard in Los Angeles we had — you know it — steak and fettuccine."
Darell tells us about what he eats when he needs to "chase away the gloomies." 8:15
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Return from the Flight into Egypt
161 x 189.9 cm
Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli
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Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at Museu Nacional d´Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
This painting is altogether typical of the elegant classicising compositions of the Viterbese Romanelli, a painter whose style hardly undergoes any noticeable evolution. Despite this, the execution of the painting can still be dated on stylistic grounds to the 1630s, not long after Romanelli had trained with Pietro da Cortona. This dating would be justified through a comparison with a work by Cortona, the Rape of Helen, with which the Thyssen picture shares the slight, delicately drawn facial lines of the protagonists and the instantaneous quality of the brushwork which produces, in the Roman picture, the probably intentional impression that the painting is unfinished.
Although any attempt to determine the dates of this painting on stylistic grounds is redundant it corresponds, albeit now in an altered state, to a commission of 1635 of Cardinal Francesco Barberini for the gallery of his residence in the Palazzo della Cancelleria. The canvas is recorded several times in the Barberini archives, which reveal that the work was vertical in format with an arched top, rather than horizontal as it is today. The missing portion contained God the father and the Holy Spirit on clouds: "Adi 20 Maggio 1635/ Fatto fare al Sig.re Gio. Francesco pittore Romanelli Un quatro fatto p di sopra a menzo torno alto palmi nove largo palmi setti menzo con la Madonna che tiene p la mano Jesuchristo ch vanno à piedi in viaggio con Gioseppe et Angelo che mena p la corda l'Asinello e paesi et arboli, et per disopra un Dio padre con nuvole et l'ospirito Santo sotte De quale no fo fatto copia da Sig.re Mariano Vecchio et ritoccato dal detto Sig.re Gio. Francesco et fo donato alle Moniche [...]" (Biblioteca Vaticana, Archivio Barberini, Libro di Ricordi della Guardaroba, segnato C, 1633-1635, c. 55r.)
Later, the canvas re-appears in the 1649 and 1679 inventories of the collections of Francesco Barberini, on the first occasion with its correct authorship, and in the second case, surprisingly, without the artist's name mentioned. After this date its was inherited by the Prince Maffeo Barberini, after whose death it appears inventoried at his residence, the Villa Bagnaia, in 1686, where Romanelli's name is again mentioned. Later, the painting was owned by Cardinal Benedetto Barberini and appears as no. 457 of his inventory of 1844, in which its recorded measurements are greater by a palm in height (hgt. plm.s 10, wid. plm.s 8). It was then owned by Duke Carlo Felice Barberini, and inherited by his daughter, Princess Anna Corsini (who died in 1911). It appears as no. 198 in the inventory drawn up on the death of Princess Anna of the works of art in the palazzo at Tagliacozzo in Abruzzo: "Fuga in Egitto, Giovan Francesco Romanelli. Altezza m 2.18 x 1.90, Lire 1000." After the death, in 1919, of Anne's widower, Prince Tommaso Corsini, the painting reappears in Florence, owned by Riccardo Funghini in 1952, who sold it to a Detroit art collector, Mary H. Zimmerman.
In the Barberini documents up to 1686 the painting is described as having a rounded top which, as we mentioned above, contained a representation of God the Father and of the Holy Spirit between clouds above the Holy Family returning from Egypt (Aronberg Lavin 1975, p. 35). After this date, no further mention is made of the arched painted part which had been separated. There are, however, clear traces of red pigment on the upper edge of the canvas which probably correspond to the red mantle of God the Father.
There are a dense web of morphological relations relating to the specific elements of the composition, or rather the single figures within it, starting with the model for the face of the young Jesus, whose diagonal suggests the Sybil in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, with the protagonist of the altarpiece on the high altar of the Duomo of Viterbo (The Glory of Saint Lawrence, and especially with the Orion fresco in the Palazzo Costaguti in Rome, albeit from the late 1640s, after Romanelli's Parisian period. Similarly, St. Joseph is related in type, albeit reversed, with Pluto in The Rape of Proserpine, sold by Christie's in Rome (19 May 1978, lot 219) while, for example, the languid aspect of the face of the angel on the left of The Return from the Flight to Egypt immediately suggests the Saint Cecilia in the Pinacoteca Capitolina. While from a strictly typological point of view there are good reasons to juxtapose the present work with the Pharaoh's Dream, exhibited at the Heim Gallery of London in the summer of 1976, both in regard to the figure of Joseph and the angel who holds the donkey's bridle (corresponding to the figure on the extreme left of the group of three), in a larger stylistic context the work should be seen in the context of two of Romanelli's most important easel paintings: The Adoration of the Shepherds once with Colnaghi in London (1962), and the oval of Venus and Adonis in the Musée des Jacobins in Morlaix. Overall, the manner and the figures of the first picture are really close to those in this Return from the Flight to Egypt, particularly in the group with St. Joseph, a child with a dove, and a peasant woman. The second canvas argues even more strongly for a similar date. Looking at the detail, there is an undeniable family resemblance between the face of the figure of Venus and that of the Virgin in the Thyssen canvas. Finally, the familiar appearance of Adonis can almost be superimposed over the angel on the left of the Flight into Egypt in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. It has almost the same pose as Romanelli's St. Joseph.
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Pericles, Thaisa, and Marina represent virtuous people who face tremendous suffering. These three main characters clearly stand for virtue in an allegorical sense. They are not shown to possess any vices, or even to commit any errors. Most of their suffering is caused by wicked people who possess little, if any, virtue. Antiochus is the first to set in motion suffering in retaliation against Pericles' virtue. Cleon and Dionyza also contribute to Marina's suffering.
A comparison of the leaders in the play reveals that good and just leaders not only earn the love of their people, but the rewards of fate. Antioch, as a prime representative of vice, is struck by lightning. Cleon and Dionyza receive no real punishment for their treatment of Marina, but are saved by Pericles' own virtuous forgiveness.
The opening scene itself deals with this theme. The lovely princess of Antioch initially seems like a "celestial tree" and turns out a "glorious casket stored with ill." The father-daughter bond turns out to be sinful, whereas it had once looked so tempting and so luxurious. When Pericles is approaching Tarsus, Cleon fears that white flags on Tyrean ships may be enemies disguised as friends. But Pericles is on a friendly visit carrying grains for the starving people of Tarsus.
Pericles competes for the hand of Thais dressed and bearing himself as a shabby pauper, but Simonides warns that virtue is an inner cloak. Still later, Pericles takes Cleon and Dionyza for his trusted friends. They betray his trust.
Thaisa and Marina are taken for dead but are actually alive. Finally, the gods are seen to be cruel but they are accepted as benign Providence at the end.
Throughout the play, there are storms that create chaos in the lives of the main family. Breaches of morality are seen as disorder. The fact that Antiochus can be so tyrannical as to murder the innocent only to conceal his incestuous lust can also be seen as causing a breach of order. The actions of evil people create disorder in the kingdom of Tyre. At the end, all is resolved by the reactions of the virtuous. Harmony is restored, as symbolized by the marriage of Marina and Lysimachus. The king of Tyre is reunited with his queen.
Antiochus is a tyrant and a bad king. His wickedness is evident both in the public and private spheres. Simonides is a good king, respected by his people. He is also a good father. Pericles follows the example of Simonides, who reminds him of his own father. He looks out for his country, and has every concern for his ability to protect them. He is a good ruler and a good person. He deals honestly with the followers like Helicanus. He tries to remove all hardships from the paths of his people, and even aids another kingdom in its time of catastrophe.


In recent years, minimally invasive endoscopic procedures have been increasingly employed for diagnostic and surgical purposes, thus decreasing the in-hospital stay period and time for recovery of the patient. These procedures are manually performed and analysed by expert endoscopists such as in the gastrointestinal and respiratory cases. Hence these procedures are subjective and require special slulls as well as experience. Development of new algorithms and techniques for computer-based processing of the images and analyzing them to detect abnormalities will enhance the overall efficacy of the minimally invasive procedures. The present project is aimed at the design and development of an efficient endoscopic instrumentation system for abnormality detection and telediagnosis, by incorporation of intelligent modules in image acquisition, image processing, image analysis and decision-malung regarding the presence of abnormalities. This project considers networked configuration of multiple task-sites to facilitate teleconsultation. Testing is carried out on clinical endoscopic images. The results obtained generally support the feasibility of the proposed approach. The experimental results are discussed at length. Refinements are made to the proposed methods for improving the accuracy of abnormality detection. Thus, a computer-based, intelligent, minimally invasive endoscopic has been developed for efficient detection of abnormalities in the gastrointestinal system.


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Where There's Smoke: Utah's Alta Hotshots
In nature, wildfires are a natural tool that can have positive effects on an ecosystem's native wildlife and vegetation. However, when left uncontrolled, a wildfire presents a serious threat to the human life and property in its path. Interagency hotshot crews comprise elite ground-force wildland firefighters who are the first responders to wildfires in any jurisdiction of the United States. Based just outside of Salt Lake City, the Alta Hotshot Crew is a faction of Utah's Department of Natural Resources, fighting up to 30 fires around the country each summer. The photos below are from a training exercise days before their fire season started.
When a wildfire is detected, human instinct immediately puts self-preservation at the forefront of the human mind. Pack what belongings you can (if you have time), and flee in the opposite direction immediately. Members of the Alta Hotshots seemingly disregard this human instinct.
The Alta team was established in 2003 as a low-maintenance, high-functioning government resource specializing in the suppression of large-scale wildfires. Since its birth, the Alta crew has proven itself one of the most reliable and skilled wildland firefighting groups in the country. Alta's foundation is built on a combination of strong leadership and extremely rigorous standards for its members. The group is religious about attention to detail and aims to maximize efficiency in the simplest day-to-day duties of their high-paced, high-risk environment. The individuals who prove themselves fit for this line of work have adapted to step into a chaotic situation and immediately make sense of it.
Hotshots work tirelessly with hand tools and chainsaws, monitor the weather, and predict fire behavior in order to contain wildfires. They are trained extensively in safety procedures in order to work in these environments. Recognition isn't a motivating factor to the men and women on the front lines. Because of that, this line of work has generally stayed out of the media and Hollywood spotlight since its inception in the 1940s.
This season, Alta's roster is made up of 23 adrenaline-seeking conservationists ranging in age from 20 to 38. They come from all over the United States to be part of this high-functioning team, and even have a member from Sudan. While each crew member has their own motive for spending the summer chasing wildfires around the country, they all share one trait — they're world-class wildland firefighters.
The crew anxiously reports to base every May for two weeks of physical testing, training, and team-building. This prelude to the fire season consists of simulated work days in the mountain ranges surrounding Salt Lake City. Alarm clocks bellow out at 5AM, and days begin with the team trudging up sharp mountains less than an hour later. After that, no two days are the same. The parched summer sun arrived earlier than anticipated in the Southwest this year, and the high desert where Alta readies themselves for the upcoming season is especially feeling the effects of a dehydrated winter. The Alta team viewed the unusual early heat as a blessing in a disguise — an opportunity to rapidly familiarize themselves with the bone-dry conditions. After all, the regions of the country devoid of moisture are the very places where they'll be spending most of their summer working to suffocate wildfires.
During training, the hotshot crew has an adversary far more formidable than the heat: gravity. Each member carries a 50-pound pack containing all their tools along with two gallons of water. Then, a lucky few get to carry the additional 25 pounds of gasoline and steel that is the chainsaw. It's not out of the ordinary for the crew to hike 10 miles and climb 3,000 feet in a single day. Between ascents that would make many squeamish and weight loads that would make pack mules wince, it's no wonder that each crew member burns an estimated 8,000 calories a day.
After the training period, Alta immediately becomes available to fight fires nationwide. Excluding travel days, they work 14-21 days on, 16 hours a day, with a two-day break to reclaim their sanity – and take a hot shower. For four months, if the sun is up, they are fighting a fire or on their way to the front lines of the next one. At night, with a sleeping bag as their only cover, they sleep outside amongst the stars.
Wade Snyder, superintendent of the Alta Hotshots, chuckled when he was asked what his friends outside the hotshot community think of his profession's lifestyle. "I've been doing this so long I don't think I have any friends who aren't hotshots," he responded.
Wade has held the superintendent position since 2010. Originally from Southern California, and having spent his high-school years in Oregon, Wade can't recall a summer when he hasn't seen smoke pluming high above a forest. In 1999, Snyder began his wildland firefighting career fighting fires in the Umpqua National Forest. Nearly 20 years later, his burning passion of managing wildfires manifested itself into a lifelong career.
There are two units within the Alta crew, with the following positions in each — a captain, squad boss, diggers, swampers, and sawyers. Under Wade, each unit is uncommonly calculated; the entire group's movements are synchronized. The sawyers run the chainsaws, mowing a path five yards wide with surgeon-like precision up to the ridge of the mountain. The swamper, whose job is to anticipate the landing spot of falling debris and dispose of it, works in unison with the saw man. The diggers follow up the rear, creating a barren trench that clearly divides the land into two sides. When the wildfire burns to the dividing line the team has created, it runs out of fuel, the hotshots having robbed the fire of its' life source.
The hotshot crew wears dirt and ash like a badge of honor, and after their four–month tour, every member is highly decorated. September finally hits, which means rumbling chainsaws and bouts of sleep deprivation come to an end; the Alta Hotshots' fire season is at last extinguished. A few members head back to their college campuses (the summer spent fighting fires pays for the entire upcoming school year). Others will stay in the mountains as fly-fishing guides or ski bums who live out of their trucks. As for Wade, he attends fire-education seminars around the country and will sort through resumes to make off-season hires, refilling the ranks after some opt out of returning next season.
The Alta crew has already fought fires this season in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah since being photographed for this assignment. The excitement and travel are often the driving forces for initially wanting to join the squad, but the camaraderie and impact they have on communities is what will matter to them once the dust has settled. Currently, they're just outside of Boise, fighting a range fire that is proving quite the challenge due to terrain and wind conditions. The crew will continue to move under the smoke, hidden from the public eye. Once their job is done there, they'll pack up and hit the road. That's just fine with them. They're already focused on putting out the next fire.
Photos & Words by:Sam Raetz
Tags: conservation, trade stories, USFS
Publish Date July 23, 2018 Filson https://filson-life.imgix.net/2019/07/Hot_Shots_61_of_76_-2.jpg?fit=scale&fm=pjpg&h=200&ixlib=php-1.2.1&w=300&wpsize=medium July 23, 2018
MALHEUR RAPPEL CREW
The Malheur Rappel Crew primarily fights fires in the Pacific Northwest (Region 6) but team members can be dispatched anywhere there is a need – even globally. The standards to become a member of the team are high but when their training is completed, they will join the ranks of this legendary crew—a family of elite firefighters, founded on innovation and dedicated to protecting our Public Lands for generations to come.
Q&A WITH A HOTSHOT
We sit down with Jeremiah Coke, Squad Leader with a hotshot crew in the Pacific Northwest, to learn a thing or two about his 17 years in fire.
JUMP TRAINING REDDING, CALIFORNIA
Smokejumpers are specially trained wildland firefighters — and their training is grueling. Often the leading edge of a wildland firefight, smokejumpers parachute out of airplanes to reach fires before they grow into infernos. Their specialized training gives them the tools needed to lead and situational awareness to stay safe in emerging incidents. Check out the journal entries of one smokejumper, Sam Averett, as he goes through training to be a protector of the forest.
Faces in the Fire


For our Summer Poetry, Short Prose and Acoustic Music Open Mike we invite all poets, writers and acoustic musicians to share something related to books and libraries as part of our 125th Anniversary celebration. Poetry, story and music lovers are invited to the Library Reading Room on Sunday for a delightful time sharing local talent. Snacks provided by the Friends of the Library.


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Why we need hope in the face of the climate change threat
Bishop Nicholas Holtam Wed 8 Nov 2017 9:57 GMT
Following the news these days often feels upsetting and disorientating. Daily reports of political upheavals, scandals, disasters and conflicts can seem overwhelming, and leave us feeling powerless.
This is true on climate change as much as on many other issues. In recent weeks, we have seen reports highlighting increases in emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gasses, the impact that climate change is already having on human health, and the scale of the challenge facing us if we want to care for creation, God's gift to us.
Looking back over 2017, we recall news of devastating hurricanes, heatwaves, wildfires and other extreme weather events filling our newspapers and our screens. There are also hidden impacts, which sadly do not regularly make the news. They often fall on the poorest communities on Earth, and the most vulnerable people within those communities – the elderly, the infirm, the children.
Palm trees sway in the wind prior to the arrival of the Hurricane Irma in Caibarien, Cuba, September 8, 2017.Reuters
The quiet, insidious effects of droughts, for example, have in recent years wiped out crops that could have fed millions, leaving more that 800 million people worldwide feeling the effects of hunger.
It is and always has been a sad irony that the people who did least to cause the problem are first in line to suffer the effects.
In the differential coverage of events, we also see profound injustice in how our perceptions of the world are shaped. The hurricanes in the US made headlines; but floods in south Asia this summer did not, despite affecting over 40 million people and leaving 1.8 million children unable to go to school.
In recent months, fellow Anglican bishops from around the world have told us what climate change means to them. Archbishop George Takeli of Melanesia, described it as a threat to the very existence of communities in the South Pacific island nations his province covers, with cyclones, sea-level rise and effects on soil all serious concerns.
Likewise, my colleague Dr Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town, highlighted the need to 'make the linkage between social justice and climate justice'.
The words of Archbishop Takeli, were particularly poignant. A Pacific nation, Fiji chairs this year's climate change conference, which began on Monday in Bonn. Low-lying Pacific islands are among the poorest countries on Earth already, and now face an existential threat although they produce a miniscule percentage of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Hope remains
But does that mean we should add climate change guilt to the list of things we feel when we watch the news?
I would argue that it does not. I would rather focus on hope. When we face difficult problems honestly and well, our hope is renewed. Although climate change can seem like the most intractable of issues, there are many signs of progress.
In the UK, our carbon emissions have fallen by two-fifths since their peak, and we have maintained the financial assistance to poorer nations that we first pledged back in 1992. The same is true in our towns and villages. A few weeks, the Green Church Awards celebrated achievements of churches from Shildon in County Durham to tiny St Wenn's in Cornwall.
Ahead lies the two-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement on climate change – a ground-breaking and almost unprecedented expression of the determination of the nations of the world to prevent the worst impacts of climate change from becoming reality.
The announcement by Donald Trump that he intended to pull the USA out of the Paris Agreement sent shockwaves around the world. Some were fearful that this could lead to a ripple effect of other countries also announcing their withdrawal, but in fact the opposite has been the case. Country after country, along with cities, states, regions, businesses, faith and civil society groups and many others have all firmly reiterated their support for the Agreement. Countries which agree on very little have united to protect our planet from catastrophic climate change. Large and rapidly developing nations, like China and India, are developing new renewables capacity at a blistering pace and stopping the expansion of coal and oil.
The response from our government has been to publish its Clean Growth Strategy which embraces the reality that academics have known for years – economic growth is now accelerated by going green, not slowed down.
In Bonn, almost the entire human race is working together. Two of the last three countries yet to join the Paris agreement, Syria and Nicaragua, have announced they will join. Representatives of the world's biggest countries sit alongside those from the tiniest states. To see environmentalists alongside bankers and businesspeople, faith leaders and scientists, doctors and the military, young and old, together in a common cause, is a truly wonderful thing to witness.
So, despite all the worrying news we see, despite the actions of a handful of reckless naysayers including the US President, despite even the scale of the task facing us, I still feel hope when we consider the enormous challenge of climate change. The urgent commitment of people around the world will help us overcome this threat, and by doing so build a safer, cleaner and more tolerant world for our children and grandchildren.
And we pray. Every year, in September and early October, Christians of all traditions come together to pray for our common home in what is beginning to be known as the Season of Creation – Anglican, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox. Many Christians around the world also fast for the climate on the first day of each month – fasting to petition God and earthly powers failing to rule according to his will has enormous biblical precendent. You can find out more at www.prayandfastfortheclimate.org.uk.
But we must keep calling for action and committing ourselves to the cause. Life is too precious, the Earth too wonderful and the demand to act for environmental justice too strong for us to remain silent.
Nicholas Holtam is the Bishop of Salisbury and the Church of England's lead bishop on the environment.


Bountiful is a way of being.
We cannot always choose our circumstances.
as hard as we may try.
things have been hard and doors have closed.
It is what we do with what we have.
It is how we create who we can be in the world.
It is a decision to be a blessing to others.
we may not feel bountiful at all.
We may feel downright discouraged.
to be bountiful no matter what.
to be able to find bliss in chaos.
and powerful tool for healing.


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Another Reason Institutionalized Couplehood SUCKS October 7, 2009
Posted by Onely in Academic Alert!, As If!, Just Saying., Look What Google Barfed Up.
Tags: american sociological association, marriage and feminism, married name change, take husband's name, university of indiana study
Because it breeds sexism!
According to an 11 August 2009 article in USA Today, fifty percent of Americans think that a woman should be required by the federal government to take her husband's last name!
How. F&king. Scary. The institution of marriage–and I'm talking about the federally sponsored institution–allows people to put men and women in boxes according to roles defined hundreds of years ago, when things were very different in society (no good birth control, no good jobs for women, no IPod Nano).
The study was done by researchers from Indiana University and the University of Utah, who asked "about 815 people a combination of multiple choice and open-ended questions to come up with the find". The USA Today article doesn't say exactly who the respondents were. My sister–possibly in an attempt to get me to stop hyperventilating–pointed out that given the involvement of U of Utah, there might have been a large number of Mormons participating, which would possibly skew the results toward a more conservative view of gender roles (not that we know much about Mormonism).
I'm afraid it's more likely that the researchers–presumably not fools themselves–selected from a relatively wide demographic more representative of the nation than, say, Mormon college students. I wanted to do the Bella DePaulo thing and go to the original study, but I couldn't find it after a search of ASAnet and EBSCO and U of Indiana, and I was too weak from the hyperventilating to continue looking further. If anyone knows where I can go to read the original study write-up, please let me know. Otherwise, I will be forced to continue to view 50 percent of my country's population as ignorant dinks. Help help!
And lest you think I'm being a little harsh, check out some of these quotes from survey respondents, as related to the New York Daily Mail by lead researcher Linda Hamilton:
When the respondents were asked why they felt women should change their name after the wedding, Hamilton says, "They told us that women should lose their own identity when they marry and become a part of the man and his family. This was a reason given by many."
"They said the mailman would get confused and that society wouldn't function as well if women did not change their name," Hamilton says.
"Asked if they thought of a lesbian couple as a family, those who believe that women should take their husband's name are less likely to say yes," she says. "If you're more liberal about the name change issue, you tend to include a larger population in the definition of family."
According to the USA TODAY article, Hamilton, a sociology researcher at Indiana University, found the finding "really interesting". She makes an excellent point: "Because [the name change issue] is not politicized, people just answer the question without really thinking about it. It sort of taps into people's views about all kinds of things." Did the survey yank back the veil of political correctness and reveal the pock-marked face of America? Ok, that's a slightly sexist metaphor, but at least I'm not saying the pockmarked bride should be required to take her husband's name!
My ex-boyfriend R said that if we got married, he'd want me to take his last name as a sign of caring and commitment (or some such). I disagreed and fortunately the conversation–which remained relatively light–wandered to other topics. R was raised in a conservative household (they watched Rush Limbaugh), and although he eventually moved much further leftward, obviously he was not as far left as I was on women's issues.
Copious Readers, here are your discussion questions: Do you know how to find out who the 800+ study respondents were? Should more women be encouraged to keep their last names? Why don't more men change their last names to express care and commitment toward their wives? When a gay couple gets married, does one person change their name and if so, how do they decide who? If not, then can we use these gay couples as examples of how to avoid logistical difficulties in a two-name family? If one train leaves from New York travelling west at 50 m.p.h. and another train leaves Houston travelling northeast at. . .


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Our English-speaking staff will happily provide you with maps, information and tips on where to go. Walking tours leave from the EastSeven Hostel twice daily, or you can hire a bike and create your own route through the city. Spacious bathrooms, are provided on every floor, the big self catering kitchen and our lounge are located in the cozy garden-house.
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Хостелът приема следните кредитни карти за плащане на място: Visa Electron, American Express, JCB, Diners, Debit Cards.
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Croatia: HEP Power utility completes the modernization of its key 236MW HPP Dubrovnik
29. March 2016. / SEE Energy News
The capacity of the revitalized hydro power plant has been increased to the total of 236 MW, whereby the possibility of generating almost 100 GWh has been reached.
The renewed hydro power plant Dubrovnik, one of the most important and the largest in Croatia, is essential for HEP electricity production portfolio.
The Hydro Power Plant Dubrovnik was built in 1965, and the project of its revitalization worth 320 million kunas was finished in January 2016. Owing to this project, the power plant capacity has been increased by additional 20 MW, to the total of 236 MW. Thereby, the possibility of generating almost 100 GWh of certified green energy has been reached. During the half a century of operation, the HPP Dubrovnik delivered around 30 billion KWh to the Croatian electric power system, which is almost twice more than the total consumption of entire Croatia.
Furthermore, this is the first reconstructed hydro power plant within the comprehensive multiannual program of reconstruction and revitalization of HEP's hydro power plants. With the total value of 3.6 billion kunas, the revitalization program ensures the extension of the plant's lifetime and the additional 111 MW to 124 MW of new capacity, which can be compared to the capacity of one hydro power plant, the sixth largest among the 26 existing hydro power plants of HEP.
On the other hand, the Transformer Substation Srđ, the total investment worth 136 million kunas, is in trial operation and it is a part of the project Dubrovnik, by which the HEP group enables a long-term security of electricity supply for the southernmost Croatia. Today, it will also be visited by the HEP's guests at the presentation of these projects, and it will be put in operation soon, as it has been announced by the company, transmits Serbia-energy.eu


Apple was the most popular brand among switchers. Of the top five Android brands globally, 15 to 25 percent said they planned to buy an iPhone next. Among HTC buyers, 25 percent said they intended to get an iPhone, nearly as high as the 34 percent who said they'd get another HTC. Only one percent of iPhone buyers indicated interest in buying an HTC.
That asymmetric brand intention played out across other top brands as well. While 19 percent of Samsung owners said they planned to get an iPhone, only 4 percent of iPhone users were looking at Samsung. The most popular alternative brand iPhone users cited was Huawei. But while 5 percent of iPhone buyers said they planned to switch, 15 percent of Huawei owners said they planned to get an iPhone next.
Other top Chinese brands, including Vivo, Oppo, Xiaomi, and Lenovo's Motorola each got one or two percentage points of interest among iPhone buyers, while 20 percent of their users planned to switch in the opposite direction.
Blackberry and Google represented very small groups in the survey, with less than 50 users. Only 30 percent of Blackberry owners planned to buy another Blackberry, but 22 percent planned to get an iPhone. And even among Google buyers, a group that has gone out of its way to pay a premium for Android specifically to support Google, five times as many said they planned to replace theirs with an iPhone compared to the 1 percent of iPhone users who said they intended to buy a phone from Google.
These figures are markedly different from numbers released in 2015 by Ericsson, which studied actual activations of new phones on a monthly basis. It concluded that "the majority of smartphone users remain loyal to their operating system," and that in particular, "owners of high-end models were much more likely to select a new model in the same series from the same vendor than users of lower-end models."
It noted at the time that "around 80 percent of Android and iOS users are loyal to their operating system," while a small trickle of net switchers were continually flowing into the iOS installed base. At new product releases, however, that flow increased, with about twice as many outside users switching to iOS than there were iOS users buying other products.
If Merrill Lynch's data is anywhere close to being accurate, it means that the former models of switchers have fundamentally changed, and that use of Android is no longer protected by brand loyalty. One element of the OS loyalty Ericsson described three years ago has clearly changed -- it noted that only 20 percent of Windows Phone users were buying another Windows Phone model.
Windows Phone is effectively gone. Yet among Android brands, the intention to switch to iOS has grown dramatically while loyalty to Android has softened. Other things that have changed in the last three years are the collapse of Android tablets and smartwatches, even as iPad has grown in a shrinking market for tablets. At the same time, Apple Watch has become the most popular watch brand globally while Android watches have all but disappeared.
I wonder if those Android users dreaming of switching to iPhone are aware of the extremely high cost of the devices? Most of the Android phone switchers could buy 2-4 of their Android phones for the cost of one iPhone.
Price matters to many so when higher end Android phones are closer in price to iPhones, there is no price advantage to be Android user. Moreover, older gen iPhones coming down in price and lots of used iPhones on market at lower price. This covers whole spectrum of phone users who wanted to switch to IOS but price was prohibitive factor. So, fifth of Android phone users switch to IPhone possible.
..and that's been reported to be possible but even true for a very long time. By now Android would presumably have disappeared based on all the claims of them switching to iOS by the millions dating back years.
I've seen surveys that claim over 60% of all teenagers already own an iPhone, others that say 80% are buying one. I've seen surveys that say most current iPhone owners will be upgrading to "the new iPhone" pretty much every year, another that says half of all current iPhone owners will upgrade this year, and then another that says only about 20% will upgrade within the next 12 months. Apparently surveys might be unreliable. Who knew?
And in other countries (i.e. Not the USA) the situation is probably the other way around.
It would be nice if the article mentioned where the survey was done and when.
..and that's been reported to be possible but even true for a very long time. By now Android would presumably have disappeared based on all the claims of them switching to iOS by the millions dating back years. I've seen surveys that claim over 60% of all teenagers already own an iPhone, others that say 80% are buying one. I've seen surveys that say most current iPhone owners will be upgrading to "the new iPhone" pretty much every year. Apparently surveys might be unreliable. Who knew?
Funnily, the data coming out of same survey can be "interpreted" in many ways. Give the same survey results to an Android supporter, headline would read something like "30% of Apple users are going to buy an Android phone next, hence Apple is doomed". Give it to a Huawei supporter, headline would read something like "Most of the iPhone buyers are looking to buy a Huawei phone next" and so on. We need to always take the data and conclusions coming out of any survey with a pinch of salt.
7) Highest retention of resale value.
I'd speculate that there is considerably more churn, a shorter upgrade cycle, and faster depreciation, for Android OS devices, and even at that, Android OS device sales are stable, just the same as the iPhone's, but at much lower initial price points than iPhone.
If would be a winning strategy for Android OS device makers to target premium sales, and they are, but competition amongst all Android OS device makers reduces margins. It's a zero sum market, it's commoditized, and even as device ASP's are growing, margins are not increasing.
I just read a survey about that.
"What people say and what they do are different things"
Very much pinch of salt ground.
Japan is 72.8% iOS, up 3.4% since 2017.
The USA is 63.8% iOS, up 3.4% since 2017.
Canada is 61.2% iOS, up 8.43% since 2017.
The Android growth that's left is cheap phones in emerging markets, including India, and poor countries: Malaysia, Colombia. Lots of low-end phones, no money, little benefit to any global installed base.
If Android were important as a platform, Google wouldn't have dumped it for a ChromeOS tablet. And we know how well that Pixel 3 is going to sell. Samsung can't sell its Galaxy S9 at a premium. Android hasn't been in a worse position since 2011. But what were you saying about teenagers buying iPhones? It didn't make any sense.
Are you payments from Google getting lighter as you post less?
To have an accurate picture of what's happening, you'd have to compare these results with previous data generated the same way.
That's what Bank of America did here, and their conclusion was that more people are switching to iOS than ever before.
There are not different conclusions coming out of this survey from anyone apart from you, and yours are easy to throw away as uninformed noise.
Not going to argue with any of the points that you mentioned. Just one observation - All the points you mentioned are outside the scope of this survey.
It's not "probably the other way around," this data is not limited to the US.
Of course, it does overstate populations by brand. Google-branded phones are a few million in total (fewer than 50 in the survey). There are a billion iOS users. So high rates of Google loyalty aren't very significant, while high loyalty among iPhone buyers is. High aspirational interest in iPhones by owners of Chinese brands (few of which are even available in the US) says something very big about what people who buy Android really want. And what they will trade up to as soon as they can.
Android has never been in such a pit of failure across the last ten years of its existence. Something about shoddy platform security and management, shoddy third party hardware, etc. All Android makers do is copy last year's iPhone.
Nice post Tmay. I think I remember reading overall margins are increasing but otherwise a very well thought out reply.
Please read Avon B7's comment above. There was a HUGE rider specified "what people say and what people do are two different things". So my point that "Take it with a pinch of salt" is pretty much valid.
Android has never been in such a pit of failure across the last ten years of its existence.
Haven't you said something along those lines every year (sometimes multiple times) for the last 8 or 9 years? Android is plainly doomed according to all your evidence, but when are you saying this will happen?
Are those numbers YoY for a period longer than Q2 or just calendar Q2 YoY from 2017 to 2018?
I've read so many stories like this over the years, and they never come true. If they did, Apple would have at least 120% marketshare by now.
as someone who helped write surveys way back, I can say that only a fraction of the people do what they say on the survey.
Ah the obligatory vague accusation intended (and failing) to be personally insulting. Well played sir.
Your inference I should be posting more will be taken into consideration. Thanks.
If Android were important as a platform, Google wouldn't have dumped it for a ChromeOS tablet. But what were you saying about teenagers buying iPhones? It didn't make any sense.
I've no idea where you read that Google dumped Android for ChromeOS. Hardly. They've worked towards making Android apps compatible with the Chrome OS which has significant benefits over an Android-only tablet (doesn't everything? LOL). Surely you research this stuff before writing it.
How is $450 an extremely high cost? You do realize Apple sells more than one model, right?


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Q: JavaScript pass argument this.value to function Here is my javascript code, i want to pass current selected value of the option to my js function, in this code i used static number 6.
<select name='project_name' class='required input_field' id='project_name' onchange="sendRequest('GET','getClientName.jsp?ProjectId=6')">
<option value=''>-- Select --</option>
<option value="1">Project 1</option>
<option value="2">Project 2</option>
<option value="3">Project 3</option>
</select>

help me to solve this...

A: Change the string 'getClientName.jsp?ProjectId=6' to
'getClientName.jsp?ProjectId=' + this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)

or
'getClientName.jsp?ProjectId=' + this.value)

but I think the first one is more browser compatible.

A: var selectBox = document.getElementById('project_name');
selectBox.addEventListener('change', function() {
  sendRequest('GET', 'getClientName.jsp?ProjectId=' + this.value);
});

A: It will help you to get the selected option value . Try this link http://jsfiddle.net/xyaaa/9/.
<html>
     <head>
         <script>
          function getOption(t){
               var val;
                var options = t.options;
                for(var i=0,len=options.length;i<len;i++){
                     var option = options[i];
                     if(option.selected){
                         val = option.value;
                     }
                }
                return val;
            }
             function  sendRequest(method , url){
                   console.log(url);
             }
    </script>
    </head>
            <body>
                <select onchange="var x=getOption(this);sendRequest('GET','getClientName.jsp?ProjectId='+x)">
                    <option value="1">Project 1</option>
                    <option value="2">Project 2</option>
                    <option value="3">Project 3</option>
                </select>
    </body>
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