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Leslie Robison performance art
Honing Power
Texts and Scribbles
Handscapes
Searches and Time
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MFA, University of Florida
BFA, Washington State University
Academic Employment
Department of Art and Design
Flagler College, Saint Augustine, Florida
2018 A Soft Insurrection, Dayton Society of Artists, Dayton, Ohio
2017 The Language of Endowment, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
2017 Becoming Monumental, TAD Gallery, Denton, Texas
2015 Little (de)Liberations: Small Works by Leslie Robison, Amistad, St. Augustine Beach, Florida
2007 Summer, Carrera Gallery, Flagler College, Saint Augustine, Florida
2002 Current Consumption, Carrera Gallery, Flagler College, Saint Augustine, Florida
2000 Absence Minded, Hubbard Hall Gallery, University of South Carolina-Lancaster
Art Participations/Community Events/Public Art Projects
2019 (artist/coordinator) Cellmates, St. John's Youth Academy, St. Augustine, Florida
2018 (contributor/facilitator of detained youth contribution) Compassionate St. Augustine's Let Freedom Ring
Chimes Project at R.B. Hayling Freedom Park, St. Augustine, Florida
2015 (artist) Obelisk Art 450, monuments project, installed at St. Francis Inn, St. Augustine, Florida
2014 (coordinator) Literacy Mural, St. Johns Juvenile Detention Center, St. Augustine, Florida
2013 (participant) Ransom, Wayfarer's Brooklyn, Brooklyn New York
2013 (artist/coordinator) What is Vulnerability?, St. Johns Juvenile Detention Center, St. Augustine, Florida
2013 (artist/coordinator) Life Lessons, with the Council on Aging at Crisp-Ellert Museum, St. Augustine, Florida
2013 (regional curator and participant) Flor500, online via Florida International University, artist Xavier Cortada
2012 (artist/coordinator) The Buddy System, Council on Aging at the Art Association, St. Augustine, Florida
2010 (artist/coordinator) Launch!, St. Johns County Schools, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, Florida
2010 (participant) Imagination Squared, Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2010 (participant) Wish You Were Here 9, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
2009 (participant) Everyone We Know: Sketchbook Project, Art House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2009 (participant) …And the Rest We Didn't Know, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, Florida
2019 Fight of Flight, LOLA Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2019 Flagler College Faculty Exhibition, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, Florida
2018 (juried) Defining The Art of Change in the Age of Trump, Center for Contemporary Political Art, Washington, D.C. juror: Charles Krause
2018 (juried) Rethinking the Menopause, Alison Richards Building and online, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, England
2018 (juried) 33rd Annual Tallahassee International, Museum of Fine Arts, FSU, Tallahassee, Florida
2018 Nasty Women Art Prize-Pop up Exhibition, EKA Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 Nasty Women Art Prize-Pop up Exhibition, Popinnart, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 (juried) Pride and Prejudice, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2018 (juried) Nasty Women Art Prize Showcase, PRAXIS Gallery, Newcastle, England
2018 (juried) Tiny Acts Topple Empires, The Woskob Family Gallery, Penn State U, State College, Pennsylvania
2017 (juried) American Dream, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas
2017 (juried) Gritty in Pink, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, Florida
2016 (juried) Messing With Yarn, Textile Arts Factory, Napoli, Thessaloniki, Greece
2016 (juried) Politics and Power, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, New York
2016 Extended Family, 849 Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
2016 First Coast Educators Exhibit, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
2016 (juried) Hers, Me, an exhibition within the Outskirts Series, tAd Art Space, Denton, Texas
2015 Northeast Florida Sculptors, UNF Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
2015 (juried) Perspective: Fresh Look at Contemporary Drawing & Painting, Hillyer Art Space,
2015 (juried) Who Might I Be?, Nave Gallery Annex, Sommerville, Massachusetts
2015 Werd, Main Gallery, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, North Carolina
2015 The Semi-Pro No-No Show, Gallery at Sternwood, Nashville, Tennessee
2015 (juried) South by Southlight, South Gallery at Florida State College of Jacksonville, Florida
2015 (juried) Without A Place, online Exhibition, http://bevietos.wix.com/withoutplace
2014 Font, curated by Donald Martin, St. Augustine Art Association, St. Augustine, Florida
2014 FLOR 500, Selected Artists, Graham Center Art Gallery, Florida Internationl University, Miami, Florida
2014 FLOR 500, Selected Artists, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, Florida
2013-14Our Shared Past, Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2013 FLOR500, Focus Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
2013 (juried) A State of Un-Play, Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania
2013 (juried) What is Art? Art is Salvaged, Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2013 (juried) Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri
2012 (juried) Attention Otherwise Occupied, Manifesto-ish Virtual Gallery
2012 (juried) Folio Weekly Invitational Artists Exhibition, Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2012 Drawing Muchness, UNF Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
2011 Material Matters, Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, Florida
2011 The Black and White Show, St Johns County Administration Building, Saint Augustine, Florida
2011 Flagler College Art Faculty Show, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Saint Augustine, Florida
2010 MFA/FLA, Tioga Art Center, Tioga, Florida
2010 Art Unleashed, Modis Building, Jacksonville, Florida
2009 Peace and Unity, Art Advocate Gallery, Saint Augustine, Florida
2009 Women of the Past, Present, and Future, Art Advocate Gallery, Saint Augustine, Florida
2009 2nd International Potato Art Show, Johnny's Kitchen, Hastings, Florida
2008 Artists Revealed, Saint Augustine Art Association, Saint Augustine, Florida
2008 The Potato Show, Johnny's Kitchen, Hastings, Florida
2008 (juried) Simply Drawn, Atlanta Fine Arts League, Kennesaw, Georgia juror: John de la Vega
2008 (juried) Digits, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2008 (juried) Cure, Art Institute of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
2008 Addressing Joann, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Saint Augustine, Florida
2008 Untitled Exhibition, Gallery 1037 at Reddi Arts, Jacksonville, Florida
2007 Last Minute on Seattle Art Museum, Benham Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2007 Twenty-One, Saint Augustine High School Gallery, Saint Augustine, Florida
2006 Process, Carrera Gallery, Flagler College, Saint Augustine, Florida
2005 Faculty Exhibition, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
2005 (juried) Moscow Art Walk, Moscow Arts Council, Moscow, Idaho
2002 (juried) Wind River Valley Artists' Guild 53rd Annual National Art Exhibit, Dubois, Wyoming
2001 Absence Present, MFA Thesis Exhibit, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
2000 A Cent$ of Play(ce), Focus Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
2000 Shades of GRADAA, Reitz Union Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
2000 (juried) Fine Arts College Council Show, University Gallery, University of Florida juror: Akio Takamori
1999 (juried) Fine Arts College Council Show, University Gallery, University of Florida juror: Philip Smith
1998 Instant GRADAAfication: Grad Art Association Show, SAOCA, Gainesville, Florida
1998 Space Squared: 12" of Compromise, Focus Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
1998 (juried) Greenwood Art Walk , Seattle, Washington
1997 Self Portraits, Daniel Smith Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1996 BFA Exhibit, Gallery III, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
1995 Sacred Hearts, Summer Song Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Grants/Fellowships/Awards
2019 Sponsorship Grant from the Dr. Joanne Crisp-Ellert fund of the Community Foundation for Northeast Florida
2018 Endowed Professorship, Kenan Distinguished Associate Professor of Liberal Education in Art, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida
2018 Highly Commended Award, Nasty Women International Art Prize, London, England
2017 Art Ventures Grant from the Community Foundation for Northeast Florida
2017 Fall Sabbatical leave, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida
2017 Best of Show, American Dream, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas
2017 3rd Place Judge's Choice Award, Gritty in Pink, Bailey Contemporary, Pompano Beach, Florida
2011 Kahler Award for Professional Development
2010 Coordinator of grant enactment, Dr. Joanne Crisp-Ellert Grant for Art Appreciation through the
Community Fund, Jacksonville, Florida
2008 Summer Research Award, Schultz Foundation, Flagler College, Saint Augustine, Florida
2002 2nd place/Oil Painting, Wind River Valley Artists' Guild, Dubois, Wyoming
1998-2001 Grinter Academic Fellowship, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
1998-2001 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Florida, School of Art and Art History
2001 Travel Grant, University of Florida, Graduate Student Council
1999 Honorable mention, Misc., Fine Arts College Council Juried Art Show, Gainesville, Florida
Artist Lectures/Panel Discussions
2019 Students and Inmates: Connecting Across Privilege on the panel Catalyst for Change:
Community Partnerships at the Southeastern College Art Conference, Chattanooga,
2019 Empathy and Politics: Negotiating Student Approaches & Community Impact, on the panel
Social Practice & Service Learning at the College Art Association Conference, New York, NY
2018 Moderator, The Visuality of Race: Racism, Civil Rights, and Visual Politics, Crisp-Ellert Art
Museum, St. Augustine, Florida
2018 Insurrerection: My Work, Knitting, and Revolution, on the panel Social Textiles: Humor and Magic
as a part of ArtSpace at the Annual College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, California
2013 Performing with Principles, on the panel Context, Narrative and Expression: Elements and
Principles for a Contemporary Practice, at FATE biannual conference, Savannah, Georgia
2011 Beyond Observation: Challenging Students Into Contemporary Drawing Practices, on the
panel Drawing Muchness, Southeast College Art Conference, Savannah, Georgia
2000 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of South Carolina- Lancaster
Mitchell, Michael, Interview With Art-Ed Hero Leslie Robison, Numbers, Inc.'s Young Art Writers Project blog, December 2018 https://youngartwriters.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/art-ed-chat-with-leslie-robison/
The 33rd Annual Tallahassee International, 2018 Juried Competition catalogue, page 33.
Smith, Tim, "A Monument to Insurrection: Dayton Society of Artists' Special Summer Exhibit," Dayton City Paper, July 10, 2018, page 10 http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/a-monument-to-insurrection/
Kuonen, Lily, "Interview with Leslie Robison," Numbers Inc. Magazine, No. 93, March 2018, pages 20-21 http://www.numberinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/No-93.pdf
Finnegan, Haley, "'Tiny Acts Topple Empires' Opens At the Woskob Family Gallery," Penn State News, March 27, 2018 http://news.psu.edu/story/512539/2018/03/27/arts-and-entertainment/tiny-acts-topple-empires-opens-woskob-family-gallery
Patton, Charlie, Arts Notes: Art Ventures initiative awards $28,000 to eight local artists, Florida Times Union, September 3, 2017 http://jacksonville.com/arts/entertainment/2017-09-03/arts-notes-art-ventures-initiative-awards-28000-eight-local-artists
Gritty in Pink, Exhibition Catalogue, 2017
Asaroglou, Vasiliki, Messing With Yarn, Exhibition Catalogue, 2016, pages 32-33 http://www.textileartsfactory.com/p/catalogues.html
Stewart, Bobbie, "Art to Heal and Connect: Art Professor's Course Helps Students Engage the Elderly and Homeless in St. Augustine," Flagler College Magazine, Fall 2016, p.7-8 https://www.flagler.edu/archive/magazine/art-to-heal-and-connect.php
Kayleigh Bywater, "International Artistry: Exhibit portrays bonds between mothers and daughters," North Texas Daily, Denton, Texas http://ntdaily.com/international-artistry-exhibit-portrays-bonds-between-mothers-and-daughters/
Kara Pound, "Behold: The Obelisks," pages 13-17, inset "Leslie Robison" page 16, Folio Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida, September 2, 2015 https://issuu.com/folioweekly/docs/folio0902wkl_book
Jorge Rivera, "The Obelisks and the Artists Behind them, Part III," First Coast.TV, http://firstcoast.tv/the-obelisks-and-the-artists-behind-them-part-iii/ , July 2015
Daniel A. Brown, "Open Source: The Art of Leslie Robison," Folio Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida, page 22,
March 18, 2015 http://folioweekly.com/OPEN-SOURCE-THE-ART-OF-LESLIE-ROBISON,12203
"Art Exhibit Spotlights Flagler's Art & Design Faculty," St. Augustine Record Compass, online March 6, 2015 http://staugustine.com/compass/2015-03-06/art-exhibit-spotlights-flaglers-art-and-design-faculty
"Leslie Robison," 365Artists/365Days.com, A Frank Juarez Gallery and Greymatter Gallery Collaborative Project, January, 2015 https://365artists365days.com/2015/01/15/leslie-robison-saint-augustine-florida/
Bob Tis, "Flagler College art students and detainees make beautiful mural together," Saint Augustine Record, page 1, June 27, 2014 http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2014-06-27/flagler-college-art-students-and-detainees-make-beautiful-mural-together
John Foster, "Our Shared Past," The Design Observer blog, May 18, 2014 http://designobserver.com/feature/our-shared-past/38469/
Nicole Gaudier, "Our Shared Past: Highlight on Leslie Robison," Cummer Museum blog, March 15, 2014 http://blog.cummermuseum.org/2014/03/our-shared-past-highlight-on-leslie-robison/
Daniel A. Brown, "Pictures of Home," on STAREHOUSE blog, December 13, 2013 https://starehouse.com/2013/12/13/pictures-of-home/
"New Art Exhibit on View in the St. Johns County Administration Building" stjohnsculture.com,
Carol Elliot, "Addressing Joann," Saint Augustine Record Compass, p. 17, February 1-7, 2008
"[IN] Compass," show catalogue with image of work, p.9, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2000
Laraine Evans, "Leslie Robison: Family Tree", Show catalogue for Misc., p.24, University of Florida, 1999
Leslie Robison © 2013


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Q: How to resolve Uncaught TypeError: clojure is undefined I have done something to my clojurescript project which produces this error, I am using figwheel-main with deps.edn, not really sure what to look for to resolve this it sounds like clojurescript itself is not being found when run in a browser
Uncaught TypeError: clojure is undefined
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my figwheel file looks like this, one fo the changes I have made is to put a lot of the requirements in :extra-deps insteads of under :deps clojurescript and clojure are still included at the root.
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What should I look for that might cause this error ?

A: Most likely this is a problem somewhere in your code, not your dependencies.
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Ахметжа́н Смагу́лович Еси́мов (; 15 декабря 1950, с. Комсомол, Каскеленский район, Алма-Атинская область) — казахстанский государственный и политический деятель, с декабря 2017 по 2021 годы — председатель правления Акционерного общества «Фонд национального благосостояния "Самрук-Қазына"», председатель правления акционерного общества "Национальная компания «Астана ЭКСПО — 2017», аким города Алма-Аты в 2008—2015 годы, министр сельского хозяйства Республики Казахстан в разные годы, Герой Труда Казахстана (2017), , с апреля 2021 года — внештатный помощник первого президента Республики Казахстан.

Биография
Родился 15 декабря 1950 в селе Комсомол Каскеленского района Алма-Атинской области, казах из рода шапырашты Старшего жуза. Племянник Нурсултана Назарбаева. Окончил факультет механизации сельского хозяйства Казахского сельскохозяйственного института, Академию общественных наук при ЦК КПСС, доктор экономических наук.

Трудовую деятельность начал в 1968 году методистом по спорту совхоза «Дружба»; после окончания института работал инженером-механиком совхоза «Ленинский», председателем рабочего комитета профсоюза Казахского НИИ картофельного и овощного хозяйства.

В 1979 году становится инструктором организационного отдела Каскеленского райкома Компартии Казахстана, затем избирается секретарём парткома совхоза «Ленинский».

С 1982 года — инструктор сельскохозяйственного отдела Алма-Атинского обкома Компартии Казахстана.

С 1983 — директор совхоза «Ленинский».

В 1985 году назначается председателем Каскеленского райисполкома.

В 1986 году избран первым секретарём Чиликского райкома Компартии Казахстана.

С 1988 года занимает должность первого заместителя Алма-Атинского облисполкома — председателя облагропрома, секретаря Алма-Атинского обкома Компартии Казахстана.

В 1990 году назначается первым заместителем председателя Госагропрома Казахской ССР, а с 1991 — первым заместителем министра сельского хозяйства и продовольствия Казахской ССР.

С сентября 1991 по февраль 1992 — председатель Алма-Атинского областного Совета народных депутатов, затем, по декабрь 1994 — глава Алматинской областной администрации.

С 1994 по 1998 год — заместитель премьер-министра, Государственный секретарь, первый заместитель премьер-министра — председатель Государственного комитета Республики Казахстан по инвестициям, руководитель Администрации президента Республики Казахстан.

В течение нескольких лет представлял интересы Казахстана в должности Чрезвычайного и полномочного посла в Королевстве Бельгия, Королевстве Нидерланды и Великом Герцогстве Люксембург. Возглавлял Представительство Республики Казахстан в ЕС и НАТО.

С мая 2001 года по январь 2006 года работал министром сельского хозяйства, заместителем премьер-министра Республики Казахстан.

С 19 января 2006 года — вновь возглавил Министерство сельского хозяйства Республики Казахстан.

4 апреля 2008 года Маслихат города Алма-Аты на своей 9-й внеочередной сессии единогласно утвердил кандидатуру Ахметжана Есимова на должность акима города.

16 октября 2008 на VIII внеочередной городской партийной конференции НДП «Нур Отан» Есимов избран председателем городского филиала партии «Нур Отан».

9 августа 2015 года распоряжением президента Республики Казахстан назначен председателем правления акционерного общества "Национальная компания «Астана ЭКСПО — 2017».

23 декабря 2017 года назначен председателем правления АО "Фонда национального благосостояния «Самрук-Казына».

29 марта 2021 года покинул пост председателя правления АО "Фонда национального благосостояния «Самрук-Казына».

21 апреля 2021 года назначен внештатным помощником первого президента Республики Казахстан — Елбасы.

Министр сельского хозяйства
Во время работы А. Есимова министром сельского хозяйства Казахстан вышел на первое место в мире по экспорту муки.

Аким Алматы
Деятельность в статусе акима Алматы А. Есимов начал с решения проблем обманутых участников долевого строительства. В городе на тот момент насчитывалось 125 жилых комплексов, строительство которых было заморожено. В результате при поддержке президента Н. Назарбаева, почти все дольщики города получили жилье.

В 2011 году в Алматы успешно прошли 7 Зимние Азиатские игры, для проведения которых в городе была создана спортивная инфраструктура.

В этот же год был открыт алматинский метрополитен.

Кроме того, менее чем за 5 лет в городе было построено 20 новых подстанций, что значительно решило проблемы энергетики.

В 2011 году инициировал создание муниципального общественного транспорта и постепенное вытеснение с этого рынка частных перевозчиков.

Является одним из идеологов развития горнолыжного туризма в Алматинском регионе, как наиболее перспективного направления экономики.

В 2008 году на месте проблемных ранее присоединенных к городу поселков был создан Алатауский район.

Неоднократно поднимал вопрос перед правительством об отдельном увеличении заработных плат алматинским врачам и учителям, ссылаясь на высокий уровень жизни в городе.

6 октября 2013 года по инициативе Ахметжана Есимова и Олимпийского чемпиона Александра Винокурова акиматом Алматы была успешно организована и проведена первая в истории Казахстана профессиональная велогонка «Тур Алматы» под эгидой UCI по категории 1,2. Трансляция велотура проводилась на телеканале Eurosport.

Под руководством Есимова в 2014 году впервые в истории объём валового регионального продукта Алматы превысил 8 трлн тенге. В этом же году тысяча талантливых учителей города получили единовременные денежные премии в размере 300 000 тенге.

Решением внеочередной XXIX сессии Маслихата г. Алматы появился восьмой по счёту Наурызбайский район и увеличилась площадь города. На конец 2014 года численность населения Наурызбайского района превышала 180 тысяч человек.

Председатель правления АО НК «Астана ЭКСПО-2017»
А.Есимов возглавил ЭКСПО-2017 за 21 месяц до официального открытия выставки. Назначение А.Есимова было связано с необходимостью восстановить и ускорить подготовку Астаны к выставке.

Деятельность в статусе председателя правления АО НК «Астана ЭКСПО-2017» А. Есимов начал с решения проблем по оптимизации расходов, из запланированных 816 млрд тенге на Выставку было затрачено всего 452 млрд тенге. К 10 июня 2017 года, моменту открытия выставки, участие в ней подтвердили 115 стран и 18 международных организаций, выставочные павильоны были достроены. За три месяца выставку должно было посетить 2 млн человек. По завершении ЭКСПО, на выставке побывало почти 4 миллиона гостей. Количество посещений всех павильонов составило 30 миллионов при планируемом показателе 5 миллионов. Кроме того, выставку посетили 28 глав государств, 36 премьер-министров и их заместители, 11 руководителей парламентов и их заместители, 70 министров и их заместители.

Выставку признали успешной. Об этом, в том числе, в письме президенту Казахстана Нурсултану Назарбаеву написал генеральный секретарь Международного бюро выставок Висенте Лоссерталес: «…ЭКСПО стало ярким событием и самой успешной специализированной выставкой в истории».

Председатель правления АО ФНБ «Самрук-Қазына»
23 декабря 2017 года по поручению президента РК Нурсултана Назарбаева А. Есимов был назначен председателем правления АО "ФНБ «Самрук-Қазына».

С 2017 года сумма долговых обязательств группы Фонда снизилась на 1 трлн тенге, а внешний долг — на 5,1 млрд долларов США.

В 2018 году в Фонде впервые была внедрена система оффтейк-договоров, данный механизм дал возможность отечественным предпринимателям заранее получить гарантированный заказ на долгий срок.

В ноябре 2018 года АО "НАК «Казатомпром» стала первой национальной компанией, успешно разместившей свои акции на Международной фондовой бирже. 15 % своих акций стоимостью $451 млн национальная компания разместила на Лондонской фондовой бирже.

В 2019 году в 4 раза был уменьшен объём внутрихолдинговых закупок — с 2 трлн тенге до 515 млрд тенге. Холдинг получил порядка 24 млрд тенге выгод. В конкурентную среду передано 618 млрд тенге. Так, за счет улучшения процесса закупок Фонд сэкономил почти 140 млрд тенге. В тот же год Фонд стал налогоплательщиком номер один в Казахстане. Налоговые выплаты группы компаний АО ФНБ «Самрук-Қазына» за 9 месяцев составили 813 млрд тенге, что больше на 102 млрд тенге по сравнению с данными аналогичного периода 2018 года.

Под руководством Ахметжана Есимова в 2019 году был в срок завершён магистральный газопровод «Сарыарка», предназначенный для газификации столицы Казахстана Нур-Султан, центральных и северных регионов страны.

В 2020 году Фонд «Самрук-Қазына» вошёл в двадцатку фондов по версии ООН по внедрению инициатив в области устойчивого развития.

В 2020 году Институт суверенных фондов благосостояния SWFI опубликовал список самых влиятельных и эффективных фондов, глава «Самрук-Қазына» Ахметжан Есимов вошёл в десятку самых эффективных руководителей инвестиционных компаний мира.

Критика
Был раскритикован многочисленными горожанами за плохую подготовку к зимней отопительной системе и плохую уборку снега. Также подвергается критике его идея о строительстве горнолыжной базы на заповедных склонах гор близ Алма-Аты В 2015 году был осмеян в соцсетях за высказывание о том, что жители Алма-Аты якобы часто летают на вертолётах в горы, чтобы играть в гольф и кататься на лыжах. Цитата Ахметжана Есимова о вертолётах, гольфе и лыжах оказалась неточной. Слова акима исказил журналист газеты «Караван», после чего информацию с извинениями и полной цитатой опубликовали в газете.

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Примечания

Послы Казахстана в Бельгии
Послы Казахстана в Нидерландах
Послы Казахстана в Люксембурге
Министры сельского хозяйства Казахстана
Акимы Алма-Аты
Члены политического совета партии «Аманат»
Политики по алфавиту
Почётные граждане Астаны
Выпускники Казахского сельскохозяйственного института
Акимы Алматинской области
Секретари Алма-Атинского обкома КП Казахстана
Первые секретари районных комитетов КП Казахстана
Выпускники Академии общественных наук при ЦК КПСС
Директора совхозов
Председатели районных исполкомов Казахской ССР
Руководители Администрации президента Казахстана

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OLV is designed to be object based ... doing things by the cell in this way seems to go against design principals .... but technically you could still access it - it is a standard list view so the process can be done the same way.
LVM_SETBKIMAGE is a ListView specific message. It cannot be made to work on a DataGridView.
Does this work with Dotnet 4.x?
I tried to open your project and it wants to update it to dotnet 4.0. then I can not get any of the controls to show up.
Lots of errors trying to build... Please help. There must be something I am completely missing here.
I tried Visual Studio 2103 and 2017. OS = windows 10. Can not enable dotnet 2.0 due to group policies.
It doesn't seem to update the TreeListview Object. What am I missing???
Re: Does this work with Dotnet 4.x?
I like the idea of the control but I need basic step by step instructions on the basic functions. How about a few complete examples start to finish of creating an ObjectListView with multiple rows and at least 2 columns. When I try to add information to my example it displays the information on the same row for every item in the my For Each statement. None the advanced features matter if I can't even find a complete example of a basic ObjectListView.
Here is my example... The computer name and profile name for each computer in my list is displayed on the same row and changes for each computer instead of listing all of the computers and profiles on different rows.
The project comes with several demos of varying complexity.
If I have a Fast OLV with thousands of items that have an ImageGetter that returns an image that loads from disk.
Then have a button on the form that selects some items in the list using SelectedObjects the program "freezes" for a long time as the list loads EVERY image from the disk!
How to scroll to selected row?
How to change OLW scroll position to first selected row?
Re: How to scroll to selected row?
Absolutely incredible work. Cannot believe one person did it.
I researched all site with advised and samples to no avail.
This is my code. Everything works except description.
Displaying multiple images in a cell.
We currently use the ImageGetter property to display an icon in a cell. Is it possible to display multiple images in each cell. I tried to set the ImageGetter property to an array of image indices but that did not work. Thanks!
I have a Treelistview with some nodes (columns) and a hierarchy (+). When i remove a column or change something in a node (row in the tree), sometimes tree will automatical start scrolling up or down and you can't stop it. When you scroll then manually in the tree, it will start automatical scroll again. You can't stop the automatic scroll. You can only stop and start the application to stop the auto scroll behavior.
Have you an idea how i can stop it or how i can eliminate this behavior of auto scroll?
i am getting this error when I am trying to display some data.
Additional information: Unable to cast object of type 'ListViewSubItem' to type 'BrightIdeasSoftware.OLVListSubItem'.
Dim ID As String = "test id"
I am using treelistview in combination with filter (because of large number of nodes). When I click on plus I first delete current filter (because it was for first level) and then retrieve child nodes. This ends up in showed parent node and all child nodes, but on the bottom of the control. This is ok, but can I somehow make that node first in control(as if I am scrolled to it)?
Can you have a column header with a checkbox that toggles the checkboxes for all rows?
Can't seem to find that option anywhere.
EDIT : Nevermind, I updated my version and found it in the attributes of the Listview column.
Different editors in the same column?
I've read the documentation but it's still not clear if OLV will work for my task. I want to have two columns: title and value. The title in the first column might be Shipping Address, for example, with the second column holding edit cells in multiple rows (street, city, state, and ZIP code). Below that is another title in the left column: Services. The rows for Services have checkboxes for Standard, Expedited, and Overnight. Is that possible or must a column contain only one type of editor? Also, can I use other controls in the rows such as a ComboBox (in DropDownList mode)?
Awesome. Simple, versatile. Thanks a lot!
how to show the "first x" number of rows?
When I set the IsVisible property from designer mode, if I set the value to false, the column is not shown.
Right clicking on the header bar displays a checklist of column names. Checking or unchecking here makes the column appear or disappear.
When I change the IsVisible property from code, the column does not appear or disappear. How do I rebuild the listview so that the column either appears or disappears?
Is there any way to display the sum (or some other algebraic function) of a numeric column on the group line? For example, if I have a list of people, their department, the cost of their benefits and their salary, can I click the header to group by department and show the sum of the department's benefit costs and salaries on the group line?


The Partiologist: Brew Ha Ha!
While I was fixin' up all the incredible edibles, the witches and skeletons got into some sort of altercation. It's obvious who won and the witches mixed up a magic potion and boiled the bones.
They were so easy, you'll not lose a finger while making them!
Baked cookies using favorite Cookie recipe.
Pop them out and insert a cookie stick while still warm.
Sprayed each cookie with green Wilton Color Mist.
Rolled and cut purple fondant with mini teardrop cutter.
Piped red candy melts on the tip.
Placed "fingernail" on top of red "blood".
Added more "blood" to the bottom.
Piped little black lines in the grooves.
NOT SHOWN - Added a green wart!
Don't be green with envy...make some today!
It seems this Witch had one too many Brews.
I needed more than a brew while I was making this cookie. Yes, it's a cookie covered in butter cream and fondant. It took a long time to complete and I took photos along the way. It went much quicker in my head. I'm not posting instructions, just photos. I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have!
Wow you did it again!! Fabulous!!! N.
Thanks so much for the comment Nann!
Your crashing witch cookie is off the charts! You are so talented.
I ordered from Oriental Trading Co for Halloween and don't know how I missed those skeleton hand picks. I'm so bummed. They would have been perfect for my party this year. Oh, well, there's always next year.
That witch is hilarious. You are hilarious and as much as those fingers creep me out, I love them too!
Dude, you're so creative. The skeleton hand makes me laugh, I can totally see the witches cackling loudly mixing their skelebob brew! :) And those fingers are awesome. I need me one of those pans but haven't seen any locally, boo hoo.
Everything you make is so perfectly executed! Your ambition and talent result in amazing treats!
You are too sweet, thank you for the comment!
Everything you make makes me smile!!! Thanks for sharing you work!
Awesome cookies!! Love the witch!!!


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Hi, and welcome to The Motley Fool's Bottom Line series.
In this episode, we're going to take a look at a few signs that indicate that the U.S. may be headed for a recession.
And what that means for the U.S. economy and the stock market.
A decade ago, things were looking pretty dire.
In October 2009, the U.S. unemployment rate peaked at 10%.
And the Federal Reserve was scrambling to incite calm in a very jittery stock market and U.S. economy.
Just seven months earlier, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite, and broad-based S&P 500 all hit multi-year lows.
But things have rebounded in a big way over the past decade.
We're currently in the midst of the longest expansionary period for the U.S. economy in recorded history.
The unemployment rate is at a nearly 50-year low, and the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 have all hit record highs since the Great Recession.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end.
Right now, there are a few red flags indicating that there could be trouble ahead for the U.S. economy and the stock market.
The first red flag is the inverted yield curve.
A yield curve inversion happens when longer-maturing bonds have a lower yield than shorter-maturing bonds.
Generally speaking, short-term bonds should have lower yields than long-term bonds.
After all, if you're giving up your money for a longer period of time, you expect to be paid more for doing so.
But over the past couple of months, the two-year and 10-year Treasury note swapped places a few times, with the two-year note bearing a higher yield than the 10-year, which is known as an inversion.
Every single recession in the U.S. economy since World War Two has been preceded by an inversion of the yield curve
Although it's important to note that not all yield inversions have necessarily been followed by a recession.
Nevertheless, inversions don't come about unless there's some serious concern about the health of the U.S. economy.
A second concern for the economy is the current contraction in U.S. manufacturing.
The Institute for Supply Management releases its Purchasing Managers' Index every month, which is a gauge for how the manufacturing sector is doing in the U.S.
And in September, the PMI fell to 47.8%.
That's the lowest percentage it's been since June 2009, and any reading below 50 signals a contraction.
There's little doubt that the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China is the biggest headwind in this confidence collapse in manufacturing.
Peter Boockvar, the chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group, recently said that we have now tariffed our way into a manufacturing recession in the U.S. and globally.
The U.S. and China have been trying to work out a long-term trade deal for more than a year now, with tariffs being imposed on and off for the past 15 months.
There's simply no quick fix to the trade war, and the longer it lingers, the more U.S. manufacturing may suffer.
Lastly, history would suggest that the stock market and U.S. economy are primed for a recession.
Despite more than 10 years of expansion, there's a good probability that a recession will happen sooner rather than later.
The U.S. has had 14 recessions over the past 90 years, or about one every six and a half years.
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We also know that stock market corrections are perfectly normal.
In fact, the S&P 500 has had 37 corrections of at least 10% since 1950.
The bottom line is that no matter what the U.S. economy has historically thrown at the Dow, Nasdaq, or S&P 500, they've always bounced back stronger than they were before.
That's why long-term investors continue to be rewarded for their patience.
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DOL Releases Updated Overtime Rule
On September 24, 2019, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced a final rule governing the salary threshold for executive, administrative and professional employee exemptions from overtime pay requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
The DOL raised the "standard salary level," the FLSA's threshold for overtime eligibility, from $455 to $684 per week (equivalent to a raise from $23,360 to $35,568 annually).
The DOL increased the salary threshold for "highly compensated employees" (HCEs) to be exempt from the FLSA from $100,000 to $107,432. No changes were made to the duties test.
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According to the Corporations Act (2001), all companies in Australia, both public (ending with "Ltd" or "Limited") or private (ending in "Pty Ltd") require one or more directors who "ordinarily reside in Australia" (Resident Director).
Private Companies require a minimum of one director, and at least one who must be a Resident Director (s201A(1)). There is no requirement for a Company Secretary in a private company, though if one has been appointed, they must also be a resident of Australia (s204A(1)).
Public Companies require a minimum of three directors, two of which must ordinarily reside in Australia (s201A(2)). Public companies are also required to appoint at least one Company Secretary, who must reside in Australia (s204A(2)).
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Vail's Gore Creek looks pristine, but bug counters tell a different story — The Mountain Town News
April 28, 2016 Coyote Gulch Colorado River Basin, Colorado Water, Eagle River Watershed, Gore Creek Watershed, Restoration/reclamation, Water Pollution
Gore Creek is healthy as it emerges from the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area, but has problems soon after, via The Mountain Town News. All photos by Jack Affleck.
From The Mountain Town News (Allen Best):
Gore Creek originates in splishes and splashes among tussocks of grass in the eponymously named range of 13,000-foot peaks in north-central Colorado. There, the water is as pure as the driven snow. Emerging from the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area, the creek passes a national forest campground, located along Interstate 70. Still, everything remains good, as attested by a profusion of bugs. Bugs provide food for fish, and what is a healthy stream, creek or river without fish?
Downstream as Gore Creek flows through Vail for 10 miles, it has a more checkered life. As the creek flows through lawns and parks and under city streets, the bug counts decline, not uniformly, but enough so that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in late 2011 put Gore Creek on a state list of impaired waters. It's still supporting fish. Four miles of Gore Creek remain classified by the state as a gold medal trout fishery. But it's not what it could be.
Gore Creek is not alone among waterways in mountain valleys that look pristine—but aren't. Also listed on the impaired lists are segments of creeks and rivers at Breckenridge, Silverthorne, Aspen, Winter Park, and Telluride Colorado has 65 stream segments with impaired aquatic life because of high water temperatures, mining-related impacts or, as in the case of Vail and other mountain towns, the impacts of urbanization.
It's a story of a thousand minor, seemingly innocuous cuts:
Lawns grown to the creek edge, kept in mint weed-free condition by the application of herbicides and pesticides.
Twin frontage roads and a four-lane interstate highway, altogether eight lanes of pavement in a narrow mountain valley, along with paved areas for bus stops, traffic roundabouts, and all the other impervious surfaces of a transportation system that, together, provide an expedited pathway for pollutants to the creek.
An ill-advised community stormwater system.
Even the most minor of infractions, the slop from solvents used to clean windows that can, from blocks away, eventually get into the creek.
But this is also a story about a community decision to confront the problem sooner, not later. The town council in March approved the first $2 million of what could ultimately be $9 million in actions to address urban stormwater runoff. Vail is an affluent resort community, yes, but also one that says that having a creek that doesn't measure up, no matter how good it still looks, just is not OK.
This nexus between land use and water quality is something that state water officials see as an emerging area of understanding.
"It's just so important to have that local dialogue about land use and water," says Tammy Allen, restoration and protection utility manager with the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission.
The creek long ago was put into a channel to accommodate the golf course, highways and roads. Photo Jack Affleck via The Mountain Town News.
The Gore Creek Action Plan identifies 27 immediate actions to be taken from a total of 217. Some actions have already begun. In cooperation with the Colorado Department of Transportation, plans are being readied to address the mass of impervious surfaces at the East Vail interchange. The town also plans to modify its snow dump, ironically created 20-plus years ago to avoid putting contaminants from plowed roads directly into the creek. For some reason, it's not working as well as intended.
Then there are the manicured buffers along the creek, both along the parks and golf course. Can they be restored to more closely resemble what existed before in the riparian zones? On a cost-sharing basis, can those riparian areas of private property owners also be restored?
Education is a big part of the project. The town budget includes funding for a full-time employee during the next two years. The employee will be assigned to work with the community, advising residents how to adopt what are considered best-practices to avoid pollution of Gore Creek.
Yet other actions being launched are more tentative. What grounds does the town have for limiting how far property owners can mow the grass to water's edge? What authority does the town government have to limit pesticide use on lawns and gardens?
A more familiar story of water pollution once existed in the nearby Eagle River, to which Gore Creek becomes tributary at Dowd Junction. Extensive mining had occurred between the towns of Minturn and Red Cliff beginning in the late 1870s. Extraction of zinc, lead, gold, and other minerals at the Eagle Mine continued until the late 1970s, but with a lingering legacy familiar to nearly all places of hard-rock mining: the orange water that results from contact with fractured sulphur-based rock faces. At one point, the Eagle River ran so orange that water drawn from the creek to make snow at Beaver Creek, located several miles downstream, had an orange hue.
Streets and other artificial impervious areas result in rapid runoff of pollutants into the creek. Photo via The Mountain Town News and Jack Affleck.
The story of the Eagle River had turned around by the mid-1990s, thanks to the deep pockets of Viacom, the corporation that had swallowed the mining company – and took on its obligations— and the stick of the federal Superfund law. The Eagle River had fish again at Minturn. But just as they proclaimed success immediately below the abandoned mine, state wildlife biologists announced they had detected another problem. Shocking fish on the Eagle River at Edwards, about 10 miles downstream from both Vail and Minturn, they found disturbing evidence of declining sculpin and other fish. The problem, they said, was probably the result of urbanization in what had become known as the Vail Valley.
In Vail, both the Forest Service and the Town of Vail had conducted periodic sampling of insects in Gore Creek. There was an awareness of a problem. Then sampling of bugs along the creek was stepped up in 2008 as the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District prepared for new state regulations governing nutrients from wastewater treatment plants. The district maintains a plant in Vail, just below Lionshead.
Bracketing samples were taken up and down the creek: above and below the treatment plant, for example, and above and below the commercial area. This took time, but it also provided a clearer definition of problem areas. It also yielded a surprise: the area downstream from the treatment plan actually showed elevated counts of insect populations. Sewage effluent wasn't the problem.
"What immediately struck us was that the creek was probably going to get listed as impaired, and it had nothing to do with the point source, the treatment plan," says Linn Brooks, general manager of Eagle River Water and Sanitation District. Reduced bug counts were being found upstream, "and so they must have to do with urbanization of the town. We didn't know exactly what it was when we started, but we knew it wasn't the wastewater treatment plant."
Riparian areas were crowded or completely eliminated as the town was developed. In this, Vail is hardly alone. Photo by Jack Affleck via The Mountain Town News.
Driving all this was the Clean Water Act. Adopted by Congress in 1972 in response to outrages, such as the burning of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, the federal law was used to address the worst problems of point-source pollution. Examples include untreated sewage and pollutants released from factories into rivers and creeks. Administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, in the case of Colorado through the state government, the law has also been used to address the more prickly problems of urban and agriculture pollution.
In the late 1990s, the EPA began implementing the law and refining the implementation.
"Colorado mountain streams are generally in good shape," says Karl Hermann, senior water quality analyst for the EPA Region 8 in Denver. "It's typically mining impacts that cause water quality problems. But you do have this other situation of stormwater runoff that causes water quality problems. There's a strong correlation with water quality problems and development, and typically stormwater is the cause of that."
But confusing in Vail, and some other locations, was the lack of a clear trigger to explain problems. "If you just measured metals in Gore Creek, you would never suspect something is going on," says Hermann.
One metric of stream health in Colorado's high country is the state's wildlife department's specified listing for gold medal trout streams. Colorado has 322 miles, give or take. Included are the last four miles of Gore Creek, below the wastewater plant and before the creek flows into the Eagle.
The state in March added a 24-mile segment of the Colorado River while delisting a 19-mile stretch of the Blue River, from the northern edge of Silverthorne to Green Mountain Reservoir. The river segment has not met the criteria of gold medal water for production of trout for some time. Jon Ewert, an aquatic biologist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, pointed to the cumulative effects of unnatural stream flows, sparse aquatic invertebrate populations, low nutrient content, and degraded habitat.
Vail's listing on the state's 303-D list of impaired waters provoked community meetings. Dozens were eventually held. Key stakeholders—the town, the river district, the Forest Service, Vail Resorts, and C-DOT, among others—were engaged early on. Many were looking for a single cause, a smoking gun, that could be addressed. Some suggested the pine beetle epidemic was the problem. Others pointed the finger at I-70 and the use of mag chloride on roads.
"Everybody was hoping that we would have a silver bullet, just one, two or three things, that we could get done by 2013. But early on, it became apparent that this was death by a thousand cuts," says Diane Johnson, communications officer for Eagle River Water and Sanitation District.
This revegetation project uses log cribbing to hold the bank of Gore Creek in place while the plants get established. The logs will slowly decay. Photo credit Jack Affleck via The Mountain Town News.
Vail's problem can be seen as flip sides of the same equation. Pollutants have been created in the long, narrow valley that end up in the creek. It's no one thing. That's partly why the town's action plan calls for just $2 million in spending at the outset, to give time to figure out what makes a difference.
In addition to the pollutants that end up in the creek, it's also the pathways to the creek. Large impervious areas provide easy pathways for pollutants to go to the creek. But the creek itself has been extensively modified, mostly brazenly where it was channelized during the construction of I-70, now sandwiched by a frontage road and a golf course.
In many places in Vail, the creek's messy riparian areas have been sheared, manicured lawns installed right to the water's edge. This might have an aesthetic appeal, but those native riparian areas served a function.
Brooks, of Eagle River Water, calls the riparian area the creek's immune system. Without that riparian area to filter and treat the water, pollutants directly enter the creek and impair the waters. This was part of the simplified message that she said had to be taken to the public.
Vail's story, says Brooks, is not unlike stories occurring all over the country, including other resort areas of Colorado. They differ in some particulars. Aspen, for examples, doesn't have an interstate highway paralleling it, nor does Telluride. They do, however, have urban impacts, too.
Where Vail stands out, she believes, is that the town was quick to react. "The political will was already there, and the science was already there."
As this is fundamentally a land use issue, the onus is on Vail, the municipality, as it owns 40 percent of the streambanks. But a majority is in private ownership.
There was some pushback in Vail. Some thought C-DOT should have accepted greater responsibility. And at le ast one homeowner along Gore Creek protested that "bugs and beavers don't pay taxes." But that was not the dominant mood. There was, says Kristen Bertuglia, the town sustainability director, much less controversy than when Vail banned throw-away plastic grocery bags or mandated curbside recycling. Instead, the dominant response was "This is our creek; this is our home."
As for the measures in the action plan, they're not particularly novel. For the most part, says Bertuglia, they were picked out from the EPA's watershed manual.
In the case of Vail, a community process was absolutely crucial, and it will be in other places, too, she says. "We don't have a smoking gun, and they won't either."
That's another way of saying that with urban runoff pollution, there's no one guilty party, but everyone is part of the problem —and everyone has to be part of the solution. That's a long, involved conversation to have.
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#Drought news: No change in depiction for #Colorado
April 28, 2016 Coyote Gulch Climate Change, Colorado Water
US Drought Monitor April 26, 2016
West Drought Monitor April 26, 2016.
Colorado Drought Monitor April 26, 2016.
Click here to visit the US Drought Monitor website. Here's an excerpt:
A large upper-level ridge of high pressure spanned the Lower 48 States (CONUS) this USDM week, bringing warmer-than-normal temperatures to most of the CONUS. But Pacific low pressure systems undercut the ridge, dumping rain and snow over many areas. This USDM week (April 19-25) ended up with above-normal precipitation across parts of the west coast, intermountain basin, and northern Rockies; much of the Plains; and parts of the coastal Carolinas. The week was drier than normal across parts of the Pacific Northwest and central Plains, and much of the Southwest, Midwest, and eastern U.S. east of the Mississippi River. Heavy precipitation in the Plains soaked into parched ground, with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports of topsoil moisture improving 20 to 40 percent over the last two weeks from Texas to Montana. But continued dry weather in the east further dried soils, resulting in 20 to 40 percent increases in topsoil rated short or very short of moisture from South Carolina to Vermont. Consequently, drought and abnormal dryness contracted across parts of the Plains but expanded in the East. As this USDM week ended Tuesday morning, additional storm systems were poised to move across the CONUS…
The Plains and Mississippi Valley
Heavy precipitation fell on parts of the Plains and upper Mississippi Valley, bringing additional relief to areas where dryness and drought quickly developed over the past several weeks. Over four inches of precipitation was recorded at stations along the Iowa-Nebraska state line, with 2-4 inch reports common in the drought and abnormally dry areas of southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas. Two or more inches fell over the D0-D1 areas of the Dakotas and Minnesota. The heaviest rains in Texas fell outside the drought and abnormally dry areas, although 1-3 inches was reported at stations in and near the Panhandle drought and abnormally dry areas. D0 was trimmed in Nebraska and D0-D1 were pulled back in Kansas. In the Dakotas and Minnesota, D1 was eliminated and D0 reduced. Parts of south central Minnesota had been drying out over the last several weeks, but 1-3 inches of precipitation this week prevented any expansion of D0 there. D0-D2 were cut back in the Texas panhandle and D0 trimmed in the Trans Pecos region. In the Texas panhandle, Lake Meredith has recovered to levels not seen in the last ten years, although the level is still below those last seen in the 1990s. Continued dry weather from Arkansas to Illinois resulted in expansion of D0 in Missouri and western Illinois. D1 was added in southwest Missouri where 67% of the topsoil moisture and 58% of the subsoil moisture was short or very short, according to April 25 USDA reports…
The Rockies and Intermountain West
Parts of the Great Basin to central Rockies received 1-3 inches of precipitation, with amounts locally over 3 inches in Nevada and adjoining Idaho. Smaller amounts fell to the north, with no precipitation reported across much of the Southwest. D0 was pulled back in parts of Montana and Wyoming, and D2 in south central Montana was deleted. D0 expanded in central Montana and across southeastern Utah where precipitation was below normal this week and deficits have intensified over the last 30-120 days…
The Far West
Coastal Washington and Oregon received 1-3 inches of precipitation this week, but these areas were outside the drought and abnormally dry region. Precipitation amounts were much lighter east of the Cascades, generally less than half an inch. In northern California, 1-3 inches of precipitation fell along the northern Sierra, which translates to well above normal, but normals are lower this time of year and the amounts are small compared to the multi-year deficits, so no change was made to the depiction in California and Nevada…
In the two days since the issuance of the April 26 USDM, additional heavy rain has fallen across the drought and abnormally dry areas of the central Plains, and precipitation of varying amounts has occurred over the drought and abnormally dry areas of other parts of the CONUS. During April 28-May 2, a large upper-level weather system and associated frontal systems are forecast to bring moderate precipitation totals of 0.5 to 2.0 inches, with locally higher amounts, to parts of the intermountain basin to central and northern Rockies, much of the Great Plains to Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, and the mid-Atlantic to Southeast. Less than half an inch is predicted for the Far West, southern portions of the Southwest, northern Great Lakes, New England, and central to southern Florida. The upper-level low is expected to keep temperatures below average for much of the country, with above-normal temperatures limited to the Far West and Southeast to southern Plains.
The odds favor above-normal precipitation across the Southwest, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts, and most of Alaska during May 3-7, 2016. There are enhanced chances for subnormal precipitation across the Pacific Northwest to western Great Lakes, much of the CONUS from the Rockies to Appalachians, and extreme northwest Alaska. Enhanced chances for colder-than-normal conditions exist for the southern Plains to New England, while warmer-than-normal weather is favored across the West to northern Plains, Alaska, and southern Florida.
SDS: "It has been a lot to get this Pueblo County agreement out of the way and taken care of successfully" — John Fredell
April 28, 2016 April 28, 2016 Coyote Gulch Arkansas Basin, Bureau of Reclamation, Climate Change, Colorado River Basin, Colorado Springs Utilities, Colorado Water, Environmental Protection Agency, Fountain Creek, Fryingpan Watershed, Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Infrastructure, Pipeline Projects, Roaring Fork Watershed, Southern Delivery System, Transmountain/transbasin diversions
Southern Delivery System construction celebration August 19, 2011 via The Pueblo Chieftain
From The Colorado Springs Gazette (Billie Stanton Anleu):
The $825 million Southern Delivery System's treatment plant was ready to serve drinking water Wednesday, as a project 20 years in the making finally made its debut.
The distribution system will be turned on Thursday to deliver water to Colorado Springs, Security and Fountain, and water will begin reaching those customers Friday. The SDS already supplies water to Pueblo West, which needed early assistance after a major water pipe in its system broke.
"Things are going great, just like we've always planned," SDS Project Manager John Fredell said Wednesday. "We've worked on a lot of these issues a long time to get ready."
The project hit a snag last year when Pueblo County, which had issued the essential SDS 1041 permit, began seriously pressuring Colorado Springs leaders.
The county insisted on more city stormwater projects to protect downstream residents from excessive flows, sediment buildup and water quality degradation in Fountain Creek.
The City Council signed an intergovernmental agreement April 20. It promises, among other things, to spend $460 million on 71 mutually beneficial stormwater projects over the next 20 years, with Colorado Springs Utilities guaranteeing any funds the city can't provide.
Pueblo County commissioners approved that pact Monday, enabling SDS to kick off its operations on Wednesday, the target date set years ago.
"It has been a lot to get this Pueblo County agreement out of the way and taken care of successfully," Fredell acknowledged. "But I really did not fear that it wasn't going to happen. It was just a matter of timing."
Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers has spent much of his first year in office negotiating with Pueblo County and with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the city's long-time stormwater program deficiencies.
Dan Higgins, chief water services officer for Utilities, called it "a great day."
"I look back at all the things we've seen our team experience," Higgins said. "We've been through so much together. It's just a fantastic experience for everybody that's been involved."
As usual, Fredell credits his project team for a job well done.
"I'm telling you, without all these great people putting out every ounce of energy they have, we couldn't have done it," Fredell said. "And to me that's just so cool, to bring all these people together and they're all pulling in the same direction.
"To me, that's the coolest thing. I feel like the whole team, we have stronger friendships now than when we started. How many teams can say that? To me, that's absolutely incredible."
The project team determined in July 2009 that the SDS would start operating in April 2016.
"I'll feel better Friday," admitted Kim Mutchler, who has worked on SDS for Utilities' government and corporate affairs team. "There's a lot going on between now and then.
"I'm happy for these guys who have been on this project for so long. It's just exciting to see (Utilities) board members and previous council members. We had a couple out there yesterday seeing (the plant) for the first time. It's nice to see them excited."
From The Pueblo Chieftain (Chris Woodka):
The need for Colorado Springs to control stormwater on Fountain Creek was always tied to the Southern Delivery System, and the new agreement with Pueblo County is designed to cement the relationship.
During the permitting process for SDS, stormwater control was mentioned in both the Bureau of Reclamation environmental impact statement and Pueblo County's 1041 permit.
Ever since Colorado Springs City Council abolished its stormwater enterprise in 2009, the city engaged in political gymnastics to assure Pueblo County it was doing enough.
Monday's completion of an intergovernmental agreement should represent an end to political bickering over stormwater, because it spells out very clearly what has to be done over the next 20 years.
Commissioners were quick to point out Monday that the items contained in the agreement are not the only things Colorado Springs must do in relation to SDS under the 1041 permit. But they have to do these things:
Fund stormwater control with at least $460 million over the next 20 years.
The funding will go toward 71 projects on a set schedule that can be adjusted only if both parties agree.
The amount of funding steps up from at least $20 million per year in the first five years to at least $26 million per year in the last five.
While the money can be matched with other funds, Colorado Springs must come up with the minimum amount, but the sources are not specified. Annual reports are required.
Colorado Springs also is required to resolve any conflicts with the IGA that might result from action by the Department of Justice, EPA and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment over the city's failure to meet the terms of its municipal stormwater permit from 2013-15.
A provision of the IGA requires Colorado Springs to notify Pueblo County of any variance to its drainage criteria manual. The failure to apply the document to new development was among deficiencies identified by the EPA in its audit of Colorado Springs' stormwater permit.
Regional cooperation on Fountain Creek.
The IGA triggers the first two payments of $10 million each that were negotiated under the 1041 permit. Five annual payments of $10 million are required. The money must be used for a dam, detention ponds or other flood control structures that protect Pueblo from flows on Fountain Creek that have increased because of growth in Colorado Springs and El Paso County.
The first payment is actually $9,578,817, because of credits for payments already made and an "index" fee, which amounts to interest payments. It will come within 30 days.
The second $10 million payment will be made Jan. 15.
The payments go to the Fountain Creek Watershed Flood Control and Greenway District, which was created by the state Legislature to improve Fountain Creek.
Formed in 2009, the district grew out of discussions between the two counties. Pueblo County Commissioner Sal Pace sponsored the legislation when he served as a state representative.
The IGA also provides $125,000 to the district, which will be used in part to help fund a state study of a dam or detention ponds on Fountain Creek. The money is in addition to the $50 million required under the 1041 permit. The Fountain Creek board will determine exactly how the money is spent.
Both Pueblo County and Colorado Springs agree to work with other governments to find a permanent source of funding for the Fountain Creek district.
Colorado Springs also will pay $3 million over three years to the city of Pueblo for repairs to levees, dredging and removal of debris or vegetation in Fountain Creek.
Pueblo is required to match the money, but can use about $1.8 million that Pueblo County is still holding from $2.2 million Colorado Springs was made to pay for dredging in Pueblo. Some of the money was spent on demonstration projects.
The agreement also specifies that any disputes will be handled in the same way as disagreements in the 1041 permit. If not successful, legal action over the IGA would be handled in Pueblo District Court.
2016 #coleg: Gov. Hickenlooper signs Colorado Water Rights Protection Act
April 28, 2016 Coyote Gulch 2016 Colorado legislation, Climate Change, Colorado Water
Gov. John Hickenlooper signs House Bill 16-1109 on April 21, 2016, with state Senators Kerry Donovan and Jerry Sonnenberg, state Reps. Diane Mitsch Bush, Jon Becker, and KC Becker; and Kristin Moseley, Theresa Conley, and legislative aides.
From email from the Eagle River Water & Sanitation District (Diane Johnson):
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday (4/21) signed into law House Bill 16-1109, the Colorado Water Rights Protection Act. Both the Colorado House and Senate had unanimously passed the bill, which protects state issued water rights on federal lands.
HB-1109 confirms U.S. Supreme Court, Colorado Supreme Court and federal statutory precedent, which provides that water rights in Colorado are adjudicated and administered according to Colorado laws, not pursuant to administrative policies of the U.S. Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management. When it comes to securing water, the federal government must defer to Colorado water law and water courts. The Act also prevents state enforcement and administration of restrictions placed by the Forest Service and BLM on the use and alienability of private water rights, and provides tools for water right holders to fight these agencies in court if necessary.
The impetus for the legislation dates to 2012, when the Forest Service demanded that ski areas, in exchange for renewing their leases on public land, turn over their private state issued water rights to the federal government. The ski areas sued and the Forest Service lost on procedural grounds. The Court ordered the Forest Service to go back to the drawing board, and while improvements have been made in the context of ski area policy, the Forest Service has subsequently issued other policy directives that raise additional concerns for private water right holders throughout Colorado.
Accordingly, a diverse group of stakeholders, including municipalities, water providers, and agricultural, recreational, and environmental interests, worked together on language in the bill that protects state water rights and prevents environmental streamflow impacts. Legislative support was similarly diverse as state Reps. KC Becker, D-Boulder, and Jon Becker, R-Fort Morgan, and state Senators Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, and Kerry Donovan, D-Vail, sponsored the bill, with co-sponsors such as Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, who represents Eagle and Routt counties.
The issue has been particularly concerning for western slope entities given the extensive federal lands in the area. About 80 percent of lands in Eagle and Summit counties are federally owned. Eagle River Water and Sanitation District and Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority provide water service in eastern Eagle County and by necessity, have water infrastructure on federal lands. Rick Sackbauer, Eagle River Water and Sanitation District board chair, called HB16-1109 "a great victory for water right holders in the Eagle River valley and throughout Colorado" and said, "the legislation serves as a strong message to the Forest Service and BLM that Colorado water rights are governed by Colorado law."
George Gregory, Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority board chair, noted, "The Authority and other water providers have made enormous financial investments in water rights and water infrastructure in reliance on state laws. Recent actions by the USFS and BLM discourage such investment, create uncertainty in Colorado's water rights system, and represent an effort by these agencies to benefit from the hard work of private parties without providing compensation. Passage of the Act ensures that such investments are protected for our customers, who ultimately fund public water service and infrastructure."
For more information, go to http://www.erwsd.org, link to a fact sheet, or contact general manager Linn Brooks at 970-476-7480.
#AnimasRiver: "All in all, we are farmers, and farmers must farm" — Duane "Chili" Yazzie
April 28, 2016 Coyote Gulch Animas River Watershed, Colorado River Basin, Colorado Water, Environmental Protection Agency, San Juan Basin, Water Pollution
The orange plume flows through the Animas across the Colorado/New Mexico state line the afternoon of Aug. 7, 2015. (Photo by Melissa May, San Juan Soil and Conservation District)
From The Farmington Daily Times (Noel Lyn Smith):
This month, personnel from the Navajo Nation Irrigation Office in Shiprock have been clearing debris and completing maintenance on the system of canals that serves farms in chapters along the San Juan River. They are preparing the canals to receive water after they were closed last year in response to the Gold King Mine spill. That incident released more than 3 million gallons of contaminated mine waste into the Animas and San Juan rivers last August, and tribal officials issued water-use restrictions for the river water.
Gadii'ahi is served by the Cudei canal, which receives river water through a pipeline or siphon that runs under the river from the Hogback canal.
The Hogback canal delivers river water to the Shiprock and Tsé Daa K'aan chapters. Together, the system runs 30 miles from the Hogback diversion to the Gadii'ahi-Tokoi Chapter. A separate system — the Fruitland Irrigation canal — serves the Nenahnezad, San Juan and Upper Fruitland chapters.
During the weeks that followed the mine spill, chapters determined whether to resume irrigating with river water or keep the canals closed.
Shiprock Irrigation Supervisor Marlin Saggboy said the Fruitland canal started operating in early April.
Meanwhile, chapter members served by the Hogback and Cudei canals decided to reopen the system after listening to results on April 15 from water and soil testing conducted by the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency and New Mexico State University in addition to a joint study by the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University.
Saggboy said the Irrigation Office understands there were several concerns expressed by residents, but hearing the results, including a recommendation by the Navajo Nation EPA to reopen the canals, eased those worries.
Farmers are not obligated to use river water, he said, adding that individuals can close their irrigation head gates.
Saggboy said crews will be flushing the A and B canals in the Tsé Daa K'aan Chapter today as part of the efforts to have that system fully operational by next week.
After the tribe eased water-use restrictions last year, the Shiprock and Tsé Daa K'aan chapters continued to oppose reopening the Hogback Irrigation canal due to concerns about the amount of heavy metals released during the mine spill into the river.
The Gadii'ahi-Tokoi Chapter approved resuming irrigation activities, and the tribe's Department of Water Resources installed pipelines and pumps to deliver river water to fields.
Gilbert Harrison is the farm board member for the Gadii'ahi-Tokoi Chapter and president of the San Juan River Farm Board. He said the farmers were satisfied with the information they received April 15 about the testing completed on the soil and river water.
"We look forward to it and (are) glad the water is back on," Harrison said about the canal openings.
The Shiprock and Tsé Daa K'aan chapters approved separate resolutions this month to open the Hogback canal.
Shiprock voted 46-14 in favor of the measure with 10 abstentions on April 17, and the Tsé Daa K'aan Chapter voted 17-4 in favor of it with nine abstentions on April 18, according to a press release from the Shiprock Chapter.
Shiprock Chapter President Duane "Chili" Yazzie said in the press release the decision was "anticlimactic," and concerns remain, but chapter members "made efforts to reassure" themselves.
"All in all, we are farmers, and farmers must farm, so the people have spoken," Yazzie said.
Jean Jones, the farm board member for the Tsé Daa K'aan Chapter, said chapter members voted on the matter after hearing testing results, which indicated the water is safe to use for agricultural purposes.
"I guess it's good," Jones said adding a number of farmers are glad the Hogback canal is operating.
#ColoradoRiver: Whither Lake Powell's power pool? #COriver
April 28, 2016 April 28, 2016 Coyote Gulch Climate Change, Colorado River Basin, Colorado River Water Conservation District, Colorado Water
Glen Canyon Dam releases. Photo via Twitter and Reclamation
From Lake Powell Life (Mike Reilley):
In Glenwood Springs, Colorado the Colorado River District is spending more than fifty thousand dollars on a study about Lake Powell water levels.
The study is aimed at determining how likely it is that the water level on the lake will drop to such a low that the hydroelectric works at Glen Canyon Dam would be effected. In addition, those conducting the study need to know how such a drop in the level would subsequently affect entities below the dam, including Lake Mead.
Reports indicate that the Lake Powell level must stay above 3525-feet. Currently it stands at 3291-feet. At the beginning of the new century the water level was 94 percent full. Today it's at less than 50 percent.
Downstream, if things do not improve there will be more significant water cuts for Arizona and Nevada unless the rains come and the drought ends. Water officials from those two states and California have been meeting regularly to discuss the situation.
There's a report that indicates that if things don't improve on Lake Mead, the federal government, specifically the Department of the Interior, would begin overseeing the distribution of water. Lake Mead's levels need to stay above1025-feet in order to avoid more problems and having the Interior department step-in. It's currently at 1136-feet.


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As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads across the world, a prayer from the Rt Rev Colin Sinclair provides hope and support or comfort at this challenging time – go to our Prayers Page
All services and meetings at Kirkliston Parish Church are suspended until further notice, as per the guidance from Church of Scotland.
Rev Dr George J Whyte, Principal Clerk of the General Assembly, has issued the latest advice and information on 26th March 2020.
It is hoped to provide a recorded service for the next three weeks, including Easter, via the Church of Scotland website and social media platforms. Please continue to keep looking at the Church of Scotland and Ascend websites for the latest information.
A list of congregations providing a streamed service can be found here on the Church of Scotland website.
Some local churches across the Church of Scotland already stream their services online, and others are in the early stages of setting this up to meet the growing demand. For a list of some of those who are planning to regularly stream services through video, audio or catch-up, please visit our Kirk Services Online page.
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The Right Reverend Colin Sinclair is offering a live daily reflection on Facebook at 10 am (here).
It is expected that there will be a reflective service broadcast on BBC1 Scotland at 12.15pm, on Sunday 29th March 2020; arrangements to facilitate this are ongoing.
No funeral service can take place in the church building. These have been closed for all services.
Following Government guidance from Monday 23rd March 2020, weddings are cancelled. It will be necessary to postpone weddings to a later date when a greater degree of normality applies.
The above is offered in the light of current information, and is of course subject to further public health guidance and directives from the UK and Scottish Governments. The situation is evolving changing frequently, and we shall offer further updates as information becomes available
All public worship, meetings and activities of Kirkliston Parish Church are cancelled at this time. Only a minister, close family and funeral directors may attend funerals: memorial services can be held later if wished.
Elders and the Pastoral care team offer support by phone. The 'Kirkliston Parish Church' website and Facebook page can be used to request support.
The Little Coffee Stop Facebook page offers support to other families. Our children and families Facebook page will have online resources for children and young people.
'Working Together in Kirkliston during the Coronavirus' is being coordinated through the Kirkliston community Facebook page and Kirkliston Community Church tel. 0131 156 2262
Rev Christine Clark aims to record a reading, message and prayer regularly to our website. The Church of Scotland website has Christian worship and teaching from various churches and Sanctuary First, led by the Very Rev Albert Bogle.
There is a weekly service broadcast on BBC radio, led by Archbishop Justin Welby.
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Psalm 91 is a great covering prayer about God's protection for us and our families. 'Surely God will save you.. from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with His feathers and under His wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness will be your shield'. Amen.
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Home Industry News Rubber product manufacturer awarded Royal seal of approval
Rubber product manufacturer awarded Royal seal of approval
by Leanne Taylor
PDM directors Kate Richards and Douglas King, with their Bloccs protector.
A Bristol-based manufacturer of rubber products for a variety of industries has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise for an invention that keeps plaster casts and dressings dry in water.
Precision Dippings Marketing Limited (PDM) was awarded the accolade for its 'Bloccs' product – a range of reusable waterproof arm and leg protectors for patients with plaster casts and dressings.
When fitted with a plaster cast, patients are advised to keep their casts away from water so they do not become soggy and fall apart, or worse, cause an infection.
Bloccs keep injuries bone dry by slipping over an injured arm or leg like a glove or stocking. Their rubber seals combine the technology PDM used to put the stretch into the iconic Stretch Armstrong toy in the 1970s, with the watertight wrist, ankle and neck seals it supplies for the world's top drysuit manufacturers today.
"Bloccs are popular with injured children who want to swim on their summer holidays, side-lined athletes who need a speedier rehabilitation through aquatic non-weight bearing exercise, and anyone who wants to bathe or shower independently after surgery or in spite of having a dressed wound," explained Kate Richards, co-director of PDM.
"It's the first consumer product we've taken to market since starting in 1964, so we're incredibly proud.
"The key to the success of Bloccs has been its 100 per cent watertight seal technology, our personalised customer service and striking a deal with high street giant, Boots."
Sales and export figures for Bloccs have increased year-on-year since it was launched in 2013 (including a 25 per cent rise in 2016).
Kate said the product's growth had exceeded all expectations and the Queen's Award could provide a springboard for further success.
"We see potential for growth in Australia and the United States," she said.
"This win has laid the foundation for that.
"We won't stop until we've condemned the plaster cast and dressing wrapped in carrier bags to the history books."
Kate and the PDM team will receive their award from the Queen at a Buckingham Palace reception in July.
Bloccs Rubber UK Manufacturing Queen's Award for Enterprise Featured