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Q: Elastic search multiple simple_query_string with boost I have an index set up for all my documents:
{
  "mappings" {
    "book" {
      "_source": { "enabled": true },
      "properties": [
        "title": { "type": "string", "analyzer": "standard", "search_analyzer": "standard" },
        "description": { "type": "string", "analyzer": "standard", "search_analyzer": "standard" },
        "author": { "type": "string", "analyzer": "standard", "search_analyzer": "standard" }
      ]
    }
  }
}

I push this through into an index called "library".
What I want to do is execute a search with the following requirements.  Assuming the user entered something like "big yellow shovel"

*

*Execute a search of user entered keywords in three ways:

*

*As is as a whole phrase: "simple yellow shovel"

*As a set of AND keywords: "simple+yellow+shovel"

*As a set of OR keywords: "simple|yellow|shovel"

*Ensure that the keyword sets executed in order of priority (boosted?):

*

*Full text first

*AND'd second

*OR'd third

Using a simple query works find for a single search:
{
  "query": {
    "simple_query_string": {
      "query": "\"simple yellow shovel\""
    }
  }
}

How do I execute the multiple search with boosting?
Or should I be using something like a "match" query on the indexed fields?

A: I am not sure if I got this one correct. I have assumed priority order of
author>title>description
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "should": [
        {
          "bool": {
            "must": [
              {
                "multi_match": {
                  "query": "simple yellow shovel",
                  "fields": [
                    "author^7",
                    "title^3",
                    "description"
                  ],
                  "type": "phrase",
                  "boost": 10
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "bool": {
            "must": [
              {
                "multi_match": {
                  "query": "simple",
                  "fields": [
                    "author^7",
                    "title^3",
                    "description"
                  ],
                  "boost": 5
                }
              },
              {
                "multi_match": {
                  "query": "yellow",
                  "fields": [
                    "author^7",
                    "title^3",
                    "description"
                  ],
                  "boost": 5
                }
              },
              {
                "multi_match": {
                  "query": "shovel",
                  "fields": [
                    "author^7",
                    "title^3",
                    "description"
                  ],
                  "boost": 5
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "multi_match": {
            "query": "simple",
            "fields": [
              "author^7",
              "title^3",
              "description"
            ],
            "boost": 2
          }
        },
        {
          "multi_match": {
            "query": "yellow",
            "fields": [
              "author^7",
              "title^3",
              "description"
            ],
            "boost": 2
          }
        },
        {
          "multi_match": {
            "query": "shovel",
            "fields": [
              "author^7",
              "title^3",
              "description"
            ],
            "boost": 2
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

could anyone please verify this? You could refer to Boost Query link for more info. Is this what you are looking for?
I hope this helps!
EDIT : Rewritten with dis_max
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "should": [
        {
          "dis_max": {
            "tie_breaker": 0.7,
            "queries": [
              {
                "bool": {
                  "must": [
                    {
                      "multi_match": {
                        "query": "simple yellow shovel",
                        "fields": [
                          "author^7",
                          "title^3",
                          "description"
                        ],
                        "type": "phrase",
                        "boost": 10
                      }
                    }
                  ]
                }
              },
              {
                "bool": {
                  "must": [
                    {
                      "dis_max": {
                        "tie_breaker": 0.7,
                        "queries": [
                          {
                            "multi_match": {
                              "query": "simple",
                              "fields": [
                                "author^7",
                                "title^3",
                                "description"
                              ],
                              "boost": 5
                            }
                          },
                          {
                            "multi_match": {
                              "query": "yellow",
                              "fields": [
                                "author^7",
                                "title^3",
                                "description"
                              ],
                              "boost": 5
                            }
                          },
                          {
                            "multi_match": {
                              "query": "shovel",
                              "fields": [
                                "author^7",
                                "title^3",
                                "description"
                              ],
                              "boost": 5
                            }
                          }
                        ]
                      }
                    }
                  ]
                }
              },
              {
                "multi_match": {
                  "query": "simple",
                  "fields": [
                    "author^7",
                    "title^3",
                    "description"
                  ],
                  "boost": 2
                }
              },
              {
                "multi_match": {
                  "query": "yellow",
                  "fields": [
                    "author^7",
                    "title^3",
                    "description"
                  ],
                  "boost": 2
                }
              },
              {
                "multi_match": {
                  "query": "shovel",
                  "fields": [
                    "author^7",
                    "title^3",
                    "description"
                  ],
                  "boost": 2
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

This seems to give me much better results atleast on my dataset.  This is a great source to understand dismax
Please play a lot with this and see if you are getting expected results.
Use the help of Explain API.

A: I've rewritten this using Dis Max Query. Keep in mind that you could try different types to get better results. See these:

*

*best_fields

*most_fields

*cross_fields
Query:
POST /your_index/your_type/_search
{
  "query": {
    "dis_max": {
      "tie_breaker": 0.7,
      "boost": 1.2,
      "queries": [
        {
          "multi_match": {
            "query": "simple yellow showel",
            "type": "phrase",
            "boost": 3,
            "fields": [
              "title^3",
              "author^2",
              "description"
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "multi_match": {
            "query": "simple yellow showel",
            "operator": "and",
            "boost": 2,
            "fields": [
              "title^3",
              "author^2",
              "description"
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "multi_match": {
            "query": "simple yellow showel",
            "fields": [
              "title^3",
              "author^2",
              "description"
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Dis Max query will pick document, which scored most from all three queries. And we give additional boost for "type": "phrase" and "operator": "and", while we leave last query untouched.

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Joss Whedon's ex slams him for cheating in scathing essay
By News.com.au
August 21, 2017 | 9:42am
Kai Cole and Joss Whedon Getty Images
Originally Published by:
All over the world, millions of "Buffy" fans' hearts just broke.
Joss Whedon, creator of "Buffy," director of "The Avengers" and all-round pop cultural feminist icon, has been unmasked as an alleged philanderer.
Whedon's ex-wife, architect Kai Cole, published a piece overnight on US site The Wrap which accused the director of "multiple affairs" over their 15-year marriage. According to Cole, the first of these supposed dalliances was on the set of "Buffy."
"He hid multiple affairs and a number of inappropriate emotional ones that he had with his actresses, co-workers, fans and friends, while he stayed married to me," Cole wrote.
"He deceived me for 15 years so he could have everything he wanted. I believed, everyone believed, that he was one of the good guys, committed to fighting for women's rights, committed to our marriage, and to the women he worked with.
"But I now see how he used his relationship with me as a shield, both during and after our marriage, so no one would question his relationships with other women or scrutinize his writing as anything other than feminist."
In a heart-wrenching confessional, Cole said she was only going public with the allegations because she felt "compelled to go on the record and clear up some misconceptions. I don't think it is fair to me or other women to remain silent any longer."
Cole said Whedon's alleged affairs go to the core of the "hypocrisy" of his public image as a feminist writer and hero.
Cole and Whedon in April 2010Getty Images
"Until recently, Joss was still letting the illusion of our marriage stay intact. Now that it is finally public, I want to let women know that he is not who he pretends to be. I want the people who worship him to know he is human, and the organizations giving him awards for his feminist work to think twice in the future about honoring a man who does not practice what he preaches.
"Despite understanding, on some level, that what he was doing was wrong, he never conceded the hypocrisy of being out in the world preaching feminist ideals, while at the same time, taking away my right to make choices for my life and my body based on the truth."
Whedon and Cole met in 1991 and married in 1995, a year before production began on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," a seminal TV show centered on a strong female hero and one that has since been hailed as a defining feminist series.
Whedon would go on to create "Angel," "Firefly," "Dollhouse" (another series centered on female agency) and "Dr. Horrible" and direct a well-received adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing" before going on to find mainstream success as the director of "The Avengers" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron." He has since been signed by Warner Bros. and DC to helm the upcoming "Batgirl" movie.
Whedon and Cole separated in 2012 with the divorce finalized last year. They have two children.
"Buffy" fans will recognize Cole's voice on a track on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" musical soundtrack. She originally recorded the demo songs with her husband on the show's iconic musical episode, "Once More With Feeling."
A spokesperson for Whedon told The Wrap that Cole's account "includes inaccuracies and misrepresentations" but that the director would not be commenting out of concern for his children and ex-wife.
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Harry Styles gets his own special

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Grand-Couronne is een gemeente in het Franse departement Seine-Maritime (regio Normandië) en telt 9442 inwoners (1999). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Rouen.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Grand-Couronne bedraagt 16,9 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 558,7 inwoners per km². Zie ook: Petit-Couronne.

Geschiedenis
In de omgeving van het huidige Couronne hebben, blijkens archeologische vondsten, in de Jonge Steentijd tot in de tijd van Karel de Grote mensen gewoond. Voor de komst der Normandiërs in de 10e eeuw, stonden er belangrijke kloosters, waarvan niets bewaard is gebleven. De naam Couronne (eerste vermelding : Curtehulm(i) in 1025) is geheel of gedeeltelijk van Oudnoordse herkomst. Het tweede deel, -hulm, -holm, betekent: eiland, land aan het water. Men vergelijke de namen Stockholm en Bornholm. Uit archeologisch onderzoek in Grand-Couronne blijkt, dat ter plaatse inderdaad een eilandje in de Seine heeft bestaan.

Op 24 juni 1944 werd het centrum van de plaats door een geallieerd bombardement verwoest. Daarbij vielen 128 doden.

Na 1960 nam de bevolking snel toe door de vestiging van zware industrie langs de Seine-oever. O.a. kwamen er papier- en chemische fabrieken, een olieraffinaderij en een distributiecentrum van een groothandel in allerlei dranken. Het transportbedrijf Lohéac fabriceerde er eigen trekkers.

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

Externe links
 Informatie over Grand-Couronne

Gemeente in Seine-Maritime

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Western Watersheds Project and our allies (represented by the Center for Biological Diversity) are proud to announce that we've reached an agreement with Wildlife Services that requires an updated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) which analyzes the effects of its wildlife killing programs in sixteen counties in northern California, and limits the use of cruel trapping and killing devices in the meantime. This is good news for wildlife, including the recovering wolf population in the region!
This agreement is especially important for wolves because they are just starting to return to native habitats in northern California, and the government has agreed to take extra precautions in the region so as not to accidentally kill or injure them.
The settlement agreement applies to California's "North District," which includes Butte, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity and Yuba counties.
Pending the completion of new EIS, Wildlife Services won't be able to use poisons targeting mammals (including M-44 cyanide bombs and den fumigants) or lead ammunition anywhere in the region. It will also be prohibited from using body-gripping traps and aerial gunning in Wilderness or Wilderness Study Areas. Because these wildlife killing methods are often employed at the behest of the agriculture industry on public lands, today's agreement also means that wildlife can be a little more wild and not suffer needlessly from the inhumane methods Wildlife Services usually uses.
The forthcoming environmental analysis will be subject to public comment and review, so WWP and our members will be sure to fill the record with the best available science supporting the importance of predators and the harms of lethal wildlife management on public lands. The new plan will be a much needed update on antiquated ideas about killing predators for the livestock industry and giving wildlife fair treatment in their habitats.
Congratulations also to our co-plaintiffs Center for Biological Diversity, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Project Coyote, Animal Welfare Institute, and WildEarth Guardians. Thanks!
Today's settlement also requires Wildlife Services to analyze the environmental impacts of its killing of coyotes, bobcats and other wildlife in 16 counties in Northern California.
The ironically named Wildlife Services is a multimillion-dollar federal program that uses painful leghold traps, strangulation snares, poisons and aerial gunning to kill wolves, coyotes, cougars, birds and other wild animals — primarily to benefit the agriculture and livestock industries.
Under the court order approved today, Wildlife Services must provide, by the end of 2023, an "environmental impact statement" that analyzes the effects and risks of its wildlife-killing program in California's North District. The North District includes Butte, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity and Yuba counties.
Pending completion of that study, which will include robust public commenting opportunities, the court order imposes several measures to protect wildlife in the North District. It bans the use of M-44 cyanide devices, den fumigants and lead ammunition. It bans aerial gunning and any use of body-gripping traps, such as strangulation snares and steel-jaw leghold traps, in designated wilderness and wilderness study areas. The order also requires Wildlife Services to implement several measures to protect California's endangered gray wolves from being accidentally killed in traps set for other carnivores. These measures include a ban on Conibear traps and non-breakaway snares in areas used by the wolves.
Last year Wildlife Services reported killing 1.6 million native animals nationwide. In California alone this total included 3,893 coyotes, 142 foxes, 83 black bears, 18 bobcats and thousands of other creatures. Nontarget animals — including protected wildlife such as wolves, Pacific fisher and eagles — are at risk from Wildlife Services' indiscriminate methods.
The victory announced today is the result of a lawsuit filed in June by the Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Project Coyote, the Animal Welfare Institute and WildEarth Guardians.
Coyote photo by Tom Koerner, USFWS. Images are available for media use.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1979 to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system. To accomplish this mission, the Animal Legal Defense Fund files high-impact lawsuits to protect animals from harm; provides free legal assistance and training to prosecutors to assure that animal abusers are punished for their crimes; supports tough animal protection legislation and fights harmful legislation; and provides resources and opportunities to law students and professionals to advance the emerging field of animal law. For more information, please visit http://aldf.org.
The Animal Welfare Institute (http://www.awionline.org) is a nonprofit charitable organization founded in 1951 and dedicated to reducing animal suffering caused by people. AWI engages policymakers, scientists, industry, and the public to achieve better treatment of animals everywhere — in the laboratory, on the farm, in commerce, at home, and in the wild.
Project Coyote is a national nonprofit organization and a North American coalition of wildlife educators, scientists, ranchers, and community leaders promoting coexistence between people and wildlife, and compassionate conservation through education, science, and advocacy. For more information, visit http://www.projectcoyote.org.
WildEarth Guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers and health of the American West.
Wolf Photo courtesy of Gene Tremblay, Jackson, WY. Thank you!


Is Your Child Ready to Manage His ADHD Medicine?
When Can Your Child Manage the Meds?
Every child diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be involved in his own treatment plan. For most kids, that treatment involves medication.
From the start, your child should understand what ADHD is, how it affects him, and how his medicine helps his symptoms. He should also know what his treatment plan is and how it works.
Kids who feel involved are more likely to take their medication as prescribed. They may also be more aware of their symptoms. They'll know when something changes or if a treatment isn't working as it should.
Every child is different. Many ADHD experts think it's best for you, not your child, to dispense pills each day as long as he's living with you.
If your child is in middle school or high school, you may want to let him take his medication on his own. It's still best for you to monitor how many pills are in the bottle, and watch to see that he takes them as prescribed.
If he manages that well, he may be ready to take pills without supervision. You know your child best, but talk to his doctor and other people involved in his ADHD treatment, like therapists and teachers, before you make that call.
He has to take ADHD medication as prescribed. More is not necessarily better. Make sure he or she knows it may be dangerous to increase the dose without talking to your doctor.
Research shows that most college students who take ADHD medication are more likely to take it as prescribed during the weekdays, when they're studying. On the weekends, they may skip it. This can make symptoms worse. That can make it harder to study or do tasks that require concentration. It can even increase the odds he'll engage in risky behavior. If he thinks he doesn't need as much medication, or is ready to go off it altogether, he should talk to his doctor before making any changes.
No one else can take his medication. Other students who don't have ADHD may want to take his stimulant medication to help them focus while they study. But giving pills to another person is illegal and can get him into trouble with school and legal authorities.
He should stay in touch with his doctor. His doctor needs to know if something changes with his symptoms or side effects. If he's far from home, he can check in by phone or email, or he can ask his doctor to recommend another ADHD health professional closer to him who can check on how he's doing.
He can't run out of medication. Part of managing medication means making sure there are enough pills to follow the treatment plan without breaks. His doctor may not be able to order certain ADHD stimulant medications over the phone, so he may need to work with a local doctor to get refills.
He can't drink or use illegal drugs while on ADHD medication. ADHD medications are safe, but they can have serious side effects if he takes them with alcohol or other drugs.
Chorniy, A. Labour Economics, July 2016.


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Staged versus one-time complete revascularization with percutaneous coronary intervention for multivessel coronary artery disease patients without ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Edward L. Hannan, Zaza Samadashvili, Gary Walford, Alice K. Jacobs, Nicholas J. Stamato, Ferdinand J. Venditti, David Holmes, Samin Sharma, Spencer B. King
Background-There are evidence-based guidelines for staging of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), but we are not aware of any evidence comparing the strategy of complete revascularization (CR) with PCI in the index admission versus the strategy of staging in a subsequent admission for patients with coronary artery disease without STEMI. Methods and Results-PCI patients without STEMI undergoing PCI in New York between 2007 and 2009 were separated into 2 groups: those with acute coronary syndrome but no STEMI, and those without acute coronary syndrome. For each group, patients who underwent CR in the index admission were then propensity matched to patients staged within 60 days to obtain CR based on 17 patient risk factors related to longer-term mortality, and 3-year mortality rates were compared for the propensity-matched groups. Outcomes were also compared for preselected subgroups. For propensitymatched patients without acute coronary syndrome, the all-cause mortality rates at 3 years for patients who underwent CR in the index hospitalization and patients staged for CR within 60 days of discharge were 5.62% and 5.97%, P=0.93, respectively. For propensity-matched patients with acute coronary syndrome but without STEMI, the all-cause mortality rates at 3 years for patients who underwent CR in the index hospitalization and patients staged for CR within 60 days of discharge were 6.59% and 5.92%, P=0.41, respectively. Conclusions-Patients with coronary artery disease without STEMI do not have significantly lower 3-year mortality rates with staged PCI than when they undergo CR in the index admission.
Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.112.974485
ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Patient Admission
Complete revascularization
Multivessel disease
Hannan, E. L., Samadashvili, Z., Walford, G., Jacobs, A. K., Stamato, N. J., Venditti, F. J., ... King, S. B. (2013). Staged versus one-time complete revascularization with percutaneous coronary intervention for multivessel coronary artery disease patients without ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, 6(1), 12-20. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.112.974485
Staged versus one-time complete revascularization with percutaneous coronary intervention for multivessel coronary artery disease patients without ST-elevation myocardial infarction. / Hannan, Edward L.; Samadashvili, Zaza; Walford, Gary; Jacobs, Alice K.; Stamato, Nicholas J.; Venditti, Ferdinand J.; Holmes, David; Sharma, Samin; King, Spencer B.
In: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Vol. 6, No. 1, 01.02.2013, p. 12-20.
Hannan, EL, Samadashvili, Z, Walford, G, Jacobs, AK, Stamato, NJ, Venditti, FJ, Holmes, D, Sharma, S & King, SB 2013, 'Staged versus one-time complete revascularization with percutaneous coronary intervention for multivessel coronary artery disease patients without ST-elevation myocardial infarction', Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 12-20. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.112.974485
Hannan EL, Samadashvili Z, Walford G, Jacobs AK, Stamato NJ, Venditti FJ et al. Staged versus one-time complete revascularization with percutaneous coronary intervention for multivessel coronary artery disease patients without ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. 2013 Feb 1;6(1):12-20. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.112.974485
Hannan, Edward L. ; Samadashvili, Zaza ; Walford, Gary ; Jacobs, Alice K. ; Stamato, Nicholas J. ; Venditti, Ferdinand J. ; Holmes, David ; Sharma, Samin ; King, Spencer B. / Staged versus one-time complete revascularization with percutaneous coronary intervention for multivessel coronary artery disease patients without ST-elevation myocardial infarction. In: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. 2013 ; Vol. 6, No. 1. pp. 12-20.
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Former IMF Chief On Trial For Pimping
posted by Arthur Foxake It is some time now since we brought you the story of banker and supranational bureaucrat Dominique Strauss Kahn and his penchant for hiring prostitutes by the busload.
You may recall Strauss Kahn was in the news at the time for allegedly raping a New York hotel chambermaid having mistakenly assumed all chambermaid are prostitutes and that particular one had been provided for him as part of the service.
Ah well, as Boggart Blog has said many times before, so long as We The Punters continue to let these elitist shits behave as if they are above the law, they will continue to imitate medieval robber barons. And as well as stuffing his own and his families pockets with taxpayers' money and availing himself of the generous expenses arrangements these people enjoy in order to indulge his bizarre sexual fantasies, Strauss Kahn had the audacity to feign injured innocence when he was caught.
The former future President Of France, who would surely have occupied The Elysee Palace now had he been able to keep his dick in is trousers is instead on trial. A trial, it has to be said that is turning into a Rabelaisian farce.
Dominique Strauss Kahn and some of his 'researchers' (picture: Spiegel)
An incident that emerged in court today, during the testimony of hooker Sandrine Vandenschrik, who told police that she witnessed the incident involving Strauss Kahn and a number of naked women at a four star hotel. "I was shocked – I didn't want to get involved in this carnage," she said.
Another witness also described a scene of "carnage with a heap of mattresses on the floor", with Strauss Kahn in the height of "pure sexual consummation" with naked girls writhing all over his body.
Strauss Kahn, 65, is denying the allegations, claiming that he did not know the girls were prostitutes. "He really wants us to believe he's naive and takes us for idiots," said Miss Vandenschrik.
The former politician has admitted to a huge sexual appetite and enjoying "libertine" parties, but denies knowing that the girls were prostitutes, arguing that it was impossible to know what the girls did for a living because they were all naked.
FFS, you've got to laugh at the audacity of these people. But satirical blogging is really dead, you just couldn't make this stuff up.
BTW Boggart Blog has no moral problem with prostitutes but as taxpayers we object to paying for cheap thrills for freeloading expenses troughers like this arsehole. RELATED POSTS: http://machiavelli.blog.co.uk/2014/07/10/the-global-economy-is-so-healthy-its-ok-for-bankers-to-steal-our-money-18855182/
Labour politicians wilfully ignored sex abuse, former MP reveals
Rotherham Scandal Spreads as Police and Local Councillors Accused of Child Abuse
As we predicted when this composite page was opened last August, after the publication of a damning report authored by Dr. Alexis Jay, on how police and municipal officials turned a blind eye to organised sex abuse in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, the story of sexual perversion and corruption of local officials had a lot more secrets to yield. In the latest development ...
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Through a partnership with the state, Dolphin Pointe is currently home for 66 COVID-19 positive patients who formerly resided in area assisted living or other long-term care facilities. The facility, which is located near the north end of the Jacksonville University campus, provides a model for containment and rehabilitation for long-term care residents who test positive for COVID-19. The rooms are disinfected by the UVD Robot.
Secretary Azar visited to both thank the Dolphin Pointe health care providers for their efforts and listen to other ideas to address the COVID-19 crisis in a round table discussion with officials from the state, providers and administrators at Dolphin Pointe, and representatives of Jacksonville University including President Tim Cost '81 and Provost Dr. Chris Sapienza.
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Context. Dust attenuation curves in external galaxies are useful for studying their dust properties as well as interpreting their intrinsic spectral energy distributions. These functions are not very well known in the UV range whether at low or high redshift. In particular, the presence or absence of a UV bump at 2175 Å remains an open issue that has consequences on the interpretation of broad band colours of galaxies involving the UV range.
Aims. We want to study the dust attenuation curve in the UV range at z > 1 where the UV is redshifted into the visible and with Herschel data to constrain dust emission and a global dust attenuation. In particular, we search for a UV bump and related implications for dust attenuation determinations.
Methods. We use deep photometric data of the Chandra Deep Field South obtained with intermediate and broad band filters by the MUSYC project to sample the UV rest frame of galaxies with 1 < z < 2. Herschel/PACS and Spitzer/MIPS data are used to measure the dust emission. We select 30 galaxies with high S/N in all bands. Their SEDs from the UV to the far-IR are fitted using the CIGALE code and the characteristics of the dust attenuation curves obtained as Bayesian outputs of the SED fitting process.
Results. The mean dust attenuation curve we derive exhibits a significant UV bump at 2175 Å whose amplitude corresponds to 35% (76%) that of the Milky Way (Large Magellanic Cloud: LMC2 supershell) extinction curve. An analytical expression of the average attenuation curve (A(λ)/AV) is given and found to be slightly steeper than the Calzetti et al. one, although at a 1σ level. Our galaxy sample is used to study the derivation of the slopes of the UV continuum from broad band colours, including the rest frame GALEX FUV − NUV colour. Systematic errors induced by the presence of the bump are quantified. We compare dust attenuation factors measured with CIGALE to the slope of the UV continuum and find that there is a large scatter around the relation valid for local starbursts (~0.7 mag). The uncertainties on the determination of the UV slope lead to an extra systematic error in a range of 0.3 to 0.7 mag on dust attenuation when a filter overlaps the UV bump.
Chercheur Associé, Observatoire de Paris, LERMA (CNRS: UMR8112), 61 Av. de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France.


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Summary of Siad Barre's visit to Moscow in November 1971.
As it is known, General Mohamed Siad Barre, the Somali head of state, led between November 16 and 22 this year a high-level delegation (of essentially the entire Government) to an official friendly visit to the Soviet Union. They visited Moscow, Volgograd and Tashkent and held talks with L. I. Brezhnev and A. N. Kosygin. The delegation also met with N.V. Podgorny, and had talks at the most important ministries and state executive committees.
The negotiations on international issues contributed to the clarification of positions, and there was no disagreement on fundamental issues. Essentially, both parties' positions on key international issues such as peace and security, aggression in Indochina, the Middle East crisis, colonialism, neo-colonialism and the need to fight against racism coincided. Both sides assessed the activities of the Organization of African Unity.
The Soviet side deservedly acknowledged Somalia's active policy with regard to African issues and the expressed readiness of the African peoples (Somalia, among them) to wage a struggle for social progress and political independence.
Both sides evaluated the role and the importance of the United Nations. The Soviet side, welcomed Somalia's UN delegation (which is under strong central command) full willingness to cooperate with the Soviet Union, which was deemed important for the success of the proposals raised at this world forum.
A joint statement issued on negotiations does not reflect Somalia's position on the conflict that erupted in Hindustani peninsula. The Somali officials explained that they believe the conflict should be settled by political means within the Pakistani military administration and politicians representing the interests of East Pakistan and its people. However, as Pakistan has occupied an important place in the Muslim world, they did not want to have their views published in the declaration.
The [Somali] comrades declined to comment on Somalia's issues with its neighboring countries, Kenya and Ethiopia, and on French Somalia they merely said that the problems are not to be dealt with in the discussions.
Somalia maintains relations with the socialist countries in general terms. The Somali guests said that Somalia was determined to the cause of social progress, and requires the support of the socialist states. Their relationships with every socialist country is as good as with the Soviet Union, but they hoped they will achieve a substantial improvement in this respect.
Significant progress has been made in Soviet-Somali bilateral relations. These relationships play an important role in terms of economic and technical cooperation.
In economic terms, the development of agriculture is of paramount importance to Somalia. Advanced tools and methods are needed for the increase of cultivated land area and to enable arable farming. It was agreed that the Soviet Union will help with the utilization of the land in the lower Juba River. The river has been improved by the introduction of irrigation systems and electric power plant of about 5,000kW. Modern agricultural technology can also help Somalia. The guests showed a very thorough and professional interest in the methods of farm organization in which they may also need assistance.
The Soviet side was ready to assist in the development of fishing and fish processing. Agreement was concluded in principle on fishing boat movement and the establishment of fish processing plant. The cooling capacity of the port will be increased in order to facilitate meat exports from Somalia and improve scheduling.
The Soviet Union will extend the capacity of the radio stations in Mogadishu as well as in a rural town.
The list of issues covered in the agreement are only in principle. The details to clarify the relevant agreements and contracts are to be concluded in the nearest future (probably later this year) when a delegation of Soviet expert arrives at the scene.
In addition to the above, a new step in the evolution of bilateral relations, by means of the signing of a Consular Convention, was made during the visit.
As you can see, the Soviet side is ready for a strong expansion of economic cooperation, although they are aware that for some time trade with Somalia can hardly be made on the basis of mutual benefit. However, the fact that the country is geologically unexplored and that it is almost impossible not to find any mineral deposits, which is to form the solid base for a sustained economic recovery in a more distant future, should be taken into account (Oil exploration should not be ruled out).
Soviet side clearly sees the serious problems and the tasks for the Somali economy. They are aware of the political problems within the state, for which the political leadership shares a big share of the responsibility. However, the [Somali] head of state is considered to be a prudent politician, who is a convinced supporter of the cause of social progress and who favors better relations with the socialist states. It would be difficult to answer the question of how Siad Barre sees the practical implementation of socio-economic transformation based on the principles of scientific socialism. He himself has outlined it as the expansion of the economy, the public sector; the creation of appropriate propaganda organs, which would build up a socialist spirit within the population; and, finally, in terms of foreign policy, working together with the socialist states in the pursuit of socialist foreign policy principles. Regards the Soviet Union as a role model.
The Somali head of state's determination toward socialism and his respect for Soviet Union's implementation of the teachings of Marxism-Leninism bears witness in his reception speech to the Supreme Council on November 16 as well as in a statement in Moscow News.
(The value of the latter - as the Soviet comrades have noted - only increased by the fact that the interview occurred without the usual preparation and the Somali head of state produced spontaneous, impromptu responses.).
In confidence, Siad Barre announced his country was studying the possibilities of organizing a strong, united party.
Based on the above, it is quite logical to expect that the socialist states are going to practically implement safeguards, so that unlike many other developing countries, Somalia will not enter in politically dangerous competition for Western help. On the other hand, it also seems a logical conclusion that when Somalia gets the necessary support from our side, it will be prepared to take fuller commitment to the cause of socialism.
Since, essentially, the socialist countries' willingness to help with these issues determines their positive or negative outcome, the Soviet side seriously considers its potential to release quick, productive and efficient help, which is to be strictly adapted to the country's actual needs, and which can produce tangible results in the short term through relatively small financial contribution.
There is indication that Siad Barre hoped for more substantive support from what he is currently receiving from the Soviet Union. However, he is sincerely pleased with his political debut and is content that he has managed to win the confidence of the Soviet Union.
The issue of financial support was ultimately based on a realistic approach: during the negotiations it was willingly admitted that Somalia is only one of the recipients of the Soviet Union's help, which tried to help other countries in Somalia's situation.
Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [Budapest], XIX-J-1-j, Szomalia, 1971, 94d. Obtained and translated by Radoslav Yordanov.


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Top Startup Ideas Which Can Kick-Off During This Lockdown
July 9, 2020 August 17, 2020 Kelbin Lino Eapen
The year 2020 set off with many hopes for lots of people. But had they foreseen what was advancing their way? Most likely haven't. The COVID-19 outbreak had hit all the people in uncommon ways, like numerous mortality rates, some losing their dear ones, losing their jobs, homes, etc. But had this pandemic brought anything beneficial for the people?
Definitely, many industries profited from the spread of the disease like the manufacturers of face masks, face shields, and other sanitary products. While some were grappling due to this pandemic, there are parts of the technology industry that are benefiting from the considerable changes forced on society. And now these times had been transformed into a season of sprouting startups.
Let's take a look at some startup ideas that actually made use of this situation and made the most out of it.
Concerning government policy, all educational institutes in the country were closed to control the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. The e-learning division of startups in India has been one of the least likely sectors to have experienced a beneficial impact during this period. But these predictions were proved wrong as these edutech startups continued booming, and record says that some companies like Byju's, Vedantu, and Unacademy had experienced a three times surge in their usage.
Another set of people who had hit the lottery were online content creators like YouTubers, Instagrammers, bloggers, etc. As the lockdown has been extended with varying phases, the weary people began shifting towards various means for entertainment. The content creators discovered this as an opportunity to get more people as an audience, and luckily it worked effectively.
The demand for online shopping is rising in every section. As most of the companies are currently delivering even to the most rural areas, this need is hiking sharply. The more people remain idle, the more they tend to seek alternative ways of entertainment, and shopping is, of course, a way to achieve that. Also, shops were closed due to strict quarantine, so people started depending on e-commerce for goods and services.
Due to government restrictions, people are deemed to make payments online as it would reduce the risk of getting caught the disease. Payments like salaries, fees, bills, and installments are currently paid online by most people. By acknowledging this trend, new payment software packages are being developed, providing promotional offers that would persuade the audience. Like so, the likes of Visa, MasterCard, and AMEX are benefitting, where physical cash is rapidly getting remain a thing of the past.
To sustain these adverse situations and to make sure that this pandemic is not thwarting the growth of business and economy, the Government of India has been promoting policies and several action plans. Policymakers should not only focus on business continuity and restoration of sectors but also on sufficiently advancing ease of doing business within the country by encouraging Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.
These startups were evidently successful during these adverse times. Like so, if you are hatching to have a startup but doesn't possess any idea on what to begin, these ideas are just for you, and this would be an ideal time.
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George R. Hirsch is a Member of the Firm's Litigation and Creditor's Rights/Bankruptcy Reorganization Practice Groups. Mr. Hirsch has represented clients, including leading banks, insurance companies and foreign and domestic manufacturing companies in federal and state courts throughout the United States.
Mr. Hirsch began his career as Law Clerk to the Honorable Frank H. Freedman, U.S. District Judge, District of Massachusetts. Following a stint with a leading New York City based law firm, he gained broad business litigation and bankruptcy law experience at several respected metropolitan area law firms before being recruited to join Sills Cummis & Gross in 2009 as a business, bankruptcy and real estate litigator. In addition to his litigation and bankruptcy work, Mr. Hirsch counsels clients on a variety of business issues.
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Former Wallaby cult figure Radike Samo is in line for his Melbourne Rebels debut against the Super Rugby-leading Hurricanes after being named on the bench.
The evergreen lock has been rushed into the squad for Friday night's match in Wellington after scoring two tries in Melbourne club rugby at the weekend following his return from Japan.
Samo, 38, said he wanted one last crack at Super Rugby after 68 caps with the Brumbies and Reds, while he also played 22 Tests.
Rebels centre Mitch Inman believes they're playing their best rugby - but they need to do so for longer to match the Hurricanes.
Inman rates the Rebels' opening 30 minutes against the Lions last round as the best in their five-season history, but says mental lapses proved costly.
In his 50th game for the Rebels and preparing to match up against powerhouse All Black inside centre Ma'a Nonu, Inman says they can't afford to lose concentration again.
"Our foundations are there - we've just got to stick the course," Inman says. "I think we're competitive with most teams; we've shown that with the Waratahs and Brumbies, but we just need to stay switched on, especially in that 70-80 minute mark."
Inman says the players are frustrated and disappointed to have let the Lions game slip away and saw their clash with the competition pace-setters as the perfect way to put it behind them.
While the Hurricanes are resting All Blacks trio, Julian Savea, Beauden Barrett and Ben Franks, the Rebels won't take them any more lightly.
"They are well stocked with All Blacks in that side and there's plenty of x-factor and they've gone a bit better with their defence," Inman says.
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Corycaeus crassiusculus Dana, 1849
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Corycaeus crassiusculus
Corycaeus (Corycaeus) crassiusculus Dana, 1849· accepted, alternate representation
Corycaeus elongatus Claus, 1866 (listed as synonym by Vives & Shmeleva, 2010)
Corycaeus venustus Dana, 1849 (listed as synonym by Vives & Shmeleva, 2010)
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2021). World of Copepods Database. Corycaeus crassiusculus Dana, 1849. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2021) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128799 on 2022-01-29
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2022). European Register of Marine Species. Corycaeus crassiusculus Dana, 1849. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=128799 on 2022-01-29
context source (HKRMS) Tam, P.F. (1998) Distribution of marine zooplankton in coastal waters of Southern China. Mphil thesis. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Morris, B. F. (1975). The neuston of the Northwest Atlantic . Ph.D. thesis - Dalhousie University. [details]
additional source Okemwa, E.N. (1992). A long-term sampling study of Copepods across a Tropical Creek in Mombasa, Kenya. E. Afr. Agric. For. J. 57(4):199 - 215. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Corycaeus venustus Dana, 1849)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) (from synonym Corycaeus elongatus Claus, 1866)
To PESI (from synonym Corycaeus venustus Dana, 1849)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (4 records) (from synonym Corycaeus elongatus Claus, 1866)


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Baruch College Ranks #1 on CollegeNET's Social Mobility Index for Fifth Consecutive Year
Baruch College, part of The City University of New York (CUNY), has been ranked #1 on CollegeNET's 2019 Social Mobility Index for the fifth straight year. This ranking, released Thursday, Nov. 21, placed Baruch College ahead of 1,458 four-year colleges and universities analyzed in its nationwide survey for successfully enrolling low-income students and graduating them into well-paying jobs.
"Baruch's mission has always been to serve as a gateway to economic opportunity for our students, many of whom come from challenging economic backgrounds," said Baruch College President Mitchel B. Wallerstein, PhD. "We are honored to have earned the top spot on CollegeNET's social mobility index for five consecutive years. This distinction is a testament to our incredible, hard-working students, strong faculty and curriculum, comprehensive student support services, and the partnerships we have developed with employers and mentors."
Overall, six colleges from CUNY placed in the top 30 nationally in CollegeNET's Index. In addition to Baruch College's #1 placement: Queens College garnered the #4 spot, Brooklyn College #9, Lehman #14, Hunter #16, and City College #23.
A Commitment to Social Mobility
During President Wallerstein's decade-long tenure at Baruch, the College significantly expanded a "start-to-finish" program designed to make college accessible and to support low-income students every step of the way—from matriculation to graduation and job placement.
"We serve a student population that is like no other in the United States," President Wallerstein said. "During my 10 years at Baruch, we have worked to develop, strengthen, and broaden resources that enable our students to succeed in college and later, as professionals. This includes soft-skills training, career advising and resume writing, business etiquette and networking opportunities, and communication coaching for those for whom English is a second language."
Since President Wallerstein took office in 2010, Baruch's undergraduate enrollment has grown 14.5 percent, to more than 15,000 students. During this time, the College's six-year graduation rate has climbed to nearly 70 percent, well above the national rate of 60 percent for private and public colleges combined.
Baruch students and their families represent more than 160 countries and speak over 110 different languages in their homes. Among the 72 percent of the undergraduate student body who filed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in 2017-2018, 65 percent came from households with an annual income of less than $40,000. The average salary for graduating Baruch students in 2017-2018 was $51,000.
Baruch College Earns Top Rankings
CollegeNET's ranking adds to Baruch's growing roster of recognition for advancing social mobility among its students under President Wallerstein's leadership.
In 2018, Baruch College ranked #1 for social mobility among four-year public institutions, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle's list was drawn from a groundbreaking study of colleges' impact on social mobility by a team led by Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty (formerly of Stanford University). The team's 2017 study, "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility," tracked students from nearly every U.S. college, measured their subsequent earnings against millions of anonymous tax filings and financial aid records.
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Commatica nerterodes is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana.

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are dark purplish grey with a thick blackish costal streak from near the base to the apex, cut at one-third by an oblique mark of ground colour sprinkled with whitish, and by oblique white strigulae beyond the middle and at three-fourths, from the second of which a fine strongly curved whitish subterminal line runs to the tornus. There is an oblique mark across the fold at one-fourth and the stigmata are obscurely blackish and indistinct, with the second discal edged with two or three white scales. There is some whitish irroration (sprinkling) towards the dorsum beyond the middle, and between the subterminal line and termen, as well as a white dot on the costa towards the apex. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

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Religious leaders pray for Christians to be witnesses of unity
"It's my first time attending such an event and I think it's beautiful, you can feel a strong sense of unity. The various churches should get more of their members to attend and it would be great if there were more participating churches in the future," said Mr P K Koshy, 81, from the St Thomas Orthodox Syrian Cathedral.
Mr Ih Ming, 35, from the International Baptist Church of Singapore noted that "there are fundamental tenets of the Christian faith that promote unity."
"Singapore is a small place and we all believe in the same God, so that's something I think we can afford to make more explicit," he told CatholicNews.
These were some comments given by participants who attended ecumenical services during the Jan 18-22 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
There were in total five services held in Singapore and all revolved around the theme Called to Proclaim the Mighty Acts of the Lord.
A mother and her daughter taking part in a symbolic gesture of commitment to be 'salt' and 'light' to the world as one Christian community.
Rev Fr Greger R Kollanoor (St Mary's Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church) and Sr Elizabeth Lim (Religious of the Good Shepherd) giving each other a sign of peace at the fifth prayer service on Jan 22.The services were organised by the Archdiocesan Catholic Council for Ecumenical Dialogue (ACCED) and the various host churches. A total of about 450 people attended the services, with attendance ranging from 30-130 people.
Highlights of the hour-long services included sermons by the host church leaders, and in two churches, a simple gesture of commitment to be "salt" and "light" to the world.
Religious leaders and those who attended would each light a candle and taste a pinch of salt to symbolise being witnesses of love in the world.
In the first service held at Toa Payoh Methodist Church, Bishop Dr Wee Boon Hup gave the sermon.
He highlighted what it meant when Christians come together to pray.
"When we pray as children of one Father, we are all praying and believing in the one same God," said Bishop Wee.
Religious representatives having fellowship after the prayer service at the Chapel of Christ the King on Jan 21.
Fr John Joseph Fenelon, in his homily at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes on Jan 19, reminded those gathered that "through the virtue of our baptism, we have become one chosen people. Baptism unites all Christians."
During the service held at the International Baptist Church of Singapore on Jan 20, unity in the eyes of the Lord was the main focus of Rev Rey G Navarro's homily.
"The unity that the Lord wants of His disciples is inclusive, this unity is also about an intimate relationship with God the Father."
When we have achieved this perfect unity with Christ, it can be a very effective witness to His love," said Rev Navarro.The fourth service was held at the Chapel of Christ the King on Jan 21. Rev Steven Seah delivered the homily.
To build good relations, he said, Christians must first "pray for love, courage and wisdom to rejoice as witnesses of the truth."
Wrapping up the week was the final service held at St Thomas Orthodox Syrian Cathedral.
The sermon, delivered by Fr John G Mathews, focused on how "ecumenism means to re-visit the lost and forgotten".
Participating ministers saying a prayer before the first service at Toa Payoh Methodist Church on Jan 18.
"We are not only called to build relations with one another, but also with the ones who have left [the Church], the lost and forgotten," said Fr Mathews.
Looking ahead, participants suggested ways to forge greater unity."Taize sessions during services would be good to see because it has a strong sense of ecumenism value," said Ms Dorothy Kay, 66, from the Church of St Ignatius.
Ms Rina Loo, 40, from Faith Methodist Church, suggested "stronger publicity in the host churches so that there can be more opportunities for dialogue during fellowship."
Mr Isaac Chua, 56, from International Baptist Church of Singapore, said that "it would be great to see some of the churches' lay members give testimonies on their faith journey and experiences."
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The El Salvador Mission is to sponsor children in the Colegio Catolico Padre Nicolas Antonio Rodriguez . This catholic grade school for grades K-9 in the town of Agua Caliente is the result of Padre Fuentes to provide a better education for the poor of his country. Church of the Resurrection is one of their important sponsors.
Learn More from the school's website here
Testimonial from Jim Nugent
As you all know, there are many ways in our Church to serve God and to help others. Through the help of several people in the parish it has been decided that a group would be established to help us all develop an even keener awareness of the needs of people in another country.
In this case, that country is El Salvador, a little country of about 7.5 million people in Central America. My name is Jim Nugent. I have been a parishioner for about 10 years. I have always been interested in people of other countries and so when I was given a chance to go on a mission trip in January 2010, I jumped at the chance to go with a group from the Assumption Catholic Church in Geneva, Ohio.
That week was such a memorable trip for me. I will never forget it. I was introduced to an incredibly friendly people that had endured many years of war during the 1980's. I learned of the martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero and his attempt to be the voice of the poor that still resinates even today. I was taken up in the mountains of that country on dirt roads that were barely passable where I met people that still lived in adobe houses with dirt floors and saw where they tried to grow food for their families on the steep mountainsides. We delivered tubs of food to them.
During all of these visits, the Padre that I had just met, Padre Rafael Fuentes was present, introducing us to the people. His ability to connect with these people seems so sincere to me. They were so happy to be with him. Since his English is perfect he was able to explain the many circumstances of life in the poorest of the poor areas of his country.
Most of the time we were in the back of the Padre's pickup truck traveling higher and higher into the mountains. On one of days we arrived at a small town. Right away everyone knew the Padre was there. It was Thursday but suddenly I heard the church bells ring and then people started coming to the church. In no time at all the Padre was saying Mass to a crowed church with wonderful singers and musicians to make the Mass complete. And so I learned of the importance of the Padre's presence to provide a way for the people to worship God when ever he could make it to this very small town.
So who is this padre? He is a Salvadorian who grew up in very poor circumstances himself. He is 55 years old. He has been a priest for about 25 years. He has relatives in the US and spent about 2 years here in Cleveland working with the poor. That is where he learned his English. He is a strong believer in education. He believes that the his people, to be successful in their life, they must have a good education. I believe that this is the driving force in his life. He knows that the public education system in El Salvador is not very good. He feels he can do better.
In 2006 he became the pastor of a little church in Aqua Caliente. The name of the church is San Jose Catholic Church. At the time the church was not in good shape having been neglected due to the war in the 1980's. So with the help of the people in this little town of 10,000 he began to rebuild the church. A new roof, new paint, new floors, new doors and a new parsonage was all accomplished during a 4 year period. I remember during that 2010 trip how excited he was to show all of us how the just newly completed church looked. It was so beautiful. He could be really proud. I also learned how very important the church is to the faithful of that community. It really is the heart of helping the people in so many ways.
That same year, 2010 he also began the passion that will more than likely continue for the rest of his life, and that is the education of the children in that little town. So in another part of town he started the catholic grade school. The name of that school is the Padre Nicholas Antonio Rodriguez Diocese School, PNARDS for short. The name was choosen by the Padre in remembrance of the first priest of many that were killed by the military as the beginning of the war in the 1980's. When we visited the school there were three grades. There were two buildings. Over the next 4 years those three grades have now expanded to Kindergarten through the 9th grade. 2014 will be the first year for Kindergarten and the ninth grade. During this time he has added 2 more buildings and put a second story on two of them. He has added a cooperative bakery and a carpenter shop and computer room. He has also added a much needed soccer court and has completely walled in the property to about 10 feet for security reasons. The school now has 11 teachers and about 160 students
The goal now is to add a Science lab, a library, a pilgrims house for those volunteers that come down to help teach.
So that is a brief summary of the mission of Padre Fuentes to help his people become self reliant and preach the word of God. I will go into more detail as time goes on.
Thank you so much for your interest, more installments to come.
There are many ways to help.
Most importantly is some of your Time and some of your Talent. Please consider a mission trip to assist Padre Fuentes first hand. Contact the church office at 614-855-1400 if interested.
Additionally, your treasures are needed to keep the school running. Any amount will help Padre Fuentes to provide a better education for the poor of his country.
We invite you to sponsor a one-half scholarship for $15/month for the 11 month school year ($165)
You may also help students who are also responsible for purchasing their workbooks ($65) and their uniforms and shoes (average cost of $50) with your generosity. If possible, you are encouraged to cover these additional costs, especially the workbooks if you plan to sponsor a scholarship.
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While you're lying in your bed.
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Today I come to greet you,
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A report from the first annual San Antonio Ukulele Fetival.
Uke players tend to be collectors, too. They see a certain uke, and develop a need for it. In truth, how many ukes do you need? I have a friend who has a beautiful hand-carved uke with a pineapple carved in the back. Wonderful sound. (Yes, someday you WILL be mine! YES you will!) So I head over to his house the other day, and what's he playing? A cheap $15 uke someone had painted with blue latex paint and glued Hawaiian flower stickers all over. Go figure, huh?


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Sophie Wolanski and Rob Champion Florist and Landscape Designer | Mt Roskill, Auckland City | June 2016
Sophie and Rob have lived in their Mt Roskill, Auckland house for only 9 months, but despite their short residence, they've created a garden of abundance.
Sophie: We've grown tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkin, kohlrabi, fennel, caulifower, broccoli, silverbeet, raddichio. Plus peas and hopefully turnips (Sophie is a big fan of a salad turnip). We inherited the old lemon tree which produces delicious juicy lemons; but apart from that we've completely started from scratch.
Rob: We're great believers in good soil being the secret sauce to the garden, so to get off to the best start possible, when we moved in here, we ordered a cubic metre of compost. Since then we've had a serious compost production unit going in our back yard. We compost everything. All our paper and vegetable matter plus grass clippings. Plus, we add coffee grounds from the Café down the road, which I collect, (adding coffee grounds to the compost definitely seems to have solved our fruit fly problem).
We're a one black bin compost operation. However once the bin is full, Rob moves the compost into home-made and rather handsome sculptural wire holding pens.
Rob: It means I can have a bigger scale and volume of composting material, than if I was just waiting for everything to break down in the black bin. When we were travelling we worked on several farms and commercial gardens as WWOOFER's. We learnt a lot from those experiences, and it's great fun being able to apply our own twist to those ideas into our own garden. We were also really inspired by the CSA's (Community Supported Agriculture) we saw in America; and would love to be a part of something like that here.
Sophie: For me, the garden and work are very separate things. One of my passion's is cooking. I love flowers and I love my job. However for me our garden is about food. Although in spring and summer I do grow easy stuff to pick which I can't get at the Flower Market. Plants like Strawflower and Scabiosas. I've got my Bearded Irises out the back but they are not doing anything much yet. I also grow Cecile Brunner Roses. I grow them because they are amazing! Multi-petal and the most perfect soft pink. Also not a 'rose rose' even non rose people like them, they're very wild. And they grow prolifically!
However for the most part my growing to pick philosophy is 'leave it to the professionals'. As well as learning pretty much everything we know about gardening from our offshore Wwoofing experience; I also was given a great insight about flower growing. The Flower Farm we were on in California was amazing, but very under resourced. I saw first hand how much time and work it takes. If you're not there all the time it's just a waste of money. I realised I wanted to work with flowers, but not to grow them professionally.
When I get home, I get into the kitchen – that's my relaxation. So for me – our garden's all about the relationship with the kitchen. Rob's in the garden a lot. For him that's more like his relaxation. He plays drums and gets in the garden. We plant together. We work well together in the garden, better than we do in the kitchen!
Cucumbers are probably my most favourite vegetable. We had such a great cucumber harvest this year – averaging three Lebanese Cucumbers a day from the garden. So exciting.
Sophie: In summer we rarely buy vegetables, there's no need. In winter the garden supplements our grocery shopping. I pretty much never buy greens, there's always a salad available from the garden.
Favourite tools? For Rob it is his machete. It does the work of an axe, a lopper, a niwashi, secateurs and a spade. Sophie's favourite tool is a kitchen knife - which perhaps says a lot for her propensity for food foraging.
As a florist, her composting philosophy is also visible at her Grey Lynn shop Muck Floral. "I recycle everything organic with WeCompost Bins. It's a really great service. Because I'm not formally trained I don't have it ingrained in me that there's rules about what I can and can't do. My style is very loose, but also structural. I studied sculpture and I think that contributes to how I see things in a space. I like to do things in the vase on the location. Someone said that my flowers looked like they were still growing out of the vase. Like they do in nature. Which I took as a great compliment."
She might not be formally trained but nonetheless Sophie has worked alongside some of the most interesting people working with flowers in Australia and New York. She's about to go off on an education/inspiration working trip to London, Berlin and Japan. "I'm really excited to be going away for three weeks and to have the opportunity to soak up new ideas and ways of working; and all the while being able to think about it from the perspective of Muck Floral and what I can do differently and better in my own business."
Our best gardening highlight so far? "The whole garden that we made from scratch was Rob's concept. Having that success was really satisfying, out of nothing in such a short time."
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The whole "is it a camera or is it a phone" thing was taken to extreme lengths last year with Nokia's outrageously endowed 41-megapixel 808 PureView. Now Samsung has taken it a few steps further with the aptly named Galaxy Camera, which acts like an Android smartphone, but features a 16.3-megapixel camera with telescopic lens and a host of photo features.
At first glance, there's little chance you'd mistake the Galaxy Camera for a phone. This looks very much like a midrange digital camera, with a large zoom lens complete with automatic shutter to one side, and a bulge on the other to make handling easier. There's even a tripod screw on the bottom.
Look at it from the back, and it looks every bit the smartphone.
The entire rear is covered by a single sheet of glass, and almost all of that is taken up by the 4.8-inch HD screen, which delivers an impressively high pixel count of 1,280x720. That's a bit better than the iPhone 5 and puts it on a par with the stunning screen of the Galaxy Note 2.
Pick it up however, and it definitely feels like a camera. At 300g it's a very hefty pocketful to carry around like a phone, even if it can do lots of 'phoney' things thanks to its Android operating system. On top there's a power/sleep button and a large shutter button that you twist to operate the 21x zoom. On the sides there's a covered microUSB port, 3.5mm headphone jack and a lanyard loop, plus a speaker and flash button -- press it and the flash jumps up out of the top, ready for action. On the bottom there's a hatch that hides the battery, microSD card (up to 64GB), SIM card and a mini HDMI port.
Cameras have run on Android before of course. The Nikon CoolPix 800c springs to mind. But this is the first to run Jelly Bean, and the first from a manufacturer that's at the forefront of Android on mobile phones.
It's running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean -- not the very latest 4.2 version but you can't have everything, and Samsung says an upgrade should be available soon. So you still get Google Now and a very smooth implementation of the operating system -- aside from the weight, it feels exactly like using a smartphone, which will certainly appeal to phone users who want better pictures but start to come out in a rash at the mention of f stops and focal lengths.
You can download apps from Google Play as you would do on an Android phone. Angry Birds? Go nuts.
It automatically prompts you to set up a Dropbox account for storing and sharing your pics. Your Galaxy Camera will bag you 50GB free for two years, which is handy, but after that you'll have to pay. Samsung has bundled the camera with a Three data SIM featuring a month of free credit too.
The layout and capabilities are more or less the same as any other Jelly Bean smartphone (it won't make calls, but you can check emails, browse the web and view maps). Samsung has done its own skim of the widgets and shortcuts which is mostly cosmetic, but there's a handy camera widget that allows you to scroll through the myriad settings before you fire it up -- so you can choose from an occasionally bizarrely named selection of Best Photo, Best Face, Landscape, Dawn, Snow (?), Macro, Food (??), Indoor, Action Freeze, Rich Tone, Panorama, Waterfall (??!?), Silhouette, Sunset, Night, Fireworks, Night Trace and Beauty Face.
The quad-core 1.4GHz processor sounds like it should be a powerhouse but the demands of the Galaxy Camera certainly seem to put it to the test. It's no slouch, and generally whizzes through the apps without any hassle. But the camera does take a little while to load up, and there's a delay of over a second after you take a pic, making it not so handy for quick snaps. There is a multi-shot option and the Best Photo feature, which takes pics both before and after you press the shutter, to help with this, but it would have felt more impressive with a faster recovery time.
Auto (does what it says), Smart (another chance to set those photo types such as Best Photo, Panorama etc) and Expert, which pulls up a terrific-looking virtual zoom lens and allows you to get deep and nerdy with your focus and light settings.
And what about that camera, with its 16 megapixels of photographic goodness? Well, it has a back-illuminated CMOS sensor capable of delivering 4,608x3,456-pixel images. The aperture stretches from f/2.8 at its maximum to f/5.9 when the zoom's at full. The shutter speed is variable and stretches from 16-1/2,000 of a second.
Picture quality is really very good, with bold, realistic colours, sharp edges and plenty of detail even with the high zoom shots. Low light performance is equally impressive, and less prone to noise than just about any camphone we've tried, even Sony's. The Xenon flash is also a bit softer than you'd expect from an LED flash, which most phonecams use, and helps produce more natural colours. If we're quibbling, it could perhaps be a bit more forgiving of camera motion -- blur seems just a bit too quick to creep in.
That zoom is no toy either. It's a physical zoom for a start, which immediately puts it head and shoulders above the digital zoom you're normally forced to rely on with camphones. They'll give the impression of magnifying the image by effectively spreading the pixels, but image quality goes down sharply as a result. This is the real deal, and can focus on distant objects almost as well as it can in close-up to deliver crisp, clear images from afar.
There's voice control too, which is a nice gimmick, if not a lot more, and you can take a picture by saying one of four commands: "smile", "cheese", "capture" or "shoot" as well as directing it to record video or zoom in or out (it seemed to find these last two a bit confusing though).
The large screen also makes it fairly easy to edit video onboard too, either with the Video Editor app it comes with or another downloaded from Google Play.
The Samsung Galaxy Camera is a weird beast, but it could well find its place in the world. It's not really a phone or tablet replacement, but as a good quality camera with user-friendly, well-developed software for connecting, sharing and editing on the fly, as well as finding your way around and taking notes, it's a very good effort. It's a strong recommendation that it feels like a properly useful device, rather than a Frankenstein mish-mash.


This is a unique designer Pendant piece made with an electrofom process with a 24Kt gold plate finish. It has a Green Toumaline, Moss Agate, Garnet, and fresh water pearls.
The electroform process was done in our shop in the 1990's. It has a very durable gold finish. This is a new old piece that is signed Kay.
The chain shown is not included with the pendant.
Size: 3/4" x 1 3/4"


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British Legion to launch new range of highly-flammable poppies
The Royal British Legion is to target the lucrative Islamic fundamentalist market by releasing a range of highly flammable poppies in time for this year's Remembrance Day celebrations.
The move comes after Emdadur Choudhury was fined £50 for burning three over-sized poppies at last year's Armistice Day parade in West London, a protest which raised barely five pounds for the Legion's fund.
A British Legion spokesperson said, "We would say to all Muslim Fundamentalists who see dead British soldiers as a cause for celebration, why burn only three poppies?"
"If you really want to celebrate, you should burn twenty, or maybe fifty poppies. We would encourage each of them to dig deep and spend big on making the sort of protest they can be truly proud of."
"This year's quite-expensive flammable poppies will allow you to make your protest burn with all the righteous indignation it deserves as all seven of you stand behind that tiny police presence miles from where the parade actually is."
"Sure, they cost a bit more, but they go up in flames brilliantly so you don't have to worry about the embarrassment of having a poppy that just smoulders during your pre-arranged photo opportunity."
Poppy burner fined £50
Supporters of the British Legion have said they have mixed feelings about the new scheme.
Retired soldier Mike Williams told us, "You know, I don't like that he burned a few poppies, but I take comfort from the fact that despite hating everything we stand for, he's still perfectly happy supporting the charity – financially speaking."
"I suppose it's a bit like protesting bankers' bonuses by taking out a hundred pounds and setting fire to it. It's poorly thought through, and highly lucrative for the people you're protesting about."
"So I guess my message to Emdadur Choudhury and his friends is 'keep on burning poppies', and thanks for the cash."
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Boyd Douglas-Davies awarded the HTA Pearson Medal
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HTA President Adam Taylor and Boyd Douglas-Davies
Boyd Douglas-Davies, CEO of Hillview Garden Centres, was awarded the HTA Pearson Memorial Medal at the HTA Garden Futures dinner, which took place at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire on 4 October. This award, in memory of the HTA's first general secretary Charles Pearson, is presented annually to an individual for outstanding service to the garden industry.
With over 30 years of experience in the UK retail industry, specialising in garden and shopping centre operations, Boyd is always eager to develop new sales channels and revenue streams. Having started his career working at his father's garden centre as a schoolboy he was soon hooked. He went on to train at Pershore College before embarking on his career which has seen him successfully pioneer innovative sales concepts which are widely used in the sector today.
Former CEO of Webbs of Wychbold he is now CEO of Hillview Garden Centres. A relatively new kid on the block, the group now comprises of 11 garden centres across middle England. Developments at the centres include refurbished plant and horticultural departments along with extended catering facilities and the introduction of hugely successful soft play barns.
A trustee of Greenfingers he is also the founder of Garden Re-Leaf Day, the hugely successful annual industry event, raising valuable funds for the charity.
Presenting the award, HTA President Adam Taylor said, "Boyd is undoubtedly a really worthy winner of this award dedicating so much of his time to our industry. With such enthusiasm he is always eager to share his knowledge and expertise and as the founder of Garden Re-Leaf Day has really galvanised support for raising funds for Greenfingers in a fun and inspiring way."
Following on from the HTA Garden Futures Conference, sponsored by Hozelock, the dinner brought together garden retailers, growers and suppliers from across the industry. After dinner Tom Heap, journalist and broadcaster, spoke about his experiences as a Countryfile presenter and his role in tackling some of the key issues on the programme – many of which have synergies with the horticultural industry. Charity partners for the dinner were Greenfingers and Perennial.
The night was concluded with the presentation of GTN's Greatest Garden Retailing Awards which saw Aylett Nurseries, GCA, Perrywood Nurseries, Castle Gardens and Smart Garden Products win gold awards.
Further information about the HTA Garden Futures Conference – Garden Retail – the great escape – will be available at www.hta.org.uk/gardenfutures
Here's what others have said...
Colin, 6 Oct 2017:
...Well deserved Boyd, well done!
Lolly Lee, 6 Oct 2017:
...Great news and well deserved Boyd !!
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