Even if you are only dabbling in vegetable gardening, stepping into the Petaluma branch of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds is bliss. Not only do they have over 1,800 varieties of heirloom seeds, but they also have well-trained personnel on hand to advise customers. If you love heirloom tomatoes, you'll find over 60 types to select. Grains, gourds, and green beans are in stock with exotic names and colors galore. Varieties of carrots, corn and cucumbers are also stocked in numbers seldom seen.
Ellyn Mavalwalla is the manager and is often the person who will help you out at the store. Ellyn and her knowledgeable staff are happy to guide you to the best seeds based on your specific growing conditions. Maybe you have raised beds and want to know which crops are best suited for this growing medium? Might you be starting your first large-scale backyard in-the-ground crops and need advice? If you live in a drought-affected region, the staff can recommend seeds like the Art Combe's Ancient watermelon. This easy to grow melon was found by Art while prospecting around the Mogollon Rim. The seeds were in a small woven pot in a cave and are thought to be hundreds of years old! When Art planted the seeds just a few germinated, but it was enough to start banking seeds to bring this heirloom back to the people.
At the Seed Bank, you'll hear fascinating stories about other exciting heirloom varieties. Take for example the Mortgage Lifter tomato. This strain of one pound pink delights proved so popular the developer, M.C. Byles was able to pay off his home back in the 1940s from the profits he made from selling loads of this new variety. Some varieties of tomatoes can be gorgeous and tasty too. Brad's Atomic Grape is a stunning tomato that produces a mixture of red, blue, yellow, and orange colored fruit that holds well on or off the vine. I Bet, your neighbors, don't have this one!
There's only so much information that can be printed on seed packets. When you go to the Seed Bank, one of the staff members can explain the nuances of properly planting lettuce seeds. Lettuce seeds are so tiny, a gust of wind can blow your whole crop away to a neighbor's yard if not sown correctly. It's essential to get expert advice for optimum success in your garden. In this day-and-age of big-box stores selling gardening supplies, it's tough to get accurate information on planting, care, and harvesting your crops from the big-box store's barely trained workers. The staff at Baker Creek's Seed Bank are experts and there to make your garden a success.
If you're looking to plant an herb garden, the Seed Bank has almost 100 varieties of herbs for medicinal uses, eating, or just for looks. Try your hand at growing the colorful safflower "grenade mix," and your backyard birds will love the oil-rich seeds. These thistle-like flowers bloom in red, white, and yellow adding color to your containers or flower gardens.
Speaking of flowers, the Seed Bank has lovely heirlooms like the Ogrodowy Heliotrope, also known as cherry pie. This fragrant flower was a Victorian-era favorite, and a bouquet of heliotrope was laid on Emily Dickenson's coffin as a proper send-off for the famous author. To help local bees and butterflies try planting the Arcado Pink hyssop. These tall stalks of pink flowers will last from early summer until the first frost of autumn brightening up your garden for weeks after other flowers have faded from memory.
The Seed Bank also sells gardening books to help you solve the mysteries of growing your own. Get guidance from the staff on which books would fit your needs before buying a book that just sits on the shelf unused. If you can't visit the Petaluma Seed Bank, don't fret. Online ordering is easy on their website at www.rareseeds.com. Join the community of heirloom gardeners and maybe even consider being a seed saver to keep these priceless heirlooms growing strong into the next century.
Note that the Seed Bank is moving to 110B Petaluma Blvd N, and the grand opening is April 22, Earth Day.
Kurt Jacobson has been a chef for over 40 years and after being schooled in the U.S. Coast Guard, he trained in many restaurants under both kind and maniac chefs. Kurt is starting his fifth year of container and raised-bed organic gardening. Kurt is a full-time professional freelance travel and food writer. Follow Kurt at www.tasteoftravel2.com.


The adults, or "grown ups," were more interesting in the Catskill summers. Our otherwise serious and demure parents, once at the bungalow colony, seemed astonishingly transformed into creatures of life, light, laughter and mystery. Perhaps this was illusion, or simple misapprehension, as is much that defines a child's understanding. Still, there is no denying the clear truth that from September to June, within the five boroughs of New York City, we seldom witnessed our dads in bathing suits, or riding horses, or playing paddleball, handball, softball, let alone mixing a pitcher of potent potables in a power blender every Saturday afternoon, which they shared with neighbors, imbibed with gusto, and, soon afterwards, seemed to laugh at anything and everything occurring about them, but of which memory they held little just a few moments later.
During the year, in the city, the lives of the moms was primarily an indoor existence—cooking, cleaning and doing wash. In the summer they were rarely in the bungalow. After all, how much housekeeping was required in a tiny three-room shack barren of carpet and mostly jammed full of weary old boardinghouse furniture? Most bungalow colonies included a day camp, and from nine to five each day, save a quick hour for lunch, the moms knew unprecedented freedom. Their hours were passed on the lawn or by the pool, sitting in circular groups and gossiping by the hour about on thing or another, one person or another, almost certainly the last person who had left the group for one reason or another. Or else they were engaged in hot and nasty games of mah-jongg, or canasta, played for small stakes but with an eye for blood and bragging rights. They drank coffee and consumed copious amounts of cake and danish, and occasionally they collaborated on a "pot luck lawn luncheon", where each woman prepared and presented her favorite dish, and there were always a few too many tuna casseroles. There were a few colony moms whose ineptitude in the kitchen was legend, and they'd invariably be consigned to providing soda and paper goods.
Weekday evenings were nothing more than a resumption of the day's activities, so rudely interrupted by the reappearance of children after camp and the responsibility of providing dinner, sometimes acquiesced to the colony concession or coffee shop. When the light had left the sky, and children slipped beneath crisp and cool summer sheets, the evening's vesper was a conglomeration of mah-jongg and card games in random bungalows, each clearly visible by the glow of kitchen lights viewed from outside—each scene tight and cozy and warm, filled with the clacking of ivory tiles, the haze of cigarette smoke and the sometimes raucous laughter produced by women telling each other stories of their lives and loves while their men were a hundred miles away.
For the dads, the summers brought a very different and somewhat odd pattern to their lives. On Monday morning they disappeared, as if by some mysterious mountain magic, exiled to "the city" to toil for the means that made our summers possible. Their reappearance each Friday was as certain as the sun, and we all hold the memory of dad's return warm and close in our hearts. Upon the return, it appears they were determined to pull a week's measure of pleasure from those few fleeting weekend hours.
Fridays, after arrival, and a time spent listening to children's recitations of their week's miracles, the dads shed their city work clothes for casual attire—short sleeved sport shirts, tee shirts, bathing suits, khakis, Bermuda shorts. Then they settled into a sumptuous repast, the traditional Friday night dinner: soup, chopped liver, roasted chickens, kugels, challah. Sometimes there were huge frosty glasses of borscht, the beet drink from the "old country," and schav, a foul smelling, angry looking yellow-green concoction that closely resembled something mom might have dredged from the colony lake.
Afterwards some dads carpooled to Monticello Raceway, hurrying to be on time for something called "the double." Seeing our otherwise staid dads jaunty with the intoxication of horse wagering lent them an air of Runyonesque stardust, and they became our personal Sky Mastersons and Nathan Detroits. Sometimes Friday evenings were for poker or gin, played long into the early morning in a cramped and smoky room off the casino that quickly filled up with dishes and glasses, the dour remains of countless BLT's, roast pork sandwiches, egg creams and sodas.
Regardless of how late, or early in the AM, it was when they finally crawled onto the lumpy bungalow mattress, they were awake and refreshed early Saturday mornings to assemble on the ball-field. Each colony boasted of its men's softball team, and truth be told, the best teams in the mountains were often fielded by the smallest, least populated colonies. In the early and mid 1960's, Friedlander's, a Mountaindale bungalow colony of less than 40 families, dominated the Sullivan County softball schedule. This team was an illustration of just how pivotal could be the impact of one truly remarkable player. Friedlander's superstar was a hulking, smiling giant by the name of Jerry Wasserman, who, when not crushing softballs into the far horizon, was a mild mannered and devoted husband, father and friend, who was, incredibly, a tax accountant. His prowess at bat—where he usually achieved multiple home run games, and often at such distances that the ball was never to be retrieved—along with his broad shoulders and imposing gait earned him the soubriquet of "King Kong." There were stories among the colony kids that King Kong had once signed a contract with the Yankees—or maybe the hated Red Sox—but a nagging knee injury had consigned him to a life of playing footsie with the IRS. Nevertheless, to us, the kids of the colony, he was an authentic hero, better than Mantle or Maris or Musial or Mays, because he was accessible, right there, in the flesh, splashing in the pool, or downing an Orange Crush beside the handball court. There was another rumor, one winter, when Jerry had decided he and his young family were not returning the following summer, that the men of the colony pooled resources and paid for his bungalow, so as to insure another league title. It wasn't until years later I realized that the summer skirmishes these dads had played out with such vigor and verve, were played for more than mere bragging rights—often the colonies had wagered on the outcome, and often not an inconsiderable amount, either. So in gifting his bungalow to King Kong that summer, the dads were simply protecting their investment.
Some of the dads, once exposed to the country and nature and wilderness, inexplicably developed a proclivity for hunting. On Saturday afternoons, after the softball games and lunch, immediately preceding dinner, a small posse of men would hike across the road and up the steep hill, past the chicken coops and garbage dump, into the woods, their trusty .22 rifles at side, where they would go mano-o-mano with such vicious and threatening creatures as rabbits, woodchucks, gophers and the occasional wild turkey. I vividly recall one weekend when my friend Brent's dad returned from his hunt replete with a few rabbits he'd bagged, and instructed his wife to prepare them for dinner. I don't quite recall the complete vignette, but I am quite certain the family that evening dined on something other than the bounty of the hunt, and also recall it was quite a few weeks before Brent's dad rejoined the regular group of hunters and trappers.
There was much else about the grown-ups, our parents that were unique to the summer months. They were less sane and certainly sillier, less staid and more spontaneous, less strict, more slack. Their manner and behavior testified to the mountain's magic, as it silently and skillfully wove its charm amidst all members of the family. This was, after all, a time for vacation and fun, dalliance and silliness, rest and relaxation. In a time before European vacations, and trips to Israel, before cruises to the Caribbean and all inclusive pay-one-price clubs on secluded islands, before Disney World and Six Flags, before state of the art specialized sleep away camps and jaunts to Vegas, the eight fast weeks of summer in the Catskills was the closest any of us was getting to paradise. And while we, the children, reveled and delighted in our freedom and fantasy, we were too preoccupied and distracted to realize that our parents did no less. For many of our parents, their "golden years" are not those that came after retirement, but rather were those wonderful, remarkable, sweet summers, when they were yet young, and their children still small, and life seemed like a story that might never end.


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Chester company debuts new marine crane to be used by Coast Guard
Bill Spurr ([email protected])
Updated: Nov 27, 2020 at 9:30 a.m.
Hawboldt Industries in Chester unveiled what it's calling "the country's most advanced marine crane" on Wednesday.
The HAW66-300K, which Hawboldt maintains is the largest and most complex marine crane ever built in Canada, is designed to protect commercial ships, fishermen, recreational sailors and armed forces personnel at sea.
"What makes this unique for Hawboldt is it's physically so much larger than any crane we've built before; it's five times larger," general manager Dylan Wells said during a demonstration of the crane on Wednesday.
"So, we had to invest in some new testing grounds to actually mount it and pick up the weights that it needed to prove it meets the requirements of the customer's specs."
The HAW66-300K, which can be used at temperatures as low as minus 30, was built to support the Canadian Coast Guard's Aid to Navigation operations. Critical maritime infrastructure, including navigational aids such as buoys, are maintained by the coast guard to assist mariners in locating their position and warn of dangers and obstructions. It's valued somewhere between $2.5 million and $3.5 million.
"This is a milestone moment for our company, for Nova Scotia and for the country. This crane is exceptional," Wells said in a news release.
"It can operate in Arctic conditions and is built to stringent . . . standards to ensure safety while crew are performing lifts offboard the vessel at sea."
The crane has three hoists, weighs 95,000 kilograms and has a reach of 20 metres. Its builder says it can lift navigational buoys and other items up to 28 tonnes.
Hawboldt, which employs 60 people, says it's the only manufacturer in the country making this advanced type of crane, which was built as part of Canada's National Shipbuilding Strategy.
"The construction of equipment like the HAW66-300K will support the work of the coast guard for decades to come," said Wells.
"The NSS enables companies like ours to develop new capabilities to improve our position in the global marine equipment market while providing long-term highly skilled jobs."
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Youth say these kinds of things to themselves all the time, and Lost & Found was begun 13 years ago to give them good answers. The staff and volunteers of work to support, encourage and equip young people to find the answers they need and make choices that lead to good things.
Youth are the priority at Lost & Found. Whether they struggle with family issues, friends, depression, school, drugs & alcohol, or just hard life situations, Lost & Found is ready to walk beside them. We understand how someone can feel lonely, disappointed and just plain hurt… a lot. We also know the power of healthy relationship and encouragement. And the kids might just learn something important while they're having fun!
That pretty much describes what Lost & Found is and our mission!
Lost & Founds plans group activities in various places around town each week. When school is in session we have lunch with the youth at the middle school and high school once a week. There are service projects, tutoring, and open gym time, and sometimes we go to dinner or a movie or even on an overnight adventure like river rafting!
It doesn't cost anything to participate with Lost & Found. Kids can come to any of the groups or activities offered at any time anywhere in town. It's always participation by choice, meaning that kids choose to be at Lost & Found activities, groups and events. No one makes them come. The only thing we ask is that youth follow simple rules: 1) Show respect for everyone in the group in your words and actions; 2) Confidentiality… personal things that are shared in group stay in group; 3) No cross talk. Only one conversation at a time; 4) Check the drama at the door. And if they want to go on outings with Lost & Found, we need a liability waiver signed by a parent or guardian. Click here for a Liability Waiver form.
That's it! We hope kids come hang out with us and check us out… and bring a friend too if they want. Today could be the day that things start to change!
How will I know when things are happening?
We publish a calendar each month so you can just easily check it out to see where you should go and when. Click here for the most recent calendar. You can always check out our Facebook page to find out what's next too. Or, you can call 541.276.3987 or 503.302.9258 to get details and request to enter our closed FB group for live action updates and changes.
Will I have to do things?
Not usually. For instance, on Thursdays at the Rec Center there will be games happening. You can choose to play or just hang out on the side. If there is a discussion, talking in group is not required but you can share what you're comfortable with. There will be some rules that everyone must follow just for safety, but most things you can participate in by choice… or not.
These are opportunities to serve our community in different ways. Most require at least a little effort, but nothing is too strenuous! Sometimes after the work is done, everyone who participated is rewarded with dinner and a movie or a treat! And it's a great feeling to know that we've accomplished something important.
What kinds of special trips could I go on?
We get the chance to do some pretty awesome stuff, from river rafting to skiing, from movies to paintball. These special activities generally take place once a month, so watch the calendar! To earn the privilege of going you usually need to have attended group, do a service project, make sure we have a signed Liability Waiver on file, and give the group leader a paper copy of your grades (during the school year). For some trips there may be different requirements, but you'll know what they are far in advance. We want everyone to be able to qualify to go on these trips!
This sounds like something I'd like to help with.
What could be better than helping youth be successful? Lost & Found is always in need of volunteers to do just that! If you're 18 or older there are many ways to be involved as much or as little as your schedule allows. There are also internship possibilities and even some paid positions available.
It varies depending on your availability and the planned events, but an average is once or twice a week for 2 hours. If you're interested in some of the larger activities and trips the time commitment would change accordingly… but so would your opportunity to build deeper relationships and have a bigger impact with the youth!
Yes. We would love to meet you and give you one to fill out and return! All staff members and volunteers must also have a background check performed for the safety of both the volunteer and the youth.
Lost & Found has to be adaptable to meet the continually changing needs of the youth we serve, but these are the areas in which we most consistently need help.
Extreme Mentors: These are adults who have already committed to living a clean and sober lifestyle. Because we encourage the youth to choose to be substance free and make healthy choices, if the youth see us around town away from Lost & Found activities we want our actions and choices to model what we're advocating for them. Lost & Found prefers all volunteers to be extreme mentors.
Activity Leaders: This is a commitment to coordinate activities such as open gym, life skills groups or big adventures such as kayaking. Do you have a hobby or skill you would like to share? This is the place for that! We would work with you to plan your special activity to have the biggest and best impact for the kids.
Group Co-Facilitator: All groups must have two adults present. The "second" provides an extra set of eyes, ears and hands to bring the group together or help with activities. This could be a commitment of 1 to 4 hours per week, depending on what works best for you. The hours of need are generally between 3 to 5pm throughout the week.
Behind the scenes: There are a variety of other places to serve the youth. We've got equipment that needs attention. We sometimes need 'camp hosts' and cooks, and shoppers and people who really like doing the physical games the kids like to play ☺. Talk to us… there is a place for you!
Lost & Found provides periodic training for volunteers as a group, and also does pre-group briefing. The director would also expect to spend a little one-on-one time with you just to make sure you're comfortable and know what you need to know!
What if I have more money than time to contribute?
That is welcome too! Lost & Founds operates under an IRS 501c3 nonprofit status. The entire program is only possible through grants, in-kind contributions of space and/or goods, and general community support. Continuing pledged donations may easily be made through the United Way of Umatilla and Morrow Counties in the name of Lost & Found Youth Outreach. Contributions may also be mailed to our office at 714 SW Dorion Ave, Suite B, Pendleton, OR 97801. Contributions from local individuals, service groups, businesses, agencies and churches are crucial and make it easier to obtain grants that keep the program in action.
Please contact us any time to get more information!


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Q: Spring Contants will ignore not all upper case field If a class have some public static final fields,
then spring Contants class can help to provide help to these fields.
But for lower case field name,
Contants not handle well.
Java specification suggestion that
we use all upper case for public static final fields name,
but lower case name still valid.
see example:
public class Test {
    public static final int a = 1;
    public static final int B = 2;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        org.springframework.core.Constants constants = new org.springframework.core.Constants(Test.class);
        System.out.println(constants.asNumber("b").intValue()); // line 1
        System.out.println(constants.asNumber("a").intValue()); // line 2
    }
}

line 1 will output 2,
but line 2 will throw ConstantException: Field 'A' not found in class Test

Why does not they compare them case sensitive?

A: Because of convention, compile time constants in Java are always is UPPER_UNDERSCORE. No exceptions.
From the documentation for Constants

Consider class Foo containing public final static int CONSTANT1 = 66; An instance of this class wrapping Foo.class will return the constant value of 66 from its asNumber method given the argument "CONSTANT1".

So while a name in camelCase or (heaven forbid) lower_underscore is valid according to the Java programming language; is it against accepted convention and not to be encouraged.

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The Seabees are building a dormitory for junior high school students in the region. The dormitory will house about 150 boys and girls.
Children in the village's outlying areas currently have no way to attend school. Schooling beyond elementary grades is scarce in this poor land. Roads are also tough to navigate, and few people have money for transportation. Families will be able to bring their promising students to Dikhil, where they will be able to live during the school year.
The project is a joint venture sponsored by Saudi Arabia, the Djiboutian government, and the Horn of Africa servicemembers. "Saudi Arabia donated a steel-beam modular building for the school," Navy Lt. Jorge Cuadros, the project's chief, said. "U.S. Agency for International Development paid to have the cement pads poured, and the Seabees are providing the labor."
The project employs 11 Seabees from Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 7, out of Gulfport, Miss. Some of the sailors lost their homes during Hurricane Katrina. "For many of the Seabees, this is been a very tough year, but they are working well and are motivated by the mission here," Cuadros said.
"We can see the difference every day here," a petty officer with the unit said. "We have an affect on people's lives here."
Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry, from the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kan., provide force protection for the Seabees. "We're really all in this together," one soldier said.
An airman also provides communication to Djibouti City.
Conditions are austere, to say the least. The servicemembers live under the stars atop concrete pads. "It's a small working and living area," Cuadros said.
Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa is sponsoring several such projects all over the Horn of Africa. The command has similar projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, other parts of Djibouti, and Yemen.


Think time is money? Don't kid yourself--it's far more valuable than dollars and cents.
The big lie has been circulating through America for well over a century. You've probably been buying into this enormous lie yourself. If you're a guerrilla, you already know that it is a misguided, whopping lie. Time is not money.
If you run out of money, you can always generate more. If you run out of time, you can never generate more. Time is more beneficial to your life and your business than money ever could be.
e-mail, faxes, cellular phones, pagers, computers . . . it's a long, long list. What does all this have to do with marketing? It has everything to do with it because Americans now revere time above all else, and anything you can do to conserve their time is money in the bank.
If you waste other people's time by taking too much of it or asking them to wait when they're in a hurry, you're not geared for the new value that is placed upon time. The '80s were the Decade of Improved Quality. The '90s are turning out to be the Decade of Time Conservation.
The Gallup Poll, Roper Poll, Harris Poll, and the Universities of Pennsylvania and Maryland conduct surveys to find out what Americans cherish most. In 1988, time went to number one on everyone's list and has stayed there since. The way you conduct your business must be reevaluated in light of saving your customers time.
Speed should be employed at every opportunity: customer service, deliveries, contact with callers, telephone on-hold time, requests for information, and anywhere else you can insert it into your way of doing business.
You can save time for your prospects with postcard mailings, clear brochures, fax-on-demand, and a devotion to convenience. And the more time you spend online, the more shortcuts you'll spot--in communicating, in researching and in networking.
By employing guerrilla marketing weapons such as extended hours, seven-day-a-week operation, toll-free phone numbers, a Web site, e-mail, faxes, speedy delivery, and speed in all you do, you'll be providing the time savings craved by customers and prospects. Will a customer actually desert you for a competitor who can save him time? You can bet your Timex he will.
Guerrilla marketing by definition means investing in marketing with your time, energy and imagination rather than merely your money. The time you invest making phone calls to key customers, giving talks to groups, writing articles, making PR first-name-basis contacts, shining at trade shows, and training your sales and service people will be time that will pay far richer dividends than money.
customers' and your prospects' precious time, and you'll be operating in guerrilla fashion.


A new or used vehicle bought (or leased) from a dealership will almost certainly include the registration and ownership transfer to be handled by the dealer. The dealer may also offer insurance contracts (it is a legal requirement for all vehicles to be insured. Because 21% IVA is applicable to all new cars it is usually attractive for those that are self employed (autonomo) to buy a new vehicle and reclaim some of the IVA.
Used cars are widely available from dealers or private sellers.
The buyer must apply for the renewal of the vehicle's registration document at the local traffic department (Jefatura de Tráfico) within 30 days of purchase.
In an effort to try to get some of the less environmentally efficient cars off the road, the spanish government has been running a scheme known as the Prever Plan since 1 january 2004: the government will contribute to the cost of the new car when an old vehicle is traded in against a new one. It is worth asking at your car dealership for more information.
There is a person I know who has brought a car over to Spain from the UK in May 2016 it is still on UK plates - surely this is illegal ? Who do you inform ?
Mr Stone : If by "New" you mean "Brand new, from the dealer", then this should not be necessary, as it will be done for you as a first registration of the vehicle.
However, if "New to you" (and therefore a used car), this can be done for you by almost every Gestor, and a few specialist agencies who charge quite reasonable prices. Generally they are located very close to the Offices of the Jefatura (where they can do your transaction in person), however they can liaise with you over the phone or by post.


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why cant i get my pics up on here ?
grading,,,whats that all about then?
why cant i post an advert on tackle exchange!
Can I cancel my Renewal?
Been a member since 2001 - can't login anymore?
Was it only me ?
now who wants a ban?
you cant click on "currentley active users" anymore?
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This is the Season for Shopping
November 10, 2018 – Hannah Francesca M. Arcenal
While Christmas is just a month away, early preparations for the holidays has begun. Christmas lights and decorations are being put up as well as Christmas tree lightings in different malls and establishments are held as early as now. Even more, Filipinos have started with their early Christmas shopping for gifts as part of the huge preparation for the most awaited day of the year.
While shopping at malls is part of the preparation for the upcoming holidays, online shopping is a whole new conventional way to shop for gifts which does not involve traffic jams, long lines, and going outside of your comfortable homes. What makes online shopping so convenient is that anyone can shop anywhere.
Last November 8, one of the biggest distribution companies in the Philippines, the Primer Group of Companies partners with Lazada to bring some of its top and premium brands closer to its customers.
Lazada is one of the largest online shopping and selling destination in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, and partnering with Primer Group will make it easier to cater its products to Filipinos.
"As Primer Group continues to venture into e-commerce, we are ecstatic and proud to partner with Lazada. We believe that this collaboration will be mutually beneficial for both of us, such that we can both continue to deliver superior customer experience to online shoppers here and abroad," Vice President for Philippine Retail Brand and Marketing Group Paul Sy expressed.
From left to right: Ryan Feng, Accounts Management Head - Arriva; Sultan Joson, Director - Cloud Logic; Jun Uy, Managing Director - Philgear International Inc.; Yohan Yao, Head of Arriva Southeast Asia; Emma Chavarot, Chief Business Officer, Lazada: Jimmy Thai, President and Chief Executive Officer, Primer Group of Companies; Paul Sy,Vice President for Philippine Retail Brand and Marketing Group, Primer Group of Companies; Toti Wong, Head of Arriva Philippines; and Nicole Villanueva, Director - LazMall Fashion.
With this newly-formed alliance of Lazada and Primer Group, special discounts awaits for online shoppers at the the much-awaited Lazada Shopping Festival on November 11, 2018.
"This is a very strong partnership between Lazada and Primer Group. We're glad to be chosen by the Primer Group as their platform to keep up with technology, particularly e-commerce. Primer's brands have been our top sellers in LazMall, and we're sure that their participation in Lazada's 11.11 Shopping Festival will continue to delight online shoppers, given Primer's wide assortment of quality brands and products," said Emma Chavarot, Lazada Chief Business Officer.
Lazada, being Southeast Asia's biggest eCommerce platform, will boast more than 80 million local and international products for shoppers to choose from. This includes brands which Primer Group distributes, such as FitFlop, Fox, Hedgren, Herschel, JanSport, Native, Salomon, The North Face, Travelon and World Traveller.
"This is just the beginning of Primer Group and Lazada's partnership. Watch out for exciting deals from Primer Group in Lazada in the coming days, beginning with the 11.11 Shopping Festival! We look forward to more exciting episodes in this huge collaboration. Together, we can strive for the best and conquer the online world," exclaimed Toti Wong, Head of Arriva Philippines, Primer Group's e-commerce arm.
Christmas is truly just around the corner as the season of giving and shopping begins with Lazada's 11.11 Shopping Festival for every Filipino shopper to enjoy.
So be sure to be online this November 11 and enjoy discounts from Lazada!


Just how loud is your college campus? No, we are not talking about your neighbors. We are asking the question in a broader sense to determine how loud a college campus gets given its geographic location. Whether you are thinking about attending a state university or private college, understanding the noise levels in your community will help you better navigate life in and around campus.
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently published an interactive map answering the very question at hand. The map uses a 24-hour equivalent sound level noise metric that includes all overt and ambient noise at a defined noise receptor. The noise levels shown on the map denote an approximate average noise energy produced from road transportation and aviation along with other noise-producing modalities. The interactive map data is culled from a number of different government agencies from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) to the FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) to triangulate noise for a given locale.
Which city was ranked highest for noise?
If you guessed the city with the highest noise rating was Los Angeles, you would be correct. The map below gives users a quick overview of the greater Los Angeles area where the deep red hue indicates the highest levels of noise. According to NPR, Los Angeles was ranked first in the nation for traffic congestion resulting in an additional 170 hours spent sitting in traffic.
Noise energy created in and around Los Angeles California.
One of the next highest areas of noise is around New York. The map below illustrates the noise levels for various parts of the city given the aggregated information from various government agencies.
Noise index for the greater New York area.
How much noise does your college campus generate?
To find out, simply utilize the USDOT's interactive map to help figure out the noise energy being produced in and around your campus. A noise index can be used by current and prospective college students to assess variables involved in their college experience. Much like the utilization of a WalkScore, the USDOT's interactive noise map is another tool available at your disposal.
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After a successful year as the re-branded Office 365 Saturday, the conference series formerly known as SharePoint Saturday is back for its tour of Australia in 2016!
As always, 3grow will be sponsoring each of the 6 legs of the Australian series, and I will also be presenting at all of them too. These awesome events are free to attend, you get a free lunch, and you could even win a prize by simply providing your feedback on the sessions you attended on the day… such as a half-price training voucher or an Xbox!
*Please note that registration may not be open until nearer the time, but I will be posting updates prior to each event on this blog, as well as our Facebook and Twitter pages.
I missed last year's Perth event, so this year I will be delivering the Content Types session I ran at the other 2015 events. This was very well received, as Content Types are typically very under-utilised due to a lack of understanding, so the session attendees really found it useful to have this topic explained properly! So if you're in Perth on 7th May, make the effort to get down to a great event.


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App Helps Prevent Rollovers, Brake Fade on Grades
June 27, 2019 • by Jim Park
Drivers often rely too heavily on their service brakes when descending long grades, rather than using engine brakes only and saving the service brakes for emergencies.
Photo: Jim Park
How fast should drivers be going when descending long mountain grades or rounding sharp curves? The short answer is much slower than most drivers do, but it's not easy to determine a safe speed. Signage is generally unhelpful, as it often applies to passenger cars. And since every load is different, there's little point to posting specific recommendations that will be seen as too slow by some and too fast by others.
A company called Road-Aware Safety Systems may have the correct answer. Over the past couple of years, the company has been developing an application that can calculate a safe speed for trucks on curves and slopes based on actual road conditions and vehicle configuration. It began with a data collection exercise where the app was installed in about a dozen trucks that ran regularly over some very challenging terrain.
"Data we collected over that six-month period revealed that not some, but all observed drivers ran perilously close to their vehicle tip-over thresholds on the curves and well above full engine-brake speeds on slopes," says Road-Aware Managing Director Garth Lawrence.
Road-Aware is a tablet-based application that gives drivers advanced warnings and maximum safe-speed recommendations so they can safely navigate difficult road segments. The app provides those recommendations by combining GPS location and accurate three-dimensional road geometry data with actual vehicle dynamics – truck configuration and load. These are not arbitrary suggestions, but engineering-based calculations.
Estimating proper speed on long grades is difficult because of vague signage and possibly over-confidence in the equipment.
Lawrence, who comes from the mapping industry, had recently completed an unrelated project making highly detailed terrain maps of much of the U.S. He had gathered precise data on elevations and grades as well as roadway curve radii, which he layered over detailed GPS maps to create an extensive and highly accurate map database.
"We knew there was an issue within the trucking industry of drivers operating too fast on some curves and slopes," Lawrence says. "My partner, an engineer named Brian Bullock, looked at the equations for roll-over thresholds and stopping speeds on slopes and concluded we could help solve this problem. That's when we started work on Road-Aware."
Historically, driver have descended grades and taken sharp curves by the seat of their pants, Lawrence says. There's little guidance from road signs. "Typically, road signage advises drivers to slow down, but the signs provide no other details. They certainly don't take vehicle dynamics and brake performance into account. Consequently, drivers do not take them seriously."
When braking on long slopes, drivers understand the need to reduce speed but are operating under a false sense of security. They underuse their engine brakes and snub or drag the service brake to check speed increases. This inevitably increases brake temperature, which reduces the brakes' stopping power – known as brake fade. Like the 100 times the driver may have descended that hill previously, they are still under control and still have some service braking capability left, but it's seriously diminished. If on the 101st time down the hill an animal steps onto the road or they run into stopped traffic, the ability to stop is jeopardized.
As Yale sociologist Charles Perrow puts it, "Murphy's Law is wrong – what can go wrong usually goes right." But then one day a few of the bad choices come together, and history and previous experience go right out the window.
"In the case of a tight curve, the roll-over event begins at the rear of the trailer, and drivers are not aware that their loaded trailers are at the edge of stability on these curves," Lawrence points out. "The tractor feels stable at these speeds because it has a lower center of gravity and thus the tip-over threshold speed is much higher than the trailer. The feeling of being stable coupled with familiarity of the route leads to average speeds creeping up, until there is no room for errors or needed adjustments."
Develop and Test the Theory
While developing Road-Aware, Lawrence partnered with an Arizona-based mine-hauling carrier to collect data from a portion of its fleet that hauls liquid and powdered material in bulk tankers to and from various mine sites in the state – some of which are located in challenging environments.
In the fall of 2018, Lawrence installed tablets in 10 tractors operated by experienced drivers operating on routes with tight curves and steep descents. Over 1,000 runs across eight difficult road segments were recorded and analyzed during the trial. A total of 261 runs were collected with the system operating in the background (collecting data) to establish baseline data. Another 768 run were used to review driver behavior with Road-Aware active.
To determine the maximum speed that drivers should be driving on certain tight curves, the trucks were measured and analyzed for the center of gravity, the compliance effects of springs, tires, undercarriage, etc., to determine the static roll threshold for each fully loaded trailer. Using the radius of various curves, the roll-threshold could be calculated and a recommended speed displayed on the tablet.
During the course of the study, there was one opportunity to validate the calculations when a rollover occurred in a curve on an active mine property. The truck was loaded with approximately 25 tons of ore concentrate. Based on calculations, the roll-over threshold speed at the crash site was determined to be 29 to 33 mph. Information from the truck's GPS tracking system indicated the speed 100 feet before the rollover occurred was 34 mph.
Downhill Braking
Driving heavily loaded trucks on steep 6-8% grades presents obvious risks -- on top of higher brake maintenance costs for fleets. While running the Road-Aware trial last fall, Lawrence observed drivers using incorrect downhill driving techniques, namely snubbing their brakes to maintain speed, rather than using only the engine brake and saving the service brakes for possible emergency stops.
"In about half of the slope runs, drivers reduced their speed by using brake snubbing to slow the truck, but even that did not get down to the recommended safe descent speed," Lawrence says. "Many times, we saw drivers running 20 mph or more over the recommended safe descent speed, driving right past a runaway truck ramp that the Arizona DOT says is used about twice a week by runaway trucks. For some reason, drivers seem more willing to accept 'advice' regarding speed in curves, but they are much more cavalier about slopes."
The Road-Aware app provides driver with a warning when approaching a sharp curve or a steep slope showing the vehicle's actual speed and the recommended speed, based on calculated vehicle dynamics and the geometry of the road.
Photo: RoadAware
Again, Lawrence puts some of the problem down to the vague warnings drivers see urging them to slow down or use a lower gear, some of it to complacency and to some extent over-confidence in their equipment, but it could be a shortcoming in the CDL training as well.
Most truck driving schools in the U.S. do not teach mountain driving as part of the basic curriculum, and the information in the CDL manual is vague and incomplete. Drivers learn what they can get away with in terms of speed, but they really are not aware of how close to the edge of the envelope they might be.
"We found on curves, when we began displaying the maximum recommended speed, everybody dropped their speed, which was very encouraging," he says. "What we saw on slopes, is that they seem to believe as long as they have their service brakes everything will work out okay. Clearly there's an issue going down these slopes that those drivers really aren't aware of.
"In about half the slope runs we recorded drivers reduced their speed by using brake snubbing to slow the truck but did not reach the recommended safe descent speed," Lawrence said. "Many times, we saw drivers running +20 mph over the recommended safe descent speed, driving right by a runaway ramp site."
Reviewing CDL training material and the driver operating manuals for the trucks the fleet operated, Lawrence found some inconsistent messages regarding braking techniques.
The CDL manual references the snubbing method as "a supplement to the braking effect of the engine," while never mentioning the use of an engine brake device, such as a Jacobs compression brake. The brake-snubbing technique increases brake temperature, increases wear, and increases risk when having to make an unexpected stop on the hill for wildlife, for example, or a disabled vehicle.
"Driver manuals in the trucks we looked at advised drivers to stay at a speed that allowed the engine brake only to slow the truck, and not to use the service brakes at all," Lawrence notes. "That speed would of course vary with the weight of the truck and the steepness of the grade, but the emphasis should be on striving to not need to use the service brakes at all, just the engine brake to control the descent speed."
As before, with a little engineering and a few calculations, Road-Aware was able to calculate an "engine-brake-only" descent speed, based on the weight of the truck and the engine's retarding capability. When presented to driver, they got feedback such as "I'm a professional, you can't tell me how to drive," and "going that slow will add time to my trip." In fact, slowing down did add time to the trip. About two and a half minutes, the data revealed.
The Road-Aware App
The apparent utility of an app like Road-Aware is that it's based on actual road geometry real vehicle dynamics. Brian Bullock, the engineer behind Road-Aware, told Truckinginfo.com that the app in its current form – at this point a dedicated fleet app built around the fleet's specific needs – will be available this summer.
"We have focused on bulk haulers up to this point,and we're confident in our vehicle dynamics calculations and the road geometry data," Bullock says. "We can further customize the application for any type of bulk trailer and tractor combination with accurate engine torque and horsepower data and engine-brake retarding capability."
The in-cab display turns from yellow to red when a change of speed is immediately required.
An expanded version that includes all Class 1 and Class 2 highways in the U.S. with customizable truck and load configurations should be available in about a year's time.
"It's a highly customizable application where a fleet can plug its own data in, such as type of tractor, engine ratings and trailer configurations – dry van, flatbed, livestock, bulk, etc., as well as the load characteristics, such as weight and high, medium or low center-of-gravity," he says. "We can even set it up to be fleet- or terminal-specific. Once we have the data on the fleet and what it does, we simply load it into the backside of the app."
The application also features full reporting capabilities so fleets can monitor drivers' performance. A scorecard is in the works to help fleets evaluate drivers and identify problems before they turn into calamities.
It's cross-platform compatible, and functions on Apple, Android and Windows smartphones and tablets. Road-Aware will offer the app as a standalone product, but the company is also in talks with other telematics providers to have it included in their offerings and to the OEM directly to have it installed at the factory.
For more information, visit www.road-aware.com.
Related: What Went Wrong in Colorado's Deadly Truck Crash?
Originally posted on Trucking Info
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Fiske's Idea of God, (discussed by Moore) Lux Mundi (ed 1) pp. 95-102
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This doctrine of the omnipresence of God, as conceived by religion, had however yet to be fused with the philosophical doctrine of immanence. And here again the fusion was effected by the Christian doctrine of God, as Trinity in Unity. The earlier Apologists concern themselves first with the vindica- tion of the Divine attributes. God's separateness from the world as against Greek Pantheism, His omnipresence in it as against a Judaising deism. But the union of God's transcendence with His immanence, and with it the fusion of the religious with the philosophic idea of God, is only consciously completed by the Doctrine of the Trinity l . The dying words of Plotinus, expressing as they did the problem of his life, are said to have been, ' I am striving to bring the God which is within into harmony with the God which is in the universe.' And the unsolved problem of Neo-Platonism, which is also the unsolved problem of non-Christian philosophy in our day, is met by the Christian doctrine of God. All and more than all that philosophy and science can demand, as to the immanence of reason in the universe, and the rational coherence of all its parts, is included in the Christian teaching : nothing which religion requires as to God's separateness from the world, which He has made, is left unsatisfied. The old familiar Greek term which, from the days of Heracleitus, had meant to the Greek the rational unity and balance of the world, is taken up by S. John, by S. Clement, by S. Athanasius, and given a meaning which those who started from the Philonian position never reached. It is the personal Word, God of God, the Only Begotten of the Father, who is one in the Holy Spirit with the Father. ' The Word was God.' 'By Him all things were made.' 'He the All-powerful, All-holy Word of the Father spreads His power over all things everywhere, enlightening things seen and unseen, holding and binding all together in Himself.
The Religion of the Incarnation. Nothing is left empty of His presence, but to all things and through all, severally and collectively, He is the giver and sustainer of life. . . . He, the Wisdom of God, holds the universe like a lute, and keeps all things in earth and air and heaven in tune together. He it is Who binding all with each, and ordering all things by His will and pleasure, produces the perfect unity of nature, and the harmonious reign of law. While He abides unmoved for ever with the Father, He yet moves all things by His own appointment according to the Father's will V The unity of nature is, thus, no longer the abstract motionless simplicity of Being, which had been so powerless to explain the metaphysical problems of Greece. It is the living Omnipresent Word, coeternal and consubstantial with the Father, and the philosophical truth becomes an integral part of that Christian doctrine of God, which, while it safeguarded religion and satisfied reason, had won its first and greatest victories in the field of morals.
The Christian doctrine of God triumphed over heathen morality and heathen speculation neither by unreasoning protest nor by unreal compromise, but by taking up into itself all that was highest and truest in both. Why then is this Christian idea of God challenged in our day 1 Have we outgrown the Christian idea of God, so that it cannot claim and absorb the new truths of our scientific age 1 If not, with the lessons of the past in our mind, we may confidently ask, What fuller unfolding of the revelation of Himself has God in store for us, to be won, as in the past, through struggle and seeming antagonism?
The fact that the Christian Theology is now openly challenged by reason is obvious enough. It almost seems as if, in our intellectual life, we were passing through a transition analogous to that which, in the moral region, issued in the Reformation. Even amongst those who believe that Christian morality is true, there are to be found those who have convinced themselves that we have intellectually outgrown the Christian Faith. ' The only God,' we have been told lately, 'whom Western Europeans, with a Christian ancestry of a thousand years behind them, can worship, is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ; or rather, of S. Paul, S. Augustine and S. Bernard, and of the innumerable " blessed saints," canonized or not, who peopled the ages of Faith. No one wants, no one can care for, an abstract God, an Unknowable, an Absolute, with whom we stand in no human or intelligible relation.' ' God, as God,' says Feuerbach, 'the infinite, universal, non-anthropomorphic being of the understanding, has no more significance in religion than a fundamental general principle has for a special science ; it is merely the ultimate point of support, as it were, the mathematical point of religion.' Yet it is assumed that this is all that remains to us, and we are left in the following dilemma,' An anthropomorphic God is the only God whom men can worship, and also the God whom modern thought finds it increasingly difficult to believe in.'
In such a state of things it is natural that men should turn to pantheism as a sort of middle term between religion and philosophy, and even claim, for the unity of the world, the venerable name and associations of God. But the remarkable thing is that in the numberless attempts to attack, or defend, or find a substitute for Theism, the Christian, or Trinitarian, teaching about God rarely appears upon the scene. Devout Christians have come to think of the doctrine of the Trinity, if not exactly as a distinct revelation, yet as a doctrine necessary for holding the divinity of Christ, without sacrificing the unity of God. Ordinary people take it for granted that Trinitarianism is a sort of extra demand made on Christian faith, and that the battle must really be fought out on the Unitarian basis. If Unitarian theism can be defended, it will then be possible to go farther and accept the doctrine of the Trinity. It is natural that when Christians take this ground, those who have ceased to be Christian suppose that, though Christianity is no longer tenable, they may still cling to 'Theism,' and even perhaps, under cover of that nebulous term, make an alliance not only with Jews and Mahommedans, but with at least the more religious representatives of pan- theism. It is only our languid interest in speculation or a philistine dislike of metaphysics, that makes such an un- intelligent view possible. Unitarianism said its last word in the pre-Christian and early Christian period, and it failed, as it fails now, to save religion except at the cost of reason. So far from the doctrine of the Trinity being, in Mr. Gladstone's unfortunate phrase, ' the scaffolding of a purer theism,' non- Christian monotheism was the ' scaffolding ' through which already the outlines of the future building might be seen. For the modern world, the Christian doctrine of God remains as the only safeguard in reason for a permanent theistic belief.
It is not difficult to see how it is that this truth is not more generally recognised. The doctrine of the Trinity, by which the Christian idea of God absorbed Greek speculation into it- self, had but little point d' appui in the unmetaphysical western world. It bore the imprimatur of the Church ; it was easily deducible from the words of Holy Scripture ; it was seen to be essential to the holding of the divinity of Christ. But men forgot that the doctrine was ' addressed to the reason;' and so its metaphysical meaning and value were gradually lost sight of. In the days of the mediaeval Papacy, ecclesiastical were more effective than metaphysical weapons, and Scholasticism knew so much about the deepest mysteries of God, that it almost provoked an agnostic reaction, in the interests of reverence and intellectual modesty. With the Reformation came the appeal to the letter of Holy Scripture, personal God, and the age of biblical, as contrasted with scientific, theology. The only scientific theology of the Reformation period was the awful and immoral system of John Calvin, rigorously deduced from a one-sided truth.
Then came the age of physical science. The break up of the mediaeval system of thought and life resulted in an atomism, which, if it had been more perfectly consistent with itself, would have been fatal alike to knowledge and society. Translated into science it appeared as mechanism in the Baconian and Cartesian physics : translated into politics it appeared as rampant individualism, though combined by Hobbes with Stuart absolutism. Its theory of knowledge was a crude empiricism ; its theology unrelieved deism. God was ' throned in magnificent inactivity in a remote corner of the universe,' and a machinery of ' second causes ' had practically taken His place. It was even doubted, in the deistic age, whether God's delegation of His power was not so absolute as to make it impossible for Him to ' interfere ' with the laws of nature. The question of miracles became the burning question of the day, and the very existence of God was staked on His power to interrupt or override the laws of the universe. Meanwhile His immanence in nature, the ' higher pantheism,' which is a truth essential to true religion, as it is to true philosophy, fell into the background.
Slowly but surely that theory of the world has been undermined. The one absolutely impossible conception of God, in the present day, is that which represents Him as an occasional Visitor. Science had pushed the deist's God farther and farther away, and at the moment when it seemed as if He would be thrust out altogether, Darwinism appeared, and, under the disguise of a foe, did the work of a friend. It has conferred upon philosophy and religion an inestimable benefit, by shewing us that we must choose between two alternatives. Either God is everywhere present in nature, or He is nowhere. He cannot be here and not there. He cannot delegate His power to demigods called ' second causes In nature everything must be His work or nothing. We must frankly return to the Christian view of direct Divine agency, the immanence of Divine power in nature from end to end, the belief in a God in Whom not only we, but all things have their being, or we must banish Him altogether. It seems as if, in the providence of God, the mission of modern science was to bring home to our unmetaphysical ways of thinking the great truth of the Divine immanence in creation, which is not less essential to the Christian idea of God than to a philosophical view of nature. And it comes to us almost like a new truth, which we cannot at once fit it in with the old.
Yet the conviction that the Divine immanence must be for our age, as for the Athanasian age, the meeting point of the religious and philosophic view of God is shewing itself in the most thoughtful minds on both sides. Our modes of thought are becoming increasingly Greek, and the flood, which in our day is surging up against the traditional Christian view of God, is prevailingly pantheistic in tone. The pantheism is not less pronounced because it comes as the last word of a science of nature, for the wall which once separated physics from metaphysics has given way, and positivism, when it is not the paralysis of reason, is but a temporary resting-place, preparatory to a new departure. We are not surprised then, that one who, like Professor Fiske, holds that 'the infinite and eternal Power that is manifested in every pulsation of the universe is none other than the living God/and who vindicates the belief in a final cause because he cannot believe that ' the Sustainer of the universe will put us to permanent intellectual confusion,' should instinctively feel his kinship with Athanasianism, and vigorously contend against the view that any part of the universe is' Godless.
Unfortunately, however, the rediscovery of the truth of God's immanence in nature, coming, as it has done, from the side of a scientific theory, which was violently assailed by the official guardians of the Faith, has resulted for many in the throwing aside of the counter and conditioning truth, which saves religion from pantheism. It seemed as if traditional Christianity were bound up with the view that God is wholly separate from the world and not immanent in it. And Professor Fiske has been misled into the belief that S. Augustine is responsible for that false view. It is almost incredible to anyone, who has read any of S. Augustine's writings, that, according to this view, he has to play the role of the unintelligent and unphilosophical deist, who thinks of God as ' a crudely anthropomorphic Being, far removed from the universe and accessible only through the mediating offices of an organized church.' And not only is S. Augustine represented as a deist, but S. Athanasius is made a pantheist, and the supposed conflict between science and religion is, we are told, really the conflict between Athanasian and Augustinian ideas of God. Yet, as a matter of fact, S. Athanasius and S. Augustine both alike held the truths which deism and pantheism exaggerate into the destruction of religion. If S. Athanasius says, ' The Word of God is not contained by anything, but Himself contains all things. . . . He was in everything and was outside all beings, and was at rest in the Father alone: ' S. Augustine says, ' The same God is wholly everywhere, contained by no space, bound by no bonds, divisible into no parts, mutable in no part of His being, filling heaven and earth by the presence of His power. Though nothing can exist without Him, yet nothing is what He is.
The Christian doctrine of God, in Athanasian days, triumphed where Greek philosophy failed. It accepted the challenge of Greek thought, it recognised the demands of the speculative reason, and found in itself the answer which, before the collision with Hellenism, it unconsciously possessed. It is challenged again by the metaphysics of our day. We may be wrong to speculate at all on the nature of God, but it is not less true now than in the first centuries of Christianity, that, for those who do speculate, a Unitarian, or Arian, or Sabellian theory is as impossible as polytheism. If God is to be Personal, as religion requires, metaphysics demands still a distinction in the Unity which unitarianism is compelled to deny. But, further, the Christian doctrine of God is challenged by the science of nature. Science, imperiously and with increasing confidence, demands a unity in nature which shall be not external but immanent, giving rationality and coherence to all that is, and justifying the belief in the universal reign of law. But this immanence of God in nature Unitarian theism cannot give, save at the price of losing itself in pantheism. Deistic it might be, as it was in the last century ; deistic it can be no longer, unless it defiantly rejects the truth which science is giving us, and the claims which the scientific reason makes.


Q: Where can I find information I need about my criminal case?
A: We do not have information about individual criminal cases. Contact the court in the county where your case is being heard and ask them for any information you need about your case. If you have a lawyer, you should contact your lawyer or the public defender in your county.
Q: What is bail or bond?
A: "Bail" is money or property that a defendant puts up as a promise to return for future court dates. When setting the amount of bail, the judge takes into account the seriousness of the crime, whether the defendant is a risk to the community, and whether he or she is a "flight risk" and likely to run away.
With a pledge of property (if the court allows it).
With a bail bond, which requires only a portion of the bail amount set by the judge. Usually, a professional bail bondsman is paid 10 percent of the bail amount and the bondsman then promises the court that he or she will pay the remainder of the bail if the defendant fails to appear at future court dates.
Once the bail is exonerated—meaning that the prosecutor decided not to move forward with the case and the case was dismissed, or the defendant won (was found to be not guilty), or the defendant lost and has been placed in prison or county jail—the bail bondsman must release all collateral (property) used to secure the bail. It is important to get a release of lien from the bondsman on any real estate you pledged for the bond.
If the defendant fails to appear and the bail bondsman must pay the court the full amount of the bail, anyone who cosigned or pledged collateral (property) for the bail can lose the collateral and/or be sued for the money the bail bondsman had to pay to the court. This is why it is very risky to post bail for someone, especially if you cannot be absolutely certain the defendant will come to court.
Q: I am a crime victim. Can I get money from the person who hurt me?
A: You may be able to recover for some of your losses. You can ask the court to order someone to pay "restitution." There is also a State Restitution Fund for victims of violent crime.
Also contact the Victim/Witness Assistance Center in your county.
Instructions: Order for Restitution and Abstract of Judgment (Form CR-112/JV-792).
Q: How can I find out if the defendant has assets so I can collect restitution?
A: You can ask the judge to order the defendant to fill out a Defendant's Statement of Assets (Form CR-115). Form CR-117 has Instructions: Defendant's Statement of Assets.
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Q: Recursive query to get totals by distinct item from a row of a data I have SQL data that looks like the following:
ResultId    HomeTeam    HomeScore   AwayTeam    AwayScore
1045        USA         2           France      3
1046        USA         1           Botswana    1
1047        Botswana    2           France      2

How can I recurse through this data to get total wins, draws, losses by team for both home and away?  My output would look something like:
Team        Wins        Draws      Losses
USA         0           1          1
France      1           1          0
Botswana    0           2          0

I was able to get this done in a very linear way by simply get a list of distinct teams and for each team looping through the data and tallying the win, draw, loss total and aggregating that into variables. However, I imagine there may be a different way to accomplish this.

A: You don't need recursion here, you can just unpivot the Home and Away sides, then group by the Team and do conditional aggregation
SELECT
  v.Team,
  Wins   = COUNT(CASE WHEN ScoreDiff > 0 THEN 1 END),
  Draws  = COUNT(CASE WHEN ScoreDiff = 0 THEN 1 END),
  Losses = COUNT(CASE WHEN ScoreDiff < 0 THEN 1 END)
FROM Matches
CROSS APPLY (VALUES
    (HomeTeam, HomeScore - AwayScore),
    (AwayTeam, AwayScore - HomeScore)
) v(Team, ScoreDiff)
GROUP BY
  v.Team;

Team
Wins
Draws
Losses

Botswana
0
1
0

DRC
0
1
0

France
1
1
0

USA
0
1
1

db<>fiddle

A: There is a more straightforward solution by combining outputs of two queries using Union All, where the first query processes the results of matches for "HomeTeam", and the second for "AwayTeam".
Select Team, Sum(Wins), Sum(Draws), Sum(Losses)
From (
Select HomeTeam As Team,
       Sum(Iif(HomeScore>AwayScore, 1, 0)) As Wins,
       Sum(Iif(HomeScore=AwayScore, 1, 0)) As Draws,
       Sum(Iif(HomeScore<AwayScore, 1, 0)) As Losses
From Tbl
Group by HomeTeam
Union All
Select AwayTeam As Team,
       Sum(Iif(AwayScore>HomeScore, 1, 0)) As Wins,
       Sum(Iif(AwayScore=HomeScore, 1, 0)) As Draws,
       Sum(Iif(AwayScore<HomeScore, 1, 0)) As Losses
From Tbl
Group by AwayTeam) As T
Group By Team
Order by Team

A: Check this, should work in most cases.
(select Matches.HomeTeam Team,
sum(case when a.HomeResult='Win' Then 1 else 0 end) Win,
sum(case when a.HomeResult='Loss' Then 1 else 0 end) Loss,
sum(case when a.HomeResult='Draw' Then 1 else 0 end) Draw
from
(select ResultId,
case
 when HomeScore>AwayScore then 'Win'
 when HomeScore=AwayScore then 'Draw'
 else 'Loss'
end as HomeResult,
case
 when HomeScore>AwayScore then 'Loss'
 when HomeScore=AwayScore then 'Draw'
 else 'Win'
end as AwayResult
from Matches) a join Matches on Matches.ResultId=a.ResultId group by HomeTeam)
Union
(select Matches.AwayTeam Team,
sum(case when a.AwayResult='Win' Then 1 else 0 end) Win,
sum(case when a.AwayResult='Loss' Then 1 else 0 end) Loss,
sum(case when a.AwayResult='Draw' Then 1 else 0 end) Draw
from
(select ResultId,
case
 when HomeScore>AwayScore then 'Win'
 when HomeScore=AwayScore then 'Draw'
 else 'Loss'
end as HomeResult,
case
 when HomeScore>AwayScore then 'Loss'
 when HomeScore=AwayScore then 'Draw'
 else 'Win'
end as AwayResult
from Matches) a join Matches on Matches.ResultId=a.ResultId group by AwayTeam)


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package com.sadaqaworks.quranprojects.activity;

import android.app.FragmentManager;
import android.os.Bundle;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar;

import com.sadaqaworks.quranprojects.R;
import com.sadaqaworks.quranprojects.fragment.TafsirFragment;

/** Created by Sadmansamee on 8/20/15. */
public class TafsirActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
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    Toolbar toolbar = findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
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    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

    Bundle bundle = this.getIntent().getExtras();

    if (savedInstanceState == null) {
      FragmentManager fragmentManager = getFragmentManager();

      fragmentManager
          .beginTransaction()
          .replace(R.id.main_container, TafsirFragment.newInstance(bundle))
          .commit();
    }
  }
}

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Follow up your brisket dinner with peach cobbler, the most Texan dessert known to man. Austin was one of the first cities to embrace the farm-to-table movement and, in true Austin fashion, Jack Allen's Kitchen (7720 W. Hwy. 71, plus three more locations), serves fresh peach cobbler made from ingredients from local farms. Other outstanding takes on the Southern home-cooked style dessert can be found at Iron Works Barbecue (100 Red River) and Country Boyz Fixins (4140 E. 12th St.).
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. Retailers around the country last week notified their customers of a massive recall of fresh and frozen ground-turkey products after dozens of people were sickened by an antibiotic-resistant strain of Salmonella. The recall at 36 million pounds, one of the largest meat recalls in history, according to reports was initiated by Cargill Meat Solutions, and appeared to originate in a
Donna Boss 1 | Aug 08, 2011
SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Retailers around the country last week notified their customers of a massive recall of fresh and frozen ground-turkey products after dozens of people were sickened by an antibiotic-resistant strain of Salmonella.
The recall — at 36 million pounds, one of the largest meat recalls in history, according to reports — was initiated by Cargill Meat Solutions, and appeared to originate in a processing plant here. Illnesses thought to be related to the outbreak began appearing in March, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As of late last week, the antibiotic-resistant Salmonella had infected 79 people and caused one death, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Services.
Cargill said it issued the recall due to an internal investigation, as well as investigations by FSIS and CDC.
FSIS noted that recalled products have the establishment number "P-963" inside the USDA mark of inspection.
Kroger Co., Cincinnati, issued a statement explaining that ground turkey products under the Honeysuckle White and Kroger store-brand labels were sold in Kroger-owned stores in states throughout the country, with the exception of some areas in the Pacific Northwest. The company said it removed the product from its shelves and placed signs in its stores, and said it would notify customers who purchased the products through automated telephone calls and/or receipt messages.
It also reminded customers of proper handling procedures.
"Consumers are reminded that proper handling, storage and cooking of ground turkey offers the best protection against foodborne illness," the company said. "According to the USDA, when ground turkey is thoroughly cooked to an internal temperature of no less than 165 degrees, any harmful bacteria are destroyed and the ground turkey is safe to consume."
As of late last week, Michigan and Ohio had the highest number of cases of Salmonella poisoning, with 10 each, according to reports by the CDC. Texas had nine, California had six, and the rest were scattered across 22 other states.
In addition to Kroger, other stores that carried ground turkey that was part of the recall included H.E. Butt Grocery, Safeway and Giant Eagle, according to a list issued by Cargill. Other brand names included Riverside Ground Turkey, Natural Lean Ground Turkey, Fit & Active Lean Ground Turkey, Spartan Ground Turkey and Shady Brook Farms Ground Turkey Burgers.
"While facts continue to be gathered, and currently there is no conclusive answer regarding the source of Salmonella Heidelberg contamination, given our concern for what has happened, and our desire to do what is right for our consumers and customers, we are voluntarily removing our ground turkey products from the marketplace," said Steve Willardsen, president of Cargill's turkey-processing business, in a release.
"Additionally, we have suspended ground turkey production at our Arkansas facility until the source can be pinpointed and actions to address it are taken. Public health and the safety of consumers cannot be compromised.
"It is regrettable that people may have become ill from eating one of our ground turkey products and, for anyone who did, we are truly sorry. We go to great lengths to ensure the food we produce is safe and we fully understand that people expect to be able to consume safe food, each serving, every time."
Additional reporting by Jenna Telesca
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Q: Disable UIContextualAction I am trying to disable a UIContextualAction that I have:
let picture = UIContextualAction(style: .normal, title:  "  ", handler: { (ac: UIContextualAction, view: UIView, success:(Bool) -> Void) in
    // ...
})
picture.backgroundColor = .blue

I cant find anything online to enable or disable it, I still want it present, just don't want the user to tap on it. Is this possible?

A: I'm not sure it can be disabled out-of-the-box, but as a workaround, you could have a global variable keeping track whether the action should be enabled and then check that in the action's handler:
var isCamActionEnabled = false // declare globally, if you need to set this from outside the current scope
let picture = UIContextualAction(style: .normal, title:  "  ", handler: { (ac: UIContextualAction, view: UIView, success:(Bool) -> Void) in
    guard isCamActionEnabled else { return }
    // ...
})

A: If you need to disable it after an user interaction, you can disable the view user's interactions till a next event occurs, for example, in my case, I had to disable the UIContextualAction to prevent a double tap till a request has finished:
let picture = UIContextualAction(style: .normal, title:  "  ", handler: { (ac: UIContextualAction, view: UIView, success:(Bool) -> Void) in
    view.isUserInteractionEnabled = false
    // create function with escaping completion handler and enable it again
    exampleFunction() {
        view.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
    }
})

A:
I still want it present, just don't want the user to tap on it

You can't prevent the user from tapping on the contextual action icon if it is present (what would you do, reach out and grab the user's hand?). However, just because the user taps on the contextual action doesn't mean you have to do anything in response.
The contextual action object has a completion handler; if you don't want to do anything in response to a tap, don't do anything in that completion handler.
let picture = UIContextualAction(style: .normal, title:  "  ", handler: { (ac: UIContextualAction, view: UIView, success:(Bool) -> Void) in
    // do nothing
})

However, I can't recommend this approach; it is extremely poor interface. If the user can see a thing, the user expects to be able to tap it and have it respond. A button that does nothing will feel "broken". It would be better to do what you said you didn't want to do, that is, under circumstances where the user should not be able to perform this action, don't show it in the first place.


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Published: October 22, 2021, 12:56 PM
Updated: October 22, 2021, 1:27 PM
Tags: Sports, Business
Alabama: App may help cut long stadium food, drink lines
Published: October 22, 2021, 12:56 PM Updated: October 22, 2021, 1:27 PM
FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, file photo, Alabama fans cheer during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Mississippi,, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Faced with complaints about long concessions lines at Bryant-Denny Stadium, the school is adding an online ordering app for food and drinks and making other changes. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File) (Vasha Hunt, Copyright 2021, The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Plagued by a shortage of stadium workers and complaints about long concession lines at home football games during the pandemic, the University of Alabama has contracted with an online app.
The school is also making other changes in hopes of speeding up service during Saturday's homecoming game against Tennessee.
With a capacity crowd of more than 101,000 expected, Alabama says fans can use the Waitr phone system to order food and drinks in Bryant-Denny Stadium. Fans will be notified when an order is ready, and will be able to pick up items at windows in the stadium.
The Alabama deal is Waitr's first for a football stadium, although baseball fans have used the app in Louisiana and Mississippi, said company spokesman Dean Turcol. It was used during spring games at Louisiana State University and summer minor league games in Biloxi, Mississippi, he said.
Other apps, including some specifically designed for such use, have been employed in stadiums for a variety of sports.
Alabama received complaints about long concession lines after its last home game against the University of Mississippi on Oct. 2. Athletics director Greg Byrne said part of the problem was the difficulty finding workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Similar to staffing issues at the gates, an average of 40% of people who were supposed to work concessions on game days end up not showing up leaving them short-handed," he wrote in a weekly email to supporters at the time.
Besides offering online ordering, the athletic department announced it is expecting additional workers to show up this week after adding multiple outside groups to the mix of workers. It said it is also streamlining menus and adding ordering technology to speed up sales.


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News: Sachin Bansal may join Chaitanya India Fin Credit as CEO
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Sachin Bansal may join Chaitanya India Fin Credit as CEO
Speculations are that the Flipkart cofounder could pick up as much as 75% stake in Chaitanya Rural Intermediation Development Services and join the company's microfinance institution as CEO.
A recent report suggests that the 37-year-old internet billionaire, Sachin Bansal is keen to explore opportunities at the intersection of technology and user experiences in the banking domain. It was only last year that Bansal left the company he founded and sold his entire shareholding of 5.5 percent to Walmart as part of the sale of Flipkart to the US retail giant.
Now, Bansal is looking to invest in a Bengaluru-based microfinance firm. The deal which could be a mix of the primary and secondary sale of shares is in the final stages and could get Bansal as much as 75 percent stake in Chaitanya Rural Intermediation Development Services which runs a microfinance institution, Chaitanya India Fin Credit (CIFCPL). The acquisition in CIFCPL is expected to make more inroads with his new venture, BAC Acquisitions. According to filings by the company, it has got shareholder approval for another "target acquisition".
While Bansal has not commented on the news, Samit Shetty, co-founder of Chaitanya shared that his company was in the process of raising Rs 150 crore in primary capital and had spoken with multiple prospective investors for the fundraising.
Currently, Bansal's net worth stands at $1 Bn. Since his exit from Flipkart Bansal has been showing a keen interest in the finance space. He has been investing in NBFCs. His first two investments have been in Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) — Altico Capital India and IndoStar Capital Finance via debt of $35.16 Mn each. Bansal has also been reported to meet a few executives at the Reserve Bank of India to figure out the regulatory needs to be eligible to start a bank, which suggests that he might be looking to launch a new venture in the fintech sector.
Only time will tell which out of these many speculations are true. In case Bansal joins CIFCPL as CEO it would mark his return to the executive role after his stint in Flipkart. How he then makes the shift from e-commerce to finance space would be interesting to follow.
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