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Francis Forde (born 1974) is an Irish hurling selector and former coach, manager and player who is currently a selector with the Dublin senior hurling team.

Playing career

University
He played for University College Galway in the Fitzgibbon Cup.

Inter-county

Minor and under-21

Forde first played for Galway as a member of the minor hurling team on 5 August 1991. He made his first appearance in a 2-15 to 1-13 All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Tipperary at Parnell Park.

Forde was eligible for the minor grade once again the following year. On 6 September 1992, he was at midfield when Galway defeated Waterford by 1-13 to 2-04 in the All-Ireland final.

After ending his tenure with the minor team, Forde immediately progressed onto the Galway under-21 team. On 3 October 1993, he was at right wing-forward when Galway defeated Kilkenny by 2-09 to 3-03 to win the All-Ireland Championship.

Senior

Forde made his debut for the Galway senior team on 17 October 1993 in a 2-14 to 1-10 National Hurling League defeat of Wexford at Kenny Park. After ending the league campaign as runners-up, Forde subsequently made his championship debut in a 2-21 to 2-06 defeat of Roscommon in the All-Ireland quarter-final on 17 July 1994.

On 16 July 1995, Forde won a Connacht Championship medal following a 2-21 to 2-12 defeat of Roscommon in the final.

Forde collected his first national silverware at senior level on 12 May 1996 when Galway defeated Tipperary by 2-10 to 2-08 in the National League final. He later won a second successive Connacht Championship medal after a 3-19 to 2-10 defeat of Roscommon in the final. Forde's total of 2-08 in that game was the highest personal tally of any player in a single game in that year's championship.

On 13 July 1997, Forde won a third successive Connacht Championship medal after Galway's 6-24 to 0-05 defeat of Roscommon in the final.

Forde won a fourth and final Connacht Championship medal on 12 July 1998 after a 2-27 to 3-13 defeat of Roscommon in the final.

After growing disillusioned with his increasingly peripheral role on the team, Forde left the Galway panel after the 1999 National League.

Forde returned to the Galway senior team during the 2002 National League and played for one season before leaving the panel again.

Honours

Playing career

Galway
Connacht Senior Hurling Championship (4): 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
National Hurling League (1): 1995-96
All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship (1): 1993
All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship (1): 1992

Management career

St. Rynagh's
Offaly Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2016

Galway
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2017
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (2): 2017, 2018
National Hurling League (1): 2017

References

1974 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Galway
Galway inter-county hurlers
Hurling managers
Hurling selectors
University of Galway hurlers
Turloughmore hurlers

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Écho now includes original creative writing, this issue features Razielle Aigen's Jersey Beckons, a hybrid of poetry and prose, nostalgia and the in/accuracy of memory.
so much time has passed, the photographs have yellowed. autumn leaves, still green, the future hasn't happened yet. no traces remain. no pictures left. this is not a picture show. it has yet to be determined wether it was a revision of the past or vision into a future.
and the plants in the window reach silently in photosynthetic attraction to the light, she slips out of the vinyl booth, steps up to the metallic rimmed, sea-foam green, formica counter, and orders: "a malt". and she happens to be wearing a yellow dress, a yellow dress with white trimming that from that moment on you will think of whenever you are brought back to the day you met in late september, when the sun still warms but the chill in the wind carries the promise of winter months and november mornings, mornings when you will be waking up at dawn, the moon still a visible sliver, the first snow will have fallen and you are amazed to find footprints already in the snow. looking up you will notice that the church steeple is the only thing darker than the sky and you recall the time when the organ player, inviting you to hear him rehearse for the spring concert, took you up to the organ pit and you felt the vibrations in the pews. as the sound resonates through the empty church, you discover that the mirrors are positioned so that the organist can see the faces of the devoted. but then, in late september, november was still a far away point on the horizon, you could get away with wearing a summer dress. now, that is your memory: yellow dress, yellow dress white trimming.
as the leaves were beginning to turn and fall from their branches, she appears again, this time in the steel and glass greenhouse annexed to the public library. coat unbuttoned, scarf untied, you kept your hat on as you walked through the condensed moisture and warmth of natural light without exchanging a word, as if speech would have broken the spell of the plants, plants with funny leaves shaped like moose antlers, plants with tiny flowers that took the better part of the year just to show up, plants that divulge nothing and pass no judgement.
you take comfort in being remembered in this way. the same comfort taken in the sound of crackling static on the radio, the sound that obstructs the clarity of the music just enough to be reminded of the true nature of the medium. you tune the dial to receive the image of yourself, obscured by the in coherence of dream and the dilution of memory of an other over time. . .so much time.
Razielle Aigen lives, writes, and makes art in her hometown Montreal, where she also practices and teaches yoga.
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Commission backtracks on fracking advisory group following complaint
The European Commission has excluded all stakeholders from an industry-dominated expert group on fracking following a complaint to the European Ombudsman from Friends of the Earth Europe and Corporate Europe Observatory [1].
The "European Science and Technology Network on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Extraction" was under investigation from the European Ombudsman for bias in favour of the fracking industry, and potential conflicts of interest from all working group chairs [2].
The European Commission consistently refuted the accusations, but has now taken the decision to move the work in-house, shortly before the Ombudsman presents her findings [3]. The decision will take effect after the Annual conference on Tuesday 23 February.
Antoine Simon, shale gas campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said:
"It's no coincidence that the European Commission decides to scrap this expert group shortly before the European Ombudsman rules on our claim for malpractice. The fracking 'Expert group' was a lobby vehicle for the fracking industry, and its demise is a victory for the environment and the public interest.
Transparency is crucial now that the Commission has taken on the work of assessing the dangers of fracking. Shale gas development is deeply incompatible with tackling climate change, and is in complete contradiction to what little we got from the climate talks in Paris."
Pascoe Sabido, researcher and campaigner at Corporate Europe Observatory said: "Ending fracking industry involvement in the group is surely a victory for the majority of European citizens opposed to the practice. Giving pro-fracking interests four-fifths of the seats, as well all chair and vice-chair positions, was only going to result in pro-industry recommendations. But closing the advisory group to all stake-holders points to a bigger problem: that the Commission simply couldn't rebalance it away from industry."
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Lo Stato di Kunihar fu uno stato principesco del subcontinente indiano.

Geografia
Lo stato di Kunihar era situato nei pressi del torrente Kuni, un piccolo corso di fiume (khad) in forma di ghirlanda (har) da cui prende il nome poi lo stato. La città di Kunihar che ne era la capitale, è situata a 42 km da Shimla ed a 40 km da Solan.

Storia
Kunihar venne fondato nel 1154 da Abhoj Dev,un rajput raghubansi originario di Akhnoor, nel Jammu. Lo stato venne occupato dal Nepal dal 1803 al 1815, per poi divenire un protettorato britannico. Nel 1947, quando l'India ottenne l'indipendenza, cessò di esistere come entità a sé stante ed entrò a far parte dell'Unione Indiana.

Regnanti

Thakur
I regnanti dello stato utilizzavano il titolo di 'Thakur'.
       1815 -        1816 Mungri Das
       1816 -        1866 Kishen Singh
       1866 -        1905 Tegh Singh
       1905 - 15 agosto 1947 Hardev Singh

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Note

Bibliografia
 Hunter, William Wilson, Sir, et al. (1908). Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908-1931; Clarendon Press, Oxford.
 Markovits, Claude (ed.) (2004). A History of Modern India: 1480-1950. Anthem Press, London.

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Using Data to Build Energy Efficient Cities
by Travis Korte May 11, 2014
Ten cities in the United States have signed on to the City Energy Project (CEP), a major initiative to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, in part by using energy data. The project, administered by the National Resources Defense Council and the Institute for Market Transformation, will begin its efforts with pilots in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Orlando, Philadelphia, and Salt Lake City. Inspired in part by New York City's successful efforts to make its buildings more energy efficient, CEP hopes to reduce annual carbon emissions by five to seven million tons—the amount generated by one to one and a half million passenger vehicles—and lower annual energy bills by almost $1 billion.
The project administrators will work with each city to develop a customized plan to save energy, which will include low-cost measures, such as sensors that automatically turn off lights or heating and cooling systems when nobody is there. The cities have not yet announced any specific technologies they will use, but companies and academic groups have demonstrated data-driven applications that help building managers make their systems more efficient and promote energy-saving behaviors in the workplace for several years.
One major goal of the project is to increase the availability of building energy data. Building energy data can help owners understand how much energy their buildings use and identify opportunities to cut potential waste. The project's organizers also hope prospective tenants will one day be able to use the information to make leasing decisions based on potential energy cost and environmental impact, thereby incentivizing building owners to invest in energy efficiency. Finally, the data will be used to help assess how well the project helps cities improve their energy efficiency.
CEP is not the only major municipal energy efficiency initiative to focus on data. Eight of the participating cities have also committed to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Data Accelerator program, along with other cities around the country. The program connects local governments with local utilities to help building owners get easier access to energy usage data. It aims to help building owners benchmark their energy usage and leverage third-party analytics providers in an effort to become more energy efficient. Each partner city has committed to provide whole-building data to at least 20 percent of commercial or multi-family building owners by the end of 2015.
In the short term, these projects will help demonstrate the potential for data to improve energy efficiency and help other cities learn how to implement these types of programs. In the long term, these projects are an important step towards the ultimate goal of building smart cities that leverage a vast amount of data to create better communities.
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One of the characteristics of the public domain (as a whole) is the multitude of stakes, roles, interests which should all fit in that one society, city, village or community, we live in. The matching of stake and interests is a constant balancing act, on every level of society, between citizens and for our natural environment. It is a constant switching pattern between the different governmental layers (country, province, municipality), politicians, experts, managers, scientists, businessmen and the media.
This demands for an holistic approach of the public domain and of course for a – on this principle based – approach of governance. This implies a binding approach of all organizations active within a certain geographical entity. Government could (as steward) fulfill this role and be in charge of creating relevant connections and alliances. And take the lead for carrying out the direction of this multidisciplinary form of management. An holistic approach of meeting, connecting and cooperating is needed, more than ever.
The multitude and diversity of stakes are essential characteristics for democratic societies as we know them. Like ecosystems can develop into more complex and biodiverse systems, so does society. If the stability of the system as a whole is a starting point we accordingly need to address the involved public values and risk from this perspective, the very essence of holism. In this the city as concept, as entity is the perspective.
The increasing biodiversity of society seems to demand a more advanced 'steering wheel' to keep the right balance in approaching, thinking and handling. Fragmentation and even disintegration of public values are looming if we don't.
Is the fact that today many social and environmental risks looming and emerging a hint for the fact that growth of complexity, quality of governance and quality of life are less balanced than before? Is Public Governance in for an update? And in need for a far more advanced way than the present segmented and clientele driven roads we walk.
I think yes. Less segmented, less individual clientele driven. Would be conditional in my view if we truly and still want a more sustainable and balanced society. For that we have to work on fitting in more intelligence into our public governance. Invest in an holistic approach. Within this frame we will have to learn to combine knowledge from the many scientific fields, truly are prepared to analyse the relevant stakes and interests involved with that of the eagle eye of the practitioner who knows what will work at the end and what will not.


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Q: Why is clustermap producing the same dendrogram when the values change? I want to cluster the similarities of the elements of a matrix but my code produces the same dendrogram even if I change the values of the elements of matrix (in this case, the position of matrix elements changes but dendrogram doesn't change ). Do you know how I can fix the code?
Please run the code as it is. Then change both 0.91 to 0.11 and run the code again. You'll see what I mean.
Please compare both figures. You'll see that the positions of the matrix elements in the heatmap aren't the same for both figures. The positions of matrix elements in heatmap shouldn't change.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.cluster.hierarchy import dendrogram, linkage
import seaborn as sns
import pandas as pd
from matplotlib import rcParams
from scipy.spatial.distance import pdist, squareform
import scipy.cluster.hierarchy as hcluster

methods = ["A", "B", "C"]

values = np.array([[0.00, 0.91, 0.73],
                    [0.91, 0.00, 0.24],
                    [0.73, 0.24, 0.00]])

kws = dict(cbar_kws=dict(ticks=[0, 0.50, 1.0], orientation='vertical'), figsize=(4, 4))
g = sns.clustermap(values, cmap="magma", row_cluster=True, col_cluster=True, yticklabels=True, xticklabels=True, **kws, dendrogram_ratio=(.1, .1), cbar_pos=(1.08, 0.10, 0.03, 0.78), vmin=0, vmax=1, annot=True, annot_kws={"fontsize":8, 'color':'w'}, linewidths=0, linecolor='white')
g.ax_cbar.set_ylabel("value)",size=10, rotation=90)
g.ax_cbar.yaxis.set_ticks_position("right")
g.ax_cbar.tick_params(labelsize=8)
g.ax_col_dendrogram.set_visible(False)
g.fig.suptitle('Title',size=8, y=0.93)

plt.setp(g.ax_heatmap.set_xticklabels(methods), fontsize=8)
plt.setp(g.ax_heatmap.set_yticklabels(methods), fontsize=8, rotation=0)

plt.savefig("figure.png", dpi=300, bbox_inches='tight')

Plot with 0.91

Plot with 0.91 replaced with 0.11

A: *

*seaborn.clustermap adjusts the locations of the columns and the index on the plot axes to create the dendrogram.

*g.ax_heatmap.set_xticklabels(methods) and g.ax_heatmap.set_yticklabels(methods) are incorrectly overwriting the x and y ticklabels. The new labels are not being mapped to the correct labels on the axes.

*Converting the array to a pandas.DataFrame with column and index labels, will allow the seaborn.clustermap API to correctly map the ticklabels.

*Tested in python 3.11, pandas 1.5.1, matplotlib 3.6.2, seaborn 0.12.1
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

v1 = np.array([[0.00, 0.91, 0.73],
               [0.91, 0.00, 0.24],
               [0.73, 0.24, 0.00]])

v2 = np.array([[0.00, 0.11, 0.73],
               [0.11, 0.00, 0.24],
               [0.73, 0.24, 0.00]])

data = [v1, v2]

kws = dict(cbar_kws=dict(ticks=[0, 0.50, 1.0], orientation='vertical'), figsize=(4, 4))

for d in data:

    # since your data are the same on the columns and the index, use the same labels
    d = pd.DataFrame(data=d, columns=["A", "B", "C"], index=["A", "B", "C"])

    # new plot the dataframe
    g = sns.clustermap(d, cmap="magma", row_cluster=True, col_cluster=True, yticklabels=True, xticklabels=True, **kws,
                   dendrogram_ratio=(.1, .1), cbar_pos=(1.08, 0.10, 0.03, 0.78), vmin=0, vmax=1, annot=True,
                   annot_kws={"fontsize":8, 'color':'w'}, linewidths=0, linecolor='white')

    print('xticklabels: ', g.ax_heatmap.get_xticklabels())
    print('yticklabels: ', g.ax_heatmap.get_yticklabels())

Output
xticklabels:  [Text(0.5, 0, 'A'), Text(1.5, 0, 'B'), Text(2.5, 0, 'C')]
yticklabels:  [Text(1, 0.5, 'A'), Text(1, 1.5, 'B'), Text(1, 2.5, 'C')]

xticklabels:  [Text(0.5, 0, 'C'), Text(1.5, 0, 'A'), Text(2.5, 0, 'B')]
yticklabels:  [Text(1, 0.5, 'C'), Text(1, 1.5, 'A'), Text(1, 2.5, 'B')]

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Octopus sushi socks for all your tako sock needs. Shipped from the US.
Folded up, tako sushi. Unrolled, crew socks. Folded back up? Tako sushi again.
OCTOPUS (TAKO) SUSHI SOCKS: YES, TAKO. Not Taco. Which are also nice.
While cephalopods may have eight legs, they have no heels which mean they have a whole lot in common with our Japanese octopus sushi socks because our socks have no defined heel making them perfect for various genders and sizes.
What else can I say about these octopus sushi socks that you haven't already learned from the illuminati?
Well, they're crew length, they are white with a band of octopus design on one side and the word "TAKO" (not taco, octopus, in case you weren't tired of my silly jokes yet) in Katakana on the other side. They are a nice ricey color that's not quite brilliant white, and fold back up into supremely cute sushi.
We're the only shop shipping these from the U.S., and we have a limited stock, so grab a pair (or four if you're an octopus) now while they last.


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Q: How to get the GRAV git-sync plugin working in Azure Websites I have created an Azure App service website and uploaded the Grav CMS. While the app works fine the GitHub synchronization doesn't work.
When trying to use the git sync plugin I get an error message "The GitSync plugin requires the git binary to be installed and accessible in order to work."
I have searched the app extensions but git isn't available there. Is there any way to install the git binary in app service? Or if its already installed what would be the path to the executable i can set in the plugin?

A: In the git-sync plugin settings you set the Git Binary Path to
"D:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe"
Note the "" due the spaces in the path.
You can find the paths in the Kudu environment section for your azure app


"No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life."
Wandering in the wilderness, the Israelites complained to Moses: What are we doing here? There's no food, no water, we are dying — slavery in Egypt was better than this! God, maybe trying to remind them how good they actually had it, sent poisonous snakes. Some Israelites were bitten and died. The people got the point; sadder and wiser, they went back to Moses, and asked Moses to pray that the Lord would take the serpents away.
Instead of making the snakes magically disappear, God gave the people a healing miracle. Moses crafted a serpent from metal and raised it high on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten could look up at the bronze serpent and be healed.
In a world where life isn't always happy, where our dreams don't always work out, where people are hungry and sick and dying, God doesn't do magic acts to make our troubles disappear. But God still does offer us a miracle: we can lift our eyes to Jesus, and find healing that never ends.
Remind me, God, not to be discouraged by my situation, but instead to keep my eyes on the Healer you have lifted up. Amen.


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Published: (Tue) 23 Jun 2020
Equity investments in a public Japanese stock corporation must be made in compliance with various regulatory filing obligations. This newsletter summarizes the major reporting obligations to be observed by a foreign investor.
Regulatory Filing Obligations
Any investor (foreign or domestic) holding shares issued by a company listed on any of the stock exchanges in Japan is obliged to comply with certain filing and disclosure obligations, depending inter alia on the number of shares, the type and size of the invested company and the individual regulations of the competent stock exchange. In line with similar regulations in other countries, these regulatory requirements are closely connected with applicable tender offer regulations (which are not addressed in this newsletter) to ensure fairness and transparency of on- and off-exchange transactions by providing up-to-date information concerning the ownership of shares in listed companies. These include the following filing obligations applying to most types of equity investments in Japan.
1. Large Shareholding Report
Under the Financial Instrument and Exchange Act (FIEA), a holder of more than 5% of the issued shares in a listed company is required to issue a so-called large shareholding report (tairyo hoyu hokoku sho, LSR). The FIEA defines a person or entity as a holder of shares (Holder) if he/she:
(i) Owns shares in his/her own name or another person's name;
(ii) Has the right to acquire shares under a sales contract, etc.;
(iii) Exercises voting rights as shareholder pursuant to a monetary trust contract or is authorized to give an instruction to the same effect, with the intent to control the business activities of the issuing company; or
(iv) Is an entity with appropriate authority to invest in shares in accordance with an investment contract, etc. or otherwise based on the applicable laws and regulations (Paragraph 3, Article 27- 23 FIEA).
a) Filing Requirements
If a Holder owns shares jointly with other persons, such persons are regarded as joint holders (Joint Holders; cf. next paragraph below) under the FIEA. The FIEA requires a Holder of more than 5% of the shares issued by a listed company (so called "Large Shareholder"), whether alone or jointly with other Joint Holders, to file an LSR with the Prime Minister (in practice, via the competent Local Financial Bureau) within 5 business days (not counting the date of acquisition) from the date the shareholding ratio exceeds 5% (so-called "5% Rule").
According to Article 27-23 FIEA, the LSR must specify inter alia the percentage of interest held, the funds (debt or equity) used to acquire the shares, and the purpose of the acquisition. When calculating the shareholding ratio for the purpose of the LSR, also the shares held together with other Joint Holders have to be taken into account. In such case, each Joint Holder has to report in the LSR its respective joint shareholding ratio. Under the FIEA, Joint Holder shall mean a Holder who:
(i) Agreed to acquire or transfer such shares, or exercise his voting rights, jointly with a Large Shareholder;
(ii) Has a marital relationship, or controls or is controlled with more than 50% of the voting rights in or by a Large Shareholder, or is having the same controlling shareholder, etc. (shihai kabunushi to) with a Large Shareholder, or has relationship between a partnership and its parent company with a Large Shareholder; or
(iii) Otherwise has a special relationship with a Large Shareholder (such as spouse, or certain group company of the Holder).
Thus, regardless of the actual percentage of its individual shareholding, a Joint Holder is required to file an LSR if the aggregate shareholding ratio of the shares jointly held with other Joint Holders exceeds the 5% threshold under the FIEA.
Also, after filing the LSR, if a Large Shareholder decreases or increases its share by 1% or more, or in case of any material change in the content of the LSR already submitted, such Large Shareholder is required to file an amendment report within 5 business days in accordance with Paragraph 1, Article 27-25 FIEA (Amendment Report).
Both the LSR and Amendment Report must be prepared in a specific electronic format and filed electronically through the Electronic Disclosure for Investors' Network (EDINET). The information in the report is made available online to the general public through the EDINET for 5 years from the respective filing date.
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The Referrals Committee, Robert Dore (in the chair), Laurence McFerran and Mrs J.O. Onions met at the Offices of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), The Curragh, Co. Kildare on Thursday, 8th March 2018 to consider whether or not Michael Winters, Trainer, was in breach of any rules as a result of a report received from Laboratoire des Courses Hippiques (LCH) in Paris, which stated that the biological fluid sample taken from Granny Biddy following her win in the J.P. McManus Handicap Hurdle at Cork on 19th November 2017 was found to contain meloxicam which, under Rule 20 (v) and Regulation 14 of the Rules of Racing and Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Rules is a prohibited substance.
The trainer requested that the B sample be tested and the finding of meloxicam in the B sample was confirmed by LGC Laboratories in Fordham, UK.
Evidence was heard from Dr Thomas Barragry, Pharmacologist and Michael Winters. The Committee also noted a report from Nicola O'Connor MVB following a visit to Mr Winters's Training Establishment.
In his evidence, Dr Thomas Barragry said that meloxicam is an anti-inflammatory which is a more modern drug than phenylbutazone. He said it was very potent, with fewer side effects, with the result that it was used a lot in horses. Dr Barragry noted that the drug is eliminated quickly from the horse, usually within 3 days and that it is normally given orally. Based on the estimated levels of the drug found in Granny Biddy, he estimated that the drug was given to the horse between 72 and 56 hours before she ran.
In his evidence, Michael Winters said that he had no idea how the horse was positive for meloxicam as no horse in his yard was on the substance. He outlined a number of possible scenarios as to how the horse could have come into contact with the drug, ranging from cross contamination from a human source, to ingesting it as a result of travelling to the races in a contaminated horsebox which he had borrowed for the day.
As a result of the evidence given by Mr Winters, the Committee invited Dr Barragry to make further observations.
Dr Barragry noted that only a minute percentage of the parent drug is passed in human urine and as such, it was unlikely that this was the source of the drug. He also said that he felt it was unlikely that the horsebox was the source.
Concluding his evidence, Mr Winters said that he had no other explanation as to how the drug was found in Granny Biddy and that he never had a need for the drug in his yard.
Having considered the evidence the Committee were satisfied that Michael Winters was in breach of Rule 96 (a).
They also imposed a fine of €1,000 on Michael Winters and ordered that he pay a contribution of €600 towards the IHRB's costs.
The case presented to the Committee by Cliodhna Guy, Head of Legal, Compliance and Licensing.


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* The preciousness of your human life–Your life is rare and precious–a wonderful gift. Recognizing the value of your own precious life has implications: don't waste it!
* The impermanence of all things–Everything changes. Material things change. We all die eventually–leaving even our valued bodies behind. Sometime we lose those near to us. Eventually, we will lose all our friendships and family. We should infinitely value each moment with those we love.
* The inevitability of suffering–Everyone suffers sometimes, in many ways.
* Every action we take, everything we say, even every thought we think, has consequences. Good actions bring sweet fruits, bad actions bring bitter fruits. This is known as the Law of Karma. The results of our actions follow us like a shadow.
* Much of what we accept as reality is illusion. We don't understand the ultimate nature of reality. We need to dispel the delusions in our mind.
These preliminaries are points of departure for spiritual practice. A path exists to the end of suffering, but first we must understand the preliminaries.
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Give A Kid A Christmas gearing up for holidays
As the calendar flips to October, many in the region are thinking about cool autumn days, Halloween decorations and the late-season harvest time.
But for some hoping to ensure area children and teens have a happy Christmas, this is the time to start working for the holiday season.
The annual Give A Kid A Christmas program, started by former Sheriff Graham Atkinson more than three decades ago, will be gearing up for the fundraising portion of its activities over the next week.
"The foundation board met last week," said Dr. Travis Reeves, Surry County School superintendent. "We have letters ready, we're getting those printed and mail merged to go out…Those will be going out in the next few days. That's really the kickoff to our fundraiser."
The event, begun roughly 30 years ago when Atkinson, then a deputy serving as a DARE officer in the local school system, is a massive effort joining the county school system, the Give A Kid A Christmas foundation, the Surry County Sheriff's Office under the direction of Sheriff Steve C. Hiatt, and local businesses and volunteers.
Through various fundraising efforts, the foundation will collect money to help buy needed goods — chiefly food and clothes for underprivileged families — along with a few fun Christmas presents for the kids and teens. While they're doing the fundraising, school counselors are working with the Salvation Army to identify kids from families who might have holiday needs, and then the program culminates near Christmas, when an army of volunteers puts together large food boxes for the families, while other volunteers use the raised funds to shop for clothes and toys for the kids.
Then, more volunteers deliver them all to households in the community.
"For over 30 years, the Give A Kid A Christmas Foundation has been a staple here in Surry County Schools to help our students with food, with clothing, the bare necessitates, and with toys," Reeves said.
The program wasn't always so elaborate.
Simple Beginnings
Atkinson, who has served in Raleigh on the governor's Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission since he retired from the sheriff's office in 2015, said he had no idea of starting a county-wide movement that would last beyond his time with the sheriff's office.
He has many times told the story of how the program began, when he noticed a child in a local elementary school in need.
"I noticed the young man was wearing the same clothes each time I was there," he said in 2019 during the fundraising kick-off that year. "They were obscenely small clothes. I started asking some of his teachers, and they told me he'd worn the same set of clothes to school every day. Since he was in third grade."
He reached out for some help, finding it at Walmart, who helped the deputy provide enough clothing for that young man to provide him with a modest new wardrobe.
"If you had handed him a bar of gold, it wouldn't have meant any more to him. For the rest of the year, his clothes may not have always been clean, but he wore those (new) clothes, and he was proud of them."
From that beginning, and the desire to help more and more children each year, grew Atkinson's Give A Kid A Christmas program.
This week, Atkinson said he never knew what eventually became of that child, but he recounted a few other heart-tugging incidents along the way.
"In one of our very first years, we used to get the guidance counselors to help us get the names (of kids to help). I got a request from a 17-year-old-female, when she put down what she wanted for Christmas, she put down she wanted an ax.
"Now, the law enforcement officer in me started to get worried. But…I learned this little girl's daddy was disabled. Some well-meaning neighbors had gotten together and cut a load of wood, but they had cut it fireplace length, and all they had for heat was a wood stove. She wanted an ax so she could split the wood.
"I delivered that one in person. She got the ax, though we didn't do that one at school," he was quick to add. "She got an ax, but she also got some other things a 17-year-old girl should have for Christmas."
Another story he shared brought some raw emotion to the surface, as the former sheriff said he always gets choked up relating this memory.
"I was looking through the requests when I came across a third-grade boy," he said. "I don't need anything," the child had written. "But my little sister is 3 and she would really like a baby doll.
"There again, the little girl got a baby doll, but the boy also got Christmas presents. That was very early when we started doing this, but that set the tone for what we are doing today. That's when we realized we should include siblings that are not of school age."
Now, he said, when they identify a home in need, they try to provide gifts for all the children and teens in the household, and enough food to the family so they can make it through the Christmas break from school. Atkinson explained that for many children in Surry County, the only food they have each day is the school-supplied breakfast and lunch, with no dinner at home available some nights.
"You can imagine how hard that is for a two-week Christmas break."
Reeves said there are many opportunities for people to help. Many groups in the schools — from student clubs collecting change to faculty and staff organizing donation drives — are working to give to the project.
A number of area residents and businesses make donations as well.
The single biggest fundraiser is what they call an annual "telethon," which is a live-streamed event similar to television shows that raise money for various causes. Reeves said the event, to be hosted by former television weather forecaster and current local pastor Austin Caviness, along with former television anchor Cameron Kent, is set for Nov. 28. It will be live-streamed on Facebook, and possibly some other outlets.
"We've raised $30,000, $40,000 in one night," he said of the telethon. "A lot of folks look to that date to give."
While that seems like a hefty figure, the effort will use every dollar, and then some.
"Last year, we raised money for food and clothing for about 700 children," he said. "We provided over 350 food boxes…and the food boxes weight 50-60 pounds. It's quite a lot of food."
On average, he said they spent about $140 per child on clothing and toys.
For those wishing to donate to the effort, there are several ways:
– Send a check to Sheriff Atkins's Give A Kid A Christmas Foundation, PO Box 827 Dobson, NC 27017
– Send a donation via PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/giveakidachristmas
– Sent a donation via Venmo using the email sheriffsgiveakidachristmas@gmail.com
For more information, visit the foundation's Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/giveakidachristmas
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Could the JBS hack lead to meat shortages in the US or Australia?
New York / Sydney (CNN Business)Some shoppers may want to brace themselves for yet another possible supply crunch — this time with meat.
Major beef and pork producer JBS USA suffered a cyberattack last weekend, prompting reported shutdowns at company plants in North America and Australia. The White House has said that the ransomware attack was likely carried out by a Russia-based criminal organization, and that it is dealing with the Russian government on the matter. The Australian government has said that US law enforcement is taking the lead on investigating the attack.
So far, some authorities and trade groups have assured that operations will be back to normal as soon as possible, allaying concerns of major disruption. But experts warn that it will depend on how quickly the issue is taken care of.
Australia hoping to reach 'full capacity' soon
Read MoreDavid Littleproud, the Australian Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, told CNN Business on Wednesday local time that the country does not believe there will be a red meat shortage, even though JBS accounts for about a quarter of Australia's red meat processing."But we are obviously concerned that there are today limited operations at JBS facilities in New South Wales and Victoria," he said. "Some work may resume in Queensland tomorrow. We're hoping that they will get back to full capacity soon, but there is no definitive timeline."The Australian Meat Industry Council, a major trade group, said in a statement that "there is no indication whatsoever that this cyberattack will cause a major impact on Australian domestic red meat and pork products supply."
The United States wants to keep supply moving
In the United States, an official from the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union said Tuesday evening that all US JBS beef plants were shut down.JBS, meanwhile, has said that "the vast majority" of its food plants will be open Wednesday, adding that "JBS USA and Pilgrim's were able to ship product from nearly all of its facilities to supply customers. The company's brands include Pilgrim's, Great Southern and Aberdeen Black.The US Department of Agriculture also said it has reached out to meat processors across the country, encouraging them to accommodate additional capacity and help keep the supply chain moving.The agency said it is talking to food, agriculture and retail organizations to "underscore the importance of maintaining close communication and working together to ensure a stable, plentiful food supply."
Supply issues could depend on timing
Does fallout from the attack mean a tighter meat supply ahead, and as a result, higher prices? That depends on how quickly the issue is resolved, according to experts.
Experts say the impact of the JBS USA cyberattack on the country's meat supply will depend on how long it takes to resolve the issue."Even one day of disruption will significantly impact the beef market and wholesale beef prices," Steiner Consulting Group, which specializes in commodity prices, wrote in a note Tuesday. In the United States, at least, that's partially because of the high demand for burgers and other beef products during Memorial Day Weekend."Retailers and beef processors are coming from a long weekend and need to catch up with orders and make sure to fill the meat case. If they suddenly get a call saying that product may not deliver tomorrow or this week, it will create very significant challenges," Steiner explained. The attack could also "limit pork supply availability and push up pork prices in the near term," Steiner said. The group noted that "we think this is a major issue but much will depend on how long the disruption persists." Steve Meyer, a consulting economist for the National Pork Producers Council and the National Pork Board, agreed that a one or two day disruption could cause wholesale meat prices to jump. But if the problem is resolved within a few days, he said, restaurants and grocery stores are unlikely to pass those costs onto consumers. "They would probably absorb those in the short run," Meyer said. "As long as there was light at the end of the tunnel."
Major meat producer JBS USA hit by cyberattack, likely from RussiaIf it takes longer to return to normal, say a couple of weeks, customers might start to feel the impact. "Then you're probably going to have some buyers, whoever depends on JBS for their supplies, that probably could be short product," he said. In that case, for consumers, it would depend on where their local grocery store sources its meat. "If they buy it from JBS then you might see some shortages. If they don't buy it from JBS, you might not see anything at all."
'We're very concerned'
One restaurant has already changed its offerings because of the cyberattack. Evans Barbeque Company in Villa Rica, Georgia, said in a Facebook post Tuesday that it will no longer take bulk orders of pork beyond this week because of uncertainty over supply. "We're very concerned … because that's a very big part of our business," Alicia White, co-owner of the restaurant, told CNN Business.Before the pandemic, Americans might have been shocked by the idea of a meat shortage. But the last year exposed the limitations of the country's meat supply chain, which is highly concentrated among a handful of suppliers, including JBS USA. Early in the pandemic, workers got sick at crowded meatpacking facilities, leading plants to temporarily close their doors. The disruption caused prices to soar and led to spot shortages.
Now, the prospect of more shortages could raise alarm bells for consumers, especially as they've already been paying more for meat: Beef prices were up 6.1% during the 17 weeks ending May 1 compared with the same stretch the year prior, according to the latest numbers from NielsenIQ, which tracks point of sale data from retailers. Chicken prices were up 4% and pork prices increased 2.6%. — CNN's Nathaniel Meyersohn, Alexis Benveniste, Brian Fung, Parija Kavilanz and Jill Disis contributed to this report.
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Hydraulic simulation models have become a valuable tool to manage water distribution networks commencing from their initial design through their operation, assessment of the level of service to customers, system performance improvement, analysis of planning alternatives, to system optimisation. The development of hydraulic models can be a time consuming task with complex and large scale water distribution networks being particularly challenging. The Wimmera Mallee Pipeline (WMP) in Western Victoria, Australia is a recently constructed and unique regional scale water distribution system which consists of over 8,800 km of pressurised pipelines spreading across an area of approximately 20,000 km 2. Currently, the WMP provides water to 34 townships, rural farms and other water users across the Wimmera Mallee region with an annual design capacity of 31.6 mil. m 3. The WMP sources its water from multiple reservoirs in the Grampians mountain ranges in the south and the River Murray in the north. Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water (GWMWater) is the local water organisation responsible for managing the WMP. GWMWater is currently initiating the development of a water market to generate and support growth, and to ensure that water is available for the highest value social, economic or environmental use. The hydraulic models discussed in this paper will assure that informed decisions are made by GWMWater regarding the capacity to deliver water through the pipeline system, and therefore the extent of trade by customers. The philosophy for development of the WMP hydraulic models was to replicate the real system as credibly as possible into the level of required accuracy for decision making, yet enable simple model operation, maintenance and update. The network is modelled to the individual customer level in order to accommodate small diameter pipes. Modelling at this level simplifies the future model maintenance and updates, and also ensures the compatibility with other GWMWater's systems such as Geographic Information System (GIS) and the customer database. A major part of the model development consisted of data preparation. This was undertaken by using "as constructed" GIS asset data captured during the WMP construction and entered into a GIS database (ArcGIS by ESRI). Due to the scale of the system and associated amounts of data, it was essential to develop sophisticated data transformation and validation procedures to simplify the model build which thereby minimised manual data entry and potential sources of errors. This paper focuses on the methodologies and techniques used in data preparation for hydraulic models and development of hydraulic models. An example is also provided of how the models will be used as a decision support tool in water supply and allocation planning.
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Chairwoman Klobuchar, Ranking Member Blunt, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to testify about the importance of travel and tourism to the U.S. economy and the progress the Department of Commerce is making in implementing the Travel Promotion Act of 2009.
I am Ken Hyatt, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Services at the Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration. The news regarding travel and tourism is good. I am honored to be here to share this information with you.
The Obama Administration, and specifically the Department of Commerce, is keenly aware of the critical importance of travel and tourism to the U.S. economy and to job creation in our country. Travel and tourism jobs are found throughout the economy and across the country, from hotels and restaurants, to rental car companies and tour operators. Because the infrastructure is already in place, an increase in travel and tourism exports can lead to additional jobs more quickly than it does in many other industries. Accordingly, travel and tourism is a priority sector under the President's National Export Initiative and plays a critical role in the Department's export promotion strategy.
supporting more than 7.5 million American jobs. A record-breaking 60 million international visitors arrived in the United States in 2010, a 17 percent increase over the number of visitors in 2000. These international travelers spent more than $134 billion during their visits, a 12 percent increase from 2009.
Expenditures by international travelers are U.S. exports. We estimate that every additional 65 international visitors to the United States generate enough travel and tourism exports to support one additional travel and tourism-related job. In 2016, we expect 22 million more international visitors than 2010. We estimate that these additional visitors will spend tens of billions of dollars, supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs. In 2010, the United States had a surplus of nearly $32 billion in travel and tourism receipts, an increase of 50 percent over the 2009 surplus.
These figures clearly underscore the importance of travel and tourism to strengthening the U.S. economy. In addition, travel and tourism is a key vehicle/opportunity to showcase the United States – its culture, its values, its beauty – to the rest of the world. However, while the United States is, in absolute terms, the undisputed global leader in revenues generated by travel and tourism exports, our share of the world market has declined from 17.3 percent to 11.2 percent in the last decade.
Therefore, we were encouraged by the passage of the Travel Promotion Act (TPA), which received broad bi-partisan support and was signed into law by President Obama on March 4, 2010. We were encouraged because unlike our competitors, the United States has not had an official brand campaign to promote travel and tourism to our country. The Corporation for Travel Promotion (CTP) established by the TPA provides a key opportunity to promote international travel and tourism to the United States and increase its contribution to our economy, at a level that will enable us to compete with the well-funded and aggressive work carried out by our competitors to attract international travelers to their countries.
I am pleased to report that just this month, the CTP unveiled its brand strategy to an international audience at the World Travel Market in London. This is an important step in the effort to recapture the lost U.S. share of the global travel market.
The Travel Promotion Act calls for the Department of Commerce to serve as the liaison to the CTP and outlines the responsibilities of the Department in this area. I am pleased to report to you and the Committee that the Department of Commerce has actively supported the implementation of the TPA and continues to work with the CTP to ensure that the objectives of the Act can be met.
Worked with other federal agencies to ensure that our agency counterparts are apprised of the CTP's progress and collaborate on ways that we can all connect to the new international travel promotion campaign.
Commerce will continue to work with the CTP on a regular basis to support its efforts and monitor its progress in attracting more international visitors to the United States and successfully implementing the TPA.
Our work under the TPA is not limited to working with the CTP. As provided in the Act, the Department of Commerce, through its International Trade Administration, is closely collaborating with the Departments of State and Homeland Security to improve the experience of travelers entering the United States. Through the interagency, cabinet-level Tourism Policy Council, chaired by the Secretary of Commerce, we have partnered with State and DHS to disseminate information regarding U.S. entry requirements, including the implementation of the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) fee, and to explore ways to facilitate the entry process for foreign visitors into the United States. The Tourism Policy Council has responded directly to, and is actively engaged in, these and other concerns raised by the private sector Travel and Tourism Advisory Board.
In this context, the Department of Commerce is working with State, DHS, and the White House to identify and more effectively communicate the progress that the Administration is making to address concerns of the private sector. For example, wait times for visa appointments have been significantly reduced in key markets such as China, as you will hear from David Donahue, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services at State. In addition, the number of travelers enrolled in trusted or known traveler programs managed by DHS has increased, which we understand is enabling Customs and Border Protection officers to more effectively and efficiently process visitors at U.S. ports of entry.
industry concerns, and with our interagency partners to develop a culture of interagency collaboration and continual improvement, to support the success of the CTP and to achieve the objective of promoting international travel to the United States.
The Department of Commerce provides the official U.S. government data on travel and tourism. As you know, the TPA significantly increased the Department's responsibilities for data collection and research. This is critical to documenting the effect of travel and tourism on the economy and to job creation, as well as to developing promotional strategies essential to the success of the TPA. We will continue to provide essential data on key markets, and our statistical system will eventually help measure the value of the CTP's efforts to increase travel and tourism and the resulting effect on the U.S. economy.
The Department looks forward to continuing our work with the CTP and key agencies, such as State and DHS, to achieve the goals of the TPA. We will continue to coordinate through the Tourism Policy Council, and with the White House, to improve the U.S. entry process and to communicate U.S. travel requirements more effectively. This work is a top priority for the Administration and through the Tourism Policy Council, we will ensure it receives cabinet-level attention.
The potential of the TPA to create new opportunities for U.S. travel and tourism exports is critical in supporting the President's National Export Initiative and achieving the President's job creation objectives. This is an exciting time for the United States to engage in the global marketplace and, with the tools provided by the TPA, the United States is better able to proactively compete for international visitors. After all, more international visitors to the United States means more people eating in our restaurants, staying in our hotels, shopping in our malls, visiting our attractions and learning about our values and culture.
Chairwoman Klobuchar, Ranking Member Blunt, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you again for inviting me to testify today. I will be happy to answer any questions that you have.


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We are in advanced states and so we mustn't forget that the moment before redemption is felt as the greatest darkness, helplessness, despair, powerlessness, and disappointment. Right before the exodus from Egypt it is pitch dark.
We advance along two lines. The Light comes, but it is felt in the desires that have not been corrected yet as darkness. Thus, people and whole groups see themselves in the worst possible state; in a state that is increasingly lower and more contemptible.
They think that they don't deserve the spiritual revelation and that they are further from revelation than ever before, as it says: "And the Children of Israel sighed from the hard labor" in exile in Egypt. But this is the spiritual path.
We, therefore, have to distinguish between the heart and the mind. It isn't by chance that the two Lights operate on us this way, the Light of Hassadim and the Light of Hochma; the Light of the goal of creation and the Light of correction. When we feel that we are in such a terrible state, we still have a chance to clarify and examine it and realize that it is right. This is actually the state that helps us advance.
On the other hand, the darkness and the weakness that are revealed are a very powerful call from Above. We have to break through this egoistic shell and reach the perception of a new reality, the feeling of a new world.
In my opinion, everything is clear here. Wherever I turn, I am immersed in my own evil inclination. Whatever I do, whomever I think about, it is only to exploit this person, to benefit myself somehow, and after that forget him, in that I remove him from my mind completely.
If I become familiar with the force of my ego, I will gradually be able to feel how disgusting and despicable the discovery of this evil within me is to me, how much I would like to be released from it and transform it into good. For in fact, it won't leave me, I simply transform it into a yearning for others, into bestowal to others, into love for them.
That is how I value my foul and terrible evil inclination, even though strangers don't see anything wrong with it.
First, I reach awareness that I have maintained and cultivated my ego, I have thought about how I can fill it. After that, I see that it enslaves me and I don't enslave it. So what am I wasting my life on? Now I begin to hate it, because it connects me to it, obliges me to do everything for it. I must work for its sake all the time, because it, like Pharaoh, secretly reigns over me.
And then I reach a state where I discover this control, feel how the ego is choking me to the point I can no longer remain in it; it is killing me. As a result, I am released from its clutches.
And when I am detached from it, from its control over me, I will begin to control it. I will begin to manage it with the help of the Upper Light.
Thus, through the connection, Abraham's disciples, in rising above their egos, discovered a new phenomenon: the force of unity, nature's hidden power.
Science tells us that every substance in reality consists of two opposite forces—connection and separation—and these forces balance themselves out. But individuals, and human society as a whole, evolve using only the negative force, the ego. According to nature's plan, we are required to consciously compensate for the negative force with the positive force of unity.
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Question: What kind of result must we reach at the convention? With which thoughts and feelings do we disperse? And what does this line amount to in us?
Answer: We must connect internally to all the participants in the convention so that the convention will not end. We continue to go forward, upward; within us we feel what we attained from the connection all the time, and distance only compels us to increase and strengthen this feeling. In this manner we rise to the next level.
You cannot imagine what kind of tension exists today among our groups abroad, especially in North and South America. They are preparing for the convention and are doing everything possible and impossible.
We connect and separate, again connect and separate, all the time. This separation is necessary so that above it we can maintain the previous connection.
When we disperse, each person going on his separate way, we are given some opposition, and above it, we return to feeling the previous unity. And then the unity that is multiplied by the opposition will give us new intensity, a new spiritual level.
Question: You said that in the American and European groups there are very intense tensions. But there are also other places in which there is an absolutely different attitude towards the convention. Aren't we infected by "viruses" from them?
Answer: I am not afraid of this. The same intensity that is gathered at the convention itself becomes such a shield that no viruses can frighten us and no hackers can disturb us.
But if you have information that some groups or isolated individuals are opposed to our idea, we should try to explain to them before the beginning of the convention that unity is the condition for attaining the spiritual world. They simply haven't heard this yet. Each one of us knows that on their own. How much time must pass until we began to hear it? So don't be afraid; everything will be okay.
What Do We Expect Of The Convention In St. Petersburg?
Question: To what state must preparation for the Saint Petersburg convention bring the world group?
Answer: Before the convention the entire world group must be in a state of arousal and excitement where awe, happiness, elevation, expectation and despair exist together.
This must not be something external, but internal. Each one must experience these states within himself.
Our friends throughout the world must prepare such that they will become softer, more flexible. Just as we work on dough, kneading it, so we also must work on this mass.
Besides this, we want to put ourselves under the influence of the Creator, so that He will make of us something that can be digested. This is our mission. We want to become active participants in this activity, and not spectators.
As it is said in the wisdom of Kabbalah, everything depends upon preparation.
Friends, Our Covenant Is Wonderful!
Question: Is there any chance that a person who studies can succeed simply by the power of inertia ? He doesn't leave because corporeal life doesn't seem attractive either, but on the other hand, he sees that the wisdom of Kabbalah is too much for him and he cannot believe that he will ever reach the revelation of spirituality.
Answer: It is impossible to study with the power of inertia. Every moment in our life requires our energy. Therefore, if a person studies, it means that the Upper Light operates on him and sustains him. He probably has to go through this period. There are such periods in which a person becomes like a corpse, a lifeless body: He cannot live in the corporeal world anymore, but he hasn't started living in the spiritual world yet.
Question: It seems that one can wander on the border of the spiritual world for years and not reach a request, a prayer.
Answer: No, that depends on you; it depends on the environment. Believe me, I speak from my own practical experience. The preparation period cannot go on forever, no state goes on infinitely.
Every moment you exist and somehow get closer to the spiritual advancement, the Light operates on you and fills you with the spiritual force drop by drop, like an intravenous infusion. But it has to accumulate to the right measure and therefore it takes time.
If you want to reach the spiritual revelation sooner, hasten time. But it cannot be that your measure will never be filled; there is no such thing. On the whole I have to know only one thing: How to connect the group with the goal.
I want to eat some soup and I am told: "Get a bowl!" But I have no bowl, so what can I receive the soup in? The bowl is the group. If I am not incorporated in a group, I have nothing to receive spirituality in. I have to tie the group very tightly to the attainment of the goal, to the revelation of the Creator.
We still think and hope that there is some vessel where the Creator can be revealed somewhere inside us. But there is no such place in a person. There is only one black point that cannot receive any revelation. But still, drop after drop, the Light operates on a person and he gradually begins to tie his success with the connection, with the friends.
This is already a great accomplishment; it is a switch from the earthly, corporeal individualistic path to the spiritual ladder. You already begin to subconsciously tie yourself to the group. You get closer and closer to it, and the moment the first contact, the first connection, is formed, you enter the spiritual ladder. This is called the ladder of spiritual ascent.
Question: In what way should our covenant be revealed in the convention?
Answer: In warmth. Effective communication that must occur between us. It has to simply explode so that we will begin to feel a warm void among us that opens us up to one another and doesn't let us restrain ourselves in order to express our love.
Moreover, it is mutual support, a mutual effort all over the world when the friends all over the world express their support and their awe and confirm their oath of loyalty to our covenant.
Therefore, we must feel some tension. Of course, the upper force can do whatever it wants with us, but each of us is committed to the friends, to keep all the advice and the commands of the Kabbalists and do everything in our power to keep the covenant with the others.
A person should understand that if he doesn't accept this condition, he is not part of our stream, and he doesn't float onward in our common general boat. He can stay in the convention but nothing will happen to him.
If we are going to make a covenant now, it should include everyone by stretching a hand over the ocean, over the continent, no matter where. Everyone has to feel that they are with us in a continuous two-way connection.
Question: How can we use the gathering of friends (Yeshivat Haverim) to unite at the convention?
Answer: The gathering of friends is a part of the day when we are tuning to receiving a new portion of the Upper Light because these meetings precede the lessons and workshops, i.e,. our upcoming spiritual actions.
To do this, we must get ready, unite, and remind each other about our goal that it is achieved in unity, that it is the mutual support that is our freewill, and this is our only free action; all the rest does not depend on us. The gathering of friends should remind us about this.


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Biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and water.
Analysis of water, carbon and nutrient budgets of soil.
SMEAR stations technical meeting at February 2018.


With baseball season just around the corner, it's a good time to highlight an adoption promotion that hit the ball out of the park for two shelters during last year's World Series.
As soon as it became clear that the San Francisco Giants and the Detroit Tigers would play each other in the Series, both the San Francisco SPCA (SF SPCA) and the Michigan Humane Society (MHS) independently launched promotions linked to the sporting event, hoping to capitalize on support for the hometown teams.
SF SPCA announced on Facebook that it would waive adoption fees on pets with orange-and-black markings (the Giants' colors), and posted cute pictures of shelter dogs decked out in Giants' jerseys and baseball caps, often posed with signs bearing clever—and lightly taunting—messages on its Facebook page.
Meanwhile, MHS devised an "Adopt Your Own Detroit Mini-Tiger" promotion, drawing up mock Tiger baseball cards, each with a picture of an adoptable kitty, and the name of a Tiger player—Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera, etc. The adoption fee for cats was $45 for one, or $65 for two, including a 10 percent discount on MHS veterinary center services, and other incentives.
According to SF SPCA media relations associate Krista Maloney, one of her shelter's co-presidents knows an MHS administrator, and a volley of emails soon sprang up about the Series—as well as the possibility of a friendly wager between the two shelters.
"The venture was that the losing team's city would have to sponsor … $10 off 10 cat adoptions at the other facility," says Kevin Hatman, public relations coordinator at MHS. Game on!
SF SPCA and MHS each adopted out eight kitties as a result of the promotion, and even though it didn't last as long as the shelters had hoped—the Giants swept the Tigers 4-0—everyone deemed it a home run. And staff at SF SPCA were good sports about their team's big win, and sponsored $10 off the adoption fees of 10 cats at MHS, just as the Michigan shelter had to do at SF SPCA to hold up its end of the bet.


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Q: Some junk values is printing. Why? I wrote the following piece of code.
public class ArrayLessons {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int values[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 };

        for (int i = 1; i < values.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(values);
        }
    }

}

But the output puts some junk values like this "[I@5df9aeda".
Why it is not showing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6?
Im very very new to programming and java. So please guide me. Thanks.

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*Array index starts from 0. Use int i = 0 in for-loop.

*Use values[i] to print the values.

If you just want to print: Try this code also:
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(array));

A: You cannot direct print array value without giving any index if you want to print its value you must to go through with loop and its indexing like this please see the following example
public class ArrayLessonsDem {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      int values[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 };

      for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
          System.out.println(values[i]);
      }
  }

}

Array indexing starting point is 0 so you always start with 0 please check my for look and System.out.println Statement care fully.

A: You need to use the i variable together with the array. As in values[i] instead of only values. Also, array indexing is zero-based.

A: Yes, I agree with Mr. jhn. Also, if you want to print the results in a single line, you cannot use System.out.println(). Just use System.out.print(values[i]);


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Devour These Local Favorites On An Immersive Culinary Tour Of Georgia And Armenia
If you thought Georgia was just a state, you're probably not terribly familiar with Armenia either. These two Eastern European nations, both former Soviet republics, border the Middle East and are packed with majestic landscapes from volcanoes and canyons to the snow-kissed peaks of the Caucasus Mountains, with picturesque villages punctuating the spaces between. The long history of the region is both complicated and inspiring, and their rich culinary heritage helps unravel the tales. Famous for flavorful spices complementing fresh ingredients, the traditional dishes of Georgia and Armenia are the perfect entrée into the culture of this undersung region, and an immersive culinary tour may be your best option for exploring new territory in delicious style.
When asked why food is an ideal means to discover the region, Neil Coletta of Food Tours at Intrepid Travel said,
While the landscapes, customs and cultures are reason enough to visit Armenia and Georgia, nowhere is the true character of the region more evident than in its distinctive food traditions. Whether you are a student of history, a lover of nature or are propelled around the globe by your appetite, the Caucasus, much like the traditional tables of their respective countries, have everything on offer: fresh produce; a balance of savory and sweet meat and grain-based dishes; and a deep, spiritual love of bread."
Intrepid curates its own 10-day journey with the Armenia & Georgia Real Food Adventure tour, featuring the following culinary highlights to whet your appetites, both culinary and cultural.
1. Learn the Secrets of Perfect Cheese Bread
If you're gluten intolerant or lactose intolerant, go straight to number two. For the rest of you, few foods are as soul-warming as bread, and adding cheese is always a win, so get ready for khachapuri. Sometimes called cheese pie, this is typically bread with cheese in the center, bordered by a crust meant to be pulled apart and dipped in the gooey goodness within. There are lots of varieties, but Adjarian-style, with an egg in the middle, is the most typical. Attend a khachapuri cooking demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, and take the secrets of this treasure home with you. (Yes, you can eat them after the demonstration.)
2. Barbecue, Armenia-style
Barbecue isn't only for Texas. In Armenia, khorovats are big business. Theyr'e spiced and skewered meats, often pork, barbecued on a grill and served at family gatherings. Feast on khorovats at a quaint Armenian restaurant to experience this most traditional of local fare.
3. Imbibe with Brandy
The Yerevan Brandy Company has been distilling Ararat brandy since 1887, using white grapes and spring water according to a traditional method that has remained largely unchanged through time. Take a guided tour of the factory (with tastings, of course) and visit its museum to understand just how legendary this brandy is, and how artisan their production remains, from barrels built on site to its distinctive glass bottles.
4. Wine and Dine Yourself, with Friends
Visit a famed winery and learn the difference between how Georgian wine is made and bottled versus how the rest of the world does it. Indulge in a carefully curated wine and cheese pairing, then visit a local farm for a proper meal with the family (there will be more wine, of course). The entire meal is farm-to-table to the extreme with all ingredients sourced directly from the property, including the wine grapes.
5. Chow Down on Chicken Stew
Originally prepared with (and named for) pheasant, chakhokhbili is a chicken stew beloved by Georgians. Think of it as the chicken noodle soup of Georgia. Visit a family in Tbilisi to make this stew together, and master the recipes of several other traditional dishes, too. After all the work is done, there's nothing left to do but reap the rewards of your labor and feast on your creations.
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The Southern Route
Leaving Caballo, the Byway runs west for about 50 miles on Highway 152, ascending from the Rio Grande Valley through ranch country, over the pine-forested Black Range Mountains through Emory Pass, and then descending toward scrub-dotted slopes. During rare times of severe weather these roads may be closed, and stay closed until cleared.
Picturesque Hillsboro was founded in 1877 when gold and silver were discovered nearby. Today it is a well-known community of writers, artists, ranchers and miners. The town's tree-lined main street features the Black Range Museum (purchased in 2016 by the Hillsboro Historical Society), the 120-year-old General Store (now a restaurant), lodging accommodations, shops, and artist's studios.
The Hillsboro Community Center sponsors regular, high-quality musical events throughout the year.
SIDE TRIP FROM HILLSBORO
Lake Valley
From Hillsboro you can take a side trip to Lake Valley, a ghost town about 18 miles south. Named in 1878 for ancient lake beds nearby, this silver mining town had a heyday population of over 4000 people. Today Lake Valley is cared for by the Bureau of Land Management, and remains fairly intact. Weathered wooden buildings, a school, a garage and several houses still survive. This was the location of the Bridal Chamber Mine, one of the richest veins of silver ever discovered.
As NM 152 winds up into the mountains, it passes Kingston, another 1880s mining town with a reputation for wild and wooly ways. The Percha Bank has been restored but is currently closed; the Kingston Schoolhouse Museum is open by appointment: 575-895-5501.
The Black Range Lodge is an ideal spot for a personal or group retreat. The lodge hosts Pickamania, 3 days of regional folk music, at their Pavilion every year in mid-September.
Kingston's Historic District features several buildings and the town bell, cast from ore from local mines. The old cemetery outside of town is still in use, and is a nice place to visit if historic grave markers are your thing.
Emory Pass
Continuing west past Kingston, the road gains nearly 3000 feet in altitude over nine miles, and crests at Emory Pass. This magnificent viewpoint at above 8,000 feet overlooks mountains, valleys and Caballo Lake over 50 miles to the east. An extensive system of trails offers pleasant hikes through cool forested mountains or along shady streams. Backpackers will find plenty of beautiful, wild, rugged, and remote country for long trips in quiet solitude.
Leaving Emory Pass, the terrain changes from towering pines on the mountains and cliffs overshadowing the road to gentle slopes, with juniper, cedar and scrub oak, until it reaches the Mimbres River Valley.
The Geronimo Trail National Scenic Byway ends at the junction of NM 152 & NM 35, just south of San Lorenzo. Turn north toward San Lorenzo on NM 35 to access the adjoining scenic trail, the Trail of the Mountain Spirits National Scenic Byway.
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