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Way ahead for £56.7m Paisley Museum project is revealed
The proposed next steps on ambitious £56.7m plans to transform Paisley Museum into an international-class visitor attraction have been unveiled by council bosses.
Next week, councillors will be asked to approve a fresh application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the project, and the creation of a project team to continue detailed development work over the next year.
An initial £15m funding bid lodged with HLF earlier this year was unsuccessful but lottery staff gave positive feedback on the project's ambition, quality, and likely impact on the town's regeneration.
If given the green light by members of the Leadership Board on Wednesday, council staff will now start work on a new application to go to HLF in December.
Last year the council set aside £15m for the project, which aims to extend the current building – operated by Renfrewshire Leisure Ltd - into a major attraction based on Paisley's unique textile heritage.
Studies estimate the project would be worth £89m a year to the local economy, triple annual museum visitor numbers to 150,000, and support 238 jobs.
Work will run alongside Paisley's bid to be UK City of Culture and is hoped to be open for 2021 – but if that timescale is to be hit, design work needs to continue.
For that reason councillors are being asked to spend £1.2m from existing regeneration resources on staff costs and detailed business case development.
At the same time, discussions are being planned with the UK and Scottish Governments and other agencies to help bring in other funds for the project before going back to HLF.
Renfrewshire Council Leader Mark Macmillan said: "While we were disappointed not to be funded first time around, we are certainly not disheartened as HLF made clear it was an extremely competitive round of funding and it is often the case projects like this are not successful on the first go.
"It was encouraging that HLF spoke so highly of what we are trying to do and the benefits it would bring to Renfrewshire – and we now have a clearer idea of what we need to do to be successfully funded at a later date.
"Part of that is further development of the museum's fundraising strategy and we will be pushing ahead with that over the next six months.
"This project could have an utterly massive economic impact on Renfrewshire, creating new jobs, bringing large numbers of day-trippers and tourists into the area, and creating new footfall for Paisley High Street.
"Alongside the UK City of Culture 2021 bid, it will also have major community and educational benefit, helping reconnect the people of Paisley with the unique heritage and Pattern which bears the town's name.
"For those reasons and more we remain utterly committed to delivering it in full and as planned, and the proposals going to councillors next week will help us do that."
Alongside the museum project, work is well advanced to create a publicly-accessible museum store in a vacant unit on Paisley's High Street for next year, opening up access to parts of the town's collection currently not available for viewing.
Money has also been set aside to relocate the town's lending library to another empty High Street unit, although the heritage library will stay as part of the museum.


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The Ghost of Jim Crow
If you follow my blog, Thought Provoking Perspectives, and I hope you do, you know that I often write about issues concerning and pertaining to the African American Diaspora. I do so, hopefully, to empower those who either don't know our history or have forgotten it. Therefore, in honor of Black History Month I will write a post each day on this topic that I hold dear. Let me say that I believe our history is American History and as I have said many times; "It is the Greatest Story Ever Told".
In an earlier article someone made a comment and ask a question that, frankly, surprised me. The question was; "What do you mean when you say Jim Crow"? My first thought was, how can history so recent and one that I've witnessed, and know to be true, be removed from the consciousness of anyone living in America. I suppose it speaks to the indifference of what is learned today, or not, through the education system or that the system is designed to protect the system.
So in today's post I will explain the term Jim Crow for those who don't know! The term originated in a song performed by Daddy Rice, a white minstrel show entertainer in the 1830's. Rice covered his face with charcoal paste or burnt cork to resemble a black man as he sang and danced a routine in the caricature of a silly black person. By the 1850's, this cruelly belittling blackface character, one of several stereotypical images of black inferiority in America's popular culture, was a standard act in minstrel shows of the day.
The term became synonymous with the wicked concept of segregation directed specifically toward African Americans in the late nineteenth-century. It is not clear why this term was selected. However, what is clear is that by 1900, the term was generally identified with those racist laws and actions that deprived African Americans of their civil rights by defining blacks as inferior to whites while identifying them as subordinate people.
It was around this time that its inception entered the lexicon of racial bigotry after the landmark U.S Supreme Court decision Plessy verses Ferguson in 1896 resulting from a suit brought by the New Orleans Committee of Citizens. The notion was devised as many southern states tried to thwart the efforts and gains made during Reconstruction following the Civil War.
They, the Committee of Citizens, arranged for Homer Plessy's arrest in order to challenge Louisiana's segregation laws. Their argument was, "We, as freemen, still believe that we were right and our cause is sacred" referring to the confederacy. The Supreme Court agreed and a policy of segregation became the law of the land lasting more than sixty years as a result of that crucial decision.
As a result of reconstruction African Americans were able to make great progress in building their own institutions, passing civil rights laws, and electing officials to public office. In response to these achievements, southern whites launched a vicious, illegal war against southern blacks and their white allies. In most places, whites carried out this war under the cover of secret organizations such as the KKK. Thousands of African Americans were killed, brutalized, and terrorized in these bloody years. I might add that anywhere south of Canada was "South" as this was the law of the land.
The federal government attempted to stop the bloodshed by sending in troops and holding investigations, but its efforts were far too limited and frankly were not intended to solve the problem. Therefore, black resistance to segregation was difficult because the system of land tenancy, known as sharecropping, left most blacks economically dependent upon planter/landlords and merchant suppliers. In addition, white terror at the hands of lynch mobs threatened all members of the black family – adults and children alike. This reality made it nearly impossible for blacks to stand up to Jim Crow laws because such actions might bring the wrath of the white mob on one's parents, brothers, spouse, and children.
Few black families were economically well off enough to buck the local white power structure of banks, merchants, and landlords. To put it succinctly: impoverished and often illiterate southern blacks were in a weak position to confront the racist culture of Jim Crow. To enforce the new legal order of segregation, southern whites often resorted to even more brutalizing acts of mob terror, including race riots and ritualized lynchings were regularly practiced to enforce this agenda.
Some historians saw this extremely brutal and near epidemic commitment to white supremacy as breaking with the South's more laissez-faire and paternalistic past. Others view this "new order" as a more rigid continuation of the "cult of whiteness" at work in the South since the end of the Civil War. Both perspectives agree that the 1890's ushered in a more formally racist South and one in which white supremacists used law and mob terror to define the life and popular culture of African American people as an inferior people.
I want you to remember that words have meaning and power. Therefore, as we witness the already in progress, presidential campaign that you think about what you have heard and hear from the States Rights folks from the right-wing so-called conservatives. Those vying to become president in 2014, as well as others seeking highly placed positions, understand this tried and true principle as they speak to the so-called real Americans and those who want to take back their country because history is known and has repeated itself!
And that's my Thought Provoking Perspective…
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The Right is Wrong
We all know the Right-wingers are engaged in an ideological battle with the intent to make the rich richer and marginalizing those who are not. This false narrative is being done by using the tried and true method of quoting the Constitution and those good Ol' Boys, the so-called Founding Fathers, as a convenient way to get the American people or some ill-informed Tea Party types to vote against their own interests.
One of those candidates is Rep. Ron Paul who has lured a lot of these so called "Real American" into that camp by creating a false narrative about America's Founding, claiming that the drafters of the Constitution wanted a weak central government and one that was equal for all people. But that's not the real or accurate history.
Ron Paul, the libertarian congressman from Texas who has topped 20 percent in the first two Republican contests, is fond of claiming that the U.S. Constitution was written "to protect your liberty and to restrain the federal government," thus making modern laws, from Social Security, to civil rights statutes, to health-care reform, unconstitutional. But that isn't true either.
While the framers of the Constitution in 1787 undeniably cared about liberty, at least for white men, they were also practical individuals who wanted a vibrant central government that would enable the new nation to protect itself both militarily and economically, especially against European rivals.
The broad powers that the Constitution granted Congress were designed to let this central government address national problems that existed then as well as any that would arise in the future. For instance, the Constitution gave control over interstate commerce to Congress in order to counter economic advantages enjoyed by foreign competitors.
Far from Paul's assertions that the Founders wanted a weak central government, the Founders, at least those at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, understood that a great danger came from having a national authority that was too weak, what they had experienced under the Articles of Confederation, which governed the nation from 1777 to 1787.
The Articles of Confederation embraced the concept of state "sovereignty" and called the United States not a government or even a nation, but "a firm league of friendship" among the states. In the Confederation's Article II declared: "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated." And very few powers were delegated to the federal government.
So, in 1787, the framers of the Constitution led by Gen. George Washington, James Madison and others in the Virginia delegation scrapped the Articles and put forward a very different plan, eliminating state sovereignty and creating a strong central government with broad powers, including control over "interstate commerce."
The Commerce Clause wasn't some afterthought it was part of the original proposal outlined on the Constitutional Convention's first day of substantive business on May 29, 1787. The Virginia delegation had one of its members, Edmund Randolph, include it in his opening presentation.
Virginia's plan laid out the framework that would later become the U.S. Constitution, transferring sovereignty from the 13 original states to "we the people of the United States" as represented by a new national Republic.
Where Rep. Paul claims the Constitution was designed to let the American people do what they want using the word liberty as his reference point. This is just not true! Unless, of course, he is referring to the people that represent the privilege class of Americans, who happen to be wealthy and white. We needed a government that could co-ordinate commerce in order to compete effectively with other nations. So, from that first day of substantive debate at the Constitutional Convention, the Founders recognized that a legitimate role of Congress was to ensure that the nation could match up against other countries economically.
Many conservatives to include Ron Paul have worked hard in recent decades at constructing an alternative narrative. Claiming that the Founders envisioned a weak national government and were big supporters of states' rights happen to be a storyline that is simply not supported by facts. Key framers of the Constitution even objected to adding a Bill of Rights to the original document, accepting the first 10 amendments only later as part of negotiations over ratification.
The other thing they cry about is Obamacare. This speaks to Congress's power to address difficult national problems, like the tens of millions of Americans who lack health insurance but whose eventual use of medical services would inevitably shift billions of dollars in costs onto Americans who must pay higher insurance rates as a result, what courts have described as "substantial effects."
Paul claims: It certainly is an encroachment on individual liberty, but it is no more so than a command that restaurants or hotels are obliged to serve all customers regardless of race, that gravely ill individuals cannot use a substance their doctors described as the only effective palliative for excruciating pain, or that a farmer cannot grow enough wheat to support his own family. They also pray for fewer regulations to the benefit of the rich.
There are some conservative legal scholars examining the Constitution and precedents who could not find a convincing argument to overturn "Obamacare" and that is because the Founders intentionally empowered Congress to address national economic problems. It was, as the Virginian delegation understood, one of the key reasons for the Constitutional Convention.
Now I say the larger goal of the right-wing is not to uphold the ideals of the Founders, who wanted a vibrant central government, but to reverse government policies dating back to President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. The plan is to return the United States to a pre-Depression "gilded age" of a society divided into a few haves and many have-nots.
And that is my THOUGHT PRROVOKING PESPECTIVE!
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The incomparable Jackie (Morganfield) Lambert the great niece of the legendary blues man Muddy Waters has done it again. Jackie offers her powerful commentaries on "LET'S TALK ABOUT IT" every Tuesday night at 9:00 PM (est) on Spreaker.com with me and the Wild & Wonderful Brenda White. You must join us on the fastest growing political talk show on the air where we talk about the political news of the day. Oh, and all the crazy goings-on in our country. It's a blast!!!
In January 2010 the Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from placing limits on independent spending for political purposes by corporations and unions. This case is commonly known as Citizens United. In plain English, it means that the gloves are off and moneyed interests are free to buy elections through their Political Action Committees. Let's not forget that they have been free to use their mega bucks to buy favorable legislation for years.
Now, fast forward to January 3rd, 2012. Tonight, in Iowa, the Republican Presidential caucus is being held. One notable candidate in the field has been complaining loudly and bitterly about how outside groups have tanked his campaign through a barrage of negative ads. That candidate would be Newt Gingrich.
What I find so remarkable about this is that Mr. Gingrich is one of the founders of scorched earth politics – even going so far as to draft a memorandum to his Republican colleagues in the house of representatives to give them the most incendiary words to use in order to vilify their Democratic opponents. Mr. Gingrich was also a stalwart supporter of the Citizens United decision.
I am sure that Mr. Gingrich never envisioned that his toxic political tactics coupled with unlimited corporate contributions would combine to bite him right in the uh… Well, you know.
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The insight of history is a powerful thing and I have lived long enough to have had the opportunity to witness many things. I can remember watching the KKK marching through the rural area where I lived as a small boy carrying crosses. I have also seen those strains of thinking espoused by the John Birch Society, the religious right, compassionate conservatives, and other right-wing groups during the segregated days of 1950s and 60s. Today there is a new repackaged conservatism that is a diverse movement with many philosophical threads and tensions who call themselves the Tea Party.
In my view, the rise of the Tea Party movement is nothing more than a throwback to an old form of libertarianism that sees most of the domestic policies that government has undertaken since Roosevelt as unconstitutional, to include many civil rights initiatives. The reason, I believe is because from that point in our country's history the government became socially conscience and began to address the needs of the elderly, the poor, and the least of thee. This element of society typically perceives these issues as dangerous threats to freedom and to the well-educated elitists that support "American values" or as they say the "Real Americans".
Let me be a critic for a moment. These compassionate folks tend to show their compassion, often times, in support of big-business with their public rhetoric intended for their own self-serving agendas. For example, last week Rep. Joe Barton apologized to BP as if they were the victims of what is happening in the gulf. While basically calling the President a thug with the "shakedown" comment of the company for $20 billion on behalf of those hurt by the gulf oil spill. This is embarrassing precisely because it underscored how far this element is to the extreme as it relates to mainstream America. When faced with a choice between supporting a large British corporation or a federal government battling for compensation of the disaster's victims, Barton sided with Big Oil as did many of his conservative counterparts.
Now, the guy did or was forced to apologize because of pressure from other Republican leaders, but many in the party and on the right continue to echo his views. Like the Republican Study Committee made up of more than 115 House conservatives called the escrow fund a "Chicago-style shakedown" while leaders of certain factions of the Tea Party called it "extortion". Could it be that the stock they may have in such companies really be the reason for their greater concern.
A group called Tea Party Patriots that describes itself as "a community committed to standing together, shoulder to shoulder, to protect our country and the Constitution upon which we were founded!" Tea Party Nation says it is "a user-driven group of like-minded people who desire our God given Individual Freedoms which were written out by the Founding Fathers." My question is to them; have they read the original Constitution? These Founding Fathers were really terrorists and the same men who owned slaves, wrote in it that Negroes were 3/5th a man, and denied women all rights. Is this what they want to go back too?
What's remarkable is the extent to which the movement has displaced the religious right as the dominant voice of conservative militancy. The religious conservatives have not disappeared, and Palin, a Tea Party hero, does share their views on abortion and gay marriage. But these issues have been overshadowed by the broader anti-government themes pushed by the New Old Right, and the "compassionate conservatism" that inspires parts of the Christian political movement has no place in the right's current order of battle. This seems un-American to me, dangerous, and frankly resurrecting an American that even they want to forget.
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Inside the Museum
Picture Yourself at the Museum
The Hook's Drug Store Museum is more than just delicious ice cream sodas, beautiful cabinets, glittering glassware, or strange and curious medicines.
Our collection of artifacts is one of the largest of its kind in the United States. It documents the most remarkable period in the discovery of life-saving and life-enhancing medicines in the history of man; from the crude, often misguided attempts of early Victorians to treat disease with simple herbs, plants and strange devices, to the dawn of the modern era when diabetes, tuberculosis, smallpox, diphtheria, polio, and countless other deadly diseases finally began to yield to medical treatments. It is no exaggeration to say that the entire success of our modern civilization and lifestyle owes much of its success to our advances in medicine. Here you can experience the past today, and appreciate the modern miracle of good health.
While soda fountains have been a fixture in drugstores for nearly 150 years, these days, few people remember the fabulous old soda fountains that were part of every drugstore and neighborhood for so many years. Many of the major soda brands on the market today (including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr Pepper, 7-Up and Moxie) were invented by pharmacists, and originally marketed as medical tonics/treatments.
The Hook's Museum has operated a recreated Victorian Soda Fountain as part of the Drugstore Museum since 1971. The Soda Fountain draws over 5,000 people during each State Fair to experience an authentic piece of history that tastes just an old-fashioned ice cream soda away! We feature the nicest "jerks" in town, and have any flavor of ice cream you might like – as long as it's vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry. We mix our sodas and old time phosphates by hand, just like in the "olden" days. Don't stand too close, you might get spritzed!
The Hook's Drug Store Museum and Soda Fountain is open annually during the Indiana State Fair, selected weekends during the year, and by appointment. We have special educational tours available for students, seniors, and other groups upon request. We can also host your special event —birthday, retirement, or business meeting — for up to 50 people.
To schedule a tour or special event, or for more information, please call us at (317) 924-1503 or e-mail: info@hooksmuseum.org


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Home mystery 7 Mystery and Myth Surrounding Mount Agung Bali
7 Mystery and Myth Surrounding Mount Agung Bali
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Mount Agung is a stratotype active volcano located in Rendang, Karangasem, Bali. The highest mountain in Bali is very popular with tourists who want to hike because of the beauty of the panorama offered. So that this mountain becomes an alternative tourist destination in Bali besides its beaches. In addition, this mountain is closely related to things that have a mystical feel, because on the slopes of this mountain there is a sacred place of Pura Besakih which is said to be the place of divine revelation by Hyang Rsi Markendya who first taught the Hindu Dharma in Bali. In fact, in the past there was a unique phenomenon where the building survived the fury of Mount Agung during the eruption in 1963. Mount Agung indeed has many mysteries and myths that are worth listening to.
1. White Monkey Mysteries
In Hinduism, the White Apes are identical with the Anoman Myth. In Bali, this animal is called "the plot" or white bojong. White monkeys are considered sacred by local residents because they believe this type of monkey is a messenger from Ida Batara who maintains the integrity of Mount Agung. When the mountain will erupt, usually this monkey will appeal to local residents as a warning of danger. White Bojong is also known as a messenger of good news, usually appearing on public holidays such as the rituals of pujawali work at Pura Pasar Agung, which is held once a year. The climbers of Mount Agung and my uncle ritual also often see the appearance of this white Bojong. According to Pamangku Pura Agung market, there are 3 white apes inhabiting 2 females and one male, but the population is constant and does not breed.
2. Prohibited to carry a beef
Residents of the Balinese Hindu religion always avoid eating beef. Because cows for them are noble animals. According to them, cows are a symbol of the welfare of all living creatures such as the teachings of the god Krishna, so they will never slaughter and eat beef. In connection with Mount Agung, bringing beef to the mountain will anger the occult mountain watchers who are predominantly Hindu and the god's shelter there will also be angry. Moreover, on its slopes, there is a holy Besakih temple. So for those who want to safely climb the majestic mountains, they must remember the provisions they bring whether they contain beef or not.
3. Dog Navigator
For those who have climbed Mount Agung must have seen a pack of dogs, especially when passing through the entrance gate to the hiking trail after Besakih Temple. This dog is known to like to follow climbers, very friendly as if to guide climbers. This dog can follow climbers to the top. According to the story, a climber was even rescued by a black and white dog when he was lost he showed the right path to the summit and returned to the exit. The mystical atmosphere is indeed thick in this mountain, maybe only those who intend well will be saved by this kind-hearted dog.
4. Mountain Climber must be Guided by Sacred Man
Because this mountain is considered sacred, not just anyone can explore without permission or disaster will ahead. People who are considered holy are priests or certain people who are purified. Not only that, but women are also strictly forbidden to climb this mountain when menstruating. For residents of Bali Mountain is a symbol of "Purusa" or male while the sea is a mother. So naturally, this mountain prioritizes more for men and women to be in a sacred state as well. This rule was very intensively applied in the past but now it is no longer enforced after Bali became an international tourist destination.
5. Food Must Amount Even Numbers
Odd numbers are indeed mostly to be avoided like the myth of Mount Lawu which suggests always bringing even climbers because if it is odd one will die. However, the relationship between numbers and food remains a mystery. Is it possible to bring odd food to make one food will disappear, or the food will invite spirits or relate to the teachings of Hinduism? Although it does not make sense, this myth is still believed by some local people.
6. Prohibited from Wearing Red and Green Shirts
Like a prohibition on the Parang Tritis beach, the green color is the color of the queen of the south coast. No one can match the color if violated the usual disaster will come. Maybe this has something to do with the beliefs of the Balinese people who consider mountains and sea as husband and wife. For the red color is said to be the favorite color of the mountain's occult watchman.
7. Holly Springs
This spring is located on the Mount Agung hiking trail from Besakih Temple. This water is very clear and considered sacred by local residents. New people like climbers may not necessarily take or drink this spring. If you want to drink it climbers must pray first according to Hindu teachings. If not, it is likely not going home safely or drinking water will be a source of disease.
Read also the Mysteries and Oddities of Mount Salak


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Q: How can I stop the AppBar from capturing touch activity when opened? I apologize in advance, this one is hard to explain.
I have a GridView full of tiles that are selectable. When a selection is made, the bottom AppBar appears by setting IsOpen and IsSticky to true. This works fine.
However, when the AppBar appears after the first selection, it captures any touch activity and then releases it after any touch to an area outside the AppBar, but that touch gesture gets absorbed. I end up touching the screen twice to perform a second selection.
In the start screen of Windows 8, you can select multiple tiles one after another seamlessly. The bottom bar that appears doesn't not interfere with subsequent touch gestures. But inside my app, the bar captures the first gesture and I end up selecting the second tile twice. It makes my app feel unresponsive.
How do I fix this?
To Replicate this:
1) Start a new "Grid App (XAML)" under Windows Store in Visual Studio 2012.
2) In the GroupedItemsPage.xaml, add the following XAML to it:
<Page.BottomAppBar>
    <AppBar>
        <Button Content="X"/>
    </AppBar>
</Page.BottomAppBar>

3) Find the GridView with x:Name="itemGridView" and set its SelectionMode="Extended" and IsSwipeEnabled="true"
<GridView
    x:Name="itemGridView"
    AutomationProperties.AutomationId="ItemGridView"
    AutomationProperties.Name="Grouped Items"
    Grid.RowSpan="2"
    Padding="116,137,40,46"
    ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource groupedItemsViewSource}}"
    SelectionMode="Extended"
    IsSwipeEnabled="true"
    IsItemClickEnabled="True"
    ItemClick="ItemView_ItemClick">

4) Add the following code in the code-behind file:
public GroupedItemsPage()
    {
        this.InitializeComponent();

        itemGridView.SelectionChanged += ItemGridViewOnSelectionChanged;
    }

    private void ItemGridViewOnSelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (itemGridView.SelectedItems.Count > 0)
        {
            this.BottomAppBar.IsOpen = true;
            this.BottomAppBar.IsSticky = true;
        }
        else
        {
            this.BottomAppBar.IsSticky = false;
            this.BottomAppBar.IsOpen = false;
        }
    }

5) Run it and watch out the app bar appears after the first selection, but then your second gesture to select the second tile is absorbed.

A: Believe it or not the solution is really simple.  You have to change the order of how you set BottomAppBar.IsOpen and BottomAppBar.IsSticky:
private void ItemGridViewOnSelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    if (itemGridView.SelectedItems.Count > 0)
    {
        //this.BottomAppBar.IsOpen = true;
        //this.BottomAppBar.IsSticky = true;

        // must be done in this order for the app bar to work correctly
        this.BottomAppBar.IsSticky = true;
        this.BottomAppBar.IsOpen = true;
    }
    else
    {
        //this.BottomAppBar.IsSticky = false;
        //this.BottomAppBar.IsOpen = false;

        // I have a note in my code to use the following order,
        // but ordering for this doesn't seem to matter.
        this.BottomAppBar.IsOpen = false;
        this.BottomAppBar.IsSticky = false;
    }
}

I'm not sure why the ordering matters, but it does.

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LEWISTON, Maine.--The Connecticut College Track & Field teams visited Bates College Saturday for the 2012 NESCAC Championship. Both teams placed ninth Saturday. The men scored 19 points while the women finished with 10 points. The Bobcats of Bates won the men's championship with a score of 156.25 points and were followed by Tufts (146.25) and third placed Middlebury, who tallied 124 points. Williams scored 180 points to win the women's championship. Tufts (159) edged out Middlebury by two points to take second place. In the 3000 meter steeplechase, sophomore Mike LeDuc (Canton, Conn.) posted a time of 9:17.85 en route to a second place scoring for the Camels. Junior Boris Jeremic (Rijeka, Croatia) finished fifth in the high jump, reaching his apex at six feet, one and one quarter of an inch. The Camels added another fifth place scoring in the distance medley relay. The quartet of Andrew Duarte (Rocky Hill, Conn.), Geoff Phaneuf (Woonsocket, R.I.), Tristan Cole (St. Helen, Calif.) and Mike LeDuc posted a time of 10:26.94. In the 4x100 meter relay, the Camel foursome comprised of Rasheed Mitchell, Brian Gooch (Columbia, N.H.), Phaneuf and Alex DeShields (Melrose, Mass.) posted a time of 44.61 seconds en route to their seventh place scoring. Junior Matt Boudreau (Bridgewater, Mass.), Chris May (Hudson, Ohio), Billy Barnes (New York, N.Y.) and Dan Post (Pepper Pike, Ohio) teamed up for an eighth place finish in the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:36.22. In the women's championship, freshman Samantha Pevear (Somersworth, N.H.) set a personal record in the discus for the Camels, finishing fourth with a throw of 123 feet, six inches. In the 100 meter dash, Sara Gildersleeve (Sharon, Mass.) was sixth with a personal record setting time of 12.54 seconds. Junior Sarah Matthews (Westwood, Mass.) posted a time of 59.60 seconds en route to an eighth place scoring in the 400 meters. In the 4x400 meter relay, Vicki Weigold (Glen, N.H.), Gina Deitz (Portland, Ore.), Michelle Wesley (Millwood, N.Y.) and Matthews placed eighth with a time of 4:12.86.


Cockroaches are one of the most common pests in Australian homes and businesses and besides rodents, one that is mostly complained about by customers. If you have seen one cockroach in your home or business, the chances are, there are plenty more where it came from. Cockroaches can contaminate food, utensils and preparation areas with droppings, cast skins, egg sacs, regurgitation marks and other foul things. Cockroaches also spread diseases including such as Salmonella, which is a major cause of food poisoning.
Cockroaches are typically nocturnal, meaning that the sleep during the day and are awake and roaming about at night. The few cockroaches you fortunately get to see by day means they were likely forced out by overcrowding; a possible sign of infestation.


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Federal medical station at PMC ready to be occupied
By admin | on April 30, 2020
On Thursday, April 23, San Diego County public health and elected officials, joined by leadership of Palomar Health, announced the installation and provided a tour of a 202-bed Federal Medical Station loaned to the county and now occupying two formerly vacant floors of Palomar Medical Center Escondido.
Participating in the press conference and tour were: Kristin Gaspar, Supervisor, County Board of Supervisors, Paul McNamara, Mayor, Escondido; Diane Hansen, President & CEO, Palomar Health, Nick Macchione, County Director of the Health and Human Services Agency; Dr. Nick Yphantides, San Diego County Chief Medical Officer; Dr. Denise Foster, San Diego County Chief Nursing Officer; Rob Sills, Director, County Medical Operations Center; Melvin Russel, Chief Nursing Officer, Palomar Health.
Federal Medical Stations (FMS) has the following capabilities:
Provide services in the capacity of an Alternate Care Facility (ACF) or a low acuity health care resource.
Can support quarantine operations and serve as a short-term casualty collection point.
Though the FMS has many attributes, it is not a standalone system. All FMS require an identified building and site support from the state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) jurisdiction. At a minimum, an FMS assessment team must be able to validate uninterrupted power, potable water, food services, heat and air conditioning, and local wrap around service support to establish initial operating capabilities.
FMS sets and pharmacy caches are strategically located throughout the continental United States to facilitate rapid deployment. San Diego's FMS was assembled from supplies in Fresno and Los Angeles County. There is a Strike Team whose primary mission is to provide technical assistance to assigned volunteers and clinical staff in the setup of one or multiple FMSs. Each FMS is usually augmented by an Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) pharmacy cache which is delivered on a separate truck. The current configuration of the Pharmacy cache contains over 400 medications to include controlled substances.
The General Use Bed (GUB) has a 400-pound weight capacity. It is a flat basic cot with no distinct features. The GUBs are packed eight to a tri-wall. The two packages located on each bed are called a bed pack and hygiene kit. Bed packs contain helpful items like a patient belongings bag, blankets, pillow, sheets, chart holder, towel and wash cloth. The hygiene kits contain useful toiletry items. Enhanced care treatment beds, also known as the Westcot, have a 400 Ib. weight capacity and include an adjustable back and foot section and an IV pole which can be attached to either side of the head portion of the bed. The Hospital Adjustable Exam Bed is called Military Field Hospital bed. They are used for triage. These hospital adjustable exam beds within two tri-walls in a FMS. The bariatric bed has a 600 lbs. weight capacity and the head and leg sections and overall height of bed can be adjusted electrically or manually.
Additional Supplies that come with the medical station include:
Bed packs
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San Diego County asked for the hospital March 21 and it was approved by the California Department Public Health following a site assessment by the Army Corp of Engineers.
The federal government made assets available to loan to the state. The state then took requests from local governments. Army Corps then performed a site survey to determine whether the request met the federal criteria. The state processed the local applications and approves loans based on the Army Corps analysis and the hospital was approved April 3. Trucks transporting the hospital arrived on April 17 and the hospital was installed on two floors of Palomar Medical Center Escondido on April 22. The hospital is operational-ready, but will be activated only if needed. At this time, the response of San Diego residents to stay home, physical distancing and other orders and requests is bending the curve and has prevented the type of surge seen elsewhere.
Beds of the federal medical station that has been set up on two unused floors of Palomar Medical Center.
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The new menu is available beginning the weekend of February 2 and 3.
The Hudson Tower, possibly the most impressive item on the brunch menu, is a beautifully displayed three-tiered tower that embraces a traditional offering: bagels and lox. Selections include plain, gluten free, sesame and everything bagels; customary add-ons such as cream cheese, tomato, cucumber, onion and capers; proteins to choose from include Gravlax, Cold Smoked Lox, Smoked Whitefish, Smoked Trout or Lobster. Guests can add Trout Roe to any selection for an additional charge. The tower serves 4–6 people.
Chef Grant also takes classic American dishes but adds his own spin: Velvet Chicken & Waffles—red velvet Belgian waffle, honey butter, maple syrup and double fried chicken. Pastrami & Eggs—crispy wagyu pastrami topped with whole egg frittata, deli mustard, rye toast and crispy shallots; Lemon Pancakes—lemon ricotta cream, powdered sugar, cream cheese glaze, blueberries and whipped cream.
The new menu is available beginning the weekend of February 2 and 3. Brunch is served Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.—3 p.m.


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Kronotsky (Кроноцкий) Nature Reserve (also: Kronotsky Biosphere Zapovednik) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) reserved for the study of natural sciences in the remote Russian Far East, on the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was created in 1934 and its current boundary contains an area of . The largest lake in the reserve is Lake Kronotskoye, which covers an area of . It also has Russia's only geyser basin, plus several mountain ranges with numerous volcanoes, both active and extinct. Due to its often harsh climate and its mix of volcanoes and geysers, it is frequently described as the Land of Fire and Ice.

Kronotsky is mainly accessible only to scientists, plus approximately 3,000 tourists annually who pay a fee equivalent to US$700 to travel by helicopter for a single day's visit. It is part of Volcanoes of Kamchatka, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Ecoregion and climate
Kronotsky is in the Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests ecoregion, which covers the coastal zones of Kamchatka and surrounding islands.  The climate is Humid continental climate, cool summer (Köppen climate classification (Dwb)). This climate is characterized by high variation in temperature, both daily and seasonally; with dry winters and cool summers.

Flora and fauna
Over 750 plant species grow in the reserve, which has volcanoes rising up to a height of over 3,510 m (11,500 feet).

The nature reserve boasts over 800 brown bears, some of the largest in the world that can grow to over 540 kg (1,200 pounds). The 800-plus population make it Eurasia's largest protected brown bear population. Bears in the Kronotsky reserve often encounter each other at salmon streams in the park where they can socialize freely with each other.

Some bears have been observed to sniff the kerosene and gasoline off of discarded fuel barrels the reserve uses to power generators and helicopters, apparently having formed an addiction. After inhaling for a few minutes, they dig a shallow hole in which to lie down. Bears have been seen waiting for helicopters to take off so that they can sniff any fuel that may have been dropped onto the ground.

Valley of Geysers

The Valley of Geysers () and the Mutnovsky geyser field are the only geyser fields in Eurasia. The Valley of Geysers is the second largest concentration of geysers in the world. The 6 km long basin with approximately ninety geysers and many hot springs is situated on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, predominantly on the left bank of the ever-deepening Geysernaya River.

Within the valley a volcanic cone collapsed approximately 40,000 years ago forming the Uzon Caldera, which continues to steam in places where magma can heat groundwater to a near-boil. The area is less than eight miles wide and holds at least 500 geothermal hot springs, mud pots and other similar features.

Among the geysers is the Velikan (giant) Geyser, which erupts with tons of water that shoot more than 25 metres into the air during a minute-long eruption approximately every six hours or so. At least 20 such geysers erupt on a stretch of the Geysernaya River Basin in the Valley of Geysers, along with dozens of smaller gushing vents and hundreds of hot springs. The largest of these geysers erupts with 60 tons of water once or twice a year.

Kronotsky's 'Cleansing Case'

Today's territory of the reserve has had the status of farmland for many years; in the 1960s and 1970s it was home to settlements and military units, oil exploration was underway and a hydroelectric power plant was being designed. In 2015, the reserve was the first in Russia to be included in a pilot programme to eliminate damage from economic activities. The state has allocated funding of 454 million roubles to the project. From February 2015 to August 2016, Alexander Ilyin was Deputy Director for Protected Areas. During his tenure, Vitaly Drozd's company 'Ecologiya' received the contract to clean up the reserve's territory. In 2016, Tikhon Shpilenok, a hereditary conservationist and son of Igor Shpilenok, head of the Bryansk Forest Reserve and renowned wildlife photographer, died of cancer at the age of 36. Tikhon Shpilenok found out about his diagnosis in April 2015, he had to leave the reserve for treatment and was absent from his workplace for almost all of 2016. In March 2017, Tikhon's place as director of the reserve was taken by his brother Pyotr Shpilenok. In 2018, Vitaly Drozd became a defendant in a fraud case and in 2020 for embezzlement. As part of his cooperation with the investigation, he claimed that Tikhon Shpilenok and his colleagues had embezzled the money issued for the clean-up. Thanks to the deal with the investigation, Drozd received a suspended sentence instead of 10 years in prison. On the basis of Drozd and Ilyin's testimony, the Investigative Committee of Kamchatka initiated a criminal case against four employees of the reserve: Director of Science and Tourism Roman Korchigin, Head of the Scientific Department Darya Panicheva, Deputy Director for Financial Support Oksana Terekhova, and Deputy General Affairs Officer Nikolai Pozdnyakov.

According to investigators, an organized criminal group from the management of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve stole 460 million roubles allocated by the state to clean it up and buried the scrap metal right on the reserve's territory. The prosecution requested six years in prison for Roman Korchigin, seven years for Daria Panicheva, eight years for Oksana Terekhova and four and a half years for Nikolai Pozdnyakov.

Defenders of the reserve's employees point to massive inconsistencies in the prosecution materials: for example, Roman Korchigin's evidence of guilt is based on episodes from 2015, when he was not yet working in the reserve. In addition, the investigation has not conducted a single confrontation, and has refused to conduct an expert evaluation of the documents and an examination of the work that has been done. The places on the territory of the nature reserve where the rubbish was allegedly buried were also not named. The fact that 243 kilometres of the park's shoreline were cleared of litter, removing more than 1,300 tonnes of solid waste and over 5,000 barrels of fuel and lubricants, was documented by a vast array of photos and videos, numerous reports broadcast on federal channels, many of them with the involvement of regional officials. The court, however, refused to take all these documents into account. The court also refused to attach to the case a 2021 report by MSU scientists in which they documented the re-vegetation of the cleared areas. One of the witnesses for the prosecution, I. S. Koval, confirmed that some of the signatures in the protocols on his behalf had been forged, which had been confirmed by forensic tests.

Kamchatka governor Vladimir Solodov spoke in support of the defendants. Their defence was also voiced by Vsevolod Stepanitsky, Distinguished Ecologist of the Russian Federation, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Kamchatka Alexei Kumarkov, Krai, head of 'RussiaDiscovery' Vadim Mamontov, and many others. On 30 June 2022, director Peter Shpilenok tendered his resignation in protest against unfair harassment of his colleagues. Shpilenok is sure that the lobby of supporters of industrial salmon farming on Kronotsky Lake is behind the accusation. The project to build an artificial fish passage between the lake and the Pacific Ocean is owned by Gleb Frank's Russian Fisheries Company, son-in-law of businessman Gennady Timchenko. Daria Panicheva, as head of the scientific department of the nature reserve, was responsible for preparing the scientific case against the project. Notably, even the main witness for the prosecution, Vitaly Drozd, said in court that he did not understand "what the reserve staff were doing here", while Alexander Ilyin said that "clean-up work was carried out with the involvement of machinery, with the involvement of vessels, transport".

Only when the guilty verdict had already been handed down, at the beginning of December 2022, the Ministry of Natural Resources ordered an expert assessment of the state of nature in the reserve. The expertise showed that there were no rubbish dumps on the territory of the reserve, but there was visible evidence of work to move the waste to removal points. This completely refutes the main accusation of the investigation that budget money was embezzled and scrap metal was simply buried. In early September 2022, over 60 representatives of environmental organisations wrote an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to take personal control of the case against Kronotsky employees and to instruct the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee to re-examine the case and conduct independent investigations.

Staff shortages due to the criminal case have led to the suspension of research and excursion activities in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve and the South Kamchatka Federal Wildlife Refuge.

On 7 February 2023, the Kamchatka Regional Court annulled the conviction and released the defendants from custody; the case was sent back to the trial court for reconsideration. Defence lawyer Irina Diachenko and former Kronotsky director Peter Shpilenok called this an important step towards restoring justice.

See also
Evgeny Chernikin
Kronotsky

References

External links

Official site of Kronotsky Biosphere Zapovednik
Wild-russia.org: Kronotsky Biosphere Zapovednik

Nature reserves in Russia
Geography of Kamchatka Krai
Kamchatka Peninsula
Protected areas of the Russian Far East
Volcanic landforms
Volcanism of Russia
World Heritage Sites in Russia
Zapovednik
1882 establishments in the Russian Empire
Protected areas established in 1882

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House of the Very Island's Fall 2015 collection takes inspiration from dark romanticism, exploring what's both beautiful and intense and adding unusual elements of surprise to the ordinary and simple. The collection feels moody in a temperamental way. The subtle details are magnified, button-down shirts have side pocket seams extending all the way to the bottom of the shirt. The collection embodies the identity of the high school rebel/outsider when he's all grownup. Designers Karin and Markus want their clothing to represent an open-ended question for fashion; think of being where you are aesthetically and then conceive where will you be a decade from now. The collection carries a dark and grey hued buffet of styles that can be dressed up and down easily. The brand also prides itself on having eco-friendly, sustainable practices using fair trade fabrics and fair modes of production.
What inspired you to start this brand?
The lack of all-sexes collections. Combining classical tailoring with international streetwear gives us the possibility to create looks that fit all genders.
Tell us the story behind the name of the collection.
For the a/w 2015 collection Minimal.Romantixx , House of the Very Island's is indulging in one of its favorite atmospheres: Dark Romanticism. Writers like Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley or E.T.A. Hoffmann and artists from Johann Heinrich Füssli and Francisco Goya to Monika Baer in her Vampire series have depicted this gloomy world filled with nightmarish visions, magic rites and uncanny passions. Here, the romantic illusion of absolute beauty is challenged by the horrific, the miraculous and thegrotesque. Merged with the labels signature approach of reducing and slightly disfiguring classic menswear pieces, this dark side of romanticism generates the Minimal.Romantixx style, an ironic mix of goth and Britpop, tailoring and sportswear.
What is your design process?
We usually start by discussing about artists we like right now and the mood they put us in. Then we combine this mood with how we want the label´s style to evolve. We do a lot of sketches and go straight into patternmaking. As we do all our patterns ourselves this is an important step where a lot of things can happen.
How important are the fabrics during the design process?
High quality fabrics are a crucial part of our designs. We work mostly with organic or locally sourced fabrics.
What is the most important tool you use?
Books and libraries for research; a pencil for patternmaking.
What is the most enjoyable part about working for yourself & what are the downsides?
Researching new materials and discussing new styles are the fun part; a tight schedule of dead lines can be down-sides.
You are a collaboration of two designers which started out as four; what makes having more cooks in the kitchen exciting?
The possibility to discuss things with people that are basically on the same page but still have a different approach.
House of the Very Island's is an all-sexes based collection. Who are the people you'd like to see in your designs?
Zebra Katz, Mykki Blanco, Judith Butler, Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, LP. And as always the artists we currently work with like Hans Scheirl, Jakob Lena Knebl--the list goes on.
Do you think about the future or try to stay present for each collection?
Each collection is a step in an ongoing constant development.
The piece of inspirational advice you have gotten?
Know the mainstream but don't take it too serious.
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People of Rio de Janeiro are very body conscious. Almost everyone takes part in some form of exercise be it volleyball on the beach or biking through the neighborhoods. Because of this partiality for fitness, gyms have sprung up all over the city. Much of this culture comes from the fact that the climate is very hot in the city and there are beaches spread all over the city, which makes the physical exposure higher than in other parts of the world.
Each gym may have its own peculiarities but they all offer the same general services. Free weights as well as Nautilus weight machines are always available. Treadmills, stair steppers and elliptical machines are also quite prevalent. Stationary bicycles and rowing machines are very popular in gyms. Classes are held daily for aerobics, boxercise, spinning and kick boxing.
While the gyms were originally opened for individuals who want to work out, they have become much more. Now gyms are akin to social clubs. The locals show up to socialize and meet people as well as work out. Flirting is a constant past time at the gym. Some gyms go so far as to host parties so their members can meet each other.
There are gyms all over the city. Look for the sign with the word "academia" in it and you have found the gym. Many are located on the second floors of buildings with large windows where people can be seen working out. Some gyms are private whereas others allow visitors to come work out for a small fee while they are in town.
Visitors can also work out for free. There are several open-air gyms set up by the government and strewn up and down the beaches. During the day muscle bound beach boys can be seen working out at these gyms. Most contain free weights; pull up bars and stair steps. Anyone can use them at just about any time of day.Finding a gym in Rio is not a problem. There are usually a few gyms in every neighborhood. Or, if you prefer, there are several outdoor gyms on the beaches.


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Stretch goal: Complete the Time For Change challenge using a sequence of while loops.
Super-stretch goal: Start watching Week 2 videos as listed in the Meeting 4 pre-work.
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HBO's The Nevers cast discusses working with Joss Whedon, his exit, in wake of Buffy claims
Joss Whedon's Hollywood reputation took another hit last month when it was reported that the famed writer/director of beloved geeky franchises had allegedly "abused his power" on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with Charisma Carpenter and several other cast members speaking out about their negative experiences on set. But the stars of The Nevers — Whedon's Victorian-era superhero show that comes to HBO next month — tell a different story about their own experiences with the TV and filmmaker.
"I loved working with Joss," cast member Ann Skelly (Penance Adair) told Entertainment Weekly. "I found him to be a lovely boss and director, he was very open. I felt he cared a lot for the actors and the crew. It was definitely one of my favorite on-set experiences for sure ... Everyone would show up to work happy to be there, ready to go. That is a very contagious feeling. It was a very positive energy."
Laura Donnelly, who plays Amalia True, added that the production was "the best screen, film or TV, experience" she ever had on a set. "From my point of view, [Joss] always felt very supportive and protective of the artistic integrity and what we as actors needed in order to be able to do our job. One of the great things was the way that trickled down. I've never worked on a show that has a cast and a crew that all seem to be so at the top of their game and who are all so lovely and I say that without a single exception."
The Avengers and Justice League filmmaker created the new series, but ended up parting ways with the project last November, citing pandemic-related exhaustion as the cause. Showrunning reins were then handed over to Philippa Goslett (screenwriter of How to Talk to Girls at Parties).
"I was certainly gutted. I was going to miss him a lot — he was our captain," Donnelly said. "But at the same time, he left for personal reasons and you can't argue with that. People have to look after themselves, they gotta look after their families, they gotta look after their mental well-being. These are all the conversations that we're having at the moment and it's really important that that happens. I wouldn't want it to be any other way for him."
"I found out the same way and I was really sad," Skelly added. "I'll miss him going back to work, but I am very trusting in who we have leading the show now."
Part League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and part X-Men, The Nevers centers around "The Touched," a group of women with unique abilities, who must rise above cultural and religious backlash in order to save the world. The show premieres on HBO and HBO Max Sunday, April 11.
Watch the full trailer here.


Our Dragons Breath sauce is the hottest of our four pepper sauces with more than a little kick. Enjoy. Chilies grown in Humboldt county.
Ingredients: Thai Chiles, Water, Garlic, Ginger, Basil, white Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Xanthan Gum, Canola Oil, Olive Oil.


The Forest Resource Education Center (FREC) Jackson Township iincludes the Interpretive Center and the New Jersey State Forest Nursery. The FREC strives to teach and practice forest stewardship - managing New Jersey's forest resources so that we have healthy trees and forests, clean air and water and places to learn and enjoy the outdoors. Come to the FREC to be a forester for a day and a steward for life. Fishing or hunting is available to those licensed. You may also bring a horse or a bike to ride on our sand roads. Other activities include bird watching and hiking. Visit the Interpretive Center or Nursery Office for a map of trails.


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WOW Air has gone bust
Friday 29 March 2019
Companies Free markets Money News Regulated markets WowAir
The airline WOW Air has shut down without refunding or returning thousands of passengers.
Business transactions are meant to be simple. The buyer agrees to swap a certain amount of money for a good or service from the seller. But what happens when one of you renages on the bargain? That's what's happened with WOW air, a low-fare airline that's now gone bust and cancelled all its scheduled flights.
Its response to passengers who had bought tickets for those flights (including those who have flown the first leg of their journey) can be basically summed up as 'well, we no longer have planes to fly you or money to refund you so soz tnx bye'. Passengers who don't have insurance may end up losing all the money they paid for their flight, and possibly forking out more cash for a new one.
Economists have different theories about how buyers should be treated in these sort of situations. Some are fans of free markets, which means transactions should be a private matter between buyer and seller, with no restrictions from government-set rules and regulations. There are advantages to this model for customers: more freedom (no one making certain things illegal to buy) and often cheaper prices (no tax included) but an obvious disadvantage is that there's no recourse if you buy something that turns out to be overpriced or dangerous or non-existent.
An alternative is regulated markets, where authorities set some ground rules. Most real-life sales take place in regulated markets. In this case, WOW Air is subject to EU rules, which says passengers must get compensation if a flight is cancelled.
Unfortunately, that ruling works better in theory than in practice. Because WOW Air is no longer a functioning company and owns nothing of value, it'll probably be next to impossible for people to actually get their hands on that compensation.
Read our explainer on: regulation
…so how are all our groups and communities in society linked to together? On some level or another, we're all governed by the same state, whether we like it or not – via paying taxes, using public services, or complying with regulation in our businesses and purchases… so how do we come to a consensus on what role the government should play in the economy?
Return to 'Your Government'


A student residence in the city center.
Ideally located at the crossroads of the Blancarde station, the metro line and the two tram lines, you can reach all parts of the city center in a few minutes. The residence is completely new (2015), comprises 94 dwellings and was designed in a spirit of security and friendliness.


A beautiful day spa experience in the McClaren Vale is the perfect antidote to stressful living. If your skin is in need of some tender, loving care and your body has been yearning to relax in beautiful surroundings, this spa pure decadence package will not disappoint.
After being warmly welcomed by your beauty therapist, you will be asked to complete a short health questionnaire to advise of any conditions, before embarking on your treatment.
Your spa experiences begins with a detoxifying body treatment including, body brushing, sea salt and grapefruit exfoliation followed by a cocoa butter and Fleurieu olive oil moistening treatment. You will then enjoy a Hot Stone back massage will will undoubtedly send you into a dreamy state of relaxation. Based on traditional healing practices, heated and cooled stones are placed on the body to bring about balance and rejuvenation.
Following the massage you'll receive your Wildflower Healing Facial which includes facial cleansing, botanical exfoliation, massage and a masque customized to your skin. To complete the experience, you'll be served with designer herbal teas to ensure you find complete zen.
This treatment lasts for 2 hours and the day spa operates Mondays and Wednesday to Saturday. Bookings for Saturday fill up very quickly. Four to five weeks notice is recommended.
Some medical conditions and injuries may preclude treatment - please contact us if you have any concerns about your suitability.
Once the experience has been confirmed, changes are at the discretion of the experience provider and arranged directly with them.
All of our staff are fully qualified massage therapists. We use our own quality products during your treatment.
In the heart of the McLaren Vale wine district, 40km south of Adelaide.


Exhibit enthusiasm, commitment, and service/product knowledge with the mission to provide such a positive experience for each customer that they are compelled to rave to others about their experience with us.
1) As a customer-focused associate, you are an outgoing professional with exceptional customer service skills. Your natural disposition is to be 'guest obsessed.' You strive to be the reason the customer has a smile on their face, but know the fine line between providing excellent service and turning a customer inquiry into a social call.
Rock: We stay professional. We take ownership. We make the extra effort without being asked.
http://www.memoryventures.com/To apply for this position the following steps must be followed, or you will not be considered. Please email your resume as an attachment to careers@memoryventures.com. Tell us why you'd rock in this position within the body of the email, and within the subject line of the email enter "Customer Experience".
Memory Ventures is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


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This project includes a simple web client front-end example for the [Lightstreamer - Race Telemetry Demo - Java Adapter](https://github.com/Lightstreamer/Lightstreamer-example-RaceTelemetry-adapter-java).

## Live Demo
[![screenshot](screen_telemetry_large.png)](https://demos.lightstreamer.com/WebTelemetryDemo/)

### [![](http://demos.lightstreamer.com/site/img/play.png) View live demo](https://demos.lightstreamer.com/WebTelemetryDemo/)

## Details

The *Web-Telemetry Demo* uses the JavaScript Client API for Lightstreamer to show how Lightstreamer can be used to send real-time telemetry data through the Web.

In this demo, the data is generated by a random feed simulator of the telemetry metrics of a racing car such as Lap Time, Distance, Speed, Engine RPM, Gear, and Laps. The data is displayed in tabular form using two tables, one for the current lap and the other to recap the history of the laps. In addition, two real-time streaming charts are shown, one for speed and one for engine RPM.

Actual feed adapters were created to deliver real data.

The demo includes the following client-side functionalities:
* A [Subscription](https://lightstreamer.com/api/ls-web-client/latest/Subscription.html) containing 1 item, subscribed to in MERGE mode, with some of the metrics pertaining to the car, feeding a [StaticGrid](https://lightstreamer.com/api/ls-web-client/latest/StaticGrid.html).
* A [Subscription](https://lightstreamer.com/api/ls-web-client/latest/Subscription.html) containing 1 item, subscribed to in DISTINCT mode, with the data for each lap feeding a [DynaGrid](https://lightstreamer.com/api/ls-web-client/latest/DynaGrid.html).
* A [Subscription](https://lightstreamer.com/api/ls-web-client/latest/Subscription.html) containing 1 item (the same of the first Subscription but at a lower frequency), subscribed to in MERGE mode feeding two [Chart](https://lightstreamer.com/api/ls-web-client/latest/Chart.html)s, used to plot the speed and the engine RPM.

## Install

If you want to install a version of this demo pointing to your local Lightstreamer Server, follow these steps:

* Note that, as prerequisite, the [Lightstreamer - Race Telemetry Demo - Java Adapter](https://github.com/Lightstreamer/Lightstreamer-example-RaceTelemetry-adapter-java)  has to be deployed on your local Lightstreamer Server instance. Please check out that project and follow the installation instructions provided with it.
* Launch Lightstreamer Server.
* Get the `lightstreamer.min.js` file from [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/lightstreamer-client-web) or [unpkg](https://unpkg.com/lightstreamer-client-web/lightstreamer.min.js) and put it in the `src/js` folder of the demo.
  Alternatively, you can generate a customized lightstreamer.min.js library containing only the classes you actually use;
  see the build instructions on the [GitHub page](https://github.com/Lightstreamer/Lightstreamer-lib-client-javascript#building).
  In that case, be sure to include the LightstreamerClient, Subscription, DynaGrid, StaticGrid, Chart, SimpleChartListener, ConnectionSharing, and StatusWidget modules.
* Get the `require.js file` from [requirejs.org](http://requirejs.org/docs/download.html) and put it in the `src/js` folder of the demo.

You can deploy this demo to use the Lightstreamer server as Web server or in any external Web Server you are running.
If you choose the former case, please create the folders `<LS_HOME>/pages/demos/RaceTelemetryDemo` then copy here the contents of the `/src` folder of this project.

The client demo configuration assumes that Lightstreamer Server, Lightstreamer Adapters, and this client are launched on the local machine. If you need to target a different Lightstreamer server, please search this line:
```js
var lsClient = new LightstreamerClient(protocolToUse+"//localhost:8080","F1Telemetry");
```
in `js/lsClient.js` file and change it accordingly. For example, if you want to target the adapter deployed in our server, you should substitute with this:
```js
var lsClient = new LightstreamerClient(protocolToUse+"//push.lightstreamer.com","F1Telemetry");
```

The demo is now ready to be launched.

## See Also

### Lightstreamer Adapters Needed by This Demo Client

* [Lightstreamer - Race Telemetry Demo - Java SE  Adapter](https://github.com/Lightstreamer/Lightstreamer-example-RaceTelemetry-adapter-java)
* [Lightstreamer - Reusable Metadata Adapters - Java Adapter](https://github.com/Lightstreamer/Lightstreamer-example-ReusableMetadata-adapter-java)

### Related Projects

* [Lightstreamer - Stock-List Demos - HTML Clients](https://github.com/Lightstreamer/Lightstreamer-example-StockList-client-javascript)

## Lightstreamer Compatibility Notes

* Compatible with Lightstreamer JavaScript Client library version 6.0 or newer (installation instructions for version 8.0 or newer).

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By Bea Bruske
I think almost everyone can agree 2021 was a rough year. The pandemic we hoped was ending now rolls on with new variants and new disruptions.
But in 2021 we also saw some hopeful signs of what's possible when people work together in common cause. Workers with newfound confidence demanding better. People seeking out jobs that offered regular schedules, better wages, and less precarity. Increased unionization rates in the middle of a pandemic.
That's the energy Canada's unions are bringing into 2022. So as everyone gets going on their New Year's resolutions, we've got a few of our own. And we intend to keep them.
This is our time to build and our time to demand better. By lunchtime on January 4, Canada's highest paid CEOs had already made the same pay that an average worker will take home for the year. Which is why Canada's unions have resolved that 2022 is the year that the country's top earners will pay their fair share.
Enough of these $10 million pay days for high-ranking executives. Enough of tax loopholes and bailout programs that support millionaires and billionaires. Frontline workers have been the ones to keep us all afloat through the last 22 months. It's unconscionable that they've struggled to make ends meet while Canada's top earners had one of their most profitable years ever in 2020.
In 2022 we must also resolve to permanently fix Employment Insurance and stop letting so many workers and their families fall through the cracks in hard times. As Omicron is teaching us, we can't keep lurching from wave to wave; we must instead get ready for the next crisis. Supports for people thrown out of work were inadequate before the pandemic and the federal government's new Lockdown Benefit is falling far short of the mark.
Our public health care has struggled under the strain of the pandemic and chronic staffing shortages. Health care workers are overextended and underpaid, and burnout rates among health care workers are at an all-time high. We must resolve to strengthen public health care, starting with investments in more nurses and health professionals. And we can save lives and improve living conditions by taking profits out of long-term care.
With so many drowning under the rising costs of essentials, we must resolve to make life more affordable in 2022. We can save families thousands through investments in affordable housing, making child care available and accessible to every parent, and actually implementing pharmacare.
Positive change is within our grasp – if we in the labour movement can work together with governments, civil society, and business. But we must learn the right lessons from the past 22 months of pandemic and make the right investments – so our communities are ready when the next crisis hits.
2021 showed us the road may be hard at times. We must resolve, together, to respond with resilience, determination, and real ambition to do better in 2022.
Bea Bruske is the president of the Canadian Labour Congress. Follow her on Twitter @PresidentCLC
Human Rights Day: Canada must ratify C-189 to protect vulnerable domestic workers


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Ozone (trioxygen O₃) is found in the earth's atmosphere and is composed of three oxygen atoms. The Ozone molecules come together to form a thin layer in the upper atmosphere (the stratosphere). The ozone layer absorbs incoming ultraviolet radiation (or UV) from the sun, reducing the amount that reaches the earth's surface by acting as a barrier. However, the ozone layer began to deplete in the 1960's, which led to an increase in the UV radiation reaching the earth's surface.
The ozone layer became depleted by the release of certain chemicals, that were produced through human activity and industry. The main culprit behind ozone depletion is a group of compounds called Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's). These chemicals are composed of carbon, chlorine and fluorine molecules and they were predominately used in the 1960's in the creation of fridge components, plastics, aerosols, air-conditioning units and Styrofoam.
These CFC's are so damaging because as they rise through the atmosphere and reach the ozone layer, they separate leaving a free chlorine molecule. The chlorine acts as a catalyst in the breakdown of ozone (O₃) to oxygen (O₂) and Chlorine Monoxide. The oxygen molecule does not act as a barrier from UV radiation, allowing it to reach the surface. Other Ozone depleting molecules include nitrogen oxide from cars and bromide in pesticides. As these molecules break down the ozone it leaves gaps and holes for harmful UV radiation to reach the earths surface.
But the question is, why should you care?
Ozone depletion has a hugely detrimental impact on both humans and the environment. During the 1960's when the ozone layer began to deplete more ultra-violet radiation was able to reach the Earth's surface. Studies show how the number of skin cancer cases skyrocketed, studies suggest that a loss of 10% of the ozone layer could increase skin cancer cases by a massive 26% (Ozone depletion, 2019). Genes are UV-sensitive which means other forms of cancer are also a risk. Studies show that increased UV also caused major damage to immune system integrity and was even linked with cataracts.
Not only is increased UV radiation bad for humans, it also has detrimental impacts on plant and marine ecosystems. UV rays contain high amounts of energy, allowing them to penetrate deep through water, destroying eggs, larvae, and phytoplankton.
CFCs are powerful green-house gases that have a direct effect on global temperatures, a greater production of CFCs leads to a rise in global warming. This rise in global temperatures has countless detrimental impacts, including melting of glaciers, sea level rise, destruction of habitat and changes in weather patterns.
The resolution and what can you do to help?
A study by Nobel peace prize winning chemists in 1974 discovered that if we continued to produce CFC at a constant rate then ozone depletion would be at -13% by 2050. Upon this discovery they immediately called for a ban on the production of CFC's in the USA, by 1978 this ban was introduced.
By 1987 26 Nations banned the use of CFC's and other ozone depleting substances under the guise of the Montreal Protocol. Today, thanks to tireless research and education all 197 members of the UN have signed the protocol and the use of ozone damaging substances has been reduced by 80%. Slowly, the ozone has even started to repair itself.
However, there are still things we need to do to protect our ozone layer. Here are a few handy tips on how you can prevent contributing to greater ozone depletion. A few simple ideas include:
Taking public transport or walking to reduce the number of private cars on the road, this will then in turn reduce the production of harmful exhaust gases.
Using eco-friendly and non-toxic household cleaning products, which can be found in any supermarket, try to replace the use of toxic solvents with natural vinegars.
Stopping the use of pesticides to manage weeds.
Only use Ozone friendly solvents.
Buy local products so that transport is minimal, and less nitrogen oxide has been produced to deliver your products.
Check your air conditioner unit. When these units malfunction the by-products include CFC's. To stop this, make sure you regularly check your unit and maintain its upkeep.
Maintain the 3 R's. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Reduce the use of harmful gases, reuse your products, and recycle waste where you can.
Join us and contribute to tree planting activities. The reduced air temperatures created as a result of tree planting improve air quality because emissions of many pollutants and/or ozone-forming chemicals are temperature dependent.
More can always be done, but this is a story where international co-operation combined with scientific study allowed a global problem to be overcome, hopefully climate change can be tackled in the same way.


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Home » Criminal Law » Act No. 3326
Act No. 3326
On Criminal Law
[ Act No. 3326, December 04, 1926 ]
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH PERIODS OF PRESCRIPTION FOR VIOLATIONS PENALIZED BY SPECIAL ACTS AND MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES AND TO PROVIDE WHEN PRESCRIPTION SHALL BEGIN TO RUN. BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PHILIPPINES IN LEGISLATURE ASSEMBLED AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE SAME:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
SECTION 1. Violations penalized by special acts shall, unless otherwise provided in such acts, prescribe in accordance with the following rules: (a) after a year for offences punished only by a fine or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both; (b) after four years for those punished by imprisonment for more than one month, but less than two years; (c) after eight years for those punished by imprisonment for two years or more, but less than six years; and (d) after twelve years for any other offence punished by imprisonment for six years or more, except the crime of treason, which shall prescribe after twenty years. Violations penalized by municipal ordinances shall prescribe after two months.
SEC. 2. Prescription shall begin to run from the day of the commission of the violation of the law, and if the same be not known at the time, from the, discovery thereof and the institution of judicial proceedings for its investigation and punishment.
The prescription shall be interrupted when proceedings are instituted against the guilty person, and shall begin to run again il the proceedings are dismissed for reasons not constituting jeopardy.
SEC. 3. For the purposes of this Act, special acts shall be acts defining and penalizing violations of the law not included in the Penal Code.
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, December 4, 1926.
Direct Assault