Nanaimo Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Marianne Nicolson, a Victoria BC based artist of Scottish and Dzawada̱'enux̱w First Nations descent. The Dzawada'enuxw People are a member tribe of the Kwakwaka'wakw Nations of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Nicolson's work first came to prominence in 1998 when she scaled a cliff face near her ancestral village Gwa'yi to paint a 11.5 meter high by 8.5 meter wide pictographic crest symbol that shows the origin story of her people. This was the first petrograph in the region in more than sixty years, and marks the continued vitality of the Dzawada'enuxw. Operating as a potent expression of land rights and community connections, this work anchors the exhibition Awi'nagwiskasu: Real Land.
This exhibition showcases Nicolson's creative scope through paintings, light-installations, and video. Many of the works invite visitors to share the artist's pressing concerns about the waters that surround and course through land, and serve as a gauge for the health of coastal communities. Rivers, inlets, harbours, and tides are points of reference throughout the exhibition. Awi'nagwiskasu: Real Land was developed in dialogue with Nanaimo, a harbour city, and hub of resource extraction and distribution on Vancouver Island. Nicolson will also create a new public artwork on the exterior of Nanaimo Art Gallery that will be revealed at the end of the exhibition.
To highlight Nicolson's interrelated practices as a linguist, anthropologist, and a visual artist, a new risograph print edition that compiles titles of Nicolson's works from 1998-2016 in both English and Kwak'wala will be produced on the occasion of the exhibition.
Please join us on Sunday, June 25 at noon to celebrate the launch of a new public artwork on the exterior of Nanaimo Art Gallery by Marianne Nicolson, an artist of Scottish and Dzawada̱'enux̱w First Nations descent. Commissioned by the Gallery, Nicolson's artwork responds to this site, while expanding on themes in her solo exhibition Awi'nagwiskasu: Real Land, on at the Gallery until July 2.
Many works in the exhibition Awi'nagwiskasu: Real Land, refer directly to the ocean and the rivers of Nicolson's traditional territory in Kingcome Inlet BC, where marine life serves as a gauge for the health of the place and the community. These concerns are also highly relevant in Nanaimo, a Harbour City that relies on the resources of the Salish Sea, and is located on the traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw Nation.
Nicolson has created many powerful site-specific public artworks in British Columbia, including The Rivers Monument (2015), a massive glass and light sculpture installed at the Vancouver International Airport and The House of the Ghosts (2008) a light projection and banner work that was installed on the front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. She chose Nanaimo Art Gallery's rear façade at 60 Wharf Street as the site of her new work: a large colorful billboard made in response to this location.
The Gallery's lot backed onto a tidal inlet until 1964, when it was filled in for industrial and commercial uses. Nicolson understands the reconfiguration of Nanaimo's waterfront as part of a long history of the exploitation of environments and resources for the sake for profit. In her artwork she utilises early twentieth century pictographs from her community in Kingcome Inlet that show the influx of settlement and resource extraction on Dzawada̱'enux̱w traditional territory. By paralleling these two sites and histories, Nicolson links early twentieth century state appropriation of Indigenous lands to the ongoing and widespread exploitation of land and water resources.
This public artwork is being launched on the 150th anniversary of confederation, at a time when communities and institutions, including Nanaimo Art Gallery, are participating in conversations about the process of reconciliation. Nicolson's work celebrates the re-emergence of Indigenous people's voices, while articulating that there can be no true reconciliation between Indigenous and settler societies without an acknowledgement of Indigenous peoples' displacement from their lands.
This artwork is also presented as a part of Nanaimo Art Gallery's celebration of our 40th anniversary in 2017. All year, through exhibitions, special projects, education programs and events, we explore the question What does it mean to live on an Island?
Join us at 60 Wharf Street on Sunday, June 25 at noon to celebrate the launch of this exciting new artwork. Nicolson will be in attendance to talk about the artwork and we will share snacks and refreshments.
This public artwork is made possible by the Community Fund for Canada's 150th, a collaboration between Nanaimo Foundation, the Government of Canada, and extraordinary leaders from coast to coast.
Doug Allen, Michael Belmore, Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, Heather Cameron, Stan Douglas, Elisa Ferrari, E.J. Hughes, Emily Luce and Klehwetua Rod Sayers, Max Maynard, Marina Roy and Graham Meisner, Charles H. Scott, Jack Shadbolt, Tommy Ting, Hajra Waheed.
Nanaimo Art Gallery is located one block away from the city's working harbour, a site that is distinctly local, but through oceanic networks of distribution, is connected to harbours around the world. Landfall and Departure: Prologue is an exhibition that responds to the harbour as a place where goods, labour, and stories are exchanged. Contemporary artworks are shown alongside historical images borrowed from the Nanaimo Museum, audio recordings and documents from the Nanaimo Archives, and works from Nanaimo Art Gallery's permanent collection.
Ports and docks facilitate both thinking and being elsewhere: a place of departures and arrivals where shipping news and salty stories are shared. Set in Nanaimo, artworks in Landfall and Departure: Prologue also look to the traffic in resources, stories, luxuries, and the lives of workers in harbours around the world. The sculptures, photographs, paintings, drawings, videos, and textiles in the exhibition respond to sites in Canada, China, The United States, the Netherlands, the Persian Gulf, Japan, and harbours of the imagination.
Harbours have their own particular features and histories, but they can also articulate shared characteristics as places of both refuge and dislocation. Nanaimo markets itself as "The Harbour City", but this moniker, common to many seaside communities, belies a tumultuous past and present. Throughout its existence the Nanaimo harbour has seen the displacement of the Snuneymuxw people who had utilised the harbour's resources for thousands of years, the arrival of precarious mine workers from China, UK, and Scandinavia, and the World War II internment of Japanese Canadians who ran successful herring salteries and boat-building companies there. The harbour has also been transformed, displaced, filled in, and rebuilt. These physical transformations not only had profound impacts on the local environment, but also make imagining the history of this site as difficult as visualizing harbours located far across the sea.
Landfall and Departure is the third in a series of three exhibition projects that look to the resource industries that formed and fragmented communities on Vancouver Island while having implications globally. The first project: Black Diamond Dust (2014) responded to coal mining; the second project: Silva (2015/2016), responded to forestry. Landfall and Departure (2017/2018) is a two-part exhibition, which considers resources both distributed on, and extracted from, the sea.


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Q: Liquibase ignorable comments Is there a way we can add comments in liquibase file which are not parsed by the program?
We are using the text format for the changes.sql and this is how it looks
--changeset Sapan.Parikh:MyUniqueAlphaNumericId5
--comment: Table created for liquibase testing purpose with non numeric id
--6:10 PM 11/10/2015
create table liqui_test11 (
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name varchar(255)
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create table liqui_test9 (
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name varchar(255)
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create table liqui_test10 (
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name varchar(255)
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Our organization has been using similar change log for years and while migrating to Liquibase we want to be able to do two things.

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*Add dashes or hashes after each changeset.

*And after every production build we add a comment at the end of the changes file.

For instance
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Now if we add just dashes- or # the luqibase task is breaking and DB upgrade does not happen. Is there a way to accommodate comments which are not parsed by liquibase engine?

A: You can just persist your comments and strip them right before executing liquibase
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Recently I've lost a few pounds.
"I lost weight" is a phrase that confuses me.
I didn't lose it. I didn't misplace it.
I know where it went.
I could easily find the missing pounds with little effort.
Heck, I purposely tried to get rid of it.
So "losing pounds" doesn't quite describe it.
I didn't "shed some weight" either.
I didn't just fall off me like hair from my balding head.
This was part of a plan I had. To get myself into better shape.
Not that I was fat. At least not by American standards.
Although once while passing a monastery I got into a discussion with an old monk.
He described me in Latin as "Qui Obturat Solis".
I admit my silhouette bothered me.
It looked like an upright football with legs.
So I decided to buckle down and lose enough weight that could move my buckle up.
My goal was to get to the weight I had in my twenties.
More importantly, to feel like I used to feel in my twenties.
So to kick start a lifestyle change into gear I needed to diet.
Now I have dieted before.
The one thing my diets didn't successfully do was teach me to eat less.
So I decided to try the one diet I never tried before.
The good old fashioned "Counting Calorie" diet.
It's easier than ever because of apps you can download to your smart phone or pc.
You can scan barcodes of prepackaged meals.
Or just have a food diary on hand to always be able to mark down how much you've eaten.
Actually it's not quite that bad.
Close, but it's worth it to see the results.
I'm learning to get used to eating less. I'm starting to exercise again.
And I would like to report that first time in many decades I'm feeling again like I did in my twenties.
I remember now. I was always hungry when I was in my twenties.
And burn off all those calories by washing a spoon.
Now If I drive by a restaurant, I have to loosen a couple of notches on my belt.
But as you get older your metabolism slows down.
So your body allows you to eat less.
Basically one is slowly becoming a turtle.
Or at least it makes life seem longer.
But I am sticking with it.
I consider myself a thin person wearing a fat suit.
Time to change my outfit.
But first I have to figure out how much I can fit into my mouth before going over today's' calorie limit.


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The Gallipolis City School District is a public school district based in Gallipolis, Ohio, United States.

The school district includes all of Clay, Gallipolis, Green townships, most of Raccoon Township as well as small portions of Addison, Springfield, and Perry townships in Gallia County.

Two incorporated villages are served by Gallipolis City Schools: Gallipolis and Rio Grande.

Schools
Gallia Academy High School
Gallia Academy Middle School
Green Elementary School
Rio Grande Elementary School
Washington Elementary School
Clay Alternative School

See also
List of school districts in Ohio

References

External links

School districts in Ohio
Education in Gallia County, Ohio

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Cepsa to convert alkylation unit
Published by Callum O'Reilly, Senior Editor
Hydrocarbon Engineering, Thursday, 12 July 2018 14:32
Honeywell has announced that Cepsa will convert an alkylation unit using hydrofluoric acid to Honeywell UOP's solid bed Detal-Plus™ technology at its refinery in San Roque, Spain.
The unit produces linear alkylbenzene (LAB), which is used to make a variety of different detergent formulations, including biodegradable household detergents.
Honeywell will provide catalysts and adsorbents, basic engineering design and other associated services for the complex. When completed in 2020, this project will mark the world's first conversion of an HF alkylation unit to solid bed technology. With the conversion to Detal-Plus technology, the plant's capacity will increase by 50 000 tpy to 250 000 tpy of LAB.
"The Detal-Plus technology is a highly efficient solid bed process for making detergent alkylate," said John Gugel, President of Honeywell UOP. "It also has the added benefit of being far simpler to operate."
The technology, which was co-developed with Cepsa, is the first solid bed technology with the flexibility to produce LAB for a variety of different detergent formulations. The heart of the process is Honeywell UOP's new ZDA-30 series catalyst, which features higher activity and selectivity, making it more energy efficient.
"In addition to pioneering development of this technology with UOP, Cepsa is the world leader in the manufacture of LAB," said Miguel Ángel Calderón, Vice President, Technology at Cepsa. "This project allows us to revamp the Puente Mayorga plant at San Roque, so we can enhance its competitiveness, and apply this experience to our other installations around the world."
The Detal-Plus technology, combined with Honeywell UOP's Molex™, Pacol™, DeFine™ and PEP™ processes, forms an integrated and energy-efficient LAB complex. The Molex process provides one of the most economical routes to produce normal paraffins from kerosene. Pacol technology performs dehydrogenation of normal paraffins to olefins, and PEP technology handles the selective removal of aromatics.
Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/refining/12072018/cepsa-to-convert-alkylation-unit/
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Visiting the Superstar of Modern Art, the MoMa
We're not exaggerating when we say superstar we mean superstar. Since its founding in 1929, this museum has featured almost 200,000 pieces of modern art by heavyweights such as Picasso, Warhol Van Gogh, Pollock, and so many more. It has documented the creative emergence of ideas and movements throughout the late 19th century. This is the place to be for both art enthusiasts and novices. Download the Museum of Modern Art Travel Guide and Offline Map and have a peek at your next art destination.
1. The Fifth Floor
We suggest you head straight to the fifth floor and progress through the galleries in numerical order. This takes you on a chronological ride through the development of modern art. On this floor, you will begin your journey with some of the most notable pieces of modern art in the world. One of them is Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night. It depicts a turbulent sky over Saint Remy, where Van Gogh himself was confined in a mental asylum.
2. The Fourth Floor
Here you will be left in awe with Jackson Pollock's One, which that is considered a masterpiece of the "drip" technique. And it is also one of Pollock's largest paintings. Andy Warhol's seminal work of Pop Art, Campbell's Soup Can, is also one of the stars on this floor. Warhol used familiar images that everyone can relate to and in this case, he used thirty-two varieties of soup offered by Campbell's--a staple of American diet during his time.
3. The Persistence of Memory
Probably one of the world's most well-known example of modern art, Salvador Dali's masterpiece showcases his penchant for Surrealism and in this piece the theme is time. A desert landscape that contains melting watches, ants, and a grotesque object in the center that resembles Dali's face profile.
Get Lost in the Biggest Museum in the United States: The SF MoMa
San Francisco has always been known as a confluence of different creatives and now its ushered itself in the forefront of the art scene worldwide with the Museum of Modern Art San Francisco. The museum's new extension double its gallery space and since its opening has accumulated more than 4000 new works in addition to ones they already have Don't forget to download the SF MoMa Travel Guide and Offline Map on your visit!
1. Features the Largest Photography Center
SFMOMA houses the largest gallery, research and interpretive space devoted to photography of any art museum in the United States. Named the Pritzker Center for Photography, it presents the museum's impressive holdings of more than 17,800 works and occupies 15,000 square feet on Floor 3.
2. Dishes from Around the Globe
In Situ, an acclaimed restaurant from Michelin-three-starred chef, Corey Lee. Just like the museum itself, the restaurant curates a menu of dishes from recipes by more than 80 chefs from around the world including culinary heroes, René Redzepi, Alice Waters and Thomas Keller just to name a few. The museum also offers additional dining options to suit your tastes, from local-based coffee at Sightglass to family-friendly California fusion at Cafe 5.
3. The Fisher Collection
During the 1970s, Doris and Donald Fisher, the founders of the famous Gap apparel brand, began collecting artworks for the offices of the company they founded. SFMOMA is the only place you can see one of the greatest private art collections in the world, which is comprised of more than 1,100 pieces by more than 185 artists.


Work, labor, and economy have been areas of focus in my art practice over the last several years. Before I began my journey as a visual artist and educator, I worked blue collar jobs in the printing and manufacturing industries. Manual labor, the daily grind, hustling, however you describe work and employment, says a lot about a person, their culture, and where they "fit" within the social constructs of their community and society. These themes relate not only to my own story, but to the larger narrative of how the Deep South was built from Reconstruction through World War II and how people are perceived and valued today.
Through the process of cutting, collaging, and draping, the artworks in Piercing the Veil perform the act of revealing preconceived ideas and exposing truths about disenfranchised demographics, not just in our nation, but in our own community. By peeling back layers of history, there is an opportunity to gain a better understanding of how African-American, Indigenous peoples, immigrants, and women (among others) are still treated today. Share croppers, migrant workers, factory machinists, artisans, and activists are the subject matter for this body of work. The act of work, in its various capacities, showcase how these groups have sweat and bled to develop and cultivate the American South, reaping little benefits.


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Sector veteran Peter Cardy offers answers to your workplace dilemmas
Peter Cardy
Q. With little warning our founding trustee has left us. We feel abandoned and have lost the drive, imagination and torrent of ideas he produced. Some of us feel like giving up too. Any advice?
A. An inspiring leader can do great things, but from what you tell me yours also generated more ideas than could be delivered, didn't think through the human and financial requirements of complex projects and took risks with governance. Time to regroup and remind yourselves what you believe in. Look at priorities and what you can deliver within resources. Create more formal leadership roles, with job descriptions and reasonable expectations of the team. Do less and do it more thoroughly. In future, beware charisma.
Q. We are a small, grant-giving charity that funds research. Since I joined the board we have had one or two applications at each annual meeting, always from the same few academics, and always granted with little questioning. It doesn't feel quite right to me. What do you think?
Our sector deserves better
Q. Your recent advice to the charities minister, Rob Wilson, was "don't just do something - sit there". Is your view changing?
A. I thought he might listen, analyse and act strategically to strengthen the sector, but he has delivered nothing innovative except regulatory restrictions on fundraising and a more censorious Charity Commission packed with cronies. This journal's interviews with him reveal little imagination, drive or conception of how modest support, political as well as financial, could transform the sector's prospects and delivery. The sector - and society as a whole - deserves better.
A. "Captive" charities are not uncommon, but that doesn't make them right. Some disease-specific charities also behave like captives, always funding the same team or individual. Charities that fund inferior research might as well throw their money down the drain. Is the availability of grants broadcast or must you have inside knowledge? Is the application process transparent? Are the applications as rigorous as if they were going to an outside funder, like a research funding council? Are the applications peer-reviewed?
Q. My director of finance recently announced he was leaving and in a bad-tempered rant blamed my management style. I thought we had a good relationship. He phoned the chair and deputy chair to complain about me bullying and harassing him. They reacted by meeting each member of the senior team - except me - to ask them about my style. What do I do?
A. Bad behaviour all round, then. The FD should have raised his concerns long before he got to the point of resigning and should have used formal procedures. The trustees have stepped outside their proper role by intervening in management arrangements that they have, presumably, endorsed. Move quickly to fill the vacancy and let the trustees know that you're in command of the situation. If they have doubts about you, they must tell you directly and give you a chance to respond.
Q. My board is getting anxious about its failure to attract nominations for election from anyone other than white, middle-class, older men. They have asked me to come up with a plan. Where do I start?
A. Don't rely on existing methods: they will be invisible to anyone outside that group. Recruit through every channel, be clear about the qualities you're looking for, but most of all start actively talent-spotting and suggest to people with the right profile they might like to apply.
If you have a workplace dilemma for Peter Cardy, contact him at pjscardy@yahoo.co.uk
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Kent State (5-4 MAC, 12-8 overall) at Buffalo (7-2, 15-5), 1 p.m. Saturday.
WHAT'S AT STAKE: Flashes play one of MAC's best teams on the road. A win would be a very big deal. Flashes must face MAC's top scorer Cierra Dillard, who averages 25 points a game and is a leading candidate for MAC player of the year.
IN THE MAC: Tied for second with Central Michigan and Miami, a half game beyond Ohio. Has lost only to Central on the road and Ohio at home in overtime.
RPI: 24 of 351 teams. Schedule strength: 46. Home record: 7-3. Has won seven of last eight. 10th-ranked mid-major team by CollegeInsider.com.
LAST GAME: Beat Toledo 73-63 at home on Wednesday.
Scores 76.4 points a game, third in MAC. Opponents score 68.4 (fifth). Field goal percentage: 42.0 (fifth). Field goal defense: 39.6 (first).
Three-point percentage: 33.0 (seventh). Three-point baskets per game: 7.8 (fifth). Three-point defense: 27.6 (first). Free throw percentage 73.9 (thir-).
Rebounding margin: Plus 2.7 (third). Offensive rebounds per game: 14.7 (first).
Turnover margin: Plus-1.0 (fourth). Steals per game: 8.56 (third). Blocked shots per game: 3.78 (second).
5-foot-9 senior guard Cierra Dillard (24.7 points per game, first in MAC and third in nation). Assists per game: 6.8 (first). Steals: 2.7 (third). Three-point percentage: 36.8 (fourth). Three-pointers per game: 3.6 (first). Free-throw percentage: 79.4 (fourth). Preseason all-MAC East, All-MAC second team in 2017-18.
6-1 junior center Summer Hemphill (12.8 points, 22nd). Rebounds: 9.2 (fifth). Field-goal percentage: 64.0 (first). Blocks: 1.3 (fourth). Preseason all-MAC East, Missed first semester for academic reasons.
6-2 junior center Theresa Onwaquka (9.6 points, 6.2 rebounds).
IN THE MAC: Tied for fifth with Northern Illinois and Toledo at 5-4, two-and-a-half games behind league-leader Ohio (7-2).
RPI: 85. Schedule strength: 75. Road record: 4-6. Has won two in a row after losing four in a row.
LAST GAME: Beat Western Michigan 55-51 at home on Wednesday.
67.4 points a game (seventh in MAC). Opponents average 65.6 (third).
Field goal percentage: 37.5 (12th). Field goal defense: 40.3 (second).
Three-point percentage: 33.0 (sixth). Three-point baskets per game: 7.0 (eighth). Three-point defense: 31.9 (fifth).
Blocked shots: 4,33 (first). Steals: 8.89 (second).
5-7 redshirt junior guard Megan Carter: 17.4 points, seventh in MAC. Field-goal percentage: 41.2 (10th). Field goal percentage (10th). Three-point percentage: 41.7. Free-throw percentage: 73.9 (seventh).
5-4 freshman point guard Asiah Dingle: 14.4 points (14th). Field-goal percentage: 37.9 (14th). Free-throw percentage: 80.0 (third) . Steals: 2.3 (fifth).
6-2 freshman forward Lindsay Thall: 9.7 points. Three-point percentage: 41.7. Blocked shots: 2.2 (first). Rebounds: 5.9.
5-9 senior guard Alexa Golden: 8.8 points. Steals: 3.3 (first). Assists: 3.1 (16th). Blocks: 0.9 (10th). Rebounds: 6.2 (17th).
WHAT COACH TODD STARKEY IS SAYING: "We've got a lot to improve on if we're going to have a win. It's arguably the toughest place to play in the league.
THE BOTTOM LINE: If the Flashes play the way they did in when they outscored Western Michigan 20-7 in the first quarter Wednesday, they should be in the game. If they play the way they did when they scored 17 points in the second half, they could lost by 25.
The game starts at 1 p.m. Saturday at Alumni Arena at the University of Buffalo. It's about a three-and-a-half hour drive from Kent. Here are directions from the Buffalo website. General admission tickets are $10. Average Buffalo attendance is 1,993, third in the MAC.
Audio starts at about 12:45 p.m. on Golden Flash iHeart Radio. David Wilson is the announcer.
Live statistics are available through the Buffalo website.
Detailed media notes for Kent State.
Preview from Buffalo website, including links.
Detailed media notes for Buffalo.


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Business / Miscellaneous / Neighborhoods / Zoning
Lincolnwood Village Board of Trustees Jan. 20 meeting
by CYRYL JAKUBOWSKI
The Lincolnwood Village Board of Trustees at its meeting Jan. 20 referred to the Plan Commission an ordinance recommended by the Economic Development Commission that would allow residential uses on the upper floors of developments in the Devon Avenue Corridor.
The action stemmed from a proposal for a retail and residential development on the site of the Whistler's Restaurant, 3420 W. Devon Ave. The development would feature a three-story building with 18 residential units on the second and third floors and retail space on the ground floor.
The B-2 zoning of the site prohibits residential uses, but the commission suggested that the prohibition should be eliminated to encourage redevelopment. The commission recommended that the village should create an overlay zone along Devon from McCormick Boulevard to Drake Avenue to allow residential units as a special use above ground-floor retail space.
Trustee Ronald Cope voted against the measure. Cope said that mixing retail use with condominiums is not desirable in the village.
The village board also referred to the Plan Commission an ordinance recommended by the commission that that open-air off-street parking spaces be provided for guests at multi-family developments.
Also at the meeting, the board postponed to Feb. 17 a vote on variations that would permit construction of a detached garage in the rear yard of the home at 3350 W. Columbia Ave.
The home owner is seeking variations reducing the separation between the home and the garage from the required 15 feet to 3 feet, a rear yard coverage of 31.4 percent rather than the maximum allowed of 30 percent, and having building coverage of 40.64 percent rather than the maximum allowed of 35 percent.
The depth of the rear yard is approximately 31.25 feet, and the depth of the proposed garage is approximately 21.5 feet.
Trustee Rene Sprogis-Marohn said that the village Zoning Board of Appeals did not provide enough criteria for a finding that a hardship exists that justifies granting the variations. The board approved its recommendation by a 4-3 vote. Trustee Jesal Patel said that the zoning code should be amended because "the hardship is starting to be the existence of the regulation."
However, the trustees decided that the home owner should be given time to decide if she should modify the plan and build a one-car garage instead.
The board also granted a variation that will permit construction of a one-story addition to a home at 6755 N. Kostner Ave. that will encroach 1.2 feet into the required 6-foot side-yard setback.
The trustees also approved an ordinance amending the zoning code to designate residential uses as a special use in the Lincoln Avenue Corridor. Residential uses currently are permitted uses in some portions of the corridor.
The board also approved parking restrictions for the streets adjoining the Lincolnwood School District 74 after a trial period. The ordinance prohibits parking on the east side of East Prairie Road from Pratt Avenue to Morse Avenue, west side of East Prairie from Farwell Avenue to Morse, on the south side of Lunt Avenue from East Prairie to 125 feet east and on the north side of Lunt from Crawford Avenue to 90 feet east.
The board also approved an ordinance authorizing the village manager to execute an agreement with District 74 to share the cost of crossing guard services.
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Alternative route teacher education programs have increased to address personnel shortages in key areas such as special education, mathematics, and science. Alternative route programs may serve as a means to address such shortages, but require evaluation to ensure that candidates emerging from these programs demonstrate skills commensurate with those that complete traditional teacher education programs. Although studies examining aspects of alternative route programs exist, few studies comparing alternative route programs with traditional programs have been conducted. Differences in definitions used to describe alternative routes programs compound efforts to compare programs. Nevertheless, research reviewed compared outcomes for alternative and traditional programs on candidate satisfaction, academic achievement, multicultural awareness, retention, and performance on competency-based assessments. Results on these measures were mixed.
The purpose of this causal comparative study was to compare performance on the edTPA (Teacher Performance Assessment) using longitudinal data (2013-2017) from candidates (N = 565) that attended a mid-sized urban university that offers both traditional and alternative route programs. The non-parametric analysis revealed no differences in expected and actual edTPA performance between groups. The parametric analysis revealed a statistically significant omnibus effect based on program type. Post hoc testing reveals differences in Instructional Average (IA) and Assessment Average (AA) although variance accounted for was small. Recommendations for practitioners are discussed.
Cole, Lara Denise, "Differences in Performance on a Commercially Available Competency-Based Exam between Traditionally and Alternatively Prepared Teacher Candidates: A Causal Comparative Study" (2018). Education Dissertations. 36.


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Olá is a district (distrito) of Coclé Province in Panama. The population according to the 2000 census was 5,671. The district covers a total area of 381 km². The capital lies at the town of Olá.

Administrative divisions
Olá District is divided administratively into the following corregimientos:

Olá (capital)
El Copé
El Palmar
El Picacho
La Pava

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Districts of Coclé Province


Has anyone replaced the rad in the bathroom for a heated towel rail. Any ideas how easy it is to do this?
caroline wrote: Has anyone replaced the rad in the bathroom for a heated towel rail. Any ideas how easy it is to do this?
its relatively straight forward... although I would recommend using the plastic fixings rather than metal as they are easier to adjust. Other than that turn off the water supply ... drain the system... and away you go. Should take no more than a couple of hours to complete.
Anyone got any ideas of the exact sizes to literally bolt on and off, as I am looking to buy one at the weekend?
Should be getting mine fitted on Sat Joe so pop over and have a look.
Sweet, sounds good to me mrs.
Have those of you that were replacing their rad in bathroom for a heated towel rail actually done it yet ? Altough i've talked about it i still havn't done it. Were the dimensions mentioned before he correct size etc just slot on, and what additional tools ,bolts etc are needed? Does anyone know anybody at what cost that would be able to do the job for me, as although Dan's instructions on how to do it are very clear, knowing my luck if i attempted it,i would flood the whole of Cuthbert !!!!!!
Always one to jump on the bandwagon, I'd be interested too!
I have one if anyone wants a nosy!!!


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I was a digital content writer and content strategist at InVision, a SaaS company striving to become the "operating system for design". InVision offers both products and services to the design community while also placing a focus on the people and practices that accompany a strong corporate design practice.
During my time at InVision, I played an integral role in redesigning and relaunching the blog (Inside Design), our two Medium publications, and our weekly digest. You can find a case study recap of that process on my blog here.
I was also responsible for crafting compelling, audience-specific copy & content for a wide range of mediums, including (but not limited to) event announcements, blog posts, longform and how-to articles, company announcements, & the infamous "Clark from InVision" weekly email digests. I also provided editing insight & expertise for content across a wide range of mediums while striving to maintain a confident yet humble voice and tone.
You can see all of my posts for Inside Design here. If you're interested in the high points, I would say my three best posts are How to make your first wireframe, A comprehensive guide to design systems, and What every designer can learn from Alexa.
I was the Marketing Director at UX Booth, a publication by and for the user experience community., for more than a year. Our readership consists mostly of beginning-to-intermediate user experience and interaction designers, but we aim to serve anyone who is interested in making the web a better place.
My main responsibilities were to grow our newsletter subscriber list and increase our page views and email signups through rapid iteration and experimentation. I also managed our social media strategy and community building efforts.
One of the small but significant projects I led during my time at UX Booth was to optimize the inline email subscription forms. Through A/B testing and user research, we were able to triple the number of email signups while making the signup form CTA smaller and less disruptive to the reading experience.
I spent a year as the blog editor at Piktochart, a SaaS tool for designing infographics and telling visual stories. As the blog editor, I was responsible for content creation and curation that served to guide and inspire our users. I also worked with our front-end, design, and UI/UX teams on multiple projects to improve the user experience in the product and on the site itself.
I managed the content strategy including writing and maintaining our style guide, creating and refining processes for content creation and cross-team collaboration, and using user research and data to make informed decisions about messaging and content.
As the resident English expert (the company is based in Malaysia), part of my responsibilities were to proof and optimize copy in all areas of the company. This included everything from CTA buttons and copy in our weekly emails to the tooltips and help documentation accessible through the product.
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Berit Solveig Bölander (född Lindqvist), född 10 augusti 1939 i Stockholm, är en svensk barnskötare och politiker (socialdemokraterna).

Berit Bölander tjänstgjorde som ersättare i riksdagen för Stockholms kommuns valkrets i olika omgångar 1983, 1984 och 1985-1988.

Referenser

Litteratur
 Enkammarriksdagen 1971-1993/94 (Sveriges riksdag 1996), band 1, s. 62

Ledamöter av Sveriges riksdag för Socialdemokraterna
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New York subway bombing injures suspect and 3 other people
NEW YORK (AP) — A man with a pipe bomb strapped to his body with Velcro and zip ties set off the crude device in the subway near Times Square on Monday, injuring him and three other people at the height of the morning rush hour.
All four were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries in what the mayor and police labeled an attempted terror attack.
The explosion happened in a long underground passageway that runs a full city block under 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. The 7:20 a.m. blast caused smoke to fill the passageway, which was crowded with Monday morning commuters.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James P. O'Neill labeled it an attempted terror attack.
"Thank God the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate goals," de Blasio said.
The suspect was identified as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah.
Law enforcement officials said he was inspired by the Islamic State group but had apparently not had any direct contact with the group. The officials said he lives in Brooklyn and may be of Bangladeshi descent. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the blast.
Authorities said the bomb was a low-tech explosive device. They were investigating how it was made, and combing through surveillance footage that captured the blast on video.
A video posted on social media showed the security footage. In it, a man walks through the crowded pedestrian tunnel and the bomb suddenly going off in a plume of white smoke. Through the smoke, the suspect is then seen sprawled on the ground as bystanders flee.
Fire officials said the suspect had burns to his hands and abdomen. The others who were injured suffered ringing in ears and headaches.
Police are investigating whether Ullah intended to set off the device in the walkway, or whether he had meant to do it in a busier location.
A photo published by the New York Post showed a bearded man crumpled on the ground with his shirt apparently blown off and black soot covering his bare midriff. A police officer is holding the man's hands behind his back.
The explosion triggered a massive response by police and firefighters both above and below ground, tangling subway and bus service at the nearby Port Authority bus terminal.
Elrana Peralta, a customer service worker for Greyhound, said she works in the Port Authority terminal complex near where the blast happened, but didn't hear the explosion.
"All we could hear was the chaos," she said. "We could hear people yelling, 'Get out! Get out! Get out!'"
John Miles, 28, from Vermont, was waiting for a bus to Massachusetts. He also didn't hear the blast, but saw police react.
"I didn't know what was going on. Officers were running around. I was freaking out," he said. There was an announcement that people should take their bags and leave. "They didn't incite panic. It was fairly orderly."
New York has seen its share of terror attacks in recent years. On Oct. 31, a man drove a rented truck onto a bike path near the World Trade Center, killing eight people.
Video from above the "Crossroads of the World" showed lines of police and emergency vehicles, their lights flashing, lining the streets and no other vehicle traffic moving.
Everything around the Port Authority area was shut down for a few hours — a surreal scene of still at what would ordinarily be a bustling rush hour. But by 10 a.m., much of the area had returned to normal. Authorities said by evening rush hour everything would be re-opened.
New Jersey Transit buses headed to the Port Authority were diverting to other locations. NJ Transit said buses were taking passengers to Secaucus and Hoboken, where they could take trains into the city.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted that President Donald Trump had been briefed on the explosion.
Associated Press writer Jake Pearson contributed to this report.
Police block a street by Port Authority Bus Terminal near New York's Times Square following an explosion on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. Police say the explosion happened in an underground passageway under 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Police block off a sidewalk while responding to a report of an explosion near Times Square on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
People walk past Port Authority Bus Terminal as police respond to a report of an explosion near Times Square on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Police stand guard in front of the Port Authority Bus Terminal near New York's Times Square following an explosion on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. Police say the explosion happened in an underground passageway under 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Police secure Eighth Avenue outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal following an explosion near New York's Times Square on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. Police said a man with a pipe bomb strapped to him set off the crude device in an underground passageway under 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. (AP Photo/Chuck Zoeller)
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to members of the media after a pipe bomb strapped to a man went off in a New York City subway near Times Square on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, in New York. Mayor Bill de Blasio stands fourth from left. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Police respond to a report of an explosion near Times Square on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Zoeller)
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George Clooney arrives in Venice for star-studded wedding
George Clooney, Amal Alamuddin arrive in Venice for their wedding. Image: AP
Oscar-winning actor George Clooney and his high-flying barrister fiancee Amal Alamuddin have arrived in Venice for their star-studded four-day-long nuptials.
The couple touched down in Venice and were taken by water taxi (one aptly named Amore) to Clooney's favourite Venetian hotel, Cipriani.
It is believed they will have two ceremonies, one on Saturday and another civil ceremony on Monday.
George, 53, and Amal, 36, have been engaged since April with the groom-to-be giving his beloved barrister a giant engagement ring estimated to be worth more than $800,000.
Their four-day wedding weekend is reported to be costing about €2.5m or AUD$3.6 million.
They've already held their rehearsal dinner and, as you can see below, the bride-to-be looked stunning in a flowing red waterfall gown.
The bride, Amal Amuladdin, attended her ladies-only wedding party in a stunning red and black waterfall gown. Image: FameFlyNet/SplashNews
Among the many stars who have already arrived in Venice for the wedding are Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin and Anna Wintour.
The groom is believed to be donning a simple and elegant Armani suit, while the bride is rumoured to be wearing an Alexander McQueen gown.


Darrell Plummer, left, owner and real estate broker for the Fallon branch of Sierra Nevada Properties, speaks to agent Carol Arciniega on Jan. 11.
FALLON, Nev. — Real Estate broker and owner Darrell Plummer has a soft spot in his heart for Fallon and the small-community values it represents.
Sierra Nevada Properties, which his father Hal Plummer began 40 years ago, opened an office in Fallon last year on July 16, and recently had a ribbon-cutting and official grand opening for the business on 941 W. Williams Ave.
"My father was born in Fallon, so it's fun to come back to where my father started his life," Plummer said at the Jan. 11 event.
Hal Plummer was born in Fallon but moved to Reno at an early age. He first started All-State Realty in the San Francisco Bay Area with several friends and returned to Northern Nevada in the late 1970s.
Darrell Plummer joined the business 24 years ago, and he purchased Sierra Nevada Properties in 2001 and has been a broker-owner since. The company also established a real estate office in Fallon, which was known as Coldwell Banker Plummer and Associates.
At the time, another franchise of Coldwell Banker-Ponte was owned by Gary and Cindy Troxel, who recently decided not to renew their franchise.
"When I left Coldwell Banker, Gary and I stayed good friends," Plummer said.
When Sierra Nevada Properties opened its newest office in the same location, Plummer said Troxel asked if he and Cindy could join the firm as real estate agents.
Ironically, Plummer said the Troxels are both landlords and agents. Before Sierra Nevada Properties occupied the building, Plummer said the Troxels improved the site inside and out.
"We brought in new technology and a new feel to our brand," Plummer said. "We also brought in furniture and large monitors."
Plummer said the walls have been painted, new carpeting and lighting installed and new furniture bought for the lobby. The building has a conference room set up for video conferencing. Along the walls are photographs taken by local photographer Skip Reeves.
Plummer said Troxel's agents are also part of Sierra Nevada Properties.
"Gary and his agents have a great reputation," Plummer said. "We're fortunate to have that base, that foundation."
This is Sierra Nevada Properties' sixth location, and the company has offices in Fernley, Reno (main office), Midtown Reno, Incline Village and the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center.
Overall, Plummer said the company employs about 120 agents, and in the Churchill County area, they will specialize in land, ranch and home and also small businesses in both Fallon and Fernley.
Plummer described the six properties as the Interstate 80 corridor of economic vitality with Incline Village and Fallon becoming the folded ends of a straight line.
Currently, Plummer said Fallon has eight agents, an office assistant and a full-time person in marketing. A central administration staff that deals with marketing, internet technology and accounting are based in Reno. He said Sierra Nevada Property takes pride in its professional development.
"We have a slogan," Plummer said. "We paint the town orange."
Plummer said Sierra Nevada Properties has aggressive marketing tools and touts excellent professional standards, training and staying current by providing the best representation of the client.
"We have a good track record and good reputation," Plummer said.
In addition to their real estate services, Plummer said the company has three 15-foot moving trucks including one in Fallon to assist clients with moving. He said clients are responsible only for the fuel they use.
Plummer's roots with Fallon also extend to the days when he first met the late Shirley Walker, executive director of the Churchill Economic Development Authority in the 1990s.
At the time, Plummer was director of economic development for a power company from 1988 to 1995. He also developed a friendship with Mayor Ken Tedford and Councilman Bob Erickson.
Before Sierra Nevada Properties conducted its ribbon-cutting, Plummer sat down with Tedford and Nathan Strong, CEDA's executive director, to discuss his company, and afterward, Tedford drove Plummer around the city.
"The mayor showed me a lot of shovel-ready land for housing," added Plummer, who now serves as 2019 chair of the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce Board.
Additionally, Plummer sees a strong connection developing between the city and Sierra Nevada Properties, and it was gratifying to see Fallon and the changes that have occurred in the area.
Plummer noted the number of opportunities that exist in Fallon for housing, specifically with the growth of TRIC. Although Plummer said about 70-80 percent of the workers live in the Reno-Sparks area, he would like to see more families move east to Fernley or Fallon.


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Hermès pays homage to the artisans through a documentary that showcases the men and women who create the Parisian house's products.
The documentary, titled "Hearts and Crafts" is directed by Frédéric Laffont and Isabelle Dupuy-Chavanat and is keeping with the fashion house's theme of this year, 'Contemporary artisan since 1837'. Get a sneak peek into the workshops of Hermès through the film which has been shot in four parts of France, namely Paris, Ardennes, Lyonnais and Lorraine.
"Hearts and Crafts" will be screened every hour between 11 am and 7pm on 27th November at Hermès' recently opened store in Mumbai.
Address: Hermès, 15A Horniman Circle, Fort, Mumbai.


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Q: How to program a list in prolog that has n number of elements I'm trying to code a program in prolog, that returns true only if the list contains first of all only the letters {a,b,c} and it must have the exact same amount of a,b and c. Furthermore it must be in this order [a,b,c].
Example : [] is true, [a,a,b,b,c,c] is true and [a,a,a,b,b,b,c,c,c] is also true but [b,b,c,c,a,a] is false, [b] is false, [a,b] is false, [a,c] is false and [a,a,b,b,b,c,c,c] is also false.
Here is what I tried to do, but the problem is that for each iteration the first c isn't put in the end :
langage11([]).

langage11(L) :-
  langage11(L, []).

langage11([a, b, c | A], A).

langage11([a|A], B) :-
    langage11(A, C),
    C = [b, c|B].

I hope someone would be able to help me.

A: abc_list(ABCs) :-
    length(ABCs, Len),
    % The length is a multiple of 3
    divmod(Len, 3, AmountOfEachChar, 0),
    % The character-specific lengths are each a third of the total length
    length(As, AmountOfEachChar),
    same_length(As, Bs),
    same_length(As, Cs),
    % Contents of the character lists
    maplist(=(a), As),
    maplist(=(b), Bs),
    maplist(=(c), Cs),
    % Join the 3 lists
    append([As, Bs, Cs], ABCs).

Result in swi-prolog:
?- findnsols(5, ABCs, abc_list(ABCs), Lst).
Lst = [[],[a,b,c],[a,a,b,b,c,c],[a,a,a,b,b,b,c,c,c],[a,a,a,a,b,b,b,b,c,c,c,c]]


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Q: Symfony Xdebug PhpStorm doesn't work after setup I followed this Documentation to setup Xdebug in PhpStorm. But it doesn't work.
The Xdebug section of my php.ini looks like this:
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If I run the php -v it shows me that Xdebug isn't installed. I don't understand why...

A: I Fix the Problem with this information from @LazyOne

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*"If I run the php -v and it shows me that XDbug isn't installed." You must be editing the wrong php.ini then. Run php --ini to see what config files that particular PHP is using. P.S. Please note that on Mac and Linux it's very common to have separate php.ini for CLI (terminal) and web server. So you have to check your config in the same environment (CLI or a web page) where you trying to debug.

and this link from him xdebug.org/docs/upgrade_guide. This helps to find the right XDebug version.
Thanks for the Help @LazyOne


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Free Genealogy » Oregon » Biography of William (Bill) Womack
Biography of William (Bill) Womack
William (Bill) Womack, son of John William and Martha Thompson, left Wallowa around 1910 to take up a homestead near Wilder, Idaho. There he married Nellie Mae Pack.
Nellie Mae Pack 1889-1934, a daughter of John Henry Pack and Lucy Ann Maria (Carter) Pack, lived in Wallowa from 1898 to 1903. She, with her family came from Beckley, West Virginia, by train, as far as Idaho, then accompanied by the Oscar Bidler family, traveled by wagon train to the Wallowa Valley. John Pack lived on a farm on Whiskey Creek, and Nellie, her brothers and sisters, attended what was then the Willow Springs School. Later the family moved to Roswell, Idaho.
On 1 January 1912, William Womack and Nellie Pack were married and lived on his homestead until 1 July 1919 when he moved back to Wallowa to his father's (John W. Womack) homestead, living there until 1941. They had five children:
Marley Osborne 1912-1952. He married Bertha Nona Winters in 1937. They lived near Wallowa. Marley served several years as City Marshal and worked at the Boman Hicks Mill. They had three children. Janice (Smith) lives in Vancouver, Washington, Joyce (Beeman) lives near La Grande. A son Vernon was drowned at the age of 13.
Wilma Lucille 1914-. She married Alvin Hawkins. Their home is on Diamond Prairie. They had two daughters. Judith Ann (Hauser) has three children and lives in Baker, Oregon. Carolyn Mae (Trams) lives in Miles City, Montana, and has two children.
William John (Bill) 1925-1943. He served in the Navy in World War II from March 1943, to November 1943. He lost his life when his ship, the Liscomb Bay, was sunk near the Gilbert Islands.
Robert Frank (Bob) 1926-. In 1948, he married Bethel Irene Larkin, daughter of Wayman and Laura Conley Larkin. They live on Diamond Prairie and Bob is a saw filer for Boise Cascade in Elgin, Oregon. They had four children. Kathy (Johnson) lives in Wallowa and has a daughter. Sandra (Le Tourneaux) lives in Sheridan, Oregon, and has two sons. Linda (Susie) (Borgerding) lives on a cattle ranch in Imnaha, Oregon, and ha a son. A son, Steven, was killed in a car wreck in 1972.
Wanda Irene 1928-. In 1946, she was married to Roy Ecker, shortly after his discharge from the Navy. They lived several years in Idaho and Illinois and then moved to Longview, Washington, Roy worked as a Hospital Manager. He died in 1971. They had three children. William (Bill) lives in Nampa, Idaho, and has a son. Marsha (Gillihan) lives in Vancouver, Washington, and has two sons. Wanda married Albert Bruner in 1980.
William Womack and Nellie (Pack) Womack are both buried in the Wallowa Cemetery.
[box]Source: History of Wallowa County. Wallowa County Museum Board, 1983. This information was sent to Gary Jaensch by Sue Wells of Elgin, Oregon[/box]
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package club.zhcs.agent.tasks;

import org.nutz.integration.quartz.annotation.Scheduled;
import org.nutz.ioc.loader.annotation.IocBean;
import org.nutz.log.Log;
import org.nutz.log.Logs;
import org.quartz.Job;
import org.quartz.JobExecutionContext;
import org.quartz.JobExecutionException;

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Popular Potato Varieties and How to Grow Them
Alicia Smith | Updated Mar 25, 2022
The poor potato doesn't get the credit it deserves. Most people fixate on its carb content, but this tuber provides about 70% of the required daily values of vitamin C and healthy doses of vitamins B6, B1, B3, and potassium.
There are hundreds of early, mid-season, and late-season varieties to choose from if you're looking to grow your own fresh-from-the-garden potatoes. Plant seed potatoes in rows, hills, raised beds, or containers, and, within a few short months, you'll be harvesting your favorite spuds.
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The oblong russet potato is high in amylose starch but low in moisture. Although it's a great choice for baked potatoes, latkes, or hash browns, they tend to fall apart in soups or stews.
This type of potato has thick skin, so it won't grow well in hardiness zones above zone 8. The russet is a mid-season variety, and you can harvest it between 95 and 110 days after planting. In warmer zones, like zone 8, plant tubers as early as midsummer, and they'll be ready for harvesting by fall.
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One of the best types of potatoes for mashing, the Yukon Gold is a low-starch, yellow-fleshed variety with a moist texture and smooth, fragile skin.
They love cool or cold climates and are early season cultivars. Start them from small tubers or from pieces of larger potatoes that have at least one "eye." Plant in March or April in trenches around six inches deep and 10 to 14 inches apart. Yukons need a minimum of six hours of sunlight per day along with consistent moisture. They're usually ready to harvest in late June or July, depending on your climate.
An all-purpose potato, the Kennebec is a large, white-fleshed potato with a thin, smooth skin and a starchy texture.
This variety features good resistance to both viruses and disease, and it produces high yields. It stores well for longer periods, making it a great choice for home gardens. It's a mid-to-late-season potato, so sow in rows in early spring, close together to prevent plants from growing too large. Since this variety tends to sunburn, make sure your Kennebecs get some afternoon shade if you live in warmer, sunny climates.
Russian Banana
Fingerling potatoes like the Russian Banana are small, elongated, crescent-shaped potatoes with yellowish, khaki-colored skin. This variety is a waxy potato with a thin skin, making it an excellent choice for roasting, smashing, or potato salad. It adapts well to different types of soil, maturing between 100 and 130 days after planting.
Gardeners in zones 3 through 9 will find this easy-to-grow variety has good disease resistance and high yields.
New potatoes
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New potatoes aren't a specific variety. Just about any potato harvested while it's still young and smaller in size is a "new" potato. They tend to be waxier, sweeter, and contain lots of moisture. If this is the type of potato you're seeking to grow, plant tubers when soil temperatures are between 60 and 70 degrees. If it's an early-season variety, plant six to eight inches deep, eyes up, in March or early April. You can plant late-season types in July. Most varieties will be ready to harvest within eight to ten weeks, depending on your local climate.
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If you're seeking a flavorful, impressive fingerling potato for soups, purees, sauces, and salads, plant this one in your garden. It has beautiful, rose-colored skin and moderately dry flesh, making it a popular mid-to-late-season waxy potato that matures in 80 to 90 days.
Plant in well-drained soil, ensure it gets full sun, and that's all it requires to thrive. Stick with certified, disease-resistant seed potatoes for optimal yields.
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An all-purpose potato with a dark-blue skin, the mid-season Purple Majesty is packed with flavor. Its deep-purple flesh is due to high levels of carotenoids and anthocyanins, which are super-potent antioxidants. Plus, the purple pigment doesn't disappear during the cooking process, making for striking dishes.
The tubers are small, so no need to cut them up into smaller pieces before planting. Harvest mature potatoes after the plant turns yellow, usually about four months in.
German Butterball
These delightful, all-purpose potatoes aren't easy to find at local grocers, so solve the issue by growing them yourself. They're a medium to large tater with a buttery, smooth consistency and sweet taste. Like other potatoes, this variety thrives with full sun and well-drained soil.
Avoid planting the German Butterball in spots where you've previously planted tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, or other types of potatoes to avoid disease issues.
Red Bliss
One of the most popular red-skinned varieties, the Red Bliss has a high sugar content and a moist white flesh. It's a waxy variety and an excellent choice for roasting or potato salads, but not for mashing. Its red skin indicates that it's rich in antioxidants.
When harvesting this variety, wait until two weeks after the vines have faded and dried. It allows the potato skin to toughen and increases its shelf life. Once removed from the ground, lay them out in a shady spot. Wash them, then allow them to dry overnight.
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Falling somewhere between waxy and starchy, this versatile potato is a fairly new species. The white-skinned, white-fleshed Marcy is a late-maturing potato that's also a high yielder. It is highly resistant to brown rot, common scab, and the golden nematode, although it can fall prey to late blight and potato wart.
Unlike many other potato varieties, Marcy thrives in southern climates such as Florida. Plant these tubers in rows spaced 40 inches apart and allow eight inches between plants. Prevent excessive soil moisture for the best results.


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Elder abuse either in the form of exploitation; neglect; physical, sexual or emotional harm or abandonment by trusted caregivers can happen to any elder including your own loved one.
Most believe one in ten seniors is affected but due to limited reporting of abuse, which is thought to be only one in five cases, no one is sure exactly how widespread the problem is.
Risk factors include dementia, substance abuse by both victims and caregivers and isolation. More women are affected than men at this time.
The fifth annual World Elder Abuse Awareness day is June 15, 2010.
Agencies across the nation will be scheduling events to make more people aware of signs to look for, ways to report suspected abuse and what to do to prevent abuse.
Movie theaters across the nation will show a trailer called the NCEA Elder Abuse Piece which highlights elder abuse.
Have you seen abuse? Do you suspect someone you know has been abused?
Take action now and learn more.
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You can contact the National Center on Elder Abuse at their website to learn more about the fight against elder abuse, how to spot it and prevent it in your community.


People presenting to emergency departments in mental health crisis experience long waits and are more likely than patients with other conditions to leave without completing treatment, a new report has found.
People presenting to emergency departments with acute mental health needs are facing long waits and incomplete care.
'Between the bright lights, yelling, police, pain and chaos of the surroundings – and my distress – I begin pacing, humming, tapping… just to try and block it out. Due to the long wait, I am either chemically restrained because of my distress, or repeatedly pressured to "calm down", which funnily enough does not work.
This is the voice of a person who has presented multiple times to the emergency department with acute mental health concerns. Their story is recorded in The long wait: An analysis of mental health presentations to Australian emergency departments, a report released today by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM).
Alarmingly, the report found that people with mental health conditions waited significantly longer than those with physical injuries, with the average wait for 90% of patients recorded at 11.5 hours for mental health compared to just 7 hours for physical.
Patients presenting for mental health concerns were twice as likely to leave before their treatment is completed than patients with physical injuries.
Waits for mental health services tended to be even longer in South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, with the longest average at 16.5 hours in South Australia.
The report analyses the statistics of more than 250,000 Australians per year who present to emergency departments (ED) seeking help for acute mental and behavioural conditions including suicidality, mania and psychosis.
Dr James Antoniadis, GP and psychodynamic psychotherapist, told newsGP he was unsurprised by the results of ACEM's report, and believes long waits in ED for people presenting with mental health conditions are a result of constricted options for inpatient management.
'We have a drastic shortage of inpatient beds … and then we've got the emergency department which is having to try and help people who want inpatient care, a bed, someone who's going to look after them for a while,' Dr Antoniadis told newsGP.
The report found that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients were significantly overrepresented, making up 3% of the Australian population but 11% of all ED mental health presentations across the country.
Overall, people presenting at the ED with acute mental health and behavioural conditions were 18% less likely to be seen within the appropriate timeframe for their presentation urgency than people with other medical conditions.
ACEM considers the results of its report to be 'damning' of the lack of timely healthcare provided for people with acute mental health concerns through ED, although it points to systemic strain rather than placing blame on ED staff.
'We can, and must, do better,' President of ACEM Dr Simon Judkins said.
Dr Antoniadis agrees the issues outlined in the ACEM report stem from systemic problems and would like to see greater investment in hospitals and treatment centres specifically dedicated to the management of severe mental health concerns.
He also highlights the role of general practice as 'the rung below' treatment in the emergency department, and warns that neglecting proper training and funding in primary care will lead to further pressure placed on emergency departments.
'People get to emergency because they've given up on other avenues,' Dr Antoniadis said.
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Trump Is Making Obama's Mistake In Syria: Putting His Hopes in Russia
Don't hold your breath waiting for the Syrian ceasefire to culminate in some sort of peaceful resolution, or even last long. We've been down this road before, folks.
By Megan G. Oprea
Donald Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit produced more than just a beehive's worth of media buzzing. A Syrian ceasefire agreement also emerged. Putin and Trump, with the help of Jordan, apparently reached an agreement for a ceasefire in three areas in southern Syria, two of which border Jordan and a third along the Israeli border.
But don't hold your breath waiting for this to culminate in some sort of peaceful resolution, or even in a durable ceasefire. We've been down this road before, folks.
The ceasefire went into effect on Sunday and as of Monday the United Nation's special envoy for Syrian peace talks said it's generally being respected, although there have been some "teething problems," by which we can assume he means sporadic fighting. The ceasefire also happens to coincide with the latest round (the seventh, to be exact) of indirect peace talks between representatives of the Syrian government and some, but not all, of the opposition leaders.
We've Heard This Before, to No Avail
This all sounds well and good, except there's a problem, or rather a number of problems, that ought to make us less than hopeful. The last four attempts at establishing a ceasefire in Syria were resounding failures. Three came apart in the span of months and the fourth fell apart before it was ever enforced. Both sides in this civil war (the regime of Bashar al Assad and the rebel groups seeking to oust him) claim that the responsibility for failure lies with the other.
In the most recent ceasefire attempt, which was brokered in May by Russia, Iran, and Turkey, several of the rebel groups rejected the plan. There were also disagreements over which country's forces would ultimately patrol and enforce various de-escalation zones.
Another glaring problem with past ceasefires has been that they allow for continued fighting against ISIS. This, of course, makes sense. However, Russia, which has been providing the Assad regime military support since 2015, has used this as a pretext to launch airstrikes, most likely against Syrian opposition groups, while claiming to target ISIS fighters. That claim has been difficult to confirm and highly suspect, since Moscow has shown little interest in fighting ISIS since it arrived on the scene two years ago.
On top of that, the seventh and most recent attempt at peace talks have little chance of bringing about a peaceful resolution to the conflict. One major difficulty with the previous six peace talks was that not all of the involved parties have been invited to the table. Of course, ISIS was excluded (there is almost no chance of them participating anyway). The militant Islamist rebel group formerly known as the al Nusra Front was also not at the table.
The reasons for this make sense. No one wants to legitimize the radical group with former ties to al-Qaeda. But it also means no meaningful peace can be found if all the belligerents are not involved. Yet the Trump administration is being led down the garden path by Russia and Syria, repeating the very same policy mistakes of the Obama administration. After the past six years, the United States ought to know better.
The Russians Have Proven They're Not Reliable
Let's put aside all of the evidence worldwide that Russia isn't an honest broker and focus solely on the country's behavior in Syria since the civil war began there in 2011. Moscow has continually engaged in peace talks and ceasefires with no discernible intention of maintaining peace or abiding by ceasefire rules.
There's also the little problem of the Syrian chemical weapons crisis in 2013. After President Obama let the Assad regime cross his chemical weapons red line, Russia agreed, ever so magnanimously, to broker the transfer of the regime's banned weapons to the international community for destruction. Yet the deal didn't allow for the use of force or the automatic imposition of sanctions in the event of Syrian violations. Russia insisted on this as part of its shell game.
We all saw how that worked out. Since the supposed destruction of Syria's chemical weapons in 2014, the Assad regime has continued to launch chlorine and sarin gas attacks on civilians, drawing on a supposedly non-existent stockpile of chemical weapons.
These facts alone should be enough to convince the Trump administration that the Russians are not a reliable partner in diffusing or de-escalating the Syrian civil war. Yet here we are. Obama's secretary of State, John Kerry, made a spectacle of himself by repeatedly returning to the Russians with renewed hope that they would be partners in ending the civil war in Syrian. Now the Trump administration appears set to follow in Kerry's footsteps.
So Now We're Essentially Fighting a Proxy War
After Trump's meeting with Putin last week, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson went so far as to say, "By and large, our objectives [in Syria] are exactly the same," echoing Kerry, who often expressed the same misguided sentiment. Nothing could be further from the truth. One might even say that the United States and Russia have opposite interests in Syria. One might even say that the United States and Russia are now fighting a proxy war there.
Moscow is determined to see Assad remain in power, cares little about the fate of ISIS except in so far as it helps or hurts the Assad regime, has no interest in or incentives to pursue a real and lasting peace, and has aided in putting down the opposition in the harshest ways. Russia also cares little about humanitarian issues or the use of chemical weapons. But sure, Rex, our objectives just about line up.
Trump and his administration are singing the same tune as the Obama team on Syria. What is it they say again about a person who keeps repeating the same action while expecting a different result?
A version of this article appeared as the lead essay in our foreign policy email newsletter, INBOUND. Subscribe here.
Megan G. Oprea is the managing editor of the Texas National Security Review and a contributor to The Federalist. You can follow her on Twitter.
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This one-of-a-kind Nissan 240SX has been dubbed the Red Rocket and is being touted as the fastest 240SX in the world. The real question that I want to ask is: Just how much of a Nissan is this Red Rocket?
Don't get it twisted – a low 7-second quarter-mile pass at 187 mph is pretty impressive under any circumstances – but does this little rear-wheel drive coupe have a big American V8 pining away under the bonnet or has it remained stock to accomplish this awe inspiring feat? The answer is…neither.
Instead of taking the easy way to a low 7-second ET, and cramming a big LS engine between the fenders, this racer has taken a more unique approach. The Nissan mill is gone with the wind and a 2JZ Toyota engine has taken its place. The 3.2-liter inline 6-cylinder is built by South Florida Turbo & Engine (SFT&E) and includes a 76-millimeter turbocharger and a nitrous injection system. It has a Powerglide transmission bolted to it and it is capable of producing 1,400hp.
This is one bad Nissan. Check it out for yourself.