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Weekend Science: Binge Drinking Behavior Linked To GIRK Brain Protein
Researchers have discovered that a brain protein plays a key role in controlling binge drinking, defined as drinking to the point of intoxication. They found that deleting the gene for this protein in mice ramped up alcohol consumption and prevented the brain from signaling the rewarding properties of alcohol.
The goal of the new study was to identify the role of a member of the "G protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium channel" (GIRK) family in the behavioral and cellular responses to alcohol.
GIRK channels are distributed throughout the nervous system, where they decrease the excitability of neurons, making them less likely to fire. Studies in isolated cells have revealed that alcohol can directly activate GIRK channels; however, scientists did not know whether this action matters for the behavioral effects of alcohol.
Melissa Herman and Scripps Research Institute Assistant Professor Candice Contet. Photo courtesy of The Scripps Research Institute.
Investigating the role of GIRK3
"Alcohol hits a lot of different targets in our brain, which makes disentangling the in vivo effects of alcohol quite complicated," said The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) biologist Candice Contet, senior author of the study. "Our study sheds light on the molecular mechanisms implicated in binge drinking."
In the new study, Contet and colleagues focused on the GIRK3 subunit, which had previously been shown to modulate the effects of other drugs, such as the "date rape drug" γ-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and cocaine. The researchers investigated how GIRK3 influenced mouse behavior and neuronal function in the presence of alcohol. To do so, they compared "knockout" mice missing GIRK3 with normal mice.
They first found that the deletion of GIRK3 did not impact alcohol metabolism and did not affect how sensitive mice were to alcohol intoxication. Mice lacking GIRK3 and their normal counterparts cleared alcohol from their blood at the same rate, and experienced a similar loss of balance, sleepiness and reduced body temperature in response to alcohol.
However, in agreement with results from a previous study, the researchers found that GIRK3 knockout mice experiencing alcohol withdrawal failed to display the typical handling-induced convulsions caused by neuronal hyperexcitability.
GIRK3 knockout mice and controls also showed differences in alcohol intake in a test mirroring human behavior during a "happy hour" at a bar. In this test, mice were given access to ethanol for only two hours a day, at a time when they were most likely to drink to the point of intoxication.
The researchers found that GIRK3 knockout mice consumed much more alcohol than the control group. This effect was not observed when mice were given continuous access to alcohol, conditions under which mice do not get intoxicated. This result pointed to a role for GIRK3 specifically in binge drinking.
This led Contet and colleagues to consider two possibilities. "Mice lacking GIRK3 could be drinking more because they feel more pleasure from alcohol and are therefore more motivated to drink--or they could be drinking more because they feel less pleasure and therefore need to drink more to reach the same level of pleasure as normal mice," said Contet.
The Reward-Seeking Pathway
To address this question, the researchers turned their attention to the mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic pathway, a neural circuit that facilitates reward seeking. This pathway originates in an area of the midbrain called the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and releases the neurotransmitter dopamine in two forebrain areas: the ventral striatum and the prefrontal cortex. Alcohol, like other drugs of abuse, activates this pathway.
The researchers evaluated the activity of this pathway using two complementary techniques: electrophysiological recordings, which measured the firing of VTA neurons, and microdialysis, which tracked dopamine release in the ventral striatum.
In both experiments, the baseline activity of the pathway was not affected by GIRK3 deletion. However, a striking difference between normal and GIRK3 knockout mice emerged in the presence of alcohol, as the researchers found that the pathway became completely insensitive to alcohol's activating effect without GIRK3.
"The dramatic effect of GIRK3 deletion on the ability of alcohol to excite VTA neurons was surprising," said Melissa Herman, a research associate in the laboratory of TSRI Professor Marisa Roberto and first author of the study. "Even when applied at a very high concentration, alcohol was unable to alter the firing of neurons missing GIRK3."
Alcohol was also unable to trigger the release of dopamine in the ventral striatum of GIRK3 knockout mice.Contet believes that, taken together, the results suggest that GIRK3 knockout mice drink more ethanol to boost the engagement of other neural pathways mediating alcohol's rewarding effects.
The researchers were able to alter binge drinking in the opposite direction by injecting a GIRK3-expressing virus in the VTA. Reintroducing GIRK3 in the VTA of knockout mice brought their alcohol consumption down to normal levels, and normal mice expressing more GIRK3 in the VTA drank even less.
Overall, the new study showed that more GIRK3 in the VTA reduced binge drinking. This has led the researchers to believe that a compound selectively targeting GIRK3-containing channels may hold promise for reducing alcohol consumption in heavy binge drinkers.
Citation: Melissa A. Herman, Harpreet Sidhu, David G. Stouffer, Max Kreifeldt, David Le, Chelsea Cates-Gatto, Michaelanne B. Munoz, Amanda J. Roberts, Loren H. Parsons, Marisa Roberto, Kevin Wickman, Paul A. Slesinger,Candice Contet, 'GIRK3 gates activation of the mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway by ethanol', PNAS May 11, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1416146112. The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grants AA020913, AA018734, DA034696, MH061933, AA020430, AA013498, AA020404 and AA006420).
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Q: Php fatal error on installing composer from project This is the fatal error message occuring:
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This project is cloned from git and this error occurs after installation packets from composer install.
I want to run project on Ubuntu platform, but I'm totally green in this thema.
Sorry for my bad english but maybe someone will help me with this dark magic.

A: I have the same error after upgrating to php-redis 3.1.4RC. It looks like a BC breaking feature was introduced
For ondrej ubuntu repository
cd /tmp
wget https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php/+build/12376478/+files/php-redis_3.1.2-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i php-redis_3.1.2-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1_amd64.deb

A: It seems the error you encounter is not link with composer, but with the RedisBundle from your Symfony app.
See this message :

Uncaught Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\ContextErrorException: Warning: Declaration of Snc\RedisBundle\Client\Phpredis\Client::get() should be compatible with Redis::get($key) in /home/PRIVATE/Prop/vendor/snc/redis-bundle/Client/Phpredis/Client.php:1389

Apparently you have a Client class : in Snc\RedisBundle\Client\Phpredis\Client.php which inherit /home/PRIVATE/Prop/vendor/snc/redis-bundle/Client/Phpredis/Client.php from Redis.
Since it's inheritance, both methods should have the same signature.
So change your method Client::get() -> Client::get($key) even if you don't use the $key parameter.
And it should work fine.

A: You can install phpredis 3.1.2 from the source. Just clone a repo, switch to tag 3.1.2 and run:
phpize
./configure
make && make install

Then update path to redis.so in extension's ini file. Reload PHP

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Jurassic Park CD: Hundstrasse Plays Another Jurassic Park Game…
My only guidance was a few grainy images from in a well-thumbed issue of 'Mean Machines Sega', but as a child I had made up my mind that the Sega CD's Jurassic Park Game was the definitive way to experience first-hand the wonder of John Hammond's ill-fated theme park…
For those of you who havn't picked up on the subtlety with which I've mentioned it in the past, 'Jurassic Park' is one of my favourite films. It's enchanting, exciting, and mysterious, but most of all it is set in a world with blurry edges everywhere making it feel real and expansive rather than enclosed. The characters are all larger than life and caricaturish, each with a distinctive personality and matching wardrobe. Unfortunately it's a franchise which has never really found its place in the videogame world to the loss of gamers everywhere as it is a setting that is more than ready. Arguably my favourite JP game was the recent 'Lego Jurassic World' which made both the 'list of top 5 games I played in 2015' and also my recommendation for 'the best game for non-gamers'. Having said that, there were aspects to the flawed TellTale offering that I also found enchanting, mainly the devotion to the source material and plot (even if the gameplay was weak… to be super-nice to it…). At the time of writing that article, I mentioned the mysterious draw of the SegaCD Jurassic Park game, so one idle Friday evening I set out to play it.
As my opening paragraph alluded, this is a game that had been on my radar for some time; as a child the SegaCD was an enigmatic system where everything seemed to be FMV based (Full Motion video.. as opposed to what?… Half Motion Video?… No Motion Video?) relying on actors and grainy footage to cobble together some kind of game. I'm going to avoid criticising the technology too much, these early CD games were necessary for the development of the medium, havn't stood the test of time (I think that the controversial 'Night Trap' is possibly the only one with any kind of following), but even by these standards, this is a pretty terrible game, so let me walk you through my experiences of it…
… Ooooh… Ahhhh… is not how it all started…
JP:CD's title screen and 'intro sequence' are bland, they didn't even get the font right; You know? The distinctive Jurassic Park font that was the first of the '1000 Fonts' anyone installed from those boot-fair CD's in the 90's? The logo followed by a brief few paragraphs explaining that you are heading to the Island to recover dinosaur eggs… but 'oh no!'… There is an explosion and your helicopter crashed… screen flash white. As openings go, for a console that Sega was trying to convince everyone belonged in a post 16-bit era, it is lacklustre at best. Immediately I began to wonder why I wasn't listening to the distinctive Jurassic Park melody, or seeing any visuals lifted from the film (or at all)? For a system so pro-FMV there isn't a single frame taken from the source material; and whilst that would have been a lazy choice, it certainly isn't as lazy as the 'text-on-blank-screen' approach taken. Likewise, the plot continues in this half-hearted manner; the game is set after the events of the film, although it's not really mentioned or relevant, with the park overrun with dinosaurs. The helicopter sabotage and subsequent crash has no impact on the plo and given that it doesn't provide a visual spectacle at the opening of the game it is difficult as a player to see why it was included. The player is required to collect dinosaur eggs, take them to the incubator in the visitor centre, and presumably escape with them in tow. The awkward act of our faceless protagonist negotiating the island's sub-tropical terrain with a hefty incubator slung over their shoulder is never addressed. Much of the who, why, and what is told through video messages that the player picks up in the park control room delivered by a lady in a white coat, so you know she's a scientist (I always wonder what happened to actors from early FMV games, like the undertaker from 'Mad Dog McCree'), but I got pretty bored of strolling back to the visitor centre every few minutes when I had another message from her so I may have missed out on some plot whilst I was collecting eggs.
"Dr Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler, welcome to Jurassic Park!"
From an underwhelmed start I was still relatively hopeful that the gameplay would be involved enough to make up for the shortcomings of the opening and story. Whilst 'Point-n-Click' isn't everyone's 'leckere kekse' I'm a big believer in it as a format, but even this enthusiasm for the source material and genre couldn't hide some pretty tedious gameplay. The player awkwardly manoeuvres a cursor around the screen from a first person viewpoint (which in itself is a limitation of the era's reliance on digital control pads) and points of interest offer a visual cue as they are swept over… but only if you currently hold the right doohickey to interact with it. This means that the player might 'sweep' an area, only to have to come back and sweep it again later once you've found a wrench or pliers or whatever. Given the difficulty of the control and that the screen pans around to give a full 360° view in most areas as you push the crosshair against the borders, it rapidly becomes an exercise in patience just to work out what can and can't be interacted with. Graphically most scenes are grainy 16-bit panoramas which are attempting to be more photorealistic than normally associated with the era; again this is an odd choice as the jungle-like locations tend to mean it's a mess of greens and browns. The only point this is switched up is in the visitor centre which took on a pre-rendered '3D' vibe. In these areas the player is treated to a pause followed by first-person animation as they either move location, or simply look to the left or right. It was screen shots from these locations that jumped out of those 90's magazine pages and, despite being a little flawed in execution, the visitor centre does have a more immersive feel than most of the game making me wish the developers had run with this pre-rendered technique for more of the game. Whilst I'm dishing out what little praise I can for JP:CD, the information boards around the park are a nice touch; they treat the player to FMV and audio of Dr. Robert T. Bakker (spared no expense) providing some dino-facts which guide some of the puzzle solutions, and the obligatory 'educational' aspect that it seemed every 90's produced CD-ROM needed to contain.
"Must Go Faster"
Navigating the island is relatively straightforward; each species of dinosaur inhabits a different region and they're handily signposted to guide the player through the different scenes. Collecting the eggs from each species requires the solving of puzzles which mostly fall into the category of 'easy when you know how, but not always obvious', except when they involve combat where they're always just 'painfully awkward'. In general the player needs to 'deal' with each species in a different way to move them away from their eggs so that they can be lifted, sometimes this involves shooting or stunning the creature and at these points the game spirals further into tedium. First the player must select the appropriate gun from the inventory and then, still using the clunky cursor interface, shoot. It's not only a chore to aim using the cursor that crawls around the screen but one that is magnified by the need to turn around the deal with the dinosaurs attacking off-screen. There is no way you would be able to get through some of these sections without the several attempts needed to learn the sequences and to pre-empt the dinos as they pop into view. The combat difficulties are compounded as the game deals out harsh punishment for failure; 'Game Over' and no continues. The T-Rex section in particular involves knowing exactly where to click, when to click, and has no margin for error.
"Nobody could've predicted that Dr. Grant would suddenly, suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle"
It's a strange experience overall and one that's barely tied to the movie. In the final stages of the game the player needs to fight their way past some malicious interlopers to steal a helicopter; awkward combat aside, the idea of gunfights in a Jurassic Park game is entirely out of keeping with the series. The raptors are living in caves rather than their distinctive enclosure, and the linking visuals between areas consist of sped-up stock 'jungle' scenery with accompanying bongo music; only the region near the T-Rex paddock and the visitor centre evoke memories of the movie. Judging it as a 'Point-n-click' adventure it also fails to captivate; the interface is clunky, the puzzles are largely unimaginative and (I can't believe I'm saying this) combat might actually be improved if it were QTE based. The final pile of triceratops poop is the unnecessary and constrictive time-limit.
So I'm still looking for the perfect Jurassic Park title; JP:CD failed to captivate or entertain and I'm left with childhood illusions shattered.
Did anyone play this game when it was released? Have I got it all wrong and it is an underrated classic… most importantly, which Jurassic Park game should I play next?
Hundstrasse July 13, 2017 July 13, 2017 Games, gaming, Jurassic Park, Retro Gaming
16 thoughts on "Jurassic Park CD: Hundstrasse Plays Another Jurassic Park Game…"
KingKoopa says:
Never played this one, but based on your thoughts, doesn't sound like that's a problem! The SNES Jurassic Park always confused me… I feel like there's potential for a great game in there somewhere, but I always end up lost/confused/bored.
Loved the quotes throughout your post, too. My favorite was always, "Now, eventually you will have dinosaurs, on your-, on your dinosaur tour right? Hello? Yes?"
Hundstrasse says:
… I really hate that man…
Richenbaum Fotchenstein says:
I've never played any Jurassic Park game, but I remember the Genesis version looking pretty cool.
I rented 'Rampage Edition' on the Genesis and seem to remember having a fun weekend 🤔
Imtiaz Ahmed says:
My favourite Jurassic Park game was an arcade game i used to see at Chuck n cheese. It was an on rails shooter where you are in the Jeep. You use josticks to aim your gun. The game had a "Jeep" you would sit that moved and shook as you played, so rad. Game was hard though but finished it several times several coins later.
Here's a vid of it… Good times
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At the halfway point of the 2020 legislation session, the Senate has approved seven bills authored or co-authored by State Senator David Niezgodski (D-South Bend). Among his successful bills are:
Senate Bill (SB) 309, which gives the state tools to combat the payroll fraud that companies commit when they misclassify their employees.
SB 311, which expands health insurance coverage for children with certain autoimmune diseases.
SB 312, which solidifies the rights of disabled Hoosiers to have custody of their own children and to foster or adopt children.
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Warner Brothers and The CW have yet to comment and as of right now. The Huffington Post features a tweet by a fan named @travelingheidi who was at the panel when the announcement was made.
It certainly would make sense for the creators to position a spin-off/possible replacement for 'Supernatural' which will kick off its ninth season on October 8th, 2013. It's been rumored that the series will end with Season Ten, which would be in line with other similar shows, such as The CW's other sci fi/fantasy hit 'Smallville' which also lasted ten seasons. And The CW is launching its new series 'The Originals' this fall, which also started out as a backdoor pilot on its hit show 'The Vampire Diaries.'
As sad as it might be to say goodbye to 'Supernatural' and its pretty, pretty cast, it certainly wouldn't be a bad idea for its producers to make sure they know where their next paycheck is coming from. What do you think? Would you be up for a new iteration of 'Supernatural' set in one urban locale, versus various rural ones? Without Sam, Dean and Castiel, is there even a point? Comment below with your thoughts!
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Timed Up and Go (TUG) scores are often the go-to for fall risk assessment within senior care communities. It is easy to see why Timed Up and Go is the first line of fall prevention, as it gives information about a wide range of abilities and does so in a short amount of time. However, TUG scores aren't always the most reliable, and if the test is not given more than once per month or quarter, the scores simply aren't realistic. However, communities can keep residents safer by adding technology into the mix, letting automated Timed Up and Go assessments lead the way.
Timed Up and Go, when performed by clinicians, typically only happens upon assessment (or upon significant change) and then monthly or quarterly thereafter. While quarterly TUG scores certainly do assist staff when reviewing care plan goals and interventions, measuring a resident's TUG score every three months is simply not giving a good glimpse into the resident's fall risk. Residents may feel stronger in the morning, or their balance may falter after taking a particular medication. Without taking these situations into account, monthly or quarterly TUG scores are not giving staff members information that can be used to develop helpful interventions that could keep the resident off the floor and out of the hospital.
Beyond the timing of clinician performed Timed Up and Go assessments, there are also some issues with the environment where the test is given. Typically, the TUG is performed in a therapy room or in a community hallway. However, residents are walking, and transferring, in many different areas of the community, including their apartments, the dining room, and even at a local restaurant. Residents are not given the chance to perform the TUG on multiple flooring surfaces, or throughout the course of their daily routines. The lack of real-life situations can give the TUG score an incorrect skew.
Even with some of its drawbacks, Timed Up and Go still has multiple benefits when performed often and throughout the community. It certainly is not realistic to have a caregiver or clinician paired with residents throughout the day to check how a TUG score differs from the morning to late at night, or from carpeting to tile. This is exactly where artificial technology can come into play.
Timed Up and Go scores are able to be taken throughout the day, in the resident apartments, with cameras and other technology. These remote monitoring programs are able to measure how residents do within their apartments, completing day to day tasks like personal grooming or toileting. These multiple TUG scores are then passed on to staff members, giving clinicians real-time information about how residents are doing morning, noon, and night. This information can be used by clinicians to develop better care plan interventions, to give the fall risk team accurate information, to allow for more early intervention physical therapy referrals, and even to assist staff members in noticing the early signs of illness. Residents benefit and have better health, strength, and endurance to keep them aging in place longer.
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I can only really enjoy television drama when there's a little humorous sauce poured over it. That's why I like Orange is the New Black and Hart of Dixie. It's also the reason why I used to be a big fan of Desperate Housewives. I must admit I was more than a little sad to see that show end, and for the longest time I felt there wasn't a proper replacement for it.
Enter fellow ABC show Mistresses, albeit less suburban and more glamorous, but it's the closest any show has come to fill the hole Desperate Housewives has left in my heart (dramatic, moi?). It's witty and current, and dives into the lives of four women to look at their relationships from all different perspectives. It also vaguely reminds me of Lipstick jungle and Cashmere Mafia, two shows that got cancelled before they even properly started, but I have high hopes for this one. Is it the best show in the history of television? No. Is it highly addictive and entertaining? You bet!
In the US, Mistresses just finished their second season, but in Belgium Vijf just started showing the first season on tuesdays at 22:25. Missed it? Watch it here.
1. ABC vs BBC
The US version of Mistresses is based on the UK version of the show, which was on BBC from 2008 until 2010. As to be expected, the BBC version is a little darker, the ABC version is a little more glammed up.
2. Bloggers inspire the Costumes
Costume designer Roemehl Hawkins draws a lot of inspiration from blogs. "There are a couple of blogs that actually show real people from around the world and what they're wearing so I'll pull some [inspiration] from that." She told As mom sees it.
3. Many shows share set space.
Mistresses shares theirs with Cougar Town. April's store is actually also Jules' (Courtney Cox) real estate shop.
4. Dom's a family guy.
Dom's (Jason George) office has a photo of his own real life children.
5. Speaking of Desperate Housewives…
In 2011, Rochelle Aytes (April) guest starred in three episodes as Amber James, the former girlfriend of Keith Watson.
6. Alyssa Milano is an avid sports fan.
She has her own clothing line for female sports fans called Touch and is a big fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
7. Jocelyn may be the sassy single girl on the show, but…
In season 2 Jes Macallan's real life husband stars in the show as an FBI agent.
8. Yunjin Kim was born in South Korea.
She immigrated to the US at age 10.You may recognize her from Lost.
9. Alyssa Milano loves that her character is flawed.
"I loved how flawed the character (Savi) was. I loved how she was this woman who seemingly had everything together. She was so driven in her career, so successful and yet her life was unravelling. I thought that was really relatable." She tells TV fanatic.
10. This is actually the second time a Pilot was made for the show
Rochelle Aytes already starred a"Mistresses" pilot that was rejected by Lifetime TV, but then, ABC picked it up and she was called to play the role of April.
Sources: As mom sees it, Biography.com, TV Fanatic, My fox Atlanta, IMDB
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Port Talbot grandfather jailed for running massive cannabis ring
A grandfather from Port Talbot has been jailed for running a large scale cannabis operation in which he was caught red-handed as he delivered seven kilos of the drug.
Jeremy Williams was one of the two leaders of the gang that trafficked hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of cannabis to Devon.
He was the main grower of the drugs but also used crops harvested by at least one friend in South Wales. He made delivery trips at least once a week for five months before the operation was broken up by police.
Officers swooped in the car park of a roadside diner near the Exeter Racecourse as Williams was dropping off seven kilos of skunk in a laundry bag and picking up £22,720 in exchange.
The cannabis was destined to be sold on the streets of Plymouth, where cleaning company boss Jason Goodman had turned to drug dealing during the first Covid lockdown in 2020.
He arranged 26 different deliveries from Wales between May and October 26, 2020, when police intercepted the final hand over.
Both Goodman and Williams had drawn members of their family into the business, with Goodman's father Michael making three trips to pick up drugs and Williams's wife Susan helping to grow them at their home in Port Talbot.
He also enlisted a friend who lived nearby to help and he was later found five adult plants and five seedlings in a growing tent capable of producing £12,000 worth of cannabis a year.
Goodman controlled many of the handovers by phone from his home in Plymouth and sent convicted killer Francis Fletcher to oversee eight of them. He had been freed from a life sentence after serving seven years for killing a Royal Marine with a single punch in a fight in 2000.
The total value of the drugs amounted to hundreds of thousands of pounds and the profits helped both Jason Goodman and Williams survive the pandemic.
Jason Goodman, aged 32, of Stonehouse Road, Plymouth; his father Michael, aged 60, of Hollywood Terrace, Plymouth; Jeremy Williams, aged 64, of Morfa Road, Port Talbot; Fletcher, aged 47, of Wanstead Grove, Plymouth; all admitted conspiracy to supply cannabis.
Jason Goodman was jailed for four years and one month, Williams for four years and nine months, and Fletcher for a year and nine months by Judge Anna Richardson at Exeter Crown Court.
Michael Williams was given a suspended sentence of 15 weeks.
Susan Williams, aged 59, and Richard Ludbrook, aged 47, of Ty'r Owen Drive, Cwmavon, both admitted production of cannabis and were both ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid community work.
The judge said: "Cannabis affects thousands of families whose children may use it as a stepping stone drug which may affect their mental health or harm their life chances."
Mr Peter Coombe, prosecuting, said that Michael Goodman and Fletcher were arrested at the Haldon Forest Diner as they took delivery of seven kilos of cannabis, worth up to £35,000 in a laundry bag in exchange for £22,720 cash.
Phone evidence showed Williams or associates in Wales had made 26 trips, meeting Goodman or his proxies at Taunton, Honiton, or Exeter.
Williams was found with six plants in a sophisticated three-lamp growing space which could nurture 27 plants at any one time and produce three harvests a year.
Mr Giles Hayes, who mitigated both on behalf of both Williams and his wife, said he had a well paid job as a highway engineer until the first lockdown in March 2020 but then found himself without an income because he was self-employed.
He said he was not entitled to furlough pay and took to selling cannabis as a result of financial hardship. His wife played a minor role in the operation. She has never been in trouble before and has caring responsibilities for grandchildren.
Miss Francesca Whebell, for Jason Goodman said he also began dealing because his cleaning business was hit by the effects of the pandemic.
Lawyers for the others said they played lesser roles and were following the orders of the two leaders.
(Lead image: Exeter Court Service)
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How can I transform, step by step, the partial differential equation (pde) u.diff(z,z)k/gw == mvu.diff(t) into u.diff(Z,Z)=u.diff(Tv) where Z=z/H, Tv = cvt/H^2 and cv = k/(gwmv)? As you can see from my attempt below I can isolate cv; after that I have no idea how to do the change of variables. I can do this example by hand: let Z=z/H --> du/dz = du/dZ * dZ/dz --> du/dz = du/dZ *(1/H) ...etc. But Other examples may not be so easy (and I don't want to do it by hand!).
I've come up with a function, transform_func_x(expr,f,rels), to change the dependent variables of an expression. Below is the function itself and below that how I've used it (all copy and pasted from a sage notebook). Any suggested improvements are welcome.
with differential operators such as a partial differential equation.
"Z == z / H" transformation will be ignored.
of those variables. e.g. u(z, t) --> u(z / H, t)"""
"""used to change name of transformed variables within f.
e.g. u(z / H, t) --> u(Z, t)"""
"""used to transform variables outside of f.
e.g. z *u(Z, t)--> z * H * u(Z, t)"""
rels is already a variable of f"""
BTW, many thanks for coming back and posting your solution! Often people forget about a question and leave it hanging, but this helps everybody.


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The goal of this project is to analyze how species will be impacted by future changes (e.g., land use, climate change), and how management organizations can best respond. There will be an emphasis on shared governance–how organizations can work together on the same goals, utilizing their unique assets, skills, etc.–as a response strategy. Biodiversity in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains will serve as the case study. This area was chosen as it is a key climate refuge and corridor for species and its management falls under multiple jurisdictions. These findings will directly guide policy and biodiversity management decisions.
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You Get What You Deserve: Classic Big Star Albums to Be Reissued
For years, fans of power pop have had their Magna Carta of a CD: Fantasy Records' two-fer of Big Star's #1 Record and Radio City, the primary records issued by the legendary Memphis band. On September 2, that configuration changes with the release of both albums newly remastered on individual discs.
Both albums will be newly remastered from the original analog tapes (approved by original engineer/Ardent Records founder John Fry and allowing for Mastered for iTunes/24-bit hi-res downloads) and will be accompanied by new liner notes by Mike Mills, R.E.M.'s former bassist.
Taken together, #1 Record and Radio City are touchstones of Beatlesesque, visceral, beautiful pop courtesy of frontman Alex Chilton (who'd rose to fame as the young, powerful voice behind The Box Tops' "The Letter") and singer/guitarist Chris Bell. Together with bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens, they earned immense acclaim for #1 Record (despite no sales to match); Bell departed shortly thereafter, and equally celebrated Radio City was recorded as a trio. (A third, semi-released album has been repackaged over the years; other compilations have since followed.)
Though the sales never matched, this is a bold new chance for fans to discover or rediscover the two albums that established Big Star as masters of their craft. Pre-order #1 Record (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) and Radio City (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) today!
#1 Record (originally released as Ardent ADS-2803, 1972 – reissued Stax, 2014)
Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Give Me Another Chance
Radio City (originally released as Ardent ADS-1501, 1974 – reissued Stax, 2014)
Life is White
What's Going Ahn
You Get What You Deserve
Mod Lang
Daisy Glaze
September Gurls
Morpha Too
I'm in Love with a Girl
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This seems like a solution to a problem that did not exist. These two albums have been continuously in print for years and I can't imagine too many more people will be buying them now that they've been reissued yet again in a more expensive, yet not deluxe, configuration… new liner notes or not.
William Keats
Couldn't agree more….what's the point?…."new mastering"….zzzzzzz
I'm always happy to see the audience for Big Star grow, but I don't really see the point of these reissues, either, except to capitalize on all the publicity related to Chilton's death, the box set, the documentary film, and the Chilton biography. Nice to see someone making money from the Big Star/Chilton legacy; it's shame Alex couldn't have reaped the benefits while he was still with us.
ronfrankl
It's weird to be remastered since it was already remastered a few years ago in a SACD format.
If it needed remastering, fine. But it seems like a blatant money grab to break-up a perfectly good two-fer and not even give us the bonus tracks (single mix of "In the Street" and single edit of "O My Soul").
Randy Anthony
Supposedly, these remasters will not be brickwalled.
galley99
Any opportunity to expose this music to a new generation of fans shouldn't be dismissed. These obviously aren't intended for those already familiar with Big Star's music, but I like the idea of the uninitiated discovering them via these new remasters. They're not the first artist to repackage existing albums and they deserve all the promotion they can get.
If you'll indulge me in a little bit of related self-promotion, I wrote a single-post entry on the Big Star discography at my blog two years ago. It was a great opportunity for me to rediscover (and reinvigorate my love for) their music. For anyone who's curious, here's a link to that post:
http://kamertunesblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/b-sides-the-point-big-star/
KamerTunesBlog (by Rich Kamerman)
I think I bought the first two-fer which was missing a few tracks. Then I bought the next two-fer with the missing tracks. I bought both re-issues on vinyl. Then I bought an import of the first album and it actually is too loud. I like the idea of these as stand alone records.
They are two separate albums with different line-ups. If the remastering is good I will buy them again.
J Wagner
brickwalled?
mark schlesinger
He means brick wall limiting.
Mighty Zoltan
Um, these were released as separate CDs around 2009. There was even a tracking error at the start of September Gurls, of all songs. Went back to the 2fer.
pay more, get less. The real world in 2014, land of Barack Insane Obama.
What the f*ck does any of this have to do with Obama?….that's an insane remark
I downloaded the 24 bit versions from HDtracks, They sound great. Big Star really did remind me a lot of Badfinger.
Oh by the way Mark Schlesinger, you reveal your self to be a dimwit.
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The ice is drifting slowly eastward.
In the northern Bay of Bothnia 45-80 cm thick fast ice in the archipelago approximately to Kemi 3 and Oulu 3. To Oulun portti 25-80 cm thick ridged consolidated ice. Farther out, approximately to the line Simpgrund - Nahkiainen, there is open water. Farther south 10-50 cm thick ridged close and very close ice.
In the southern Bay of Bothnia 20-45 cm thick rotting fast ice in the archipelago. Farther out 10-50 cm thick ridged close and very close ice and. From 20 nautical miles west of Kallan towards Quark open water.
In the Quark, in the Vaasa archipelago, rotten fast ice to west of Storhästen. There are openings in the ice field. Farther out open water.
In the Sea of Bothnia northern part rotten ice in places in the inner archipelago.
In the Archipelago Sea and in Western Gulf of Finland ice free.
In the Eastern Gulf of Finland rotten ice in Gulf of Vyborg.
Icebreakers: Polaris, Otso and Kontio assist in the Bay of Bothnia.
Tornio, Kemi, Oulu, Raahe, Kalajoki, Kokkola and Pietarsaari, IA of more than 2000 tons.
Vaasa, II of more than 2000 tons.
Vessels bound for Gulf of Bothnia ports in which assistance restrictions apply shall, when passing the latitude 60N, report their nationality, name, port of destination, ETA and speed to ICE INFO on VHF channel 78. This report can also be given directly by phone +46 10 492 7600.
Vessels bound for ports in the Bay of Bothnia shall report to Bothnia VTS 20 nautical miles before Nordvalen lighthouse on VHF channel 67.
The traffic separation scheme in the Quark is temporarily out of use.
The ice chart of the whole Baltic Sea (pdf) is published in the autumn twice a week (Monday and Thursday) and daily when the amount of ice increases until until ice break-up in spring. It represents current ice situation, ice breaker positions and traffic restrictions in the Baltic Sea.
The simplified charts are updated once a week at the latest on Tuesday morning. The first one represents measured level ice thicknesses, ice coverage and sea surface temperature. The reference charts represent average, 1965 – 1986, ice situation on that day (= normaali), last week´s situation, last year´s situation and the positions of the ice breakers.


The Senate today confirmed Robert Wilkins to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, marking the final step in an aggressive push from the White House and Senate Democrats to leave a mark on a key federal appeals court.
President Barack Obama in June simultaneously nominated Wilkins and two other lawyers—Patricia Millett and Cornelia Pillard—to the D.C. Circuit.
With Monday's confirmation vote, Wilkins became the fourth Obama pick since May to take a seat on the D.C. Circuit. That matches the number of judges George W. Bush appointed to the appeals court, whose decisions in the regulatory arena—including securities, communications and the environment—have national sweep.
The Senate voted 55-43 to confirm Wilkins under a new streamlined confirmation process that came into place amid the partisan fight in the Senate over the D.C. Circuit. Wilkins will join the appeals court from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where he's been a trial judge since 2010.
After Senate Republicans blocked Obama's D.C. Circuit nominees from getting votes, Democrats changed longstanding Senate rules to strip the minority party of their rightto block nominee votes.
The Senate in December confirmed two other judges to the D.C. Circuit—Millett, a former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld partner and Pillard, who taught at Georgetown University Law Center.
Republicans argued that the D.C. Circuit workload did not justify the additional $1 million per year cost per judge. They accused Obama of filling the vacancies to "pack" the court in support of his legislative and regulatory proposals.
The confirmation of Obama's D.C. Circuit picks shifts the balance of active judges from an even split—four Republican appointees and four Democratic appointees—to a 7-4 advantage for Democrats. Republican-appointed judges hold a 9-8 advantage when senior judges are counted.
Obama's first successful appointment to the D.C. Circuit came in May, when the Senate confirmed former O'Melveny & Myers appellate partner Sri Srinivasan. He left the Justice Department Office of the Solicitor General to join the bench.
Hours before the Wilkins vote, Estrada, co-chair of the appellate and constitutional law practice at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, argued a case on behalf of Senate Republicans that Obama overstepped his authority in making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012.
"It's certainly interesting. Miguel Estrada is an extraordinary lawyer, and his own experience with the Senate certainly added significance to the situation as I saw it," Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said after watching the Supreme Court arguments. "This added a degree of poignancy that's kind of intangible."


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Thomas Bertram Costain was a Canadian who went to live in New York. Margaret Wade Labarge was a New Yorker who went to live in Canada. However these two may have crossed paths, they both have a wonderful gift for storytelling and put it to good use in two of the most readab le books about Simon de Montfort. Costain's second part of his series on the Plantagenets is 'The Magnificent Century' (1949), aptly named for what was the high point of the Middle Ages in England. The struggle between Simon and Henry dominate the latter half of the book, and while clearly enthralled by Montfort, Costain doesn't shy away from his mistakes, in particular his alienation of the difficult Clare clan.
Labarge's biography (1962) does the great gift of walking the uninitiated reader through stories and conventions that may seem tiresomely familiar to historians, like running a medieval household and the baffling machinery of arbitration. Her view is admirably balanced until near the end, when she takes the modernist verdict that Montfort's fall was more of his own making. Too acquisitive is a judgement often heard.
John Maddicott takes the same view in his biography, the last to hit the shelves (1994). 'Yet although we may think that Montfort's larger ambitions, notably his attempt to govern the country in the name of a captive king, were ultimately unsustainable, there was nothing predetermined about the way in which they were destroyed. Much depended on the mistakes and misjudgements of fallible men.' The Simon generally presented in both books as imperious and high-handed might have replied, 'You try it if you think you're so good.' His book is nevertheless a tour-de-force as he attempts to gain insight into this deeply introspective individual. The man who emerges is the complete contrast in character that has long been the tradition, only now we have a better understanding why. The tone of Maddicott's book is subdued and the research impeccable, making it already a classic in the Montfort community.
Most of the studies on Simon de Montfort before the 20th century fall into the ranks of hagiography, as evident by Reinhold Pauli's 'Simon de Montfort, the Creator the House of Commons'. George Prothero, Mandel Creighton and William Stubbs were more circumspect in their works, though generally laudatory of his efforts in the development of parliamentary democracy. One dissenting voice was offered by David Hume, who in his usual understated style, put down Montfort's moral character to 'violence, ingratitude, tyranny, and treachery.' The singular best book of the whole period is William Henry Blaauw's 'The Barons' War'. The wealth of research and information makes it indispensable for putting this incredibly complicated story together. Little wonder it's still in print after 170 years.
It wasn't until Charles Bemont's book came out in 1884 that the first truly professional biography of Montfort appeared, enriched by copies of actual documents. Most of them didn't make it into the first and only translation made in 1930 by E. F. Jacob. Not that most readers today would find them helpful. Bemont was writing in an era where knowledge of French and Latin was naturally presumed. No translation necessary. His work takes a very sober view of Montfort and his achievements, and he uses rhetorical questions throughout as a way for readers to draw their own conclusions. Which is, when you think about it, the only safe way to proceed, given the nature of the man and his lasting influence.


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William Walter Link (February 12, 1884 – September 23, 1950) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.

Born in Swiec, Poland, Link immigrated to the United States in 1897 with his parents, who settled in Chicago, Illinois.
He attended the parochial and public schools.
He attended the department of engineering of Lewis Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
He engaged in the enameling business at Chicago, Illinois from 1912 to 1932.
He was also interested in banking.
He served as president of the Board of Local Improvements, Chicago, Illinois from 1933 to 1936.
He served as general secretary of the Polish-American Democratic Organization of Illinois since 1932.
Chief clerk of the Superior Court of Cook County in 1942 and 1943.
He served as vice president of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners of Cook County, Illinois, in 1943 and 1944.

Link was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1947).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress.
He resumed the banking business as a director of the Manufacturers' National Bank of Chicago.
He was also interested in sociological work.
He died in Chicago, Illinois, September 23, 1950.
He was interred in St. Adelbert's Cemetery.

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1950 deaths
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois
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President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 28, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
President Trump has a button on his desk in the Oval Office that summons a butler to bring him a Coke.
"Sitting across from Donald Trump in the Oval Office, my eyes are drawn to a little red button on a box that sits on his desk," The Financial Times' Demetri Sevastopulo writes. Sevastopulo jokingly asked Trump if this was the nuclear button.
"No no, everyone thinks it is," Sevastopulo says Trump responds, and then uses the button to order a Diet Coke.
"Everyone does get a little nervous when I press that button," Trump tells Sevastopulo.


New houses going up apace on the Archery Ground in St Leonards.
Hastings Borough Council's Cabinet is set to drop plans to introduce a supplementary planning document for affordable housing at its meeting on Monday 4 February. Although the introduction of such an SPD was first mooted in 2004, it is less than a year ago, with affordable house-building plummeting, that Cabinet actually gave the green light.
"The SPD will include guidance on meeting the Policy requirement for the delivery of affordable housing contributions within residential schemes, the type and standard of affordable housing that will be required; and the assessment of the financial viability of a scheme," a Cabinet document stated at the time.
In developments of 15 houses or more the council's H3 policy calls for affordable housing to constitute 25% of all units on brownfield sites and 40% on greenfield sites.
But now the council is gearing up for a major revision of the Local Development Scheme (LDS) or Local Plan, one of the agenda items for Monday's meeting. Because priority must be given to commencing the review process, the report to Cabinet says, only one of two SPDs in the pipeline will now be progressed – the design SPD. The one to be dropped doesn't get name-checked, but it is the affordable housing SPD.
"This document has been promised for 15 years," says local resident Russell Hall, an dedicated follower of planning matters. "It is disappointing that such a policy document, that would help increase the number of affordable homes in Hastings and provide clarity for developers, has been dropped yet again.
After a nightmare year in 2016/17 which saw only two units added to Hastings' supply of affordable homes, a better return was secured in 2017/18, though the statistics offer varying pictures: according to HBC, net completions included 50 affordable houses (out of a total of 204 new units), while government figures indicate a total of 94 affordable houses, comprising 70 newbuilds and 24 units rehabilitated or acquired.
Meanwhile the Rother District Council planning committee has unanimously refused planning permission for an application from Park Lane Homes to build 30 houses at Strand Meadow in Burwash. Refusal was based principally on design grounds, but the lack of affordable homes was also a notable feature.
When Park Lane successfully sought outline permission for the development in 2017, they did not object to complying with RDC's affordable housing quota of 40%. However they insisted that 30 units were needed to make the development viable, although the allocation in the Local Plan was only 17, and got their way.
Artist's impression of the proposed development in Burwash. Deemed unviable if affordable housing were included, it was refused on design grounds.
When they applied for full planning permission, however, they filed a viability assessment which concluded that the inclusion of affordable homes made the development unviable. The viability assessment is the tool developers have used since 2012 to rid themselves of the affordable homes obligation with great success, thus contributing substantially to their own profits on the one hand and society's housing crisis on the other.
Viability assessments have usually been kept secret, and not even shown to the members of planning committees, but under new planning guidance brought in by the government last year, they are now required to be made public, along with the appraisals of them by the District Valuer Service, an HMRC division.
In this case the DVS report agreed with the developer that if the scheme included affordable housing, it would not be viable, and the RDC planning department accordingly recommended that planning permission be granted for 30 market units.
However the DVS reviewer calculated lower costs and higher returns than Park Lane and concluded that the scheme was more viable than the developer claimed. It estimated the profit level at 25%, well above the 20% recommended in the new planning guidelines.
Although the scheme would not have delivered any affordable housing, the developer would have been liable to pay nearly £725,000 in Community Infrastructure Levy (Cil) as a contribution to funding the additional infrastructure made necessary by the development.
The DSV report also recommended the establishment of a review mechanism so that if the scheme proved more profitable in practice than on paper, part of the additional profit could be clawed back to the benefit of society, possibly leading to the retrospective inclusion of affordable housing.
Although the application was refused mainly on design grounds, a second reason given was the developer's failure to come to a Section 106 agreement laying down the infrastructural additions and improvements to be made, and including the recommended review mechanism.
HBC has consistently – and perversely, some would argue – refused to introduce Cil, although when it decided not to in 2013 on the grounds that it would impose too great a burden on developers, it accepted a consultant's recommendation that the situation would change if house prices rose by 10%.
Such a review mechanism for affordable housing is something HBC could have used for years, and given that average Hastings house prices have increased by 54% since the council's Cil review in August 2013, it could also have introduced this levy several years ago, Mr Hall commented.
An interesting article on a subject that our council prefers to ignore. For many years HBC has failed to meet its target for affordable housing. There are many examples of developments where affordable housing has not been provided. Other councils such as Islington and Greenwich took proactive measures and introduced supplementary policies to ensure that developers viability statements were in the public domain – not so in Hastings. As the article points out we have been waiting since 2004 for a policy document and it is now back on hold. Intstead of taking what local measures it can our council prefers to wring its hands and blame everything on national policy (which is indeed a great part of the problem) but fails to take what local measures are available to alleviate the problem.
"Viability documents will no longer be kept secret, they are now required to be made public along with the District Valuer's appraisals".
Not before time either – for far too long these viability appraisals have been behind closed doors and as this article states, not even our ELECTED Councillors who sit on the planning committee have had the privilege of viewing these very important documents.
Why do we bother to vote for local Councillors if they are barred from these discussions? Something does not feel right here…let us hope things will change now.


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5 New Montreal Boroughs Will Be Getting BIXI Bikes Next Year
Bikes for all!
Michelle Cadieux
Aug 16, 2018, 1:43 PM
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Since it's launch back in 2009 Bixi's presence has grown across the city of Montreal. What's not to love about an open and public bike system?
READ ALSO: It's Official, Canada Now Has A New Holiday That Definitely Needed To Happen A Long Time Ago
Ridership has fluctuated over the years, but the good news is 2018 ridership has increased by 10%.
Afterall, Bixi and just biking, in general, is a great and health conscious way to get around the city in the summer.
Even Val Plate, Mayor of Montreal is a regular Bixi user. But Montreal is a big city, and there are still many boroughs that are neglected by the Bixi public bike system.
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Bixi has good news for some areas os Montreal, though. Next year, they are planning to expand and open 60 new stations.
For example, the residents of Anjou, Lachine, Montreal-Nord, Saint-Laurent, and Saint-Léonard, will all be able to enjoy Bixi service next summer.
It won't be cheap, though. The city of Montreal has to spend big bucks to make it happen, 4.7 million to be exact. Ouch.
It's worth it, as there is a strong need for more bikes in the city. The people have spoken and they love Bixi!
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Canoeing on Lake Témiscouata
Photo Credit: Sépaq
Stopping to admire the view
Hiking trails suitable for all
Lake Témiscouata
Fall colours in the park
Glamping in the park
Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata »
Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata
400, chemin de la Vieille Route, C.P. 28
Squatec (Quebec) Canada
G0L 4H0
parc.lac-temiscouata@sepaq.com
Combining water, forest and history, Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata protects a representative sample of the natural region of the Notre-Dame Mountains.
Covering an area of 175 km2 (70 sq. mi.), Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata stretches along one of the most beautiful and largest lakes south of the St. Lawrence. The park protects nearly half of the lake's shoreline as well as Notre-Dame Island, the lake's only island. Created by powerful glaciers, Lake Témiscouata provides a tranquil setting for contemplation, while lake trout and whitefish glide under the surface of the water.
Whether you are an experienced canoeist or about to embark on your first adventure, answer the call of canoe-camping. Discover the Garden of Memories, a place where nature and culture meet, through activities offered from June to September. For a complete change of scenery, paddle into a lush wilderness and soak up the tranquility of this area.
Between nature and culture, Parc national du Lac-Témiscouata has countless surprises and wonders in store for you!
Opening dates
Anse-à-William: May 20 to October 14
Grands-Pins: June 14 to September 16
Grand-Lac-Touladi: June 21 to September 9
Petit-Lac-Touladi: generally open year-round during the week (contact the park in off-season to confirm that the Visitors Centre is open)
$9.25/adult, free for children (under 18); additional fees apply for equipment rentals and some discovery activities. You must purchase a daily access pass online before you visit a national park: www.sepaq.com/parksaccess
Covering 175 sq. km (70 sq. mi.), the park stretches along one of the most beautiful and largest lakes south of the St. Lawrence. The park protects nearly half of the lake's shoreline as well as Notre-Dame Island, the lake's only island.
Explore 35 km (22 mi.) of trails through the most striking areas of the park: Montagne du Fourneau and its exceptional ecosystem and the Sutherland trail, which will lead you to the Sutherland Falls. Each trail is an opportunity to discover the park.
In a canoe, kayak or pedal boat or on a stand-up paddle board (SUP), discover majestic Lake Témiscouate or the Touladi lakes in the wake of those who made history. Take advantage of canoe-camping sites to enjoy the tranquility of Touladi Lake.
L'Anse à William offers a 5.5-km (3.5-mi.) bike path and gives you access to the 120 km (75-mi.) Petit-Témis Interprovincial Linear Park. In addition, the park's paved roads offer an interesting challenge to cycle touring enthusiasts.
Stories and legends, excursions in a rabaska canoe, evening talks and family activities await you in the park. Come and meet the park's archaeologist and participate in a real dig. Activities offered from June 21 to September 2.
About 150 species of birds are found in the park, including bald eagles, the park's animal emblem. You may get to watch one glide, in all its splendour, over the Touladi lakes or Lake Témiscouata.
Squatec sector
From Highway 85/185, take exit 40 towards Squatec and then Route 232 East. At the entrance to the municipality of Squatec, follow the signs to the park. The Visitors Centre is about 10 km (6 mi.) farther along the road.
Saint-Juste sector
From Highway 85/185, take exit 12. Follow the signs to Route 295 North. Continue driving to the village of Lots-Renversés, then turn left towards Saint-Juste-sur-le-Lac. Follow the signs to the park. The Visitors Centre is about 4 km (2.5 mi.) farther along the road.
In the summer, a ferry service is available via Highway 85, exit 29.
Dégelis sector
From Highway 85/185, take exit 12. Follow the signs to Route 295 North, then follow the signs to the park.
Note that GPS systems and Google Maps tend to give incorrect instructions. Your best bet is to follow the brown road signs to the park.
Affiliations and distinctions
Parcs Québec network (Sépaq)
Tourisme Bas-Saint-Laurent
National Parks in the Maritime Regions of Québec: Where Nature Meets History
Camping Out in the Maritime Regions of Québec
Everything You Need to Know to Plan a Trip to Bas-Saint-Laurent


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Below are some tips to help your dog who is scared of strangers.
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I will try to be less scared of new people!
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Home » Organ » Giles Swayne: Stations of the Cross
Charles Villiers Stanford: Organ Works, Volume 2
Eugène Reuchsel: La Vie du Christ & Bouquet de France
Simon Niemiński (organ)
Resonus Classics is proud to release the world premiere recording of Giles Swayne's epic organ work Stations of the Cross. Making his Resonus debut with Stations is the Edinburgh-based organist Simon Niemiński.
Recorded on the 2007 Matthew Copley organ of St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral in Edinburgh - where Simon is the resident organist - this extensive solo work is at the pinnacle of virtuosic organ repertoire, with each of the fourteen movements representing an episode in the story of the Passion of Christ.
Composed during autumn 2004 and early 2005, and at one hour in length, Stations is one of the most significant and substantial organ works to have been commissioned in recent times. Focusing particularly on those human aspects of the Passion most important to Swayne, he has created an intensely powerful and descriptive work that surely ranks among the most important works of the organ repertoire.
'Simon Nieminski is as dynamic an advocate as could be hoped for in music that requires the player to convey a narrative of emotional and technical complexity and his use of the organ is well judged'
International Record Review
'Simon Nieminski is as dynamic an advocate as could be hoped for in music that requires the player to convey a narrative of emotional and technical complexity and his use of the organ is well judged [...] the fairly new organ in St Mary's Metroplitan Cathedral, Edinburgh, has been faithfully recorded, sounding punchy and articulate'
'[Nieminski] plays supremely well; the instrument is the 2007 Matthew Copley organ of St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral in Edinburgh, where Nieminski is the resident organist, and the recording, produced, engineered and edited by Adam Binks, allows us to hear everything in superb detail. Collectors of organ music will find much to appreciate here.'
Cross Rhythms
'Nieminski gives a virtuoso performance, one that is admirable in every way, and he gets the best out of his organ as well as bringing out the dramatic subtlety of Swayne's work. Nieminski's pacing is very fine, allowing the piece to develop naturally with moments of contemplation and quiet, but still with an underlying dramatic flow.'
'This is another welcome first from Resonus [...] The performance sounds idiomatic - as with almost all Resonus Classics recordings, the repertoire is ground-breaking [...] and the (2007) organ of St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Edinburgh, is well suited to the music.'
Giles Swayne: Stations of the Cross
Artists: Simon Niemiński
Analysis by the Composer
1 Jesus is sentenced to death 4:50
2 Jesus takes up the cross 2:13
3 The first fall 2:20
4 Jesus and his mother 5:10
5 Simon of Cyrene 4:18
6 Veronica 3:51
7 The second fall 7:52
8 The women of Jerusalem 5:00
9 The third fall 3:13
10 Jesus is stripped of his clothes 4:33
11 Jesus is nailed to the cross 2:49
12 Jesus dies on the cross 3:43
13 Jesus' body is laid in his mother's arms 2:47
14 Jesus' body is laid in the tomb 7:40


Heather Wehnau-Federlein is a transplant from Upstate New York, where she received her B.A. in Plant Science, Ornamental Horticulture at Cornell University. She has worked in the nursery and landscaping industry for over 21 years, in addition to sidelining in landscape design and drought tolerant lawn conversions. She moved to CA in 2002 and has been at the Garden since 2007. Her training & interests include permaculture, native plants, edible plants, forest farming and urban farming, IPM, various arts and crafts, and as much exposure to the outdoors as possible. Her responsibilities at the Garden include growing plants for the living collection, contract growing, and overseeing in house plant propagation for the retail nursery.


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Q: How to test model's callback method independently? I had a method in a model:
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  def do_something
  end
end

I also had a unit test for this method:
# spec/models/article_spec.rb
describe "#do_something" do
  @article = FactoryGirl.create(:article)
  it "should work as expected" do
    @article.do_something
    expect(@article).to have_something
  end
  # ...several other examples for different cases
end

Everything was fine until I found it's better to move this method into a after_save callback:
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  after_save :do_something

  def do_something
  end
end

Now all my tests about this method broken. I have to fix it by:

*

*No more specific call to do_something because create or save will trigger this method as well, or I'll meet duplicate db actions.

*Change create to build

*Test respond_to

*Use general model.save instead of individual method call model.do_something
describe "#do_something" do
  @article = FactoryGirl.build(:article)
  it "should work as expected" do
    expect{@article.save}.not_to raise_error
    expect(@article).to have_something
    expect(@article).to respond_to(:do_something)
  end
end

The test passed but my concern is it's no longer about the specific method. The effect will be mixed with other callbacks if more added.
My question is, is there any beautiful way to test model's instance methods independently that becoming a callback?

A: Callback and Callback behavior are independent tests. If you want to check an after_save callback, you need to think of it as two things:

*

*Is the callback being fired for the right events?

*Is the called function doing the right thing?

Assume you have the Article class with many callbacks, this is how you would test:
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  after_save    :do_something
  after_destroy :do_something_else
  ...
end

it "triggers do_something on save" do
  expect(@article).to receive(:do_something)
  @article.save
end

it "triggers do_something_else on destroy" do
  expect(@article).to receive(:do_something_else)
  @article.destroy
end

it "#do_something should work as expected" do
  # Actual tests for do_something method
end

This decouples your callbacks from behavior. For example, you could trigger the same callback method article.do_something when some other related object is updated, say like user.before_save { user.article.do_something }. This will accomodate all those.
So, keep testing your methods as usual. Worry about the callbacks separately.
Edit: typos and potential misconceptions
Edit: change "do something" to "trigger something"

A: I like to use ActiveRecord #run_callbacks method to make sure callbacks are been called without need to hit database. This way it runs faster.
describe "#save" do
  let(:article) { FactoryBot.build(:article) }
  it "runs .do_something after save" do
    expect(article).to receive(:do_something)
    article.run_callbacks(:save)
  end
end

And to test the behavior of #do_something you add another test specifically for that.
describe "#do_something" do
  let(:article) { FactoryBot.build(:article) }
  it "return thing" do
    expect(article.do_something).to be_eq("thing")
  end
end

A: In the spirit of Sandi Metz and minimalist testing, the suggestion in https://stackoverflow.com/a/16678194/2001785 to confirm the call to a possibly private method does not seem right to me.
Testing a publicly-observable side-effect or confirming an outgoing command message makes more sense to me.  Christian Rolle provided an example at http://www.chrisrolle.com/en/blog/activerecord-callback-tests-with-rspec.

A: You can use shoulda-callback-matchers to test existence of your callbacks without calling them.
describe Article do
  it { is_expected.to callback(:do_something).after(:save) }
end

If you also want to test the behaviour of the callback:
describe Article do
  ...

  describe "#do_something" do
    it "gives the article something" do
      @article.save
      expect(@article).to have_something
    end
  end
end

A: This is more of a comment than an answer, but I put it here for the syntax highlighting...
I wanted a way to skip the callbacks in my tests, this is what I did.  (This might help with the tests that broke.)
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessor :save_without_callbacks
  after_save :do_something

  def do_something_in_db
    unless self.save_without_callbacks
      # do something here
    end
  end
end

# spec/models/article_spec.rb
describe Article do
  context "after_save callback" do
    [true,false].each do |save_without_callbacks|
      context "with#{save_without_callbacks ? 'out' : nil} callbacks" do
        let(:article) do
          a = FactoryGirl.build(:article)
          a.save_without_callbacks = save_without_callbacks
        end
        it do
          if save_without_callbacks
            # do something in db
          else
            # don't do something in db
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

A: describe "#do_something" do

 it "gives the article something" do

  @article = FactoryGirl.build(:article)

   expect(@article).to have_something

 @article.save
end

end